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The Irish Winter Festival is back for 2009 and is expected to be bigger and better than ever, which means it’s time to see if you have the luck of the Irish.

The Irish Winter Festival will once again be taking place at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Ireland from October 24th through 26th, 2009. And Titan Poker wants to send you there for a chance to win your share of the pot of gold!

To help you get to Ireland, Titan Poker will be holding Irish Winter Festival Satellites including daily Sit n’ Gos with buy-ins of just $21.50+$2 and $43+$4. Then every Friday and Saturday there are MTTS (multi-table tournaments) with a buy in of $25+$2.50 where first place finishers will win a seat to the Super Sunday Satellite worth $200+$15. The Super Sunday events will award each winning player with a fantastic prize package to the Irish Winter Festival.

These terrific Irish Winter Festival prize packages are valued at $4,000 and will include the €1,500 + €150 ($2,200) buy-in to the Main Event, €100 ($140) for an Irish Winter Party scheduled to be held on Friday, October 23rd, and up to $1,025 for flights and spending money. And you won’t have to worry about where to stay because the prize package also includes €460 ($610) for four nights of accommodations for both qualifiers and their guest at the fabulous City West Hotel in beautiful Dublin, Ireland.
 
The Irish Winter Festival 2009 is scheduled for the October Bank Holiday weekend where the star of the show is the €1,500 + €150 Irish Masters, a No-Limit Hold ’em freeze-out tournament.  This prestigious annual event will once again kick off at the Citywest Hotel which was also home to the 2008 and 2009 Irish Open events. The Main Event this year is expected to be every bit as exciting as the 2008 scene where Fiachra Meere reigned victorious, winning 150,000 Euros by outlasting 422 other players.
 
First run as a stand-alone festival in Dublin’s famous Merrion Club from 2001 to 2003, the Irish Winter Festival became the Dublin leg of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in 2004. With the festivals association with the EPT, it began to attract a great many players from beyond Ireland and Britain, including the best tournament players that Europe and America has to offer. In 2008, 33-year-old amateur player, Fiachra Meere, from County Clare, won the Irish Masters main event with second place going to Chris Woods, who took home €106,000 and the third place prize of €68,500 was taken by John Raftery. The Irish Masters that year had a total prize pool of €634,500 and is expected to be much bigger this year as the festival continues to gain in popularity.
 
Don’t’ miss your opportunity to test your luck at the 2009 Irish Winter Festival where you too could win your very own pot o’ gold – thanks to Titan Poker!