Irish Poker Open

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The Irish Poker Open is a series of poker tournaments held once a year at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin . They are one of the most prestigious series of tournaments and have the longest history after the World Series of Poker .

history

The tournament series was first held in 1980 at Dublin's Eccentric Club by Terry Rogers . It is the largest tournament series in Ireland and is part of the inventory of European poker tournaments . It traditionally took place every year on the Easter weekend until 2016, and since 2017 the tournament series has been played two weeks before Easter. After Terry Rogers died in 1999, the tournament was hosted by Liam Flood at Merrion Casino . Because too many players took part in the tournament in 2006, they had to move from Merrion Casino to the Jurys Ballsbridge Hotel . The Irish Poker Open in 2007 had a guaranteed prize pool of two million euros , which doubled the amount from the previous year. 708 players took part, forming a prize pool of 2.4 million euros. Marty Smyth won the tournament in 2007 and a prize of 650,000 euros. In 2008 and 2009 as well as since 2016 the Irish Poker Open will be played in the Citywest Hotel . In 2020, the event was not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Previous events

The 2008 heads-up between Neil Channing and Donal Norton

Little is known about the buy-in and prize money from 1980 to 1998. All main events and their winners are listed below.

In 2002, one Irish pound was replaced by 1.26974 euros .

Beginning venue Buy-in Attendees winner origin Prize money source
April 1999 Merrion Casino Club 250 I £ 76 Liam Barker IrelandIreland 0£ 19,065 [1]
Apr 22, 2000 Merrion Casino Club 600 I £ 79 Alan Betson IrelandIreland 0I £ 22,140 [2]
Apr 14, 2001 Merrion Casino Club I £ 660 92 Jenny Hegarty IrelandIreland 0£ 28,045 [3]
June 1, 2002 Merrion Casino Club 770 € 66 Nick Bernie unknown 0€ 19,800I. [4]
Apr 19, 2003 Merrion Casino Club 1060 € 105 Joe Beevers United KingdomUnited Kingdom 0€ 50,375I. [5]
Apr 10, 2004 Merrion Casino Club 1600 € 107 Ivan Donaghy IrelandIreland 0€ 65,800I. [6]
March 26, 2005 Citywest Hotel 2150 € 184 John Falconer United KingdomUnited Kingdom € 146,000I. [7]
Apr 15, 2006 Jurys Hotel Ballsbridge 3200 € 356 Vincent Melinn IrelandIreland € 350,000I. [8th]
Apr 6, 2007 Double Tree by Hilton 3500 € 708 Marty Smyth IrelandIreland € 650,000I. [9]
March 20, 2008 Citywest Hotel 4500 € 667 Neil Channing United KingdomUnited Kingdom € 801,400I. [10]
Apr 10, 2009 Citywest Hotel 3500 € 700 Christer Johansson SwedenSweden € 600,000I. [11]
Apr 2, 2010 Double Tree by Hilton 3500 € 708 James Mitchell United KingdomUnited Kingdom € 600,000I. [12]
Apr 22, 2011 Double Tree by Hilton 3500 € 615 Niall Smyth IrelandIreland € 550,000I. [13]
Apr 6, 2012 Double Tree by Hilton 3500 € 502 Kevin Vandersmissen BelgiumBelgium € 420,000I. [14]
March 29, 2013 Double Tree by Hilton 2250 € 505 Ian Simpson United KingdomUnited Kingdom € 265,000I. [15]
Apr 18, 2014 Double Tree by Hilton 2250 € 411 Patrick Clarke IrelandIreland € 200,000I. [16]
Apr 3, 2015 Double Tree by Hilton 3500 € 321 Ioannis Triantafyllakis GreeceGreece € 209,500I. [17]
March 24, 2016 Citywest Hotel 1150 € 802 Dan Wilson IrelandIreland € 150,000I. [18]
March 30, 2017 Citywest Hotel 1275 € 1129 Griffin Benger CanadaCanada € 200,000I. [19]
March 14, 2018 Citywest Hotel 1275 € 1340 Ryan Mandara United KingdomUnited Kingdom € 210,000I. [20]
April 17, 2019 Citywest Hotel 1150 € 1807 Weijie Zheng IrelandIreland € 300,000I. [21]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PaddyPower Irish Open 2007 (€ 3,300 + 200 The Irish Open - No Limit Hold'em Freezeout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 18, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Festivals at Citywest Hotel, Dublin in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Irish Poker Open as an online festival on partypoker on pokerfirma.com from March 16, 2020, accessed on March 18, 2020.