The Biggest European Online Poker Festival Ever Starts This Week at bet365
(PRWEB) May 22, 2008 -- The ECOOP II at bet365 (http://poker.bet365.com/?skiplang=1) has even bigger prizepools than last year and more ways to enter for free. Players that earn 100,000 Merit Points between 22nd May and 31st May will book their free Seat to the ECOOP II Main Event on the 1st June. Players that are unlucky and just miss out will get a consolation prize of a WSOP Super Satellite ticket providing they earn 75,000 Merit Points during this period.
All ECOOP II event winners will walk away with a coveted ECOOP Bracelet and all top 100 finishers in each of the 10 events will win Most Valued Player points. The top 100 point-scoring players overall will then be invited to compete in the $50,000 Final Freeroll Tournament to determine the ECOOP II's Most Valuable Player.
A XML leaderboard feed can be picked up from the following location (http://data.playtech.com/~asafy/ECOOPII.xml) so that players and affiliates can see in real time who is ranking in the Most Valued Player leaderboard.
Details of the ECOOP II event can be found on the bet365 website (http://poker.bet365.com/?ContentPath=%2fPoker%2fPromotionPages%2fECOOPII&skiplang=1) and more information on free qualifying events can be found on the FREECOOP (http://poker.bet365.com/?ContentPath=%2fPoker%2fPromotionPages%2fFreecoopIIMay&skiplang=1) section of the site. Also on the website are details of other fantastic poker promotions currently on offer at bet365 including the Heads-Up WSOP satellites, qualifiers to the Asian Poker Tour in Manila, the Big Sunday $250,000 guaranteed tournament and the billionth hand celebration, as well as the Leaderboard Challenge and Leaderboard Races.
About bet365:
bet365 (http://poker.bet365.com/?skiplang=1) are one of the world's leading online gambling groups with over 1.5 million customers in 140 different countries. The Group employs over 700 people and is the UK's 32nd largest private company. The company's casino, games and poker operations are licensed and regulated by the government of Gibraltar.
bet365 takes responsible gambling very seriously and customers are provided with a range of options to assist them to gamble responsibly.
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