Congrats to Saturday’s winners: Grace, Dowling, Tronina, Schamaun and Fox!
A bumper crop of players celebrated tournament victories yesterday … including Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling who won the debut €3k Cuatro PLO High Roller and Frank Grace who won the record-breaking €200 Deaf Championship Main Event. Well done all!!!
Frank Grace Wins the 2026 Irish Open Deaf Championship (€7,750)
Despite facing a 7:1 chip deficit when play reached heads-up in the €200 Deaf Championship Main Event, Ireland’s Frank Grace scrapped and scraped his way to victory. He beat Canadian qualifier Jorge Tello heads-up to take down the historic tournament – the flagship event of our “festival within a festival” for Deaf players.
The Championship drew 224 entries in total — a giant increase on last year’s 29 entries — and generated a prize pool of €36,938. Irish Open ambassador Darren Chow made Day 2 but unfortunately didn’t cash however last year’s champion Starny Hoang made it all the way to ninth place and won for €940. All the live updates are here.
Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling wins €3k Cuatro PLO High Roller
Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling, widely regarded as one of the best Omaha players in Ireland, has taken down the very first Irish Open Cuatro PLO High Roller for €46,175.
The €3k event, the first in a series of Cuatro tournaments making their debut at this year’s Irish Open, attracted 46 entries creating a €122,705 prize pool.
Dowling started the final day – at 1pm – with the third-largest stack and coasted to victory in dominant fashion. In fact, victory came so quickly (just over two hours) that Dowling was even able to make it to his son’s Gaelic Football match later on in the afternoon. The Cuatro PLO High Roller is one of several newly-introduced Cuatro bounty tournaments which are running for the first time during the 2026 Irish Open. Dowling’s win today takes him up to around $1.6 million in total live tournament winnings and he currently lies in 13th place in Ireland’s all-time cash list. All the live updates are here.
Tronina wins his first trophy in the €150 Deaf NLH Mystery Bounty
The “festival within a festival” for Deaf players continued yesterday at the 2026 Irish Open, with another trophy presented just before the clock struck midnight. Robert Tronina from Poland won €1,650 after taking down the €150 Deaf Mystery Bounty. The cash was by far his biggest and his first in Ireland. Tronina cut a three-way deal with Silvio Zgraggen (€1,760) and Mohamed Camara (€2,949), but it was the fifth-place finisher Jill Mossop who squeezed most out of the mystery bounties. Mossop took home €4,240, of which €3,700 came from the envelopes!
There were 121 entries with the top 18 finishers sharing a total of €15,730 in prizes (€7,629 through the regular payout structure).
PLO whizz Schamaun wins PLO 7-Max
Omaha specialist Martin Schamaun won the €1,150 PLO 7-Max Championship on Saturday for €25,260. The Swiss whizz motored through the 93-entry field to snag the second best scores of his live poker career. A total of 13 players were paid from the total prize pool of €94,721 with five-figure scores for the top three. Last night’s victory notched up yet another tournament victory for Schauman: he already has eight titles to his name and now has well over $425,000 in live tournament winnings accrued over a decade-long live poker career. Schamaun takes his Omaha skills all over the world and only last September won the Sviten Special title at Franke’s The Festival event in Malta.
Fox wins career-best score in record-breaking APAT Championship
Irish player Colin Fox has won the biggest live cash of his life after taking down the record-breaking €250 APAT Championship for €12,400. He is also now the proud owner of a coveted APAT gold medal. Fox was the short-stack at the start of the final day but chip leader once play was three-handed. A deal was struck, with eventual runner-up Patrick Schratz winning €10,020 and third-placed Sebastian Mueller receiving €9,100. The huge 366-entry field was 70% up on the last Irish Open APAT Championship in 2024; that one attracted 214 entries. Full updates are here.
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