Thu, 07/21/2011 – 22:46 – PokerPages Staff

5. Donnacha O’Dea – Career Earnings of $1,249,442
This talented Dubliner has racked up 33 cashes in a career spanning almost thirty years. Donnacha O’Dea’s career highlight will undoubtedly be his victory at the Poker Million in 2004, where he walked off with over half a million dollars.

4. Fintan Gavin – Career Earnings of $1,286,289
Fintan Gavin has won two tournaments, and cashed 12 times so far in his career. Gavin’s biggest prize to date has been a cool $1,123,884 for a second place in the PokerStars Barcelona Open in 2008.  

3. Padraig Parkinson – Career Earnings of $1,407,822
Padraig Parkinson, another Dubliner, has achieved one first place finish in his career so far. The player who lists his hobbies as “sports betting from the couch and drinking in the pub” achieved his highest cash finish in the WSOP Main Event in 1999, where his third place netted Parkinson almost half a million dollars.

2. Martin Smyth – Career Earnings of $3,635,006
Martin Smyth has taken a little over 10 years to become the second most successful Irish poker player of all time. Of his five career first places, three of them have carried six figure prize pots, and Smyth’s biggest win so far was the $1 million for winning the Ladbrokes Poker Million VII final in 2008. This came after a second placed finish in the same event the previous year.

1. Andy Black – Career Earnings of $4,102,861
Originally from Belfast, Andy Black now calls Dublin his home. Whilst studying at Trinity College, Dublin, Black became involved in the notorious poker school based at the university. Andy Black’s highest cash prize was the $1,750,000 he received for coming fifth in the WSOP main event in 2005.