One other cease of the 2025 Irish Poker Tour (IPT) wrapped up over the weekend. The ever-popular €30K in a Day mini competition occasion in Athlone, a city on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, was one other roaring success.
A €200 buy-in No-Restrict Maintain’em Principal Occasion, boasting a €25,000 assure, was the schedule’s spotlight. Some 235 gamers purchased in, leading to a €38,350 prize pool. A monster-sized 14-hour session later, and Yue Wang emerged victorious, lifting the winner’s trophy and receiving a career-best €10,000 prize.
€200 IPT Athlone Principal Occasion Closing Desk Outcomes
The reasonably priced buy-in made this event engaging to leisure gamers, however loads of seasoned grinders additionally took a shot. Gavin O’Rourke, Mick Graydon, and the legendary Andy Black have been among the many entrants. Sadly for that trio’s followers, they fell earlier than the awarding of the prize cash.
Anthony Crampton, an IPT common, popped the cash bubble after coming unstuck in twenty fifth place. Crampton’s demise noticed the 24 surviving gamers double their preliminary funding and edge nearer to the €10,000 first-place prize.
€1,000 was the least any of the 9 finalists might take dwelling. Jason Ward netted that sum after falling in ninth. John Murphy crashed out in eighth for €1,200 earlier than Callum Houston bowed out in seventh for a €1,400 rating.
Mindaugas Arlickas, considered one of two Lithuanians who navigated to the ultimate desk, noticed his event finish in sixth place. The €1,700 he obtained was his first four-figure payday.
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At one stage, Junior Costa was flying excessive and seemed like he might go all the way in which. Nonetheless, the Poker Gods had different concepts and resigned him to a fifth-place end. Fourth-place and €2,800 went to Cormack McGinty, with Stephen Dwyer busting in third for €4,000, and sending the Athlone Principal Occasion into the heads-up stage.
Wang and Lithuania’s Vilius Kadelskas locked horns heads-up and fought it out for the five-figure high prize. Kadelskas finally fell in second place, a end good for €6,000, leaving Wang to financial institution €10,000 and the title of champion.
It was one other spectacular run for the runner-up, who solely began logging dwell outcomes on his Hendon Mob profile in early 2024. Since then, Kadelskas has racked up virtually $40,000 in dwell poker event earnings.
The victory was Wang’s third on the IPT, however his first in a Principal Occasion. In September 2023, Wang gained the €200 Pot-Restrict Omaha 4/5/6 card occasion on the Tribesman Poker Competition in Galway for €2,900. Three months later, he took down the €100 No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion, additionally in Galway, for €1,480. Now he has accomplished a hat trick and reeled within the largest money of his profession so far.
Siege of Clonmel IV is Subsequent on the IPT’s Agenda
IPT occasions proceed coming thick and quick as the tip of 2025 attracts close to. The Talbot Lodge in Clonmel, County Tipperary, hosts the fourth version of the Siege of Clonmel from October 17-19. The cease might solely span three days, however IPT has managed to cram in seven tournaments, together with a €200 buy-in Principal Occasion that ensures not less than €50,000 will likely be gained.
In Might 2025, Tommy O’Rourke navigated by means of a 415-strong discipline within the Siege of Clonmel III Principal Occasion. His victory noticed him take dwelling €13,830 of the guarantee-busting €67,730 prize pool.
Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
