Cheltenham Festival Poker Tournament Specials

March 16 2010, Barry Carter

It’s the best week of the year if you are a Racing fan and thanks to some great online poker rooms, it’s going to be pretty special if you are a poker fan too. It’s the Cheltenham Festival and all of the gambling world will have their eyes on the four day horse racing extravaganza. Whether you can make it, will be watching it from home or couldn’t give a hoot about racing, you can benefit this week at the poker tables.

William Hill Poker are hosting a series of special tournaments this week which can land you a free package to the Irish Poker Open worth £4,900. Every hour on the hour there will be a £20 freeroll during the festival and the winners of each freeroll will play it out for the Irish Open Package in the Cheltenham Final.

Betfred Poker are hosting a series of tournaments on Saturday for all the unlucky losers of the festival. Second Chance Saturday will be a series of Freerolls on Saturday with £200 prize pools and will be open to anyone who generates at least 10 Betfred Points this week. Dont forget that you can also use those points to buy into exclusive $500 and $2,000 freerolls when you sign up via UK Pokernews.

Betfred Freerolls
Second Chance Saturday FR1 - 13:00
Second Chance Saturday FR2- 15:00
Second Chance Saturday FR3- 17:00
Second Chance Saturday FR4- 19:00
Second Chance Saturday FR5- 21:00

Finally its no suprise that Betfair Poker have got in on the action. The top sportsbook will host a series of nightly $5 MTTs with over $1,000 in free racing bets as prizes. At 8pm every night until Thursday you will win the following:

• 1st - $150 Free Bet
• 2nd - $100 Free Bet
• 3rd - $75 Free Bet
• 4th - $50 Free Bet
• 5th - $25 Free Bet
• 6th - 10th - $10 Free Bet

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