Paddypowerpoker.com today announced details of the 2008 Irish Open, Europe's largest and most historic poker tournament.
The 2008 event sees the Irish Open expand with an increased buy-in of €4,200 + €300 registration fee, capacity for 1,000 players, and €3 million guaranteed prize pool.
Online qualification will begin on paddypowerpoker.com on Monday, August 13, with a full schedule of daily feeders to a fortnightly grand final satellite.
A record-breaking field of 708 players played in the unique Dublin event in 2007 for over €2.3 million in prize money, including World Series of Poker champions Dan Harrington and Carlos Mortensen, but in the end it was popular Northern Irishman Marty Smyth who reigned victorious. Smyth lifted the Terry Rogers trophy, taking home €650,000, after an epic heads-up battle with Roland De Wolfe.
The lineup for 2007 also included Mike Sexton, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott, David Benyamine, Andy Black, Padraig Parkinson, Scott Gray, Ram Vaswani, David Plastik, Eddie Scharf, Surinder Sunar, Frank Cruess Callaghan, Ian Frazer, and both G.I. and Vegas versions of Elvis.
To accommodate the huge demand for tickets, the 2008 Irish Open will be split into two day ones, allowing for a capacity of 1,000 players.
Further details of the 2008 Irish Poker Open will be released in the coming weeks and players should check www.irishpokeropen.com for updates on qualification, venue, side events, betting, offline satellites, and other pertinent information..
