Card Player Poker Tour: Thirty Three Years of Irish Poker – Part V

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.

There are two years unaccounted for in our look back at history, 1995 and 1997, and it’s possible there was no tournament during those years. Rogers passed away in 1999 and there is a chance, due to age and illness, the tournament did not happen – at least not in a formal sense – during those two years. Paddy Power Poker and Card Player were unable to find records of the Irish Open during that time.

1996

Liam Flood picked up his second Irish Open title.

1998

Mickey Finn won title number two.

1999

In what would go down in history as an amazing year for Irish poker players, Irishman Liam Barker won the Irish Open. Elsewhere, three of his countrymen finished in the top 10 of the WSOP main event. George McKeever finished seventh, Padraig Parkinson came in third and Noel Furlong won the main event.

2000

Alan Betson won the Irish Open and five years later finished second to John Falconer, making him one of the most successful players in the tournament’s history.

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