paddypowerpoker.com announces Paddy’s Cheap Date $1 Rebuy for Irish Open package

Spank My Ace Freeroll and Big C Stalker tournaments also scheduled

paddypowerpoker.com today announces Paddy’s Cheap Date, a $1 rebuy tournament awarding an Irish Open package to the outright winner.  The tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, February 10th and the winner’s package includes a €3,500 Irish Open main event ticket plus $500 in expenses.  Additionally, the winner will be eligible to participate in the poker room’s €100,000 Sole Survivor qualifier promotion.

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Weekly super satellites begin on January 22nd

paddypowerpoker.com today announces weekly Irish Open Ticket-Only satellites, with the first $300 + $30 freezeout super satellite scheduled for Thursday, 22nd January at 8.05pm. An Irish Open main event ticket will be awarded for every $4,700 in the prizepool. Feeder satellites will run daily from Monday, 19th January and buy-ins start from $2.20.

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Over $10,000 in cash and prizes to be won each week

Paddy Power has announced that Back That Ace Up III: Back With A Vengeance, the third instalment of the poker room’s popular cash race promotion, will start at midnight on Sunday, 18th January. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded each week to the top fifty finishers on the Back That Ace Up III leader board.

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Christmas Countdown – Friday 19th December

Big Freeze All Day Satellites
Last chance qualifiers to our Big Freeze main event take place all day today. There’s less than 24 hours until the big one, so take your seat before it’s too late!

Christmas Countdown – Saturday 20th December

The Big Freeze Main Event
Tonight is what it’s all about. Congratulations if you gained entry via one of our satellite or a Festive Freeroll but don’t worry if you haven’t – for just £50 + £5 you can buy-in direct.

At 20:00 (UK) The Big Freeze will spread its frost throughout the William Hill Poker room. Be part of the action and battle your way to a share of the £20,000 guaranteed prizepool!

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William Hill have revamped the poker monthly bonus to give every player up to £100 a month.  If you earn just 500 Poker points you will be eligible for a £25 Bonus, each and every month. Earn over 2000 points and you will get a cool £100 to boost your bankroll.

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This is an interesting piece by Daniel Negreanu about exploiting poker beginners with bigger preflop raises.

It’s common for beginners to set themselves up for disaster by misplaying hands before the flop. Then, they complain about their bad luck when they lose.

Well, bad luck has nothing to do with it. Rather, they likely committed a critical error by misplaying a pot against limpers who called their too-small pre-flop raise.

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Glory, guile, patience, humungous payouts – yep I’m talking about poker tournaments and Virgin Poker got some exciting news.

You can now play, for the first time on Virgin Poker, any game as a tournament (not just Texas Hold’ em). Tournaments are a great way to practice playing poker. Ideal poker for beginners.

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Last night MrHanky111, 22 of Sortland, Norway, was one of 417 runners to play in event 2 of the 2008 LEOCOP IV, the $50 Re-Buy. He scooped a first prize of $16,887.51 and an exclusive invitation to play in an online tournament that could see him seated in the semi-final of Poker Million VII playing for a million dollars. The tournament began at 20.00 GMT and Ladbrokes who in total are adding $500,000 across all festival events generously added $10,000.

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paddypowerpoker.com announces Irish Open 2009 details and launches €100,000 Sole Survivor promotion

€100k package to be won by the highest finishing paddypowerpoker.com qualifier.  This isn’t for the beginner as the buy in is pretty high.

paddypowerpoker.com has launched its biggest ever Irish Open promotion, the €100,000 Sole Survivor. All paddypowerpoker.com qualifiers to the Irish Open 2009 will be eligible for participation, and the player that becomes the ‘Sole Survivor’ by outlasting all other paddypowerpoker.com qualifiers in the tournament will win a €100,000 package.

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Andy Black, Marty Smyth and Neil Channing join Ciaran O’Leary for paddypowerpoker.com Irish Winter Festival
Large contingent of professionals to vie for Irish Masters title

paddypowerpoker.com today announced that Andy Black and Irish Open winners Marty Smyth and Neil Channing are among the poker professionals who have joined Ciaran ‘Big C’ O’Leary in pre-registering for the Irish Masters.  The €1500 + €150 No-Limit Holdem tournament, which headlines the Irish Winter Festival, is scheduled to run from Saturday, October 25th until Monday, October 27th.

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