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This is the third year of the European Championship of Online Poker or simply ECOOP. The series of events will have 13 events and the Main Event. The price pool total is $4.150.000.

Most of the events will be Hold’em NL, but there are some steps of Omaha, Omaha Hi/Lo and Limit 7 card Stud. There’s even a Turbo tournament, with a very agressive blinds structure, it’s blinds increase every 7 minutes.

The best price pool, besides the main event ($1.500.000), is for the Sunday 30th (Nov) No limit Hold’em with an entry fee of $300 + $20 and the starting stack is 3000 chips. It’s price pool is $500.000.

There are several available tournaments for iPoints at the iPoker Network, their buyins 3000 ipoints, 2000 ipoints, two 300 ipoker and also you can try the freerolls.

Note that if you are a begginer of the pokerroom you qualified to play the begginer freerolls, described bellow.

Beginner freeroll tournaments

• This daily freeroll will help beginners practice and improve their game.
• Daily at 11:00 ($50), 16:50 ($100), 22:20 ($50)
• Any player who signed up in the last 90 days will automatically be allowed to register to these freerolls.
• Min players 50
• Max players 1000

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Monster Tournaments  Information

• High Roller Monday Freezeout ($500+$30) at 19:45 - $50,000 GP, 60 players min
• Ongoing SNG feeders - $53+5 (10 players)
• Stage 1 satellites, Mondays at 16:35 ($50+5) R/A, 1 seat for every $530 collected
• Wednesday & Thursday at 19:45 - $30,000 GP R/A ($200+$15) – 40 players min
• Friday - $300+20 - $30,000 GP Double Stack, Freezeout, at 19:45 (GMT)
• Ongoing SNG feeders - $64+6 – 1 seat for every 5 players
• Super Tuesday - $100+9 R/A, $50,000 GP, Tuesdays at 19:45, 100 players min
• Ongoing SNG feeders - $12+1 (10 players), 2nd place wins $11
• Stage 1 satellites, Tuesday at 16:35 (Turbo - $11+1) R/A, 1 seat for every $109 collected

$50,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament

• Every Saturday 18:30
• $100 + $9 buy-in
• Freezeout
• Ongoing Sit ‘N’ Go satellites $10.90 + $1 (10 players) and $21.80 + $2 (5 players)
• Ongoing Sit ‘N’ Go “1 hand”, $10.90+$1 (10 players), 1st win a seat
• Daily Except Sat MTQ at 22:15, $11 + $1, 1 seat for every $109 collected R/A
• Daily Except Say MTQ at 16:20, $8 + $0.8, 1 seat for every $109 collected R/A, Min Players 10
• $11+1 R/A, Saturday at 14:20 (Turbo) & 15:30 (Speed), 1 seat for every $109 collected.
• $22+2 Freezeout, Saturday at 15:55 (Turbo), 1 seat for every $109 collected
• Min players 40

Friday $150,000 Guaranteed Prize tournament

• $150,000 GP ($50+$5), Unlimited Rebuys and Add-on, Fridays at 19:00
• Min Players: 25

Stage 1

• Stage 1 Satellite ($5+$0.5) R/A, Monday-Friday at 15:35, 1 Seat for every $55 collected
• Stage 1 Satellite ($7+$0.7) R/A, Monday-Thursday at 17:55, 1 Seat for every $55 collected – 12 seats guaranteed.
• Stage 1 Satellite ($7+$0.7) R/A, Friday at 14:00 (Normal – 75 seats guaranteed), 16:00 (Speed – 60 seats guaranteed), 1 seat for every $55 collected
• Ongoing Sit’N’Go Stage 1 Satellites, $11+1 (5 players) & $5.5+0.5 (10 players), 1st place wins a seat
• Ongoing “1 hand” Sit’N’Go satellites, $5.5+0.5 (10 players)

Daily 50 Grand - $50 Rebuy

• Monday - Thursday at 18:45
• $50 + $5 Buy-in R/A
• Daily Stage 1 satellites, $5.5+0.5 Turbo R/A at 15:20. 1 seat into same day’s main event for every
• $55 in the prize pool
• Ongoing Sit’N’Go satellites, $5.5+0.5 (1 seat for every 10 players)

iPoker will run a super satellite promotion to the last four Legs of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour.
Total Package Value - $4,000.

The Package includes:

• £1,000 + £60 Buy In to each leg’s Main Event. (Approx. $2,100).
• Up to $1,900 for flights, accommodation, and spending (depending on currency exchange rates).

Please note that accommodation is in the responsibility of the players.

Note: The first prizes are non-refundable, non-transferable, and cannot be converted to cash. You must play or forfeit the seat.

• The event in which the player will participate at is at the player’s discretion.
• Players will have 5 days to announce which tournament they would like to register to. If they fail to do so, they will be automatically registered to the next available event
• Each super satellite leads to a specific list of events. Players cannot request to register to any other events. 

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iPoker will run a super satellite promotion to the Irish Winter Festival, at the conference Center of the City

• West Hotel in Dublin, Oct 25 – Oct 27 , 2008. 
• Satellites will start on July 2.
• Package Dates – Oct 24 – Oct 28 , 2008.
• Total Package Value - $4,500.

The package includes:   €1,650 (~$2,600) buy-in to the Main Event.  €460 (~$725) for 4 nights’ accommodation (Oct 24 – Oct 28 , 2008) for qualifiers and their guests, at he City west Hotel in Dublin. 

• $100 for a private welcome party at the Guinness Storehouse Gravity Bar, October 24 , 2008. The party will include a tour at the brewery, dinner, and a live band show.
• Up to $1,050 for flights & spending.

The first prizes are non-refundable, non-transferable and cannot be converted to cash. You must play or forfeit the seat.

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Starting July 7th, iPoker will run a cash leaderboard
promotion, based on raked hands. The leaderboards will be weekly, and are
segmented as per the following stake levels (regardless of game type):

1. $25/$50 and up
2. $5/10 - $10/$20
3. $2/$4 - $3/$6
4. $0.5/$1 - $1/$2

This promotion will be fully sponsored by iPoker, and will give
out a total of $240,000 in the course of 8 weeks.

• The means in which we
  will update the leaderboard will be sent next week.