Poker news tagged with 'irish poker open'

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.

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Congratulations to James Mitchell who took home the Main Event of Irish Poker Open yesterday. It was maybe not the most well-deserved wins ever, but one must remember that Mitchell had played great poker throughout the tournament and that luck is part of the game sometimes. 

Anyhow, when the final table was down to heads up between between James Mitchell and Paul Carr, their poker nerves were really put to the test as the 1st place prize paid almost the double.

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708 players signed up for the Main Event of Irish Poker Open this time. Now, after that 3 days of poker have been completed, we have finally reached the final table. These are the 8 players who will play the final table later on today.

Seat 1: Peter Murphy -- 546,000
Seat 2: Ben Roberts -- 419,000
Seat 3: Edmund Sweeney -- 407,000
Seat 4: Santeri Valikoski -- 1,722,000
Seat 5: Rob Sherwood -- 497,000
Seat 6: Paul Carr -- 1,596,000

Seat 7: James Mitchell -- 1,155,000

Seat 8: Declan Connolly -- 735,000

The payout structure is quite steep, so we can probably expect a few of the finalists to be quite nervous, playing a bit tighter than they usually would do. However, it will for sure be very interesting final table to watch. The first place prize pays €600,000 and the second place €312,000. In other words, we can expect a very long and thrilling heads-up.