Paddy Power Poker announces Irish Winter Festival

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Paddy Power Poker is pleased to launch the Irish Winter Festival 2011 which will take place in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin from October 28th – 31st 2011. The poker festival’s headline event will be a €1,000 + €100 NLH Freezeout; a full schedule of side events will also be available and will be announced in due course.

The Irish Winter Festival main event will once again feature a €20,000 Sole Survivor promotion, meaning that the longest lasting paddypowerpoker.com qualifier in the main event will win €20,000 in addition to any event prize money they may be awarded.

Irish Winter Festival 2011 online super satellite tournaments will commence on paddypowerpoker.com on 12th June 2011 and will be held every Sunday and Monday evening with a number of IWF main events seats guaranteed. Feeders will run daily from Sunday 5th June.

In addition, players who get in there early and qualify for the Irish Winter Festival main event on paddypowerpoker.com before 1st September 2011 will be rewarded with a free €100 sports bet with paddypower.com.

Irish Winter Festival Satellite Schedule:

Sundays @ 8:00pm: €150 + €12 NLH FO - 3 Packages GTD

Monday's @ 8:00pm: €20 + €2 NLH R/A - 1 Seat GTD

“Last year the Irish Winter Festival was such a success with the likes of Dennis Taylor and Eric Bristow entertaining the crowds, the introduction of the Blind Man’s Bluff World Championship, and the creation of the World’s largest chip stack which took 3 full days to build and stood at 3 meters tall. No wonder people are looking forward to the IWF 2011 already and we know it won’t disappoint!” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com.

“We have reduced the buy in for the IWF main event slightly to €1,100, making it more affordable for the players; we are also excited to re-introduce our IWF Sole Survivor promotion, giving people 20,000 compelling reasons to qualify for the Irish Winter Festival on paddypowerpoker.com. It couldn’t be easier right now as we are guaranteeing 3 packages every Sunday night.”