The WPT Cyprus Championship takes place at the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Spa, with the winner’s package built around the trip rather than a cash lump sum. Anyone who qualifies through a WPT Global satellite receives:
- Entry into the WPT Cyprus Championship
- Five hotel nights at the Chamada Prestige for two people (18–23 August 2026)
- An all-inclusive food and beverage package for two
- Airport transfers for two
- Exclusive WPT Global merchandise
- Eligibility for the $100,000 Winner’s Bonus
The bonus is the part worth reading twice. If you reach Cyprus through a WPT Global satellite and then go on to win the Championship outright, WPT Global pays you an extra $100,000 on top of first prize. It is capped at that figure, it is non-transferable, and the event has to play to a natural conclusion, so a final table deal or a chop forfeits it. Worth knowing before you start negotiating at three-handed.
The qualification path is a three-step ladder: $1.10 feeders run into $11 satellites, which run into the $108 Qualifier every Sunday at 18:06 UTC. You can climb the whole thing from the bottom, or you can skip straight to the Sunday Qualifier if you would rather not spend a fortnight grinding feeders.
Both approaches are valid and it mostly comes down to bankroll and how much time you want to spend. A recreational player with $20 set aside can realistically fire a handful of $1.10 steps across a week and still be in profit on the attempt if one of them converts. A player used to mid-stakes MTTs will probably find the $108 direct entry the better use of their evening, since the field size in a satellite that awards multiple packages is the number that actually determines your equity.
One thing to plan around: the promotion ends with the final $108 Qualifier on 9 August 2026. Working back from today, that leaves a small handful of Sundays. If you have been meaning to take a shot at a live WPT stop this year, the window is closing rather than opening.
If you are going to play these satellites anyway, the account you play them on matters. Opening your WPT Global account through Rakerace means the rake you generate along the way, in the satellites themselves and in the cash games and tournaments you play around them, comes back to you through our rakeback deal rather than staying with the room.
That changes the arithmetic in a quiet but meaningful way. Satellite grinding produces volume, and volume produces rake. Getting a share of it back lowers the effective cost of every attempt you make at a package, which in turn means you can afford more attempts. Players who qualify on a Rakerace-linked account are, in practice, paying less per shot than players who signed up directly.
No satellite is a lottery ticket you are guaranteed to cash, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. What is true is that the price of entry here is unusually low relative to the value on offer, that the field in a $1.10 feeder is not full of professionals, and that the package covers the parts of a live trip that normally make one prohibitive: the seat, the room, the food, the transfers.
If Cyprus in August sounds like a better use of a Sunday evening than another routine online session, the ladder is open now.
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