Sharpen Your Mixed Games Skills Before Rozvadov: Explore The Irish Open’s Offerings and Craic!
With our first online stop just around the corner on February 23rd on the iPoker Network, there's still a long road ahead before our first live event of 2025. The Festival Series Rozvadov kicks off on June 6th, promising a record-breaking 11-day poker extravaganza. Want to secure your seat early? Qualify now through various online operators!
But what’s the best way to hone your live poker mixed-game skills in the meantime? Look no further than The Irish Open in Dublin—one of Europe’s most iconic tournament series and a true global poker gem! This year they will go even bigger than ever before, ready for some real Irish craic?
The Irish Open 2025
To be able to play mixed games during live events it is really looking around thoroughly, but with the Irish Open 2025 coming up from April 10 until April 21, there is a golden opportunity to sharpen your skills at the live tables. As you might know, Martin 'Franke' von Zweigbergk, founder of The Festival Series, is a big fan of this live event being held in Dublin at the Royal Dublin Society. This time, they will be celebrating their 45th anniversary, reason enough to dive deeper into this event and inform you about everything that this event stands for.
The Irish Open is back and how! This time they have extended the duration of the event with four days compared to last year. The €1,100 Main Event is not the only eyecatcher of the event, even if you might consider it as the only one as it has a massive guaranteed prize pool of €2,500,000.
Last year, the organisation of the Irish Open came up with a more accessible tournament for players with lower budgets, namely the €250 Mini Irish Open. The guaranteed prize pool has been raised steadily already and now consists of €1,000,000 guaranteed. On top of these two pearls of tournaments, a €1,000,000 GTD Mystery Bounty tournament is part of the tournament schedule. For the high rollers, there are both €5K, and €10K events available.
| Dates | Buy-in | Event | Guaranteed Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 10–15 | 1,150€ | Irish Open Mystery Bounty | 1,000,000€ |
| April 10–21 | 250€ | Mini Irish Open | 1,000,000€ |
| April 13–21 | 1,150€ | Irish Open Main Event | 2,500,000€ |
Mixed Games at the Irish Open
The Irish Open is known for offering a variety of Mixed Games, including popular formats such as HORSE, 8-Game, Big O, Open Face Chinese, and many more. That being said, it is very much comparable with The Festival Series, not just about the legion of Mixed Games available.
As mentioned, to see where you are with your mixed games skills, or to simply improve them, it is vital to put your tactics into practice. The Irish Open 2025 will offer the following mixed games events and other special events during this year's edition (all lower buy-in events):
| Buy-In | Tournament Name |
|---|---|
| €250 | Seniors Championship |
| €550 | PLO 6-Max |
| €550 | PLO 4/5/6 |
| €1,150 | PLO 8-Max |
| €250 | Ladies Championship |
| €1,150 | Seniors High Roller Championship |
| €350 | NLH Heads-Up Championship |
| €350 | PLO 6-Max Championship |
| €350 | OFC Championship |
| €350 | The Hendon Mob Championship "THMC" |
| €350 | Deuce to 7 Triple Draw Championship |
| €350 | HORSE Championship |
| €350 | Mixed 8-Game Championship |
| €200 | Irish Open Deaf Championship |
| €350 | Big O Championship |
Online Qualifiers Irish Open 2025
Besides the online qualifiers available on the sponsors of the event, PokerStars and Paddy Power, there is a massive campaign running on the iPoker Network. Just like you are all used to from The Festival Series campaigns on iPoker, they consist of several steps and you can qualify already from as low as €0,25! The campaign is running hot at the moment, where for example the 4x €2,250 GTD packages satellite from the upcoming Sunday already has been crushed extremely. Make sure to head over to your iPoker Network operator, because these satellites are not to be missed!
Besides the package qualifiers available, there are also €1 stack builder tournaments which run through the entire campaign. Additionally, you also have the opportunity to win seat-only tickets in the shape of a €1,150 ticket, or a €250 ticket.
Road to The Festival Series Rozvadov 2025
The Festival Series will kick off the 2025 season with The Festival Online on Ipoker as of February 23rd. Currently, there are already daily online qualifiers available on various iPoker operators such as Betfred, Betsafe, Nordicbet, Guts, Betsson, Champion Poker, Coolbet, and Paf. Make sure not to miss out on Weekly Finals where a full package worth €1,600 is guaranteed every single Wednesday! You can qualify for the Finals every day with a €5 tournament starting at 20:00 CET.
Keep track of our social media channels to be up to date about everything around The Festival Series. It won't take long anymore before we release the official tournament schedule for The Festival Series Rozvadov 2025 (June 6-16). See you there!
