The Alderney-licensed site, which is one of the industry’s leading online Poker rooms will run the Daily Festive Freezeouts throughout Christmas, Boxing Day, New Year and right until January 3rd 2010 with a total of $6,000 added to the prize pool.

"We really want to help our loyal online poker players get into the spirit of Christmas this year so we’ve added money, bounties, guarantees, and charity donations to our schedule and we hope it helps ease them into the New Year profitably. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Boyle.Poker.com‚Äù said the head of poker at the site, Paul Spilane.

There will be two tournaments each evening at 7 and 7.30 pm with $250 added to their prize pool. Players have a choice between the $5 turbo or $10 deep stack structures.

There will be a Xmas Charity Freerolll on Christmas Day with a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000 and a further $5,000 to be donated to charity. Players wishing to qualify for this value-packed event which takes place at 4 pm can do so for as little as 50 VIP via numerous satellites on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Boyle Poker is a poker room belonging to the iPoker Network and is powered by Playtech software. The site is one of 5 online gaming sites owned by Boylesports Ltd and supports both downloadable software as well as the ability to place a wager without a download.

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This is the fifth year of the ECOOP, which sees a large number of online poker professionals gearing up for a shot at the prize money and the coveted title of European Champion. This time around, the tournament has a healthy mix of Hold’em, Omaha, and stud games.

The championship sees a large number of online poker professionals, like John ‘doesalrite’ O’Shea, for instance. O’Shea has earlier tasted success in the tournament, racking up wins to the tune of $65,000 and picking up three titles in the process. He will be surely looking forward to adding at least one more title this year.

The format is interesting and designed to test the skills of players. It is not just about skills, though; the ECOOP, with buy-ins from $100 to $2500 is also a test of how strong your bankroll is. This is a big tournament, and only the big survive here. The tournament has a $1500 No Limit Hold’em game as well, which is possibly the biggest single guarantee event.

However, those with small bankrolls can also take heart. If they are not able to participate directly in the ECOOP, there is another route open to them – playing in the satellite events being organized at Boyle Poker, one of the skins of the iPoker network. Players can participate in these satellite events for as low as $2 and if they get through, stand a chance of fighting with the big fish for the prize money and the ECOOP title.

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The $225 + $25 buy-in event is on target to smash its own previous entry record of 1,300 players – and 1,347 more players entering the event would make it the largest poker tournament ever outside the USA.

Paul Spillane, the head of Boylepoker.com said, "We’re delighted to have sold out the direct buy-ins almost three weeks before cards are in the air but there are still plenty of opportunities for players to qualify through our online satellites. Also expect some more announcements before the biggest game in town gets underway!"

The few remaining buy-in seats for the tournament (Day 1A) on October 16th at Dublin’s Regency Hotel sold out just over the weekend with Day 1B seats having sold out the previous week. However the online poker room also has plenty of indirect ways and satellite tournaments for eager poker players to gain entry to the Irish event.

Boylepoker players can achieve entry to the beguiling $25,000 added no-limit hold’em tournament from as little as $5 + 50c. And with the incredible story of 23-year old Adrien Allain who won over HK $3 million at the recent APT Macau Main event by qualifying in a $5 PKR satellite tournament, players have no reason to doubt there chances at the big prize!

Players can enter the $5 + $.50 satellite at 8:30pm on Sunday and Tuesday with one re-buy available. Selected players in this event will then be entered into the Thursday $25 + $2.5 freeze out super satellite where one ticket will be awarded to day 1A for every $250 in the prize pool.
However the exciting tournament news doesn’t stop there! This year’s Boylepoker.com International Poker Open is also including an innovative VIP Club points promotion feature which gives all players the opportunity to increase their starting chip stack the live tournament in Berlin from 8,000 up to 10,000 – simply by playing online at Boylepoker.com!
Last years IPO champion Irishman Ruairi Coy took home 37,530 Euros from a prize pool encumbering over 205,000 worth of Euro currency – 32,000 of which was added by Boylepoker.com