Here's How to Win Your Way to the Killarney Festival at Paddy Power Poker
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Anyone who has played or who follows the Irish Poker Tour will attest to the Killarney Festival being an incredible experience. Since its first running in September 2022, the Killarney Festival has grown in size and stature, a trend that continues with the 2024 edition.
The 2024 Killarney Festival runs from September 24-29 at the I.N.E.C Killarney, Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney. September seems an age away, but the ninth month of the year will be upon us sooner than you realize, and you don't want to double-book yourself and miss out on €700,000 worth of guaranteed prize pools, plus another €25,000 added by the kind folks at Paddy Power.
Events have buy-ins from €150 to €2,000, the latter the cost of entering the No-Limit Hold'em High Roller. Between those two extremes are two special tournaments that are sure to capture the imagination of the poker-playing community.
For €1,650, unless you win your way in via one of the many live satellites, is the Killarney Omaha Championship 7-Max. It comes with a €50,000 guarantee on its prize pool, but that's likely to be blown out of the water because 60 entrants created an €86,850 pot in 2023.
The chunkiest guarantee tips the scales at €400,000, which is reserved for the Main Event. Known as the Irish Poker Cup for 2024, this €700 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event features six flights, a Day 2, and a final day. The 2023 equivalent had a slightly lower €600 buy-in, and saw 848 entrants create a €441,893 prize pool. Jamie Flynn came out on top, defeating Niall McAree heads-up after the pair struck a deal. McAree banked €63,000, while Flynn received €70,000 and the all-important trophy.
The 2024 Killarney Festival Schedule
Win €1,500 Killarney Festival Packages Exclusively Online at Paddy Power Poker
Although the Killarney Festival is a three months away, that gives you ample time to get involved in the excellent satellites Paddy Power Poker is hosting on it online poker platform.
The satellites have a four-step setup:
- Step 1: Freerolls awarding €1 tokens
- Step 2: €1 satellites awarding €10 tokens
- Step 3: €10 satellites awarding €50 or €100 tokens
- Step 4: €50 and €100 satellites awarding €1,500 packages
You can buy into any step that your bankroll allows, so feel free to challenge yourself to turn a freeroll into a poker trip of a lifetime. Or cut out the grind and dive deep into the €50 or €100 satellites, where the €1,500 package waits to be won.
Get your hands on one of the €1,500 packages to receive the €700 Main Event entry plus five nights' accommodation for two people in the Gleneagle Hotel Killarney, worth €800. Players are permitted to win multiple packages. Additional packages can be used as Irish Poker Tour credit for future stops or have the name changed on the package. There is no refund or cash alternative for extra packages won.
Everyone who qualifies for the €700 buy-in, €400,000 guaranteed Irish Poker Cup, is automatically entered into a €10,000 Sole Survivor last longer competition Paddy Power is funding. Go the deepest of all the qualifiers, and €10,000 cash is all yours.
Check out the full terms and conditions at Paddy Power Poker
Jamie Flynn Banks €70,000 Irish Poker Tour Killarney Prize
A €5,000 Twitch Freeroll is to be scheduled during the Killarney Festival, open to all Twitch qualifiers. Become eligible for this freebie by joining Paddy Power Poker Ambassador Conor O'Driscoll in his Tuesday Twitch game, where Paddy Power adds a cool €1,000 to the prize pool.
PokerNews' own Lukas Robinson will regularly jump into these Twitch tournaments on Tuesday. The Twitch IPT Killarney tournaments cost €50 to enter, although there are satellites feeding into them, and shuffles up and deal at 8:30 p.m. BST every Tuesday as the Killarney Festival approaches.
The 2023 Killarney Festival Results
The 2023 Killarney Festival saw every tournament surpass its guarantee, including the Main Event, which boasts a €300,000 guaranteed prize pool but awarded €441,893. The increased popularity of the Irish Poker Tour in recent months suggests that the prizes you can see from the 2023 Killarney Festival will be blown out of the water this year.
