Over at the Official PokerStars Blog, Otis has a big honkin' list of events at 'Stars this weekend, including a WSOP qualifier that just costs 500 FPPs to enter:"To finish off the PokerStars Five Billionth Hand Celebration (congrats, again, MaraJade), PokerStars is throwing a 500 Frequent Player Point buy-in World Series of Poker qualifier. Everybody at the final table will get a PokerStars WSOP package. Everybody else will be playing for $100,000 in cash. This event pays deep, down to 785 players. Registration begins Saturday at noon ET and is limited to the first 5,000 players who sign up. The tournament begins Sunday at 1pm ET."
If you're planning to play in the WSOP this year, whether it's a preliminary event or the Main Event, it's a very good idea to get some massive field tourney practice at an online room like PokerStars, where you can make a small investment ($11, for example) and adjust to playing against thousands of people. With so many online players anticipated to be in the WSOP this year (and probably for the next several years, at least) you're going to face a similar level of play, too, to what you'll find in one of these large field, low buy-in events.
1. I must be retarded, I am completely unable to find the 500 FPP tournament in the listings...
Posted at 6:32PM on May 26th 2006 by Andrew Hime