With an estimated $3 million prize pool, this promises to be the biggest Hollywood Poker Grand Slam yet. Starting on April 12, players have 3 ways they can try and satellite their way into the big event. From April 12 to May 2 there will be an ongoing leaderboard running for the 16 GSOP II events leading up to the main event Finals.

While the winner of each event (barring event #13, the special Grand Tournament Finals) will win a free ticket into the May 3 Grand Slam Final, 2nd through 10th place finishers will compete for another free ticket, as will 11th through 30th place finishers, and those placing 31st through 100th, making 4 tickets in all available through this route.

In addition will be qualifiers running every day of the series at 3 pm ET, with varying buy-ins as low as $10 + $1, the winner of each one guaranteed a free ticket into the main event.

And finally, 3 more tickets will be made available through a $50 + $4 Last Chance Qualifier on Sunday May 3, the day of the main event itself.

For any big table tournament hosted or sponsored by HollywoodPoker (or any land-based poker event with which they are a participating poker room) all players have equal opportunity to win their way in via a series of online satellite qualifiers.

There are two kinds:
• Multi-table tournaments
• Sit & Gos

Both types have starting buy-ins of $1 + 0.20.

From there, winners earn tickets into higher-rolling satellites where the prizes, predictably, are tickets into even higher-rolling satellites, until one or more players win entry into a big table tournament with a ticket worth one of the following:
• $150 + 12
• $300 + 20 – good for entry into The Big Deal, held every Sunday
• $1,000 + 40 – good for entry into the GRAND, held during the last weekend of each month

Prize pools for each satellite are divided evenly into as many tickets as can possibly be rewarded. So if a ticket is worth $300 and the total prize pool is $3,000, then the top 10 players will win tickets. Leftover cash will go to the top player who didn’t win a ticket.

Tickets of the same value are interchangeable (even between Multi-table tournaments and Sit & Go tournaments).

Currently Hollywood Poker has three such promotions going:

• HollywoodPoker Live Europe: a chance to fly to Copenhagen, Denmark with a $13,500 prize package that includes a free seat into the HollywoodPoker Live Scandinavian Open Main Event, running February 17-21 at the Casino Copenhagen. The HollywoodPoker Live Europe Online Live Finals run January 18 and 25 at 2 pm EST.

• HollywoodPoker Live Melbourne: a chance to fly to Melbourne, Australia with a $14,000 prize package that includes a free seat into the Crown Casino Aussie Millions, running January 18-24 and promising a total prize pool of over AUD$8 million. The HollywoodPoker Live Main Event Package Online Live finals remaining run December 18, 21 and 28 at 2:45 pm EST

• HollywoodPoker Live Estoril: a chance to fly to Estoril, Portugal with a $4,300 prize package that includes a free seat into the HollywoodPoker Live Estoril Main Event, running February 12-16 and boasting an estimated prize pool of $1 million. The HollywoodPoker Live Estoril Online Live Finals remaining run December 13 and 27, January 10 and 24, and February 7, all at 3 pm EDT.

Satellites worth entry into each of these HollywoodPoker Live events’ live online finals run 6 times daily, with buy-ins as low as $1 + 0.20.