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Guide To The Absolute Poker ‘Dream Package’The Absolute Poker Dream Package is a tournament giving away a simply incredible prize package worth $100,000. This includes entry into several major televised poker tournaments as well as addition incentives. The Dream Package tournaments are scheduled regularly at Absolute Poker – to date 5 players have already won the $100,000 prize. The Absolute Poker Dream Package – OverviewThe ‘Dream Package’ is one of the most valuable prizes offered by any online poker site. This is made even more popular by the fact that it is possible to qualify via freeroll tournaments – each new player depositing at Absolute Poker being given an entry into a freeroll which awards seats in the next scheduled Dream Package qualifier. The actual prize on offer not only includes entries to live events, there are also ‘season tickets’ to the Absolute Poker weekend tournaments (the $150,000 guaranteed Saturday and $75,000 guaranteed Sunday events). Winners also get VIP entry to a major sporting event of their choice and expenses to cover travel and accommodation costs while attending the live tournaments. Entries on offer include European Poker Tour, World Poker Tour and World Series Of Poker Events. The winner of the ‘Dream Package’ really having the chance to live the life of a poker pro – where-ever in the world they are based. How To Qualify For The Absolute Poker Dream PackageThe tournaments giving away ‘Dream Package’ prizes are irregularly scheduled, Absolute Poker will announce the next tournament well in advance on their website. This tournament can be bought into directly for $200+$16 or players can qualify through a series of sub-satellites. Each new player at Absolute Poker is awarded a token for entry into a daily freeroll during the Dream Package qualifying schedule. This freeroll awards seats in the main qualifier for the top 3 players each day. Players who accumulate ‘Absolute Points’ are able to enter the freeroll as often as they like – the cost being 50 points per entry. Real-Money satellites to the Dream Package qualifier are organized in 2 stages. The smaller buy-in ‘Stage 2’ satellites award entries into the higher buy-in sub-qualifiers to the main tournament. Buy-ins for ‘Stage 2’ events are $2 and $4, for the Absolute Dream qualifier events the buy-in is $27. Players can also buy-in directly to the $27 events. Absolute Poker is the home of the re-load bonus. In addition to the 100% to $500 initial sign-up bonus with bonus code XXXXXX, they offer monthly reloads which mean you need never play without clearing a bonus! |
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