Kick 2021 Off In Style With the Irish Open Winter Festival Main Event

Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
3 min read
Irish Open Winter Festival Main Event

Have you set yourself any New Year’s resolutions? Do they involve having a stellar year at the online poker tables and bagging plenty of cash? If so, you could do much worse than starting 2021 by playing in the Irish Open Winter Festival Main Event.

The Irish Open Winter Festival Main Event takes place at both Paddy Power Poker and Betfair Poker from January 1 through January 3. Day 1A of this €100 buy-in €50,000 guaranteed Main Event shuffles up and deals at 7:00 p.m. GMT on January 1.

You receive a generous helping of 20,000 chips for your €100 investment. Late registration ends after the completion of the 12th level, or two hours 24 minutes to be precise. Blinds increase every 12 minutes and start as low as 25/50/5a, giving you plenty of room to manoeuvre.

The aim of each of the three Day 1s (Day 1B is at 7:00 p.m. GMT on January 2 and Day 1C at 3:00 p.m. GMT on January 3) is to make it through to the end of the 25th level. Do this and you’ll progress to Day 2 at 7:00 p.m. GMT on January 3.

Be aware the blinds on Day 1C increase every five-minutes to ensure the tournament finishes in time for Day 2 on the same day

Check Out The Full Irish Winter Festival Schedule

Win Your Way Into the €50,000 Guaranteed Main Event

€100 is a large buy-in for the majority of PokerNews readers so Paddy Power Poker and Betfair Poker are running a plethora of satellites into the Main Event. These IOW Main Event Sat tournaments only cost €10 to enter and have between five and 25 seats guaranteed in their prize pools. It’s possible to win your way into Irish Open Winter Festival events from only €0.50 too, so there’s no excuse to not try qualifying for this tournament.

Choose to play this superb Main Event at Paddy Power Poker or Betfair Poker. Head to the lobby right now and register for the Main Event if you already have an account. If you don’t have accounts at ether of these sites, continue reading to discover the welcome bonuses on offer to you.

Why Betfair Poker is Perfect for Lowstake Grinders

Start 2021 With These Awesome Welcome Bonuses

Betfair Poker offer all new customers a 200% up to €200 welcome bonus. Download Betfair Poker via PokerNews, create your free account and choose your poker nickname. Deposit at least €10 into your poker wallet and Betfair Poker matches your depsoit 200% up to a maximum of €200. This is released into your account in €10 increments each time you generate 1,250 Status Points.

Download Paddy Power Poker via PokerNews and grab a welcome package worth £50. Again, create your account, choose your alias and make a deposit of at least £10. Go on and play in at least £20 worth of SNG, Twister tournaments, or multi-table tournaments and Paddy Power Poker dishes out the following bonus over the course of the next week.

  • Day 1: 5x £2 Twister tokens
  • Day 2: 4x £2 Tournament tokens
  • Day 3: £10 Slots bonus with x20 wagering requirements
  • Day 4: 2x £5 Tournament tokens
  • Day 5: Entry into Paddy’s New Customer Freeroll where the prize pool increases by £10 for each registered player
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Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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