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The Irish Poker Festival Returns Bigger & Better In 2024
We’ll be back. The Irish Poker Festival returns for 2024 between Tuesday, October 29th, and Sunday, November 3rd, 2024. After the incredible success of the inaugural Irish Poker Festival, we have an announcement to make. The Irish Poker Festival will return to the Intercontinental Hotel from the 29th to the 5th of November 2024, with…
Read MoreLive Blog Updates
Our friends over at Poker Listings are here at the Irish Poker Festival and providing great updates to all the events with a particular focus on the €3,000 Main Evet. Check out the latest update post and more on their website here.
Read MoreThe Big One
By Irish Poker Legend: Andy Black This is what I feel like calling the €3000 buy-in main event Day 1A on November 1st (Day 1B Nov 2nd and Day 1C and D on November 3rd). Why, you may ask? Initially, the World Series Main Event was known as The Big One, sadly this term faded…
Read MoreThe Irish Poker Festival Dublin Oct/Nov 2023
In the late 1970s the famous Irish bookmaker and poker player Terry Rogers went to Las Vegas during the WSOP and came across the game of No Limit Texas Hold’em and was enchanted. He found the fast action and endless possibilities much more exciting than the draw and stud games that he was used to…
Read MoreIntroducing ‘The Irish Poker Festival’
“Nothing is worth doing except what the world says it is impossible.” Oscar Wilde Every Irish poker player can recite the origin myth of poker in Ireland. Huddled at the back of card rooms, they’ll repeat the story of Terry Rodgers and his Eccentrics’ Club. There’s a sense of destiny implicit in this myth. A…
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