PokerEvents, founders of the inaugural Irish Poker Tour, has joined forces with Boylepoker.com to create the first-ever large-payout tournament Ireland, branded Irish Poker Championship.
The contest consists of a series of nationwide events, and to qualify for the series, players will compete in weekly satellites that feed into regional super satellites. Top players from the super satellites will qualify for the national final, appropriately named All Ireland Poker Finals, which will take place in Dublin in January 2006.
The final event has a Euro 1,000 buy-in with an Ireland tournament record Euro 500,000 prize pool. “This will be one of the biggest poker tournaments ever staged in Europe,” a spokesman for the event said, claiming that the big payout and size of the three-day final event would attract top players like Marcel Luske, the Hendon Mob, Gus Hansen, and other European poker aces.
The tournament has a capacity of 500 players and will probably be broadcast live on television.
Supporting events will include Euro 500 and Euro 250 buy-ins that will have payouts of Euro 100,000 and Euro 75,000 respectively. In addition to playing in the live events, players can qualify online at Boylepoker.com, a new online poker site from Boylesports that is a member of the Prima Poker Network.