Online poker site PartyPoker.com will welcome the month of May with two promotions will give players the chance to win millions of dollars in prizes and secure their seats at the 2009 World Series of Poker. 

The Million Dollar Race leaderboard promotion, which gets underway on Friday, May 1st will award the top 3000 players with a share of the $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The cash prizes are distributed to players based on their rank and final position; in addition, the promotion will also give the top ten players the chance to win a WSOP prize package or freeroll entries into a special online qualifier. The leaderboard winner will receive $20,000 and a WSOP package worth $20,000. All you have to do to take part in this promotion is play real money cash games at PartyPoker.com. Players can check their status directly on the site to find out how far or how close they are from the top positions, in addition, all players who reach a place among the top 5000 positions will be automatically notified once they log in their Party accounts.

“This promotion is simple - the more Race Points you earn the higher up in the leaderboard you climb and the more cash and prizes you can win. We are under starters’ orders and off for our biggest ever rake race this Friday. The race has great prizes from 1st through to 3000th!” commented a PartyPoker spokesman.

Players can also take part in the fourth Party Poker Monthly Million starting on Sunday, May 3rd at 12.45 ET. The $1,000,000 guaranteed event features a $600+$40 buy in, however, players will have cheaper ways to enter this event, including the online qualifiers running on the site and starting for as little as $1. Other qualifiers for the Main Event include $64+$4 daily satellites with 19 seats guaranteed, the Mega Friday $50+$5 satellite awarding 20 seats and the $32+$3 buy Super Satellite Saturday qualifiers awarding 15 seats.

For more information about the Million Dollar Race and Monthly Million promotions, please visit PartyPoker.com.

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