Level: 17
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
2025 Irish Open
€1,150 Luxon Mystery Bounty
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 Irish Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
€1,150
Prize Pool
€595,725
Entries
1,222
Level
37
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
600,000
Entries
385
Players Left
30
Players Left 1 / 1,222
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Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Last year, a massive field of 3,233 entries assembled at the Royal Dublin Society for the 2024 Irish Open €1,150 Main Event. The tournament set a new record for the Irish Open and absolutely smashing the guaranteed prize pool of €1,000,000 by creating a prize pool of €3,152,175.
However, as with any other tournament, there could only be one person left standing at the end. Over four long days of poker action, it was Day 3 chipleader Tero Laurila who won the iconic Irish Open trophy and took home €292,685 after a three-way deal.
Laurila defeated Ireland’s Hiep Ninh after a relatively short heads up battle, as the blinds had been reduced from 60 to 20 minutes after the deal. Ninh, who plays almost exclusively in Dublin, took home the larger sum of €335,636 for his efforts due to having a massive chip lead when the deal was made. The final person involved in the deal was the 21-year-old Mark Johnston, who is just dipping his toes in the waters of professional poker and walked away with €232,685 for third place.
€1,150 Irish Open Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tero Laurila | Finland | €292,685* |
| 2 | Hiep Ninh | Ireland | €335,636* |
| 3 | Mark Johnston | United Kingdom | €232,685* |
| 4 | Georgios Tsouloftas | Cyprus | €142,760 |
| 5 | Oliver Boyce | Ireland | €109,820 |
| 6 | Stephen Groom | United Kingdom | €84,480 |
| 7 | Vidmantas Beliauskas | Lithuania | €64,960 |
| 8 | Adrian Thorne | Ireland | €49,960 |
| 9 | David Tous | Spain | €38,420 |
* denotes three-way deal
Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Two levels have been played, which means the players have been sent on a 30-minute break.
Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Robbie Bull in the hijack and Mark Spelman in the small blind were battling over a pot of 35,000 when Spelman checked the 2♠K♦5♠ flop to Bull. Bull put in a bet of 8,000, which Spelman raised to 22,000.
Bull flicked in a call to the 7♣ turn, where he instantly called when Spelman put him all-in for 64,000.
Robbie Bull: 5♥5♣ 
Mark Spelman: K♣Q♣
Spelman's top pair was drawing dead against the set of Bull, rendering the 6♣ river meaningless. Bull doubled to a healthy stack, while Spelman was left short with a stack of only seven big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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207,000
107,000
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107,000 |
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36,000
71,000
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71,000 |
Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Arriving on the 5♣7♥8♦K♥ turn in a three-way pot worth 90,000, Nikolaos Mastrantonas pushed all in from the big blind for 85,000.
Zhicheng Miao made a quick fold from the cutoff, after which button Gareth Magee asked for a count and spent some time in the tank. Eventually, he made the call, and the cards hit their backs.
Nikolaos Mastrantonas: 10♥6♥
Gareth Magee: 9♦7♠
Mastrantonas had plenty of outs against the pair of Magee, but the 5♦ river paired the board and left him empty-handed instead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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550,000
411,500
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82,000
39,500
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Ashleigh Naisbitt had gotten her final 75,000 or so in from under the gun and was looked up by Pavlos Xanthopoulos in the big blind, who had her covered.
Ashleigh Naisbitt: A♦10♦
Pavlos Xanthopoulos: 9♠9♣
Naisbitt could not pair up on the Q♣4♣7♥6♠6♣ runout, eliminating her from the tournament. Xanthopoulos, meanwhile, started the day with just ten big blinds but ended the hand with more than ten times his starting stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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366,000
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Level 16
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
PokerStar's Alex Romero had open-raised preflop and saw Leonel Guerra Garza defend his big blind. Romero then continued for 7,000 on the 5♠A♣9♦ flop, which Guerra Garza check-raised to 27,000.
Romero put in a call to the 4♣ turn, where he called the 45,000 bet of Guerra Garza. Romero only had 48,000 behind, which Guerra Garza put in on the 4♦ river.
Romero quickly let his hand go, leaving himself with less than ten big blinds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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360,000
60,000
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96,000
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Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
