€1,150 Main Event Day 1a | 2025 Irish Open

04-13-2025 16:34 UTC

Bartha On Wrong Side of Cooler

Patrick Cole

Level 7 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Paul Carr opened to 1,200 from the button. Liviu Bartha raised to 6,000 from the big blind. Carr called.

Bartha elected to check-raise the 6♥2♣3♣ flop over Carr's bet of 5,500. Bartha made it 16,000 and Carr called. After a minute or so in the tank he announced all in on the and Carr snap-called and was the covering stack.

Liviu Bartha: Q♠Q♣ All in
Paul Carr: 6♠6♣

Carr had flopped a set and Bartha couldn't find the two outer on the river and was eliminated. He has since retaken to the field.

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Carr	165,000 165,000	165,000
Liviu Bartha	Busted

Tags: Liviu Bartha Paul Carr

04-13-2025 16:27 UTC

Boatman Wins Pot From the Big Blind

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Patrick Cole

Level 7 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Shane Reihill opened from early position to 1,200. Yucel Eminoglu called in the small blind and Barny Boatman defended the big blind.

The 5♣2♥9♠ flop was checked around before Eminoglu checked the Q♥ turn. Boatman then bet 2,000. Reihill called and Eminoglu folded.

Both players checked the 6♦ river. "Five" announced Boatman as he tabled 8♠5♥ which won him the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Barny Boatman	115,000 65,000	65,000

Yucel Eminoglu	45,000 45,000	45,000
Shane Reihill	39,500 39,500	39,500

Tags: Barny Boatman Shane Reihill Yucel Eminoglu

04-13-2025 16:21 UTC

Pervii Takes From Devereux

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Patrick Cole

Level 7 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Gareth Devereux opened from the hijack to 1,300. Anton Pervii defended the big blind.

The 7♠3♦9♠ flop was checked around before Pervii check-called a bet of 2,100 on the 5♥ turn. The 5♠ river was checked down. Pervii showed 7♦6♦ and took the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Anton Pervii	45,000
Gareth Devereux	42,000

Tags: Anton Pervii Gareth Devereux

04-13-2025 16:13 UTC

New Entries

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Patrick Cole

Level 7 : Blinds 300/600, 600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Adria Diaz	50,000
Marcus Holm	50,000
Nikolaos Mouroutis	50,000
Kyriakos Papadopoulos	50,000

Cameron Sinclair	50,000
Patrick Larkin	50,000
Tan Le	50,000
Brandon Shiels	50,000

Level: 7

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 600

04-13-2025 16:03 UTC

Top 10 Chip Counts

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Patrick Cole

Level 6 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kristian Kostiander	263,000 214,000	214,000
Marian Virlanuta	227,500 177,500	177,500
Paulo Villena	183,000 90,500	90,500
Martin Macken	160,000
Mihail Mazilu	155,000
Jan-Joost Van Den Bogert	155,000
Simon Lynch	148,800
Starny Hoang	145,200 95,200	95,200
Georg Ibrahim	143,600 93,600	93,600
Junior Roberts	143,000 58,800	58,800

04-13-2025 15:49 UTC

Break Time

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Patrick Cole

Level 6 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

The field have been sent on their second 20-minute break of the day.

04-13-2025 15:40 UTC

Flashback: Tero Laurila Crowned Champion in Record-Breaking Irish Open Main Event

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Patrick Cole

Level 6 : Blinds 200/500, 500 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

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04-13-2025 15:28 UTC

Dittmann Mucks After Getting Called

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Patrick Cole

Level 6 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Jonathon Johnston opened to 2,000 from the cutoff. Sarah Gruson called on the button and Marco Dittmann defended the big blind.

Dittmann and Johnston checked to Gruson who bet 2,500 on the flop of 10♠10♣2♠. Dittmann snap-called and Johnston folded.

The A♣ turn was checked around before Dittmann led for 2,500. Gruson called and Dittmann returned his hand to the dealer face down, forfeiting the pot to Gruson.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sarah Gruson	97,500 97,500	97,500
Jonathon Johnston	75,000 75,000	75,000
Marco Dittmann	21,500 21,500	21,500

Tags: Jonathon Johnston Marco Dittmann Sarah Gruson

04-13-2025 15:20 UTC

Stepuchin Makes the Nuts

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Patrick Cole

Level 6 : Blinds 200/500, 500 ante

Cameron Enriquez opened from under the gun to 1,000. Frank Stepuchin raised to 2,300 from early position. Arran Fletcher then three-bet to 7,000 from middle position. Enriquez folded and Stepuchin called.

He then check-called a bet of 7,000 on the flop of 9♣2♣5♦ before the J♣ turn was checked around. Stepuchin then led for 8,000 on the K♣ river which put a four liner to a flush on board. Fletcher called.

Stepuchin had A♣A♠ for the nut flush and Fletcher had K♠K♦ for a set.

"I should have done the preflop dance with you" said Stepuchin as he took the pot.