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•  Pacific Poker to give 2008 WSOP Seat

Pacific Poker plans to give it to you.

With thousands of online poker players salivating a seat to the 2008 World Series of Poker main event, Pacific Poker has come up with a package that is sure to draw in a throng of eager poker players who are looking to sit at the final table.For a mere $500 + $25 buy-in, serious poker contenders can try to outlast and outplay their opponents at their favorite online poker rooms to get into the biggest and most prestigious poker game of the year. That is of course, the 2008 WSOP tournament.And making it even better is the fact that it's a weekly tournament held every Saturday. That means if you don't win this week, you can always try again. (And again and again and again, no matter how long it takes…)What happens when you win the qualifier? Of course, you get the $10,000 buy-in to the WSOP main event and the chance to win millions. All thanks to those guys from PacificPoker.com.Aside from that, you get $2,500 as a Travel Prize, $2,000 in spending money, 10 days accommodation in The Palazzo Tower of the Venetian Hotel and just because poker players are now treated like rock stars, you also get invited to a welcome party.Pretty sweet deal for such a small price.If you don't feel like coughing up $525, you can always check out the satellites that are ongoing within the site. You can join satellites for as low as $12. Can you imagine how sweet it is to win millions of dollars at the 2008 WSOP by shelling out a mere $12?Now that's a story to tell the grandkids.We're talking about the possibility of winning a WSOP bracelet here and if you haven't won your seat yet, you are running out of time. If you want to win your buy-in to the main event, Pacific Poker may be your last chance.

•  Criteria to earn an invite to the NHUPC

The NHUPC, how can you get an invite?

While majority of the poker players around the world are probably anxious for the 2008 World Series of Poker, the rest who have no plans competing on this year's WSOP event probably has the NHUPC in mind.

And that's the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. But unlike the WSOP, the event's selection process is a little more complicated. In fact, the NHUPC selection committee has implemented a list of criteria that will result to automatic invites to the heads-up tournament probably to avoid the confusion.

This year's field is loaded with the top players in the game. That includes 11 former heads-up champions, six WPT players of the year and a combined 112 WSOP bracelets.

Here is the list of criteria.

•  Previous five National Heads-Up Poker Champions

•  Previous two National Heads-Up runners-up

•  Defending National Heads-Up semifinalists

•  Any player who cashes in the past four consecutive years of the NHUPC

•  Previous three World Series of Poker main event champions

•  Defending World Series of Poker main event runner-up

•  Beginning with the 2008 WSOP, multiple-bracelet winners in the same year will receive an automatic invitation to the next Heads-Up Championship

•  Defending World Series of Poker Player of the Year

•  Defending World Series of Poker Heads-Up Champion

•  Defending World Series of Poker Europe main event champion (must be 21 or older)

•  Reigning World Poker Tour Player of the Year

•  Reigning Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Grand Final Champion (must be 21 or older)

•  Reigning Card Player magazine Player of the Year

•  Reigning Bluff magazine Player of the Year

•  Reigning ALL IN magazine Player of the Year

•  Online and NBC qualifiers (1-3) (must be 21 or older)

•  Host venue qualifiers (2)