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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...
Nine years ago, when Paul O’Reilly and JP McCann took over the running of the Irish Open, there was nary a High Roller to be seen. But times, they are a-changin’ – and this year’s schedule was awash with them!...
Mystery Bounty events first made their appearance at the 2022 Irish Open and – as expected – were a huge hit. Ever since then, we’ve been boosting the offer on an annual basis and this year we went a bit...
Women are not in short supply at the Irish Open – the friendly atmosphere makes it a fabulous place to play and tons of women have it down as their favourite event of the year. Whether it’s taking to stage...
Even though the effort has nearly crashed our calculators, we have now finally managed to number-crunch our way through the stats for the record-breaking 2025 Irish Open festival. As expected, this year’s Irish Open blew all previous editions of...
The Irish Open has come to a close, and as I write this, the hundreds of chairs are being wheeled away, the tables are being collapsed, and a small hubbub of sound is coming from Main Event champion Simon Wilson's...
