For the second straight year, the Irish Open headed online at partypoker on March 26 to April 7 instead of its usual home in Dublin.
The crown jewel 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, 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 €1,626,000 prize pool.