QUALIFY ONLINE FOR THE MAIN EVENT

The  best way to assure yourself a seat in the 2008 main event, even before you arrive in Las Vegas, is to win one of the many online satellites. Almost all online poker rooms will be running satellite events, they will provide not only an entry fee, but also air fare, hotels, and expense monies. You could qualify for your seat for as little as $1 at several online poker rooms. Every main event final table will feature a majority of players who won their way there through an online event!  Many of the recent Main Event champions won their seats online, starting with the storybook tale of Chris Moneymaker who's $40 dollar investment in a PokerStars satellite, went on to make poker history, and fuel the tremendous growth in poker we enjoy today. Could you be next?

SATELLITE EVENTS AT THE RIO DURING THE TOURNAMENT

Satellite events run daily at the Rio Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. One table satellites for no-limit holdem, and for the next day's scheduled event, run  24/7 starting May 28, 2008. For the first time in 2008, satellite tournaments will be run in their own separate room. This promises to be a big improvement and satellite action should be running smoothly. Single table satellites start off with $175 dollar buy in, 10 handed tables, the payoff are (3) $500 tournament chips and $120 in cash. This means $130  or $13 dollars a player is kept as vig in each satellite. The good news is that the Vig stays the same as you move up through the buy ins. $225 pays (4) Chips and $120 cash, $275 pays (5) chips and $120, up the ladder to $525 buy in pays (10) Chips and $120 cash. At the $1,030 buy in level you receive $10,000 in tournament chips and $150 in cash, so the table vig raises to $150. 

Most single table satellite formats are winner take all events, although two, and three way chops are not unusual between players, and Harrah's will allow satellites chops when agreeable to all players. Negotiation of these single table chops is a poker skill all to itself. Don't be pressured into deals you don't want to make, you are never obligated to chop a satellite. The tournament chips that are paid to the winners of the satellite tournaments, can be used to buy into any event, but not into other satellites or 2nd chance tournaments. The chips are negotiable between players, but Harrah's will not redeem tournament chips for cash.

Want to make a last longer? Players in satellites, often form a pool that goes to the member of the pool that lasts the longest. Players wanting into the last longer pool, put up an agreed upon amount of money, $50, $100 a player or more. The player in the pool who lasts the longest gets the pool. You don't have to win the satellite, just last longer than anyone else who is in the pool. The best thing about a last longer bet, is that the house takes no percentage of it, it is the only vig free bet you will find at the World Series.

Single table satellites are a great way to earn your way into one of the major events for a small investment. Other players, skilled at sit and go play online, make a nice profit by specializing in single table satellite play throughout the event.

RIO MEGA SATELLITES FOR THE MAIN EVENT

These Mega satellites, which grow larger as the main event nears, put 100s of players into the Championship event. The prize pool is divided into as many $10,000 seats as possible with the remaining money going to the bubble finisher. Unlike the Tournaments chips that you win in the single table satellites, this entry is not transferable, the satellite winner must play in the main event.(In the event that you are already registered in the main event you can take the $10,000 in cash)

Mega-Satellites begin May 28, 2008 for the $10,000 buy in championship event. The daily schedule will include a $330 buy in Mega, Monday - Thursday at 3:00pm, a $550 buy in Mega Thursday-Sunday at 3:00pm and a $1,060 buy in Mega daily at 9:00pm. The Mega satellite action heats up during Mega Satellite days, July 2 - 5, with $330 buy in Megas at 6:00pm, $550 buy ins at 10:00am and 4:00pm and 1:00pm and 9:00pm daily. Still not in? Your last chance before reaching in your pocket and coming up with the $10,000 buy in will be a Mega Turbo event, $1050 entry, July 6 at 8:00am. $2,250 Mega Satellites for the $50,000 HORSE event will be held on May 31, and June 1, 16, 20 and 21 at 5:00pm

As the Main Event draws near, many of the Mega satellites will draw 100s of entries, perhaps
giving away as many as 40 or 50 seats. When the Tournament gets down to that number of entries it is over! Remember you are not trying to win this tournament, if there are 40 seats to be given away, you just need to survive to the final four tables. These mega satellite events offer a skilled player some of the best overlays at the event.

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