250 WSOP ME Seat 2b Won Sunday

Sunday:
250 WSOP Main Event
Seats up for Grabs


Both PokerStars and Full Tilt Replace
Major Sunday Events With Massive
World Series Main Event Qualifiers.



If you haven’t yet secured your seat
in the 2007 World Series of Poker
main event, this Sunday is likely to be
your biggest chance. POKERSTARS
and FULL TILT are offering a combined
250 guaranteed seats to the main event
from just two tournaments, along with
the plethora of other main event
satellites that are continuously running.


Both sites are forgoing their normally
scheduled major Sunday tournaments
in favor of the huge qualifiers.


The PokerStars Sunday Million is being
replaced this week by a tournament
guaranteeing 150 seats in the WSOP
main event while the Full Tilt $400,000
guaranteed tournament will be replaced
by a 100-seat-guaranteed tournament.

The sites undoubtedly chose to replace
the Sunday majors, rather than run both
them and the massive qualifiers at once,
because the qualifiers alone are
guaranteeing more in prizes than the
sites’ major events guarantee.

In PokerStars’ case, the site is
guaranteeing $1.8 million in prizes
(150 main event prize packages worth
$12,000 apiece: $10,000 for the buy-in
and $2,000 for travel and spending $)
compared to the Sunday Million’s
$1 million-guaranteed prize pool.

Full Tilt is taking an even bigger leap,
proportionately, by guaranteeing
$1.2 million worth of prize packages
(its packages are also $12,000 apiece)
compared to its regularly scheduled
$400,000 guarantee. Full Tilt also adds
extra incentives for its main event
seat winners. Full Tilt will give any
player who qualifies through the site
$10 million if the player wins the
main event, $100,000 for finishing
in second or third place, and $50,000
for making the final table (only if the
player wears a Full Tilt logo when
doing it, of course).

The 150-seat-guaranteed tournament
on PokerStars will be held on
Sunday, June 17 at 4:30 p.m. ET
(the same time as the Sunday Million
is usually held) and will have a
$370 buy-in. Satellites for the event
are currently being held for as low as
$2.20 (for a sixhanded triple-shootout
tournament) or 500 FPP Points (for a
rebuy tournament available exclusively
to PokerStars members with SilverStar
VIP status or higher).

The 100-seat-guaranteed tournament
on Full Tilt is at 6 p.m. ET on
Sunday, June 17 (the same time that
its $400,000-guaranteed tournament
normally runs). The tournament has a
$535 buy-in and players can satellite
into the event for as little as $5.50
(for a turbo, rebuy sit-and-go tournament)
or 2,500 Full Tilt Points (for a normal
freezeout tournament).

The sites’ regularly scheduled
tournaments will return the following
week, on June 24. Full Tilt will be
offering its upped guarantee,
$500,000, for the first time that Sunday.