The Super Seniors proved that they have staying power on this opening day of the Irish Poker Open, 2026. David Smith dusted off his last opponent a little after 4 am, having started the tournament a gruelling 13 hours previously....
One year ago, the €350 Big O Championship produced a field of 122 entries at the Royal Dublin Society and the opening day of the series saw Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling lift the trophy after a late night four-way...
Chris Barnard is celebrating an awesome evening at the Irish Open Spin & Go tables after taking down three tourneys in a row. Even better than that, one of the games featured the maximum prize pool of €1,000. Barnard,...
Former doctor Randy Hagen has only been to the Irish Open once before but is already a self-confessed superfan! He arrived at this year’s event wearing a head-to-toe Irish Open-themed Gucci suit that he had specially made for this year’s...
Leading coaching sites Simplify Poker and Jaka Coaching are getting fully immersed in this year’s Irish Open with a points-based challenge that will pit their students against each other throughout the 12-day festival. Team Jaka will mostly involve Americans,...
The 46th Irish Open festival - the largest and richest poker event in Europe and the longest-running poker tournament in the world outside of Vegas - kicks off at the Royal Dublin Society today. With 86 tournaments on the...
A veritable army of PokerStars Ambassadors are turning up for this year’s Irish Open including award-winning streamer Ben “Spraggy” Spragg and his wife Marle (of award-winning Marlztv fame), live stream presenters James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton plus The Club football...
The Irish Open’s esteemed Ambassadors will be out in force to welcome players at this year’s extravaganza including Canadian Darren Chow who has been the driving force behind our “festival within a festival” for Deaf players. Darren Chow Darren will...
A bunch of different tournament innovations are set to make the player experience even better for the 2026 Irish Open festival. From the introduction of “hands per level” for final tables to various other tweaks to tourney structures, the Irish...
If you can’t be there in person, then NOTHING beats watching the Irish Open on the live stream! (And we know plenty of people who’ll watch it from the comfort of a sofa in the Craic Den as well!) ...
