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Coooooeeeee  :hello:

Welcome to the Paddy Power Irish Open blonde poker updates.

Play will commence at 4pm Friday.

Do join the party!  ;sark;


If you would like to view the updates without the interaction, discussion and photos, then please follow our 'At A Glance' thread which can be accessed by clicking the following link:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22231.new#new (http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=22231.new#new)

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Phew, flights were sorted in the end then!

good luck, have a great update.

"Ice to see you..."

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Big good luck to moorman. The silly sod got there a day to early thought the start day was thursday. GL bud

Good luck 2 me!!

Incidentally, the gallery for the EPT Monte Carlo event is now up here: http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=image/tid/239 (http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=image/tid/239) Should you wish to take a gander, they include some from a certain DTD party by the way... ;)

Good luck Moorman and all other blondes entered. Looking forward to these updates.

could you follow the progress of Phil Cooklin...Snatiramas...please?

he has told everyone about 9 times he qualified on blonde's cardroom!

You'll hear him before you see him.

Cheers.

my 3 to follow are padraig parkinson, el blondie and julie (yoyo)

i think all 3 will make day 2 with chips

Good Luck to The Yongsta, and the rest of the DTD Crew, Rob Playing his First Main event since Dublin EPT, he has gone to revisit his Demons,hope he makes the Final again.
My 3 Picks
1. DC is playing Faultless Poker at the Moment. I watched Dave in Monte for 2 days and in Poland and he is right about him not getting any action in the first few levels which must be frustrating(I dont know how i would cope LOL I always get action)
2. Kev O'Connell has give up Drinking for 3 months. ( He has had a bet with Roland for 10,000 Euro's) this will be the 4th day on the Wagon, so expect some Agression and Focus.
3. ActionJack ,we are all starved of Live Poker at the moment because there is so much to do in such a short time so we have all took a step back from Playing to focus on the Job ahead,when the Club opens we will have plenty of time to play. so a Big  Ayyyyyyyyyyarrrrrr to a Fully Charged up Action Jack.

ok just leaving now to register... thx for the support guys gl to me!! gl all other blondes 2.... jen and snoops look out for me in a very red hat!

 ;cheerleader; GOOD LUCK MOORMAN   ;cheerleader;

dont be going all in early

good luck

Good luck. Looking forward to some more great updates :).

This is going to be great.

Good luck Moorman and Snatty .

Good Luck all the Blondes playing, Moorman, Snatiramas et al

Hi everyone
Love following the Blond updates.  Good Luck to Neil Bad Beat Channing
Caroline

Morning!  It's half two and the room is already buzzing.  This event is so timed that hordes of players have just migrated from Monte Carlo over here, and even though the ballroom at the Burlington is plenty spacious, they're going to have to squeeze to get all 700 in here. 

PLUS the supersat last night had a ridiculous number of runners, eventually finishing at around 2am, as the many players who already had a seat won some money and those who didn't hoovered up the last remaining seats.  They are now changing hands at a premium, and I feel sorry for those disorganised souls who make the trip this afternoon only to see their chances of playing the PaddyPower Irish Open to be as slight as Snoopy in profile.

Due to start at 4pm - going to check on who's here and who was organised enough to get a seat in advance.

Even busier an hour later, and several people are in that "flew in today, flying out today" category, having been faced with a Sold Out sign.  Jac Arama, for one - sat with playing players Matt Tyler, Kevin O'Connell, Rumit Somaiya, John 'RockStar' Conroy...

Add a selection of Scandinavians to the mix, and Americans like Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Jennifer Tilly, Jimmy Fricke, George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Woody Allen* AND a just-kicked-off three piece band in front of the coffee stand and you get an idea of the weird Competitive Carnival going on here.







*Last three not actually present

Hello! I seem to have gone on holiday by accident to the Irish Open. Right now I'm going to smoke an uncivilised outdoor cigarette and watch the inexplicable Chinese mariachi band, but later I will be thieving someone's camera to take photos of ladies...

Wooooooohoooooooooooo looks like norkage is back on the menu.

 ;applause; ;applause; ;applause;

 ;kneelsucker;

a special good luck to my son. Thanks for the coverage Blonde!

All Hail the mighty Danafish



 ;kneelsucker;

Argh!!!  :o :o :o

Liam Flood is threatening to go through the rules.

Anyone who was here last year will remember what an enjoyable experience it was...

Norkage. No more required, and if anyone thinks otherwise, they'll have my guns to answer to.  ;snoopy'sguns;

For a moment, I thought I'd walked into the Fast Show.

Wouldn't see this in Walsall, huh?

Urrr, someone needs another cup of coffee... Mmm... Free coffee....

More norkage, and seeing as Tighty is showing such an interest, I assume it's for both sexes. Whatever rocks your boat I guess...

"I don't smile, snoopy, you know that"

Well, this is Rolf Slotboom trying his very best.

seeing that pic of phil reminded me is at-it bradley coming to bB4

OK, crowd browsing brings you this list, and there are oh-so-many more (being called to take their seats as I write)

Ali Mallu
Dave Colclough
Daniel Smits Bertelsen
Ram Vaswani
Roland de Wolfe
Ryan Fronda
Paul Gourlay
Thomas Fougeron
John Kabbaj
Stuart Nash
Iwan Jones
Cristiano Blanco
Jesse Jones
Thomas Wahlroos
Martino Libertini
Simon Mycock
Shaf
Paul Zimbler
Philip Yeh
Ian Woodley
Andy Black
Mick Fletcher
Fredrik Hostrup
Carl Hostrup
David McGeachie
Billy Ngo
Azad Pirooti
Peter Smyth
Alan Betson
Rob Yong
John Hewston
Markus Golser
Ian Nelson
Peter Roche
Ville Wahlbeck
Paul Testud
Julian Thew
Fuat Can
Thomas Dunwoodie
Pete Haslam
Jeff Kimber
Mike Sexton
Jim Kerrigan
Colette Murphy
Dave Callaghan
Peter Gould
Ash Hussain
Tony Mackay
Paul Roper
Tim Flanders
Chad Brown
Mick McCool
Pascal Perrault
Willie Tann
Neil Channing
Praz Bansi
Chris Moorman
Rolf Slotboom
BA Kildalen

(Go final two - flying the flag for unnecessary dwelling and Norwegian blogging respectively)

Mad Turk and a rare outing from Mr Mallu.

"Take a picture of the two finalists, snoops," requests Turk.

Hmm, gonna be a small final table.  ;carlocitrone;

Actually, if Mallu says he's gonna be on the final, then you just nod your head and agree.  ;hide;

Have a great weekend you guys.  Gutted to miss this, as I played it last year but i resigned myself to down and dirty gambling instead.  I actually placed some bets for 3 finalists this morning, which are:

Stuart Fox
Praz Bansi
Paul Foltyn

I know these guys get covered anyway, but a few pics of them with piles of chips wouldn't go a miss!!!!!

Enjoy x

Liam Flood is still ploughing through the rules.

Yawn!

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Can you let me know how Phil Starrs and Rory Mathews are doing, when we get started

Cheers

is padraig playing this year?

Snattys shirt .... I WANT ONE !!!

it wont fit

pabs not playing chilli so u got one winner already, alas, without a price, still.... a winners a winner

He was in Dubai on his way to Australia last time I heard.

Can we have the structure?

Do it! DO IT NOW!!!

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NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Why oh why  ;noflopshomer;

Do you have a picture of Phil Starrs, we haven't been given a player list yet?

I could grow into it :)

This will come as a big shock to everyone, but Lucy has played a big pot early doors.

When I joined it on the River, the board read x-T-6-6-8 with Lucy's T-8 not quite good enough against Mateyboy's Aces.

Structure will be as follows (copied out of the little leaflet they were handing out):

1) 25/50
2) 50/100
3) 100/200
4) 150/300
5) 150/300/25
6) 200/400/25
7) 300/600/25
8) 400/800/50
9) 600/1200/100
10) 800/1600/100
11) 1000/2000/200
12) 1500/3000/200
13) 2000/4000/300
14) 3000/6000/500
15) 4000/8000/500
16) 5000/10,000/1000
17) 6000/12,000/1000
18) 8000/16,000/1500
19) 10,000/20,000/2000
20) 12,000/24,000/2000
21) 15,000/30,000/3000
22) 20,000/40,000/3000
23) 30,000/60,000/4000
24) 40,000/80,000/4000
25) 50,000/100,000/5000
26) 60,000/120,000/5000
27) 80,000/160,000/10000
28) 100,000/200,000/10,000
29) 120,000/240,000/10,000
30) 150,000/300,000/10,000

700 playing, well, 699 now. 10,000 starting stack.

After 11 minutes and 15 seconds, the first player from this year's Irish Open has been eliminated.

And it was a big name too in Carlos Mortensen, all-in with Aces versus Kings, the Spaniard's opponent rivered a flush with his Kc, the board reading Jc 2c 5d 4c 5c.

Ouch.

(http://charquinho.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/ouch.jpg)

Had a bet on 7-10mins for first elimination, surely they could have dealt the flop a 1.30 quicker aaaaahhhhh!!

Yep - there were even rumours he'd get in our Media Tourney (seeing as he writes for Cardplayer - we protested on the grounds he was too good) but he looks like he's settled for the Main Event - just starting to comb the room (they've taken off the scrolling Draw List so anyone we haven't already noted is now lost in the giant tournament area)...

So far noted a couple more:

Nicolas Levi
Santi
Tim Flanders
Pippa Flanders
Niamh Peters
Tony Chessa
Andreas Hagen
Jeff Kimber
Mickey Wernick
Peter Eichhardt
Paul Jackson
Michael Greco
Mel Judah
Mats Iremark
Barney Boatman

Sharing a table are Karl Mahrenholz, Ali Mallu and Tim Flanders; two Dusk Till Dawners were drawn straight away on the TV table - Carlo Citrone and Richard Ashby. Pics coming.

I'll do my best. 708 players here today though, so even I know them it's a mission to find em. I'll give it a shot.

4 of the DTD players, Carlo Citrone and Richard Ashby somehow finding there way onto the final table. Nice score for the Dusk Till Dawn brand.

(1) Paul Zimbler
(2) Kevin O'Connell
(3) Michael Greco
(4) Paul Jackson

Can you give me updates on the following, if possible.

William Hill
Billy Johnstone
Abbey Shek
Kevin Owens

Many Thanks, and keep up the good work! :)

jen if you see padraig tell him not to buy strangers drinks and he'll be ok for a final

Cheeky chappy Sheringham.

The oldest player to score in the premiership, I believe. Also, the oldest player to score with that bird off Big Brother too.  ;hide;

The room is HUGE, but here's a photo of a bit of it.

This would be easy if we'd been supplied with a player list. Do you have photos of any of these, I think I can remember William from Monte Carlo, but not the other three.

I'll probe Liam Flood for a list of players.

Jeez ...i'm shocked that VC Poker didn't have Teddy kitted out in the best of gear.

Maybe iPoker rivals PPP didn't let him! :D

Players list - 15 minutes I'm told.

Does anyone know if there is a live webcast of the tv table ?

cheers

Keep up the good work

No bother Snoopy. Thanks for that.

They'll are of a Northern Irish origin. :)

There is a kind of chill-out area for some reason, where the walls are covered in little snippety bits of information regarding the history of the Irish Open, but mainly it has giant bean bags in it, which one can properly throw oneself on to without injury. And it's right next to the press room.  :)

Speaking of the feature table, look who I spotted in the distance, proudly donning silly green hat.  ;djinn;

HOW ON EARTH IS TABLE 67 NOT THE TV TABLE!?

Andy Black, Mike Sexton, Scott Grey & Eddie Scharf!

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...and TABLE 51 has Mel Judah & Antonio Esfendiari!

And just to show how far the Irish Open has come and the caliber of player it seems to be attracting, here's Mateyboy, otherwise known as 'Action' Dan Harrington.

And some early, blurry, random norkage for you all. Just because I can.

We can only assume that feature tables are selected randomly (as they should in the interest of fairness) because, as you correctly pointed out, table 67 truly is today's Table of Certain Death.

Had to reach up high for this piccie to eliminate the dealer's bald and probably distracting head.

I know a few of you will be following this chap, Chris Moorman, a big player on blonde poker and a nice guy to boot (not in the sense that I'd want to kick him).

Proof that the stars really are here in full force with Mel Judah being one of those 'names'.

Assuming they are playing 10 seater tables why was the entry capped at 708..........surely that left a couple of empty chairs?

Oh, and here's another name in Elvis Presley, looking rather youthful for his 72 years. Where's Bruce Atkinson when you need him?...

10 minutes for the player list (so I've been told), then we'll be on the case.

Or how about this for an interesting feature table - Holstrups, Kevin O'Connell, Jonas Molander and Jules 'Hartwith' Adamson...

At least the TV table has a guy in a green cowboy hat, however (also pictured)... who happens to be Roberto Romanello.

Dont forget that tonight sees the very first blonde comp on the new network.. $10 NL freeze at 8.30 pm ...So much more than just a game of poker ;)


BIG bragging rights to the winner... and a place in the blonde history books as the first ever comp winner on the new network.

See you there.

Dubai?

Did the guy with kings say, "You're not sending me to the cooler..."

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For Gobbomom:

Brightly attired Jimmy, thus visible in the middle of the sea of poker tables, mirroring the sunny-but-chilly climate here at the moment.

Could someone keep me updated on the following players if at all possible:

Danny McHugh
Brendan McHugh
Eamon Walsh

updates on mazhar nawab please guys, and moorman cheers

Yeah! can you please keep updates on chris!

The whopping great Player List by snoops - if anyone "at home" (NOT the Updaters, them way too busy) ) has the technical competence to alphapeticalise that Player List, I am sure we'd all be most grateful.

I see somebody beat me to it. :D

If a moderator could remove one, that would be grand.

You can delete your own post.

 ;) lol we're eager beavers! lol

Only 706 listed. Think the reason there was meant to be 708, was 70 tables of 10 and one feature table of 8.

Thanks for that ...if I had brains i'd be dangerous.

one table has 2 less players on it that the other tables surely that aint right?

Dave Colclough Reports as the blinds are raised to 50/100:

DTD's DC (that's a lot of initials) is handing us notes from his starting table which he describes as "good - I recognise two or three Dubliners from previous visits, but no names, three qualifiers..."

The first hand he played:  3s 3d in the small blind.  Two limpers, unraised, flop 7-7-Q.  Checked round.
Turn: 3   Dave bets 200, the big blind deliberates re-raising, but eventually smooth calls. 
River:  Q  Check-check; early loss for DC but no real harm done (9,750)...

...which bumps back up to 11k after 25 minutes when he sees a T-3-2 flop (raised to 250, with a caller pre) with 9c Tc, check raising to take it down.
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Third hand (he notes 'buses' which I think must ring a bell for anyone who's got a rush in triplets):

He makes it 250 with Td Th, the small blind re-raises to 525; call from DC.  Flop:  J-Q-K rainbow.  The small blind bets out 500 - call ("I think this is cheap..").
Turn:  9  He checks, Dave bets 1,500, he raises to 6,000, Dave is all-in and...

He passes Aspades Ahrt face up for his last 3k.

18,300 for El Blondie, and it's only Level Two.

Can you tell him I want my pen back? (And wish him luck too)

I didn't think Dave Shallow was flying over!!

Apologies for the lack of updates over the last several minutes, but these are troubled times for us updaters. Whilst I'm sitting on a box with my lappie on my laptop, everyone else is complaining about the lack of wifi (as you would). Luckily, I have my vodafone card for such emergencies, which means I can inform you of George Geary's double up to 20k with Aces vs. Ace King on an Ace high Flop. According to the Liverpudlian, he's had Aces four times already, and he's darn proud of it.

GL to Moorman. Also to the D2D crew.

good day to you all, can you wish maz nawab good luck from the colonel plz.

Any chance of seeing the breakdown of the tables?????

I may hold back for a while before making that request, as Dave has just dropped back down to 13k (after a super duper start).

With a Flop of Td 4d Qd, Dave's 1,250 bet was smooth called by the button, and then again on the 9h Turn, this time 1,825.

Dave gave it up on the 6s River and checked, but called his opponent's 3.5k bet, mucking as his opponent showed Pocket Queens.

didn't realise george was playing AA four times ,he\ll be in his elements.

wish him luck plz ,thx.

Last year's champ, Vincent Melinn, is making a rare appearance at the felt, clearly determined to defend his crown. Not much movement from Vincent though as he's still on 10,150.

Yes, I've abandoned wireless ship too now (though it pains me to do it) and gone for the practically cups-on-some-string approach.  Facilities here stretch to one chair per three updaters, half the room has to get power through a complicated system of fourway-to-fourway chain, and no one is online apart from us currently.

Never mind!  The tournament is going wonderfully, an amazingly prompt start, 700 happy players and an interesting mix of international jetsetters and qualifiers.  The room is speckled with PaddyPower T-shirts, in their tasteful black/gold colour scheme (what a good choice, reminds me of ours) which makes it tricky for me as I am terrible at facial recognition of players, and tend to describe Mateys by hair/shirt/amusing accessories. 

Back to the floor, then (Dana has no Vodafone card so her wonderful photos are coming via me in a minute).

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaar Come on DC

That's the very thing we're after... when we know, you will (and the earlier requests will be dealt with too)...

Shortstack, but still cheery as ever, George 'The Panzer' Danzer, has just doubled up to 6.2k with A-Q vs. 5-5 on a 6-2-A-8-8. Looked like Simon Mycock was the contributer.

For CC -

Hello Mum of Channing!  Neil tipped us off that a certain lurker might be asking about him - and here's a photo, along with a "You can tell her I said Hello!" and something about ironing which I didn't hear all of... Will be keeping an eye on him. 

Flop = 2-7-T

Praz Bansi bets 500, Mad Turk calls.

Turn = T

Praz bets 800, Mad Turk calls.

River = 9

Praz bets 2.5k, Mad Turk makes it 6.5k, Praz calls.

Praz = 2-2

Mad Turk = 9-9

Nasty one the leave Praz down to the felt with just a couple of thosuand, but shoots Mad Turk up to 18k.

Rolad de Wolfe (8.5k) has made the Monte Carlo to Dublin journey, but isn't flying high just yet, although he did just take a small pot off Paul Kristofferson, betting 1.1k in a rainbow J-A-4-A-9 and taking the pot down. Bit of chatter ensued, but it was all good natured.

Snoopy, can you get some updates on Jimmy Fricke (aka Gobboboy)?

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Dave looks so much like Wallace from Wallace & Grommit there that you're half expecting him to say, "Ooooh, I do love a nice bit of gorgonzola!"

I don't know if Ramzi Jelassi knows who his left hand side neighbour is - Shaf in the first level re-raised preflop out of the big blind after there was a raise to 150 called in two spots, getting rid of the opposition, including his much softer-spoker Swedish neighbour.  I wonder how much lairy-ness he'll be able to get away with before people start to wonder about the quality of his raising hands. 

any word on Chris Moorman yet??

With the arrival of our first paper list (as we get into the first 20 min break) we can start on your requests!

Here are Brendan McHugh, I believe, next to 'doubleup' McGeachie (Brendan on 11,850) and Mazhar Nawab (21,500)

Lucy Rokach is OUT. Jacks v Kings.

Any news on Liam Barker and Alan Betson would be much appreciated. Great stuff so far.

Best of Luck to the DTD Crew and Thew

Regards

M

BA Kildalen is relieved.  He said he went down to 7k really fast, and was "ready to give up and go home to Norway, but then I won three pots in a row."  She managed to strike fear into her table before her elimination, and now they're euphorically playing more hands, it looks like.

Attack of the hoodies. ARGH!!! run for your lives!

(1) Ramzi Jelassi -- 6,050
(2) Robert Binelli -- 9,475
(3) Jonas Molander -- 10,750

Well, I do know that Alan Betsson, who finished 2nd that one year, is on 9,800 and is sharing a table with Maz Nawab (pictured below).

I'm back! The wireless lives again! While I was offline Jen and Snoopy seem to have posted photos of most of the players that I snapped, so instead here are some photos of my favourite dealer and her amazing hairdo...

Julian Thew was down to 4k at one point as a result of playing multiple pots and not winning any of them, before getting back up to 8k with Kings v Queens. Honest as ever, though, Julian confesses that he is "playing like a penis." How a penis plays poker, I'm not sure, but it could provide some norkage shots for our women viewers.

Jesus Christ this was the bet of the year. if Kevin can give up booze for 3 months, I'm a Dutchman.

hi mr camel cloggs

Also a nice smiley one of Neil Channing for his mum (he's having a lovely time!), and a few others I took before the break...

Daivd Benjamine (11k) is sharing a table with Willie Tann (7.1k) and Northerner Reyaaz Mulla, who is doing very well with 20k in chips.

The players are just returning from a 20 minute break.

Hi team,

Looking forward to another great weekend of updates.

Can you pass best wishes to Graham Clarkson (don't have a pic I'm afraid) from the Officepoker guys in Edinburgh please. And good luck also to Rory Matthews.

Geo.

I hope Andy Black has washed that Eminem T-shirt since he wore it at the EPT final table.

Has he washed that shirt?

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No idea how he's doing currently, but I believe someone was asking after Stuart Hill...

Bah, I got pwned.

Mine had pictures though!

I found a good way of getting easy chip counts was to wait at the bottleneck of the tournament area (from which all players were banished for the break) and shout, "Chipcount?!" as they passed me.  Here's what I gleaned (about to scour the whole room, which may take up to half an hour):

Paul Gourlay     6,000 
Ash Hussain      7,750
Pete Haslam     8,000
Bhupinder Kohli   9,000
Stephen Pearce  28,000
Richard Ashby     15,000
Jim Kerrigan         OUT
Praz Bansi            OUT
Carlo Citrone      9,500  (no hands over two hours on the TV table, except for a 75-nicking KK - now off that table)
Devilfish            14,000
Mickey Finn        8,000
David Poole        11,000
Strummer          12,000
Azad Pirooti        20,000
Chris Smith         8,000
Peter Roche       12,000
Brian Johnston    16,500
John Conroy       10,500  (and thanks to him for providing a good handful of these counts)
Ian Woodley       10,500  ("It's too early; last year I went down to 6k, doubled up, and it went from there...")

yo ironside. How's it hanging?

Here also is Devilfish, according to Jen on 14,000 although he claimed during the break that he was on 16,000. "We're going up, bebe, that's the idea," is what he said.

Big thanks to Lis Lou for th aplhabeticalised Player List.


What DO those guys in Hoodies think they look like? You'll not catch me in one of them.

Three request from earlier, hope these are your guys...

(1) William Hill -- 7,200
(2) Abbe Shek -- 10,050
(3) Billy Johnstone -- 13,625

Be quick or be dead Floppy.

And here also Ash Hussain, to go with Jen's chipcounts a few posts back.

How are Snatty and Moorman getting on ?

can you keep me updated on jon hewston plzz? :)up :)up

i'm fine i think

can you do me a favour and pick my mum some tulips for her birthday please i hear there are plenty in you native holland

More requests...

(1) Philip Starrs -- 13,000
(2) Rory Matthews -- 6,575

Any more required?

How's Ruby?

Whilst Jen was collating chip counts, she learned that Antonio Esfandiari, Praz Bansi and Jim Kerrigan are all OUT.

shes good thanks for asking just really vocal at night tym , lol

Slightly off topic. Is Rory Matthews 'Mafews' from crypto?

Hi Keith,True, that Roland is one sharp cookie waits for some one to gets pissed then bets them 10,000 euro's to give up for 3 months LOL. I hope Kev Pulls it off but every who meets kev should ask him what he wants to drink  LOL make him earn his Money!!!!!!!!

Yes it is

Thanks, Grahame Clarkson if poss

Cheers

pfft no worries..... 2 second job.

Hi Jen + Snoopy,

I cant be at the Irish Open, but there are some Hungarian players. (Balazs Biri and Richard Toth) Can you check if they are still playing? I attach 2 pictures of them. Thanks! :)

I just checked the player list, maybe Balazs not playing.

Any word on how Brendan McHugh 6 9, Danny McHugh 54 3 and Eamonn Walsh 71 4 are doing??
Thanks!!
Good luck to them.

any news on Chris Moorman is much appriciate :)up

Graham Clarkson -- 10,050

I also learned that his former next door neighbour was Peter Gould, and the reason for the 'former' and 'was' is because he's OUT.

He won 200k on 100/200 last few days. Think he's covered his buy in. Lol.

How ya bust. John here. Update from muscles bout 20 mins ago Eamon 11k Danny 7.5k Brendan 12k.Muscles brother on 15k

You'll be pleased to know that Jen is properly earning her WSOP seat - she's been hanging around in the Smokers' Car Park with me, and putting up with me aggressively smoking in our room, and she hasn't slipped up once. Go Jen! I seem to be smoking twice as much to make up for her virtue...

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f80/danaimmanuel/jenslungsmylungs.jpg)

He has a website www.siktilt.com
Last year on the way to the Irish open he had just won 300k on line. Think he has  won over £2m in the last three years.

gud luck on reporting snoops and the gang. can u pass gud luck to m.wernick. madest turk in town. b. mohammed[hassan] thks mate.

Howya Johneen! Thanks for that...its Niamh here actualy...Buster is gone playing down in Carrick. He'll probably do no good and be home soon though!!

Any Chip Counts on the DTD Crew Please

For a moment I thought Elvis was out, but he's just gone for a smoke. Rock and roll! He's on about 16,000 after surviving an exciting all-in as a bit of a shortstack - he found pocket queens and ran them into pocket kings but rivered a straight. It would have been sad if Kings had taken him out. What with him being the King and all.  ;hide;

Righteo, I believe (and hope) that these are the McHugh brothers, Brendan and Danny.

If I'm correct in that assumption (as well as the one calling them brothers), then Brendan is on 5,325 and Danny 7,725.

Can you check how Niall Higgins is going?? Table 13 seat 3 thanks.

Many of you who followed the Amsterdam Classics' updates from last year might recognise this annoying and increasingly infuriating stack as belonging to finalist and Card Player Europe editor, Rolf Slotboom.

Whether it's part of his plan to gradually bug his opponents into submission with his anal stack massaging acts or not is undecided, but it always seems to work in winding people up.

Barney Boatman is OUT.

"It just wasn't my day," he said in defeat.

... which tends to translate as "I got it in behind and stayed behind."

I did search for Thomas Wahlroos, Eamonn Walsh and Chris Moorman, but they've either moved table or have been eliminated.

I know Chris and Thomas, but I'm going to need a photo for Eamonn if I'm going to hunt him down too.

Nicolas Levi is also OUT.

He was down to just 2.5k after a torrid first few levels, and found himself up against 8-8 after re-raising from the blind with A-2. No help arrived.

McHugh cousins. You were close

According to the great man himself, he missed a nut flush draw earlier on in a 6-way pot, before finally getting it all in with a "big draw" but missing against his opponent's top pair.

"I've never been ahead today, but I've always had a good reason to stick my chips in," he mused.

Pascal Perrual and Jennifer Tilley are both OUT, the latter ran a straight into a bigger one.

Will do, will check up on John Hewston shortly too.

Marty Wilson is up to 31,000. I heard him being interviewed by some kind of film crew - he was talking about Poker Hands (the medical condition, not the cards you get). He says Norwegian Formula hand cream is the key to his success. They do look all soft and moisturised...

if he's been eliminated i would move your 'hunt' to the direction of the nearest bar...  ::)

OK, I counted chips until the world started to go fuzzy round the edges - the order in which these appear is the order I got to the tables, therefore the further they are from the start of the list, the more likely they are to be still accurate:

Jeff Kimber    10,300
Tony Chessa   15,900
Padraig Parkinson  7,000
Iwan Jones       6,150
Markus Golser    4,175
Rob Yong         8,800
Mickey Wernick  4,400
Peter Eichhardt   10,700
Thomas Fougeron  9,625
Paul Jackson         10,550
Dave O'Callaghan   14,200
Michael Greco       10,650
Nick Slade           12,300  (Paul Gourlay told me last break, "he's either out or been in the loo for two levels."  It was the latter.)
Pippa Flanders     9,325
Pascal Perrault     OUT
Mel Judah           6,800
Phil Laak             5,350
Stuart Nash        5,300
Julian Thew        4,025
Ali Mallu              7,250
Karl Mahrenholz    4,025
Tim Flanders        9,600
Nicolas Levi           3,850
Santi                   13,350
Julian Gardner       7,200
Priyan                  10,300
Tony Mackay        17,500
Paul Zimbler          38,000
Bambos                9,200
Dave McGeachie    9,200
Mad Marty            30,000  ("Tell them I'm playing disciplined poker.")
Paul Higgins          11,800
Neil Channing        10,950
Brendan McHugh    11,550
Arnaud Mattern      16,350
Rolf Slotboom         3,600
Ramzi Jelassi           4,850
Jimmy Fricke           12,275
Annette_15           12,000
Surinder Sunar        10,700
Dan Smith              19,675
Roy Brindley           10,700
Billy Ngo                20,100
Rumit Somaiya       24,300  ("I am three-level Rumit now")
Ross Boatman        10,600
Ram Vaswani          32,000
Jesse Jones            19,800
Ash Hussain            5,100
Peter Roche           23,600
Ian Woodley           10,800
Cristiano Blanco          8,200
Patric Martensson      12,900
Azad Pirooti              27,000
Liam O'Brian             10,750
Stephen Pearce        32,400
Fredrik Hostrup         10,050
Jules Adamson         12,650
Kevin O'Connell        11,475
Carl Hostrup            18,600
Jonas Molander         9,750
Mad Turk                 20,000
Carlo Citrone             12,800
Roberto Romanello     5,300
Richard Ashby           17,000
Willie Tann                23,000
Chris Smith                7,000  (That's what he told me to say)

More next level - please ask if I've missed some of your requests out which haven't been answered recently...

Meanwhile, the bad beat of the day goes to Stephen McLean, who had Aces v Kings on a K-A-3 flop, but was outdrawn by Quads on the River.

Double ouch!

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Can you check how Niall Higgins is going?? Table 13 seat 3 thanks.

Dave Masters (whose stack has apparently now recovered to 19k after this) just lost a chunky pot to neighbour (Patrick Rath, according to my list).  With the blinds at 100/200 he raised to 1,875 over two limpers (as you do).  Rath called out of position - the flop:
7h Kd 9h  Rath checked in the dark, Dave bet out 3k almost immediately.  A decent think later, "Clock!" calls Dave and his opponent called, gingerly.
Turn:  6d  Now Rath moves in for around 5,500.  Dave calls, with 5d 5h - he sees Ad 7d against him.
River:  Qd  and it's the flush, in the end, which officially wins that big pot.  "What a call preflop..." marvels Dave Masters, and I'm inclined to agree with him...

Snoopy is on his way with your information... there may be a slight delay, may I recommend a cup of coffee, like the one I'm about to get?

Paul Magner, whom I like a lot because he looks like a sailor, lost some chips to the now pretty smug Soren Kongsgarre, who sounds like he could fight Godzilla. On a flop of  4s 8d 5d, Kongsgarre bet 900 and Magner (I am Magner than you!) called.  5c turn and they both check.  9s river and check to Magner; he bets 3,000. Kongsgarre raises to 8,000 and the big guy folds pretty swiftly.

Cheers. You're doing a great job there

Another victim of the happy-to-call-preflop rag Ace - BA Kildalen (pictured) who's dwindled back to under 5k after his pocket Kings were called preflop by A-7 and the dreaded Ace hit - lost the minimum due to some checking-down.  But he's Norwegian; be prepared for remarkable comeback - just as likely as the pressing of the self-destruct button.

At the risk of losing our famous objectivity:   ;cheerleader; for our updating friend...

Niall Higgins -- 11,800

Quiet reserved chap.

Any chance of an update on
Rory Mathews - Phil Starrs - Grahame Clarkson

Cheers

Keep up the good work

Richard Herbert (8,500) and Jon Hewston (11k)

Jon is playing with fire, making what he described as "the move of the century", but partly an unintended one due to not quite realising the true strength of his opponents' hands.

With one player raised to 500, another to 2,000 and Jon moving in for 8k with Pocket Nines, the Birmingham based player somehow managed to get the re-raiser to fold Ace King and the initial raiser Pocket Cowboys.

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€2,336,400 collected
10k starting stack
561/708 remaining
150/300 blinds
Average stack = 12,600

my first post  ;yippee; how,s john magill doing?
not sure what table ;hide;

George Danzer is OUT - and bravely volunteered his story:

Down to under 5k, he said, "I meant to raise to 300 with K-5."  Alarm bells went off - this wasn't going to be pretty... He actually threw in 3,000 and when the big blind pushed he had to put in his last 1,200...facing A-K it was a quick walk of shame, and he said, "I'll see you in Vegas..."

The Kings-passer must surely have just been moved to the table and never seen Hewston before.  That's the only possible reason I can see for him not to get his chips over the line so fast you couldn't see them.  Wow, happy birthday!

Oh whoops...

Rory Matthews -- 15,285
Philip Starrs -- 14,550
Graham Clarkson -- 8,400

And these ones just wandered into the press room! I just looked up from my updating spot on the floor and there they were. This is easy.  :)

Some DTD counts...

Dave Colclough -- 8,750
Rob Yong -- 12,450
Paul Jackson -- 8,300

hooray for Dana................forget the updates, she knows what we really want

Dear 25 guests reading this, I feel it is my duty to point out that you won't be able to see any of the beautiful ladies whose images I have just uploaded unless you sign in as a blonde member. Quick, easy and so delightfully free...

Rory Matthews dropped down to 15k after calling off a 3k River bet from Matthew Hodgkinson on a 9c Jc Jd Ad 5s board. Matthew showed Pocket Nines.

Mickey Wernick is OUT, and it was with those Darn Queens that seem to haunt him.

Con O'Sullivan the assassin with Ace King.

It appears as though Paul Gourlay is the last remaining shadow with 5,100.

Nik, who called off three bets with trip fours versus a nut flush on a 4-x-x flop (all clubs), took the 8pm flight home, whilst Ash Hussain and Matt Tyler quickly followed with equally early departures from this year's Irish Open.

Michael Greco is OUT.

He lost most of his chips with a missed straight flush draw Js Ts on a Qs 9s 4d Flop.

The very raggy 2d and 6c Turn and River meaning that his opponent's K-Q was good enough to take the pot.

Michael: "Think I might take a flight home."

snoopy: "You could always go to the bar."

Michael (instantly): "I'm going to get pissed."

The Eastender arm clearly doesn't take much twisting.

The first dinner break has been called. For those continuing to play, the blinds are now 150/300 with a 25 running ante, the great illustrative picture for which I do not have access to. Floppy, are you there?

I wanted to go for dinner too but Snoopy is just too conscientious so we're having more mayonnaise sandwiches from the bar. Mmm, mayonnaise...

I want a piccy of Jennifer Tilly, I guarentee there will be norkage!!!!

The running antes kick in?

 ;ra;

Yay! I knew you'd come through for me, man...

Can you let me know how Lesley Devine is doing

Cheers

You certainly have an eye for talent Danafish.

Who is the pretty lady player please ?

I do believe that I have detected a tell  ;kev;

Hi Jen and Snoops...

How are the 2 Nelson's going??

Lee Nelson from NZ
and
Ian Nelson from Liverpool...

ps Tell him Everton are winning 3-1 at half time.

Sometimes whilst I'm updating, someone shouts "snoops!", shakes my hand and forces me to say "Hi, how've you been?" without actually knowing who it is I'm speaking to.

Scott 'Shaa' Boyle did this to me a few moments ago, although he did tell me who he was after a bit.

Seems like a bit of a livewire at the table, happily telling me about how he called someone with A-5 suited but missed before doubling up to 20k with Tens vs. Ace King.

Is he a poker maniac? Can anyone confirm?

The pretty player lady in question is Nuala Hyland. I'm not sure you're in with a chance - as she was being offered a dinner voucher, I heard her say she might need two. She could just be incredibly greedy though.

Hi-great updates as usual!How is Iwan Jones doing?Thanks!!

Any upadtes on Niall Higgins, Eamon Walsh, Danny and Brendan McHugh??
Thanks

Herbie goes Bananas now, or rather his opponent did.

Ian Herbert raised it up to 800, Mark O'Donnell made it 2,400, Ian pushed and Mark called for 3k more.

Whilst Ian nervously revealed his Pocket Tens, perhaps thinking that at best he was in a coinflip situation, Mark showed a rather intriguing Ac 8c, which, come the Qh 2s 8h 9s Qs board, failed to improve, subsequently ending his stint in the comp.

Wondrous synchronicity (Batman!) - I just took these photos of them:

Chris Smith is on 11k. He was down to 4k at one point, but nicked his way up to 5.5k before doubling up with Nines vs. Ace King.

Found Chris Moorman, he's still in with 10,550.

Still no sign of Thomas Wahlroos though, not often he exits this early.

One Hand Rumit is somehow still in with 24k, suggesting that perhaps we should consider changing his derogatory moniker to 6-Level Rumit.

In his dreams!

Nuala Hyland is currently on Table Marty Wilson, and while I was there I caught a hand between Mr Wilson and Bambos Xanthos. Marty made a smallish bet pre-flop and Bambos called from the button. Flop  7h 4c 3d - check, check. Turn -  Ahrt, and Marty checks. Bambos bets 2050, and Marty insta-raises to about 15,000. After enquiring whether Marty was holding 4-7 "because you like to play that sort of hand", Bambos folds. Marty shows  3h and claims he was holding an ace too. He asked whether Bambos had AJ, and from the fidgeting and downward-staring, he may well have done.

Board = Qd Aspades 5s 9s 7d

Peter Eastgate bets 2k and Murat Yalkin calls with 8s 6s, saying "Just incase", which basically translates as "I'm a scaredy cat".

Peter mucked.

could i get chip counts please for:

Danny McHugh
Brendan McHugh
Eamon Walsh

Cheers

And let's not leave out Paul Zimbler, who's lost a bit after his early lead... his table (in the form, mainly, of this guy pictured gesticulating wildly) encouraged him to relate how he "gave away chips"- once someone "didn't lay down AK" to a big re-raise, and another time Paul's Queens bet a K-9-6 flop (2k) got called, checked the 6 turn and tried to get the other guy off the 9 river with a 4.5k bet.  K-Q wasn't having it, and that was another 7k chunk out of his chip tower.

He's still pretty perky, however (as you can tell by his picture) and not on life-support chipwise by any means.

The Devilfish is present, currently being carressed by a young unidentified lady (thankfully not Dana).

He's also being his usual confident self, commenting after every hand in that familiar self-praising way.

The latest being a check on a 3c Kc Td 4c Js board, his opponent showing A-Qo for the attempted but failed trap check and Devilfish adding, "I knew he had Ace Queen as soon as he check called the Turn.

Still, he's one of our biggest stars and has probably done more than most for the face of British poker, so good luck to him.

Here he is giving son Dan some advice, "Try not to get too short stacked, but if you do, nick your way up to 5.5k and then look for a double through race..."

They're in the middle of the two-session dinner break, but Snoopy's on the floor and if they're in the half still sat at the tables we'll find their counts...

Thanks for the excellent updates guys - how's Graham Clarkson doing (and is he wearing those cowboy boots  :redcard:)

come home u shadows no gud 4 anything else

Jen, Snoops or Dana - Is Stuart Fox actually playing?  I am mortally unamused at my attempts at poker betting today.

Pic 1:  Paul Folyton - A few thousand miles away from Dublin!

Pic 2:  Praz Bansi - OUT within 2 hours  ;frustrated;

Pic 3: Stuart Fox - No idea where he is!!!!!

Please help

Love from a retired punter.

Thats fine.thanks for that

Well bokked Chills. ;hattip;

Here's an important figure in today's game, Jesse Jones (correct me if I've slipped up on the name there) of the WPA. He's got a fair record of results behind him, and he's an early pace setter in this one with just under 30k.

Anyone ever come up against this guy?

I'm afraid I can only find Brendan (6.8k), Danny is on his break.

As is Lee Nelson, Ian Nelson and Lesly Devine who were requested a page or two ago.

Aye Aye Cap'n Julian Thew:  "Up over 10k at last."  He called a button's raise with Kc Qc, and they both checked the 3-4-6 flop.  The turn brought a Js - now the button bet 1,100, Julian made it 2,600 and was called.  River:  Qs (making a flush possible) and Julian checked his top pair, and then called the Button's 4,500 bet  - he was shown the 9c 5c busted flop up'n'down draw in return, and is now on 15,700.

You sure you're not thinking of Jeremy Clarkson? I've seen him wear cowboy boots before.

gooo goooooooooo julie

can you keep an eye on myt other 2 tips padraig and elblondie please

Is it Nick's turn to do the washing?

He was under 4k after two levels, and is now no longer sitting where he started...this leads me to believe that he's busted (although with so many hundreds still left in, and half on dinner break, there's always a chance he hasn't).

You probably won't recognise the face, but you may find the name familiar, as Joe 'goodluck2me' McGinley has recently become a poster on blonde, and it is to his credit that he approached me, as I never would have known it was him anyhow.

After forcing him to pose for the following photo, he informed me that he was on 10,600 after winning a coinflip with Nines v Ace King.

Good luck to goodluck2me from me (if you can get your head round that).

Happily chatting away if they've know each other for years are Billy Johnstone and American star Chad Brown, both doing very well at this stage with 26,900 and 19,450 respectively.

Double up for blondeite Chris Moorman, who got it all-in with Aspades 5s on a 5d Ks 5c Qs 6c board, Mikael Mazilu calling with A-K and subsequently exiting the comp.

Moorman still only on around his starting stack though, but that should give him a boost.

Yes, several times, a thorough Gent. Had some severe health problems, & has bravely overcome them. Don't be smoking a ciggie near him though, if you know what is good for you......

Really? No, Graham's are cracking.

Interestingly, when Graham tried a move at the London EPT final table in 2005, Colin Murray commentated that he was playing more like the giant-like pro-smoking journo  ;D.

LOL Neil,

could be worse, he could still have had the goatee and coloured hair!!

geo

The wonderfully named Oliver Spagnuolo is OUT, moving in with Q-J but finding himself in a 4-way pot against Kings, Queens and a mucked hand.

The board read 5h 4s 7s 4h 6s, meaning Sorel Mizzi took the lion's share (although not the whole pot) with the cowboys.

Meanwhile, Michael Greco is flirting with the girls at the bar.

Snoopy , please wish all the welsh boys the best of luck and Shaa please

 :)up

Good job Jen & Dana ! Girls kicks ass !

And fire Snoop already !

I know! And his banjo playing sucks too!

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

Sheamus O'Reilley -- 11,775
Owen Mullan -- 14,525
Michael Hunt -- 4,050
Mick Fletcher -- 7,725
Jeff Kimber -- 19,550
Christian Tardia -- 16,225
Michael Dwyer -- 9,675
Thomas Loersch -- 8,250
Eoghan O'Dea -- 5,050
Joe O'Neill -- 14,750

Just as I left that table, Joe O'Neill lost most of his chips with Queens v Kings.

No worries, working my way around the chip counts now. Keep an eye out.

Rory Matthews has joined us in the media room, so it looks like he's a gonna.

;hattip; Fantastic reporting as usual do you have a chip count for
George Geary and Allan McLean please.

           Neves.

John Webb -- 29,800
Mike Sexton -- 37,775
Ian Broadrick -- 23,300
Martino Libertini -- 12,100
Kay Hollis -- 5,100
Klaus Haunschmidt -- 3,125
Bo Sehlstedt -- 20,500
Tony Chessa -- 13,175
Jay O'Toole -- 5,750
Paul Daly -- 18,900

Dave Colclough is OUT.

Down to 6k, re-popped with Sevens, but was called by A-K and outdrawn in the coinflip.

Can you give an update on Jon Hewston please?

padraigs count please

hi tkay can you find out brian lyttle's chip count thanks

He's probably keen to get back to the Cincin thread.

Thomas Dunwoodie -- 16,500
Jon Wong -- 18,325
John Exley -- 12,325
John Kelly -- 1,200
Paul Jackson -- 19,450
Danny McHugh -- 15,850
Ian Palmer -- 5,200
JP Kennedy -- 25,750
Sharon Goldman -- 15,350
John Cooney -- 17,600
John Kabbaj -- 12,900
Dave Callaghan -- 11,400
Thomas Fougeron -- 22,800

Would if I could, but I am in Derbyshire, not Dublin! I am sure our splendid triumverate of Updaters (thank you Ralph!) wll sort it for you, given time.

Hey chilli good 3 picks there ;boltpp;  hope you get a refund, I wont play in Dublin as its the law you cant have a beer while playing poker so whats the point in playing is my shout.  My main man Bullit pete is playing he will take some stopping,also JP Kelly chip counts please, great job Dani, Jen and snoops

chip count for

brendan mchugh
eamon walsh

if possible please

8,900 (that looked fast but I only got it because he was in the way as I returned from eating multiple desserts at the player buffet as the players left it)...

JP not here (hope you haven't got a bet on...) and just saw Mr. Pete in the hall, but that's probably because it's the end of the dinner break.  Probably.

About half an hour ago Brendan was just on dinner break and had about 7k.

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

no problem tkay didnt make it myself, it was sold out and was only 68th on the waiting list so no point in going down but i will get down for sundays game. mal.

p.s. can anyone let me know how Brian Lyttle is doing

any chip counts for maz plz.

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

I notice there's a real laak of Unabomber photos, so here he is now, buoyant as ever.

Actually, it was just an excuse for me to do the crappy gag.

Snoopy has noticed some worrying discrepancies between some players' ID cards and their names on the list ("I write down 'Mateyboy:  51-9 and find out they're listed as Mel Judah") so here's a picture just to make sure I've got the right guy:

Brian Lyttle - 8,700

How is Carlo Citrone doing Please

thanks for some great reporting today everyone!

how long is the tournament scheduled to run until tonight?

Thats the very man!

Update on Graham Clarkson please.

Geo

4am (gulp) with restart 3pm tomorrow. 

Mum! How are you?

 *g

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.

Any chip count for Niall Higgins???

Great job ye're doing

Are you sitting on the PaddyPower computer terminals right outside the tournament area?  10/10 for laziness if so! 

Gus Hansen might have been here, but your line of sight would have gone over his head.

is roberto romanello still in please??????
if so how is he lookin with his stack??
  thanks

lol, yes, I am that lazy and bored!

I know better than to look for Gus at eyelevel, if you see me walking around, you would think I am looking at my feet while I walk, I'm afraid of stepping on the guy.


I'm also customising all the paddypower terminal desktop and screensavers to read 'Dacman for the win!' (friend of mine)

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

Carlo's on about 40,000. Here are some photos of him from earlier, before and after he noticed that I was taking them.

Chipcount for Nuala Hyland please  ::)

Also photos and phone number  ;shame;

Brian Johnston next to Mad Marty Wilson (a) while Marty could see him and (b) pointing frantically at his bonkers neighbour as soon as he looked away:

Hi Djinn, I'm back in London already! How are Brian Johnson and Tony Mackay doing?

Any chip counts for Danny McHugh, Brendan McHugh and Eamon Walsh please???

How much were players lookin spare tickets jac?

A couple of pictures as I create enough time for some more coffee...

Rumit Somaiya
Billy Ngo
Arnaud Mattern and The Mad Turk
Dave Masters

How much were players lookin spare tickets jac?

I spoke to 1 guy today, who bought his ticket from a satellite qualifier in January for 2,800 and sold it this morning for 6,000!

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

No sign of Tony, but Brian steadily accumulating chips, Mad Marty or no Mad Marty - 35k or so currently.

I've been around a few times and I can't see her so I'm assuming she's out, but I did get her number before! It's 07813 NO.

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:  Kh Kc
Player 1 (whom I think was Ali Mallu):  Ad Ac
Player 2:  Ac Qs

Board:  Ahrt Qd 4d 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.

any further news on Chris Moorman??

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
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

is maz nawab still in plz.

Players are now on a 20 minute break.

Please bear with us on requests and whatnot, with the exception of the World Series, we've never updated on so many people in one room before.

Also BA Kildalen - 11,000
Devilfish - 27,500 (not pictured, in case you think I have made a mistake)
Roland De Wolfe - 30,000
Paul Jackson - 12,000

Incidentally, the lady who is currently massaging Roland De Wolfe's shoulders is wearing some the most extraordinary trousers I have ever seen. I am now sharing them with you.

Fantastic Updates as usual.....

Any idea of the chip count of Annette_15 & Gobboboy?

Many thanks

The powers that be have finally seen sense and put Elvis on the tv table.

This young Lady, of Asian origin, works the Pro Poker Cuircuit & is often seen in the CCC in Vienna & Aviation in Paris. A great massuuse, I'm told.

Perhaps her trousers are a sign of high status in masseuse circles. I shall mock them no more.

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.

According to my sources, both of these players are out.

Quite right too. I have an identical pair.

You are doing a great job out there Dana, as are Jen & snoops.

 ;danafish;

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

"A gift," as he called it.

Any word on the Mayo Mafia...Niall Higgins, Eamon Walsh, Danny McHugh, Brendan McHugh...chip counts would be great thanks

Please....

That is the lady who Phil Ivey has massaging him for the whole day during some tournaments

For all you people (all 1 of ye).....Im out! By the way snoopy either i need a facelift or you need a new camera! Did i mention i work for fuji?
You called me reserved....next time ill get up and hug you mate.

Blinds at 200/400 and i had 5000 left. Button raises my BB....i look down at JJ and push for all my stack...he calls and flops a Q...O well...i did say when i got knocked out it would be with the winning hand.

Anyone looking for a tip back Ian Frazer...solid solid player.

Great coverage guys....well done

Time for bed safe in the knowledge that i crippled Barney Boatman earlier with a bluff (sorry barney)

Niall Higgins

Any news on Jon Hewston?

Rob Yong is OUT.

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

Working my way over there, Craig.

How's Annette Obrestad doing?

Hi Niall and thanks for posting. With 708 players, it's great when people help us out by posting themselves.

And I take it back, I don't want the hug, lol.

No problem Snoopy. Keep me up to date with the mayo mafia stacks....eamon walsh and the mchughs...cheers....actually what am i doing here...im going back for a look ....stick a guinness on for snoop

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

Brendan's stakc was up a page or two ago, looking for Danny now because he moved table and headed into the sea of players - no idea what Eamon looks like, do you have a piccy?

i know your very busy but is maz nawab still in ,if so chip count plz.

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

Chip counts for the following please:

William Hill
Abbey Shek
Alan Gilmore
Dessie Graham
Billy Johnstone
Kevin Owens

Keep up the great work with the updates! :)

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).

Afraid not, but he's a sleazy dodgy looking fecker

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.

Warsaw EPT finalist, Frederik Holstrup Pedersen is also OUT.

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.

Here's three of them:

Abbey Shek -- 5,300
Billy Johnstone -- 42,150
Alan Gilmore -- 5,325

Can't seem to see Kevin Owens on the sheet, are you sure he's playing today?

I'll have a look, Barry.

thx snoops.

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)

308 still in, blinds 400/800 ante 50 in 1 minute, and this will be the last level tonight.

Can't find him Barry, so it doesn't look good, but there are still a bunch of players in there, so he could have moved table, gone to the toilet, etc. I'll keep an eye out.

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

Have you got any news on annette_15's day??

chears snoops ,wish john exley good luck from me , when you next go back in (if you see him ) thx .

290 left in now, with 45 minutes to go.

Can I get a chip count ion Jon Young please?

Any update on McHughs and Eamon Walsh (if ye managed to find him!!)
Thanks.

Is Graham Clarkson still In?

Thanks
Geo

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

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."

Roland de Wolfe looks to be 2nd in chip lead to Matin Antar with 93,500.

"No big pots, just lots of medium sized ones."

Mayo Mafia report

Eamon gone. Guy raised...Eamon went over the top with 77. The guy calls with AQ???? and hits A. Danny on 20k. Brendan struggling on about 5k. No drinkl allowed in pokerroom but we managed to smuggle large pints of vodka and redbull in....Andy Black gone....Elvis is rocking and rolling

Niall

On a plate... for Len :)

What table is Len on??? Looking for him all night. Snoopy im at the internet kiosk when you get that pint for me

Nope, sorry, the guy next to his former seat said he went out maybe 2 or 3 hours ago.

Thanks Niall, sorry I couldn't find Eamon, no idea what he looks like, which kind of hidners my chances.

I'll keep an eye out for the McHugh cousins on my next outing in the cardroom.

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.

The seat by his name on the list now has this guy on it - a healthy stack of around 95k, but not who you're looking for, I reckon...

Yet still no news on Jon Hewston?

Scott Hall (22,075), Joe Rafferty (13,950) and Trevor McGooner (42,700).

Thanks for that. Let us know if theres any more news.

Appreciated Dana. Great job as usual guys.

Geo

Here's Bhupinder Kohli, winner of the Climber of the Day prize for this story:

In the second or third level, with 9k against Elvis with a little less, he got it all in with just three raises (him under the gun to 700, small blind raise to 2.5k, him all-in, call).  He held Ks Kh against Qc Qs... The board came T-J-2-8-9 and he was down to just 900.  Straight away his table was broken and he found himself all-in with A-5 against A-J which he promptly outdrew and never looked back.  "I won every hand I played after that until I got up to 30k."  Trophy for Kohli!

Is that you Sully??? Buster??

Anyone seen this man?
(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:X97ukbZUo1mnQM:http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/pictures/JonHewston.jpg)

Well, I've checked a number of times and he's no where to be seen. Please bear in mind that this is the largest ever tournament in Europe with all 708 players starting in one day, so it takes time to find a player, nevermind confirm an exit.

That was me he outdrew with the A5....He then went on to outdraw me twice after that and never even said thanks!!!
How do you pronounce his name??? I have my own special name for him!!!

Niall

No it's Kevin McHugh here - just back from game in Keadue. Out in 15th. Enda had a good stack in front of him when I left.  

Brendan just out in 266

lol I truly admire your persistence, but after a dramatic start, we've not seen him...they've been losing a player a minute for a decent while now, and the necessary table shuffling has been occurring, but somehow I think we'd have found him if he'd been moved rather than eliminated.

Brendan McHugh is OUT.

All-in with 4c 4s (I believe he said, "Oh, f*** it as he stuck em in), Brendan was up against Ks Qc and was looking good until the Turn brought the Kd.

 ;cupcake;               ;mexicanwave;

(http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LDK3MNqCujD4sM:http://www.caror.org/Images/thank%2520you.jpg)

The tannoy-ed voice of Liam Flood comes into the pressroom at the kind of decibel level which ordinarily counts as antisocial behaviour and would get a formal warning from Environmental Health...so we are in no doubt that "THIS IS THE LAST HAND THAT WILL BE DEALT TONIGHT.  YOU MUST DO THE CHIP RACE FOR THE PONY CHIPS.  WOULD ALL BLOGGERS PLEASE VACATE..." at this point my left eardrum burst and I had to start packing up.

Fantastic updates wd xxxxxxx

Pleeeaaaseeeee pleaaaaseeeeee im on my knees cud you possibly snatch a photo of Martin Rowland and post and update???

Wuv the fella loadssssssssss (not as much as poker tho loool)

Thankyouuuuuuuuu

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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

Phil Starrs is OUT,all-in pre-flop, Aspades Qh vs. Ac Kh, 6h Tc 7d 9h 9c board.

Many thanks, but the final moments of the tournament are officially off-limits for us...they're bagging and tagging - we'll get the counts up as soon as we get them.  Also, my head might explode from the volume at which Liam Flood is being broadcast to us in the press room.

Ryan Fronda is OUT.

Ran his shortstacked A-Q into Simon Child's American Airlines (Terry MrDaid folded Jacks).

Harmless board:

3d 2h 3c Ks Ad

Hello to John "Jesus" Mallee (I havent forgotten John).... Only Danny left. About 25k at end of day 1...At least hes doing better than Enda did in the Irish Championship!!

Niall

Danny McHUgh on 22500.

thanks for a great day of reporting and excellent photos of the action :D

He was down to less than 3k at last check, and had been moved table a whole load of times (a great disadvantage, especially when short stacked).  A frustrating never-off-starting-blocks day for a player who is more than capable of patient grinding if necessary; sometimes there's just no opportunity, though.

Phew, what a day, knew it was gonna be a toughie when I saw the total number of entrants. However, we've lost more than half the field, so tomorrow should be a lot easier, especially if we get that player table list early doors.

No idea when chip counts will arrive, but as soon as I see them in my inbox, which will probably be tomorrow morning, I'll be sure to shove them up.

For now, though, it's toodle pip time.

 ;stickaforkinme;

Ok, this is what Liam Flood has done to us, so I'm going to quietly turn off my laptop and limp to the bar now. Adios!

 ;stickaforkinme;

WHAT DID YOU SAY?


;stickaforkinme;

My name doesnt have a ' in it :)

Simon Childs

MOOrMaN PWNZZZZZZ

Moorman in great shape, gl for today.


Great updates, updaters.

GO Moorman.... any news on Snatty ?

708 runners, but the Updaters got the job done.

Brilliant stuff, thank you.

Great coverage, thank you.  How does De Wolfe get twenty million chips after an hours play every time he plays?! ;gobsmacked;

cheers

Luke

 ;flushy;