Irish Poker Open 2007 Betting Market Launched

The €2 million guaranteed Irish Open 2007 is likely to prove Paddy Power’s most successful poker betting event ever.

Dublin (PRWEB) October 5, 2006 -- paddypowerpoker.com today announces details of betting on the Irish Open 2007, Ireland’s largest poker tournament and Europe’s most historic.

The ‘outright winner’ market is the first of many markets on which punters can back themselves, a friend or simply their fancy. Other markets over the coming months will include ‘to make final table’, ‘group betting’, ‘match betting’, ‘female to make finale table’, ‘age of winner’, ‘nationality of winner’ and many more.

Paddy Power, spokesman for the Irish bookmaker, said, ‘We paid out €47,000 to the winner Vincent Melinn last year who had €250 each way on himself at 150-1 and he gave most of it away to another player. I wish he’d given some back to us! Regardless, we’ll have more markets, more value and more fun this year than at any poker tournament in history and I’ll lay you odds-on on that.”

The early market, which can be found at www.paddypower.com, includes:

Mel Judah         80 – 1

Ram Vaswani         80 – 1

Dave Colclough         100 – 1

Barny Boatman         100 – 1

Padraig Parkinson     100 – 1

Ross Boatman         100 – 1

Joe Beevers         100 – 1

Roy Brindley         100 - 1

Andy Black         100 – 1

Donnacha O'Dea         125 – 1

Noel Furlong         150 - 1

Vincent Melinn         200 – 1

Each way odds 1 / 5 places 6 – odds correct going to press

Players can now qualify in one of three ways:

•    Win a Grand Final seat daily at 2 pm & 10 pm - buy-in $12 + $0.60 (rebuy)

•    Buy in directly to a Grand Final for $198 + $9.90 every Sunday at 9 p.m. (rebuy)

•    Win one of our $1 (10c registration fee) Shootout Tournaments on the 1st Monday of every month at 8pm.

Live satellites in card clubs and casinos around the world will be announced in the coming months.

This year’s event, which will be filmed for TV, is the biggest in Europe with a €2 million guaranteed prize pool and a capacity for 800 players paying €3,300 (+€200 reg) to play over Easter Weekend 2007 against the best players in the world.

Many more details of the Irish Poker Open 2007 will be released in the coming weeks and months and players should check www.irishpokeropen.com regularly for updates on the venue, side events, betting, offline satellites and much more.

Note to editors: The Irish Open 2007 will be recorded for television. Promotional logos are allowed. PaddyPower.com does not accept bets from US residents.

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For more information please contact: Brendan Murray, Paddy Power Poker Communications Manager, Tel: 00 353 1 488 1759, Mob: 00 353 87 916 6000. You can also visit www.irishpokeropen.com or www.paddypowerpoker.com/media-suite for additional information.

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