[caption id="attachment_54115" align="alignnone" width="1250"] Mo Xu[/caption] Level 29: 100k/200k (200k) Entries: 2/311 It was a long day, at the end of a long and joyous festival. They played eight-handed. They played heads-up. And then they played six-handed. Eventually, over 14...
Level 29: 100k/200k (200k) Entries: 2/311 The deep stacks here are finally telling. The chips are going back and forth between Xu Mo and Javier Bris, but we are no closer to finding out who will win. If you can...
Dominik Suthe became the penultimate player to claim an Irish Open trophy at the 2026 festival. Suthe battled against Gerard Harraghy heads up and fended off his opponent in the €250 NLH Turbo tournament. The event drew a big field...
Damian Albers took down the €1,150 NLH Turbo 8-Max, prevailing from 201 entries. Albers scored a double knockout with five players remaining, then dismissed Daniel Kenyon in third place and closed it out shortly thereafter, forcing out Jonathan Stoeber. The...
[caption id="attachment_53970" align="alignnone" width="1250"] Sami Agel[/caption] Level 45: 2,500,000/5,000,000 (5,000,000) Entries: 1/7,349 Prize Pool: €1,532,634 With his elimination of David Penly, Sami Agel is now crowned the winner of the €250 Mini Irish Open. He takes home €150,855, the coveted...
[caption id="attachment_43039" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Alexis Morel[/caption] Level 24: 30k/60k (60k) Entries: 3/311 Javier Bris claimed another victim when a short-stacked Alexis Morel went all in. Morel: [qd][3d] Bris: [kd][qh] The board came [5s][ah][8c] [6d] [5h] to send the Frenchman to...
[caption id="attachment_53964" align="alignnone" width="1250"] David Penly[/caption] Level 45: 2,500,000/5,000,000 (5,000,000) Entries: 1/7,349 Prize Pool: €1,532,634 Seated on the Button, David Penly opened to 15,000,000. Sami Agel made the call from the Big Blind. After an initial check from Agel on...
[caption id="attachment_54112" align="alignnone" width="1250"] Nikolay Ponomarev[/caption] Level 24: 30k/60k (60k) Entries: 6/131 Nikolay Ponomarev put all the chips in and was called -- somewhat inevitably -- by Javier Bris. Ponomarev: [as][7h] Bris: [jc][9d] The board rolled out [qc][jd][5s] [3h] [th]...
[caption id="attachment_53964" align="alignnone" width="1250"] David Penly[/caption] Level 44: 2,000,000/4,000,000 (4,000,000) Entries: 2/7,349 Prize Pool: €1,532,634 David Penly moved all in on the Button for 38,300,000. Sami Agel peeked at his holdings, then made the call. David Penly: [8h][6h] Sami Agel:...
[caption id="attachment_54121" align="alignnone" width="1250"] Ionut Sandu[/caption] Level 18: 8k/16k (16k) Entries: 11/131 Ionut Sandu went all in and received a call from chip leader Javier Bris. Sandu: [ah][9h] Bris: [qs][qh] The community cards came [3h][qc][ad] [8h] [4s], ending Sandu's run
