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Qualifier (Poker)
A qualifier is a feeder tournament into a larger tournament. Players will often try to gain entry into a tournament without having to buy in for the full amount. Most large tournaments have a number of feeder tournaments or qualifiers for a fraction of the entry amount.
For instance, the WSOP offers qualifiers in most of the online poker rooms. A typical feeder tournament to the WSOP main event, which costs $10,000, might offer entry to the feeder for $100 with one in every 100 players being offered a seat to the main event. Of course qualifiers are not just for the major land based tournaments, they can be for any tournament Many of the big land based tournaments will have a number of qualifying heats before the main qualifier in which seats to a particular event are given to the top X players.
Qualifiers do offer a cost effective was to gain entry to a tournament which has a buy in amount that you would otherwise not buy into. In most online rooms, when you visit the tournament lobby of the tournament that you want to win a seat to, it will usually show you the qualifiers to that tournament.
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