As the scramble to the World Series of Poker begins, there is a lot competition out there fighting for would be World Champions. This year is proving more aggressive than years past with all sites offering premium tournaments for players to win a seat. This year even some smaller less known sites are going after new players with great WSOP packages up for grabs.

BodogLife.com is offering prize packages of $12k and $2k, obviously the big pack is for the main event and the small pack is for the $1500 NL Hold’em event on June 30^th. The direct qualifiers for the main event are on Sundays buy in is $215.00 or satellite in for $5.50. DoylesRoom.com is also offering great ways to get to the World Series of Poker. The players can earn $10k worth of buy in’s during the website’s Legends Tournament Series. Other prizes include leather bound copies of Doyle’s Super System books, clothing and a strategy session with Doyle himself. The site offered a main qualifier tournament on April 20^th with each 13k in the prize pool a 13k package would be awarded and satellites in to this tournament were as low as $1.10.

Another site qualifying its players to the WSOP is UltimateBet.com. You can join the army to the 2008 WSOP in Las Vegas by playing each Saturday in $530.00 qualifier or $5.50 rebuy tourneys to satellite into the event. These satellites run around the clock.

The count down has begun and the 2008 World Series of Poker is in sight. There will be many people catching flights to the Las Vegas Airport ready to take on the poker world. Look around this year either on T.V. or in person and the winner may be from your favorite poker site.