After the success of the MPN Poker Tour Dublin Main Event, which Daniel Tighe won for €53,845, there were high hopes for the €500 buy-in Mega Poker Series (MPS) Main Event, especially as the organizers claimed the eventual prize pool would be in the region of €250,000. Whoever was in charge of that estimation was way off after only seven players registered on Day 1a.
The original schedule had eight levels planned, but the action had to be cut short when the already tiny field was reduced to two players, those players being David O'Kelly and Fintan Gavin.