Jamie Flynn Banks €70,000 Irish Poker Tour Killarney Prize
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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 €300,000 guarantee for a €600 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 €441,893 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 €5,700.
All but one of the finalists, ninth-place finisher Tomas Flanagan, walked away with five-figure hauls for their initial investment; Flanagan banked €9,000. Dara O'Kearney fell in eighth for €11,000, Tony Rafter collected €14,000 for his seventh-place finish, while Alan Kelleher walked away with the €17,500 sixth-place prize.
The eliminations of Bobby Willis in fifth for €22,000 and Sandro Taddei in fourth for €28,000 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 €36,000.
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 €63,000 and Flynn receive €70,000 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 (£61,350/$69,353).
Irish Poker Tour Killarney Main Event Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Flynn | Ireland | €70,000* |
| 2 | Niall McAree | Ireland | €63,000* |
| 3 | Tadhg Conway | Ireland | €36,000 |
| 4 | Sandro Taddei | Ireland | €28,000 |
| 5 | Bobby Willis | Ireland | €22,000 |
| 6 | Alan Kelleher | Ireland | €17,500 |
| 7 | Tony Rafter | Ireland | €14,000 |
| 8 | Dara O'Kearney | Ireland | €11,000 |
| 9 | Tomas Flanagan | Ireland | €9,000 |
McAree Claims €10,000 Sole Survivor Prize
Although McAree finished second in the Main Event and banked €7,000 less prize money than Flynn, he actually walked away with €73,000 in total thanks to banking €10,000 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 €10,000.
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 €50 to enter and has a €1,200 Irish Poker Tour package added to the prize pool. Recently, all package winners also received an entry to a €5,000 freeroll in Killarney.
Forty players competed for a slice of the €5,000 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 €400.
Aisling Strain was the last player standing, and she walked away with €1,400 for his efforts. Runner-up Dywer Tobin scooped €1,000 for a few hours' work.
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aisling Strain | Ireland | €1,400 |
| 2 | Dwyer Tobin | Ireland | €1,000 |
| 3 | Vidmantas Beliauskas | Lithuania | €650 |
| 4 | Denis Brosnahan | Ireland | €500 |
| 5 | Mark Bennett | United Kingdom | €400 |
| 6 | Sean Byrne | Ireland | €350 |
| 7 | Ray Wheatley | Ireland | €300 |
| 8 | Colum Higgins | Ireland | €200 |
| 9 | Shane Crosby | Ireland | €200 |
Paddy Power Poker is running the same promotion every week in the run-up to the Irish Poker Tour Galway festival in January. A €1,250 package, made up of a €600 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.
Other Irish Poker Tour Killarney Results
| Event | Entrants | Prize Pool | Champion | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| €150 NLHE Opener | 121 | €16,180 | Phil Brown | €3,250 |
| €400 NLHE Mystery Bounty | 265 | €92,601 | Stephen Sherlock | €9,280 |
| €150 NLHE Freezeout | 210 | €26,345 | Aubrey Murnaghan | €3,900 |
| €200 NLHE Ladies Event | 46 | €7,991 | Wilhelmine Connolly | €2,700 |
| €1,650 Big Omaha | 60 | €86,850 | Colm Tuite | €26,850 |
| €300 NLHE Killarney Poker Cup | 164 | €42,731 | Tom Hanley | €8,300 |
| €1,000 NLHE High Roller | 62 | €53,847 | Gediminas Bartkus | €13,400 |
| €150 NLHE Turbo Freezeout | 83 | €10,413 | Andy Coughlan | €3,015 |
| €2,000 NLHE Super High Roller | 32 | €57,128 | Greg King | €19,725 |
| €200 PLO | 63 | €10,944 | Carl Byrne | €3,900 |
| €150 NLHE Closer | 101 | €12,671 | Ciaran Cooney | €3,500 |
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.
| Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 14 | Irish Poker Tour Gort | The Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort |
| October 22-24 | Irish Poker Tour: Premier Poker Championship | The Talbot Hotel, Clonmel |
| November 17-19 | Irish Poker Tour: Dublin Winter Festival | Green Isle Hotel, Dublin |
| November 23 to December 3 | The Irish Classic | Macau Sporting Club, Cork |
| December 28-30 | Irish Poker Tour Final | Green Isle Hotel, Dublin |
