For the fourth time, Unibet Poker announces they will be sponsoring the International Poker Open and will be holding scores of satellites in advance of the event this October.
Held yearly since 2007, the IPO festival is one of the longest-running and most popular poker events in Europe, with an estimated prize pool worth €250,000. Last year's event was held online in response to the lockdown measures. For this year 2021, it will once more be held live, which will take place at Dublin's Bonnington Hotel from October 20-25.
An Irish poker player managed to snag a six-figure victory plus a well-deserved title of WPT Champion from a humble $33 investment.
Daniel Smyth from Ireland entered a WPT satellite for a $33 buy-in and turned that into a $320 ticket. The Irishman then parleyed that $320 into a $3,200 WPT Knockout Championship seat and then went all the way to win the event for $208,803, an extra $204,588 worth of bounty rewards, plus a free seat to the next WPT Tournament of Champions worth $15,000.
- 55 tournaments spread across 18 days of poker action - Unibet Open Main Event has €1,100 buy-in - Midnight Madness games for only €10 to join
If you are an absolute fan of poker tournaments, then Dublin, Ireland could be one of your favorite next stops this February, as Unibet Poker is going to host its own Unibet Open as it sponsors the Dublin Poker Festival.
Jon Jonsson, a poker player from Iceland who traveled to Dublin, Ireland has gone missing since February 9. The 41-year-old father was last seen in the Whitehall area of Dublin and has been the focus of an intense two-week long search operation by the authorities.
On December 7, a press release says that organizers Paul O'Reilly and JP McCann have confirmed the longest-running European poker festival is set to take place at Dublin's Citywest Hotel in April 2019.
The upcoming Irish Poker Open's metaphorical pot of gold would be the main event having a guaranteed prize of €1 million/$1.14 million. Having a buy-in of €1,150/$1,140, the tourney will definitely attract some of the best players hailing from North America and Europe.
Yesterday a new Weekly Rant with Daniel Negeranu was released. This week, Daniel discusses his trip to Ireland, more about the failure of Epic Poker League and Full Tilt Poker, the downsides with being a professional poker player, a new movie he's in, and more.
The 2012 Irish Open main event kicked off last Friday and saw a field of 502 players. Today, 3 days later, there are only 9 players left and the final table is about to begin. Unfortunately the final table won't include as many big names as it could have had since both Freddy Deeb and Phil Hellmuth hit the rail during day 3.