It’s cold out there. Nobody could blame anyone who wants to run away from shoveling driveways and layering their clothes. Partypoker is throwing a lifeline to the holdem players of the world, and are giving them the opportunity to qualify for trips to sunny California via online poker tournaments. In short, folks can play holdem for their shot at a seat in this year’s L.A. Poker Classic. If your winters are spent playing poker online and freezing your tuckus off while wondering were all that global warming is, this is the promotion for you. The best part is that people can qualify by playing in freeroll poker tournaments. So not only can they be warm (eventually), but it may not cost them a pence.
As we all know, the L.A. Poker Classic is one of the most popular World Poker Tour events on the calendar. Anytime that a site gives you the opportunity to qualify for something like this via a freeroll poker tournament, it gets the attention of online poker players, but PartyPoker is offering much more than just the seat. The entire prize pack for playing in, and qualifying via one of their daily free tournaments, is worth a total of $14,000. This is just the start though, PartyPoker has another big carrot for those that qualify for this WPT event.
Most people would gladly trade a kidney or a sibling for a World Poker Tour, L.A. Classic Main Event victory. As if the money and prestige of winning that WPT event isn’t enough of an incentive, PartyPoker is adding to the motivation. They are providing a $1 million prize pool that gets paid out if one of their qualifiers wins the Main Event. $500,000 of this money goes to the player who actually wins the Main Event, while the rest is split among the rest of the people who qualified for a seat by playing at PartyPoker. Even if you lose, it is in your best interests to root for your fellow qualifier.
In the end, you can be warm AND rich. Not a bad way to spend the winter.
