Irish Open: Interactive Thread

[Chili]

Blinds are up.  Level 4 - 100/200
607 players left.

No payout structure has been published yet but I'll post it as soon as.

[Chili]

Its pretty hard to catch a hand of any interest at the moment.  There are so many tables you don't know where to look and it looks like pretty cagey stuff with not many flops.  I'll head back out into the field and see what I can find.

I thought I was gonna get lucky just now on passing Dan Harringtons table.  From a 7k stack he makes it 625 from the small blind. 
The bb made it 1,600 to play.  Dan thought thouroughy, handled his chips, over and over and at one point I thought he was gonna 4 bet.  Instead he went a little red and folded instead......sigh.

[TightEnd]

I too haven't found many big pots, even with 60 tables to choose from. Pot luck whether you happen to be in the right place at the right time



In news, Greek Stein has been moved two to Channing's left, and still looks confident on over 30,000

Keith The Camel Hawkins also has over 30,000 and I saw him raise pre-twice and take down both pots uncontested post-flop with continuation bets


DTD Qualifier Jonathan Butters approaches 20,000, with Gurdu Millan still nursing a short-stack

Also short and clinging on is Iwan Jones, back to 5,500


Roland De Wolfe 12,000

Tim Blake back to his 10,000 starting stack


Jen Mason who is on the same table as legend Donnacha O'Dea is going onto the feature table next

Flip Flop Brownsden up to 16,000 

[TightEnd]

Half the field now goes on its dinner break

[Newmanseye]

Tighty any chance you can give me some semi regular updates of Neil  McFayden. Cheers

[Chili]

I saunter over to Wadey Ashraf's table who is never short of action.

Early position matey makes it 550, Wadey calls and the bb comes along too.

    checked by all 3

Turn:    big blind bets 1,100, original raiser gets out the way.

Wadey made it 2,800
BB makes it 6,200
Wadey makes it 10k and BB flats.

River: 

BB checks and Wadey picks up a good stack of 1k chips and plonks them over the line. BB instafolds.

Wadey "You wanna see?"
BB  shrugs "I know what you have thanks"
Wadey  "Yeah? You do? Here you go then"

Wadey tables  for a wonderful in your eye moment.

Then carries on "I knew you didn't have much though"  hehehe

[TightEnd]

GUKPT London finalist Rumit Somaiya stands up and I congratulate him on his recent result

"ahhh, should have been better" he replies but he seems in good spirits as he moves to put his frying pan sized Phillips headphones back on

[George2Loose]

I saunter over to Wadey Ashraf's table who is never short of action.

Early position matey makes it 550, Wadey calls and the bb comes along too.

    checked by all 3

Turn:    big blind bets 1,100, original raiser gets out the way.

Wadey made it 2,800
BB makes it 6,200
Wadey makes it 10k and BB flats.

River: 

BB checks and Wadey picks up a good stack of 1k chips and plonks them over the line. BB instafolds.

Wadey "You wanna see?"
BB  shrugs "I know what you have thanks"
Wadey  "Yeah? You do? Here you go then"

Wadey tables  for a wonderful in your eye moment.

Then carries on "I knew you didn't have much though"  hehehe

Sicko

[TightEnd]

Keith Hawkins 50,000. Difficult to tell for sure but around and about the chip leader from a quick scoot round the tables

[outragous76]

Tighty any chance you can give me some semi regular updates of Neil  McFayden. Cheers

get him to text you?

[TightEnd]

Jim Reid (Jim R on blonde) going well


I'm counting his chips and he tells me

"105,000"

the table chuckles and I tell him

"35,000"

and he replies

"Yes but I am saving you some time, it will be 105,000 later on"

[Chili]

Praz Bansi & Javed Abrahams are both out and both looking for flights to "get out if this bokd country"

They kinda mirrored each other, both getting there short stacks back to over 10k.

Praz 3 bet with AhKh and got a shove from a similar stack which Praz called and couldn't beat pocket 7's.

Javed 3 bet with A10 and ran into Jacks.

[TightEnd]

Brian Townsend down to 5,000

"I butchered the hand" he comments but won't tell me how

[Newmanseye]

Tighty any chance you can give me some semi regular updates of Neil  McFayden. Cheers

get him to text you?

so i should ask him to text me, instead of following the update live on blonde?  You would advocate that i take my viewing eyes somewhere else?

I think i will stick with the update if its all the same.

[Chili]

Level 5 blinds 150/300
Average 12,800
553 left

Tables 33-71 are now going on dinner for an hour
Tables 1-32 go level 6

Andy Ward moved past me with a tray of chips saying:

"I just got a bad beat, I was ready for my dinner and my table just broke and I've moved into the non-dinner half.
I'm bloody starving"