Mini World Series of Poker Tournaments
Online poker rooms have been offering 2008 WSOP Satellites for the last couple months and are pushing to send the next 2008 Main Event champion. Now that the WSOP is underway and the Main Event is a little more then a month away poker sites have re-created the WSOP and have begun to offer what is called "Mini" World Series of Poker Tournament Series.
They are mirroring all the events that are played at the 2008 WSOP only with smaller buy-ins.
FullTilt Poker.com - They are currently running their 2008 Mini Series of Poker , it started on May 30th and runs through July 5th. The buy-ins are 1/100th of the normal WSOP buy-ins. The winner of each tournament will get a Full Tilt Poker Championship along with the prize money. They
BodogPoker.com - They have their own Mini-Sop tournament that is running from May 30th to July 10th. Each buy-in is 1% the original cost. The top players on the Mini-Sop leaderboard will receive entry into a final tournament where the top 3 finishers are 2009 WSOP Main Event seats.
Absolute Poker.net - Their tournament is called the World Series of Absolute Poker and will run from May 30th to July 3rd. They have a leaderboard with the winner receiving a free entry to their Aruba Classic. Players that win 3 tournaments in a row also get a free entry into the Aruba Classic poker tournament. And finally the most final table finishes gets a 4 week pass to the $150k weekly tournament.