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Free hotel room for first 5 individuals through online gateway

paddypowerpoker.com today launches an online registration and payment facility for all events in the Irish Winter Festival 2010. This gateway facilitates both individual and cardroom registrations with payment possible via credit cards, bank transfer and cheque.

paddypowerpoker.com are giving the first five players to register and pay for the Irish Masters main event via the ‘individual’ gateway a complimentary room in the Burlington Hotel for the entire weekend of the Irish Winter Festival.

Players can now register and pay for any or all events at the Irish Winter Festival, including the Super Satellite tournament scheduled for 22nd October, the Irish Masters €1,500 + €150 main event on 23rd October and all five side events taking place throughout the weekend such as the much anticipated Blind Mans Bluff event!

“We are pleased to present a secure and effortless online registration & payment facility for all Irish Winter Festival tournaments so that people can guarantee their seat in their chosen event well in advance” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com. “Why not get in their first and you can enjoy complimentary accommodation in the Burlington Hotel for the festival weekend – that way you won’t miss out on all the entertainment we have lined up for each evening!”

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Four days, Four events, Ten packages guaranteed worth a staggering £4,000 each… Ladbrokes Poker are launching their Cruise Mini Festival next month! Ladbrokes Poker is planning four days of poker events from September 16-19, 2010 with each event having added Poker Cruise IV places as prizes. The cruise mini festival will allow players extra ways of buying into games in order to win a cruise package.

The Poker Cruise IV itself will include eight days of luxury cruising aboard the ‘Oasis of the Seas’ setting sail for the Caribbean on January 22, 2011. As always, the cruise will include a full tournament, STTs and a variety of cash prizes for players obtaining a Cruise Place by winning in the Cruise Weekly Finals held every Monday at 20:15 GMT, or during the Cruise Mini Festival in September.

Ladbrokes Poker are pleased to announce that Snooker legend Steve 5K2 Davis will be joining them each month for a night of Poker Fun and frollics. Join in for an evening of snooker loopy poker.

Steve will play in a special bounty tournament at the start of the evening, so get those snooker and poker questions ready to fire at him in the chat.

After Steve is eliminated, he will join some cash tables and play in a Sit and Go tournament where Ladbrokes will set some questions in the chat and reward some Ladbrokes Poker Cruise Tournament tickets which you can use to try and win a £4,000 Ladbrokes Poker Cruise setting sail in January 2011.

Remember to turn on your poker room messages, we will send system messages to let you know which cash or sit and go tables Steve joins, the succesful players who join the table will get a £13 Cruise Steps Tournament ticket credited to their accounts. They have 50 tickets to give away, so don’t miss the action at the tables and in the chat.

Next monthly tournament: 18th August 2010

• Tournament name: Steve “5K2″ Davis Bounty
• Lobby Location: Tournaments/ Special
• Time: 19:30
• Bounty: £200 on Steve “5K2″ Davis and £50 on MGR-Richard
• The bounties will apply after the rebuy period has ended
• Steve Davis has won 6 World titles so the 6th place finisher will receive a pair of tickets for a top snooker tournament
• 2000 chips, 10 minute blinds
• £5 + 0.50 buy in with half price rebuys and 1 add on
• No Limit hold’em rebuy

paddypowerpoker.com today announced the inclusion of a “Blind Mans Bluff” poker event at the 2010 Irish Winter Festival 2010 tournament which this year takes place over October Bank Holiday weekend (22nd – 25th) in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin.

Blind man’s bluff (also called Indian poker) is a fun twist on the traditional game of poker whereby each person sees the cards of all players except their own.

Players are dealt cards which they display to all other players by sticking them on their foreheads. Players attempt to guess if they have the highest hand based on the distribution of visible cards and how other players are betting.

Paddy Power said “The Irish Winter Festival is back in Dublin city centre and it’s bigger than ever before. We’ve even added a World Championship event to the proceedings with the new Blind Mans Bluff tournament – so it’s the ideal chance to come down to the festival, play some poker, have the craic, and leave a winner.”

Qualifying online satellite tournaments start as low €1+0.10 for an estimated total prize pool of €1,000,000.

TitanPoker.com, the leading online poker room in Europe, and the official sponsor of Europe’s most exclusive live poker series, has launched a series of satellite tournaments to determine the winning players that will participate on its behalf at the ECPokerTour Vienna tournament in Austria this November.

The ECPokerTour Vienna €3,000 + €300 Main Event will be held at the Montesino Pokertainment Center in Vienna, Austria. The tournament will take place over four days from November 10 – November 14, 2010.

Players winning an ECPokerTour Vienna package at Titan Poker (value €5,500) will receive the Main Event buy-in; five night’s accommodation at the Le Meridien Hotel (including breakfast and dinner for the qualifier and guest); entry to a special players’ Welcome Party; and funds for flights and spending money.

Super Satellite tournaments are staged at Titan Poker every Sunday and Wednesday night, each awarding winning players with the ECPokerTour Vienna package. Qualifier satellite tournaments are being staged round the clock with buy-ins starting as low as €1+ €0.10.

Veteran poker players and novices alike are invited to download Titan Poker’s user-friendly poker software and participate in one of the satellites to vie for a seat at the exclusive ECPokerTour Vienna tournament.

ECPokerTour’s last major event was staged at the Gran Casino de Barcelona in March, with previous tournaments held in Malta, Salzburg and Madrid. www.titanpoker.com is the official sponsor of the ECPokerTour series, Europe’s most luxurious poker tournament circuit.

About Titanpoker.com:

Titanpoker.com is the number one online poker room in Europe and part of the iPoker Network. Titan Poker’s software is developed and maintained by Playtech, a public company and leading gaming software developer. With nearly 30,000 online players at peak hours, Titan Poker guarantees $16,000,000 in monthly prizes, features special sit ‘n’ go tournaments with progressive jackpots as high as $100,000, and awards players with entries to major worldwide poker tournaments.

The Irish Winter Festival is back this year and it’s shaping up to be even bigger and better than ever before. The event will take place between 22nd - 25th October 2010 in the luxurious Burlington Hotel, just a stroll down from the Dublin’s City Centre. The festival is headlined by the Irish Masters main event, a €1,650 buy in No Limit Texas hold’em tournament.

Players who qualify for the Irish Winter Festival with paddypowerpoker.com are eligible to take part in the €20k Sole Survivor promotion - the €20,000 prize package will be won by the paddypowerpoker.com qualifier that outlasts all others in the main event!  As with all previous Sole Survivor promotions, there are three simple steps

• Qualify for the Irish Winter Festival on paddypowerpoker.com
• Outlast all other paddypowerpoker.com qualifers at the IWF in October
• Win the €20,000 package!

The €20,000 package is made up of €10,000 cash and €10,000 tournament buy-ins and expenses; the events the €20k Sole Survivor plays will be decided on in consultation with paddypowerpoker.com

Action will heat up on the poker tables as the weather cools down!

The third leg of the 2010 Coral.co.uk British Masters Poker Tour is in Liverpool from 9 to 11 July.

Hosted by Gala Casino Leo overlooking Liverpool’s Queens Dock, the £500+50 main event will kick off at 2pm on Saturday 10 July. The two day event is expected to have a prize pool in excess of £35,000, with the winner also securing a seat at the end-of-season play-off for £15,000 worth of Coral.co.uk sponsorship in 2011* .

There are also a £200+20 and £100+10 side events on Friday 9 and Sunday 11 respectively.

Getting your seat at the CBMPT Liverpool
Coral.co.uk is running online satellites to this event, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 8:30pm. These $80 finals pay-out a guaranteed seat and expenses for every 14 runners. Players can qualify for online finals in daily $5.50 rebuy and $11 freeze-out satellites.

Gala Casino Leo is running a freeroll super-satellite on Thursday 8 July with five main event seats guaranteed. Buy-in is FREE with a £5 fee; 2,000 starting stack, two rebuys (4,000 chips) and super-add-on (6,000 chips) are available for £20.

Players can also buy-in to any event of the Liverpool CBMPT via the cash desk of Gala’s 27 casinos in the UK and Gibraltar.

The dates and venues for the 2010 CBMPT are:
• Bristol – Gala Harbourside Casino: 07 to 09 May; winner: David Harris
• Leeds – Gala Casino Leeds: 11 to 13 June; winner: Ross Johnson
• Liverpool – Gala Casino Leo : 09 to 11 July
• Nottingham – Gala Casino, Maid Marion Way: 30 July to 01 August
• Stockton-on-Tees – Gala Casino Teesside: 10 to 12 September
• Edinburgh – Gala Maybury Casino: 29 to 31 October

Liverpool CBMPT Schedule
• Friday, 9 July : £200+20 NLHE, 6pm start - one day
• Saturday, 10 July: £500+50 NLHE Main Event, 2pm start – two days
• Sunday, 11July: £100+10 NLHE, 5pm start – one day

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November sees €25,000 on offer in DevilfishPoker.com’s Endurance Challenge plus €28,000 in Free EMOP Ljubljana Packages

DevilfishPoker.com is testing its players’ stamina and determination in the month of November in its new Endurance Challenge, which will see €25,000 divided equally among all those who complete it. To take part, players must earn 25 VIP points on 25 consecutive days between November 6 and 30. At the end of the 25 days, all remaining players will share out the prize pool equally. However, if a player misses a day, they are immediately disqualified from the competition. The full list of players still in the competition will be available each day on the Devilfish Poker site.

Also in November, DevilfishPoker.com will have €28,000 in free European Masters of Poker Ljubljana packages up for grabs. 14 packages worth €2,000 will be divided up between freerolls, VIP races, and Raked Hands Races.

Every second day from November 2 to 20, there will be a freeroll with an EMOP Ljubljana package on offer for first place. To be eligible to enter, players must earn the required number of VIP points between November 1 and the start of each tournament.

A Sprint VIP Race will run over 10 days from November 1 to 10, and another from November 11 to 20. The players who earn the most points in each will receive a free EMOP package. As will the lucky two who play the most raked hands during the same dates in the Sprint Raked Hands Races.