PPP Irish Open 2007 €2,000,000 GTD!!!!

PPP-Pit Boss

Hello all this is just out thought you would like to know about it:

Irish Poker Open 2007 - €2 million prize pool GUARANTEED
Europe’s most renowned no limit texas hold ‘em poker tournament returns for its 26th year – twice the size, twice the ‘craic’ – qualify NOW!

paddypowerpoker.com today announces details of Irish Poker Open 2007, Irelands largest poker tournament and Europe’s most historic.

Building on the success of the Irish Open 2006, paddypowerpoker.com has doubled the GUARANTEED prize pool to €2 million making it not only one of Europe’s richest tournaments but also its largest in terms of players – this year’s capacity will be 800 with players being split into groups of up to 400 for ‘two’ day ones.

The buy in is €3,300 with a €200 registration fee.

The event will take place in Dublin over Easter Weekend 2007 and to celebrate the launch paddypowerpoker.com is holding a freeroll at 9pm (BST) on Thursday 24th August 2006.

Players can qualify online every week at paddypowerpoker.com from 27 August 2006 with two daily feeders to a weekly grand final:

Feeders
Date: Daily at 2pm - $12 Rebuy Feeder
Entry: $12 Entry + 0.60cents registration Fee
Prize: Each $207.90 in prize pool affords one seat in the Weekly Grand Final

Date: Daily at 10pm - $12 Rebuy Feeder
Entry: $12 Entry + 0.60cents registration Fee
Prize: Each $207.90 in prize pool affords one seat in the Weekly Grand Final

Weekly Grand Final Satellites
Date: Every Sunday at 9pm - $198 Rebuy GF Satellite
Entry: $198 Entry + $9.90 cents registration Fee
Prize: One $5,500 Package to the Irish Open Easter 2007 is guaranteed. Each subsequent $5,500 will generate another package

The Irish Open 2006 saw 339 players play for a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million including some of the world’s leading professionals such as Mel Judah, Padraig Parkinson, Roy ‘the Boy’ Brindley and Per Hilderbrand.

The winner, Vincent Melinn, picked up the €350,000 first prize on a final table broadcast live across Europe on Sky Sports.

Many more details of the Irish Poker Open 2007 will be released in the coming weeks and months and players should check www.irishpokeropen.com regularly for updates on the venue, side events, betting, offline satellites and much more.

Note to editors: PaddyPower.com does not accept bets from US residents.


You can find more info on www.irishpokeropen.com

Cheers me dears

PB

mewso

Would love to play it but permit me my obligatory moan about the lack of a freezeout sat for a freezeout event.

Fatboydim

I agree. A higher buy in FO sat each week would go down very nicely.

Also any chance of EPT sats happening sometime soon. October isn't that far away. [And Barcelona is a matter of weeks.]

ditpoker

musician wrote:

Would love to play it but permit me my obligatory moan about the lack of a freezeout sat for a freezeout event.

agreed...

any side events? 200 game, 300 game? Omaha?

PPP-Pit Boss

Whilst freezeouts seem like a marvellous idea folks they dont work. We have tried them for this I would need to run $50 freezeouts to $500 GF's and in my VAST (he he) experience the buying is just to high. I would if I could.

Anyhoo spot the red bit the FREEROLL is a FREEZEOUT and is a Super-Satellite with a 1,000 point buyin.

As time goes on we will look at combos hopefully some super-sats and variations but we are going to stick with rebuys for kick off.

We are not running sats to the side events at the moment far too much going on. This annoncement is our first press announcement so it just covers the main event later press launches will cover other aspects.

EPT is sponsored by pokerstars this year so no sats ITS ALL NOT FAIR AT ALL BLEEDIN SPONSORS

cardshark202

PPP-Pit Boss wrote:

Whilst freezeouts seem like a marvellous idea folks they dont work. We have tried them for this I would need to run $50 freezeouts to $500 GF's and in my VAST (he he) experience the buying is just to high. I would if I could.

Anyhoo spot the red bit the FREEROLL is a FREEZEOUT and is a Super-Satellite with a 1,000 point buyin.

As time goes on we will look at combos hopefully some super-sats and variations but we are going to stick with rebuys for kick off.

We are not running sats to the side events at the moment far too much going on. This annoncement is our first press announcement so it just covers the main event later press launches will cover other aspects.

EPT is sponsored by pokerstars this year so no sats ITS ALL NOT FAIR AT ALL BLEEDIN SPONSORS

Freezeouts do work. Stars have them all the time. You just need to run lots of low buyin satellites into them.

bohsman

PPP-Pit Boss wrote:

EPT is sponsored by pokerstars this year so no sats ITS ALL NOT FAIR AT ALL BLEEDIN SPONSORS

So how come other sites are running sattelites?

PPP-Pit Boss

Cant really comment this is a Tribeca decision.
Very valid question and all but can we please keep this thread for the Irish Open?
CS.. Pokerstars have massive liquidity PPP is running PPP Specific qualifiers to the event.

TheRock

Fantastic news:D This was a brilliant event/weekend this year. All the PaddyP crew were class. Where will it be on next year Am I right in thinking Jurys is closing?
Hopefully I'll be there, and hopefully I'll better my 21st finish from this year.

2 things to get in.
1- Completely agree on the Freezeout Satelittes. I will not play a rebuy sat:mad:.
PaddyP ran ran freezeout sats this year, I won my entry in one, so why not this time. The €100 sats were getting 100plus runners if I remember rightly. (At least I think they were freezeouts, if not apologies). As said the PokerStars model gets huge numbers in their EPT sats, and with a 2million garauntee you will get the numbers. This would be bigger than the EPT events. If you build it, they will come:p

2 - The only gripe about about last years event was the payout structure, way too top heavy. 30-36 got 2 grand back. For a 3k buying event this meant you could cash and actually lose money, absolutely ridiculous:mad: . This was brought up lots of people at the time and I hope its resolved for next year.

modmuffin

I too would be far more inclined to play freezeout sats. Or 1 rebuy or top-up sats

karlh

payout structure has been changed solely due to feedback from last year. i can assure you minimum payouts for IO'07 (cool, it's 'loot' in l33t 5p34|<!!!) will be full money back and then some.

will publish full payout structure and various other tasty details here soon.

will review satellite interest and maybe even have a boards only freezeout satellite at some stage.

all in all, should be an amazing festival.

DeadParrot

karlh wrote:

will review satellite interest and maybe even have a boards only freezeout satellite at some stage.

Ollieboy

Well done guys, its great to see an Irish company take on the best in the world and run such a big event.

I'm sure there will be live qualifiers also and I can understand the guys problem with the rebuy events, but there actually good value and due to the buy-in amount, most people play them like a freeze out. I loved last years online qualifiers which were only 100 instead of 200. But cant keep everyone happy.

Anyway, looking forward to another great weekend of poker.

Culchie

I think if you add another step into the ladder you can keep everyone happy


$5 rebuy sats into $40 FO Sat into a $400 Freeze Out..... seat then for every 10 in GF

MrPillowTalk

Rebuy sats are fine in my book.

What about the omitted 150/300 level? I assume with two day ones this is to be included, the open was best craic tournament I have played however the pokerevents structure for their €3K game is the model I think should be used,

connie147

MrPillowTalk wrote:

Rebuy sats are fine in my book.

What about the omitted 150/300 level? I assume with two day ones this is to be included, the open was best craic tournament I have played however the pokerevents structure for their €3K game is the model I think should be used,

Fully agree with that.I think it was the 75-150 level that was left out,and then we went from 150-300 to 200-400 with an ante while in most big buy-in tourneys, the 150-300 blind level is repeated with an ante. The Irish open was missing two hours play compared to the other big tourneys and thats too much.

Mellor

Only started my account on paddy power, moved over from VC poker, as paddy seamed to appeal more to me.
But in 200 paddy points short for the freeroll buyin(if i remember right.. Hope i get the points up on thursday. Don't have much free time this week + cheap student bankroll. Have to do it right before start time.

PPP-Pit Boss

Payout structure for the Irish Open has been published and can be viewed at:
http://www.irishpokeropen.com/tournament.php

Pasted here for your viewing pleaseure
Irish Open 2007 Main Event
€3,300 + €200 Freezeout
Capacity for 800 players

Place Prize Percentage
1 €550,000 27.500%
2 €275,000 13.750%
3 €185,000 9.250%
4 €150,000 7.500%
5 €115,000 5.750%
6 €90,000 4.500%
7 €65,000 3.250%
8 €45,000 2.250%
9 €30,000 1.500%
10 €20,000 1.000%
11 €20,000 1.000%
12 €20,000 1.000%
13 €17,500 0.875%
14 €17,500 0.875%
15 €17,500 0.875%
16 €15,000 0.750%
17 €15,000 0.750%
18 €15,000 0.750%
19 €12,000 0.600%
20 €12,000 0.600%
21 €12,000 0.600%
22 €12,000 0.600%
23 €12,000 0.600%
24 €12,000 0.600%
25 €12,000 0.600%
26 €12,000 0.600%
27 €12,000 0.600%
28 €9,500 0.475%
29 €9,500 0.475%
30 €9,500 0.475%
31 €9,500 0.475%
32 €9,500 0.475%
33 €9,500 0.475%
34 €9,500 0.475%
35 €9,500 0.475%
36 €9,500 0.475%
37 €7,000 0.350%
38 €7,000 0.350%
39 €7,000 0.350%
40 €7,000 0.350%
41 €7,000 0.350%
42 €7,000 0.350%
43 €7,000 0.350%
44 €7,000 0.350%
45 €7,000 0.350%
46 €5,000 0.250%
47 €5,000 0.250%
48 €5,000 0.250%
49 €5,000 0.250%
50 €5,000 0.250%
51 €5,000 0.250%
52 €5,000 0.250%
53 €5,000 0.250%
54 €5,000 0.250%
55 €4,000 0.200%
56 €4,000 0.200%
57 €4,000 0.200%
58 €4,000 0.200%
59 €4,000 0.200%
60 €4,000 0.200%
61 €4,000 0.200%
62 €4,000 0.200%
63 €4,000 0.200%
Total €2,000,000 100.000%

5starpool

Good to see that qualifying is starting early, should give plenty of opportunity to qualify for plenty of people.

Also, on the subject of rebuy vs freezeout, is there not a chance of offering freezeouts for say €175 where 1 in 20 get a ticket only (no expenses or accom)? I am sure that especially with a lower step qualifier running for say €10-€20 there would be plenty of demand for this. A lot of value in sats is lost by bloating the package to include expenses etc. Having qualifiers with expenses and ones without is surely viable?

I shall play some of these anyways (once my BB gets sorted out) but no harm to suggest.

Good luck with it anyhow.

PPP-Pit Boss

It is my hope as we get a little closer to D-Day and the action surrounding the IO heats up that I can introduce a number of higher level satellites into the IO. It is really a case of "as demand dictates". I was also thinking of having a whopping great STT super satellite which could be fun....
stay tuned.

5starpool

PPP-Pit Boss wrote:

I was also thinking of having a whopping great STT super satellite which could be fun....

Is this not a contradiction in terms

Variety is good in any case.

PPP-Pit Boss

Not really, it is all about demand. If I felt there was enough demand for a $650 buyin in tournament I would definitely run it. I think that it is however relatively early days to launch into such a pocket wrenching endevour.