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€1,150 Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2025 Irish Open
€1,150 Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2025 Irish Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
€1,150
Prize Pool
€4,447,950
Total Entries
4,562
Places Paid
671
Level
43
Blinds
1,500,000 / 3,000,000
Ante
3,000,000
Entries
688
Players Left
179
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Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
With the PokerStars and Paddy Power sponsored Irish Open Main Event now in full swing, the halls of the Royal Dublin Society welcomed 688 entrants to Flight 1b of the €1,150 Main Event here in the Irish capital. Of the 688 that entered this Flight, only 181 made it through to Day 2 which will take place on Saturday, April 19 at 12 p.m. local time. This takes the total number of entrants to 1,151 over the first two flights.
Leading the pack is birthday boy Michel Karim, who was given a special birthday wish by the tournament director over the intercom during play this evening. Karim bagged 671,500 and holds the overall chip lead for now. He has multiple EPT cashes, the largest of which came in the €1,100 Eureka Main Event in Prague in 2023. He finished 14th for a score of €24,220 and will be looking to add to his total tournament career earnings of $173,955 with a maiden cash in Ireland.
Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michel Karim | Sweden | 671,500 | 224 |
| 2 | Niall Campbell | Ireland | 605,000 | 202 |
| 3 | Joshua Boulton | United Kingdom | 511,000 | 170 |
| 4 | Marius Gicovanu | Romania | 506,500 | 169 |
| 5 | Robert Fluereci | Romania | 467,500 | 156 |
| 6 | Pat Flanagan | Ireland | 429,500 | 143 |
| 7 | Kuljinder Sidhu | United Kingdom | 418,000 | 139 |
| 8 | [Removed:520] | France | 403,000 | 134 |
| 9 | Jaroslaw Wolczyk | Poland | 390,500 | 130 |
| 10 | Patrick White | United States | 383,500 | 128 |
Niall Campbell occupies second place with 605,000. Campbell found himself in an interesting spot later into today's play as he moved all in in a multiway pot featuring Judy Whitlow and Alexandros Kolonias. Whitlow had exposed her hand before Kolonias's turn to act and both players ended up being eliminated by Campbell's pocket tens..
Earlier in the day, he laid that same pair down after the covering stack of Rodney Gorman moved all in to isolate the stack of Craig Connick. Campbell finished 86th at this event last year for €5,460.
Joshua Boulton rounds off the podium places and has a stack of 511,000. He cashed at the Irish Poker Open last year in the € 350 Irish Open 6-Max, finishing 15th for € 1,510. Boulton has also cashed in the Eureka Main Event this past December at EPT Prague, finishing 324th for € 3,130, as well as a 225th finish in the €2,200 Eureka High Roller at the same event for € 3,290. His total tournament earnings currently stand at $604,661.
Other notables returning for Day 2 include: Niclas Thumm (311,500), PokerStars Ambassadors Parker Talbot (267,000), Benjamin Bruneteaux (110,000) and Benjamin Spragg (47,500)
Others that will need to fire again in the upcoming flights include: Alexandros Kolonias, Emad Zarghami, Christopher Brammer and Chris Da-Silva.
The tournament is stack choice so players can choose to try their hands in one of the upcoming flights in order to acquire a bigger stack for Day 2 play.
The next flight will be taking place on Thursday, April 17 at 12 p.m. local time with the same structure featured today.
Stay tuned to PokerNews for continued coverage of all the Main Event which is shaping up to be the biggest tournament ever held in Ireland.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The field are bagging and tagging their stacks as play ends for the night. Stay tuned for the recap.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Action was picked up on the flop of 3♥K♦5♣ with Attila Koncz checking from the big blind. Vasileios Zisis bet 7,500 from early position. Martin Malone called from middle position and Koncz folded.
Both players seemed keen to bag up their stacks and checked the 9♣ turn and 10♠ river. Malone tabled J♣J♦ to take the pot.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
The floor have announced that three more hands will be played per table.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Action was picked up on the flop of 9♣8♠3♦ in a three-bet pot. Judy Whitlow checked from the small blind as did Alexandros Kolonias in the hijack. Kevin Campbell moved all in from the cutoff and had both players covered.
Whitlow was in the tank before announcing call and tabling her hand before Kolonias decided to call or fold. Kolonias also called as the second largest stack.
Judy Whitlow: A♥K♣
Alexandros Kolonias: 5♣3♣
Kevin Campbell: 10♣10♦
Campbell's pair became two across the 2♦ turn and 2♣ river.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Lars Sommer moved all in from early position for around 35,000. Action folded around and Paul Carr snap-called in the big blind.
Lars Sommer: A♠Q♦
Paul Carr: A♣A♦
Sommer had run into rockets and there was no sweat as the 5♣8♥3♣3♠K♥ gave Carr two pair and eliminated Sommer.
Level 14
: Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante
Action was picked up with James Clossick all in and at risk for 68,000 versus the covering stack of Frederik Reinert.
James Clossick: K♠K♥
Frederik Reinert: A♦10♣
Clossick made a full house across the 10♦8♥2♥2♦2♣ runout to secure the double up.
The very next hand, it was Adi Rajkovic's turn to go all in versus Reinert.
Adi Rajkovic: 10♣10♦
Frederik Reinert: Q♠Q♦
This time Reinert had the best of it, but the result remained the same. Rajkovic flopped a set and rivered a boat across the 4♣10♠J♦A♠J♥ runout to secure the second double up in as many hands.
Level: 14
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
