MASSIVE $30,000 NEW YEAR’S DAY FREEROLL!  

We’re jingling our balls with excitement this Christmas because we are laying on our biggest ever yuletide promotion! 

Culminating with a massive $30,000 freeroll giveway on New Year’s Day, Paddy’s Bulging Sack is stuffed full of wonderful prizes including Irish Open tickets, holidays and state of the art entertainment systems.

After twelve month’s of anticipation, cold nights (and no internet) Santa was about to explode this Christmas, so, to relieve some of his pressure, we decided to put on our red mittens and give him a hand. 

Free to enter, Paddy’s Bulging Sack is the perfect poker pudding with its delicious selection box of final table prizes.  There will be no January blues for the top 15 in this tournament as they snowball into spring with presents which will have their nieces and nephews screaming with jealousy. 

12th- 15th will be in gadget heaven with iPods, iPhones and LCD TV’s to play with, while the 3rd place finisher will kick off the new year with a fantastic trip to New York City worth €1,500. 

The real angel on top of the Christmas Tree, however, is the chance to play in the 2008 Irish Open – Europe’s oldest and largest major poker tournament.  2nd place receives free entry (plus expenses) to the €1,500 Irish Open No Limit Hold’em Freezeout, while the winner of Paddy’s Bulging Giveaway will walk away with the hottest ticket in town – entry to the €3 Million Guaranteed Irish Open Main Event worth €4,500.

Don’t Miss Out!
To be eligible to play in this unmissable tournament players must simply compete in two or more of paddypowerpoker.com’s nightly $5 rebuy tournaments - starting on the 21st December.  These tournaments take place every night at 8pm and can be found in the tournaments section of the poker client.

Paddy’s Bulging Giveaway
Freeroll, 1st January, 2008 at 8pm

1st Prize – Buy–in to the 2008 Irish Open Main Event (worth €4,500)
2nd Prize – Buy in to Irish Open NLH Freezeout plus expenses (worth €2,000)
3rd Prize – Holiday to New York (worth €1,500)
4th Prize – LCD TV and surround sound system.
5th Prize –TV and PS3
6th Prize – iPhone
7th Prize – Acer Laptop 5101
8th Prize – PlayStation 3
9th Prize – 30 Gig iPod
10th Prize – iPod Nano 8GB
11th– 15th Prize – 4 Gig iPod

Paddy’s Bulging Sack is a Christmas present from paddypowerpoker.com to all its players to thank them for playing on the most fun, fair and friendly poker site on the net.

So, from all here at Paddy Tower - Have a very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years!

trickydiicky is tonight’s wanted man in our weekly Bounty Hunter tournament - knock him out and claim the $100 bounty!

As I’m sure you all know by now, you receive $100 for eliminating the bounty from the tournament, and then receive another if you show up the following week to play as the bounty.  Full details of this killer tournament can be found here

nogihno devoured the competition in this afternoon’s $50 Fast Food Freeroll taking home $13 from a supersized field of 356. Well played nogihno!

1. nogihno $13
2. rogone $7.75
3. kennoway2 $4.75
4. chopper111 $3.50
5. ianbox $2.75
6. nottoogoodabix $2
7. steadyed1 $1.50
8. safebreakaz $1.25
9. xxbadboy67xx $1
10. flimp $0.75

jonny41 won this morning’s $50 Brekkie Freeroll, harporeilly took down last night’s Bedtime Crapshoot and 147dan reigned victorious in yesterday’s midday Fast Food Freeroll.

They’re probably all feeling pretty good about themselves at the moment - and well they should! Great performances all round, good work guys!

$50 Brekkie Freeroll
138 runners

1. jonny41 $13.50
2. peck112 $8
3. POWPOW3254 $5
4. bigdave0000 $4
5. senators123 $3.50
6. frostycrosbie $3
7. toffeecrit $2.50
8. Tarikus2007 $2
9. abadaba $1.50
10. VoodooChilli $1

Bedtime Crapshoot $150 Guaranteed
59 runners

1. harporeilly $94.50
2. Pau1123 $64.90
3. bop22 $39.82
4. markirl $29.50
5. olhc $22.12
6. pabs1977 $17.70
7. bowler22 $14.75
8. jacethepace $11.80

Fast Food Freeroll 
359 runners

1. 147dan $13
2. daniel59490 $7.75
3. snapper64 $4.75
4. Comoro411 $3.50
5. vivelefeu78 $2.75
6. anka1986 $2
7. soreen123 $1.50
8. polecat90 $1.25
9. Vaaaneee21 $1
10. bobodag $75

Some people like to play at night.  Some prefer to play in the morning.  Whatever your preference paddypowerpoker.com has tournaments for every bankroll running round the clock.

Our nightly $150 Guaranteed Bedtime Crapshoot was hotly contested at 11pm last night with 38 runners competing in the $5 freezeout NL Hold’em tournament.

Secret agent codes are obviously popular these days as isabelle007 and WESTY0071 duked it out heads up for first place. WESTY’s extra digit proved to be no help in the end however as isabelle proved too strong for a $76 first place finish

1. isabelle007 $76.00
2. WESTY0071 $47.50
3. olhc $30.40
4. Andrew Y $20.90
5. ppss $15.20

The early birds were up and at ‘em again this morning, flexing their poker muscles before most of us have even opened out eyes. vasilestefan85 was today’s winner of the daily $50 Brekkie Freeroll at 7am

1. vasilestefan85 $13.50
2. xiaojing34 $8
3. 1986toliga $5
4. OEmil $4
5. balvanyosi7 $3.50
6. chiruthaa $3
7. carlosadam1 $2.50
8. onlyme63 $2
9. gambitbeer $1.50
10. POWPOW3254 $1
 

iceman6767 and hopper33 will be getting the drinks in after fine performances in the first ever European Championships Of Online Poker Main Event finishing 21st and 23rd respectively. 992 players sat down for the $1,000 buy-in event which had a guaranteed prizepool of $1 Million.

The deepstacked, long blind levelled tournament lasted nearly 12 hours before wllkllu finally accumulated the last of the chips in play for a $220,000 payday.

iceman6767 and hopper33 both took home $6,000 for their night’s work and should both be extremely proud of their achievements against excellent opposition.

Congratulations too to 5pin5 who also made a profit on the night taking home $1,500 for 96th place.

The top 100 places were paid.

Kudos to nani121 for a fine performance in winning this morning’s $50 Brekkie Freeroll

1. nani121 $13.50
2. d1antheman1 $8
3. SETH03 $5
4. julkaa $4
5. blaster1966 $3.50
6. j4nice7 $3
7. wilson0140 $2.50
8. bankie001 $2
9. minxielady $1.50
10. papopo $1

Congratulations also to littlecote who took down Sunday’s $100 Midday Freeroll

1. littlecote $26
2. piter013 $15.50
3. OuLuCK1 $9.50
4. atomant666 $7
5. luckyshaz1 $5.50
6. dazz2000 $4
7. Gondolin $3
8. mimi1948 $2.50
9. 47sooted $2
10. overdone1 $1.50
Don’t miss out on any of the action - check out our schedule of daily tournaments!

This Sunday the wait is finally over.  For the hundreds of players who have spent the last few months qualifiying, and for those who will buy in on the night, Sunday 9th December is a date which has longed been marked in the diary.

At 8pm the cards will be dealt at the $1 Million Guaranteed European Championship Of Online Poker Main Event and come Monday morning a champion will be crowned.  The title, the bracelet, the honour and several hundred thousand dollars in their account will make for one hell of an early Christmas present!

Don’t miss out on your chance to win the big one, qualifiers are running all weekend - full details of which can be found here.

May the best poker player win!

$1,000,000 GUARANTEED ECOOP MAIN EVENT
Time: 8pm, Sunday, December 9th
Buy-in: $1000+$60
Starting Chips: 5,000
Blinds increase every 30 mins

Tonight’s ECOOP tournament boasts a not so insignificant guaranteed prizepool of $250,000!!!

That’s right, one quarter of a million dollars are up for grabs in tonight’s $100 No Limit Hold’em Rebuy at 8pm.  If you ever needed an excuse to stay in on a Friday night, you most certainly have it now!

$250,000 Guaranteed No Limit Hold’em Rebuy + Add-on
Time: 8pm, Friday, December 7th
Buy-in: $100+$9
Starting Chips: 2,000
Blinds increase every 15 mins.

Lunyfly was this morning’s $50 Brekkie Freeroll winner from a field of 136 - well done Lunyfly!

1. LunyflY $13.50
2. swanie1977 $8
3. VoodooChilli $5
4. zkmw $4
5. Planetss $3.50
6. jacniamh $3
7. apmurphy $2.50
8. Marilion1 $2
9. lumbug83 $1.50
10. slappa35 $1