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2025 Irish Open winner Simon Wilson has secured the second biggest win of his live poker career after finishing sixth in the WSOP $3k Mid-Stakes Championship in Vegas. His $255,186 cash at the World Series comes only a few months...
2025 Irish Open winner Simon Wilson is thriving in the WSOP $3k Mid-Stakes Championship after finishing Day 3 with 9,525,000. The Irish pro was leading the event at last night’s dinner break and eventually finished the day with the seventh-largest...
PokerStars Ambassador and Irish Open High Roller winner Kenny Hallaert is chip leader once again as the WSOP Main Event heads into Day 8. The Belgian tournament director, who was a WSOP November Niner back in 2016, bagged up 63,600,000...
Pokerstars Ambassador and Irish Open High Roller winner Kenny Hallaert is chip leader for Day 7 of the WSOP Main Event. Hallaert, who was a WSOP November Niner back in 2016, snagged a huge 36.9 million chip pot in the...
The 2025 Irish Poker Open concluded with a fairytale ending when local hero 22-year-old Simon Wilson captured the €1,150 Main Event title for a first prize of €600,000. His extraordinary achievement in beating a record field of 4,562 entries will,...
During the first week of this year’s Irish Open, I wrote a piece about its legendary night-spot – the Craic Den. But the festival was just getting warmed up at that point, so I was tasked with re-visiting the venue...
Irish Open Ambassador Chris Dowling is through to Day 2 of the WSOP $3k NLH tournament (Event 68) after knocking out former WSOP champion Jamie Gold. Gold, who was already bruised after an earlier run-in with Thierry Morel, was feeling...
The 2025 Irish Open festival saw a total of 36 trophies awarded to our worthy winners. Several players were celebrating back-to-back victories after also taking down events in 2024 but we are totally gobsmacked by Javier Francourt's unrivalled achievement of...
Mini Irish Open Last year, Paul O’Reilly and JP McCann, who run the Irish Open, took a massive punt. What would happen if we put on a tournament with a huge guarantee but very low buy-in and tons of starting...
This year’s Irish Open included some real people-pleasers for mixed game fans including Big O, Mixed 8-Game, HORSE, Crazy Pineapple Open Face Chinese and Deuce to 7 Triple Draw. Every mixed game held at the 2025 Irish Open attracted over...
