17:30 Just coming up to 3 hours play and we have lost 20 players. So now we are left with 378 currently. However registration is still open for another 30 mins. So who knows what we will actually finish with. I will also anounce the prize poll forRead Full Article

16:40 Paul Marrow, famous for his dress sense, hasn’t let his fans down at the Irish Winter Festival. Dress in tight jeans, funky shirt, and blue suit jacket, he then finished it off with a rimbed cowboy hat. If any ones looking for him he will be hardRead Full Article

16:20 Down to 387 runners and all remaining players take a break. Most players have been playing fairly tight with an exception to a few. I recently witnessed Neil Channing making an unusual bluff on the river with his busted flush draw. His opponent folds and Channon showsRead Full Article

15:40 Padraig Parkinson has decided to take a well deserved rest just after the hour mark. I meet up with him at the bar, where he was sipping over a cold Guinness, and asked how he was getting on. Padraig replied “I just letting the rest catch up.”Read Full Article

15:25 Thats the second player now out of the Irish Winter Festival. The two players that have left the tournament early are Slovakian, Mario Kazda and Irishman Jeff Mitchell. Its still unclear who exactly left first but I am sure that both are unhappy with the result.

13:10 All is still quiet one hour before the start of day 1 at the Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival. The only action going on at the minute is a few satellites into the main event, and the hardened cash players that haven’t seemed to have leftRead Full Article

Although Poker News Boy will be running constant updates and photo’s from the Irish Winter Festival. You can also watch all the action through a live stream. Poker News Boy has no control of the streaming. However, we do have access to the streaming which will start onRead Full Article

Last week the place to be for poker was Ireland. With Dublin hosting the biggest tournament outside of the US. The Boyle Poker IPO came and left Dublin with great success. This years IPO featured 1440 poker players from over 19 different countries. However, this week all theRead Full Article

Taking place over October Bank Holiday weekend, the Irish Winter Festival features an estimated festival prizepool of €1,000,000. In addition to the Irish Masters main event (a €1,500 + €150 NLH freezeout starting on Saturday October 24th and running for three days), the festival will include a $150Read Full Article