Irish Poker Open Mini Main Event Satellites Start

This year’s Irish Open festival hosts a new event which has gotten the poker community chattering – an Irish Open Mini Main Event.

The €200 + €25 buy in no-limit hold’em tournament takes place over two days, Easter Sunday, March 31 and Easter Monday, April 1, at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin Ireland. Players will start with 10,000 in chips and a 30 minute clock.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 12 sees the first weekly online satellite at paddypowerpoker.com at 8 p.m. The €10 + €1 rebuy/add on satellite will run every Tuesday until March 28 with one seat guaranteed each week.

Spokesman for the company, Paddy Power, said, “We’ve expanded the Irish Open side event schedule to 11 events and we think the Irish Open Mini Main Event is likely to be one of the most popular tournaments at the festival.

“With a great structure, affordable buy in, and taking place over two holidays it’ll be the ‘must play’ tournament for all level of players and all sizes of pocket this year and with qualification now available from just €11 it could prove the best investment your ever likely to make in poker!”

The paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open takes place from March 20 to April 1, 2013 at the Burlington Hotel Dublin. The centerpiece of the 11-day festival is the €2,250 buy in Irish Open main event. Players who register online will save €50 on the €250 registration fee, paying only €2,200 in total to play Europe’s oldest annual poker event.

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