Paddy Power Xmas Promotion

Get your hands on Santa's Bulging Sack!

Irish Open ticket just one of many massive prizes in paddypowerpoker.com's $30k Christmas Freeroll

Paddy Power Poker is jingling its balls with excitement today as it announces details of its biggest ever yuletide promotion. Culminating with a massive $30,000 freeroll giveway on New Year's Day, Santa's Bulging Sack is stuffed full of wonderful prizes including Irish Open tickets, holidays and state of the art entertainment systems.

After twelve month's of anticipation, cold nights (and no internet) Santa was about to explode this Christmas, so paddypowerpoker.com decided to relieve some of his pressure by giving him a hand.

Free to enter, Santa's Bulging Sack is the perfect poker pudding with its delicious selection box of final table prizes. There will be no January blues for the top 15 in this tournament as they snowball into spring with presents which will have their nieces and nephews screaming with jealousy.

12th- 15th will be in gadget heaven with iPods, iPhones and LCD TV's to play with, while the 3rd place finisher will kick off the new year with a fantastic trip to New York City worth €1,500.

The real angel on top of the Christmas Tree, however, is the chance to play in the 2008 Irish Open - Europe's oldest and largest major poker tournament. 2nd place receives free entry (plus expenses) to the €1,500 Irish Open No Limit Hold'em Freezeout, while the winner of Paddy's Bulging Giveaway will walk away with the hottest ticket in town - entry to the €3 Million Guaranteed Irish Open Main Event worth €4,500.

To be eligible to play in this unmissable tournament players must compete in two or more of paddypowerpoker.com's 12 nightly $5 rebuy tournaments starting on the 21st December. These tournaments take place every night at 8pm and can be found in the tournaments section of the poker client.

Paddy's Bulging Giveaway - Freeroll, 1st January, 2008 at 8pm

• 1st Prize - Buy–in to the 2008 Irish Open Main Event (worth €4,500)
• 2nd Prize - Buy in to Irish Open NLH Freezeout plus expenses (worth €2,000)
• 3rd Prize - Holiday to New York (worth €1,500)
• 4th Prize - LCD TV and surround sound system.
• 5th Prize –TV and PS3
• 6th Prize - iPhone
• 7th Prize - Acer Laptop 5101
• 8th Prize - PlayStation 3
• 9th Prize - 30 Gig iPod
• 10th Prize - iPod Nano 8GB
• 11th– 15th Prize - 4 Gig iPod