Paddys Desert Storm

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Paddy's Desert Storm Be The Best ! Paddy's Desert storm is here, and we want to send you to the WSOP. Across the next 4 months, we will be giving away a total of $150,000 rewarding players for playing our scheduled MTT tournaments. There is loads of cash up for grabs every month and the top 20 players will find themselves on their way to playing a World Series event in the home of Poker and fun, Las Vegas !!!!

• 4 month long Multi-Table Tournaments Leaderboard!
• $50,000 in prizes across 4 monthly Leaderboards.
• Top 500 players on the monthly Leaderboard are entered into a $2,500 Freeroll.
• $100,000 in WSOP Prizes on the final Leaderboard !
• Counting period: 1st February 2010- 31st May2011

Qualifying tournaments The Desert Storm promotion will rank the top 500 players who participate in any of the network’s scheduled tournaments (Satellites and private tournaments are excluded) To be in with a chance to win, simply go to the tournament lobby and follow the steps below:

• Select the MTT Leaderboard tab (left navigation of lobby)
• Select Qualifying Tournaments
• Register in any of these tournaments and get ready to play!

Leaderboard points calculation formula Players will receive points for participating in any of the network’s tournaments, based on the below formula, which takes into consideration the buy-in and the number of players in the tournaments (these are derivatives of the prize-pool), and the finishing position of the player in the tournament. Calculation formula: The buy-in coefficient will be determined according to the following table:

Category	Buy-In	Coefficient
High	$100 and above	4
Medium	$20-$99.99	3
Low	$5-$19.99	2
Micro	$0.5-$4.99	1.5
Freerolls	$0	0.5

Examples of different cases:

# of players	Place finished	Buy-In	Buy-In coefficient	Points
100	1	10	2	100.00
666	1	300	4	516.13
666	25	300	4	103.22
750	1	20	3	410.79
750	10	20	3	129.90

View Leaderboards Monthly Leaderboard: VIEW Final Leaderboard: VIEW Monthly Leaderboard For every player, the best 20 results (derived by the formula) for each month will be counted towards the leaderboard points for that month.

Monthly Leaderboard
Place	Prize
1	$1,500.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
2	$1,000.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
3	$750.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
4	$500.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
5	$350.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
6	$250.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
7	$175.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
8	$125.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
9	$100.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
10	$80.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
11-20	$70.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
21-30	$60.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
31-40	$50.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
41-50	$40.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
51-75	$30.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
76-100	$25.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
101-150	$20.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
151-200	$15.00 + $2,500.00 Freeroll Entry
200-500	$2,500.00 Freeroll Entry

Monthly $2500 Freerolls All players from the leaderboard will play in a monthly $2,500 freeroll. The monthly freerolls will be held on the following Sundays:

• Sunday, March 6th 2011 at 16.30 GMT
• Sunday, April 3rd 2011 at 16.30 GMT
• Sunday, May 8th 2011 at 16.30 GMT

Freerolls payout structure

Place	Prize
1st	$250.00
2nd	$200.00
3rd	$175.00
4th	$150.00
5th	$125.00
6th	$100.00
7th	$75.00
8th	$50.00
9th	$40.00
10th	$30.00
11th-25th	$25.00
26th-50th	$20.00
51st-75th	$15.00
76th-100th	$10.00

Final Leaderboard and WSOP Packages ! After a four month period, the top 20 players on the final ranking board will win a :- WSOP Executive Experience Package with a total value of $5,000 for each package. The Package Includes 1. Buy-in to one of the WSOP side events: estimated at $1,000. 2. Accommodation for the period of the event: estimated at $650. 3. Executive perks package: estimated at $2,000, which includes - Excursion - Dinner for two at the Exclusive SW steakhouse at the Wynn. - Two top notch tickets to a Cirque Du Soleil show. - Limo pick-up to and from the Las Vegas airport. 4. Cash for flights and spending: estimated at $1,300. 5. Handling fees: estimated at $30 *The prizes mentioned above are an estimate only; iPoker will finalize the package as soon as the WSOP 2011 schedule is published.