Congratulations to our first Champions of Irish Open 2026! The very first to snag a trophy was American Anthony LoBue who beat a 49-entry field in the €120 PLO Deaf Championship to win €1,550. The victory gave him his first-ever cash in Europe. You can read all about it here.
British player Barry Grime – dubbed “Big Baz from Bolton” – took down the €350 Big O Championship last night for €9,070. He beat a 118-entry field featuring a ton of poker heavyweights to seize his first Irish Open trophy. Read all about it here.
David Smith won the €250 Super Seniors Championship for €7,900 after defeating Paul Murnin heads-up. There were 216 entries in the event creating a €45,057 prize pool. Our tournament wrap is available here. Among those who took part were Ireland’s #1 tournament player Andy Black, Irish veteran Padraig Parkinson and EPT founder John Duthie along with British actor Douglas Henshall and Midsommar star Anders Beckman.
Check out our live updates page for more info – just click the event title. And don’t forget you can also see all tourney results on the PS Live app.
Follow us on socials!!!! Instagram | X | YouTube | Facebook group
Registration made easy – download the Luxon app! Details are here.
What’s up Friday!!!
It’s 1b of the €1 million guaranteed Luxon Mystery Bounty at noon and another enormous field is expected. There were 113 entries for Day 1a yesterday with a total of 18 players making it through; Razvan Dolcan bagged the biggest stack with 745,000. Yesterday’s updates are here; click the button below for live updates from 1b today.
Day 1b of the €200 Irish Open Deaf Championship kicks off at 1pm. Yesterday’s Day 1a attracted a huge field of 102 entries (compared with a 29-entry total from last year). British player Paul Whitehead is the current chip leader followed by Irish Open Deaf Ambassador Darren Chow. Click here for results from yesterday and here for today’s updates.
At 7pm, it’s time for another dedicated event for Deaf players – the €120 NLH Deaf Championship – details will be here.
It’s time for Sviten!
Also on the schedule today is the Irish Open’s first Sviten Special tournament starting at 2pm. The variant was invented in Sweden and our Swedish blogger Christoffer Karlen is more than a little excited about today’s Sviten debut. Don’t miss his live updates here and you can read all about Sviten’s Scandi backstory here.
€3k Cuatro PLO High Roller
Another tourney making its Irish Open debut today is the first of our Cuatro events – the €3k Cuatro PLO High Roller which kicks off at 2pm. Check out our Cuatro story here and updates for today’s event can be found here.
The two-day €250 APAT tourney also starts today at 3pm. Read all about it here and tourney details are here.
€1 million guaranteed Mini Irish Open parks Day 1a
While the €1,150 Irish Open Main Event may be the longest-running poker tournament in Europe, the €250 Mini Irish Open is already the largest low buy-in event on the continent and comes with a whopping €1 million prize pool guarantee.
There are 14 starting flights this year and the first played out yesterday with 162 entries. Eight players have now secured their place on Day 2 which is taking place some time in the very distant future (actually Monday, April 6 – the final day of the festival).
Ireland’s Colin Doyle is the current chip leader with a massive 1,580,000 in chips. Day 1b starts at 6pm today with late reg open until around 10pm. Approximately 15% of today’s field will be in the money but they’ll be playing down to 5% of the field. Check here for updates.
Last year’s winner Tyler Gordon took home €116,000 from a €1,343,874 total prize pool; in total there were 6,411 entries in this super-size-me event.
All a Flutter
6pm also sees the start of the special invitational tournament for staff at Flutter – this is always a pretty raucous affair as Flutter staff from all over the world unite at the RDS. You can expect a lot of noise from whichever corner of the giant main hall at the RDS that this event is taking place in!
Live satellites
There are four live satellites running today. We have three for the Luxon Mystery Bounty: a €255 buy-in, 50k milestone satellite with five seats guaranteed and 2 x €140 buy-in 100k milestone satellites with ten seats guaranteed. Plus, at 1pm, we have a €650 satellite into the €3k PLO Cuatro High Roller. For full details, see the Irish Open schedule.
| 11:00 | 10 | Satellite to Luxon Mystery Bounty – Milestone 100K – 5 Seats GTD | €140 |
| 13:00 | 11 | Satellite to €3,000 Cuatro PLO High Roller – Milestone 50K – 5 Seats GTD | €650 |
| 14:00 | 13 | Satellite to Luxon Mystery Bounty – Milestone 50K – 5 Seats GTD | €255 |
| 20:00 | 18 | Satellite to Luxon Mystery Bounty – Milestone 100K – 10 Seats GTD | €140 |
Friday night in the Craic Den
Phil “Let me Entertain you” Baker will be overseeing our ever-popular Casino Night tonight from 9pm to 11pm while Flutter will be getting people in the mood for a little wager with Happy Hour from 8pm to 9pm.
Flutter is the parent company for both PokerStars and Paddy Power so they know a thing or two about fun.
No Limits, a superb live band from Kildare, will be performing in the Craic Den from 11pm. For full details of all the entertainment planned for the Craic Den this year, click our schedule story.
