JP Poker Series IX takes to the tables this weekend!
Get ready for €50,000 Guaranteed in the JP Poker Festival Series IX sponsored by WPT Global. We’re lucky forward to...
A packed month of celebrations is planned at Dublin’s celebrated JP Poker Card Club and Casino in August as founder JP McCann marks 20 years of involvement in the poker industry.
The special celebrations will include bonuses for early bird cash game players, nightly slot tournaments, boosted tournament guarantees and free beer tokens for all players competing on Friday nights.
The celebration month will also feature a special €150 buy-in, €10,000 guaranteed NLH tournament on Saturday, August 23.
All the celebration activities will be in addition to the regular poker schedule at the Club which includes the €150 buy-in, €25k guaranteed Festival Series XVI Main Event from August 1 to August 3 and the tournament league final on August 30.
JP’s 20 years of poker
JP first got into running poker tournaments back in 2005. At the time, he was working in a bank while studying for a Masters in finance. It was during the summer holidays that JP took part in a €40 buy-in poker game at a GAA club in Dublin. He was horrified to discover that the organisers were taking thousands of euros out of the prize pool and decided it was time to launch his own events that would feature a far more equitable prize pool payout.
JP’s very first event – which he ran with his uncle Joe McKeever – took place on August 25, 2005 at the Stonehouse Pub in Navan. The “JJP Pokermania“ tournament was a €20 rebuy with a prize pool that fairly reflected the size of the field. With over 80 entries, the evening was a big success and soon JP was running pub tournaments all over Ireland – including events in Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. The tournaments proved so popular that JP decided to quit his bank job and get involved in poker full-time.
Thanks to four years spent working on PokerStars’ European Poker Tour and UK & Ireland Poker Tour as well as WPTs, the WSOPE and festivals at Barrière Casinos, JP became a well-known figure on the international poker circuit. In 2012, he opened the Village Green Card Club in Tallaght and, four years later, he and Paul O’Reilly took over the running of the Irish Open, growing the event to become an award-winning festival with record-breaking fields in dozens of events.
The JP Poker Card Club and Casino, which opened in January 2024, is located in Tallaght’s well-known Arena complex and features ten poker tables along with slot machines and a pool table. The Club is open 18 hours a day, every day of the week, from noon to 6am.
August promotion details
August Main Event: a €150 buy-in NLH tournament will take place on Saturday, August 23 and feature a €10,000 prize pool guarantee. The tournament starts at 3pm and all players will receive a 30k starting stack. Late reg is open until 7pm.
Nightly cash games bonus: Every night in August, the first nine players to open the first NLH cash game of the evening with a €100 buy-in will each receive an extra €25 in chips.
Slot tournament: Every night in August there will be a quick-fire slots tournament – running from 6.30pm to 6.50pm – awarding €100 to the winner.
Monday Club double-up: every Monday in August, the tournament guarantee for the popular €120 buy-in NLH tournament will be doubled to €5,000. The tournament starts at 7pm with late reg open until 9.40pm.
Thursday bonus: the first player to win three Thursday night tournaments will get a €1,000 bonus. The promotion will run ad infinitum until there is a winner!
Friday Beer Bonanza: all Friday night customers will receive THREE free beer tokens.
Dealers’ bonus chips: all players competing in the Festival Series, the Wednesday mid-month tournament on August 13 and the €10k guaranteed special tourney on August 23 will have the option to buy an additional 3,000 in chips for €5. The €5 will be added to the dealers’ tip pool.
