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There are still plenty of chances to play your way onto the bwin Team for the Irish Open in April, but the clock is starting to tick more loudly. While time may be running out to book your reservation, you’ve still got tons of ways to play your way onto the Team, including the weekly online finals, the Bounty Hunter, and the Lucky Steps.

bondjamebond started off March on the right foot in the Bounty Hunter held on March 1st, outlasting a field of 313 runners to take down 1st place and the $8,000 Irish Open trip package that comes with it. He’ll be playing for the Team for the first time, where he’ll join plenty of other fresh faces as well as crafty old veterans such as Wieringen, ChipLieder85, and LocStaOnFire (who recently finished 3rd at EPT Berlin for a huge payday of €350,000).

It’s Head Hunter time again, with the following 6 bwin poker players slated to do battle on  March 13th at 20:00 CET:

rogal23
samy5755
mrpoker9999
laprenticris
scarlwhite75
billysaleo

They’ll be playing for $9,240 in prize money, which includes a $8,000 live event trip package to the 2010 Irish Open with the bwin Team.

As far as how they got there (and how you can qualify yourself), each running of the new Bounty Hunter tournament on bwin not only sends winners directly to the Irish Open with a $8,000 trip package in hand, but it also offers a nice consolation prize to players who claim the most bounties for knocking out other players.

Excluding the winner of the Bounty Hunter (who gets a $8,000 trip package for the win), the qualifiers in the Head Hunter finals are those players with the most knockouts in the Bounty Hunter. pokerstefal was the winner of the most recent running of the Bounty Hunter, claiming his $8,000 trip package. The qualifiers for the Head Hunter finals, then, are the 6 players in the last Bounty Hunter who had the most knockouts.

Below are the knockout totals for the qualifiers for the March 13th Head Hunter finals:

rogal23: 13 KOs
mrpoker9999: 11 KOs
samy5755: 8 KOs
laprenticris: 8 KOs
scarlwhite75: 8 KOs
billysaleo: 8 KOs