Last night, at 20.47 precisely, a Polish player bought into the 2026 Irish Open Main Event and Europe’s oldest poker tournament made history once again. At that point, the monster 2026 field had just overtaken the 2025 record of...
The award-winning Irish Open - the longest-running poker tournament in the world outside of Vegas - is spreading its wings and heading overseas for the very first time. At this year’s Irish Open festival, taking place at the Royal Dublin...
Finland’s Roope Tarmi won the €10k Super High Roller yesterday, only a few days after winning the €5k High Roller. He snagged €79,945 for his SHR victory and €88,000 in the High Roller. Tarmi is our first double champion at...
For Canadian player Junior “Machine” Roberts and Chris Barnard, from Rugby in the UK, last night’s Beer Pong Challenge was most definitely their Craic Den Main Event. As reigning champions from 2025, the pair had been eagerly awaiting this...
Baoyun Li leads record-breaking Ladies Championship The record-breaking 2026 Irish Open Ladies Championship has reached its final table after 12 hours of combat. The field was whittled down, from a record-breaking 175 players (last year was 163), to just...
Day 1d of the Main Event kicks off at noon today and is likely to be full of a) tons of online qualifiers AND b) people with massive headaches after last night’s Beer Pong session in the Craic Den. And...
Well, it’s heating up in the Battle of the Coaches! Dara O’Kearney’s Simplify Poker site and Faraz Jaka’s Jaka Coaching have thrown themselves into this year’s Irish Open in highly combative mode. They’re running a points-based challenge that...
As well as Day 1c of the Main Event, we have a ton of other tournaments taking off today, or coming back for Day 2s and finals. Malm leads record-breaking €350 America’s Cup Canadian player Michael Malm is chip...
Our team on guard in the trophy vault here at the RDS were certainly kept on their feet yesterday. A record bunch of players took down tournaments with six new champions crowned and more than €920k in prize money doled...
The Main Event is back in action today with Day 1c of the €2.5 million guaranteed flagship tournament. Day 1b of the €1,150 Irish Open Main Event yesterday brought another 709 entries into the headline €2.5 million guaranteed tournament...
