The Irish Open 2009 - Europe’s premier poker tournament

The Easter weekend Irish Open poker tournament takes place at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, which is an ideal location for world class poker tournaments of this size as it has capacity for 1,000 poker players. Special rates will be available to tournament poker players for accommodation at the Citywest Hotel.

There are three opportunities for poker players to have an opportunity to participate in this exciting tournament poker event; players can take part in the ‘Sole Survivor’ event on PaddyPowerPoker paying as little as $2 to take part, online entries with full payment or main event entry with payment on the 10^th April, although spaces will be limited.

It is also possible to qualify for a free VIP ticket to this event; this is possible for all players that earn Paddy Points when they play online poker. A minimum of 1,000,000 Paddy Points are required, these can be accumulated until 1^st April 2009. Paddy Power rank their players form Private to General, the more points earned the higher the ranking and the more points are earned.

The €100,000 Sole Survivor promotion is available at PaddyPowerPoker.com, online satellite poker tournaments are taking place presently as qualifiers to the Irish Open 2009, there are two opportunities a week to qualify for the main event. As well as qualifying for entry into the main event poker tournament, if you are able to outlast all the other qualifiers then you will receive a €100,000 payday. The Sole Survivor prize money will be split €75,000 paid in cash in three instalments and a further €25,000 retained for poker tournament buy-ins and expenses.