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The Bodog Mini Poker Series will take place from July 3 - 15, 2009. (Bodog Beat Image)

Don't have thousands of dollars lying around to buy your way into the 2009 World Series of Poker? Or, maybe you have a real job and can't head to Vegas for days at a time to play in a 2009 WSOP event. Either way, thanks to the newly-announced Bodog Mini Poker Series, online poker players won't need to worry about Vegas when it comes to getting their poker tournament fix this Summer. This 13-event online poker tournament series takes place from July 3 – July 15, during the 2009 WSOP Main Event, and will be one of the first events to award a seat to the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

Each event in the Bodog Poker Mini Series has a $10 + $1 buy-in, and the top 30% of finishers in each tournament will earn points based on their finish. These points will then be used to rank players, with the players who finish in the top 10 on this TLB receiving automatic entry into the Final Tournament on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009, while finishers 11 – 50 on the TLB will play in the Semifinal on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009, for a spot in the Final.

Players can also earn an invite into the Final Tournament by playing in all 13 Bodog Poker Mini Series events. Play in seven of the 13 events and players will receive an invite for the Semifinal. The top 18 finishers in the Semifinal move onto the Final Tournament.

The grand prize for the winner of the Final Tournament is one of the first seats available anywhere for the 2010 WSOP Main Event and one of the first Team Bodog 2010 memberships (a prize package worth $12,000). Second and third-place finishers will receive a Bodog Poker Open IV Prize Package – to be hosted in the fall of 2009 – which consists of a buy-in to every event of the BPOIV. Fourth and Fifth-place finishers win a seat to any Bodog Flight Club Semifinal, valued at $270. Finally, those placing sixth through ninth get a seat to the $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament held each Sunday at 4pm ET, a $109 value.

For more details, check out how to win a seat to the 2010 WSOP Main Event through the Bodog Mini Poker Series and take a look at the full schedule for the Bodog Mini Poker Series below: