PaddyPower.com Irish Open: Day 3 - At A Glance

[danafish]

John Keown moves all in on the TV table for his last 97.5k, but finds no callers. Picks up the HUUUGE blinds instead.

Lam Trinh has just been moved on to the TV table too. He's doing about averagely on 235k.

[danafish]

Phil Starrrdrrdrrdrdrds goes all in on the TV table...

And Lam Trinh calls! [Actually I now believe Lam raised it first and Phil re-raised all in. Anyway...]

Phil - A-K
Lam - A-9

We're hoping for a Lam chop for no reason other than that it would make us an awesome pun, but the board comes down as follows:

7-5-A-A-8

And Lam, slaughter, etc insert your own pun here, he is OUT.

[NoflopsHomer]

More Phil Starrsssssssssssss action, he's got against Frederik Levy's



A literal four-flush for Levy doubles him up and it's Starrs who has his overpair cracked this time.

[danafish]

Mr Charlie Harvey, most heartlessly photographed by me, below (was going to say "flashed in the face by me" but thought better of it) shoves from the small blind; he is instantly called by Donal Norton in the big blind.

Donal -
Charlie - oops, most unlucky time to shove in that it couldn't be much worse for him with his

Board (Charlie putting his coat on)

So Mr Charlie Harvey is OUT and trying very hard to walk away in a dignified manner without me taking photos/flashing him. Sorry Mr Harvey.

[NoflopsHomer]

Thomas Fourgeron has doubled up once more, with Kings vs the J-T of chip leader Donal Norton, a Jack on the flop had the Frenchman nervous, but a welcome King on turn brought much relief. He's now on 215k. Norton still very much the leader with about 550k.



Tim Blake has just won a big pot off Nick Goodall leaving the latter crippled. Tim bet 40k into a pot of about 160k on the river of a board leaving Nick very short.



In fact, it's just been announced that Tim has now knocked Nick out, we think with Ace Queen vs Tens, hitting two pair.

[danafish]

Willie on Willie action!!!!!

- resulting in a double up for Mr Willie Haughey with  against William Martin's

Board -

[JungleCat03]

Wow. I run so good today.

I walk over to randomly check on john Kabbaj and find him embroiled in a mega pot versus Maz Nawab!

The flop is and Maz is busy saying "I liiike".... the flop as he holds for top pair and a flush draw...

But John is also a fan of the flop as he holds for top 2!

The turn is the to give Maz a gutshot out as well...

And the river is the...! No spade, no straight card means we lose the superbly consistent Maz Nawab after a monumental effort and John Kabbaj bolsters his stack yet further, pushing him up near the top of the leaderboard...

Here is Maz as he departs the table...



and John telling Surinder "This many times..." as he prayed for his top 2 to hold.



Not entirely sure of the relevance of this picture BUT after that superb pot, I think you have to say...

Click to see full-size image.

[danafish]

any chip count for tom dempsey please great stuff guys keep it up

I'm afraid we can't get chip counts for people on the TV table, but we heard announced over the tannoy that he has just doubled up, moving in on a 7-8-T, two spade flop and getting himself insta-called by Phil Starrdrrrdrdrdrdrds.

Dempsey - 9-J for the nut flush
Starrrdrdrdrdrds - for the flush draw

And there's some kind of pun-able situation whereby a Dempsey could be destroyed by a Flushy Starrrr... Something tenuous like that, but this is what actually happened -

The turn is initially the but it turns out that this is actually the burn card that has been mistakenly flipped - will there be controversy??

Er, no, the turn is the and the river is the - which means that Thomas Dempsey has doubled up.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Blake is now one of the chip leaders with over 500k, also note the belated entry of the yellow 5k chips.



Hassan -- 300k

[JungleCat03]

Quick reminder of the remaining payouts awaiting our final 25 runners.

Prize pool - €3,001,400

1 € 801,400
2 € 420,000
3 € 275,000
4 € 220,000
5 € 175,000
6 € 135,000
7 € 100,000
8 €  75,000
9 € 50,000
10 -12 €32,500
13-18  €24,000
19-27  €18,000

[JungleCat03]

On the feature table, Phil Star jsut called Andrew Grimason's allin, with A-T only to find Grimason dominating him with A-K.

The flop of meant Grimason's hand held to double up the young Irish player and leave Star star(r]ing into a black hole of despair...

[NoflopsHomer]

I'm afraid Conor Tate is OUT. Mark Spellmen's Queens held vs Conor's Ace Jack.



We've also lost Don Fagan in a battle of the 5BB's survival versus Neil Channing. Channing's T-8 overcoming the K-7.

[danafish]

Double up for John Keown on the TV table with A-8 against Frederic Levy's K-9. Board an exciting but ultimately-not-changing-anything A-5-K-2-7.

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Also I'm sorry Mr Sealey Jr/Sr depending on your perspective and/or relation to that microwave and the pot noodle, but your dad/son is OUT. Not sure what he was holding, but as I legged it to the table I saw him wandering off, and Mark Spellman, holding pocket Queens on a Queen-high board, was raking in his chips.

[NoflopsHomer]

Pete Linton has lost 100k or so trying to bluff Surindar Sunar. He made a face like someone who has just smelt a fart whilst in a lift.

He still has about 350k though.

[danafish]

Oh yeah, Floppy already said about Conor Tate. Sorry.

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Our Remaining Players, As Cunningly Deduced By Us:

Mark Spellman
Thomas Dunwoodie
Donal Norton
Eric Larcheveque
Wiliam Martin
Tim Blake
Willie Haughey
Surinder Sunar
John Kabbaj
Neil Channing
Thomas Finneran
Pete Linton
Tony Salmon
Edwin Tournier
Hassan Mohammed
Phil Starrrdrdrdrdrrrdrds
Danilo Paulsen
Thomas Fougeron
John Keown
Frederic Levy
Andrew Grimason
Mate E. Boy x 1 on the TV table that I don't recognise/can't deduce from earlier postings, sorry. We'll find out soon, hopefully.