Irish Poker Player signed by Lock Poker

Lock Poker, a new poker site on the Cake Network, have recently been adding plenty of new faces to their player base. In the last two month Lock Poker have added a massive 12 new players to their roster. And one of the biggest names to join the Lock Poker Team is N.Irelands very own Stevie Devlin.

Stevie Devlin or better known as Allinstevie to the online poker community has been crushing the online poker scene for a few years now. He is regularly ranked as one of the top online poker players in any poker ranking that you check. So it is a big surprise that little known Lock Poker have managed to sign one of the brightest prospect to come out of Ireland for many years.

Best Online Poker Rooms for Irish Players

As everyone knows, Pokerstars and Full Tilt are the two biggest and most popular online poker rooms. However, this does not make them the best, and definitely not the best online poker rooms for Irish Players. So I had a look to see what sites would be best for online Irish Poker players to play poker at. I came up of a list of 3.

IPO Freeroll on Boyle Poker for Card Player members

Card Player and Boyle Poker have teamed up to offer a freeroll into this years IPO. The tournament will be held today, Sunday 13^th September, at 9pm UK time.

This is without doubt the cheapest way to play this years awesome IPO in Dublin. Thanks to Card Player players who download Boyle Poker through Irish Poker News Headlines and then go to Card Player for the password to play.

The freeroll on Boyle Poker has one IPO package available plus some cash prizes for lower finishers. With the IPO package worth more than $250 itself plus $200 being added to the prize fund for places all the way to 50^th.

Irish Dermot Blaine wins APPT in Macau

A little known Irish Poker Player, Dermot Blaine, has came back from the dead and won the APPT in Macau. Blaine started the final day short stacked, with only 13 big blinds. However, with a bit of luck and incredible grinding abilities, Blaine ended up being crowned APPT champion and picked up a nice $541,089.

The two main hands that Blaine will thank for the victory, is when he knocked out Daixing Chen with A-K, when Chen was holding A-Q on a A-9-3 board. That propelled Blaine to chip leader, and four hands later it was all over when he called an all-in from Mike Kim with K-10 for Kim to show K-9. The flop,turn and river changed nothing, except the fact that Dermot Blaine as the new APPT poker champion.

APPT Macau Results

1st Dermot Blaine $541,089
2nd Mike Kim $384,999
3rd Daoxing Chen $239,327
4th Darkhan Botabayev $166,497
5th Pontus Kers $114,464
6th Jicheng Su $74,923
7th Dbinder Singh $52,033
8th Brandon Demes $41,621
9th Stefan Hjorthall $31,222

Top Irish Online Poker Players

With all the big live poker tournaments in Ireland quickly approaching, I thought I would have a look at some of the best Irish online poker players that will probably be featuring in most of the events. With only four months left of this year, we still have the, Boyle Poker’s International Poker Open on the 16th of October, Paddy Poker’s Irish Winter Festival on the 23rd or October and the Ladbrokes Irish Poker Festival on the 2nd of October. So with October looking to be the biggest month for live poker tournaments in Ireland. Here are a few of the best Irish Online Poker players that will surely feature.

Top 5 Irish Online Poker Players

Irish Poker Festival soon approaching

Following up on last years success, Ladbrokes are again sponsoring the Irish Poker festival, which will be held in Killarney on October from the 2nd to the 4th. This year, the Irish Poker Festival looks to be another big success, following on from last years success, where 832 poker players competed for a guaranteed €250,000. Last years winner, Jimmy McSweeney, walked away with a massive €100,000.

Irish Poker Radio to Record at The Fitz and The Westbury this week.

In their last three shows Irish Poker Radio have interviewed some of the biggest names in Irish Poker, and at the Team Championship of Poker last weekend they recorded two impromptu interviews with both Liam Flood and online superstar Jude “j.thadeus” Ainsworth.

On Thursday the 27th of August the show will travel to one of the most popular end of month games in the country, The Fitzwilliam card club’s €270 game which had an impressive €32,500 prozepool in July and are soon to announce their popular Winter Festival which Irish Poker Radio will also record at.

On the first of September the show will also record at the Westbury’s monthly €10,000 guaranteed. The Westbury has proved a popular venue among players looking to earn extra Irish Poker ranking points, not to mention the complementary barbeque.

You can listen to all the previous radio shows here or subscribe to the regular podcast via iTunes here

Dave Masters and Co scoop the Team Championship of Poker.

Dave Masters defeated Michael Grayden heads up to win the inidivual title and lead his team to victory in the Team Championship of Poker. In a key hand in the heads up battle both played got all their chips in the middle almost even stacked. On a 7-9-3 board with two spades.

Graydon showd the 6-8 of spades and was a favourite over Master’s Queen-7, but Graydon missed all of his sixteen outs twice to end up crippled with a ten to one chip deficit.

In the final hand Graydon once again put his chips in as favourite with Queen-6 against Jack-Ten and hit a dry Queen high flop meaning his opponent needed runner runner to finish him off, but the dealer duly obliged and turned an Ace and a King to give Master a backdoor straight and the individual title.

Having reached the final table Masters only needed to secure third place in order for his team to take the overall title on points. Four handed the team were gifted the win when he isolated an all-in from a short-stacked player with Ace-9 from the button.

Bruce Poker Add €6000 to Irish Poker Rankings.

On Wednesday 20th August, The Irish Poker Rankings completed a sponsorship deal to give something back to the players and provide further incentive for those following the domestic Irish Rankings and attempting to climb the ladder.

“We are proud to take BrucePoker.com as the rankings sponsor. We welcome the support they have and will continue to show to the poker players of Ireland with a little something back in return.We have secured a total of around €6000 for the players in the rankings.” said Iain Cheyne from IrishPokerRankings.com