Paddy Power has embarked on a jam-packed schedule of online satellites for next year’s €2.5 million guaranteed Irish Open Main Event, giving players the chance to qualify online for as little as NOTHING AT ALL! Nobody does cheeky value...
Irish Open headline sponsor PokerStars is set to launch a huge schedule of satellites for next year’s €2.5 million guaranteed Main Event, starting on November 16 and running right up to Sunday, March 29. The partnership with PokerStars has...
Ukrainian poker player Vasyl Dmytryshyn has won a $2,000 CAD package to compete at next year’s Irish Open Deaf Championship. Vasyl, 35, hails from Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine but moved to Vancouver in 2023 where he now works as a...
Irish Open champions David Docherty and Ian Simpson have stormed the opening of the new PokerStars Open Manchester festival by taking down the first two tournaments. Docherty won the opening event of the festival - a £220 Deep Stack...
As the Irish Open gears up for an expanded and incredibly exciting mixed game line-up at the 2026 festival, Barry Russell looks back on the history of mixed games since they first got going in the 1970s. How did mixed...
Thanks to this year’s extraordinary turnout for mixed game tourneys, the Irish Open is fast gaining a reputation as a haven for mixed game fans. So if you’ve been craving something beyond No-Limit Hold’em and PLO, then the 2026 festival...
With a veritable smorgasbord of mixed games on offer at next year’s Irish Open, there is certain to be a lot of interest around the debut of Sviten Special. This fast-paced, exciting variant - which combines elements of both Five...
Cuatro is an exciting new bounty format that’s being added to the 2026 Irish Open schedule. Essentially, this is bounty with a twist! The event starts off as a non-bounty tournament but once the field reaches the final 25%, all...
Along with all the usual fan favourites, next year’s Irish Open festival, which is taking place from March 26 to April 6 at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, will see a whole load of brand new tournaments added to...
Following the success of this year’s inaugural Irish Open Deaf Championship at the Irish Open, we are massively increasing the number of dedicated tournaments for Deaf players to create a “festival within a festival” at the start of next year’s...
