The 46th Irish Open festival – the largest and richest poker event in Europe and the longest-running poker tournament in the world outside of Vegas – kicks off at the Royal Dublin Society today.
With 86 tournaments on the schedule, €4.5 million in guaranteed prize pools and more online qualifiers than ever before, we are expecting a truly epic event this year. The Irish Open is an annual celebration of fun and festivities that attracts thousands of players from all over the globe. This year’s festival sees the introduction of numerous new poker formats – many of which have never been played in Ireland before. And The Craic Den will be buzzing every night with a superb roster of games, competitions and live music lined up.
Click here to download your Complete Guide to the 2026 Irish Open, check out the tournament schedule and start planning your nights in the Craic Den.
Luxon Mystery Bounty
We begin this year’s festival with a cracker of an opening tournament. The first flight of the €1 million guaranteed Luxon Mystery Bounty, which broke records last year as the biggest tournament of its kind ever held in Ireland, gets underway at noon and we’re confidently predicting another record-breaker! Last year Austrian player Nils Pudel took it down for €102,600 while Jorge Rios from Spain snagged the enormous top bounty of €102,600. There were 669 entries overall, creating a total prize pool of €1,191,450.
Click here to follow the action on our live updates page.
For more info on Luxon’s amazing raffle for 2026 (ps you don’t want to miss out on this one!!!!) plus how to make tournament regging easy with the Luxon app, click here.
“Festival within a festival” for Deaf players
Today also marks the beginning of the “festival within a festival” for Deaf players with Day 1a of the €200 Irish Open Deaf Championship starting at 1pm and the one-day €120 buy-in PLO Deaf Championship at 7pm.
Check out our story for full details on all the events taking place for Deaf players at this year’s festival. Our indefatigable Irish Open Ambassador Darren Chow has spent the last six months promoting the Irish Open to Deaf players around the world – and more than 150 have already registered to attend the festival.
Also on the schedule today are the €350 Big O Championship at 2pm and the €250 Super Seniors Championship (for players aged 60+) at 3pm. The Big O is the first of an exciting roster of events for Mixed Games fans – check out our story for the lowdown on what to expect at this year’s Irish Open festival.
At 6pm, the first of 14 flights for the €250 buy-in, €1 million guaranteed Mini Irish Open kicks off – the largest low buy-in tournament in Europe. Our Mini Irish Open story has all the gen on that!
It’s also the first day of Spin & Go – read all about it here and just head to the cash game area to try it out. Kick off is at 8pm, every night.
Check out our live updates page for more info – just click the event title. And don’t forget you can also see all tourney results on the PS Live app.
Live satellites
There will be a total of 24 live satellites at this year’s Irish Open including 17 for the Main Event. All the sats are milestone satellites ie a player wins their seat as soon as they reach the given chip target.
There are three satellites running today – two for the Luxon Mystery Bounty – a €255 buy-in, 50k milestone satellite with five seats guaranteed and a €140 buy-in 100k milestone satellite with ten seats guaranteed. Plus, at 7pm, there’s a €650 satellite into tomorrow’s €3k PLO Cuatro High Roller. For full details, see the Irish Open schedule.
| 13:00 | 2 | Satellite to Luxon Mystery Bounty – Milestone 50K – 5 Seats GTD | €255 |
| 19:00 | 7 | Satellite to €3k Cuatro PLO High Roller – Milestone 50K – 5 Seats GTD | €650 |
| 20:00 | 9 | Satellite to Luxon Mystery Bounty – Milestone 100K – 10 Seats GTD | €140 |
Night #1 in the Craic Den – Good Luck Ireland!
It will be EXTREMELY exciting in the Craic Den this evening as we wish Ireland the best of luck in their crucial World Cup play-off semi-final match.
Our headline sponsor Paddy Power is hosting our first Happy Hour from 7pm to 7.45pm while Dublin-born singer-songwriter Brian Brody – a big hit last year – takes to the stage at 10pm.
The official entertainment programme kicks off at around 8pm every night of the festival but there’s plenty to occupy you in the Craic Den during the day including Playstations, darts, Shuffleboard and chess. For full details of all the entertainment planned for the Craic Den this year, click our schedule story.
