How to Qualify
Grand Series of Poker VIII takes place from 26 Feb to 18 Mar 2012 where we run a series of 18 poker tournaments, all leading towards the big main event on 18 Mar – the Grand Slam Final.
How do I get to the Grand Slam final?
You can qualify to the Grand Slam Final by either win one of the 18 GSOP events, use the cheap daily qualifiers, go through the leaderboard or buy-in directly. Regardless of what stakes you favor you will have multiple choices of getting an entry to the Grand Slam Final!
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Grand Series of Poker VIII takes place from 26 Feb to 11 Mar 2012 where we run a series of 18 poker tournaments, all leading towards the big main event, the Grand Slam Final. You can qualify to the Grand Slam Final by either win one of the 18 GSOP events, use the cheap daily qualifiers, go through the leaderboard or buy-in directly. Regardless of what stakes you favor you will have multiple choices of getting an entry to the Grand Slam Final! |
GSOP Mini follows the same format as GSOP apart from there being no SideBet to GSOP Mini. The buy-ins and guarantees set to approximately 10% of the numbers in GSOP. There will daily tournaments with buy-ins of $5 and $30. All these 18 events hand out a Grand Slam Mini ticket to the winner and also award points towards a leaderboard where the winner gets a Gram Slam Mini ticket. |
Qualifiers
Qualifiers in all different price ranges to the different GSOP events are already running, leaving you with plenty of chances to gain entry into the different events, no matter your bankroll. Lastly, there will be one final chance to qualify to the Grand Slam with a juicy $30,000 guarantee GSOP Grand Slam Last Chance qualifier that starts two hours before the Grand Slam with a buy-in of $50. This one guarantees as many as 6 tickets to the final.
GSOP Events
Grand Series of Poker VIII consists of 18 GSOP events. Each GSOP event holds one Grand Slam Final ticket in the prize pool handed to the winner, plus tons of money to compete for. For every day during the GSOP period there is an interesting and exciting GSOP event starting at 20:00 CET. Each tournament differs from the other with different buy-ins, guaranteed prize pool and game format.
All GSOP events also awards points towards the leaderboard, where the winner gets a ticket to the Grand Slam Final and the remaining players in the top 100 will get a chance to compete for another three tickets.
Click here to see the schedule for the event >>
Direct Buy-In
Players can of course choose to buy-in directly to the Grand Slam Final. The buy-in is set to $5,000, making this one of the biggest high-stake online tournaments around.
SideBet
GSOP SideBet is an option for those thrill-seeking players out there who want to raise the stakes with other high rollers. The cost to participate in the GSOP SideBet is $1000+0 and comes without any commission fee.
Read more about the GSOP SideBet here >>
Grand Slam Final
The Grand Slam is the final event in the GSOP and will be the crowning glory of the GSOP.
The Grand Slam Final will take place on Sunday 18 March 2012, the weekend after the last GSOP event. The buy-in is set to $4,900+$100, making the Grand Slam Final an attractive high-stake tournament where the GSOP event winners, the lucky qualifiers, the leaderboard winners and players buying in direct, will meet for a Grand Slam Final with a guarantee of $400,000.
Grand Slam Final tickets must be used in the Grand Slam Final, they are not refundable with the exception if a player wins more than one Grand Slam Final ticket. Those extra tickets will be eligible for a refund.
Leaderboard
All players participating in the GSOP events and the Grand Tournament will be eligible for points in the leaderboard.
After the last GSOP event, the top 100 players in the GSOP Leaderboard will compete for 3 tickets to the main event – the Grand Slam Final. The first place of the leaderboard will receive one ticket automatically, while the second to 100th place will compete in these three different segments:
1 – Will receive one Grand Slam ticket
2 To 10 – Play for one Grand Slam ticket
11 To 30 – Play for one Grand Slamticket
31 To 100 – Play for one Grand Slam ticket
The leaderboard scores points based on a formula where players that enter in many events will be awarded more than just the occasional win of a big event. It is more rewarding to compete in all events in order to finish high in the final leaderboard. All players in the field will be awarded points towards the leaderboard.
The formula is:
Points = ((PrizePool*0,2) / (PlaceFinished*0,5))*10
Prize pool is in dollars ($).