The first event of the 2025 Irish Poker Open is set to commence with players taking to the felt in Flight 1/A of the €1,150 Luxon Mystery Bounty at the Royal Dublin Society in Ireland's capital city. Once again sponsored by PokerStars and Paddy Power, the event is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year with play commencing at 12 p.m. local time.
This is the first of four flights, with this tournament offering a guaranteed prize pool of a whopping €1,000,000. Last year saw the Irish Poker Open host a four mystery bounty tournaments, two in Pot Limit Omaha and two in No Limit Holdem. Cumulatively the prizepools for those tournaments totalled just shy of €350,000, which just goes to show how much the format has increased in popularity.
Last years champion in the €1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Mystery Bounty 8-Max was Polish national Grzegorz Kozieja who took home €23,570 of the €124,450 prize pool for his first place finish, besting a field of 262 in the process. Kozieja seems to enjoy this format and he banked €165,700 for a second place finish in the €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty in Prague last December.
€1,100 No Limit Hold'em - Mystery Bounty 8-Max Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grzegorz Kozieja | Poland | €23,570 |
| 2 | Victor Pinna | Spain | $17,800 |
| 3 | Arian Kashani | Iran | $11,360 |
| 4 | Michael Khan | Canada | $8,740 |
| 5 | Frank Stepuchin | United States | $6,720 |
| 6 | Fotios Ntamaris | Greece | $5,180 |
| 7 | Matt Wilson | England | $4,280 |
| 8 | William Kassouf | England | $3,560 |
| 9 | Birger Larsen | Norway | $2,960 |
| 10 | Jamie Walden | England | $2,580 |
Players get one single Re-Entry per flight and registration closes after level 10 in each Day 1. Day 1's will feature 14 levels and the survivors of each flight will proceed to Day 2. Players who bag chips in any Day 1 may play a different Day 1 trying to bag a larger stack. Any player who bags chips in multiple Day 1’s will play their largest stack in Day 2 and forfeit any smaller stack.
Levels will run for 45 minutes each and the blinds will start at 100/100 with no ante coming into play until Level 3 where the blinds will be 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. 20-minute breaks are scheduled at the end of levels 3 and 6 with a one hour dinner break commencing at the end of Level 9 followed by a final 20-minute break at the end of Level 12.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for coverage straight from the halls of the Royal Dublin Society for all the action from the Irish Poker Open.
