Oooh. It’s going to be a busy day at the RDS today and we are also extending a warm welcome to Hall 2, open from 1pm!!!!! We emergency-vacc’d into Hall 2 last year when numbers grew so big we had to find more space at the last minute. This year we are ready for ya! Over the last three days, our set-up team has been busy turning this capacious hall from something resembling a Heathrow aircraft hangar into a sumptuous and very spacious tournament room. Enjoy!!!
Highlights today include the Hendon Mob Championship (THMC) – always a bumper two-dayer – plus the €350 Heads Up Championship, €5,000 NLH High Roller and €1,150 PLO 8-Max.
Day 5 highlights here
Our first ever Mixed 8-Game High Roller starts today at noon. The €1,150 event features unlimited rebuys and a 30-minute clock. Day 1 updates and gallery will be here.
Giving you the Heads Up!
It’s also Day 1 for the ever-popular €350 Heads-Up Championship. Last year it was capped at 128 players and sold out very rapidly. This year, for the first time, there is NO cap and we’re looking forward to seeing just how many players want to get involved. We’ll use a bye system – similar to how tennis tournaments work – if the numbers don’t match up. There are four rounds today with the first one kicking off at noon. Subsequent rounds at 3pm, 6pm and 9pm. Click here for updates and gallery.
€350 Hendon Mob Championship
The phenomenally popular €350 Hendon Mob Championship kicks off today at 2pm and a huge field is expected. Last year’s tournament was the largest THMC ever held in Europe – with 888 entries. [Check out Jen Mason’s story from 2025.] Slovakia’s Michal Havavka took it down, winning not only the THMC trophy and a cash prize of €37,348 but also an invite to take part in the THMC Cape Town Millions. He beat Britain’s Charlie Waters after a gruelling heads-up. Check out the tourney page for more info.
It’s the final day for several tourneys that started yesterday: the €350 NLH 6-max Championship, the €5k PLO High Roller 8-max and the €1,150 NLH 8-max. Just click those event titles to reach the live update pages and the galleries. Also on today is the €1,150 PLO 8-max starting at 7pm. Check out the event page here.
It’s Day 1f of the €250 buy-in, €1 million guaranteed Mini Irish Open at 6pm. Our epic tournament – with Day 1s stretching across almost the full duration of the festival – is almost half way through. Don’t miss your chance to take part in the largest low buy-in tournament in Europe! We’ve already had 1,510 entries for this one. There are 14 flights in total. Keep up with the Mini news here.
Spin & Go
Our €50 buy-in Spin & Go tourneys are continuing to create a high octane corner in the cash game area every night. Each game features four-minute blind levels, a 4,000 starting stack and kicks off with 100/200 blinds and a 500 ante. The fun means the prize pool could be anything up to €1,000! Just turn up with cash (or your cash game chips) and give it a try. The action starts at 9pm.
Live satellites
There are three live satellites today – a €140 buy-in, 100k milestone satellites with ten seats guaranteed plus a €255 buy-in 50k milestone Main Event satellite with five seats guaranteed. Also taking place is €550 satellite for the €15k NLH High Roller – a 100k milestone with five seats guaranteed. For full details, see the Irish Open schedule.
| 13:00 | Satellite to NLH High Roller – Milestone 100K – 5 Seats GTD | €550 |
| 17:00 | Satellite to Irish Open Main Event – Milestone 50K – 5 Seats GTD | €255 |
| 20:00 | Satellite to Irish Open Main Event – Milestone 100K – 10 Seats GTD | €140 |
Tuesday night in the Craic Den
Welcome Luxon Pay who are hosting the Craic Den Happy Hour for the first time ever! Plan your bargain drinks session from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. The fun and games tonight will be focused on an Irish Open classic – Cornhole. Phil “Let Me Entertain You” Baker will be keeping the players in order from 9.30pm to 11pm. For all this year’s player lounge shenanigans, click the Craic Den gallery.
The Sick Notes will take to the stage at 11pm for our live music session. It’s a debut performance from the Sick Notes with some cracking Irish music coming up!
For full details of all the entertainment planned for the Craic Den this year, click our schedule story.
