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2025 in review
What a year 2025 has been! Record breaking. Happy new year to you all! Let’s see what the Greenisle, Galway and 2026 has in store for us. Reactions: ❤️ 3 😂 0 😮 0 🔥 0 😍 0 💯 0
Incredible Year For The Irish Poker Tour Culminates in The Green Isle
Donal’s Corner The Irish Poker Tour Final marks the end of the 2025 IPT season with a festive Festival in Dublin’s Green Isle Hotel. This year the Main Event is an incredible €200,000 for €200 extravaganza which will attract players from all over Ireland and beyond for a New Year’s blowout. It has been a…
Paul Carr Secures 2025 Irish Poker Tour Rankings Title
Paul Carr has been confirmed as the 2025 Irish Poker Tour Rankings Champion, topping the standings after a highly competitive season across the IPT circuit. Carr finishes the year with 7,770 points, fending off sustained pressure from Shane Keary (7,555) and Killian Farrell (7,345) in the closest title race ever here with the IPT.…
Portlaoise €40K In A Day Wrap
With such a great turnout the last time around the IPT made preparations to ensure everyone who attended the Portlaoise €40K In A Day were accommodated, by setting up extra tables. It was clear players were eager to get back amongst it after the festive break. From the start of play there was a constant…
Once Upon A River- A SAD LATE NIGHT POKER REUNION
After turning down invitations to the first four series of Late Night Poker, I finally realised I’d been stupid to underestimate the sponsorship possibilities TV could open up and quickly accepted my invite to LNP 5. On my way from Paris to Cardiff, where LNP was filmed, I stopped off in Dublin to visit my…
Andre Filipe Leal Emerencian winner of the Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure Main Event wins PartyPoker Tour London Mini Main Event
The Grand Final of the PartyPoker Tour at Genting Casino is in full swing, and the festival reached a major milestone last night as the £150 Mini Main Event played down to a winner. A huge field of 726 entries created a prize pool of £90,750, with Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure Main Event winner…
Strategic Edge with Dara O’Kearney – Family Pots
When you play live events like the IPT, in the early going, you will see lots of multiway pots. So let’s address a big leak most players have – bluffing too much. For those most part, this is C-betting too much. Most modern players learned that you print money with C-bets and you should do…
Building the Women’s Game, One Seat at a Time
I love this time of year. Running the €10 Thursday women’s online satellites is a big part of why. These games run every Thursday at 7.30pm on Paddy Power Poker, Betfair and Sky Poker, with two seats guaranteed into the Galway Women’s Championship. They’re all about making poker accessible, friendly, and giving more women the…
Galway Winter Festival – Final Day Wrap
The romance of the Galway skyline may have been dulled by persistent rain, but inside the four walls of the Eglinton Casino a far bigger storm was brewing. As the IPT season edges toward its conclusion, there is always a different energy in the air. Sharper focus, louder voices, and stakes that feel just that…
Galway Winter Festival – Day 2 Wrap
“Well, how are ya set for Christmas?” Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without poker, and the Galway Winter Festival at the Eglinton didn’t disappoint. Day 1 was busy, and by Day 2 the room was alive with riffling chips, leaderboard chasers, and the Christmas buzz – Galway weather notwithstanding. The €10K In A Day drew 72…
€500k+ Galway Poker Festival Coming Fast
Donal’s Corner The Galway Poker Festival in the Galmont Hotel is always one of the major poker happenings of the Irish poker calendar. Scheduled in early January the Festival always offers players a chance to refresh after the pressures and indignities of the Christmas period. With over €500,000 in total tournament guarantees amazing action and…
