The blonde update team has been following the action from the Jury's Hotel, Dublin this Easter Weekend, as a large field consumed itself over two days until there remained just six players - these ones:
Ian Woodley
Jonathan Wong
Conor Smyth
Vince Melinn
Branden Ruane
Paul Daly
Tonight at 9pm the final six will get miked up and sit on one of those surprisingly large, brightly lit TV poker tables and play for the top prizes:
1st €350,000
2nd €180,000
3rd €100,000
4th €70,000
5th €60,000
6th €50,000
But there's a difference - it will be broadcast Live on Skysports2, so if you have such technology then you'll get all the bells and whistles of commentary and hole card cameras, etc. If not, blonde will be here to let you know the details in a sort of pseudo-live update, where we can see the hole cards and then speculate wildly on what the players could have been thinking... or we could just give you the facts straight.
One result already determined was the Paddy Power Last Longer - whereby the player (Paddy Power online qualifier for the Irish Open) who lasted longer than all other qualifiers was rewarded with a World Series of Poker prize package... and it was Pat O'Callaghan.
So far the blondes have put in a good show, for example Chili, Rumit, Joe Grech, and Nick Whiten making Day Two in shape, and Rob Yong, Stuart Fox and Ian Woodley getting considerably further than most...
Check out the live updates for some more detail of the previous days' play, or if you can't get to a TV in time.
