Two Polish Qualifiers for Irish Poker ChampionshipUnique Satellite Saw Irish Bounties Attend Warsaw Casino; Two Players Win Trip to PartyPoker.com Event |
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Recent European Poker Tour finalist Fintan Gavin and Poker for the Homeless organizer Padraig Parkinson travelled to Warsaw at the weekend to play in a bounty tournament, the prizes for which were two tickets to the upcoming PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship taking place in Galway in January 2009.
Also attending the tournament was TV producer Ian Langstaff who will be producing the TV coverage of the IPC and was filming footage at the Olympic Casino as well as playing in the tournament.
Twenty-six players paid €99 to play and the two qualifiers for the IPC were Krzysztof Gluszko and Dariusz Graszka. Two others, Krzysztof Ksiazek and Maciej Kurowski each received a $500 bonus to their PartyPoker accounts for knocking out Parkinson and Gavin respectively.
Details for the PartyPoker.com Irish Poker Championship will be released soon. In January 2008 the televised event attracted 298 players and was won by local man Jude Ainsworth who took home €145,000 players.