Bugsys Club Online Poker
There is no need to make a deposit. Just start playing in the freerolls, both the real money freerolls and the Freeplay freerolls. The Freeplay freerolls give Bugsys Bonus Points to the top finishers, which can be used to buy in to other tournaments. If you're starting on a Monday thru Friday, look for the tournaments under the Freeplay section that are written in green text. They are the WSOP Round 1 Warm-Up qualifiers and they are also freerolls. A top 40 finish in one of these entitles you to a weekend Round 2 qualifier. Finish in the top 4 in one of these, and you're in the Finals. There is one Final scheduled for 1/7/06 and there will 
probably be more Round 1, Round 2 and Final contests as the 2006 WSOP approaches. In order to make it to the championship event of the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas through Bugsys Club, you need to win one of the finals. There is probably not a very realistic chance for you to achieve your goal through Bugsys Club. Your main mission at Bugsys is to build a small bankroll, then cash out most of your winnings to a Neteller account. More on Neteller later. There will be many more opportunities which will give you a far more realistic chance to make it to the WSOP which I'll write about in future steps. Remember, your main purpose at Bugsys Club is to build a small bankroll. Do not overlook the value of the Bugsys Bonus Points. Although they are only worth 1 cent each, once you start earning a few, you can use those few to earn more and more. Once you've collected 55 of them, you can buy into the Sunday tournament, which guarantees 20,000 points, 6,000 to the winner. The great thing about the World Series of Poker Round 1 and Round 2 events is that in addition to giving you a chance to win a seat at the big show, they give lots and lots of Bugsys Bonus Points if you're fortunate enough to finish quite high up, especially in a Round 2 event. Another thing you can use the points for is to buy into satellites to real money events, for example, 10 points (worth 10 cents) can be used to win a seat into a $250 guaranteed prize fund Saturday tournament. The top 10 finishers in a 10 Bugsys Bonus Point buy-in event wins a seat. At any point in your journey at Bugsys, feel free to step into Step 2. Step 1 and 2 are designed to be done simultaneously, but please allow adequate time at Bugsys because you'll find the players there to be very loose and aggressive to the point where it sometimes gets ridiculous. It is not unusual to find multiple players at the freerolls going all-in on the very first hand. As I'm writing this at the moment, my wife is playing a Bugsys tournament, a $30 freeroll, the tournament is 11 minutes old and out of the original 815 players, there are less than 670 players left. The players will bust each other out at a very rapid pace until there are about 60 players left and then most of them will tighten up trying to earn a top 40 finish which will earn them 18 cents. One strategy I have used successfully is to go all in on any of the first few hands with Q-any or better and hope for the best. If I go out, so what? I join another one. If I double up, I try it again at the earliest opportunity and repeat the process until I triple up or better. If I can do that (which happens way more often than I thought it would), I can start to take the tournament seriously, or if I'm too busy on other tournaments, or on my work, I can put it on post and fold and check back on it later. Whatever strategy you try, if you use common sense and patience, especially patience, you'll find yourself consistently among the top 100 out of 800-1000 players and then all you need after that is a little luck and some more common sense as you approach the payout spots. Most of you by now are probably thinking, 18 cents, all that work for 18 cents?! Yes, that's right, you need to win a little bit at first, then start buying into the events that cost a penny or 11 cents where you'll find only 300 or so players instead of 800-1000. You can probably see where this is going. Win a little more, use your tiny bankroll to build a little bit bigger bankroll, keep repeating the process until you have over $50.00 saved up in your Bugsys account, during which time you also need to be working at Dream Poker and Titan Poker (see remainder of Step 1). Use your winnings conservatively, don't buy into events that cost more than 25% of your bankroll because you'll risk losing too much if you run into a bad luck streak, and then have to start all over. Step 1 is the most time-consuming portion of the process of them all, but don't skip this step unless you're comfortable with making a small deposit somewhere and playing in events that cost a little bit of a buy-in. Also, if you are not an experienced no-limit tournament player (at the live tables or online) you'll find Bugsys the place to catch up with your competition that you'll encounter in future steps. So, go ahead, get started by clicking on this banner...
...and if you do so, we will receive credit for you as one of our referrers so that if you ever play in cash games, we might make a small commission on your raked play. You don't need to play any raked hands at Bugsys to achieve your WSOP goal, but if you decide to continue with Bugsys, you'll know that any raked play you engage in will help to pay our expenses.