1. paddypowerpoker.com join SharkRankings.com

    Friday 13th is a date which is normally associated with some of the worst luck imaginable, but here at SharkRankings.com we feel it will definitely be a case of lucky for some as we welcome PaddyPowerPoker.com to our community as they become the newest online partner hosting SharkRankings.com Online Ranking games. With 33 weekly games with buyins ranging from €2 to €10, and with a combined guaranteed prizepool of €140,000 up for grabs each and every week until the end of the year.

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  2. Vandersmissen wins Irish Open

    Kevin Vandersmissen has won the 2012 paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open Main Event, taking home the coveted trophy and a literally huge cheque for €420,000.

    He beat Thomas Beer heads up after just 5 levels at the final table, surpassing his previous live cash record ($260,000 for his runner-up spot at EPT Snowfest in 2011).

    This €3,200 + €300 event is a yearly one-off spectacular of tournament poker and attracts one of the most varied fields seen worldwide.

    From international poker stal...

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  3. Grinder Glory in Galway

    It's two days since his live got turned upside down, the online grinder hit paydirt and took down the opening leg of the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) held in Galway at the weekend. A prize of €100,000 smashed his own previous record live win which was just over €2,000 last September.

    Omagh's Emmett Mullin, 26, has spent the last 6 years making his living from poker, a regular grinder on the online MTT circuit, his successful forays into the live game have been limited to a ...

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  4. SharkRankings.com offer €1,000,000 Prize

    To celebrate the launch of SharkRankings.com we would like to announce a €1 million cash prize for any individual who wins five out of ten of Ireland’s most prestigious poker titles in 2012.

    Breifne Earley co-founder of SharkRankings.com commented: “It all started with a discussion about who was the best poker player in Ireland. We decided to establish a mechanism by which that argument could be settled once and for all!

    SharkRankings.com takes each and every tournament across the country i...

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  5. Irish Eyes Poker Announce Ranking Events

    SharkRankings.com are delighted to announce the first Online Ranking games for 2012 hosted by Irish Eyes Poker.

    The tournaments will include €6, €10.50 and a weekly €33 tournament. These games will be deepstack freezeouts and will be held five nights a week on Irish Eyes poker, with the first of these games taking place on Monday, 9th January at 8:15pm and continuing every week throughout the year.

    With a deep starting stack of 3,000 chips and 12 minute levels these games promise to be pop...

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  6. Tompkins lands High Roller at European Deepstack

    The European Deepstack Poker Championship V in Dublin was a great success. Belgian player Christophe Vanzieleghem overcame a 590 player field to take down €53,065 (original payout €63,000 but players dealt 3 handed).

    Jason Tompkins won the inaugural High Roller event which contained well know faces such as 2010 WSOP Champion Jonathan Duhamel, Max Silver, Stephen O'Dwyer and John Eames.

    Last year's winner Magnus Naslin became the first player to win two D4 events tournaments when he beat ...

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  7. SharkRankings.com Announce €10,000 Freeroll

    SharkRankings.com are offering you the incredible chance to participate in a €10,000 freeroll at the end of 2012. The first SharkRankings.com ranking year will culminate in Ireland’s largest ever freeroll tournament composed of an exclusive number of participates.

    All you need to do to qualify for this incredible opportunity is to place high enough on a least one of the SharkRankings.com qualifying leaderboards - the Overall National Ranking leaderboard, the Overall Online leaderboard ...

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  8. SharkRankings.com Launches!

    SharkRankings.com presents a ranking system for both live and online poker players to compete for some of the biggest prizes in Ireland.

    SharkRankings.com announces the most accurate and comprehensive poker ranking system available. Online and live poker players will be able to battle it out to see who will emerge at the end of the year as the champion of them all.

    Incorporating tournament results from all over the country and from selected Irish based online poker sites, SharkRanking...

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  9. National Club Leaderboard added to Shark Rankings

    SharkRankings.com are delighted to announce the addition of the National Club Leaderboard, which counts the best results each player has scored in all listed games on the site since the start of the year. Check your position now on each of our three national leaderboards.

    National Club Leaderboard | National Leaderboard (Festivals & Monthly Games) | National Online Leaderboard

    Don't forget the top ten in each of these national leaderboards gets entry into our €10,000 freeroll, along with...

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  10. WPT Comes to Ireland

    The first-ever WPT Ireland event has come and gone and left 338 entrants with a smile all over their faces, but none more than the eventual winner Dave Shallow. The inaugural event was a huge success and even the most ambitious predictions fell short of the actual interest and excitement.

    Dave Shallow added his name to those on the WPT Champions Cup and in the process also earned himself a nice €222,280, which also includes a €25,500 seat in the season-ending WPT World Championship.

    Sha...

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