How to qualify - CANADA

World Cup of Poker VI - Qualify

There are two qualification routes open to players from Canada. You can qualify for either:

Your Home Province Team
Team Canada: 1 or Team Canada: 2

Players can qualify for any or all of these teams. However, as soon as you qualify for one team, you will not be able to attempt to qualify for any other team.

See the full WCP schedule to find out more.

STAGE IA

Every province will have a team of four players representing them, as determined by Stage IA of qualifying. Two places on the team are automatically awarded to that provinces top two Tournament Leader Board (TLB) players (see province list below), and the other two spots go to the top two players determined by our Province Team Decider freerolls.

Tournament Leader Board qualifiers

Each of the 11 province teams will be made up of four players. Two places will be automatically awarded to the top two Tournament Leader Board (TLB) players from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 in each of the 11 provinces.

Select your home province from the following list to see the top TLB players.

Each player who qualifies for one of these coveted spots will receive an e-mail from wcp@pokerstars.com. Players must reply to this e-mail and let PokerStars know whether they wish to play for their country. If a TLB qualifier is unable to play, the next highest TLB player will be offered the spot.

Province Team Decider Freerolls

The final two spaces on each provincial team will be determined by two Province Team Decider freeroll tournaments exclusively open only to players from your province: ‘Province Team Decider - A’ and ‘Province Team Decider - B’. If you win either tournament, you will be awarded a place on your provincial team.

Please Note: If you win ‘Province Team Decider - A’, you will not be allowed to play in the ‘Province Team Decider - B’ tournament, as you will have already secured a place on your provincial team.

To register for either ‘Province Team Decider’ qualifier, open the PokerStars lobby, click ‘Events’, ‘World Cup’ and ‘Canada Qualifiers’. Locate your home province tournaments and click ‘Register’.

See the full WCP schedule to find out more.

STAGE IB

PROVINCE PLAY-OFFS

Once the 11 teams have been finalized, they then advance to Stage IB where they will be divided in to three groups for the Province Play-offs. Here, each Provincial Team will compete in a series of Team Play-off tournaments. These Team Play-off tournaments will produce a single winning team from each group.

The champions from all three Province Play-offs will then advance to Stage II - the Regional Play-offs. There they will face off against Team Canada: 1 and Team Canada: 2 to try and secure a place in Stage III - the Live Grand Final.

See the full WCP schedule to find out more.

STAGE I

TEAM CANADA: 1 AND TEAM CANADA: 2 QUALIFICATION

If you do not qualify for your provincial team, you can still qualify for one of the two national Canadian Teams. As with all World Cup teams, Team Canada: 1 and Team Canada: 2 will both consist of four players - two TLB players and two Team Canada Decider freeroll qualifiers.

Tournament Leader Board qualifiers

The top four TLB players in Canada from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008 will all automatically be awarded a spot on one of the Canada teams.

Check out the top TLB players from Canada here.

‘Team Canada Decider’ Freeroll Qualifiers

The final two spaces on each team will be determined by two Team Canada Decider freeroll tournaments: ‘Team Canada Decider - A’ and ‘Team Canada Decider - B’. The top two players from each freeroll tournament will be awarded a space on either Team Canada: 1 or Team Canada: 2.

To register for a Team Canada Decider tournament, open the PokerStars lobby, click ‘Events’, ‘World Cup’ and ‘Canada Qualifiers’.

See the full WCP schedule to find out more.

STAGE II

REGIONAL PLAY-OFFS

The three Province Play-off champions will join Team Canada: 1 and Team Canada: 2 in Stage II of qualifying - the Regional Play-offs. Here, the four player national squads will battle it out in a series of Team Play-off tournaments. The overall winning team from the Canada Regional Play-off group will then advance to Stage III – an invite to play at the live Grand Final for a share of the $290,000 prize pool.

See the full WCP schedule to find out more.

STAGE III

The winning team from each of the Regional Play-offs in Stage II will win prize packages that include travel expenses and accommodation - to play live in the World Cup of Poker Grand Final in The Bahamas. There, the teams will compete in a televised tournament to determine the World Cup of Poker VI Champions!

If you have any questions regarding the World Cup of Poker, contact wcp@pokerstars.com.

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