Irish Poker Open Details Released

Building on the success of the Irish Open 2006, paddypowerpoker.com has doubled the guaranteed prize pool to €2 million making it not only one of Europe's richest tournaments but also its largest in terms of players – this year's capacity will be 800 with players being split into groups of up to 400 for 'two' day ones.

The buy in is €3,300 with a €200 registration fee.

The event will take place in Dublin over Easter Weekend 2007 and to celebrate the launch paddypowerpoker.com is holding a freeroll at 9pm (BST) on Thursday 24th August 2006.

Players can qualify online every week at paddypowerpoker.com from 27 August 2006 with two daily feeders to a weekly grand final.

The Irish Open 2006 saw 339 players play for a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million including some of the world's leading professionals such as Mel Judah, Padraig Parkinson, Roy 'the Boy' Brindley and Per Hilderbrand.

The winner, Vincent Melinn, picked up the €350,000 first prize on a final table broadcast live across Europe on Sky Sports.