Press Release

Over $5 million in guaranteed tournament prizepools

15th April

paddypowerpoker.com today announces the European Championship of Online Poker VI (ECOOP VI), scheduled from May 24th to June 6th 2010.  ECOOP VI features fourteen tournaments and a guaranteed prizepool of $4.5 million.  

The latest iteration of the online festival also includes a ‘Mini’ series of tournaments with smaller buy-ins but substantial guarantees; the Mini ECOOP VI is scheduled from May 14th to May 23rd and features ten tournaments with an overall guaranteed prizepool of $600,000.

Following on from previous ECOOP festivals, Holdem, Omaha and 7 Card Stud are included in both series, with ECOOP VI buy-ins ranging from $100 + $9 to $2,500 + $100 and Mini ECOOP VI buy-ins from $5 + 50c to $75 + $7.50.

Satellites to the ECOOP VI and Mini ECOOP VI tournaments run daily on paddypowerpoker.com, with buy-ins from less than $1.

“It is great to be able to announce another huge ECOOP festival, even more so with the added attraction of the Mini ECOOP series” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager at paddypowerpoker.com.  “There is over $5,000,000 in guaranteed prizepools between the two sets of tournaments, so there is a lot to play for, whether you choose to play a Mini ECOOP event with $10,000 guaranteed or the ECOOP VI main event with $1.5 million guaranteed!”

To register for an ECOOP VI or Mini ECOOP VI tournament or qualifier, open the paddypowerpoker software lobby and select ‘ECOOP VI’ or ‘Mini ECOOP’ from the left-hand navigation pane, then sort the tournaments by name or date and select the tournament of your choice.

Note to editors:  For further information on ECOOP VI, please visit: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tournaments/ecoop 

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For more information please contact: Paul Burke, paddypowerpoker.com Press Officer, Tel: 00 353 1 488 1738, Mob: 00 353 85 140 0112, pburke@paddypower.com.