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Online qualifiers for the latest tranche of WSOP seats have started
 
The giant online poker group Poker Stars.com continued to make good on its promises to make thousands of World Series of Poker Main Event seats available to players this weekend with the launch of online qualifier tourneys that will provide two hundred $12 500 WSOP Main Event seat packages to skilled and fortunate visitors to its promotions.
 
In this tranche alone, the poker site has invested $2.5 million. The satellite has a $350+$20 buy-in with prize packages worth $12 500 that include the $10 000 buy-in for the Main Event plus travel and accommodations allowances.
 

Two of the most popular poker sites on the net, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, will be guaranteeing a total of 350 WSOP Main Event packages this Sunday!  As online sites wind down their WSOP package promotions and gear up for the Main Event, online poker players from around the world can take their shot at competing for millions of dollars at this year's WSOP.

A new online poker portal has arrived, leaving no virtual stone unturned as PokerSense.com becomes one of the most full-featured poker resources on the web. Follow the WSOP, learn how to play poker and sort through today’s best Freeroll tournaments all in one place.

Springfield, MO – PokerSense.com proudly announces the release of its updated online poker portal, developed with the soul intention of providing an all-encompassing resource for online poker players, new and old. The webmaster of PokerSense has left no stone unturned, supplying valuable, in-depth facts concerning the game of online poker, and a number of today’s most reputable operators.

PokerNews has some exciting news for players who have yet to win a seat to the hottest poker destination in the planet – the 2008 World Series of Poker* (WSOP)! Our very generous friends at Bodog Poker are giving away five more $12,000 World Series packages this Sunday, June 8 at 15:15 EST/16:15 EDT via their 5 Seats Guaranteed WSOP* Tournament.

What's in every $12,000 Bodog Poker Package?

• Entry to the $10,000 Main Event (Thursday, July 3)
• $2,000 cash for travel and accommodation
• Complete Bodog Poker Merchandise Pack
• Invite to the Team Bodog Welcome Party
• Invites to exclusive Bodog Poker Member's Only events

There was little doubt coming into this year's World Series of Poker that Allen Cunningham was amongst the truly elite players in the world. The 30-year-old Cunningham was the WSOP player of the year in 2005, and followed that up with a fourth place finish in the main event in 2006. In 2007 though, he etched his name in the history book with one very remarkable victory.

Cunningham's win in Event 13 -$5,000 pot-limit hold'em - couldn't have come at a better time for the WSOP. In a year that had seen one Internet player win after another, a big name and story was needed to redirect the world's attention. When Cunningham was paired with Jeffrey Lisandro in the heads-up portion of the tournament, WSOP was assured of both.

The 2008 World Series of Poker’s first day of play is in the books and it included a little bit of everything that poker fans have come to expect plus a few new wrinkles.

Before the first of 55 tournaments, the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em event, got underway onlookers were treated to the University of Nevada-Las Vegas’ marching band banging out Elvis Presley's Viva Las Vegas. That was followed by WSOP commissioner Jeffrey Pollack addressing the crowd with opening remarks and tournament director Jack Effel going over the rules before handing the microphone to Doyle Brunson for the most famous four words in poker.

Betfair Poker just announced the launch of two weeks of great World Series of Poker (WSOP) action, culminating in a $120,000 Super Sunday Qualifier on 15th June in which 6 x $16,000 WSOP packages must be won. The winner of the Super Sunday event will walk away with a unique $40,000 dream package consisting of a $16,000 WSOP Vegas package AND a $24,000 WSOP Europe package, found nowhere else!

Betfair's WSOP fortnight kicks off on Sunday 1st June and they are offering everyone the chance to take part in this Mega Qualifier.

1. Points Mean Seats: Earn 35,000 points* in two weeks for a free entry into the Super Sunday Qualifier

You don't want to miss the first week of the 2008 World Series of Poker. Although some of the biggest stories of the 2008 won't materialize until later in the series, those epic stories often take root during the first couple of days at the Rio. Don't wait until the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event to roll around to start following the action in the most prestigious poker tournament in the world, because you're guaranteed to miss out on the little fires that have the potential to ignite into raging infernos.

With the start of the 2008 World Series of Poker now only hours away Harrah’s has announced another major sponsor from within the poker community. CardRunners.com, one of the top poker educational websites, has signed on to become the official sponsor of the satellite room, which this year will be just outside the Amazon Room at the Rio.

PurePlay, the largest U.S. compliant play-for-cash online poker site, announced today that it will be extending its 2008 World Series of Poker* seat giveaway through the month of June, with hundreds of World Series qualifiers running every day. PurePlay, the U.S. market leader, will be giving away the largest number of Main Event seats among all U.S. based poker sites.

The monsters of the World Series of Poker are again about to stalk the halls of the Rio and although that roster is now full of players who have repeatedly proved themselves by performing well over the last several years, there are a few players that have made the WSOP’s field their whipping boy since 2004 in such a vicious way.