Seems like I hear about satellite Poker tournaments during ESPN's World Series of Poker telecasts every Tuesday night-over and over. Why? Because there's always some player at the final table who got there starting out at a $5 MTT(multi-table tournament). Of course, the most famous is Chris Moneymaker. He won the WSOP 2003 main event, coming from nowhere to beat Sam Farha. He won over $1,000,000. Some credit Chris with igniting the poker craze. Anyway you look at it, his story of making it to the finals via online poker satellite tournaments is pretty awesome.


You are probably saying to yourself-"there's only one Chris Moneymaker, and everyone is on the bandwagon now, the WSOP is too competitive".

But there's more poker tournaments than just the WSOP and WPT. There are some extremely popular tournaments handled by the online poker rooms that have $100,000 to $1M paydays. For example, Party Poker hosts the Party Poker Million every year, which is a Limit Texas Holdem poker tournament. The finals are held on a cruise ship of all places. The prize pool for this year event is supposed to be larger than the 7.5mill they had for the 2005 event. Last year's winner was Michael Gracz, and he pulled down $1.5m. 2nd place pulled in a cool $1m, and 3rd place took $700k. There were a total of 735 players for the Party Poker Million 2005, 668 of which gained entrance by winning satellites online. This tournament made money for a lot of players. If you placed in 180th place or up you made at least $5k. It was six figures for the top 9 players this year.

That's pretty juicy.

Ok, satellites can be worthwile outside of the WSOP world, But where should one start?

This is an easy answer, because with satellites, it's all about how often are they are scheduled, small buy-in amounts, and number of fishes. Party Poker has got those bases covered better than any other online poker room. They sent more satellite winners to the WSOP this year (641), than any other online poker room BTW.

Here's a list of the satellites for the Party Poker Million:

PPM V Super Satellites
When: Twice a week - LIMIT Hold'em & NL Hold'em!

PPM V Semi Finals
Every two months - Accumulate Extra Starting Chips NOW!

All new Cruise Steps
Available 24/7 - New Single Table Tournaments!

PPM V Gateway
Every Sunday - Only 60 players, 3 packages Guaranteed!

Direct Buy-In
Just buy the package directly!

Players Club Freeroll
Enter with only 15,000 Players Club Points

Are you a LIMIT Hold'em player?

Party Poker offers several ways to win a PPM V package without playing a No Limit tournament:

Super Satellites: Enter the Limit Super Satellite on Mondays at 10 p.m. EST - You can buy in directly or play the Sit & Go PPM V Super Satellite Qualifier $20 + $2 (Limit Hold'em)

Semi-finals: Two of the four semi-final days are Limit Hold'em (Thursdays & Saturdays). Again, you can either buy in directly or play the Sit & Go Qualifier to the PPM V Semis $31 + $3 (Limit Hold'em)

Gateway: The PPM V Gateway is a LIMIT tournament every other week!


As you can tell there are a lot of options for you to take advantage of Party Poker's satellites for the Party Poker Million. This should give you a good idea of what to expect in the world of satellite poker tournaments in general. Most large poker rooms have satellites going 24/7. So what are you waiting for? Start playing a satellite today! They can be a lot of fun, lucrative, stressful, challenging, and most of all-worthwhile!



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