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Start of Day 1A of Smart Poker Tour Sunny Beach
Shuffle up and deal! Day 1A of the Smart Poker Tour Main Event just started! Buy-in: €300 Prize pool: €125,000 GTD Starting stack: 50,000 chips Levels: 30 mins Re-entry & late registration: 13 levels What to expect: lots of action, exciting hands, and thrilling poker battles! Let’s go!!! Reactions: ❤️ 2 😂 0 😮 0…
LEO MARGETS. IN THE BEGINNING
It took until the final days of this year’s WSOP for the real fun to start. Firstly The Grinder was on fire and, having already won his FOURTH Players Championship a few weeks earlier, he battered his way to the final table of the Main Event with such a big lead there was an…
Matthew Blayney interview
After a thrilling battle at the Eglinton Poker Cup Main Event, where a 135-player field competed for over €22,000, local regular Matthew Blayney emerged victorious, claiming his second IPT trophy and €5,900 in prize money. Matthew is not just a poker player; he is also a documentary filmmaker and editor, and he likes to say…
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…
Multiway pots
Multiway pots are by far the most complex situations in poker. There are so many variables at play that I don’t believe they will ever be fully solved. The presence of multiple opponents drastically changes optimal strategies, forcing players to tighten up, adjust bet sizes, and rethink their approach to bluffing and bluff-catching. That said,…
WPT GLOBAL Onlive on Aug 31st – The Road to Killarney Continues
WPT Global OnLive Day 1 – Irish Poker Cup What is OnLive? OnLive allows players to play Day 1 online while carrying their chips directly into Live Day 2, exactly as in a traditional live event. Why Play OnLive Day 1? Play from home without the need to travel for Day 1. Identical starting stack…
This was Summer in Galway
It was a fun-filled weekend of poker in a bustling Galway City, as players turned out in force to chase glory on the felt. With valuable leaderboard points on the line, every result carried extra weight as the countdown continued to the biggest stop of the year – the Killarney Poker Festival 2025. The Eglinton…
FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE – TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
🦅 EAGLE€2 MILLION TOTAL GTDMYSTERY & MILLION17–26 NovemberArena Casino, Tirana 17–22 NovemberMYSTERY MILLION – €1,000,000 GTD 22–26 NovemberMILLION – €1,000,000 GTD SCHEDULE 17 Novemberh.13:00 – Satellite to MYSTERY MILLION DAY1Ah.16:00 – MYSTERY MILLION DAY1A – €560 (40k chips, 40’ levels, 11LR)Special CL: 1st €5,000 | 2nd €3,000 | 3rd €2,000 h.20:00 – HIGH ROLLER PLO…
Women Are Crushing Poker Festivals Worldwide
The summer of 2025 has been nothing short of historic for women in poker. From breaking barriers on the game’s most prestigious stages to thriving in women-only festivals, female players are proving they can dominate anywhere the cards are in the air. It all began with a milestone moment in May, when Xuan Liu…
EAGLE 2 MILLION GTD – MYSTERY & MILLION TAKE FLIGHT!
🦅An eagle soars over Tirana, circling and gliding above the Arena, before diving down—its target is double: ❓𝙈𝙔𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙔 & 𝙈𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙊𝙉💰! 💰2 𝙈𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙊𝙉 Total Guaranteed, two events: the ❓𝙈𝙔𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙔❓ and the 💰𝙈𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙊𝙉💰.Each comes with a 1 Million GTD prize pool and a €560 buy-in! After the huge success of 🌃𝐋𝐀 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐆𝐋𝐈 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐄🌃…
