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Leading online poker room to qualify forty players every week for WSOP
With the countdown for the main event at the World Series of Poker, WSOP 2006 getting closer, many online casinos and online poker rooms are coming up with numerous offers and free entry to the WSOP. Bodog.com, a very popular online poker room also declared that it would qualify 40 players every week for the main event at the WSOP. The prize for the WSOP main event is reportedly around $10 million. This attracts a lot of poker players from all over the world.
Bodgog.com will qualify a total of seven hundred players from its tournaments for the WSOP 2006 main event. The rules for qualifying are simple. The players have t register at Bodog.com for the first stage of the tournament by paying just $1.10. There are 40 tournaments every week at Bodog, 30 on Saturdays and 10 on Sundays. The buy-ins are between $67.50 to $270. The players have to clear all the five stages at the tournaments to get a seat at the WSOP.
Calvin Ayre, the CEO of Bodog.com says, "We have had a spectacular reaction
from our players and the poker industry," said the CEO of Bodog.com,
Calvin Ayre. "Our aim is to ensure that our players are given every opportunity
to qualify for the opportunity to compete against the world's best poker players.
With 40 players qualifying each weekend, we are well on our way towards achieving
this."