How To Qualify For WSOP From Doylesroom.com

The World Series of Poker will start soon. For what it's worth, most online poker rooms had already had it done with for their fair bit of deals. One way of making it available for players to get their chance to WSOP is by offering one of those qualifying tournaments.

Most of the time, the package is given to the winner of it's main qualifying event. The buy-ins can start small and slowly graduating to bigger ones. It caters to all type of players with different bankrolls. Anyone willing to put part of their bankroll into the event can do so. Those that want to start small will have no problem finding the smaller stakes to qualify.

Winning one of those WSOP Main Event satellite packages will have you going to Vegas for free. In a few more days this opportunity will close. All the attention later will be on who is the most deserving to get those bracelets.

In comparison to others, Doylesroom already had its own WSOP package up since early this year. In addition to $10,000 for the WSOP buy-in, each package winner will receive:

#$3,000 for travel and accommodations.
#Breakfast strategy session with the legendary Doyle Brunson.
#Autographed leather bound set of Super System 1 and 2.
#Photo session with Doyle and other renowned pros.
#DoylesRoom gear and bragging rights.

Take advantage of their continuous $14 + $1.40 Sit&Go Satellites, $9 + $1 Daily Turbo Satellites, and $20 + $2 Daily Satellites, as well as weekly satellites and Bi-Weekly finals, and a free trip to Vegas will be waiting for you. Read more

A Billionth Poker Hands For Celebration

Not exactly a billionth reasons to get you excited about but for Ladbrokespoker it is another milestone achieved. Coming soon, their random card generator will be recording over a billion hands. A billion poker hands is just this many hands, 1,000,000,000 hands. That is an additional two 'zeroes' to a million.

For only just that reason, Ladbrokespoker will be holding a Billionth Hand Freeroll to mark the occasion. Having handed out so many hands is no easy matter. When was the last time you played up to 10,000 hands? And how long did it takes you? It will certainly take you some time.

Just as any good parties are reserved for the invited, Ladbrokes is opening up the invitation for their Billionth Hand Freeroll to players earning 50 Player Points on the day the Billionth hand was reached.

The prizes Ladbrokespoker is offering are :

1. 20, $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Package and
2. 200, $109 Ladbrokes WSOP 2008 Daily Final seats.

These prizes are given away just like that and of course if you love poker and do nothing but live, breath, eat and talks poker, it is about damn time to make your move. Read more

A Rake Race To WSOP In VIP Style

A little bit of promotion towards the World Series of Poker events can help bring more people to Vegas. It will be something that gets more attention as time goes by. Regular online poker players will have more chances and less reasons not to get there.

With so many promotions everywhere, Ladbrokes is having its own race. Play any cash game tables either Hold’em or Omaha to rake in your way to WSOP. Every cents and dollars of rake you contribute will earn points. Top 100 players of the week from three different stakes levels will get to play WSOP VIP Freezeout. That's 300 entrants.

The WSOP VIP Freezeout has an added $14,000 Ladbrokes WSOP Package. Winner gets to go Vegas with Ladbrokes Team players. You got to love poker and play lots and lots of poker. Qualifying with this will be easy and comes naturally.

In addition to this, everyone will also be receiving a 30% rakeback. The WSOP VIP Weekly Rake Races will be held on the following dates:

# Monday 31st March to Sunday 6th April
# Monday 7th to Sunday 13th April
# Monday 14th to Sunday 20th April
# Monday 21st to Sunday 27th April
# Monday 28th April to Sunday 4th May
# Monday 5th May to Sunday 11th May
# Monday 12th May to Sunday 18th May
# Monday 19th May to Sunday 25th May
# Monday 26th May to Sunday 1st June
# Monday 2nd June to Sunday 8th June
# Monday 9th June – Sunday 15th June
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Philippines Hosting Filipino Poker Tour

Last year 2007, PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour started with a series of tournaments around Asia Pacific region. The tour started from Philippines to Korea to Macau and later Australia. The grand final was won by a local player, a Sydneysider Grant Levy. With this, another poker player has turned millionaire overnight just like that.

You can listen to a mp3 interview of what the Sydney APPT 2007 champion, Grant Levy has to say after the win from the ABC website (QuickTime needed) : Grant Levy-ABC mp3 interview

This time around, the Philippines is starting their very own Filipino Poker Tour following the momentum from APPT. The tournament started on Jan 26 and took 2 days. It all happened at their new card club, Metro Card Club. The tournament also receives coverage from PokerStars which supposedly will be airing the game all over Philippines.

This was confirmed from PokerStars Philippines Regional Manager message to their players. The message was relayed by local Filipino poker player at his poker blog. An interesting blog which have a lot of news on Philippines poker.

It is without doubt that Phlippines indeed have an affinity towards poker. It seems to be growing non-stop. Because Filipino poker players were the majority players in the past qualifiers to APPT. Read more