Isaac Haxton and Patrick Leonard Make Top Ten After Irish Open Online Day 1a
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For the second straight year, the Irish Open will be taking place online at partypoker on March 26 to April 7 instead of its usual home in Dublin.
The highlight of the festival is easily the €1 million guaranteed Irish Open €1,100 Main Event, which kicked off the first of its three opening flights on March 28 with the other two to take place on April 4 and April 5.
The huge seven-figure guarantee is merely a placeholder as yesterday alone attracted 822 entrants which generated €822,000 towards the eventual final prize pool.
Now it is just a matter of whether this year's Main Event beats last year's event which generated a massive prize pool of €2,945,000 with 2,945 entrants getting into the action. Pablo Silva shipped the 2020 Irish Open Main Event for a whopping €462,100 after besting Hungarian online superstar Andras Nemeth (second - €325,423) in heads-up play.
2021 partypoker Irish Open Main Event Day 1a Leaderboard
Place | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Artsiom Prostak | Belarus | 5,749,839 | 192 |
2 | Justin Ouimette | Canada | 4,560,575 | 152 |
3 | Morten Landberg Pedersen | Denmark | 4,506,934 | 150 |
4 | Viktor Zsemlye | Austria | 4,410,026 | 147 |
5 | Isaac Haxton | Canada | 4,203,053 | 140 |
6 | Alexandru Bucur | United Kingdom | 3,694,932 | 123 |
7 | Jan Streicher | Germany | 3,656,367 | 122 |
8 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | 3,435,635 | 115 |
9 | Claas Stoob | Austria | 3,397,487 | 113 |
10 | Alexandru Baron | Canada | 3,139,691 | 105 |