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Irish Open 2026: twelve days of record breakers!
14 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

Irish Open 2026: twelve days of record breakers!

A ton of tournaments exceeded their 2025 counterparts this year with both the €2.5 million guaranteed Main Event and €1 million guaranteed Mini Irish Open greatly outdoing last year’s fields.   The Main Event attracted 5,003 entries across the five...

ON WITH THE CRAIC! IT’S DAY 2 OF THE IRISH OPEN 3 MILLION AFTERPARTY ON POKERSTARS
13 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

ON WITH THE CRAIC! IT’S DAY 2 OF THE IRISH OPEN 3 MILLION AFTERPARTY ON POKERSTARS

There were huge fields in the two Spraggy-hosted events which marked the launch of the online Irish Open Afterparty on PokerStars. So far, there have been close to 30,000 tournament entries including 10,000 for the $75k guaranteed Spraggy’s Mystery Sunday...

ON WITH THE CRAIC! IRISH OPEN AFTERPARTY STARTS SUNDAY ON POKERSTARS
10 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

ON WITH THE CRAIC! IRISH OPEN AFTERPARTY STARTS SUNDAY ON POKERSTARS

Over $3 million in prize pool guarantees Whether you’re nursing the mother of all hangovers – or never want the party to stop (or BOTH), then you won’t want to miss the Irish Open Afterparty, the online festival taking place...

Heading down under! Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling through to Sydney Day 2 from Dublin-based Day 1
9 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

Heading down under! Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling through to Sydney Day 2 from Dublin-based Day 1

Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling will be heading to Oz in September after snagging his Irish Open Sydney Day 2 seat in Dublin.   Dowling was one of four players through to Day 2 of the Irish Open’s first international...

Team Jaka celebrates landslide victory in Battle of the Coaches
9 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

Team Jaka celebrates landslide victory in Battle of the Coaches

The 12-day Battle of the Coaches at this year’s Irish Open ended in a landslide victory for the largely-American Team Jaka. The Jakas ended the 2026 Irish Open with 38,061 points versus Dara O’Kearney’s Team Simplify’s 22,028 points.   Dara...

Wrapping up the 2026 side events: Monday winners
9 April 2026 | by Mad Harper

Wrapping up the 2026 side events: Monday winners

Monday wasn't just a momentous day for our newest Main Event champion Narcis Nedelcu; we also crowned 10 other tournament winners on Monday.  So hats off to the following:   [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTotR-gja44[/embed] Sami Agel wins the record-breaking Irish Open Mini!!! Sami...

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7 April 2026 | by Dominic Clementson

Mo Xu Wins Inaugural Triathlon (€17,000)

[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...

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7 April 2026 | by Dominic Clementson

We’re Still Here

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...

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7 April 2026 | by Jan Kores

Dominik Suthe Nabs Another Late Victory for Germany

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...

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7 April 2026 | by Jan Kores

Damian Albers Conquers the €1k 8-Max Turbo for €43,000

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...