Paddy Power is perhaps the best known bookmaker in Ireland and offers a vast range of gambling opportunities. Paddy Power was founded as recently as 1988 from the merger of three other Irish bookmakers and today operates more than 200 retail gambling shops in Ireland and more than 100 in the United Kingdom but our focus will be on the online gambling business where Paddy Power has divisions for sports book, online casino, online games, online poker, online bingo and online financial spread betting. Paddy Power is a publicly quoted company which is listed on the stock markets of Ireland and the UK which in itself gives the gambler an element of security.

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Paddy Power tries and succeeds in presenting itself as a fun bookmaker and the stated mission is to make “risk based entertainment” more accessible and fun and they refer to themselves as “The Punter Friendly Bookmaker”. They are well known in the industry for some quirky advertisements and also for some quite strange ways of giving money back in the form of “money back specials”; they have even been known to pay out on the result of an event before the event takes place. Carrying on from this customer friendly approach and trying to be a little bit different Paddy Power now offers the gambling public the chance to insure against your horse falling during a race and also guarantees best odds on all horse and greyhound races.
Gambling on sporting events was where Paddy Power started and today you can gamble on just about any sport you can imagine and even some that you can’t such as Ice Hockey in both the United States and in Europe or Aussie Rules which is a form of football. If you want to gamble and can’t find it at Paddy Power, you probably will not find it anywhere. Even gambling on the well known sports such as Football (Soccer to some of our readers) is not as simple as predicting the winner as on most matches you can place bets on the first goal scorer or the half/time full time result or the correct score and a number of handicap bets as well. A new addition to the gambling range is the chance to place bets once the game has started which they call live betting. In this form of gambling the odds are changing all the time as the match progresses but it can make a game and your gambling more exciting and it is not restricted to football as you can bet during a game in Tennis or Snooker or Rugby or Cricket or even Handball.
Paddy Power Poker gives you the chance to play against people from all over the world for a variety of different stakes and also poker gambling can win you entry into the largest tournaments in the world such as the Paddy Power Irish Open. Most poker games are Texas Hold’em but there are others in the line up and you can generally choose whether to play at a table of maximum six players or maximum ten. Paddy Power offers a Poker School for those wishing to learn the game and even a special tournament with free entry for first time depositors.
Under the Paddy Power Casino banner thee is the choice of instant casino or download casino; the instant casino offers more than 85 different gambling opportunities including roulette, blackjack and slots, table games such as Baccarat, Caribbean Stud Poker and Craps and a number of leisure games including Keno; you can find most of these games described on this site. The download casino has more choice of games including Sic-Bo and Pai Gow poker which are not available on the instant casino as well as more choice of slots and video poker. The download casino is also the place to be if your gambling on slots includes winning huge jackpots.
Live Casino at Paddy Power is streamed from Eastern Europe which is plain to see from the eight lovely ladies and their rather unusual names. In live casino images are streamed directly to your computer from web cams set up in the casino room and you can play roulette, blackjack or baccarat. The advantage is that you can actually see the cards being shuffled and dealt or the wheel being spun and the ball rolling. If you fancy a chat with the girls that is also an option.
Paddy Power also has what is called a “games” section in which they bring together a number of games such as Deal or no deal but they also include games such as Monopoly or Snakes and Ladders which are in actual fact slot machines. Paddy Power has Blackjack included in the games section as well as in the casino but an interesting one is 3 card brag which is played against the house rather than against other players but as there are fewer gambling rounds and no chance to change cards we prefer the correct version which can be found in the “player” section.
The “player” section on the Paddy Power site is where you can find the heads up games and those played against multiple other players. The most popular are Backgammon, 3 card brag, dominoes and poker dice but this is the section for the real gambling public who think they can play games of skill and make money. Games played against other players rather than the online casino are preferred by some.
In Paddy Power Lotteries you can gamble on many of the worlds lotteries from the comfort of your own home including our own Irish Lotteries. There is big money to be won on many of these national lotteries. Paddy Power Bingo usually has at least 7 different games going at the same time and ticket prices to suit most pockets but watch out for the big ones that can win you major jackpots
Last but not least if you want to try your luck as a financial trader you can at Paddy Power under the “spread trading” banner. Here you can either try spread betting or trading in CFDs. Paddy Power has a very complete range of gambling opportunities and is a very well respected bookmaker in Ireland.