Online Poker Qualifiers Underway for Irish Classic Poker Festival at Boylepoker, Ladbrokes and PaddyPowerPoker

DUBLIN, July 29 /PRNewswire/ --

- Boylepoker.com, Ladbrokes.com, and PaddyPowerPoker.com Join Betfair.com in Offering Online Poker Qualifiers for the Irish Classic Poker Festival Euro 100,000 Guaranteed Main Event

Online qualifiers for tickets to the seventh annual Irish Classic Poker Festival main event are now in full swing with Boylepoker and PaddyPowerPoker joining Betfair Poker in offering seats to the euro 100,000 guaranteed euro 1,000 + euro 100 buy-in main event taking place at the Macau Sporting Club, Cork, Ireland from Aug. 10 to 16, 2009.

Feeder satellites take place on Boylepoker.com on Thursday Jul. 30 and Tuesday Aug. 4 at 9 p.m. BST for US$25.00 + US$2.50 with one rebuy and one add-on. This will give one seat to the Irish Classic Poker Festival super satellite on Aug. 6 at 9 p.m. (value US$100 + US$10) for every US$110 in the prize pool. Players can also buy in directly to the super satellite on Aug. 6.

PaddyPowerPoker.com hosts two remaining satellites tonight Jul. 29 and Wed. Aug. 5 at 9.30 p.m. Entry is US$100 + US$10 with a rebuy and add-on and each satellite has one ticket guaranteed.

Ladbrokes.com holds its US$88 + US$8 satellite on Aug. 3 at 7.30 p.m. with one seat guaranteed to the Irish Classic Poker Festival.

Online qualifiers continue at Betfair Poker every Wednesday at 9 p.m. BST with one ticket guaranteed each week. Entry to the weekly final is US$80 + US$8 but players can qualify daily from as little as US$2 + US$0.20 in the daily feeders.

All players who register for the Irish Poker Classic will automatically be entered into the Free Million Dollar Game freeroll where the winner will go to London to play against 17 others for a US$1 million first prize at the Betfair-sponsored World Series of Poker Europe.

So far 70 people have registered and paid for the event and the organisers have capacity for up to 200. Live satellites for the Irish Poker Classic are also well underway. Each Tuesday at 8.30pm the Macau Sporting Club hosts a euro 50 + euro 5 entry with two rebuys or one rebuy and one add-on at euro 50.

Dublin's Sporting Emporium also hosts euro 50 + euro 5 entry with one rebuy and one top up at euro 50 on both Aug. 4 and 11 at 8.30 p.m. Further live satellites are coming up at the Fitzwilliam Club, Emerald Casino, Clondalkin, JP Poker, Fortune Rooms, Goldclub, Atlantis Casino, Eglington Casino, Fitzpatricks Limerick, Olympus Waterford, and Cue Club Killarney.

Last year Rob Taylor topped a record field of 169 which included Annette Obrestad, Michael Greco, Ian Woodley, Roy Brindley, Marty Smyth, Jeff Duval, Sylvester Geoghegan, and Mick McCloskey, collecting euro 46,000 and the title of Irish Poker Classic champion. This year over 200 players are expected to attend what has become one of the best poker festivals in Europe.

Editors

The Irish Classic Poker Festival is held in Macau Sporting Club, Ireland's largest gaming complex situated on the waterfront, a stone's throw from Cork city's finest bars and eateries with a state of art hotel and leisure centre right next door and casino's own M Lounge and Mint Restaurant, the casino is Europe's best kept secret.

Special accommodation rates have been agreed with nearby hotels The Montenotte Hotel, Quality Hotel and Leisure Centre, Gresham Metropole Hotel, and the Clairon Hotel.

If you would like to host satellites for this event or require any further information please contact brendan.murray@pokermediaconsulting.com, +353-863057469 or Ken Corkery at info@macausportingclub.com

SOURCE Irish Classic Poker Festival