The Irish Poker Tour (IPT) Killarney Festival is still a few months away, but satellites are running right now online at Paddy Power Poker. Those satellites ultimately award €1,800 packages for the Killarney Main Event, a € 700-buy-in tournament boasting a €400,000 guarantee.
Paddy Power Poker runs €100 satellites every night at 8:30 p.m. BST. These are two-day affairs that conclude after Level 16, when a predetermined percentage of the field remains. Day 2s start at 8:30 p.m. BST each Sunday, and guarantee at least two €1,800 Killarney Festival packages will be win. Whoever gets their hands on one of those packages receives:
€700 Killarney Main Event seat
Four nights accommodation for two at the Gleneagle Killarney Hotel
€250 toward travel expenses
€100 may be outside the bankrolls of some poker players, which is why Paddy Power Poker has created a satellite tree that starts at only €0.50. The €0.50 buy-in satellites feed into €3 satellites, which then feed into €15 satellites, with those awarding tickets to the €100 satellites.
Anyone wishing to win a Killarney Festival Main Event for free can try their luck in the IPT Killarney Package Freerolls that run frequently throughout the week.
What to Expect in the Killarney Festival Main Event
Reigning champion Samuel Saariaho
You are in for a treat if you manage to secure an €1,800 Killarney Main Event package, as the tournament will be superb. When the IPT last ran it, in September 2025, it saw 899 entrants create a €535,085 prize pool.
Finland's Samuel Saariaho was the man who came out on top. He collected a career-best €100,000 after defeating Ireland's Tommy O'Rourke heads-up, resigning the runner-up to a still massive €63,500 consolation prize.
The Killarney Festival 2026 Schedule
There's more to the Killarney Festival than the Main Event. The festival runs from October 13-18 at the Gleneagle Arena, Killarney, County Kerry. More than €750,000 is guaranteed to be won across dozens of tournaments and satellites, including the aforementioned €400,000-guaranteed Killarney Main Event.
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
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