EASTER THE TIME FOR NEXT IRISH OPEN POKER TOURNEY

28 September 2007

Euro 3 million or more prize-pool in prospect


The sponsor of the annual Irish Open poker tournament, Paddy Power Poker.com has reserved the facilities of Dublin's Citywest hotel as the venue for the next Euro 3 Million Guaranteed Irish Open. The weeklong festival of poker will take place over Easter Weekend from 19th to 24th March 2008.

Europe's longest running annual poker tournament has relocated to accommodate an increased capacity of 1 000 players.

"Citywest Hotel is the ideal location for the 2008 Irish Open," confirmed Paddy Power, the aptly named Communications Manager for the Irish gambling group.

"We searched the length and breadth of the country to find a venue that could provide players with the famous atmosphere and communal spirit of the Irish Open whilst still being big enough to accommodate the huge field."

The tournament features a buy-in of Euro 4 200+ Euro 300 to give entrants a crack at the substantial prizes.

In April 2007 Marty Smyth defeated Roland De Wolfe in an epic heads up battle to claim the Terry Rogers Memorial Trophy and the Euro 650 000 first prize. The star studded field featured many of the world's top poker players including Carlos Mortensen, Dan Harrington, Mike Sexton, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Andy Black, Padraig Parkinson, Scott Gray, Ram Vaswani, David Plastik, Eddie Scharf, Surinder Sunar, Frank Cruess Callaghan, Ian Frazer, David Benyamine and Ericka Schoenberg.

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