WPT Tournaments and Online Satellites for WPT Seats
The World Poker Tour continues and a bunch of online poker rooms are offering tournies to win seats at WPT events. The strongest poker rooms for WPT seat promotions are Full Tilt Poker ($600 free), Golden Palace Poker ($100 free), Doyles Room ($135 free) and, not surprisingly WPTPoker (no US players)
Full Tilt Poker has a "Winners Choice Package" which allows you to choose which WPT Event to play in. This is a bi-weekly tournmanet (held on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 9pm EST which allows the winner to choose which tourney to enter. Full Tilt gives the winner $12k buy-in plus expenses. Online WPT satellites for the Winners Choice Tourney ($200+$16) cost as little as $4 + 0.40.
Golden Palace ($100 free) and Doyles Room ($135 free) each run a similar promotion which gives you the chance to win a $15,000 package to a WPT event of your choosing.
WPT Schedule and online qualifiers
Borgata Poker Open - The Borgata, Atlantic City, N.J. Sept. 15-19, 2006 Qualify online at Full Tilt ($600 free) WPT Canadian Poker Open Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls, Ontario Oct. 22-24, 2006 North American Poker Championship Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, Niagara Falls, Ontario Oct. 25-29, 2006 Qualify online at Full Tilt ($600 free), Golden Palace ($100 free) and Doyles Room ($135 free) World Poker Finals Foxwoods Resort Casino, Mashantucket, Conn. Nov. 12-16, 2006 Qualify online at Full Tilt ($600 free), Golden Palace ($100 free) and Doyles Room ($135 free)
Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic Bellagio, Las Vegas Dec. 14-19, 2006 Qualify online at Golden Palace ($100 free) and Doyles Room ($135 free)
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas Jan. 5-10, 2007 Qualify online at Pokerstars
World Poker Open Gold Strike Casino, Tunica, Miss. Jan. 21-25, 2007 Borgata Poker Classic The Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ. Jan. 26-30, 2007