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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...
The Liam Flood Memorial Championship was explosive from start to finish. Being the penultimate event of this year's open, and having a 15-minute clock, that was always likely to be the case. In recent years this tournament has grown in...
After four days of play at the Royal Dublin Society, Simon Wilson has come out on top in the 4,562-entry €1,150 Irish Open Main Event, winning €600,000 from the €4,447,950 prize pool. The biggest ever Irish poker tournament paid 671...
As the curtains come down on a record-breaking Irish Open 2025, Javier Francort has capped off a remarkable week by capturing his third PLO trophy of the festival. Francort defeated Paul Haycock heads-up in short order to take the top...
It was nearly three years ago when Giuliano Bendinelli made history with an absolutely astonishing comeback to win the 2022 EPT Barcelona Main Event after he had dropped to a single big blind on the final table. During the final...
Umberto Ruggeri is out in front after Day 3 of the Main Event, having outlasted all but 18 of the record-breaking 4,562-runner field. Ruggeri nearly made back-to-back EPT Prague Main Event final tables (2024 and this year) and has put...
Henning Wendlandt of Germany has emerged victorious in the €1,150 PLO 8-Max Mystery Bounty, overcoming a 243-entrant field to claim the lion’s share of the €248,832 prize pool. Wendlandt was sat atop the standings for most of the day -...
After a gruelling 15-hours of play, Javier Francourt finally emmerged as the PLO 4/5/6 champ at the 2025 Irish Poker Open. Play wrapped up at 7:15am and the website server crashed around 10pm, so hopefully you'll forgive a somewhat perfunctory...
When the clock struck midnight, Maximilian Sanders and Ewen Trevidy battled for the lion's share of the €664,950 prize pool in Event #61 High Roller 8-Max. One hour earlier, that would have sounded very unlikely as Andrii Nikitin was on...
