After the busy rush that always comes before christmas, people all around the world now have the time to relax and enjoy a few lazy days doing whatever they please, and what better way to pass the time than playing at 888poker. As well as the huge array of regularly scheduled tournaments, they have recently announced that they will be running a promotion over the holiday season that could see you sitting amongst the best players in the world at the Irish Poker Open, at no cost to you.
Although a lot of people wouldn’t know it, the Irish Poker Open is the second longest running poker tournament in the entire world, second of course to the World Series of Poker which is held annually in Las Vegas. Taking place each year in Dublin, the Irish Open may not be the longest-running tournament in the world but it takes the prize for all of Europe, and the Main Event offers an outstanding prize pool with the first place winner this year walking away with £600,000 (which is over $900,000SUD) in loose change.
Up for grabs thanks to the generous folks at 888poker is an awesome all-inclusive package valued at $7200. Included in this is, of course, entry to the €3,500 IPO Main Event but you also needn’t worry about finding the money to get there or support yourself for the trip, as the package also includes five nights at The Burlington Hotel and $1500 in travel and spending money to make sure the whole experience really is all-expenses paid. As icing on the cake you’ll also receive an 888poker live event merchandise kit, including a new Sony Bloggie camera, and an invitation to the 888poker VIP Event.
Getting your hands on one of these awesome packages will require the usual combination of skill and luck that poker players live their lives by, as the packages are awarded to the winner of a satellite tournament, held every Sunday at 20:05 GMT on 888poker. The $288+$12 tournament guarantees one package per week, but with a solid turn-out the prize pool could easily be big enough for multiple packages to be given away.
While that’s a crazy amount of value for winning a single tournament, $300 is still a fairly heft entry fee for a lot of people, but the generous promotions managers at 888poker are determined that the packages should be available to all players, regardless of budgets, and so sub-satellite step tournaments will be run throughout the week allowing you to win yourself a ticket to the Sunday Evening qualifier. The steps tickets start from as little as $2 + 20c, and you only have to climb your way through three steps tournaments before you’re sitting at a table of the main qualifier.
Winning a Step 1 tournament, which are running daily around the clock, will see you credited with entry into the $13+$1 Step 2 tournament, and if you are lucky enough to place here, then you’ll be rewarded with a $60+$5 Step 3 ticket. Of course you can buy into any Step under your own steam, meaning it’s entirely up to you and your bankroll as to how much money you want to spend on qualifying and how much you want to rely on your poker prowess. As if $2+$0.20 wasn’t cheap enough, Bronze Level members and above receive entry into daily freerolls which reward the top three players with seats to the Irish Open Step 2 tournament. With this kind of complete coverage, there’s nothing stopping you from taking your seat among the pros at the world’s second longest running poker tournament, and with a bit of extra luck you could see yourself walking away with literally hundreds of thousands of dollars!