With the enforced suspension of live tournament poker, many operators have either cancelled their events or moved them online, in many cases offering big guarantees and a full schedule.

The latter is definitely true for the 2020 Irish Open, which is heading online from today after a decision to bring poker players the oldest poker tournament in Europe online was reached by the Irish Open and partypoker, who will host the festival.

With 22 events, partypoker have put together a massive overall guarantee of €2.7 million which features events such as the Ladies Event, Main Event and Mini Main Event. The Main Event’s buy-in of €1,100 looks incredibly reasonable given the event’s guarantee is a cool million euros. There are four Day 1s, which start from Wednesday until Saturday, when Day 2 also takes place, with the Irish Open final on Sunday 12th April.

Formats include the standard no limit hold’em as well as NLH 6-Max, NLH 8-Max, Pot Limit Omaha 6-Max and PLO 8-Max too, with something for everybody. The festival runs from Monday April 6th until Sunday April 12th, with the week of events sure to please players around the world who otherwise might not have been able to travel to the Emerald Isle.