First Day of the €1,000,000 Guaranteed €1,150 Irish Open Main Event Starts at Noon
Welcome to Day 1a of the €1,150 Irish Open Main Event. This year's edition of the €1,000,000 guaranteed event is being held at the Royal Dublin Society and is set to have four starting flights. The winner will be crowned on April 10th, after four days of play. The Irish Open started April 3rd and is well underway with a plethora of side events and satellites.
In 2022 it was prolific tournament player and Dublin resident Steve O'Dwyer who took home the trophy, topping a record-breaking field of 2,040 entries for a €318,700 score.
This year that record turnout might be upped once again, with PokerStars and Paddy Power joining forces and hosting online qualifiers for the Irish Open Main Event, resulting in over 500 players getting their seats through one of the online poker rooms. With many more seats added to that total through the live satellites here in Dublin, the field is expected to be nothing short of enormous.
Play kicks off today at noon, with a starting stack of 30,000 chips and blinds of 100/100. The field will play ten levels of 60 minutes before the day wraps up, with a split dinner break during Level 6. Players have the option to reenter once during the day and once more before the start of Day 2, when late registration closes.
Irish Open Main Event Schedule
| Date | Day | Time (IST) | Tournament | |
| 5-Apr | Wednesday | Noon | Irish Open Day 1a | |
| 6-Apr | Thursday | Noon | Irish Open Day 1b | |
| 7-Apr | Friday | Noon | Irish Open Day 1c | |
| 7-Apr | Friday | 10 p.m. | Irish Open Day 1d | |
| 8-Apr | Saturday | Noon | Irish Open Day 2 | |
| 9-Apr | Sunday | Noon | Irish Open Day 3 | |
| 10-Apr | Monday | 1 p.m. | Irish Open Day 4 |
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