Here is what’s on offer:
* €150 two day live deepstack tournament.
* £5000 added value to tournament prizepool.
* £1000 in Virgin bounties and prizes!
* Special bar promo’s

How do you qualify?
All players must qualify online. The value of one seat is €150. Qualifiers for this Festival will continue until the week of the event. Here is how you can win a seat to the Virgin Poker Festival London:
Festival Super FO (€25 + €2.50) Every Tuesday at 20.00 (BST). 1 main event seat for every 6 players.
Festival Weekly (€15 + €1.50): Every Sunday at 19.30 (BST). 1 main event seat for every 10 players.
Festival Satellite (€1.65 + €0.15): Everyday at 20.30 (BST). Win a seat to the Festival Weekly tourney.
Festival Super Rebuy (€7 + €0.70)Every Thursday at 20.15 (BST). 1 rebuy allowed when a player has fewer than 500 chips + 1 add on after 60 minutes.

Good luck and we hope to see you in London Click here to sign up.

From now until the 28th November 2008, Ladbrokes Poker will be holding 120 daily “Chase the Chair” freeroll & player point satellites. The winner of each “Chase the Chair” satellite will win a $1,000 seat in the “Win the Chair” tournament that will be held online Saturday 29th November at 7:30pm UK time.

Poker Million VII will be shown live on Sky Sports from the 9th September. The winner of the “Win the Chair” tournament will be playing live alongside some of Poker’s greatest players. For a sneak preview of what happens in the heats, and who you could be up against in the semi-final …

“The Chair” is a $120,000 Poker Million VII Semi-Final seat, which is the most valuable seat ever offered for a Poker tournament and guarantees the winner:

* $20,000 Prize money
* Chance to progress to the $1,000,000 first prize Final Table

More info.

Join World Heads-Up Champion Jeff “JaffaCake” Kimber at this year’s event in Barcelona and we are adding a $6,000 package to the prizepool, giving the chance to take on some of poker’s best Heads-Up players in one of Europe’s most vibrant cities.

As well as taking the guaranteed first prize of $13,440, the winner of the Heads Up Championship will receive a package that includes a seat in the 2008 World Heads-Up Championship plus expenses. The World Heads-Up Championship will take place from Monday 20th October at the Gran Casino in Barcelona..More.

All players taking part in the Championship event will be emailed table numbers for round 1 when the draw is made. The draw will be made on Sunday 7th September. Details of the draw will also be available at main draw page.

Ladbrokes Poker’s LEOCOP leads the way as the biggest added money tournament online! The LEOCOP IV, Europe’s Longest running and biggest added money online poker tournament is back and you can start qualifying now for the unmissable 15 day long festival for as little as $1 in a weekly schedule of satellites feeding into the LEOCOP championship events.

Games will include No Limit, Fixed, Pot Limit, Texas Hold Em, Pot Limit Omaha and Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo with a mixture of Freezeout and Re-buy structures with money added to each tournament from $2500 to $250,000. This is a great tournament for beginners and experts.

The festival which in total exceeds $500,000 added, will run from the 26th of October until the 9th November. This year we’ll also be running a leaderboard with over $14,000 in prize money for the top ten players featured and an invitation to the top 80 in the table to play in the $120,000 LEOCOP IV Masters Events freeroll (22nd November) where the first prize is a place in the semi final of Poker Million VII and a guaranteed payday of at least $20,000! Edward Ihre MD of Ladbrokes Poker said: “As you know, we put a lot of emphasis on the importance of community and the LEOCOP (Ladbrokes European Online Championship of Poker) is like our annual family gathering.

It’s the one time you can guarantee that everyone will make an appearance. Its a chance to catch up with friends and acquaintances, learn from the old school and as Grazza (Graeme Newman) demonstrated in 2006 when he won the main event, sometimes its a rare opportunity to teach an old dog a trick or two and perhaps pick up the massive cheque at the end of it all! Of course the kudos and the massive prize pools are also very good reasons that players Europe-wide play this fantastic event!”…..More details

An example from 17th August 2008.

London Live qualification continues with three freerolls per week, daily satellites and regular online finals.

Open an account and join the ‘Guest List’, our new monthly $10,000 freeroll, and with so many ways to qualify it couldn’t be easier, but remember - “If your name’s not on the list you’re not coming in!”

Also this month Eurobet are celebrating the launch of our new $100 monthly reload bonus. Do not forget to visit the bonus section website for all the relevant sign up info and offers. This is in addition to the $600 sign up bonus.

paddypowerpoker.com has announced details of The PPP Olympics , a series of money-added tournaments that are inspired by this year’s sporting festival in Beijing and will lead up to a Gold Medal Freeroll, which will have more than $15,000 in cash and prizes up for grabs.

Each of the Hold’em and Omaha events, which run twice nightly from August 8th until August 14th, is named after an Olympic event and will have either $250 or $1,000 added by paddypowerpoker.com to the prizepool.  Players will have to participate in at least three of The PPP Olympics events in order to qualify to play in the Gold Medal Freeroll on August 15th.  This No Limit Hold’em tournament will feature an Irish Winter Festival package worth $4,500 for 1st place and a mixture of $215 and $23.50 Irish Winter Festival satellite tickets for the remainder of the top 30 finishers, in addition to the $10,000 cash prizepool.

“I know there is a lot of excitement right now about the small sporting event due to take place in Beijing in August, but we wanted to offer something even more exciting for our players” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com.  “We’re giving away over $20,000 to those players willing to show us they’re at the top of their game and trying to get on the podium - for those who have been in training these last few months, it is now time to grab their spandex, shave all their body hair and reach out for the gold medal!”

All paddypowerpoker.com tournaments can be accessed via the poker software lobby; select ‘Scheduled Tournaments’ and either ‘All Scheduled’, ‘Satellites’, ‘Freerolls’ or ‘Beginners’ as required, or select ‘Specials’.  All of The PPP Olympics tournaments will be listed under the ‘All Scheduled’ and ‘Specials’ options.

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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!”

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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!”