by mary ashton
Tuesday ,13 Jul 2010
Paddy Power Poker offers a full range of tournaments from First Depositor Freerolls to the Monthly Million, there’s something for everyone
If you’re a fan of poker tournaments both online and live, then you should go have a look at Paddy Power Poker where you’ll find a number of excellent tournaments on offer.
If you’re playing online then their top tournaments are First Depositors Freerolls and there is also a weekly schedule of Big Cash tournaments. At the moment their featured live tournaments include WSOP Blastoff, GUKPT satellites and the Irish Winter Festival.
If you are new to Paddy Power Poker then the First Depositor Freerolls are for you. You can play on the first and third Monday of every month and each tournament has a $500 prize pool. To qualify for these tournaments you must have made your first deposit at Paddy Power Poker at any point within the two weeks immediately preceding the tournament. As it is your first deposit you can also take advantage of the $600 sign up bonus.
Each week their weekly schedule of Big Cash tournaments have guaranteed prize pools ranging from $5,000 up to $250,000 and they have $12,000 on offer every month. You can play every day of the week and the tournaments include Freerolls with buy ins from as low as $2.00, their most expensive tournament is the Monthly Million which has a buy in of $500 and a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000.
This year the Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival is being held between 22nd and 25th October at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. The tournament buy in is €1,650, but there are super satellites being run online every Sunday which have buy-ins of €165. Every day they run feeders for these satellites, the prize is worth €2,700.
At the moment the number one poker tour in the UK is the Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tournament (GUKPT). The next leg of this will take place in Luton from 7th to 15th August. Its main event has a buy in of £1,000. However, there is also the Summer Series being run and the next event of the series will be at the Grosvenor Casino in Walsall from 22nd to the 26th June. Every Monday you can play in satellites with buy ins of £66 for the GUKPT.