Over the next two weekends, the online poker site UB.com and the free training site UB.net will be giving the opportunity for poker players to earn their way to the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), with one participant earning their seat without spending a dime.
Currently running right now up until June 27th, UB.net is running qualifying freerolls that will lead up to a final event on June 27th. The daily qualifying Round One freerolls are played six times per day – 12:30AM (Eastern Time), 4:30AM, 8:30AM, 12:30PM, 4:30PM, and 8:30PM – with each freeroll qualifying 100 players to participate in a Round Two tournament. These events will take place on the next three Sundays (June 13th, 20th, and 27th) at 2:00PM.
From those three freerolls will come the qualifiers who will move on to the Round Three final tournament. 100 players each from the Round Two qualifiers will move on to the June 27th tournament, which will be played at 8PM. The winner of the Round Three event walks away with the $12,000 prize package that includes the $10,000 WSOP Main Event tournament buy-in and $2,000 for travel and accommodations.
For those that have a bit of a bankroll to attempt to earn their WSOP seat, UB.com is continuously offering opportunities for players to get in on the cheap. Coming up this weekend (June 20th) at 4PM, UB.com will be offering 50 $12,000 packages to the WSOP Main Event, with the buy-in for the tournament being $530. These seats will be in addition to the 100 players who have already earned their seats to the WSOP Main Event through UB.com satellites.
Players have a choice of either buying in directly to the WSOP 50-Package Guaranteed Super Satellite or can move up through a vast array of daily satellite tournaments that start as low as $3. Two other daily satellite tournaments, with buy ins of $55 and $60, will offer multiple seats into Sunday’s big tournament. These daily multi-seat satellites – with seat guarantees of 3, 5, 10, and 25 seats – will put players directly in the Sunday battle for less than the $530 buy-in.
For those who are looking for a last chance to get in on the action, a $60+6 buy-in 100-seat guaranteed satellite at 1PM prior to the start of the big tournament on June 20th will be offered, with those players moving on to play the WSOP 50-Package Guaranteed Super Satellite three hours later.
“I can’t wait for the Main Event this year,” said Team UB pro Phil Hellmuth. “I’m really focused on winning my 12th bracelet and, with over 100 players getting ready to join UB at the series this year – plus another 50 coming through the big guarantee on the 20th – I think there’s going to be a lot more UB players winning this year.”
Hellmuth, who narrowly missed winning his 12th bracelet earlier this month, leads a strong contingent of UB.com pros who have been in action at the WSOP this year. Along with Hellmuth are 2009 CardPlayer Player of the Year Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin, defending National Heads-Up Poker Champion and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke, and 2010 European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo victor Liv Boeree. Other top players from Team UB include WSOP Circuit champion Bryan Devonshire, Tiffany Michelle, and Joe Sebok.
UB.com’s CEREUS Network partner, Absolute Poker, isn’t left out of any of the satellite action. For those who don’t have a UB account, but play on the network through Absolute, they will be eligible to play in any of the satellites. With the 2010 WSOP Main Event on the horizon, there isn’t a better time for players to earn their seats at the tables than now at UB.com