Play the €500K Gtd iPOPS Main Event for €0.50 at Paddy Power Poker

The iPoker Online Poker Series (iPOPS) Main Event is almost upon us with the €500,000 guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em tournament starting promptly at 4:00 p.m. BST on September 27. Anyone buying into this tournament directly will hand over €500 of their bankroll, but Paddy Power Poker has satellites starting at only €0.50 for those looking for an affordable way in.

The iPOPS Main Event is the 147th numbered event of the series. Whether you buy in for €500 or win your way in from only €0.50, you’ll sit down armed with 100,000 chips. Each level lasts 15 minutes, and the blinds start at 200/400/75.

Late registration remains open for 20 levels, which is five hours from the pitching of the first hole cards, or around 9:00 p.m. BST if you want to arrive fashionably late. The blinds during Level 20 are 5,000/10,000/1,000a, increasing to 6,000/12,000/1,200a after late registration closes. Up to 20 re-entries are permitted per person, so securing several buy-ins is worthwhile.

The €500 buy-in is broken down into €470 + €30, meaning 1,063 entries are required to hit the €500,000 guarantee. Only 81 players were registered at the time of writing.

iPOPS Main Event Satellites From Only €0.50

€50 buy-in satellites, each guaranteeing at least 2x €500 tickets, run each day. However, a special deadline Mega Satellite, also costing €50, represents the most value. It shuffles up and deals at 3:00 p.m. BST on September 27, only an hour before the Main Event begins. This mega satellite boasts a 50x €500 seat guarantee, or €25,000.

€5 buy-in satellites award tickets to the €50 buy-in, with €0.50 satellites awarding €5 tickets. It’ll take a little luck and grinding, but it is possible to sit down in the €500,000-guaranteed iPOPS Main Event after spending only €0.50 to get there.

2027 Irish Open Satellites are in Full Swing

If you are in the mood for hitting up some satellites, you may also want to check out the satellites for the 2027 Irish Open Main Event. They start at only €0.01, eventually feeding into the €150 buy-in package-awarding satellite.

Packages worth €2,250 are guaranteed to be won, with each package awarding its winner a €1,150 seat in the 2027 Irish Open Main Event plus €1,100 for travel and accommodation expenses.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.