Irish Classic Poker Festival returns to Cork in August

Irish Classic Poker Festival returns to Cork in August

Monday, 23 March 2009

Cork’s annual week long poker festival will return to the Macau Sporting Club this August. The culmination of the festival will be the 3-day, 1,000 euro buy in Main Event where a field of around 200 is expected to compete for a guaranteed prize pool of at least 100,000 euros.

Weekly satellites for the 15,000 chip deep stack main event are currently running at the Macau Sporting Club with online qualifiers scheduled to start shortly.


Rob Taylor defeated a field including Roy Brindley, Marty Smith and former WSOPE champion Annette Obrestad to collect last year's 46,000 euro top prize.


Ken Corkery, tournament coordinator, said, “Last year saw record numbers at the festival, including overseas players, and with the reduced buy in this year designed to combat recessionary woes we’re confident we can make the festival even bigger and better.”


The full schedule is as follows:
Aug. 10 Mega super satellite no-limit hold’em freezeout €100 + €10
Aug. 11 PLO €200 + €20 with 2 re-buys/1 re-buy or 1 Add-on at €100-€200+€20
Aug. 11 Ladies event no-limit hold’em freezeout €100 + €10
Aug. 12 Mega super satellite no-limit hold’em with 1 re-buy or 1 add-on at €50 - €100 + €10
Aug. 13 Day 1A €100,000 guaranteed main event freezeout €1,000 + €100
Aug. 14 Day 1B €100,000 guaranteed main event freezeout €1,000 + €100
Aug. 15 Day 2 €100,000 guaranteed main event freezeout
Aug. 15 €250 + €25 charity event no-limit Texas hold'em freezeout €250 + €25
Aug. 16 Day 3 €100,000 guaranteed main event freezeout
Aug. 16 €200 + €20 pub challenge no-limit Texas hold'em freezeout €200 + €20



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