That’s right, there is more than €235,000 in the prize pool here at Citywest, so there are 52 tickets for the Irish Open up for grabs tonight! The prizepool must make this tournament one of the richest held in Ireland over the past 12 months! There are still more than 200 players remaining, so play will continue for a few hours at least. Doyle is about to appear for his book signing, so the queue is starting to form and they are restless!

The Irish Open Super Satellite has been running for the past 25 minutes and there are over 340 runners at the tables, with more coming in through the doors of Citywest every few minutes to register…already spotted at the tables are Jon Kalmar (5th in the WSOP 2007 Main Event) and Nicky Power (6th in last years Irish Open), I’m sure many more well known players are playing! There is already more than €125,000 in the prize pool (which will be divided out as €4,500 tickets), I’m thinking there might be as many as 40 tickets won tonight, maybe more! Will keep you updated…

Citywest is BUZZING! I think I tripped over a WSOP bracelet earlier on today, there are so many winners around - it’s like walking down the streets of Tralee, you’d see All-Ireland medals in the gutter with so many knocking around in the Kingdom! Apologies to those of you who don’t follow the national sport of Ireland, Gaelic Football, the image might be lost on you…that said, Ireland has a new national sport (for the week that is in it at least), the glorious game of Poker is taking over! For your own sakes, try to stop by Citywest at some point between now and next Monday (whether you are within walking, swimming, driving, sailing or flying distance of Dublin!), as the excitement will be non-stop! The Paddy Power Poker Irish Open 2008 is getting ready for the off!

Ah, now, I think that was all….nothing else to mention…

…oh yeah, that small matter of tonight’s Irish Open Online $300 Blog-tastic Freeroll password! That’s the only reason you’ve been coming here, admit it! Well, since I’m contractually obliged to tell you, I’ll forget my injured pride: tonight’s password is: chip95

Stay tuned to the blog for more updates from Citywest and tonight’s Super Satellite to the Irish Open and let me know how you get on in the freeroll! Remember, during the Irish Open you can ask the blogging team for updates on your favourite players and we’ll do our very best to find out for you…