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Prize Pool: €239,057
Swede Alexander Tennback has been wanting to attend the Irish Open for a few years, and he got his wish for 2026 when he bagged an online satellite ticket to the Main Event.
Tennback intended to make the most of the trip, so he decided to flick into some side events. It proved to be a good decision, as he has ended up walking away with the 2026 Irish Open America’s Cup trophy and €40,633, after a heads-up deal with Alessandro Giombetti. The duo played on for €7,200 and the trophy, and it didn’t take long for Tennback to finish the job.
Tennback outlasted the 795-runner field to claim the lion’s share of the €239,057 prize pool, while Giombetti had to settle for €31,167. Tennback’s existing live tournament record comprised four cashes for $3,794, and he now has a maiden five-figure result and trophy to add to his resume.
€350 America’s Cup Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
| 1 | Alexander Tennback | Sweden | €40,633* |
| 2 | Alessandro Giombetti | Italy | €31,168* |
| 3 | Andrew Durkan | Ireland | €19,740 |
| 4 | Felipe De Oliveira | Portugal | €15,190 |
| 5 | David Urban | Slovakia | €11,680 |
| 6 | Sugendran Singh | South Africa | €8,980 |
| 7 | Ott-Kaarli Toome | Estonia | €6,910 |
| 8 | Jamie Kelly | Ireland | €5,325 |
| 9 | Rauno Tahvonen | Estonia | €4,090 |
Winner’s Reaction
Tennback seemed slightly stunned by his achievement, saying “I play some online, but not so much live, I live in Sweden. It’s a good score, I heard about the Irish Open for a long time. I qualified for the Main, I’m playing that tomorrow, and I wanted to play some side events. It’s crazy to outlast that many people.”
Final Day Recap
A total of 48 players started the day, with Malcolm Malm, Tjenno Eskes and Harry Sandford in the podium places, but only Malm made the final three tables. Giombetti had a hot start when he won a three way all-in, and Tennback got lucky early to bust Chris Farragher with queens against kings.
By the first break, the field was down to 22 players, with popular South African Sugendran Singh at the top of the counts, energized by plenty of support from a boisterous rail.
Giombetti held in a crucial four-bet pot against Malm to move towards the 2 million mark, and a flurry of knockouts followed to reduce the field to two tables. The eventual champion then disposed of Aidan Quinlan to challenge the leading stacks, while Ireland’s Andrew Durkan came into the mix when he ended Christos Kasapi’s run.
Giombetti and Durkan clashed when Giombetti flopped a flush and held versus Durkan’s top pair. Slovakian David Urban gathered momentum and a leading stack for a period, but he doubled Felipe De Oliveira and Rauno Tahvonen in quick succession.
The final table was set when Samuel Saariaho was eliminated by Durkan, and Tennback started with the lead. Tahvonen was down to dust and he quickly exited, followed shortly after by Jamie Kelly, who ran queens into the pocket aces of Ott-Kaarli Toome.
By this stage the average stack was 15 big blinds, and Singh had become the short-stack. Much to the frustration of his opponents, he could not be killed off, and found three double-ups to stay in it. Tennback suffered a setback when he was coolered by Durkan with a rivered full house against Tennback’s turned straight, and Giombetti left Urban with crumbs when he woke up with a superior ace and held.
Again the short-stack found ways to survive, and it was actually Toome who was next to go in seventh in a flip versus Giombetti. The Italian would also end Singh’s battling run in sixth, while Urban had done well to find two ladders, but busted to Durkan’s rivered flush. De Oliveira hadn’t been involved a great deal at the final table, but had manoeuvred into the final four, and he proceeded to double through Durkan.
Durkan was now lagging behind, but the short-stack luck transferred to him as he found two doubles. De Oliveira came unstuck against Tennback when the champion turned a flush after being dominated preflop, and after riding his luck at certain points, Durkan suffered an unfortunate exit. He got it in as a heavy favorite, but Giombetti found a three-outer on the river.
Tennback and Giombetti immediately agreed the deal, and it wasn’t long before Tennback sealed the title and the remaining €7,200 of the prize pool. Giombetti jammed the button and was ahead, finding top pair on the flop. However it was a monotone board, and Tennback hit the one-card flush on the river.
