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Dutchman partypoker-irish-poker-festival-main-event-champion/'>Michel Molenaar is the latest poker player to become a PartyPoker LIVE champion, having taken down the 3,000 buy-in Irish Poker Festival MILLIONS Main Event in Dublin for an impressive 210,000 payday.

The 210,000 Molenaar collected is the largest score of his career so far, surpassing the 126,650 he scooped after winning the 550 The Festival Bratislava Main Event in October 2022.

It has been quite the year for the young Dutch star. Molenaar won the 5,300 Super High Roller at the PokerStars Summer Festival Malta for 53,440 in July 2023, was the runner-up in the 5,300 Hydra Entertainment High Roller at PartyPoker LIVE MILLIONS Malta for 49,632 in September, and now has his hands on a career-best score in Ireland.

PartyPoker Irish Poker Festival MILLIONS Main Event Final Table Results

Rank	Player	Country	Prize
1	Michel Molenaar	Netherlands	210,000
2	Tomas MacNamara	Ireland	120,000
3	Glenn Keogh	Ireland	75,000
4	Liam Chevalier	Ireland	56,500
5	Andrew Hedley	United Kingdom	44,000
6	Richard Kellett	United Kingdom	35,000
7	Andy Black	Ireland	28,000
8	Padraig O’Neill	Ireland	22,840
9	Barry Carson	Ireland	18,500

The PartyPoker LIVE Irish Poker Festival MILLIONS Main Event drew in a 286-strong crowd, who created a 766,840 prize pool. The top 29 finishers won a slice of that pie, with the likes of Seamus Cahill, Scott Margereson, and India’s Ankit Ahuja all padding their bankrolls; the latter fell in 12th for 10,000, the tournament’s first five-figure prize.

Barry Carson was the first finalist to bow out, doing so with a ticket earning him 18500. Fellow Irishman Padraig O’Neill followed suit, collecting 22,840, before Irish legend Andy Black busted in seventh for 28,000.

Richard Kellett saw his latest deep run end in a sixth-place finish worth 35,000, with fellow Englishman Andrew Hedley crashing out in fifth for 44,000, the second-largest haul of Hedley’s live poker career.

Liam Chevalier came unstuck in fourth, a finish worth 56,500 before Glenn Keogh was eliminated in third for 75,000, which obliterated his previous best result, a $38,600 reward for a deep run in the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.

Heads-up pitted Molenaar against Tomas MacNamara. The final hand saw the players go to a four-five-deuce flop with two spades, MacNamara flopping two pair with his four-deuce, and Molenaar finding himself with a straight flush draw with his trey-deuce of spades. The ten of spades river improved Molenaar to the winning hand, busting MacNamara in second for 120,000 and leaving Molenarr to lift the winner#039;s trophy and see 210,000 head to his bank account.

Other PartyPoker LIVE Irish Poker Festival Results

Event	Buy-in	Entrants	Prize Pool	Champion	Prize
PLO 7-Max	250	55	11,795	Patrick Eagers	4,250
NLHE Freezeout	250	89	19,090	Colm Chan	6,490
Mystery Bounty	400	207	72,655	Thomas Murphy	22,500*
Irish Omaha Championship	2,500	49	109,880	Ivelin Pavlov	43,000
NLHE Freezeout	250	90	19,305	Barry Carson	4,800
1K One Day Omaha	1,000	29	25,445	Barry Moore	11,000
Dublin Poker Cup	750	93	63,475	Niall Murphy	18,000
Dublin Ladies Championship	250	23	4,885	Mary Seary	1,335
PLO 7-Max	250	65	13,945	Elie Nakache	5,500
Grand Prix	550	267	130,140	Ivan Tononi	32,000
Leinster Poker Cup	550	59	28,760	Paul Carr	10,600
High Roller	2,500	59	132,310	Vitor Hugo	40,000
Monster Stack	250	79	16,945	Francesco Griffi	4,000
PLO 7-Max	400	30	10,530	Jozsef Fauszt	4,950

*includes bounty payments

That looks to be it for the PartyPoker LIVE tour in 2023. However, following the roaring success of its Bratislava, Malta, and now Ireland stops, it would be surprising not to see more stops announced for 2024 in the not-too-distant future. Watch this space.

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