PaddyPowerPoker Launches 5-A-Side Poker Championships

There is a new championship series going on now at the popular Irish online poker room, PaddyPowerPoker.com that features a very unique format. Players will join teams and compete against other teams for the chance at poker glory and loads of extra cash! “The Paddy Power Poker Five a Side Championships has started!” reads the promo page at the online poker site. “So get your team together, play your way to the Five A Side Poker Championship Final and have a share of over $100,000!

Each team will have, you guessed it, five players who will join forces to climb to the top in Multi-Table Tournaments and accumulate points towards their team’s score depending on what position they finish in. The poker room has also created a special Five a Side website for players to pick their teams and follow their progress which can be found on the Paddy Power Poker promo page.

Registration for the event began Monday, April 18 and will be open for three weeks, closing on the 8^th of April. Starting May 9-12, 2011, there will be an organization period where players will need to prepare their teams and make any final changes to their Championship teams before the challenge begins. Players will need to assign roles to each of the five members of their teams- Captain, Midfielder, Defender, Keeper or Forward. Once the tough decisions have been made, here are the three steps to make it official:

1. The Captain creates a team in the promotion web page and each member of the team gets his role

2. The team members confirm their participation in the tournament lobby

3. The team members register to their weekly tournaments as per their role in the team

There are two different leagues to compete in for the weekly tournaments to fit each team’s stake level. The first is the Gold League which will be $30+ $5 and the second it the Silver League which is just a fraction of the buy-in of the Gold at a small $5+ $1.

But what if you don’t have a team? That’s okay! You can still play in the competition by registering through the special general registration tournament in the lobby and the site will provide you with a team based on first come, first serve basis. You will automatically be assigned a role and will still be able to enjoy the spirit of competition.

Here is the schedule for this wonderful new 5 a Team Poker Championship:

And here is the Playoff Schedule where the top 100 teams from each league will compete in the finals for more than $100,000 in guaranteed prizes:

Here is a look at how you’ll earn your way to the top of the leaderboard depending on your finishing position in each tournament:

For more information about prizes and how the cash prizes break down, visit PaddyPowerPoker.com today!

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