Absolute Poker Paying Players To Attend 2010 WSOP Main Event
admin on March 11th, 2010
Absolute Poker is running a promotion called “Show Up, Get Paid” in which they’re not only giving away the standard WSOP prize packages with free seats in the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event but they’re paying players to go there.
The idea behind the Absolute Poker Show Up, Get Paid promotion is that every player AP sends to the 2010 WSOP Main Event leaves the event feeling like a winner, no matter how they do in the actual tournament. Everyone Absolute Poker and the other poker sites in the CEREUS Network, which also includes Ultimate Bet Poker (now better known as UB.com) at least $1,000 cash, just for showing up.
Absolute Poker is also making a $750,000 final table sponsorship available to the most successful player in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion.
Play in Absolute Poker and UB.com’s multi-table satellite tournaments and Step tournaments and if you win a seat in the 2010 WSOP Main Event this way, and then agree to wear Absolute Poker branded gear. For every player that gets this far and agrees to participate in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion, Absolute Poker will add $1,500 to a progressive prize pool, with the $1,000 minimum bonus per player increasing to up to a $5,000 bonus per player, depending on how many people choose to participate in the Show Up, Get Paid promotion.
And let’s be perfectly clear—you do not even need to cash in the tournament in order to collect your bonus (thus the name: Show Up, Get Paid). Of the total guaranteed prize pool, 3/4 of the bonus will be divided up amongst all the players participating, with the 1/4 remaining split amongst those who do manage to cash.
