World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Satellites

Here you will find our favorite picks for online poker rooms that offer satellites for the World Series of Poker. Keep in mind that it is still early in the year so many poker rooms have yet to unveil their WSOP qualifiers. Expect plenty of competition for your satellite dollars as tournament time approaches this summer.

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We like the way that Pacific has been handling their WSOP satellites. If you don't mind qualifying through a few levels, you can start your quest at $2 multi-table tournaments here. Occasionally, they Satellites for the main qualifier go up to $27, which I actually find to be the best deal. One out of every five players qualify, so if you play smart you're actually getting better equity and a better shot of making the money than typical tournaments. The direct satellite has a $125 entry and 1 out of about 100 will qualify for the WSOP. This site also features the worst online competition that you'll find, so they may be a good choice to try to qualify from. At times they even run freerolls for seats into the main satellite event. Other prizes may be given out as cash as well. You can click here to visit Pacific Poker.

In the last 3+ years, Poker Stars has become synonymous with the World Series of Poker. Both Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer won the Main Even after qualifying at the online poker site, and Joe Hachem signed on with them after his win in 2005. Now the largest online poker room in terms of active players, they�re notorious for sending their satellite qualifiers in massive numbers. This year shouldn�t be any different and you can expect them to send 20-25% of the total entrants. They've begun to hold their numerous satellites and you can either qualify in Player Point satellites or cash-entry events as low as $2. You can click here to visit Poker Stars.

Bodog is another online poker room that has plenty of WSOP satellites running throughout the year. They also start their qualifiers at the micro-limits: $1.50 is the lowest level. By continuing to place well you can work your way up through several stages until you make it to the main qualifying event. Of course, you can also buy-in to the main feeder to the WSOP, but if you're on a super limited budget or just like a challenge you can try to do it for even less through the "micro-satellites". Again, between their ring games and tournaments they're one of the loosest sites you can play at.

Doyle's Room is one of my favorite "niche" sites - mostly because of the terrible players on the shared network. They've just started holding World Series of Poker satellites weekly in both freezeout and rebuy format. The rebuy tournament has a $198 buy-in with unlimited rebuys and an optional add-on at the end of the initial period. Since the rebuy event will have a greater prize pool, it will also give out more entry seats. If you're interested, they also hold World Poker Tour and National Heads Up Poker Championship satellites. You can click here to visit Doyle's Room.

Pretty secure in its top 3 position of largest online poker rooms, one of the best aspects of Paradise Poker is the tournament offerings. They've also begun to offer satellites for this year's WSOP, and I like their structure a lot. They have some even smaller events, but I recommend the $50 starter events. If you finish in one of the top spots from there, you'll have a seat at the $500 event. With the larger buy-in, more seats are available and you have a much better shot at actually winning a seat. You can click here to visit Paradise Poker.

Besides their usual supersatellite WSOP entry events that cost anywhere from $100 to $500 to enter, Full Tilt is running an interesting promotion this year in which they�re giving away 100 WSOP seats. You can�t buy into a tournament to win a seat at the qualifier � you can only get it by playing at the site. Once you earn enough player points, you are automatically qualified for a huge monthly freeroll that awards 20 seats to �The Big One�. If you play regularly on the site, this can be a nice little extra incentive. Multi-table qualifiers for the cash buy-in satellites begin at $4.40. You can click here to visit Full Tilt Poker.

Party Poker is one of the obvious choices for World Series of Poker satellites since their player traffic is still quite massive. The lowest you can begin your quest at is $2 which will get you into the first qualifier for the $55 event. You can then win a seat into the daily $215 tournament which directly awards seats to the Main Event. Besides multi-table qualifiers, they�re using their unique Step Single-Table Tournaments for the promotion. You can begin at the $11 initial step, and by finishing in the top places work your way up to the fifth step where a WSOP seat is finally awarded. If you place well but don�t win the event, you get a free shot for the same level tournament. You can click here to visit Party Poker.

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