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2025 Irish Open Main Event Winner to Receive €600,000; Michel Molenaar Leads for Day 3
20th April, 01:12 | by Jen Mason

2025 Irish Open Main Event Winner to Receive €600,000; Michel Molenaar Leads for Day 3

The numbers are in, and they are staggering: a total of 4,562 entries in this year’s PokerStars and Paddy Power Poker-sponsored Irish Open Main Event make this the biggest poker tournament ever held in Ireland. The guarantee of €2,500,000 seems...

The 2025 Irish Open Main Event Smashes Attendance Record
19th April, 02:39 | by Jan Kores

The 2025 Irish Open Main Event Smashes Attendance Record

It may not come as a surprise, but it still hits you when it happens. We knew the Irish Poker Open was going to draw massive fields. The long list of online qualifiers was a pretty good forecasting tool for...

Winner Skinner, Chicken Dinner! — Michelle Skinner Wins Ladies Championship
18th April, 18:56 | by Dominic Clementson

Winner Skinner, Chicken Dinner! — Michelle Skinner Wins Ladies Championship

After two days of intense competition, Michelle Skinner has prevailed as the 2025 Irish Open Ladies Champion, beating Lydia Cugudda in a short but entertaining heads up battle. Skinner came into Day 2 as chip leader and never relinquished that...

Irish Open 2025 Main Event Surges Past €2.5 Million Guarantee
18th April, 12:48 | by Jen Mason

Irish Open 2025 Main Event Surges Past €2.5 Million Guarantee

If you have been paying attention to the record-breaking field sizes in side events so far at the PokerStars and Paddy Power-sponsored Irish Open 2025, it will come as no surprise that the €1,150 Main Event is on track to...

Live Streaming from the Irish Open Begins TODAY
18th April, 11:24 | by Jen Mason

Live Streaming from the Irish Open Begins TODAY

Things are about to go LIVE at the Irish Open 2025, with four days of live streaming action from the feature table at the Royald Dublin Society. What's on?  Yes, as expected, it's cards-up poker, with a 30 minute security...

Alexander Norden Wins Massive €550 NLH Mystery Bounty (€69,400 inclusive of bounties)
18th April, 04:31 | by Richard Hayes

Alexander Norden Wins Massive €550 NLH Mystery Bounty (€69,400 inclusive of bounties)

Alexander Norden of Sweden has been crowned as the €550 NLH Mystery Bounty champion after agreeing an equal chop heads-up with his final opponent, Steven Arsnes of Norway. The Scandinavian pair overcame a huge field of 710 entrants to take...

Peggy Crawford Bags Huge Stack as 28 Advance from Mini Irish Open Day 1H
18th April, 04:09 | by Barry

Peggy Crawford Bags Huge Stack as 28 Advance from Mini Irish Open Day 1H

Another busy flight in the Mini Irish Open witnessed 554 entries hitting the tables for Day 1H, chasing their share of the €1,000,000 guaranteed. After a long day packed with actions, only 28 players made it out with chips bagged...

Michelle Skinner Leads the Field in The Ladies Championship
18th April, 02:52 | by Dominic Clementson

Michelle Skinner Leads the Field in The Ladies Championship

After 11 hours of play, Day 1 of the Irish Open Ladies Championship came to a close, with eight players progressing to tomorrow's final table. When the dust had settled, it was Michelle Skinner who stood atop the pile with...

Bradley Harwood Wins €350 6-Max PLO by Accident for €18,960!
18th April, 01:52 | by Chris Bean

Bradley Harwood Wins €350 6-Max PLO by Accident for €18,960!

Bradley Harwood has taken down the €350 6-max Pot Limit Omaha Championship for a cool €18,960. He beat his close friend Sander Ostlyngen heads-up to take the trophy and the biggest live cash of his career. The online grinder who...

The €10K Irish Open Super High Roller – a New Tradition? Robbie Toan Might Like It to Be
18th April, 00:55 | by Jen Mason

The €10K Irish Open Super High Roller – a New Tradition? Robbie Toan Might Like It to Be

There has never been a Super High Roller MTT* at the Irish Open before, longest-running European poker festival though it is. For 2025, that changed, with 53 players creating a prize pool of over half a million Euros. Overcoming one...