Virgin Poker Festival 3 - Nottingham - Dusk Till Dawn

After the success of Virgin’s first two Poker Festival’s. Virgin are pleased to announce that qualifiers for the third Virgin Poker Festival have started

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The event itself will take place on the weekend of the will take place in the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club in Nottingham over the weekend of the 28th/29th June! This promises to be a weekend of real Poker action and fun.

Here is the low-down of what’s happening and how to get there.

Virgin Poker Festival 2 Day Deep Stack

£105 two day, deep stack main event

£5,000 added to prize pool

£1000 of value added bounties

Bad beat prize of return flight to Vegas

Three added value, low stakes side events

Wii Bowling, bar promos and heads up challenges

How To Qualify

There will be no direct buy-ins. All players must qualify by playing Poker Online.
There are 3 standard ways to qualify

Festival Weekly (€15 + €1.50): Every Sunday at 19.30 (BST). 1 seat for every 10 players.

Festival Satellite (€1.65 + €0.15): Everyday at 20.30 (BST). Win a seat to the Festival Weekly tourney.

Festival Super Rebuy (€7 + €0.70): Every Thursday at 20.15 (BST). 1 rebuy allowed when a players has under 500 chips + 1 add on after 60 minutes.

Virgin Poker Festival 2 - Newcastle - Aspers Casino - Fianl Standings

Virgin Poker Festival 2 - Newcastle - Aspers

After the amzing success of Virgin Poker’s first Poker Festival the decision was made to have another Virgin Poker Festival, but this time in Newcastle - Aspers Casino.

The winner of the first Virgin Poker Festival was David Young, this time around the winner was Darren Laverick who won the final with a Q3 call against Stewart Palethropes 44. Flop saw a J 9 10 with a King on fourth street, to finish a fantastic Virgin Poker weekend.

other highlights included Poker journalist Shelley Rubenstein coming in 3^rd and the first ever Terminator tournament hosted at Aspers Casino.

Virgin Poker Festival - Newcastle

Place	Name	Prize
1	Darren Laverick	£7,500
2	Stewart Palethorpe	£5,500
3	Shelly Rubenstein	£3,750
4	Jon Spinks	£2,250
5	Chris Baylis	£1,750
6	Lee Harrison	£1,250
7	James Eccles	£850
8	Lucy Rokach	£700
9	Jim Goodison	£600
10	Tony Barlow	£500
11	Cheryl Routledge	£400
12	Glen Willcock	£250
13	Keith Penman	£250
14	Eugene Cummins	£250
15	Duncan Godfrey	£250
16	Graeme Scott	£175
17	Dave Bland	£175
18	Dave Collins	£175
19	John Littler	£175
20	Maria Demtriou	£125
21	Kenneth Hawkins	£125
22	Hernan Quiroga	£125
23	N Bettlestone	£125
24	Richard Black	£125
25	Steph Boyd	£125

WSOP - Fly With Team Virgin

The Virgin WSOP Team!

Virgin Poker are offering any player who wins a World Series of Poker main event seat with Virgin Poker, the added bonus of getting free Virgin Atlantic flights and accommodation and this is on top of the standard travel expenses paid by other online poker rooms. That's a €2000 bonus for every Team Virgin qualifier going to Las Vegas.

On top of all this, Virgin Poker are also offering poker players the easiest route to the WSOP main event with the "Super Guaranteed Satellites"

Route 1 - Virgin Super Guaranteed Satellites

Prize

€ 8500 Package + €2000 Virgin Bonus

• $10,000(Roughly €7000) Main Event Seat
• €1500 Spending Money
• Return flight from London Gatwick to Las Vegas
• Hotel Accommodation for the duration of your stay.

There will be FOUR Virgin WSOP Finals with a WSOP main event package guaranteed in each one.

• €250 + €25 Buy-In
• 1 package per 34 players.
• One package guaranteed.
• Wednesday 19th March, 9th April, 30th April & 21st May
• 8:30pm (GMT)

For those players who want a cheaper way into the final WSOP Satellites

• €27.50 freezeout everyday at 8.30pm (GMT).
• €11 rebuy every Saturday and Sunday at 5pm (GMT).
• 1 WSOP Final seat for every €250 in the prizepook.
• ONE WSOP Bonus Final seat guaranteed in every satellite.

Route 2 - Las Vegas Bumper Satellites

Prize

€10,000 Package + €2000 Virgin Bonus

• $10,000 (Roughly €7,000) Main Event Seat.
• €3000 Spending Money
• Return flight from London Gatwick to Las Vegas
• Hotel Accommodation for the duration of your stay.

There will be TWO Virgin Network online finals.

• €500 + €30 Buy-in
• 1 package per 20 players.
• Sundays 23rd March and 20th April 19:30 (GMT).

For those players who want a cheaper way into the final Virgin Network Bumper Satellites.

• Multi Table and Sit n Go satellites run daily for as little as €3.50.
• Daily winner get seats at the €58 Weekly Finals each Sunday at 19:30 (GMT)
• All Virgin Network Bumper Satellites can be located in the Virgin Poker Room "multi Tourney" lobby as "Las Vegas" tournaments.

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Virgin Poker Launches FaceBook Application

Virgin Poker has taken the initiative to provide the social network phenomenon - Facebook with a poker application. Facebook users can play for free and join a table of 6 to play for points with every winning hand gaining points towards a leader board.

The poker application lets users create their own avatar in the games including accessories ranging from hats, tattoos, cigars and glasses.

Users are also able to set up a private "invite only" game with other Facebook members. Virgin poker are the first poker operator to offer this service.