Qualify for the WSOP
The World Series of Poker is not one of the most famous and popular live poker events for nothing. You don’t have to qualify through an intricate points and rankings system, heck you don’t even have to be a reasonable poker player to take part. Just pay the $10,000 and get to playin’. After all, people who gained access this way in the past, turned out not to be such huge underdogs after all. Joe Hachem entered the tournament like that and he ended up winning it. This doesn’t mean you’ll guarantee yourself a place ITM, though, it just comes to show how just about anyone can make it huge in the WSOP. Most people (like me) do not have $10,000 they’d want to spend on a poker tourney though. Fortunately, not only is the WSOP not reserved for the good and recognized players, but it’s not even a privilege only or the rich to participate. You can qualify for it via different satellites. 
Don’t worry if you live half a world away either. You don’t have to travel to the States just to participate in these satellites – which you might not even win. It has lately become a trend for online poker rooms to offer some sort of satellites and pre-satellites for the WSOP. No self respecting poker room will be without an offer like that. For much smaller buyins, you can use these tourneys as stepping stones towards making it to the WSOP. How many of these stepping stones you’ll need to use though, depends on how much money you’re willing to blow on buyins. The more you pay, the fewer satellites you have to attend. If you figured you’d try qualifying for the least amount of buyin money possible, you have to keep the following in mind: you’ll probably have to win 3-4 or possibly more tournaments in order to achieve that goal. With the changes that are increasingly straddling online poker (the online “all-in” mania) one has to be an extremely outstanding player to beat all those games. Wait, simply being excellent won’t do. You’ll have to be about as lucky as you are good. Low buyin qualifying strategy is mostly the same as the one you employ when you play in regular MTTs. You want to survive and play tight early on, get more and more aggressive as the game progresses, and build up a dominating stack towards the latest stages. Stealing the blinds, making reads and everything associated with solid tournament play is a must here. The only problem is, you’ll have to stay extremely focused and constant, because you’ll have to pull this same stunt 3-4 times in a row. Of course, if constantly delivering high performance is not one of your strengths, and if you happen to have some more money to spend on the whole deal, going after a high-buyin approach, might be the right idea. Most of these high-buyin satellites are not even must-wins, so you can afford to relax a bit and take a different approach. As there is 1 WSOP package available / 20 players in many of these tourneys, winning it should not be your primary objective. In poker in general, much of the value comes from simply surviving, and this is especially true in this case. Because of this, your play should be much tighter compared to the low-buyin strategy. If you can make it to the “money” stages of the tourney, you’re a winner already. Another good approach to WSOP qualification is to start several such “campaigns”. Embark on a low-buyin one, but also for a couple of other satellites. That’ll keep your chances alive if you fail to reach the WSOP one way.