Jamie Flynn Banks EUR70,000 Irish Poker Tour Killarney Prize

The Irish Poker Tour is not even two years old but it is making significant waves within the live poker community. The tour recently stopped off at the I.N.E.C Killarney and Gleneagle Hotel for the Killarney festival, and it is safe to say that the stop was a roaring success.

With its EUR300,000 guarantee for a EUR600 buy-in, the No-Limit Hold’em Killarney Main Event was the stop showpiece tournament, and it lived up to its billing. Some 848 players bought in, which created a guarantee-busting EUR441,893 prize pool that the top 85 finishers shared.

The likes of Sean Prendiville, Paddy Power Poker ambassador Conor O’Driscoll, Dermot Blain, Andy Black, and Keith Brennan were among the in-the-money finishers, with Brennan almost reaching the final table, busting in 12th for EUR5,700.

All but one of the finalists, ninth-place finisher Tomas Flanagan, walked away with five-figure hauls for their initial investment; Flanagan banked EUR9,000. Dara O’Kearney fell in eighth for EUR11,000, Tony Rafter collected EUR14,000 for his seventh-place finish, while Alan Kelleher walked away with the EUR17,500 sixth-place prize.

The eliminations of Bobby Willis in fifth for EUR22,000 and Sandro Taddei in fourth for EUR28,000 left only a trio of Irish grinders in contention for the title and the massive top prize. Those three became two when Tadhg Conway crashed out in third, a finish good for EUR36,000.

Jamie Flynn and Niall McAree met in a one-on-one battle, with the winner earning the right to call themselves an Irish Poker Tour champion. That honor was bestowed on Flynn after the pair struck a heads-up deal that saw McAree collected EUR63,000 and Flynn receive EUR70,000 and the tournament’s trophy.

The victory took Flynn’s live lifetime winnings past $600,000, an impressive sum helped by a 75th place finish in the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event ($91,610) and a ninth-place finish in the 2022 European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event (lb61,350/$69,353).

Irish Poker Tour Killarney Main Event Final Table Results

McAree Claims EUR10,000 Sole Survivor Prize

Although McAree finished second in the Main Event and banked EUR7,000 less prize money than Flynn, he actually walked away with EUR73,000 in total thanks to banking EUR10,000 from a Paddy Power Poker promotion.

Paddy Power Poker ran a sole survivor promotion for the Killarney Main Event where all online qualifiers are entered into a last longer, with the longest-lasting qualifier receiving a cool EUR10,000.

Aisling Strain Takes Down Paddy Power Twitch Freeroll

Paddy Power Poker hosts a weekly Home Game on Twitch every Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. UK time which costs EUR50 to enter and has a EUR1,200 Irish Poker Tour package added to the prize pool. Recently, all package winners also received an entry to a EUR5,000 freeroll in Killarney.

Forty players competed for a slice of the EUR5,000 freeroll prize pool. At one point, it looked like Paddy Power Poker ambassador Mark “MBen10” Bennett was going to take it down, but he came unstuck in fifth for a free EUR400.

Aisling Strain was the last player standing, and she walked away with EUR1,400 for his efforts. Runner-up Dywer Tobin scooped EUR1,000 for a few hours’ work.

Paddy Power Poker is running the same promotion every week in the run-up to the Irish Poker Tour Galway festival in January. A EUR1,250 package, made up of a EUR600 Main Event buy-in and four nights accommodation at Galmont Hotel Galway is added to the Home Game prize pool every Tuesday, so get stuck in and see if you can bag yourself some added value.

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Upcoming Irish Poker Tour Events

Don’t worry if you missed out on the excitement of the Irish Poker Tour Killarney festival because the action continues coming thick and fast on the Irish Poker Tour, meaning there isn’t long to wait until you can jump into the action and experience that world-famous Irish craic for yourself. Feast your eyes on the table below and discover where in Ireland the Irish Poker Tour next stops off.

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