WSOP Paradise and WSOP Europe Qualifiers at GGPoker

WSOP Paradise was announced soon after the end of the World Series of Poker’s regular summer season in las Vegas. It takes place  from 6-19 December with a $25,000 buy-in Super Main Event that has a record setting $50m guarantee. There are 15 bracelet events on the schedule, including Triton Poker Series events in what will be the biggest high roller festival in the World Series of Poker’s history.

There is currently an early bird offer for players who have the chunks to commit to playing the main event and lodging $100,000 with the event operators. Such players will receive a free hotel suite for the duration of their stay and an invite to a $1m freeroll bracelet event. 

The rest of us mere poker mortals will just have to win our way to Atlantis in the Bahamas via satellites that take place every week on GG Poker.

The first satellite to WSOP Paradise took place on Sunday August 25th, with a huge 10 x $30,000 packages guaranteed. We have to admit that we were somewhat sceptical about the chances of this satellite reaching this guarantee, expecting there to be an overlay, as there was for almost every Road to Vegas satellite earlier in the year. 

However GG Poker smashed that guarantee out of the virtual park, exceeding it by enough to generate two additional packages on top of the ten that were guaranteed. The total prize pool ended up at exactly $360,000 with 12 packages awarded.

On Sunday 1st September they are doing it all over again, with another 10 x $30,000 package satellite starting at 21.00 (CEST). There are $60 feeders into these and $6 sub-feeders into them as well, giving players of all bankrolls different starting points for their journey.

In addition, at 22.30 (CEST) on the same day, there is a $2,500 satellite which guarantees 5 x $30,000 packages, with this satellite aimed more at high rollers.

Satellites to the WSOP Europe are also still ongoing at GG Poker, with a further 4 x €10,350 Main Event seats guaranteed in a satellite that costs €1,050 to enter and also starts at 21.00 (CEST) on Sunday 1st September, the same time as the main WSOP Paradise mega satellite qualifier.

So far 57 players have won their way into the WSOPE Main Event, which takes place at Kings Casino in Rozvadov, which earlier this year was sold by former owner and high stakes cash game player Leon Tsoukernik. Despite selling the casino, he still has a seat at the table there any time he likes, for life, one presumes

The Eurasian Poker Tour’s next event is in Batumi, Georgia in September. While there are no actual satellites on GG Poker to win a seat to play in a live day 1, there is an Online Day 1 for the $500 Main Event, which takes place at 18.05 (CEST) on Sunday 1st September.

There is an online satellites for $55 which feeds into this and it has its own feeders for $5.50, which gives great access to anyone wishing to have a go at playing.

Players who make it through the online day 1 will join the live tournament at the start of Day 2 of the EAPT Georgia in Batumi on 15th September. All players who make it through the online day 1 will be guaranteed to be in the prize money.

All these satellites and online starting days are only open to GG Poker account holders. If you would like to participate  but do not yet have an account, signing up using PokerWired’s GGPoker promo code wired (lower case) will earn you a deposit bonus of up to $600