After a nine-year absence, the EPT returns to Ireland this week as the EPT Dublin Festival kicked off earlier today in the Irish capital. Ireland has produced some big names on the European poker scene including Andy Black, Dara O'Kearney, the legendary Padraig Parkinson and Dermot Blain, who won the GPI National Ireland Player of the Year title in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Past EPT Dublin Main Event winners include two UK legends, Ram Vaswani and Roland de Wolfe. de Wolfe, who had won a WPT event a few prior to his EPT win, would go on to win a WSOP gold bracelet in 2009, completing Poker's Triple Crown.