Win a seat at the Poker News Cup with Party Poker

Straight off the back of winning the Ashes, UK poker players are being given the chance to put the Aussies in their place again.  Throughout September you can win a seat at the Poker News Cup with Party Poker.  Held in the Melbourne’s Crown Casino and with a guaranteed $200,000 first prize this fantastic live poker event cannot be missed.

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The Poker News Cup is one of Australia’s biggest and most popular live poker tournaments drawing high-profile poker pros from across the world, and thanks to Party Poker you can be there too.  Unbelievably, for such a prestigious poker tournament you can qualify from as little as $2 which could lead to a prize package worth $5,000.  The prize package includes; the main event buy-in of $1,850, six night's accommodation at the Crown Promenade hotel, and $1,700 travel and spending money.

To qualify for the Poker News Cup you can either chose to start via the Poker News Cup Sub-Qualifiers which are held daily at Party Poker and have an $8 buy-in with one in eight players qualifying for the next round or the Poker News Cup Sub-Qualifiers which are daily rebuy online poker tournaments which have a $2 buy-in and one place to the next round is awarded by Party Poker for every $58 prize pool collected.

Once you have made it through the sub-qualifiers your next challenge is the Poker News Cup Satellite Qualifier which you can qualify for, as detailed above or buy directly into for $53.50 + $4.50. These tournaments are held daily at 15:20 EST with Party Poker awarding one in ten players a seat at the Poker News Cup Satellite.  The final test of poker skills and endurance before you fly of to Australia is the Poker News Cup Satellite itself which you can again either qualify for or buy into directly, this time for $500 + $35.  This final qualification round takes place every Sunday at 15:20 EST with 1 in 10 players winning one of the luxury $5,000 Poker News Cup Packages.

These $5,000 packages to the Poker News Cup are not only a chance to fly around the world and play in a prestigious live poker event but they also give us UK poker players a chance to beat the Aussies in their own back yard. Head over to Party Poker today and you could be jetting off and playing poker in Oz.

30th August 2009

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