Irish Open â¬1,100 Main Event, the crown jewel of the
Irish Open at partypoker, is coming down to its final stretch with the 1,880 entrant field down to just 40 hopefuls in search of the lofty â¬292,257 top prize.
Russia s
Maxim Mamonov bagged the overnight chip lead heading into tonight s penultimate day. Mamonov is known mostly as an online superstar under the MAMOHT T screenname and has over $10 million in online tournament cashes as tracked by PocketFives.
Meanwhile, two partypoker Ambassadors in
Matthew Staples and
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The Irish Open is taking place at the online poker site partypoker, with the Main Event already underway. The event began on March 26 and will run through April 7. Instead of taking place in Dublin like it normally would, the event is online. The 2020 and 2021 series has been hosted online at partypoker due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and travel concerns.
This year, the Main Event has a buy-in of €1,100 and began with three starting flights. A total of €1 million is guaranteed by partypoker and already players are vying for a spot in the competition. So many players have signed up to compete that the prize pool pushed past its guarantee and sits at just over €1.6 million.
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partypoker on March 26 to April 7 instead of its usual home in Dublin.
The crown jewel of the festival is easily the â¬1 million guaranteed
Irish Open â¬1,100 Main Event, which kicked off the first of its three opening flights, which finished its second of three opening flights last night with one more turbo flight to be played out today, April 5, before the start of Day 2.
The massive $1 million guarantee was already smashed with 1,626 entries (822 on Day 1a and 804 on Day 1b generating a huge â¬1,626,000 prize pool. Now it is just a matter of whether this year s Main Event beats last year s event which generated a mind-blowing prize pool of â¬2,945,000 with 2,945 entrants getting into the action.