Get WSOP Seat with Internet Satellite Tournament
If you don't have enough cash for a world series of Poker (WSOP) seat, there's a much financially feasible way of getting into the WSOP: by playing in and winning an internet poker satellite tournament. If you win one, the online poker room will shoulder the cost of the buy-in and the entry fee. In some lucky cases, a poker site may even shoulder hotel accommodation and tournament allowance.
In a sense, online poker rooms do not really shoulder the cost of entry to the WSOP. The rationale behind an internet poker satellite tournament is to amass amount enough for a number of seats to the WSOP. A poker room generally achieves through tournament buy-ins. The sum of the buy-ins is then utilized to purchase a number of seats.
An internet poker satellite tournament creates two advantages for an aspiring WSOP player. One, an internet poker satellite tournament charges cheaper buy-in than a wood-and-cement cardroom. Two, there's no need for you to drive to a casino to join a satellite tournament. You can play in an online poker satellite tournament from your own home, from a café, from anywhere.
Wood-and-cement casinos generally have buy-ins about 10 times more than the buy-in to most internet poker satellite tournaments. Since entry fees are usually pegged at 6 to 10 percent of the buy-in, entry fees to land-based casino satellite tournaments are much costlier as well.
The total cost to get into a land-based poker satellite tournament tends to be far above most gamblers' bankrolls. Land-based satellite tournaments have buy-ins in hundreds or thousands of dollars.
On the other hand, online poker rooms have buy-ins of $20 and $30 and such amounts. Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, paid only $40 to the poker site when he participated in an internet poker satellite tournament. And where land-based poker rooms charge entry fees in hundreds of dollars, online poker rooms charge only in tens of dollars.
You may get to play online poker satellite tournament for free. Many online cardrooms provide freeroll tournaments. Freeroll tournaments, generally, are meant to comp regular, loyal poker site players. Getting into freeroll tournaments, as such, generally requires players to have some other form of entry fee: bonus points. Players need to accumulate a defined number of bonus points to qualify for a freeroll internet poker satellite tournament.
Thus, the World Series of Poker is no longer just for gamblers with hefty bankrolls. Now, anyone have equal chances of obtaining a seat at the WSOP by playing in an internet poker satellite tournament. An internet poker satellite tournament tends to have a significantly much lower buy-in and entry fee than a land-based casino satellite tournament. You don't have to spend on gas to drive to a casino or cardroom either. You can have your chance at WSOP at anytime, from anywhere with an internet poker satellite tournament.