Hey folks, another short post listing some of what’s going on paddypowerpoker.com this weekend:

1. Win your seat at one of Ireland’s must-attend poker tournaments, the Irish Winter Festival, on Sunday evening at 9pm
2. You can start your quest to play in the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event by playing some of the many feeder satellites live on paddypowerpoker.com or our weekly Super Satellite tournament on Sundays at 8pm
3. Our May Day Mayhem raked hands race is continuing and there may still be time to play your way into the prize winning spots
4. Continue trying to snag the big prizes in the Billionth Hand promotion by playing our cash tables - any type of poker, any stakes!

Enjoy and see you on Monday, I’ll try to get another caption competition going next week for another token or two

After listening to the loyal blog readers who responded to my question last week, I’ve decided to give away a WSOP Executive Package Sit ‘n’ Go token (worth €24) to whoever can come up with the best caption to the photo below; what is WSOP bracelet winner Ciarán O’Leary thinking?

Remember to include your paddypowerpoker.com screen name in your entry!  You have until Friday at noon to reply

Our Irish Winter Festival, World Series of Poker and other satellites are really attracting a lot of players at the moment - maybe the arrival of the summer is reminding all of us that we need a holiday and how better to relax than travelling on Paddy Power Poker’s dollar and playing some poker? With that in mind, I think we’ll run another of our hilarious (or not) photo caption competitions next week and give away a feeder satellite token to the winner, so what do you think: should we give away an IWF feeder token or a WSOP feeder token? This is assuming you don’t all win tickets in the grand final sats over the weekend, good luck to those who try!

In the meantime, I hope you are all giving a lash at our May Day Mayhem promotion (which started only yesterday), remember that the top 10 players who amass the most raked hands at table stakes $0.25/$0.50 and higher between May 1st and May 14th will snag some tasty cash prizes. The leaderboard is updated daily, so you can check your progress and those just outside the top 10 can make a push for glory! Have a great weekend

Yep, that time of the week again, a time to sharpen your hunting skills and target the bounty player in the Bounty Hunter tournament at 8pm! You can snag a tasty $100 by knocking out the bounty, and hopefully with his lucky chips in your stack and the soaring confidence that comes with taking out a targeted player, you’ll be able to make a push for the final table. Remember, if you knock out the bounty player, YOU will have the bulls-eye on your back the following week (as well as an additional $100 in your account, my, paddypowerpoker.com are generous souls!)

Not only that, but win two Bounty Hunter tournaments as the bounty player and we’ll reward your cunning and self-preservation skills by providing you with an additional $1,000 bonus! Fighting your corner and clinging onto your chips for dear life have never been so important! See you on the tables.

In honour of the two massive Champions League matches this week and the footballing superstars we all know and love that will take centre stage, we’re adding $500 to four tournaments (two tonight, two tomorrow) in our Dive into the Champions League promo! Ronaldo and Drogba only look like big strong fellas, actually a strong breeze could knock either one over so there shouldn’t be any surprise to see them fall over in the penalty area TEN TIMES A MATCH!

The tournaments are at 7pm and 9pm each of the two evenings and the $1 + 10c speed rebuy tournaments should feature action as wild and combatative as we all hope this weeks matches will be See you on the pitch….in the pool….err, across the felt!

Just a quick one (I know you love it!) listing some of what’s going on paddypowerpoker.com this weekend:

1. Tonight (Friday) at 8pm is the final April Golden Shower tournament, your last chance to win a Playstation 3 or Ipod Nano from your uncle Paddy for only $5.50
2. Win your seat at one of Ireland’s must-attend poker tournaments, the Irish Winter Festival, on Sunday evening at 10pm
3. You can start your quest to play in the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event by playing some of the many feeder satellites live on paddypowerpoker.com - the 1st weekly Super Satellite tournament iwill be on Sunday April 6 at 8pm
4. Continue trying to snag the big prizes in the Billionth Hand promotion by playing our cash tables - any type of poker, any stakes!
Enjoy and see you on Monday

With the 950,000,000th hand on our poker network being dealt on Tuesday and the prize giving period well and truly underway, Paddy Power player targuste is one of the early winners, sharing in a Countdown Hand Bonus (awarded every 200,000 hands on the way to the Billionth Hand). Congratulations!

The numbers of players on the cash tables have exploded since the 1st prizes were won and I’m sure more and more will pile onto the tables as we come closer to the magic number…I fancy a bit of multi-table action myself, now that I think about it! See you on the tables, I’ll be the player with the shortest stack and the hang-dog expression…

Yes, it is that time of the week again, a time to stick Rocky IV into the VHS player, hum the Eye of the Tiger to yourself, run up and down stairs and scream ‘Adrianne!!!!’ at the top of your lungs. Out of the corner of my eye I can see our champion slugger, Paddywhacker0, lacing up his gloves and preparing himself mentally in front of the mirror for the battle that’s coming later this evening. It’s Paddy Whacker time!

As always, simply log onto paddypowerpoker.com, register for the $10 + $1 Paddywhacker Bounty freezeout at 9pm and knock our man out for a cool €100 bonus…watch out, though, he’s been promised a month in the sun (or at least two days off in ’sunny’ Siberia!) should he win the tournament outright and save our $100, so he won’t be no Apollo Creed-style pushover…think of Ivan Drago instead (’I must break you’) and you’ll be closer to the challenge you face playing the tournament!

In other news, Daragh Thomas has a new strategy article up in our poker academy: Relative and Absolute Position

Check it out!

Have you been keeping an eye on the hand counter on the Billionth Hand page or the bottom of the poker software? It currently reads hand 949,575,273 for me…make that 949,575,299….or 949,575,315…you get the picture! I’m betting Jackpot hand 950,000,000 will be dealt within the next 24 hours, so some player could be hours away from winning up to $14,000 in cash and a ticket for an ECOOP II tournament. Nice work if you can get it….

I’ll keep you up-to-date on how the promotion is progressing and how close we are getting to the magical 1,000,000,000th hand and the $50,000 prize…if any readers grab some cash in this please come back and let me know. I’ll know who to borrow a few bob off next time I tilt away my bankroll!

I was wondering what readers think is the best poker to play on a lazy Sunday night, sitting on the couch in front of a rubbish film or terrible TV? I had a hectic weekend, out late partying on the Friday night and a full evening of live tournament poker on Saturday (fruitless in terms of ROI, it has to be said, the cash tables were a little better). When Sunday evening rolled around I was still tired and just wanted to veg out in front of the idiot box, with a bowl of popcorn on one side of me and my trusty laptop on my, well, lap!

So what to play? I often think about trying to satellite into a major live tournies, such as the WSOP or the Irish Winter Festival, as most of the big sat tournaments are held on Sunday evenings. There usually are a few tasty Multi Table Tournaments (MTTs) online on Sundays as well, though to go deep I imagine you’d want to be well-rested and ready for the challenge! Cash is a no-no for me when relaxing in the living room, too many other distractions on the box or online to really dedicate myself to this most taxing of poker choices. Finally, how about Single Table Tournaments (STTs)? Easy to fire up a couple of these, play A-B-C poker and keep an eye on the telly at the same time, right? Yep, STTs are my choice here!
So what do you think, what kind of poker do you fancy when you just want to relax, take it easy, chill and unwind?