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Online Casino Hosts Qualifiers

The 2008 Irish Open Poker Tournament is already shaping up to be one of the largest European poker tourneys. Last year’s tournament welcomed the top land-base and online casinos poker players from around the world – and as players are already demanding seats at the Irish Open, the 2008 tourney should prove just as prestigious. In addition to the poker professionals scheduled to participate and compete for the Euro $3 million prize pool, the online casino poker site PaddyPowerPoker.com has already begun to offer qualifying poker events.

The 2008 event will be even larger that than the 2007 Open, and event organizers anticipate selling each one of the 1,000 seats available. The 2007 open had 708 registered players competing for the prize pool; and with 1,000 players at the 2008 tourney, the Irish Open is quickly becoming ranked among the top tournaments on the planet. The tourney is now a two-day event so that the event organizers could accommodate the sheer number of interested poker players. Buy-in to the tourney doesn’t come cheap though, so online casino players that win a trip and buy-in to the event are extremely lucky.

Those non-online casinos players registering for the event of their own accord (like poker professionals Carlos Mortensen and Dan Harrington) can plan to shell out Euro 300 for event registration, and another Euro 4,200 as their tournament buy-in. But for those hoping to win a seat at the event, online casino site PaddyPowerPoker.com began offering qualifiers just last week, and will continue to offer various qualifiers and satellite events as the event grows nearer. The 2008 Irish Poker open is just around the corner so players planning to attend will undoubtedly spend the coming months preparing their game for the big-leagues in Ireland.