Irish Poker Masters, Winter Festival 2008 Poker Tournament

Citywest Hotel, Dublin, is where players have a chance to take part in the Irish Winter Festival of Poker 2008 via the Million Dollar Poker Club.

"Flaunt your poker skills and with the luck of the Irish you can strike it rich in Dublin and win €1,000,000 ($1.5m) this October. Play our satellite games and win your way to a new life..."

Satellites are running 24/7 and starting as low as 10 cents or buy into fast track to the finals for just $6.

The Irish Winter Festival of Poker is taking place between the 25th & 27th of October 2008 in Dublin. The tournament that constitutes the prize is the €1,500 + €150 Irish Masters Main Event with an estimated Prizepool of €1,000,000. Win a €3,000 prize package including €1,350 travel and accommodation money.

First organised in 2001, the festival is headlined by the Irish Masters main event, a Texas hold'em tournament, and typically takes place over the three days of the October bank holiday weekend.

From 2004 through 2007, the Irish Masters tournament served as the Dublin leg of the European Poker Tour.

Irish Masters Poker past winners were:

2007 Reuben Peters

2006 Roland De Wolfe

2005 Mats Gavatin

2004 Ram Vaswani