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Well we are all set to go in Dublin with the 500 warm up NLH tournament at the City West Hotel. And very nice it is here too. Plush golf courses, spas and grand entrance halls, I think I am going to like it just fine here. :)

5000 starting chips and Thimas Kremser as Tournament Director
Some faces we have seen wondering round the card room are:
David Lloyd,
Joe Grech
Micky Cook
Paul 'Action Jack' Jackson
Howard Plant - no loud shirt today, wonder if he is feeling alright????
Padraig Parkinson
Roy Brindley
Mick McClubkoy
Dave Colclough
Julian Thew and his brother Graham Thew
Rumit
Greg Junior Hill
Chris Brule
Eric the screw Barker
Carlo Citrone
George Geary & his brother
Willie Tann
Jon Shoreman
Shifty Stevens
Graham Putt from New Zealand
Dave O'Neill
Norman Welsh
Dave Gardiner
Liam Flood
Frunel Callagham
and of course our hard working tikay

Please excuse any misspells of name. Spelling was never my forte.

Oh and Kevin O'connel is also here.

We have 126 runners

is padraig playing this week?

if so my tip for the top 3 will be

1st howard "who stole my hawanii shirt" plant
2nd Padraig "who stole my guiness" parkinson
3rd Kevin "i need a map" o'connel

There are now 131 runners!

there were some stragglers banging on the door to get in. They felt sorry for them so they said alright then, take a seat over there but don't make a habbit of it.

Some more players we know here are Goerge Mckeever, Alan Beyson, and Julian Gardner

lol

Yes Padraig is indeed present and correct.

Oh a bit of action going on....

tikay reported to me that George Geary with A6 was up against McKeever who has JJ, fop comes 3,4,7,J,5
These frisky players got all their chips in on this one and it was a re-buy for McKeever, while Geary Doubled up.

Rory Liffey is also here

ok what ever you do dont tell my 3 about the bar untill after they make the final 3

i can also confidantly predict the chip leader at end of play tonight will have

655k

you never told me it was a rebuy !!!!!

scrap my prediction for chip leader please

Oh sorry, I'll try to be more thurough next time.

What does the crystal ball say now?

not sure i think it depends on how rusty carlo is and how many rebuys he takes

but i guess 1450k sounds about right

Blinds have just gone up to 50-100

there will be 13 paid places. an update on what the prizes will be will follow after the end of the re-buy period.

If kevin and Padraig make the final they had better send someone out to restock the Red Label supplies. A further raiding party from England will arrive tomorrow so expect the main event to be full and many alternates (nothing new there then).
ariston

Oh and hello mrs C. how many had tikay anted away to? ;)

Well yes that is quite questionable, After only just making it here having weathered two hours at Newcastle airport staring at a cup of tea with her Majesties finest customs officials, Carlo has arrived at his first live tourny in over 12 months.
Only to go all in and out on the first hand with AK in the satellite earlier today!!

Hello Ariston

tikay is doing just fine with his re-buys!!

He had 99 V's AQ against Frank O'Callagan
flop came, 7,2,Q
Both are all in, Frank wins.

next hand AK V's Frank O'C with KK
re-buy for tikay!!

Blondie is doing a bit better. He doubled up with QQ againstDublin local Norman, who went to war with AJ ♠

trust tikay to take a couple of rebuys after he heard my prediction just to make my prediction look out of place

btw is this the first and 2nd rebuy tikay has ever made in his life?

I think he had one in 1997.

It was so long ago, he was just doing it to remember what it was like....

Toilet Break - no more re-buys after this.

tell him next time he wants a walk down memory lane to try it during
the weekly 5 game in nottingham

Turns out they had one more straggler making up the numbers to 133 runners.

level three - blinds 100-200.
129 players left.

have they announced how many rebuys and addon there were yet?

Some reports just in form the tables before the break:
We had some niggley action on Willie Tanns table. He was up against action jack holding A4.
The flop comes 235, willie cunningly slow plays his hand all the way getting all the chips in the middle. Action Jack gives Willie some smart comments as he calls with his 77 overpair!!

But, Willie get his own back, while AJ has K2 this time, Willie has the A's
board has 2 diamonds, a chaeck from Paul and Willie raises  getting all the chips in the middle again, and takes the victory with a diamond on the turn.

tikay is in a pot making it 550 with AQ, this is before the break by the way, Matey Boy Re-raises to 5000...!
tikay decides to call this one, Uh OH
Matey Boy has 2,2
board is 5,6,3,7,9

So yet another re-buy for tikay.... ::)

Right, enough of story corner, let have some math now.

There were 53 re-buys, making a nice prize pool of 93,000

there are 930,000 chips in play

Prize structure as follows:
1st 38,100
2nd 18,500
3rd 11,300
4th 7400
5th 4650
6th 3700
7th 2800
8th 1800
9th - 13th 950

Quicky chipie:

Carlo 8500
Kevin O'Connel 1600
Frank O'Callagham 17,000
George Geary 17,000

Rory Phelan has gone!!

Liam has just made an exit also.
Liam has A's against Paddy the taxi Driver who has J7, he makes a straight on the dreaded river.

no add-ons?

No add ons were allowed

Hairy moment for tikay....

He raised all in with his full hand of A's, getting one caller with a pair of 5's
tikay wins the battle.
Phew!

ok first you forget to tell me it was rebuy and then you forget to tell me there was no add-ons are you and your hubby trying to make me look a fool?
oops i forgot i dont need any help

anyway hows my 3 to follow doing?

Blondie has 9000
Mad Marty sitting comfy on a pile of 10,000

No body told me it was mno add on's!!

I'll go check your guys out.

see its a conspiracy the world via us trying to make the both of us look fools

either that or the TD not informing the viewing public the full facts

i am blaming the TD

How are Paul Jackson and Carlo getting on :P

btw great coverage 8)

Yes I would blame him too. It's all the TD's fault.

Howard has got 3700, got beaten by 8's, he didn't say what he had....
Padraig has got 7000
Never found Kevin, i'll try to get him later, that's if he's not already gone. I'll investigate that one.
Julian Thew has 5K
Greg Hill 10K
Roach 4K

kevin problery found the bar during the break and no one told him it had restarted

someone get him a map

Rumit is out.
Juat seen Willie up against Matey Boy with J's v's 10's
Matey Boy hit a 10 mon the river. Willie is devasted leaqving him rather depleated of chips.
But this is no limit so he could still make a come back. Come on Willie!

Julians depleated stack was the result of losing a flush to a full house. Nasty Nasty Nasty.

Graham Thew has 6K
tikay 7K

I find out what carlo, Kevin and paul have got now.

Kevin has found his way back to the table and has 8K
Carlo is doing well with 11K
and Paul Jackson has about 8K

Just for folks info. Found out that the guy I have been calling Matey Boy is Peter Crotty.

is he the same matey boy from last week that was murdering both tournys at the same time?

Thanks  ;D

Is Julian Gardner or any of the mob there and how is RoyTheBoy doing?

there are 103 players left

Level 4 about to start in a few mins taking the blinds up to 200-400

Julian Gardner has gone
None of the hendon mob are here tonight.

what time they expect to finish?

Roy the Boy seems to have left the building

Peter Roach has gone

Dave has 20K :)
I'm not biast or anything....

Glad to see that 'mateyboy' has finally been unmasked !

Good coverage btw Mrs C.

 ;)

Correction on Blondie, he has 14K
Willie Tann is gone
Padriag also gone

86 players left

Howard plant is haning on by the skin of his teeth....

Dunno, but you know how these things go, it will most likey be in the small hours of tomorrow morning.

ask padraig for an interview that should pass most of the time from now till it becomes heads up

Carlo just had his stack attacked and damaged.

Carlo is on the samll blind and has been bullying the BB all night. So this eventualy he decides to make a stand.
Carlo bets with K's and the BB who has A7 moves all in over the top making a whopping 20,000 pot. :o
An A comes on the river knocking Carlo back hard.
But he climbs up a bit to give him currently 7500

Dave Lloyd has a comfortable 23K
tikay 8K
Blondie18500

Padraig can talk a bit then can he.
lol

Graham Thew has 17K

There are 77 runners left

2nd thoughts forget about the interview or blonde poker will be missing from the main event


and i mean the main event next week in the vic

hows my other 2 doing

64 runners left

tikay has just move up in the world, he now has 16K and is a happy chappie

how did that happen they keep folding to him when he is in bb?

Padraig is out
Kevin O'C has 9K
Paul Jackson 12K
Greg Hill 20K

Poor Julian looks Awfully depressed sitting there with his small stack.

And on top of it all it's freezing cold. I curse the person who invented air conditioning, establishments just abuse it!

and howard?

Paul Jackson is out!
Paul had AK against AQ, the AQ raised all in and hit his queen.

There is some amusing bantter going on at Mad Marty's table, With mostly Marty giving out.

Mad Marty take out a fellow Scots and makes a few bob, with his A10 against the Scots guy's A7.
Just thought I give itr q quick mention having scottish roots and all that.

tikay is really making up for those re-buys now with 20K infront of him

Howard is still there, though very quiet tonight. Still short stack with around 5K now.

carlo is gone

47 players left

blinds 500-1000

i thought you were from dundee cant call that scotish can you?

Dundee??
Na, I'm from Perthshire.
Killiekrankie and Balquhidder.

Kevin O'C just went out, he had 10's against AK, the flop came KK.

Mad Marty just took out Rob Shifty Stevens.

Greg Hill just went out with AK and against a presistant all inner guy who had KJ.
Flop came KJ.

Tikay has 20k?? Brakes on son next hand when heads up. Off to bed now I will check result in morning.

Mad Marty has a great wall of china chip stack in front of him now.
Recon he is probably the chip leader now.

Night night Ironside. :-*

 Andrew 'the Monk' Black is in second place with a mighty tower of 85,500

Blinds have just gone up to  700-1400

38 players left

oops my mistake of what 20 miles?

who told kevin that it was padraig's round?

ok its howard plant all the way

maybe if he wins he will bin the hawain shirts for good

night night you saying howard has busted?

No Howard is still hanging in there

tell him to stop hanging and take a seat like everyone else

Andrew Black has the chiplead now with 120K
Lucky Blind has 25K
Blondie 15K

andrew black was he not the player that shared a room with mike magee in the million dollar deal?
didnt he go off to become a monk?

i could be wrong (proberly am)

Dunno, perhaps, maybe that's how he got his name. I guess the lure of poker was too strong for him.

Got a chip count for Mad Marty, he has 111K
tikay has 20K

think i missed something here but did he not get his name from his parents?

aslong as tikay is not on mad martys right he should be ok

Players just back after break....

Blinds now 1000-2000

This is where the short stack begin to get eliminated

Why would his parents nick name him a monk?
are you pulling my leg here or what?

you said his name i didnt know his nickname was the monk

but guess we are talking about the same guy then lol

tikay just doubled up AK v's QQ
An amazing two ACES come on the flop, very nice!

tikay now has 46,000

come on tikay

just dont knock out howard

Howard plant has just made an exit

He had KQ and bet from early poistion with a small stack.
Dave Gardner raised all in with AK

Flop produced A234 Howard praying for a 5 or a diamond to save him but none came.

come on Luckyblind and Tikay!!

see my tipping skills are up to their usaul low standard

i aint making any more tips as i dont want the blame if they bubble

Oh, well you've changed your tune.  ;)

See Ironside you have caused bad things to happen again with your predictions....

tikay has just been knowcked down to 10k again!!
He clashed with Graham Thew, QQ for Graham and AK for tikay.
First card looked good for tikay with an Ace but then followd a river Queen giving Graham the 60K pot.

Dave Gardner just took out another player with his AK v's KQ
Dave has 57,500

Luckblind has 24K

tikay and Blondie have gone together!!  >:(

18 players left

what happened?

Hows Mike 'LuckyBlind' doing now?

Cheers

PS  Yes It was Andy Black in Million Dollar Deal and he is a committed Bhuddist See recent Cardplayer Europe for a profile on him.

PPS Cheers for great update and see you all there tomorrow

Well tikay was husrt from the clash with Graham, blinds are high and he had to make a move.
Blondie was kinda low too, similar thing happend there.

Mad Marty takes on Paul Leckey with KJ♥ against 9's
Marty makes a flush, but Paul makes a full house!

Paul Leckey 55K
Mad Marty 65K
Mike Lacey - Luckyblind 27K
Graham Thew 54K
Andy Black - Monk 110K
Noel Furlong 75K
Dave Gardner 55K
David Lloyd 53K
Milka Pura 35K
Dave O'Neill 42K

14 players left.

blinds 1500-3000

are they playing hand for hand on the bubble?

Nice updates Mrs C and you were great on that poker show too. Im comming over tomoz will I have no trouble getting a seat at the main event ? thanks

David Lloyd has moved up to 140K

Thanks Foxy, It's well wierd watching yourself on telly.

I'll find out what the score is with the main evenyt for you.

The concensus is that you should be fine Foxy for the main event.

Mika Pura was just involved in a major pot with David O'Neill, Pura had 55, and David held KK
flop came K, J, 7, 5, K

Mika Pura is now in trouble with a rather short stack.

thats gonna hurt a little

Thanks for that Mrs C. Also could you send a message to Tikay, tell him that he was great on TV too and that he should not worrie about what everyone has been saying.... ;D  :D

Mika just doubled up agianst Mad Marty giving Mika 15K
Noel Furlong 76,500
Mad Marty down to 14K
David Lloyd 135K
David O'Neill 70K
Paul Leckey 36K
Mike Lacey 17K
Graham Thew 40K
Andy Black 130K
Dave Gardner 50K

Mika just doubled up AGAIN.
88 V's A 10 against Mad Marty

Mika now has 34K

ok i am off to bed falling asleep at the keyboard and my poker is even worse than my tipping skills

good luck to the winner

final prediction

winner will be the guy with the most chips at the end of play today

We just lost luckblind, 6's v's Dave Gardner's K6
Dave hit his king and knocked Luckyblind out on the bubble.

Mat Marty has gone too, moved all in for 7500 and got caught by Dave O'Neill who got two pair.

12 players Left.

Well that sounds like a pretty solid prediction to me, I might just put money on that!!

Paul Leckey out 12th

12th Paul Leckey - 950
13th Mad Marty - 950

Mika Pura is OUT 11th, K-9 v Q-T.

Board 6-Q-9-8-Q

10 left, so....

FINAL

Finalists Chip count:
Andy Black 144K
Graham Thew 52K
David Lloyd 120K
Frank Callahann 68K
Noel Furlong 80K
Liam McCray 82K
Dave Gardner 33K
Biuy Holan 36K
Joe Rafferty 236K
Joan O'Riley 82K

we just loast David Lloyd in 10th place received 950
A7 V's 10's, tens stood up.

Graham Thew gone 9th place. Received 950
Q9 v's poket Kings.

Dave Gardner out 8th recieved 1800
A7 V's monk with poket 7's

Kevin Furlong just gone in 7th place receiving 2800

Callahann doubled up against Andrew Black winning a 140K pot

We just lost Frank Callahann in 6th place Receiving 3700
Exit hand was Franks poket 5's against Ace King.

Andrew Black and Billy Hollan have been batteling against each other, first Billy won a pot taking a large amount of chips off Andrew with KJ against his AK, then Andrew won them back off Billy with poket 10's against Billy's AQ

Billy just went out 6th against Liam with A3 and Liam holding A5
Liam hit a five on the flop and it was all over for Billy taking home a 4650 prize.

The guys have done a deal.
Chop Chop, Liam 15K, Andrew, Joe and O'Rieley 20K each

guess my prediction of the winner having all the chips was a little off then mind you at that time of morning i would have been to sound asleep to have done a deal