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The first of our Aussie Millions Main Event satellites is on this Sunday at 15:00 Poker.com time and the amount of players becoming eligible is growing by the day.

Don't forget to register for the tournament before Sunday if you have won your entry coupon through a satellite. So far there are only 41 players registered even though many more have won their way in already.

Liam's been busy planning a calendar of events for our lucky winners to make sure everyone gets to sample all the sights sounds and tastes of Melbourne, Australia.

What are you waiting for? Log in now and win your chance to visit us down under today.

Just as an aside, a few of our players have contacted me asking 'What is a satellite?". Some in the past have asked 'What is a freeroll?'. Here's a brief explanation of some of the different types of tournaments that we run at Poker.com.

A Satellite Tournament is a tournament run to provide the winner(s) seats into a another tournament. For example the current Aussie Millions Main Event satellites that Poker.com is running on Sundays will send players to the actual Aussie Millions Tournament in Australia next January. Satellite setups always have a tiered structure, with the goal being to win your way to the tournament at the top. Using Poker.com as an example again, you could win a $1 buyin satellite for a place in the main event satellite which would cost $100 to buy into. From there you could win the Aussie Millions seat worth $12k, all for an initial outlay of just $1!

A Freeroll Tournament is a tournament with no cost to enter, but with a real value prize. For example Poker.com runs a $3ooo daily freeroll and two $500 freeroll tournament for our regular players that cost $0 to enter. Some freerolls have eligibility requirements, and some do not not. Our 12 $100 daily freeroll tournaments are open to absolutely any Poker.com members (and are sometimes described as requirement free), but the $3000 and $500 tournaments are available only to regular players.

Just to really confuse you we are thinking about running some freeroll satellites soon for seats into the Sunday Aussie Millions main event. A freeroll satellite is..... You guessed it - a tournament giving away a seat in a larger tournament, but without any buyin cost.

Hope that those explanations clear up any doubts that some players may have had about what different tournament descriptions mean.

Good luck at the tables!

Kris @ Poker.com