To celebrate the national bank holiday of Ireland and the most joyful festivity of all the Irishmen around the globe, St Patrick’s Day, Cake Poker is holding its Irish Poker Open tournament in Dublin. It will be preceded by a series of online competitions, where a player with just a bit of Irish luck can win their exclusive $7,500 package by betting mean $5.50 at a daily Irish Open Semi-Qualifier. All the Semi-Qualifier winners will take part in an Irish Open Satellite, which can be directly accessed for $27. The satellites that are also held on a daily basis from 2:40 to 8:40 p.m. ET (GMT-5) give their winners an opportunity to take part in the $268 entry fee Irish Open Final for free. The final is held every Sunday at 4 p.m. ET and gives away one Irish Poker Open Package for every $7,500 in the prize pool.
The package includes not only the €3,200 price of the Irish Open seat and €300 of betting money, but also $1,700 for a plane ticket, a 5-night stay at the venue hotel, namely The Burlington Hotel, and a branded Cake Poker gear pack. All of that can be bought by the frequent players of CakePoker.com for their Gold Chips. The main event package costs 21,200 of them, while the participation in one of the Sunday satellites – only a thousand. According to the manager of Cake Poker, Lee Jones, it’s hard to beat a deal like that, considering the insane side action, accompanying one of the most waited-for poker tournaments among the international players. And one can understand the reason of such popularity by simply looking at the beautiful city of Dublin.
Not just the Gold Chips have acquired a new and better value this March. The Gold Cards have also become much more lucrative. The whole month all of them will pop up four times more often than usual.
The promotion is called Turbo Gold Cards March Madness, and consists of special new rules for the appearance of Gold Cards, which are an essential part of Cake Poker Reward Program. Usually the Gold Cards are randomly given to Cake Poker ring players. There is a chance to get one during each game even if a player chooses to fold. This month the rules get better. The Gold Cards will be awarded four times as often during the first fifteen minutes of every hour, 24 hours a day, while the third quarter of every hour will give twice as many of them as usual. This will happen for the entire month of March at all the ring tables with real money bets in addition to the March Madness quadruplicating of the Gold Cards.
Regularly, there are two ways in which Gold Cards benefit the players. Firstly, they can be traded for cash or tournament entry in Cake Poker daily lotteries, and secondly there are Gold Card Races, which are held every month and distribute $50,000 among the players with most of the miles. The higher is the Gold Card one gets, the more miles he will automatically receive for a race, and also the better prizes will be available for him in the lotteries.
This month, however, as another St Patrick’s Day bonus, Cake Casino will give away $100 to every player who manages to get the Ace of Clubs Golden Card. This promotion, though, is only available till 17 March.