Horse Bet Makes €650,000 Irish Poker Open Win
Europe’s oldest No Limit Texas Holdem tournament is the Irish Poker Open Tournament is and one of the continents most prestigious. The popular tournament ran last weekend and was won by a local, 22-year-ol Irishman named Niall Smyth. The online poker websites that are able to really pull things together in the complete package are the ones that become great and there is no doubt right now that UB Poker has become great.
Reports say that Smyth’s luck began when he started dating one Kim Madigan about a month ago because it was at Madigan’s urging that he put €20 on a horse race through an online sportsbook and won €200. Smyth’s good fortune continued when he had the presence of mind to transfer some of his winnings to the poker account of the same site. There he used it to win an Irish Open Main Event seat worth €3,200 + €300. The UB promotional code is merely part of a much larger promotional effort that UB goes through in order to make the start a very good time for any new player that decides to sign up for their online poker service.
Not bad, but Smyth was just getting started as he went on a tear and found himself at the final table and then ultimately heads-up against British poker veteran Surinder Sunar. With fate clearly on his side Smyth pocketed the €550,000 that came from first place, but he wasn’t finished there. As a bonus he won the Sole Survivor challenge which awarded him an additional €100,000 for being the last man standing from the online qualifiers.
