Card Player Poker Tour: Thirty Three Years of Irish Poker – Part IIIJimmy Langan and Noel Furlong Capture Multiple Titles |
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The Paddy Power Poker Irish Open is now part of the Card Player Poker Tour. With a colorful history spanning more than three decades, the Irish Open is sure to add additional buzz and excitement to the CPPT.
The longest running tournament in Europe and the second longest running tournament in the world, behind only the World Series of Poker, the Irish Open will crown its newest champion April 18-21 in Dublin, Ireland.
Over the coming weeks Card Player will take a look at the last three decades of Irish poker, beginning with the first Irish Open in 1981.
1986
Terry Rogers was featured in the 17th annual WSOP program. His profile read: “With his bowler cocked at a jaunty angle, Terry Rogers, a well known Dublin, Ireland bookmaker is living the life of O’Reilly between his own participation in the WSOP and his staging of the Irish Poker Championships over the Easter holidays. As chairperson of the Eccentric Club, a charitable fundraising organization, he inaugurated the Irish Poker Championship which enticed his compatriots to seek a similar life of clover.”
Bryan McCarthy went down in history as the 1986 Irish Open winner.
1987
Noel Furlong won the first of what would become three Irish Open titles. Furlong had only been playing poker for about four years when he showed up at Killiney Castle and witnessed the tournaments being run by Rogers. Furlong played his first Irish Open in 1984 and finished second. Furlong would go on to win the WSOP main event in 1999.
1988
Jimmy Langan became the first person to win the Irish Open twice. Colette Doherty, Liam Flood and Mickey Finn would also go on to collect two Irish Open titles.
1989
Furlong earned his second Irish Open title and finished sixth at the WSOP main event. Furlong said later, “I came to Las Vegas the first time with Terry in 1989 and got to the final table of the championship event purely by luck. There might be a possibility that I know a little bit more about how to play poker now, but I definitely didn’t know a lot about it then. I was chip leader at one point and should’ve done better.”
1990
Flood picked up his first of two Irish Open wins.
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