€1,150 Main Event Day 1de | 2026 Irish Open

04-03-2026 19:56 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Omar Lakhdari	Busted
Paul Feldstein	Busted
Kully Sidhu	Busted
James Hall	Busted
Espen Hagen	Busted
Mitchell Hynam	Busted

Luke Nieuwenhuis	Busted
Tarmo Tammel	Busted
Carlo Wolters	Busted
Alex O'Brien	Busted
Jamie Walden	Busted

Hand Downs Devlin

Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Barry Devlin opened to 3,500 in the cutoff, seeing Fintan Hand make it 13,000 to go in the small blind. It folded back to Devlin, who decided to wager it all and moved his 60,000 chips over the line. Hand snap-called with the covering stack.

Barry Devlin: 10♥8♥ All in
Fintan Hand: 10♠10♣

Devlin flopped a gutshot on 7♠6♥2♣, but his straight did not complete on the 2♦ turn or 3♠ river, sending him to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Thomas Olivieri	230,000
Fintan Hand	179,000 69,000	69,000
Ana De Buen	150,000 12,000	12,000
Barry Devlin	Busted

Tags: Barry Devlin Fintan Hand

04-03-2026 19:47 UTC+1

Big Collision Before Dinner Break

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Liam Black

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

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04-03-2026 19:37 UTC+1

Vulperhorst Vanishes After Ultimate Cooler

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Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Frederico Dos Santos raised to 3,200 preflop, seeing Bradley Vulperhorst three-bet to 8,500. Brian O'Connell then four-bet to 19,500, getting Dos Santos out of the pot.

Vulperhorst was not going anywhere and moved all in for 85,000, and O'Connell snap-called with the covering stack.

Bradley Vulperhorst: K♠K♥ All in
Brian O'Connell: A♥A♣

Vulperhorst's kings did not crack O'Connell's aces on the 8♥2♠4♣5♣J♥ runout, and he quickly exited the tournament area.

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian O'Connell	205,000 205,000	205,000
Blaise Bourgeois	129,000 11,000	11,000

Frederico Dos Santos	120,000 120,000	120,000
Bradley Vulperhorst	Busted

Tags: Bradley Vulperhorst Brian O'Connell Frederico Dos Santos

04-03-2026 19:31 UTC+1

Hoekendijk Hits the Rail

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Stewart Morrison

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Albert Hoekendijk moved all his chips into the middle, roughly 12,000 on a 8♦6♦Q♠ flop, with 13,000 already in the middle. Esteban Pascual called, putting Hoekendijk at risk.

Albert Hoekendijk: 6♣5♣ All in
Esteban Pascual: Q♦J♠

The 9♦ turn offered no help to Hoekendijk, whose fate was sealed when the 2♠ river completed the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Esteban Pascual	72,000 72,000	72,000
Albert Hoekendijk	Busted

Tags: Albert Hoekendijk Esteban Pascual

04-03-2026 19:28 UTC+1

McCullough Catches Hall Speeding

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Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Scott Margereson opened to 3,200 under the gun, which James Hall flat-called in the hijack. Gerard McCullough then three-bet to 11,500 on the button, folding Margereson out of the pot. Hall came along and called, and the 5♥4♥7♠ flop was fanned.

Hall checked to McCullough, who continued for 9,500. Hall raised to 20,000, just under half his remaining chips, and McCullough moved all in to put his opponent at risk.

Hall gave it some thought but decided to preserve his remaining chips and fold his hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Darren Harbinson	220,000 20,000	20,000
Gerard McCullough	147,000
Tero Laurila	135,000 24,000	24,000
Scott Margereson	95,000 3,000	3,000

James Hall	27,000

Tags: Gerard McCullough James Hall Scott Margereson

04-03-2026 19:18 UTC+1

Nedelcu Runs Into Better Ace

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Stewart Morrison

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Nursing a short stack, Narcis Nedelcu found an opportunity to move all in preflop for his remaining chips. With the pot unopened when the action got to him in the cutoff, he moved his stack of 9,000 into the middle. Darren McBrearty looked at his cards in the big blind and called.

Narcis Nedelcu: A♦10♥ All in
Darren McBrearty: A♣J♣

The 4♣9♦10♠ moved Nedelcu into the lead, but it was short-lived when the dealer introduced the J♠ to the board.

The K♦ river changed nothing, and Nedelcu said his goodbyes to the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Darren McBrearty	80,000 80,000	80,000
Narcis Nedelcu	Busted

Tags: Darren McBrearty Narcis Nedelcu

04-03-2026 19:18 UTC+1

Latest Entries and Exits

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Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Guillermo Sanz	50,000 50,000	50,000

Taago Tamm	50,000 50,000	50,000
Trevor Reardon	50,000 50,000	50,000
Kerryjane Craigie	Busted

Benjamin Bruneteaux	Busted

Raoul van Wersch	Busted
Deborah Worley-Roberts	Busted
Bobby Simons	Busted
Branco Steltman	Busted
Alex van der Swaluw	Busted
Sascha Manns	Busted

Level: 10

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

04-03-2026 19:09 UTC+1

Kleiner's Stack Grows Bigger

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Frank Visser

Level 9 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Fabio Kleiner made it 2,400 to go in late positon. Raoul van Wersch flicked in a three-bet to 6,400 in late position, which Walter McMahon cold-called on the button.

Kleiner also tossed in calling chips, and the trio saw a flop of 9♣10♣J♣. It checked to McMahon, who fired a bet of 6,000. Kleiner called before a slightly puzzled Van Wersch decided to muck his cards.

The 2♥ turn then checked through to the A♥ river. Kleiner assembled a tower of chips as he slid 18,400 into the middle. McMahon took some time, but ultimately decided he could not fold and called off.

Kleiner showed K♣Q♠ for a flopped straight, and McMahon tabled 10♦9♦ for two pair as he saw his chips shipped across the table.

Player	Chips	Progress
Peter Murphy	173,000
Fabio Kleiner	112,300 112,300	112,300
Francesco Gisolfi	111,000
Machiel Simons	63,000
Carl Phelan	45,000
Walter McMahon	35,000 35,000	35,000
Adrian Cawley	34,500
Raoul van Wersch	31,000 31,000	31,000
Paul Feldstein	27,500