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.

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.

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.

DevilfishPoker.com offers 18 free packages to European Masters of Poker grand final in Malta

DevilfishPoker.com today announces its August European Masters of Poker Malta promotion which sees 18 free seats given away to the EMOP grand final main event throughout this month.

The fifth and final leg of the inaugural EMOP tour takes place in Vittoriosa, Malta from Sept. 23 to 25 and is expected to draw up to 500 players creating an estimated prize pool of €750,000.

Europe’s leading new poker tour, EMOP, has taken in stops in Spain, Estonia, Bulgaria, and Czech Republic since February 2009 and fields have steadily grown in size to last month’s penultimate leg in Barcelona which attracted 399 players, creating a prize pool of €399,000.

paddypowerpoker.com announces Irish Winter Festival Ticket-Only satellites.

paddypowerpoker.com have announces weekly Irish Winter Festival Ticket-Only satellites, with the first $200 + $15 freezeout super satellite scheduled for Thursday, August 13th at 8pm.

An Irish Winter Festival main event ticket will be awarded for every $2,300 in the prizepool. Feeder satellites will run daily from Monday, August 10th and buy-ins start from $2.20.

“We are thrilled that players can avail of a wider variety of Irish Winter Festival qualifiers than ever before; our ticket-only satellites have been designed to give players ‘more bang for the buck’!” said Paddy Power, Communications Manager for paddypowerpoker.com. “Since players who win a seat in one of our ticket-only sats will also be eligible for our IWF Sole Survivor promotion and be in with a chance to capture a tasty €20,000, we expect them to beat a path to our tables each and every Thursday evening!”

Swede Anton Wigg wins European Masters of Poker Barcelona

Anton Wigg from Sweden topped the field of 399 players at the European Masters of Poker in Casino Barcelona last weekend taking down €55,502 for his victory. The EMOP Barcelona event attracted the largest field of the tour so far.

After Viktor Manfred Kåvenstam was eliminated at 4th place, the final three players made a deal according to their chip stacks, deciding to play for a small amount of money, and the EMOP trophy.

Maciej Swicarz then knocked out Kristian Eriksson and got heads-up with Wigg. Swicarz dominated the table for a short period but in the end Wigg managed to take control. In the final hand, the players were all in on the flop, both players holding top pair but the Swede’s pair of nines with an ace kicker was enough to win.

The final table results and payouts were:

Get 2,000 extra chips for the International Poker Open 2009.

Boylepoker.com have launched its innovative VIP Club points promotion for the International Poker Open 2009. The promotion gives players the opportunity to increase their starting stack at the live tournament in Dublin in October from 8,000 to 10,000 by simply playing at Boylepoker.com during August and September and accumulating VIP Club points.

Players who earn 250 VIP Club points in August get 1,000 chips added to their starting stack of 8,000, and 250 VIP Club Points earned in September gives them another 1,000 chips bringing the total to 10,000.