Press Release

Festival to take place from October 22nd ? 25th 2010

6th May

paddypowerpoker.com today launches the Irish Winter Festival 2010, which will take place in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin from October 22nd – 25th 2010 and will be headlined by the Irish Masters main event, a €1,500 + €150 NLH freezeout.  A full schedule of side events will also be available and specifics will be announced in the near future. 

Irish Winter Festival online super satellite tournaments are now running each Sunday evening at 8.45pm and award one IWF package (including an Irish Masters seat, accommodation and expenses) for every €2,700 in the prize pool. 

Players that win a package while playing on paddypowerpoker.com are eligible for the €20k Sole Survivor promotion, which will award a €20,000 prize package to the online qualifier that lasts the longest in the Irish Masters main event. This package is in addition to whatever prize money the Sole Survivor wins in the tournament.

“I’m delighted to launch this year’s Irish Winter Festival €20k Sole Survivor promotion; our players really love it”, said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com.  “The Sole Survivor element means that players shouldn’t dream of qualifying anywhere else, it just doesn’t make sense!  We also have some great plans for spicing up this year’s festival and making it unmissable; I’ll announce these in a few weeks!”

Note to editors:  Full details of the Irish Winter Festival of Poker can be found at: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tournaments/iwf.  Details of the side event tournaments will be released in the near future.

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For more information please contact: Paul Burke, acting paddypowerpoker.com Press Officer, Tel: 00 353 1 488 1738, Mob: 00 353 85 140 0112, pburke@paddypower.com.  You can also visit www.paddypower.com for additional information.