Donal’s Corner – Irish Poker Tour Heads for Athlone and Clonmel
Bob Dylan started his ‘Never Ending Tour’ on June 7, 1988 and it has been going ever since with roughly 100 shows performed in each of the ensuing 37 years. So who am I to complain about life on the road? Get back in the car and head to the Athlone Springs, Donal. In truth,…
Irish poker tour players head to Sunny Beach
Co-Promoted Event in Bulgaria Starts on September 1st With the Irish Summer finishing with lashing rain and howling winds a lucky group of Irish Poker Tour regulars will be heading to warm sunshine and fabulous poker at the Platinum Hotel & Casino in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. The Festival has an overall guarantee of…
Summer is Ending, Killarney is Coming
The evenings are getting shorter and the children are heading back to school so it is time to start making your plans for the Killarney Poker Festival. Always one of the great experiences of the poker year, this year’s renewal at the INEC and the Gleneagle promises to be better than ever with…
Donal’s Corner – A Week At The Races
By Donal MacAonghusa Galway Raceweek is one of the high points of the summer for many people across Ireland and further afield. They travel annually to the Western Capital trying to find the youthful spark now missing from their lives or, more likely, just to get pissed and have a good time. Horses, betting, drinking,…
Donal’s Corner – WSOP Memories
When I started to play poker at a serious level in the mid 1990’s in Dublin. The poker scene was pretty small and there was only one cash game that you could rely on taking place every night. This was a 1-1 PLO game in the Jackpot Casino on Montague Street. There is a reasonable…
Donal’s Corner
New Irish Continue to Dominate the IPT as Bart Grabs the Northern Poker Festival The Northern Poker Festival in Dundalk drew a great crowd with the €60,000 guaranteed Main Event paying out a total of over €92,000. Bartlomiej Grabowski took the title and €20,500 beating Krasauskas Vytautas (€14,000) in the heads up with…
Sad Passing of Galway Poker Legend
Mary Keary who passed away after a long illness late last month was one of the best known, and certainly one of the most loved, figures on the Galway poker scene over the last several decades. As a hugely dedicated and popular secondary school teacher, Mary contributed hugely to the development of generations of…
