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WAPL Season 9 Grand Final - This Sunday 26th Apr

WAPL Season Grand 9 Finals

WA Poker League Season Grand Finals (For Pro and Free Leagues) are awesome events, culminating in the best of the best in both leagues playing off to prove who is WAPL's Grand Champion for each League for that Season!

With WAPL's Pro League paying out over $1,100,000 since we started in May 2006, with Pro League Players competing for the ability to qualify for the Pro League Grand Final! The overall Top 5 also win great cash prizes for doing so well during the season!

Pro Rank   |   Cash Prize

1st     |   $3000

2nd    |   $2000

3rd     |   $1000

4th    |    $600

5th    |    $400

In addition to the overall league rankings, the Top player for each venue at the end of the season will also gain automatic qualification into the Grand Final for that League! For Pro League events that includes the Grand Final Buy-In! So now there's even more reason to reach that top spot! Please note, if you already rank in the top 10 players in Pro League, you still receive your single Grand Final Buy-in even if you also take out a venue. If a player has already gained qualification through another means, it does not automatically qualify the 2nd player for the prize.

Of course, the overall Champion of the Pro League Grand Final will take home not only the huge cash payout estimated at over $20,000, but the WA Poker League Grand Championship Medallion, worth over $5000, and engraved to signify the momentous event!

Get in there, get qualified, and be in with a chance to take out WA's BIGGEST and BEST Poker Tournament with the Western Australian Poker League!

More Details -

Location

South Fremantle Football Club. Fremantle Oval, Fremantle.

Date

SUNDAY 26th APRIL, 2009! Don't miss this great day of Poker!

Time

Free League Registration opens 9am. Final Free League registrations 10:45am. Pro League Registration opens 10am. Final Pro League registrations 11:45am. You can preregister for the Pro League Final at events leading up to the day, which will allow you to skip the (often long) registration line. Please don't be late, as it's critical we start the tournaments on time and we don't want to have to turn latecomers away.

Pro League Grand Final

• Top 240 qualifiers (240 seats, if they're not filled, they will be awarded to the reserve pro league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify but have played 10 Pro games this season to play!) You MUST be a Pro League Player to play, and qualifiers will always be given a seat in preference to a non-qualifying reserve Pro player.

• The qualification buy-in is based on a 2 tier ranking qualifier. For those players ranked 11th to 100th, the buy-in is $100. For those players ranked 101st to 240th, the buy-in is $200. (Still a small price to pay for what you have a chance to win!) with $10 going to the club/charity we are operating the event with, and the rest being pooled to the Grand Final Prize Pool! This ensures not only a great prize pool, but also a significant bonus to those higher ranked players for the season, as they win the $100 discount to their buy-in (or Free buy-in if they are top 10 or top a venue!)

• Up to the top 24 places paid out! (Top 10% of the players on the day!)

Free League Grand Final

• Top 240 qualifiers (160 seats, filled on a first come first entered basis. If they're not filled, they will be awarded to the next ranking reserve free league players at the event, so come down even if you don't qualify for a chance to play if you've played 10 Free League events this season!)
  The top 40 ranked Free League players at the end of season will also get a single reentry if they get out before the 1st break, similar to the Passport reentry used in our standard tournaments.

• No buy-in

• Free League Championship Trophy Prize, nothing of monetary value, but you're playing for the fun and the fame of becoming the Free League Champ!

There will also be tables running for players who get out of the Grand Finals, who wish to keep playing poker during the event! They will be supervised, and follow by our standard Sit 'N Go and Cash Table rules!

Important note on Reserves - Players who have played 10 or more games in one or the other Leagues this season, yet have not qualified for a seat, are on the Reserves List. They can take the place of non-attending Qualifiers, in order of Ranking.

Please remember, as a qualifier there is no need to have played 10 games, IF you are qualified. If you are outside the qualification, as a reserve you must have played 10 games. Reserve players are NOT guaranteed seats in the Finals, but will take the seats of qualifiers who don't show up on the day up to a total of 240 players for Pro and 160 players for Free.