The Irish Poker Tour Heads on a Portugal Adventure in June

Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
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Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure

Ireland's number one poker experience, the Irish Poker Tour, is heading on a Portuguese adventure in June, with the tour calling the Casino Troia, Setabul, Portugal, home between June 18-24. The Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure boasts €400,000 in guaranteed prize pools, including a €250,000 guaranteed Main Event costing €700 to enter.

The Irish Poker Tour has exploded since launching two years ago. While most of its stops have been around Ireland, as you would expect, the tour has twice stopped off in London and is now setting sail for sunny Portugal for its latest ambitious festival.

The Irish Poker Tour, along with Paddy Power Poker, have plowed countless hours into the planning of the Portugal Adventure, and it should be a roaring success. Tournaments range from €150 No-Limit Hold'em freezeouts to €400 Mystery Bounty, €1,650 High Rollers, Pot-Limit Omaha events, and the huge Portugal Adventure Main Event.

€250,000 Guaranteed Portugal Adventure Main Event

Costing €700, the Portugal Adventure Main Event is one of the highest buy-in Main Events the Irish Poker Tour has run. Main Event players take their seats behind a 50,000 starting stack and play to 25-minute levels where the blinds and antes start at 100/100/100. One re-entry before the end of the ninth level is permitted on each of the six flights, with Day 1F featuring slightly faster levels of 15 minutes.

Each Day 1 concludes at the end of the 15th level, with surviving players progressing to the final day on June 23, where levels extend to 40 minutes.

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Win Your Way Into the Portugal Adventure Main Event

The Casino Troia is hosting several €100 buy-in satellites for the €250,000 guaranteed Portugal Adventure Main Event, some with as many as seven €700 seats guaranteed.

Thanks to the Irish Poker Tour's relationship with Paddy Power Poker, you can win an €1,800 Portugal Adventure package for free! That's right, there are freerolls into The Portugal Adventure Mega Satellite each week where three €1,800 packages are guaranteed!

Portugal Adventure package consists of:

  • €700 Main Event entry
  • Five nights' luxury accommodation for two
  • €300 spending money

The current Paddy Power Poker satellite schedule starts with freeroll Step 1s, which guarantee five €1 Irish Poker Tour (IPT) tickets. Step 2 is a €1 buy-in that awards two €10 IPT tickets. Step 3s cost €10 to enter and guarantee a €100 IPT ticket.

Those €100 IPT tickets can be used to enter the Sunday Mega Sat at 8:00 p.m. BST where three €1,800 Portugal Adventure packages are guaranteed. You can buy into these satellites at whichever step you prefer.

Paddy Power Poker has two other routes into the Portugal Adventure. First, get involved in their €50 Twitch tournament on Tuesday's at 8:30 p.m. BST because an €1,800 Portugal Adventure package is added to the prize pool. Second, there is a €50 entry satellite every Thursday at 8:30 p.m., where an €1,800 package is guaranteed.

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Full Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure Schedule

Expand the table below and feast your eyes on the action-packed Irish Poker Tour Portugal Adventure schedule.

DateTimeEventGuarantee
Tue 18 Jun5:00 p.m.€100 Portugal Adventure Super Satellite7 seats
 7:00 p.m.€150 NLHE Portugal Adventure Opener 
Wed 19 Jun4:00 p.m.€100 Portugal Adventure Super Satellite7 seats
 6:00 p.m.€150 NLHE Portugal Adventure€5,000
 7:00 p.m.€250 Pot-Limit Omaha 4-Card 7-Max 
 9:00 p.m.€100 Portugal Adventure Super Satellite3 seats
Thu 20 Jun4:00 p.m.€400 NLHE Irish Poker Tour Mystery Bounty Day 1€40,000
 4:30 p.m.€100 Portugal Adventure Super Satellite 
 7:00 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1A€250,000
 8:00 p.m.€200 High Roller Omaha 7-Max Satellite2 seats
 9:00 p.m.€150 NLHE Thursday Freezeout 
Fri 21 Jun4:00 p.m.Mystery Bounty Final Day€40,000
 4:00 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1B€250,000
 5:00 p.m.€100 Portugal Adventure Main Event Satellite5 seats
 6:00 p.m.€1,650 PLO 7-Max High Roller Day 1€30,000
 7:00 p.m.€300 NLHE Troia Poker Cup Day 1A€20,000
 7:30 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1C€250,000
 9:00 p.m.€150 NLHE Friday Freezeout 
Sat 22 Jun4:00 p.m.€300 NLHE Troia Poker Cup Day 1B€20,000
 4:00 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1D€250,000
 4:00 p.m.PLO 7-Max High Roller Final Day€30,000
 4:30 p.m.Irish Poker Tour Twitch Freeroll€5,000
 5:00 p.m.€500 Pot-Limit Omaha 4-Card 7-Max 
 7:00 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1E€250,000
 7:30 p.m.€250 NLHE Irish Poker Tour Cup€10,000
 9:00 p.m.€200 High Roller Turbo Satellite2 seats
 10:00 p.m.Troia Poker Cup Final Day€20,000
 10:00 p.m.€700 NLHE Portugal Adventure Main Event Day 1F Fast€250,000
Sun 23 Jun4:00 p.m.€200 High Roller Mega Satellite3 seats
 4:00 p.m.Portugal Adventure Main Event Final Day€250,000
 5:00 p.m.€200 NLHE Monster Stack€15,00
 6:00 p.m.€1,650 NLHE High Roller One Dayer€30,000
 7:00 p.m.€200 Pot-Limit Omaha 7-Max €100 Last Longer€5,000
 9:00 p.m.€150 NLHE Portugal Adventure Closer 
Mon 24 Jun5:00 p.m.€100 NLHE Portugal After Party 
 8:00 p.m.€150 Tchau-Tchau Omaha 
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Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.

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