paddypowerpoker.com Launches 'All Roads Lead To The Irish Winter Festival' Promotion

DUBLIN, July 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --

- 12 IWF Seats and Plenty of Cash Prizes to be Won!

paddypowerpoker.com today launches 'All Roads Lead To The Irish Winter Festival', a series of poker promotions that offer players the chance to win their seat at the Irish Winter Festival for free! The series of promotions include:

Cash Races: Players will have three chances to win an Irish Winter Festival seat via our new & exclusive cash races which will run from 12th July - 19th September 2010. Scores are calculated on game type, number of raked hands and stakes played; the mission is to top one of three cash race leaderboards to win this fantastic prize. Not everyone can come first however, so we are awarding cash prizes and IWF tokens for the top 10 places each month!

Sit & Go Series: We are giving away a whopping nine IWF seats via our new Sit & Go series. The series will take place between July 5th - September 19th; each week there will be a new leaderboard created for different level Sit & Go tournament. The aim is to top any one of the nine leaderboards to win a seat into Irish Winter Festival this October bank holiday weekend!

Facebook Quiz: One for the Facebook lovers; we will be posting weekly questions on our Facebook page and the first person to answer the questions correctly will be rewarded with IWF satellite tokens worth EUR25. This is a game for the alert, because if someone answers three questions correctly in a row they'll be entered into the IWF Super Satellite, an entry worth EUR180, and they could be on their way to the IWF this October for free!

Weekly Satellites: The Irish Winter Festival online super satellite tournaments are now running thrice weekly; EUR165 + EUR15 NLH Freezeout on Sundays @ 8.45pm awarding one IWF package worth EUR2,700; EUR60+ EUR6 NLH R/A on Tuesdays @ 8.45pm awarding one IWF package worth EUR2,700; and EUR150 + EUR15 NLH Freezeout on Thursdays @ 8.45pm awarding one IWF seat only worth EUR1650.

All players who win an IWF seat while playing on paddypowerpoker.com are eligible for the EUR20k Sole Survivor promotion, which will award a EUR20,000 prize package to the online qualifier who lasts the longest in the Irish Winter Festival main event. This package is in addition to whatever prize money the Sole Survivor wins in the tournament.

"We've really gone all out for this year's Irish Winter Festival; we want all of our online players to be at this fantastic live event so we are providing them with every opportunity to win their seat for free", said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com. "This year's IWF is definitely an event you do not want to miss, so why not take advantage of our generous nature and get your hands on one of the seats we're so generously giving away!"

The IWF will take place in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin from October 22nd - 25th 2010 and will be headlined by the Irish Masters main event, a EUR1,500 + EUR150 NLH freezeout.

Note to editors:

Full details of the 'All Roads Lead To The Irish Winter Festival' promotion can be found at: http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tournaments/iwf/iwfqualify

For more information please contact: Jenny Cruess Callaghan, acting paddypowerpoker.com Press Officer, Tel: +353-1-6563922, Mob: +353-87-7534989, [email protected]

You can also visit http://www.paddypower.com/ for additional information.

SOURCE paddypowerpoker.com