Great promotion for beginners and existing players at Paddy Power Poker.

paddypowerpoker.com rewards players for being Just A Jack Off!

Miss out on a Royal Flush by a single card and win a $55 Irish Winter Festival satellite token

paddypowerpoker.com has announced the Just A Jack Off promotion, which compensates players who have narrowly missed out on hitting poker’s biggest hand with an Irish Winter Festival satellite token worth $55.

Running until the end of August, Just A Jack Off ensures that players on paddypowerpoker.com’s cash tables will win by staying in the hand until the river has been dealt and holding an Ace, King, Queen and Ten of the same suit, with two of the four required cards being the player’s hole cards.

“I hate hearing the words ‘Jack Off’ used as an insult; we’re too serious about our poker for that” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com. “For all poker players, being Just A Jack Off is a sad state to find yourself in, it’s horrible to miss out on poker glory like that. We’ve decided to reclaim the term, reward our ‘Jack Offs’ and let them know we still care about them!”

 The biggest poker event in the world returns to London - WSOP EUROPE 2008! Don’t miss your chance to qualify for a $24,000 package, with freerolls to daily satellites, three times a week absolutely free! Its a great way poker beginners to get a shot at the big time.

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Irish Open 2007 winner Marty Smyth wins WSOP $10k Pot-Limit Omaha Championship

Belfast man takes home Ireland’s first bracelet of 2008

Marty Smyth, winner of the paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open 2007, today won the World Series of Poker $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship tournament, becoming the second player after Noel Furlong (Irish Open 1987 and 1989 winner and WSOP 1999 Main Event champion) to have won both the Irish Open and a WSOP Championship event.

Supported by a raucous cheering section, the Belfast man beat out a field of 381 players, including many of the poker world’s top professionals as well as poker beginners, to win his first WSOP bracelet and the $859,549 prize. Fellow Irishman Tom Hanlon also made the final table, but an Irish one-two was not to be as the Dubliner was knocked out in 7th place for $134,302. Smyth’s success follows a string of Irishmen making WSOP final tables this year, including John O’Shea, Chris Rentes and John Conroy; with a sizable Irish contingent planning to play in the Main Event starting July 3rd, there is every chance that 2008 can be the best year yet for the Irish at the WSOP.

“I’d like to thank everyone for the support I received during the tournament, both from the gang here in Las Vegas and from back home in Ireland”, said Marty Smyth. “I’ve been getting texts and voicemails from family, friends and poker players from all over; all the well-wishers must have done me some good!”