Paddy First – 5 Years Free Entry to the Irish Open!


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If you are one of our paddypowerpoker.com online qualifiers you could win the ultimate poker package at the 2008 Irish Open. This year we have added an extra dimension to our qualifiers promotion by giving you the chance to win entry to not only the 2009 event but to the Irish Open main event for the next 5 years.

How does the Paddy First promotion work?

If you are the last paddypowerpoker.com online qualifier standing you will earn yourself a buy–in to the 2009 Irish Open main event. However if you actually go on to win the tournament outright we will buy you into the Irish Open main event for the next 5 years.

Position Prize Details Value
Paddy First Buy–in to the 2009 Irish Open Main event Approx $8,500
Overall Winner Buy–in to the next 5 Irish Open Main events Approx $43,000

Last year’s winner Galway man Thomas Finneran scooped the €12,500 package to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas by outlasting over 71 other online qualifiers, coming a very credible 7th place overall and winning an additional €75,000 in prize money.

Terms & Conditions

  1. Only players who have qualified through standard buyin feeders and satellites will qualify as Paddy First contenders. Bonus promotions and freeroll tournaments do not apply.
  2. Prize entry to the PPP Irish Open 2009 is non–refundable and non–transferable. This includes any feeder and qualifying tournaments for this event and all satellites played on paddypowerpoker.com. paddypowerpoker.com does not permit any type of collusion or soft playing on our site. Any player found involved in illegitimate play will be banned from our poker room and forfeit any prize they win as a result of this type of play.
  3. Players agree that by qualifying for any satellite tournament on paddypowerpoker.com that they undertake to wear branding as supplied by paddypowerpoker.com at this event and to take part in any related promotional activity as stated by paddypowerpoker.com for a period of six months following the event into which the qualification process took place.
  4. Players also agree that they are bound by all terms and conditions on the paddypowerpoker.com website.

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