The Irish Poker Tour's Dublin Winter Festival gives the €200 Main Event eight shots at a €150,000 guarantee

The Irish Poker Tour's Dublin Winter Festival schedule, read on its own event page, runs 23 events over four days at the Green Isle Hotel in Clondalkin, Co. Dublin from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 November 2026. The tour puts the festival guarantee above EUR 200,000.

The structural point of interest is the Main Event. Billed as 150k for 200, it costs EUR 170 plus a EUR 30 registration fee and guarantees EUR 150,000 — and rather than the two or three Day 1 flights a regional festival usually offers at that buy-in, it runs eight. Day 1A opens at 18:00 on the Thursday; Friday carries 1B at 11:30, 1C at 17:00 and a 1D hyper at 21:00; Saturday carries 1E, 1F and 1G at 11:00, 16:00 and 20:00; and a second hyper, 1H, starts at 11:00 on the Sunday morning, two and a half hours before the final. Every flight starts players with 30,000 chips and allows two re-entries. The regular flights run a 30-minute clock with registration open through level 9; the hypers cut to 15 minutes and close at level 4.

Eight flights at a EUR 200 price means a player who travels for the weekend has a realistic shot at the guarantee even after busting several times, and the Sunday-morning hyper means a late arrival is still not shut out. Whether the EUR 150,000 is reached by entries or topped up by the tour is the open question that the field size will answer.

The side schedule is heavier on Omaha and mixed games than most Irish regional stops. A TORSE Winter Championship at EUR 260 plus EUR 40 opens on the Thursday afternoon, rotating Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud and Stud Eight or Better. Friday's Omaha 400 Progressive Bounty splits its EUR 400 three ways — EUR 210 to the prize pool, EUR 150 to the player's own bounty and EUR 40 in fee — for a EUR 15,000 guarantee. An Omaha 7-Max follows on the Saturday and a four- and five-card Omaha event closes the festival on Sunday evening with unlimited re-entry.

The largest side event by buy-in is Sunday's Winter 400 at EUR 360 plus EUR 40 with EUR 20,000 guaranteed, and both it and the Omaha 400 have their own EUR 70 satellites awarding four and three seats respectively. The best-value event on the sheet may be the Monsterstack: EUR 125 plus EUR 25 for a 75,000 starting stack, two and a half times what every other event at the festival gives.

The festival's tour-wide deductions apply: 3 per cent to staff and 1 per cent to the leaderboard.

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