WCP IX - Country Qualifiers

How to Qualify for WCP IX

Stage 1 - Team Selection

The competition begins by deciding which eight teams will travel to The Bahamas for the live finals at the 2013 PCA. This will be decided by splitting the 72 competing nations into eight equal groups.

Each group will then play four $2.20 heads-up No Limit Hold'em Super Knockout tournaments. Each country will receive a score that is equal to their highest individual cash in each tournament. The team that has the best combined score across all four tournaments will win their group. Dates, times and countries for each group are listed below. To find the tournaments and register, open the PokerStars lobby and go to 'Tourney' > 'Regional'.

Group 1: Argentina, Canada, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru.

Date	Time
August 11	19:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 2: Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia, Paraguay, El Salvador, Panama, Colombia.

Date	Time
August 11	20:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 3: Germany, Belarus, Poland, Greece, Switzerland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Moldova, Albania.

Date	Time
August 11	13:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 4: United Kingdom, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Croatia, FYROM.

Date	Time
August 11	11:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 5: Russian Federation, Portugal, Lithuania, Austria, Norway, Israel, Ireland, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Date	Time
August 11	10:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 6: Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, Czech Republic, Latvia, Serbia, Turkey, Cyprus, Belgium.

Date	Time
August 11	12:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 7: Taiwan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Japan, Georgia, South Korea, Lebanon, New Zealand.

Date	Time
August 11	06:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Group 8: Australia, Kazakhstan, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Rest of the World.

Date	Time
August 11	07:00 ET
August 12
August 18
August 19

Stage 2 - Player Selection

Team player selection tournaments will take place for the winner of each Stage 1 group on August 26, at the times shown below.

There are four types of Stage 2 qualifiers:

Freeroll - open to all players from the qualifying nation
TLB Freeroll - open only to the top 10 TLB from each country for 2011
$1.10
$11

Group	Freeroll	$1.10	$11	TLB Freeroll
1 (Canada)	17:00 ET	18:00 ET	19:00 ET	20:00 ET
2 (Brazil)	18:00 ET	19:00 ET	20:00 ET	21:00 ET
3 (Germany)	12:00 ET	13:00 ET	14:00 ET	15:00 ET
4 (Bulgaria)	13:00 ET	14:00 ET	15:00 ET	16:00 ET
5 (Belgium)	13:00 ET	14:00 ET	15:00 ET	16:00 ET
6 (Russia)	10:00 ET	11:00 ET	12:00 ET	13:00 ET
7 (Japan)	05:00 ET	06:00 ET	07:00 ET	08:00 ET
8 (Rest of World)	08:00 ET	09:00 ET	10:00 ET	11:00 ET

Please Note: In addition to the eight national teams that qualify from the Stage 1 tournaments, Spain, France and Italy will also compete separately for a place in the live final.

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