3/30/2022

Irish Poker Open 2020 Schedule

Irish Poker Open 2020 Schedule Saturday
Irish Poker Open 2020 Schedule Of Events

In addition to the Unibet Open, Unibet is proud to announce that it will also be sponsoring the 2020 Dublin Poker Festival which takes place just before the Unibet Open in mid-February. The festival, which is also at the Bonnington Hotel, kicks off on February 13 with a packed schedule featuring nearly 40 events. The Guinness flows morning, noon and night, you have the famous Irish craic, and Lappin describes the Irish poker scene as loose, loud, and rambunctious. Fifty-five events (including satellites) over 18 days is a monster of a festival, so planning your attack is crucial to success. Qualify for the Main Event of the Irish Poker Open which will be taking place at the City West in Dublin from 8 th to 13 th April 2020. Win your package by qualifying on Winamax from €10. Note that we are Irish Open Poker 2020 Schedule an informational resource only, featuring reviews and recommendations of casinos, games, and bonuses. We are not a casino and no gambling with real money takes place on this site.

2020 International Poker Open starts tonight on Unibet

The celebrated International Poker Open gets underway tonight live on Unibet Poker. The six-day bonanza of IPO fun features a total of 12 scheduled events – plus numerous superqualifier satellites – with the flagship €50,000 guarantee Main Event starting on Saturday. All 12 events on the schedule come with a prize pool guarantee, with more than €150,000 guaranteed across the whole festival. Click here for the full schedule or search for “IPO” on the Unibet poker client.

The €50 buy-in IPO Warm Up is the first official tournament on the schedule. It starts at 7pm tonight (Ireland/UK time) and comes with a €15k guarantee. Other festival highlights include a two-day, €25k guaranteed High Roller Event, a €25k guaranteed Mini Main Event, the €2k guarantee #QUEENRULES Ladies’ Event and a €4k guarantee Omaha tournament.

The move online will give IPO regulars a very different experience from their annual jaunt to Dublin but Unibet Ambassador Ian Simpson aims to keep up the bants by live-streaming every single day of the festival on his Twitch channel.

He said: “While we can’t meet in person to enjoy the famous craic that comes with Irish poker, the Unibet twitch community is the nicest on the internet. We will all be railing each other as we chase the gorgeous trophies that are on offer. We’ll be going live every day at 6pm local time.

Satellites
IPO satellites have been running on Unibet since September. Each of the last four Sunday night qualifiers guaranteed five €300 Main Event seats but turnout has been huge, crushing the guarantee and awarding seats to 35+ players. There are still plenty more chances to win your way into the Main Event – the IPO superqualifiers are running every night with three on Saturday at 4.30pm, 5.30pm and 6.30pm (Ireland/UK time.) The final Unibet qualifier takes place on Friday night at 7pm with ten seats guaranteed.

If you’re after tips on playing satellites, then don’t miss Unibet Ambassador Dara O’Kearney, author of the best-selling Poker Satellite Strategy, who will be chatting to IPO tournament director Nick O’Hara in a Facebook Live session tonight at 7pm. Dara’s book, published in February 2019, is considered the absolute “bible” for recreational and professional satellite players alike. He said: “The IPO has been a highlight of the Irish poker calendar for my career. It was one of the first live events I ever played. As we head back into lockdown, it’s sad the event can’t take place live but I know the craic will be transferred to the Unibet client.”

The International Poker Open has been one of Europe’s longest-running and most popular live poker events and has been held annually since 2008. Tournament director Nick O’Hara said: “Obviously it’s a real shame that we couldn’t have a live event this year but restrictions around Covid-19, and concern for player & staff safety, really made it impossible. We’re very grateful to the amazing Unibet who have been extremely supportive and ensured that IPO 2020 could still go ahead. The entire festival – including side events and a ton of satellites – is being hosted on the Unibet poker client.”

Facebook live and updates
O’Hara will be hosting a Facebook Live session every night of the festival starting at 7pm tonight, Thursday and Friday, and 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. He added: “Social media is one of the ways we can keep up the legendary IPO atmosphere so I’ll be going on Facebook live every night to give updates about the festival and chat with special guests. Tonight we have Dara O’Kearney at 7pm and then Andy Black at 7.30pm. Over the next few days, I’ll also be joined by David Lappin, Ian Simpson, Philip Baker and many others. We’d love everyone to join our IPO facebook group so you can keep up with what’s happening in the tourneys and get involved.”

Main Event

The €300 IPO Main Event starts on Saturday at 6pm UK time – with one re-entry permitted until the end of late registration (15 levels.) All players start with a 25,000 stack with blind levels set at 12 minutes on Day 1 and 20 minutes on Sunday.

Unibet Ambassador David Lappin, who finished 11^th in last year’s Main Event, said: “The IPO Dublin has been a consistent fixture on the Irish poker calendar since 2007 so there was no way Unibet were going to let 2020 be the exception and it’s still going to be a lot of fun.”

It’s easy to set up a Unibet account – and you can play via either via the Unibet Poker Client or directly from your browser. See unibet.com/poker for more details.

Last year British player Luke Boynton took down the Main Event for €24,450. The 35-year-old from Birmingham, who had been playing poker for around 15 years, was involved in a six-way ICM chop before going on to win the event and the prestigious IPO trophy. It was a lifetime best cash for Boynton and took his total live tournament winnings to over $40k. There were 755 entries in total with 95 players getting a share of the €191,395 prize pool.

Nataly Sopacuaperu, Unibet Open’s Head of Events, said: “We’ve been sponsoring the IPO since 2018 and we are delighted that we can help make this year’s event a success by hosting it online. The IPO is a significant date in the poker calendar and even though this year’s event will be very different, Ian Simpson’s Twitch stream and the Facebook live sessions will be a lot of fun and help create the community atmosphere that players relish at live events.”

For full details, please visit https://internationalpokeropen.ie/.

D4 Events has called the Bonnington Hotel home for the past week where it’s been running the Irish Poker Series. Some of Ireland’s elite players turned out in force to support the festival, including the legendary figure of Andy Black who managed to pad his bankroll with an €18,150 score.

ACOP Main Event Final Table Results

Place	Player	Prize
1	Andy Black	€18,150*
2	Sean Foley	€15,585*
3	Igor Matias	€15,235*
4	Kurt Suarez	€8,280
5	Charlie Porter	€6,490
6	Andrew Doona	€5,100
7	Ciaran Burke	€3,810
8	Eoin O’Shea	€2,640
9	Konstantin Teresko	€2,080

*reflects a three-handed deal

The first event on the schedule was the €230 buy-in Amateur Championship Of Poker (ACOP). It attracted 616 players who created a €123,200 prize pool that was shared among the top 79 finishers.

You may be wondering what a seasoned professional such as Black was doing playing in an amateur event, but the tournament was open to everyone. Black sniffed out the value and joined the party.

Black’s decision to flick in the €230 proved to be a moment of genius because he first navigated his way to the final table before securing all the chips in play.

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Konstantin Teresko was the first casualty of the nine-handed final table. The €2,080 Terenko won is the first recorded live cash on his Hendon Mob page.

Teresko gained some company on the rail when Eoin O’Shea and Ciaran Burke busted out. Burke now has more than $200,000 in live poker tournament cashes thanks to the €3,810 he picked up here.

Andrew Doona, Charlie Porter, and Kurt Suarez all fell by the wayside, the latter scooping €8,280 for his €230 investment, the largest prize of his career to date. Suarez’ exit left three players in contention to become the tournament’s champion and that trio paused the tournament clock to strike a deal.

Those discussions proved fruitful and the remaining players guaranteed themselves more than €15,000.

Igor Matias fell in third and banked €15,235, which left Black and Sean Foley to lock horns heads-up for the title and the winner’s trophy. Black used his vastly superior experience, plus his trademark run good, to good use and he despatched of Foley in second-place.

Foley walked away with €15,585. This is Foley’s largest live score, surpassing the €14,170 he collected for a fourth-place finish in the €300 IPO Dublin Main Event last October.

This victory for Black, the 14th recorded on his Hendon Mob profile, was worth €18,150 which takes his total live winnings ever closer to the magic $5 million mark.

Richard O’Neill Takes Down European Deepstack Main Event

The €570 European Deepstack Main Event had a popular champion when Richard O’Neill outlasted 415 opponents to get his hands on €32,450 after a four-handed deal. The result was €100 short of equalling O’Neill’s largest live poker tournament prize.

Forty-seven players saw a return on their investment, including Ivan Tononi, Ronan Sweeney, Irish legend Wilhelmine Connolly, and German World Series of Poker bracelet winner Ismael Bojang. Bojang fell in 13th place for a €3,050 score.

The United Kingdom’s Masud Prodham busted from the final table in ninth-place. Barry Dovovan, Frederik Cuyt and Iceland’s Oskar Jonsson joined Prodhan on the rail.

Each of the final five were now guaranteed at least a five-figure prize.

India’s Ankit Ahuja ran out of steam and had to make do with the €12,200 fifth-place prize. His exit resulted in the final four players striking a deal for the remaining prize pool.

This deal meant Mark Flanagan and Mark O’Hare collected €20,070 and €20,570 respectively. Patrick Eagers busted in second-place for €27,170 and Richard O’Neill was the last man standing, a result now worth €32,450.

European Deepstack Final Table Results