Paddy Power Irish Open: Day 1 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Phil Laak -- 6,325
Andy Black -- 17,275
Chrisitan Caffery -- 28,000
Ciaron Cyron -- 14,425
Peter Evans -- 41,500
Jarund Strand Soma -- 18,500
Peter Eicchardt -- 6,250
Sorel Mizzi -- 10,600
Noel Hayes -- 18,500
Alan Gilmore -- 5,325
Eric Larcheveque -- 3,000
Soren Kongsgaard -- 28,675
Philip Rosenberg -- 23,325
Olin Eoin -- 18,500
Peter McGranaghan -- 21,775
Adam Fallon -- 30,725
Nick Edwards -- 4,900
Thor Hjertenes -- 8,600
Colin Stoddard -- 15,025
Alan Dillon -- 3,850
David Barker -- 12,725
Toras Alelius -- 9,275

[Djinn]

Updates on Sorel Mizzi (imper1um) , Jeff Garza (ActionJeff) and Annette_15 plz. For the online railbirds out there! Oh yeah gobboboy too.

I know that Gobboboy has exited (the majority chip dent from running A-K into A-A with the likely consequence)... will check on the others in next circuit.

Other counts, which you didn't exactly ask for but are surely interesting and might as well go up while the Wifi's good:

Azad Pirooti       43,000
Jonas Molander  13,800
Ryan Fronda        8,900
Simon Mycock    42,000
Ruben Gravlien   52,000
Andy Black         16,000+
Mick McCloskey   42,000
Roland de Wolfe   56,000
Martyn Cavanagh  19,200

[Djinn]

Hartwith was hovering on 11,500 (about 1k less than he had 2 hours ago) last time I got to his table.  He described his play as "awful; weak-tight and crap poker all round."  It looked like vocalising his irritation with himself kind of snapped something inside, as that very hand he raised preflop in early position to 825 (I think), got one caller and then Kevin O'Connell repopped it a couple of thousand.  Jules' response - instant push for 7,700.  Kevin really thinks about it, but gives him the benefit of the doubt and a few flopless thousand.

[snoopy1239]

Joseph Sullivan -- 12,400
Lai Wing -- 12,200
Phil Roddy -- 60,475
John Keown -- 12,000
Peter Eastgate -- 9,250
Murat Yalkin -- 20,750
Frank Davis -- 39,250
Warren Woodall -- 13,200
Niall Higgins -- 8,700
Ian Fraser -- 13,725
Stefan Raffay -- 4,775
Stuart Thompson -- 33,600
David Foran -- 18,075
Bhupinder Kohli -- 21,300
Phil Peters -- 3,400
Albert Sapiano -- 32,000
Don Fagen -- 10,350
David Poole -- 20,300
Namir Mohammed -- 40,325
Vincent Melinn -- 20,300
Ali Mallu -- 40,450
Shaa -- 13,800
Tim Flanders -- 34,600
Dave Masters -- 13,300
Torres Santiago -- 25,925
Donnacha O'Dea -- 10,200
Thomas Byrne Snr -- 15,700
Rosey Bensley -- 14,500
Ram Vaswani -- 34,800
Shane Rafferty -- 7,800
Abbey Shek -- 5,300
Mick McCool -- 17,500
Philip Baker -- 6,675
Noureddine Zianne -- 53,200
Duncan Keane -- 14,000
Thomas Rydahl Simonsen -- 3,150
Jesse Jones -- 41,000
William Delaney -- 11,425
Thor Christensen -- 14,550
Julian Gardner -- 8,475
Simon Mycock -- 51,000
Jonathan Rich -- 12,800
Carolyn Manson -- 14,300

[Djinn]

John Kabbaj is eliminated in a nicely dramatic hand - saw the standing up and the cards on their backs and rushed over like the vulture I am, only getting a glimpse before it was all efficiently cleared away for the next hand:

Kabbaj: 
Player 1 (whom I think was Ali Mallu): 
Player 2: 

Board:  7-x

And if I've got this right, Ali was the shortest stack, as only John was eliminated, while Mallu now has 35k to work with.

[snoopy1239]

Julian Thew -- 20,000
Rob Taylor -- 11,050
Paul Zimbler -- 27,000
Pat O'Callaghan -- 8,025
Colm Smith -- 14,100
Fuad Serhan -- out
Carlo Citrone -- 39,200
Michael McCarthy -- 15,025
Mikael Lindbäck -- 13,125
Sean O'Sullivan -- 14,475
Michael Beck -- 9,500
Julian Adamson -- 35,800
Chris Moorman -- 38,000
Ian Herbert -- 30,400
Alan Gilmore -- 11,000
Christopher Simmonds -- 11,300
Morgan McGlew -- 39,925
Rumit Somaiya -- 7,350
BIlly Ngo -- 14,050
Mark Steer -- 12,900
Johan Koops -- 15,375
George Cunningham -- 13,050
Adrian Byrne -- 26,250
BA Kildalen -- 10,450
Heige Rahbek Pedersen -- 38,800
Paul Gourlay -- 23,425
Surinder Sunar -- 6,650
Dan Smith -- 36,750
Jamie Price -- 8,200
Robert Evans -- 17,350
Mark McCloskey -- 11,125
John Exley -- 22,475
Terry McDaid -- 34,275
Brian Johnson -- 24,650
Brendan McHugh -- 5,625
Mad Marty -- 33,450
John Quinn -- 27,350
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 40,600
Damien Kavanagh -- 22,300
Niclas Dymling -- 9,850

[snoopy1239]

Marty Wilson is on 70k after eliminating Damien Kavanagh.

J-6 vs. T-T

6-6-2 Flop

All-in, called by Marty.

6 on Turn.

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Chris Moorman has jumped up to 38k with Aces v Queens.

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Rob Yong is OUT.

Flush draw and a pair into a pair - failed to improve.

[Djinn]

John Kabbaj is eliminated in a nicely dramatic hand - saw the standing up and the cards on their backs and rushed over like the vulture I am, only getting a glimpse before it was all efficiently cleared away for the next hand:

Kabbaj: 
Player 1 (whom I think was Ali Mallu): 
Player 2: 

Board:  7-x

And if I've got this right, Ali was the shortest stack, as only John was eliminated, while Mallu now has 35k to work with.

[Djinn]

Ryan Fronda    3,850
Cyril Bensovssan  22,000
Darrin Melwani    64,000
Conor Smyth    20,875
Michael Mcgoldrick  14,900
Dag Mikkelsen   32,500
Chris Straghaus    14,550
Stewart Samuels  49,500
Azad Pirooti     9,000
E. Campbell       5,600
Bruce Yamron    22,000
Kenny Macnamara  12,600
Tony Hutchinson  13,900
Kenny Rundt   14,200
Paul Dooley     25,300
Ian Nelson -- 31350
Ruben Gravlein -- 39,800
Thomas Nolan -- 33,550
David Kierins -- 7,700
Peter Maughan -- 15,500
Per Harboe Ravn -- out
Eugene Hanratty -- 28,375
Devilfish -- 28,000
John Conroy -- 8,900
Robert Cusumano -- 5,700
Trevor McGooner -- 24,600
Mark Keane -- 15,975
Billy Johnston-- 43,300
Arnaud Mattern -- 16,275

Chad Brown is OUT.

[snoopy1239]

Jeff 'The Lovemachine' Kimber is down to 16,900 after running A-T into Aces on a Ten high board, A-Q into a shortstacker's Kings and Kings into Sixes (six on the Flop).

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Rumit Somaiya is OUT.

Raised it up to 1,600 with Eights but faced a 5,600 re-raise from Ian Herbert.

Rumit went for it, but found himself up against Kings, and that was all she wrote.

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Warsaw EPT finalist, Frederik Holstrup Pedersen is also OUT.

[Djinn]

Brian O'Keefe   24,600
Martin Rowland  11,825
Andrio Timotin  7,200
Wai Kwan Yuen  11,250
Ivar Borthen      41,500
John Wong       21,900
Thomas Dunwoodie  4,750
James English     25,500
Gary Byrne         8,650
Kevin Fitzpatrick  19,000
James Hart         25,500
Gunther Koch     11,100
Dohnmall MacAbaird   85,000  (seat 10, as he was, was hiding his place card, so forgive me if I've just mis-cited a chip leader)

[snoopy1239]

When you have 708 starters and players dropping like Flemmings, you're bound to miss a fair few departures, which is why I often undertake a journey over to the cash/STT games to player spot.

On my last outing, I saw the following players mixing it up on the sidegames, so that pretty much bitten the dust in the Main Event.

Annette_15
Richard Toth
Mats Iremark
Willie Tann
Thomas Wahlroos
John Magill
Andreas Hoivold
Mohammed Shafiq
Paul Kristoffersen
Dave Gregory
Ramzi Jelassi
Rob Taylor
Matt Tyler
Dave Colclough
Robert Binelli
Barny Boatman

[Djinn]

Big pot makes new chip leader (probably - Roland de Wolfe has a pretty big stack - 90k at a glance):

Threeway all-in on a K-J-T rainbow flop.
A-K
vs. David Benyamine's J-J
vs. This guy Metin Antar (pictured)'s A-Q for the flopped straight, which held up as tiny blanks hit the turn and river.

100k in the pot...now 100k in his stack

[snoopy1239]

Chris Moorman is now on a massive 71,500 and a real threat to this year's Irish Open.

Raising pre-flop with A-6s, Chris was called and saw a T-9-7 Flop.

Chris bet again, but when called, managed to his an 8 on the Turn for the idiot end of the straight.

Mateyboy pushed all-in with K-Q, and Chris correctly picked off the bluff.

Nice guy Len Collins is running similalry well with 70,050, and his hand, although rather more clinical, also involved a raggy Ace.

Raising pre-flop with A-7s, Len was called in the big blind.

"I was just trying to nick the blinds," said Len, "and when he called I was looking to give it up if I missed, but I managed to flop a flush draw so bet out 4k. He raised it to 8k and I called, only to see the Flush hit the Turn. I checked, he bet 10k and I moved all-in for 23k, albeit with an Oscar winning performance to ensure I got that extra 13k. He turned over 5-3 suited for a smaller flush and I pretty much doubled up."

[snoopy1239]

Andy Black and Teddy Sheringham, the latter chatting up the merchandise girls with Michael Greco, have both been spotted on the rail, so it looks like they bit the dust a while back.

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Brendan McHugh is OUT.

All-in with , Brendan was up against and was looking good until the Turn brought the .

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Paul Gourlay is now one of your chip leaders with 111k after finding Aces and seeing Jacks and then Tens raise before him.