Satellite Your Way Into The Largest Irish Poker Open Ever

Over a thousand players qualified for the 2025 Irish Poker Open through event partners, which include PokerStars, PaddyPoker, and the iPoker Network. Hundreds of those players went on to spin their ticket into a profit, and those same partners want to give every player the same opportunity for this year’s Irish Poker Open.

The 2026 Irish Poker Open runs from March 26th to April 4th at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge. This edition of the Irish Open features 86 events and more than €4,500,000 in guarantees. You can grab your share of the prize pool by qualifying online for just pennies. 2023 Irish Open champion, David Docherty, won €365,000 after qualifying in a PokerStars satellite for just $109.

PokerStars Activates Emerald Edition Power Pass

At the 2025 Irish Open, 85 players cashed in their PokerStars Silver Power Pass worth $2,500 to enter the Irish Open Main Event. The pass also included a €350 entry to an Irish Open side event, plus money towards expenses.

The Emerald Edition Power Pass is an exclusive version of the $2,500 prize bundle that also features a €250 Mini Irish Open ticket, limited-edition merchandise, special live-event liaison support, and exclusive Irish Open activities.

PokerStars has numerous other paths to seats and packages for the Irish Open, now running. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, PokerStars hosts €109 qualifiers with four guaranteed seats. As the 2026 Irish Open draws closer, PokerStars will ramp up the volume and prize pools for the key satellites.

Grinding the satellites is a great way to build your bankroll for the Rish Open. After a player wins their first seat, any additional seats won after will be credited as ‘player’s choice’ tickets, which can be used for buy-ins and re-entries to the numerous €1,150 events on offer or combined to be used for one of the larger buy-in events.

Paddy Poker Prepped with Feeders & Freerolls

There is no better value than the qualifying path set out by Ireland’s leading online gaming company, Paddy Power. Paddy Power returns as one of the headline sponsors of the Irish Open and offers players the chance to get into the Irish Open for free.

Paddy Power runs daily freerolls and €1 satellites to qualify for monthly €100 qualifiers that guarantee three seats. They also have €50 seat-only qualifiers running five days a week, and daily €150 flights that lead into a Sunday final, where five €2,250 packages are guaranteed. Both of those events have feeder satellites as well.

There are also Mini Irish Open satellites that will run three times a week. Visit this link for full details on qualifying for the 2026 Irish Open through Paddy Poker.

iPoker Set to Fill Hundreds of Seats

The iPoker network of affiliates is guaranteeing almost 500 chances to lock up a seat at this year’s Irish Open. Online qualifiers are running with 200 €2,250 packages, 150 Main Event seat-only tickets, and 125 Mini Irish Open seat-only tickets guaranteed.

The 2,250 packages have a two-step qualification path with daily €150 Day 1 flights and a Day 2 flight on Sunday. Each Sunday qualifier guarantees five packages, and players must qualify through a Day 1. There is also a series of exclusive micro-flight tournaments with 16 packages guaranteed. Day 1s for these run every day with Day 2s on February 1, February 22 and March 15. €50 seat-only qualifiers will run five times a week, with tons of feeder satellites to the package and seat-only qualifiers.

Satellites for the Mini Irish Open run three times a week. The 2026 satellites will be available right across the iPoker network, including Paddy Power, Betfair, Sky Bet, Grosvenor Poker, Bet365, Betfred, Betsson, Betsafe, Guts, Nordicbet, Betsmith / Betsolid / Arcticbet, Boyle, Champion Poker, Coolbet, Fortuna CZ, Holland Casino, Inbet, Klondaika LV (Entain), Ninjacasino EE (Entain), Novibet, Paf, Redstar and Svenska and Swisscasinos.

The full list of upcoming online satellites is available here.