Victor Chandler Poker launches Facebook promotion

DUBLIN, Ireland -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Victor Chandler Poker today launches its month-long Facebook Free Play Poker League. Each Monday and Wednesday from August 29 to September 28 a Facebook Free Play Poker League event will run with a €50 prize pool.

Each event will be free to enter and exclusive to Facebook’ers and password protected with a unique password attributed to each event - only Facebook’ers who have hit the “Like” button on the Victor Chandler Poker Facebook Fan Page by 17:00 CET on the day of any given event will be notified of the password via a Facebook update at that time.

As well as paying out the prize pool Victor Chandler Poker will also award leaderboard points to the top finishers in each event.

At the end of the league, the top 40 leaderboard finishers will win a share of the €1,000 leaderboard prize pool and the top 200 leaderboard finishers (including the top 40) will secure a seat in a €500 freeroll on October 3, 2011.

Additionally any player that finishes “in the money” in the €500 freeroll and has earned a minimum of 25 VIP Points during the period of the league will be awarded free bets on Victor Chandler Sports equal in value to their winnings from the freeroll.