888 Poker is sending players to the upcoming World Poker Tour event in Paris, France, and you could be one of those lucky players going.
Players have two different ways to win WPT Grand Prix de Paris seats. One is the Work Your Way To The Top satellites running every 2 hours for buy-ins as small as $1.20. Winners of these satellites land seats in one of the Qualifiers being held every other Sunday starting on July 3, 2011. Players who don’t feel like going through all these steps to get to the 888 Poker WPT Grand Prix de Paris Qualifier can get Straight to the Point at pay the $500 + $25 direct buy-in into the event. Registrations for the first of these qualifier events starts today, Monday, June 20, 2011.
Each WPT Grand Prix de Paris prize package from 888 Poker is worth $14,000 and includes the €7,600 buy-in into the main event as well as 6 nights of accommodations from September 4 – 10, 2011, $1,000 in travel expenses paid directly into your 888Poker account and an 888Poker live merchandise kit.
Satellites start out with two options, both known as WPT Step 1. One is a $1.20 + $0.15 buy-in rebuy/addon event awarding 1 player for every $25 in the prize pool a seat in WPT Step 2. The other is a $5 + $0.50 buy-in event awarding half of the player pool seats in WPT Step 2. Both of these options run every two hours at the site. WPT Step 2 then runs once daily for a $25 direct buy-in and WPT Step 3 runs three times weekly for a $115 direct buy-in.