It’s been an exciting week here in the Bonnington Hotel. The action continues after a very successful ACOP.

Seniors Championship

The Irish Seniors Championship commenced on Monday the 23rd of February. This saw many Irish legends and notable players, including Andy Black, Dara O’Kearney, Ciaran Cooney and Collette Murphy

With a total of 263 entries, they played 9 hours and 83 players bagged a stack for day 2, with Martin Cassidy the chip leader with 275,500 chips. A total prizepool of €53,576 was generated.

Martin managed to make the final table, and cashed in 7th for €1,910. Also on the final table was Colette Murphy who came in 5th, and the top 3 were Chris Rourke: €6,000 in 3rd, Aidan Finnerty: €6,000 in 2nd, and Kieran Mcivor taking home €8,375 and the Championship Belt

Women’s Championship

The Women’s Championship saw 45 runners and generated a prizepool of €7,420 Prizeool. Mighty craic was had, and the atmosphere was heard around the room and a champagne toast was had at the first break. Some notable players were IPT Ambassador Tanya Masters, Mary Galvin, Katie Harrington, Annette O’Carroll.

June Jenkins placed in 3rd place for €1,100 and Katie Burke got 3rd for €1,600, but Colette Murphy came out on top for €2,070 with the Championship Belt to go with it.

Side Events

It’s been a packed week of tournaments, with a lot of variety, including the Irish Mixed Games Championship, for the growing mixed games community, a Round of Each, and 5-Card Draw Jacks or Better tournament. June Jenkins managed to scoop one of the daily turbos, and is having a good festival overall with 4 cashes so far! The Mystery Bounty was a popular one with 140 runners, but was ran away with by Robert, who won 8 bounties with a total cash of €6,900

Win the Button
25 runners
Prizepool: €3,031
Winner: Darragh Flynn €891

Tuesday Daily Turbo
41 runners
Prizepool: €3,977
Winner: June Jenkins €1,367

Irish Mixed Game Championship
30 runners
Prizepool: €7,570
Winner: John Murray €3,190

Round of Each
77 Runners
Prizepool: €9,340
Winner: Simon Keating €2,560

5 Card Draw Poker
24 runners
Prizepool: €2,330
Winner: Keith O’Connor €1,000 Deal made

Mystery Bounty
140 runners
Prizepool: €8,827
Winner: Robert €6,900 Including 8 Bounties!

European Deepstack Championship

The European Deepstack Championship started yesterday. This prestigious tournament, First won by Dara O’Kearney back in 2008, saw 148 entries on Day 1A. 45 managed to bag a stack with the big stacks of the day including Kyle Rafferty 886k, Marc MacDonnell 691k, and the ACOP and Omaha Grand Prix double champ Mark Johnston bagging 575k.

Other notable players include:

Daryl McAleenan 452k

Dara O’Kearney 291k

Jason Tompkins 128k

David Masters 108k

Fintan Hand (375k), Padraig O’Neill (100k) are also in the mixer representing WPT Global.

Romulo Dorea and Patrick Tardiff, have both come from afar to represent WPT Global, and have managed to bag a stack in the online day 1.

Will defending champion Aidan Quinlan be going for the two in a row, like Tomas “Lucky Mo” Geleziunas did the previous two years in 2023 and 2024?

Day 2 of the European Deepstack Championship is on now and late reg is open until the start of Day 2 on Saturday.

More Fun

Saturday is an action packed day with Day 2 of the European Deepstack. For those knocked out, or just looking for a bit of craic, the Beer Poker Tour starts at 2PM. The lads over on the Beer Poker Tour run a great tournament, with prizes and beers given out throughout, and a players party during the first break! There’ll be plenty of bluffing as the day goes on as everyone gets hammered together. It also has one of the best looking trophies on the circuit, so one not to miss!

Also on the schedule is the High Roller at 6PM, then Sunday sees the DPF 200 and the Round of Each Bomb Pot (NLH/Omaha), for all ye degenerates out there!

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