He came in 5th for $1.750 million – that is his biggest tournament score to date. He too made it to the WSOP Main Event final table, in 2005. He has $4.828 million in live tournament earnings, according to the Hendon database. Furlong also won the Irish Poker Open in 19.Īndy Black has won more money on live poker tournaments than any other Irish player. 10 years before that, in 1989, he made another deep run in the Main – he made the final table and eventually finished 6th. He claimed the $1,000,000 first prize along with his first and only gold bracelet.

“Noel” Furlong won the Main Event at the 1999 World Series of Poker. One of the oldest poker tournament series is the Irish Poker Open, starting in 1981. Ireland is one of the 12 nations outside the United States to have a WSOP Main Event champion. 12% of Irish bet with a bookie on a weekly basis, according to a 2017 survey.Īs for poker, a total of 15 poker rooms are running in Ireland. There are hundreds of online sportsbook available for the residents to choose from on top of the around 1,100 land-based bookmaker shops. In 2019 alone, €4.3 billion was wagered on sporting events by the Irish. Sports betting is very popular in Ireland. They estimate that the number of serious gambling addicts is also around 40,000. They found that there are around 40,000 machines operating across the country, while being virtually completely unchecked. In 2019, TheJournal.ie ran an exposé on the slot machine industry in the country. Both presumptions can be backed by facts – unfortunately, sometimes to the Irish people’s detriment. The Irish are stereotypically believed to be heavy drinkers and avid bettors.

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