Paddy Power launches Irish Winter Poker Festival Mega Satellite

DUBLIN, Ireland -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Paddy Power Poker today announced details of its Irish Winter Festival Mega Satellite, which will take place on Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 8 p.m.

The €180 + €12 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament will have 20 packages, each worth €1,800, up for grabs. Each package consists of a €1,125 buy-in to the Irish Winter Festival main event as well as four nights accommodation in the Burlington Hotel and €329 expenses for travel.

Players can buy in directly to the IWF Mega Satellite or try to qualify through one of the many daily feeder satellites or sit ‘n’ go turbo games that kick off this Sunday.

Anyone who wins their Irish Winter Festival seat on paddypowerpoker.com will have the added bonus of the Six Survivor promotion, whereby the six longest-lasting online qualifiers in the IWF live event will win a buy-in to the Irish Open 2013 event, along with any prize money they might pick up too.

Paddy Power, spokesman for the site, said, “We ramping up towards the coolest poker festival in Europe this October and by guaranteeing 20 packages for the Irish Winter Festival in our Mega Satellite and offering lots of feeder tournaments too, there’s tons of ways for poker players to get involved in the action over the coming weeks. See you in Dublin!”

The Irish Winter Festival takes place over the October bank holiday weekend (October 26 to 29, 2012) in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin.

Weekly super satellites to the Irish Winter Festival main event are also being held at paddypowerpoker.com each Sunday, Monday and Thursday at 8 p.m.

Alternatively players can purchase their €1,125 IWF ticket directly in the paddypowerpoker.com client now or in the paddypowerpoker.com VIP Store.