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Day Two of the 708-runner Irish Open will commence at 3pm tomorrow, with just 260 of them left.

Paul Gourlay -- 107,400
Roland De Wolfe -- 92,400
Ian Frazer -- 87,800
Bill Mulrooney -- 85,200
JP Kennedy -- 74,000
Mazhar Nawab -- 72,600
Cyril Bensovssan -- 72,400
Ivar Borthen -- 70,500
Chris Moorman -- 69,000
Noureddine Ziane -- 67,000
Ali Mallu -- 66,300
Metin Antar -- 65,500
Mike Sexton -- 65,200
Niall McCann -- 63,700
Pol Astaniotis -- 62,900
Simon Mycock -- 60,300
Mick Mccloskey -- 58,400
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 58,000
Len Collin -- 55,300
Alec Torelli -- 52,600
Val McCaul -- 51,300
Raymond Mckenna -- 49,900
Stuart Hill -- 49,700
Eunan Doyle -- 49,400
Paul Zimbler -- 49,400
Marty Wilson -- 48,800
Ram Vaswani -- 48,500
Sebastian Wagner -- 48,400
Dan Harrington -- 47,900
Martin Dullaghan -- 47,800
Richard Ashby -- 47,600
Thomas Fougeron -- 47,500
Brian O'Keefe -- 46,600
Conor Smyth -- 45,800
Timothy Flanders -- 45,300
Sharon Goldman -- 43,900
William Johnstone -- 43,300
Philip Starrs -- 42,500
Dave Ulliott -- 42,100
Marty Smyth -- 42,100
John Quinn -- 41,700
Trevor Mcgoona -- 41,600
Phil Ruddy -- 41,200
Sorel Mizzi -- 41,200
Ruben Gravlein -- 39,800
Peter McGranaghan -- 39,200
Nicolai Kostakis -- 39,200
Albert Sapiano -- 39,100
Paul Dooley -- 39,000
David Poole -- 38,600
Billy Ngo -- 38,600
Fuat Can -- 38,500
Darrin Melwani -- 38,300
Jesse Jones -- 38,100
Ian Dobson -- 37,700
Ian Herbert -- 37,700
Julian Adamson -- 37,500
Adam Fallon -- 37,200
Christian Tardea -- 36,600
Christian Lohmann -- 36,600
Terry Mcdaid -- 36,600
Daniel Smith -- 36,300
Dr. Namir Mohammed -- 36,300
Peter Eastgate -- 36,100
Thor Hansen -- 35,900
James Chan -- 35,500
Stephan Kjerstad -- 35,200
Robin Lacey -- 35,100
Innes Young -- 34,900
Peter Evans -- 34,600
Michael Mccool -- 34,500
David Benyamine -- 34,200
Steve Brecher -- 33,400
Patric Martensson -- 33,300
Brian Johnson -- 33,300
Joe O'Donaill -- 33,300
Mark Mckeever -- 33,300
Jon Young -- 33,100
Cathal Kelly -- 32,700
Bruce Yamron -- 32,200
Tim Farrelly -- 31,800
Lesley Divine -- 31,600
Ian Nelson -- 31,500
Michael O'Sullivan -- 31,200
Peter Maughan -- 30,800
Rosey Bensley -- 30,700
Jarund Strand Soma -- 30,500
Carlos Citrone -- 30,300
Anthony Young -- 30,200
Ian Woodley -- 30,200
Brian O'Connell -- 29,900
Patrick O'Connor -- 29,900
Alan Betson -- 29,900
Paul Corrigan -- 29,500
Simon Childs -- 29,400
Mikael Lindbäck -- 28,900
Ivar Abusedal -- 28,300
Jay O'Toole -- 28,200
Andy O'Flaherty -- 28,200
Steven Frezer -- 28,000
David O'Callaghan -- 28,000
Brendan Walls -- 27,900
Mark Wallis -- 27,900
James Killilea -- 27,600
Andrew Feldman -- 27,400
Scott Gray -- 27,300
Anthony Padden -- 27,100
Kevin Farrelly -- 27,000
Dennis Collins -- 26,900
Rick Wampler -- 26,800
Arnaud Mattern -- 26,700
Tommy Hutchinson -- 26,500
Mick Cook -- 25,975
Eoghan Lyons -- 25,700
Eddie Gorman -- 25,700
Samuel Monigadon -- 25,500
Julian Thew -- 25,500
Chris Smith -- 25,200
Chris Chu -- 24,600
Murat Yalkin -- 24,300
Alan Barnacle -- 24,200
Eshan Husseini -- 24,000
Ian Broadrick -- 23,800
Jude Duffy -- 23,700
George Geary -- 23,000
Philip Baker -- 23,000
Eugene Hanratty -- 22,900
Danny Mchugh -- 22,500
Colm Smith -- 22,500
Santiago Torres -- 22,500
Bjorn- Andre Kildalen -- 22,200
Christy Smith -- 22,200
Matthew Doyle -- 22,200
John Webb -- 22,100
Pat O'Callaghan -- 22,000
Peter Hardgrove -- 22,000
Martine Libertini -- 21,900
Michael McCarthy -- 21,700
Jeremy O'Leary -- 21,600
Joeseph Rafferty -- 21,500
Stefan Raffay -- 21,500
Nicky Power -- 21,400
Ole G Holgersen -- 21,400
Stephen Kenna -- 21,300
Bhupinder Kohli -- 21,100
Henric Carlsson -- 21,000
Terry Grimley -- 21,000
Paul Jackson -- 20,700
John Cooney -- 20,600
Owen Mullan -- 20,500
George Cunningham -- 20,300
Wai Kwan Yuen -- 20,200
Paul Daly -- 19,800
Thomas Finneran -- 19,500
Danny D'Borin -- 19,200
Patrick Rath -- 19,100
Mark Reeves -- 19,100
Jonas Molander -- 19,100
Andrew O'Leary -- 18,900
Sean Donaldson -- 18,900
Brian McCarthy -- 18,800
Ivo Donev -- 18,700
Cristiano Blanco -- 18,500
Kent Ballegaard -- 18,500
Dairmuid Hurley -- 18,400
John McNaughton -- 18,200
Reyaaz Mulla -- 18,200
Michael O'Connor -- 18,100
Tom Collins -- 18,100
Sheamus O'Reilly -- 18,100
David Kerins -- 17,900
Bo Sehlstedt -- 17,900
Peter Laverick -- 17,600
Tomas Kavanagh -- 17,600
Willomeana Connolly -- 17,600
Mark Keane -- 17,200
George McKeever -- 17,100
Jean noel Said -- 17,100
Eddie Moor -- 16,800
Barry Fox -- 16,600
Stewart Samuels -- 16,500
Thomas Nolan -- 16,400
Ken Walsh -- 16,200
Padraig Parkinson -- 16,100
Chris Murphy -- 16,000
Gary Byrne -- 15,900
Niall O'Callahan -- 15,700
Soren Kongsgarre -- 15,700
Roy Leacy -- 15,400
Micheal Veale -- 15,300
Dave Masters -- 15,100
Shyam Markus -- 15,000
Adrian Byrne -- 14,850
Philip Green -- 14,700
Tom Hanlon -- 14,700
Roger Lillejord -- 14,600
Bobby Willis -- 14,400
Frank Davis -- 14,400
Noel Hayes -- 14,400
Albert  Kenny -- 14,100
Colin Stoddard -- 14,000
Kevin Fitzpatrick -- 13,900
Jerker Eriksson -- 13,800
Ciaran Cryan -- 13,700
Abby Wing Shek -- 12,800
John Conroy -- 12,600
Azad Pirooti -- 12,200
Frank Callaghan -- 12,000
Diarmaid O'Riordan -- 11,800
Daniel O'Donovan -- 11,700
Damir Buhovski -- 11,600
Günther Koch -- 11,500
Michael Mcgoldrick -- 11,500
Ken Corkery -- 11,400
Rolf Inge Kvanik -- 11,100
David Barker -- 11,000
James English -- 11,000
Carolyn Manson -- 10,900
John Wong -- 10,900
Harri Pehkonen -- 10,800
Alan Gilmore -- 10,700
Christopher Simmonds -- 10,700
Orlaith McManus -- 10,500
David Dean -- 10,400
Oliver Cummins -- 10,300
Surinder Sunar -- 10,300
Donnacha O'Dea -- 10,200
Liam Reddin -- 10,000
Vincent Melinn -- 9,700
Eoin Olin -- 9,500
Ross Byrne -- 9,300
Anthony Donohoe -- 8,800
Yucef Eminoglu -- 8,700
David Carberry -- 8,600
Brian Donnelly -- 8,400
Philp Rosenburg -- 8,300
Jeff Kimber -- 8,200
Dominic Hever -- 8,000
Pat Murray -- 7,900
Toras Alelius -- 7,700
Barry Griffin -- 7,700
Jonathan Rich -- 7,500
William Delaney -- 6,700
Paul Maskell -- 6,600
Jimmy Kelly -- 5,800
Glen Mccabe -- 5,800
Duncan Keane -- 4,800

Mayhem in these early stages, and it seems to be the curse of Seat 7, with Pat Murray, Namir Mohammed and Michael Veale all biting the dust early doors, the latter eliminated by Jarund Strand Soma, Tens into Jacks.

Also gone are Ken Corkery, Peter Eastgate and Damir Buhovski.

Chris Smith is OUT -

Caught the tail end of it (where he moved in with Jd 9c and was taken out for his final 5k with Aspades Ks) but the damage came from running Kc Ks into Sixes which ended up being quads.  Roland, sat to Chris' left, was smiling as widely as Chris was resignedly and said, "I folded Jacks."  Not too much comfort for Smith Sr. I would imagine, but Dan is still in (somewhere).
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Also OUT - Harri Pehkonen and Chris Murphy.  Murphy got it all in on a 3s Ts 7h flop against Tim Flanders who bet out 4k from the big blind, and called the raise all-in of around 8k more with 8d 9h.  Chris Murphy had Ac Tc, but the Jc fell immediately on the turn and he was on his feet before the 3c hit the river.

Double through for John Wong - but he had to sweat for it.  First it was the race of his Jh Jd vs Aspades Qs.  Then it was the 9s Js Td flop (he's ahead and all, I think, but not by more than a whisker or two)... but he visibly relaxed on the Tc turn and is now not so perilously short stacked.


Mick McCool is OUT  - He held for his last hand J-Q on the button, raised it.  The big stack big blind called.
Flop: Q-8-J  Big Blind checked, McCool bet 5k, the big blind check-raised to 15k.  Apparently he'd done this more than a couple of times, and Mick decided to push for his 30-something thousand.  His two pair was instacalled with the flopped nuts (9-T) and no outdraw= in the hallway.

Chris Moorman is up to 105 after finding Kings v Ace King and eliminating Ian Herbert in the process.

Azad Pirooti is also OUT, running K-J into K-Q on a King high Flop.

Well, Ian Fraser has just lost a chunky pot, making what many would consider a suspect call.

With a flop of 9d Jd 5s, Stefan Raffay moved all-in for around 16k, Anthony Donohoe called all-in for several k and Ian, albeit after a dwell, made a reluctant turn confident call.

Stefan Raffay = Ac Ad

Anthony Donohoe = Kd Qd

Ian Fraser = Jh 8h

Stefan didn't look happy to see Anthony's hand, and he was justified in his fears as the Turn brought the 4d.

"No more diamonds!" exlaimed Anthony, and he was rewarded with a Qh on the River.

Both players banged the table, one whooping the other huffing whilst Ian simply said, "He's been raising under the gun almost every time, I was just unlucky that he had Aces this time."

Stefan Raffey is OUT. Meanwhile, Nicolai Kostakis has built up a nice 90k stack.

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Ian Broadrick is OUT in rather testicle crushing circumstances, losing to Mad Marty's 6d 5c on an 8c Ac 7h 8d 4h, Ian moaning to a friend as he left, "I had trips and Marty Rivered a straight on me."

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Chris Moorman just lost a few, not too many though, but he was forced to show his bag of spanners, raising pre-flop with 4-5 and having to call an all-in from Kings.

4 hit the Flop, and although Anthony Young almost had a fit on the River, it was a 6 rather than a 5.

Chris Moorman     96,300
Bryan O'Connell    29,200
Donnacha O'Dea    OUT
Paul Jackson          OUT

Just before his table was broken, Roland de Wolfe doubled through shortish stacked Cristiano Blanco - I caught it from the 7s 8h 5c flop when Cristiano's Kh Qh was on its back next to Roland's Td 7d.  I can only assume from their relative positions that Roland must have check-called his flop all-in move.
He watched the 5h come on the turn and the 2h on the river, however, to remove a small portion of his second-in-command stack.  "Sick," he said, but without any real vigour behind it. 

Donnacha O'Dea is OUT.

All-in with Fours against A-9, Ace on the River.

Bhupinder Kohli is also OUT.

Made a move for 10k with K-Ts, but ran into Tens. Same player had forced him to fold A-Ks utg not long before.

Julian Thew -- 33,300
Reyaaz Mulla -- 34,500
Bobby Willis -- 20,300
Colm Smith -- 13,700
Sebastian Wagner -- 26,900
Paul Zimbler -- 52,800
Cristiano Blanco -- 25,000
Brian Johnson -- 33,700
Marty Wilson -- 24,800
Conor Smyth -- 70,500
John Quinn -- 49,900
Simon Childs -- 57,600
George Geary -- 14,600
Mark Keane -- 20,000
Yucil Eminoglu -- 24,800
Soren Kongsgaard -- 35,000
Maz Nawab -- 84,500
Michael O'Connor -- 24,800
David Benyamine -- 35,000
Martin Dullaghan -- 41,500
Carolyn Manson -- 36,700
Tomas Kavanagh -- 41,300
Niall O'Callahan -- 19,900
Noel Hayes -- 17,100
JP Kennedy -- 68,300
Christian Lohmann -- 95,300
Jesse Jones -- 30,000
George McKeever -- 15,300
Jeremy O'Leary -- 25,200
Pat O'Connor -- 17,600
Ian Dobson -- 60,400
Terry McDaid -- 22,300
John McNaughton -- 8,600
Val McCaul -- 30,800
Carlo Citrone -- 50,600
Rolf Inge Kvanik -- 14,200
Jerker Eriksson -- 15,400
Mikael Lindback -- 39,200
Thor Hansen -- 47,100
Ian Woodley -- 29,300

Ali Mallu is OUT. Lost three big hands in a row.

Some unbelievable hanging on for a Scandie - BA still there after rivering the second nut flush: Ad Kc into the nut flush: Ac Kh.  Probably lost the minimum, betting small and calling what looked like a min-raise on the river which brought four clubs to the board.  So expecting an elimination any minute, as he was standing up with 10k in front of him, instead he's doubled through without showdown, making a risky bet with Ace-high on a Jack-x-x flop to take down a few and then winning a couple more.  Still hope for the blogging community. 

Some chip counts (we're scouring the room a couple of tables at a time, covering everybody who's still displaying their wonderful ID card):

Anthony Padden  38,200
Gunther Koch      11,800
George Cunningham  12,900
Eoin Olin              25,900
Mike Sexton         60,800
Samuel Monigadon  36,000
BA Kildalen             14,200
Nicolai Kostakis       118,000
Brian O'Connell       41,500
Chris Moorman        80,000
Anthony Young      38,000
B. O'Keefe            42,000
Philip Green           36,500
Roger Lillejord        38,200
Peter McGranaghan  27,000
Roland de Wolfe      50,000
Frank Davis             126,000
Murat Yalkin            23,900
Jonas Molander        53,000
Patric Martensson     16,000
Henric Carlsson         38,000
Anthony Donohoe    38,000
Adam Fallon             31,600
Ian Frazer                66,500
Brian McCarthy         15,400
Sharon Goldman       40,000

Dan Smith the pre-break big climber - he's on over 110k now after getting a double through with pocket Jacks.  They spiked a set on the flop, when most of the 45k went in against some Aces.  He looked to be in a pretty good mood at the bar during the break.  Plus he qualifies for Fashion Oddity of the Day with his extraordinary trousers. 

Other side of the room, and the Omaha €300 rebuy side event is about to kick off, probably a good turnout considering that there are about 500 poker players on 'holiday' here with no willpower to leave the hotel. 

Billy Johnstone is the new chip leader with 150k after moving in for 40k into a 100k+ pot.

Flop was 7s Qs 3h

Len Collin is OUT.

Three way all-in on a 9c 8d 6d.

Len = Qh Qd

N Mohammed = 8s 7s

Paul Dooley = Td Th

Turn = Ts

River = 9d

Dooley takes a massive pot, taking out two men in the process.

They've just switched TV table to the Molander/de Wolfe one and spread the previous one's contents throughout the room (sigh).  Plus, a table just broke - pandemonium with all the spectators sneaking in and being shifted out every few minutes.  Here are a few more counts, though:

Jarund Strand     35,800
Liam Reddin        17,000
Andy O'Flaherty   61,000
Paul Gourlay        113,000
David Barker        44,000
Billy Ngo             51,000
Philip Starrs         28,000
Andrew O'Leary   18,100
Stuart Hill            40,300
Surinder Sunar     70,000+
Jules Adamson     75,000
Thomas Fougeron  86,000
Dan Smith             75,000  (the last five are on the same table, lots of tall, hard-to count stacks, but more chips than any other, I reckon)
Ram Vaswani        57,000
Ivar Borthen         120,000  (just knocked someone out with JJ vs AK adding a good 30k to his stack)
William Johnstone    104,000
David Kierins           24,500
Dan Harrington       30,000

Mike Sexton ('some American', as BA Kildalen called him) has just eliminated the bubbly and forever smiling Willomena Connolly, semi-reluctantly (he said 'Oh Boy' in true Sam Beckett manner) calling the 5.8k all-in from the big blind with Kd Jc.

Willomena turned over Ad 2d, and was happy with the 9c 9h 6h Flop, but her delight soon turned to chagrin as the River brought a King.

Hartwith has had an interesting hand with Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, which could have been a lot bigger than it was... Jules raised with the Ahrt Ac, got Thomas calling (I imagine his table image is more like jello than granite).  Flop:  7-3-7  He bet, and thought he heard Thomas say, "All in."  So faster than fast he announced, "Call," and flipped his Aces over. 
In fact, his opponent had said, "Raise," hence a Ruling:  he can no longer create action.

They check it down and Fougeron's Eights escape giving Jules the extra 20k he was going to raise on the flop. 

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Philip Rosenberg is up to 60k after winning a bit pot with Aces v Ace Queen.

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Two Irish Daves are OUT in O'Callaghan and Masters.

All-in preflop.

Jerker Eriksson = Aspades Ks

Mikael Lindback = Jd Jc

Board = 2s 8s 6s Ac Ad

Chip counts for many of the players requested today:

Maz Nawab -- 97,200
George Geary -- out
Billy Ngo -- 62,700
Billy Johnstone -- 108,100
Chris Moorman -- 86,800
Bryan O'Connell -- 26,200
Brian Johnson -- 26,200
Ian Frazer -- 66,800
David Poole -- 38100
S Mizzi -- 41,300
Mick McCloskey -- 40,600
Danny McHugh -- 55,100
Alan Betson -- 49,500
Arnaud Mattern -- 24,900
John Conroy -- 37,200
Reyaaz Mula -- 21,400
Simon Childs -- 18,000

The enigmatic Torres Santiago is OUT, all-in against last year's finalist, Jon Wong, with 9c 8s vs. Kh Jc.

Board = 3c Aspades Ahrt 5d Tc

Lots of Drama, No Call News Now:

1)  Moorman gets it all in and is given the full dwell before a pass.

2)  Someone looks to have just pulled the all-in lever in Mad Marty's head - twice in a row he's pushed in preflop, once on the small blind for a little under 30k and then the very next hand on the button.  The second time he gets the third degree dwell from both blinds, Brian Johnson and big blind Cristiano Blanco, who really did have a decision.  Mad Marty kept up the expected verbal assault all the way through both all-ins, nattering, "You wanna play softball or hardball?" at dwelling Blanco, at which Brian adds, "You play cricket."

He changes tack, saying, "Italy's a long way from here...you play for two days, want to go out now?  Just put your hand in the middle. [pause] Clock!"

Drawn like an embroidered-denim ant to peanut butter, Devilfish shows up as the table becomes thronged by paparazzi. 
"Don't you touch me, you jinx!" shouts Marty.
"That's not what you said last night," responds the Fish.

Cristiano passes Aspades Jc face up, and the insanity continues.

John 'The Rockstar' Conroy has doubled up with Ac Kc vs. Ad Qd all-in pre-flop, not sure he liked the first two cards though...

4d 9d Aspades Jd Jh

Raymond McKenna the victim.

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Samuel Monigadon has just made a good call, but been punished by the board.

Mike Sexton raised it up, Monigadon called, Mateyboy on the big blind pushed, Sexton folds, Monigadon calls.

Kc Qc vs. Aspades Th

Board = Js Ks 5c Th 3h

The 100k Club:

Cyril Bensovssan -- 205,500
Paul Dooley -- 175,200
Nicolai Kostakis -- 144,200
Christian Lohmann -- 144,100
Peter Eastgate -- 124,500
Maz Nawab -- 121,800
Paul Gourlay -- 118,200
Dan Smith -- 108,800
Julian Adamson -- 103,500
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 100,500

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is OUT, eliminated from the feature table after re-raising A-7 with Kings. The Kings opted not to fold.

More news...

Julian Thew went busto (all the cool cats are saying that) a while back at the hands of Ian Woodley, moving over the top of the Londoner with A-5 and being called (Woodley was committed) by K-J. A-J-x-x-K board

Mad Turk Yucel Eminoglu whispers in Paul Gourlay's ear...and it might have been something like:

"I am Climber of the Day, without a doubt.  I was down to just 8,000 and am now comfortably topping 100k!  Like you!  One huge pot I took off that guy who came third in Monte Carlo - he bluffed me for 40k and I called him with Ace high."

A yelp from the corner of the room lures me over, and before I get there I see the familiar figure of Mad Turk jumping up from his seat and punching the air in that energetic way that many Walsall regulars will be accustomed to.

"Yeah, baby!" exclaims Turk as the pot is pushed towards him.

A-K vs. the A-Q of someone who I believe to be Alan Gilmore (I'll need to confirm this), and we're a player down, but a Turk up... 150k in fact.

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Meanwhile, there's a battle of who can look the most serious being undertaken by Irishman Joe Rafferty (if anyone looked Irish, it'd be this man) and flying Swede (he can't really fly) Jonas Molander.

With Jonas eying up his opponent's every move on every street like a wolf stalking its prey, Joe Raffery bets the Flop (8k) and Turn (12k) of a 3h 9d Tc Ahrt board, only to to check the Qh River. Jonas, intense as ever, also checked, and showed Ac 9c, possibly afraid that his opponent was trap-checking the River.

Much to the amusement of the rest of the table, Joe revealed Ad 9s and we had a chop chop situation.

Dan Harrington is OUT - The huge stacked button raised his big blind and he moved in after a think - about 25k or so - called instantly by Aspades Qd.  He held Ahrt 8h.
Flop:  Th 4c 5c
Turn:  6h  Suddenly he's got 16 outs for the river
River:  Jd  That wasn't one of them and he gets a special mention and a round of applause as he exits the roped-off area.

Thomas Fougeron is OUT.

Made a move with with Qc 4d, but was picked off by Ian Fraser and his Aspades Th.

7h 2d 2h 2s 3s board.

Mick McCloskey has the cake... a big three tier one!

Chris Moorman raised under the gun.

Robin Lacey called.

Mick McCloskey pushed for 60k.

Chris Moorman called all-in for about the same figure.

Robin Lacey called.

Robin Lacey = Aspades Kc

Chris Moorman = Kh Kd

Mick McCloskey -- Ac Ahrt

Board = Qd 5c 2s 8c 8s

Chris Moorman exits.

Robin Lacey cries into his 10k stack.

Mick McCloskey goes all antsy in his pantsy.

A few quick counts (getting more difficult as the stacks reach skywards and no sign of a chip higher than 1k):

Ram Vaswani   54k
Terry McDaid   88k
Cristiano Blanco  30,100
Mad Marty         30k
Eddie Gorman   9,400
Tim Flanders     130k
Brian O'Connell   100k
Billy Ngo            88k
Paul Dooley      230k
John Wong       65k
Ian Frazer         46k
Chris Smith        110k
BA Kildalen        27k
Sorel Mizzi         250k(?) just involved in large pot, story coming...
Mick McCloskey   170k
Rosey Bensley    26k
Paul Gourlay       175k
Bruce Yamron     50k
Surinder Sunar    30k
Mad Turk            160k
Roland de Wolfe   36k
David Benyamine  69k
Jules Adamson      160k
David Barker         56k

Carolyn Manson is OUT, eliminated by Roland de Wolfe.

OK that Sorel Mizzi huge hand, as speed-related to me by new tablemate BA:  He raised three times the bb preflop, with two callers, one in position, one out. 
Flop:  Qh 6s 4h  Blinds-caller bet out 15k, Sorel tripled it, was called by his in-position neighbour and lost the original bettor.  Heads up for the 3c turn, apparently called, "No heart" by Sorel who promptly put his shorter stacked neighbour all in when the blank came.  Call.  Now, apparently at this point he says, "You have the Ahrt Jh" - I didn't hear it but nobody was denying that he was spot on - that's exactly what he was shown and his Kd Qd stayed good with a rivered King (not a heart).

Let's guess his stack is now 250k.

Colin Stoddard is OUT. All-in with T-6 vs. K-7 on a K-4-2-T board. 9 River of no use.

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Maz Nawab has 158,400. Also on his table is Mad Turk (121,600) and Surinder Sunar (35,700). Just behind them on the neighbouring table is Shadow member Paul Gourlay who is challenging for the chip lead with 215,100.

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Marty Wilson is OUT. Kings v Nines.

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Lesly Divine is also OUT.

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Noel Hayes has double up with Ac Jh vs. Qd 9d and a 4d 2c 5h Jd 7c board. He was very excited.

Paul Zimbler turns a short stack to a medium one, moving in for 25k over the top of an early raiser, who called the extra 13k with Qd Ks.  As soon as he called, Paul shouted in that way one usually does when the river's made you a winner, showing Ad Ahrt.  A Queen came on the flop to create brief tension, but preflop hubris or not there was no outdraw and a bit of "COME ON!" later he's up over the 50k mark.
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The hand which doubled Dan Smith to 100k was a little less confident - he raised and presumably called an all-in from the blinds with Ac 8d.  I figure this because I can't see him just pushing in for 50k, but then again I'm not sure how much it was for him to call all-in... oh well, regardless of how it got there, a big pot was in the middle, and the 4c 4s of Danny D'Borin lost to some Eights as all five board cards came out while they both just stood there and watched.  Knocked to just 24k, and not looking best pleased about it D'Borin was out the very next hand, moving in when it folded round to him with Qc 3c and finding Qd 8s against him.  So quick, sometimes...


All this as the last few pre-bubble tables get broken and merged with the remaining 84...

We're now into a 20 minute break, but just before they left, Ian Frazer was all-in with A-K.

Billy Ngo, who finished 2nd at the Walsall GUKPT invited the cameras in for the full allotted time before calling with A-K.

Fraser turned over the same hand and, although the board brought three clubs, Fraser didn't quite make his flush on the River.

Reyaaz Mulla is OUT. Think I overheard him mumble something about an Ace King v Ace 3, so it doesn't sound good.

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DTD member Paul Zimbler looks to be up around the 90k mark after doubling up off Peter Hardgrove with 9-9 vs. 6-4 suited.

BA Kildalen was oh so close to being the butt of The Hammer's bubble dance, moving his stack in with a set of Aces on an A-x-x Flop (two spades) and finding himself up against a K-6 flush draw.

However, the Turn and River were blanks and the Norwegian survived.

Bubbler was a certain Mr. McNaughton - such a crowd round the table - my window of visibility did catch the hands, however - all-in with Aspades 8d (desperately short-stacked, however) against Th 3d. 
Flop:  Td 8h 5d
Turn:  4h
River:  Tc

And while he goes home empty-handed, the rest of the 72 players are In The Money.

John Conroy is OUT.

A-4 vs. 7-5

2-6-6-K-A board.

Paul Zimbler to blame.

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Trevor McGoona soon followed, A-T no good against Pocket Kings, especially when a third hit the Flop.

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Julian Adamson has just knocked out David Benyamine, Tens v Eights.

Danny McHugh -- 105.5k
Billy Ngo -- 134k
David Barker -- 97k
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 175k
Eddie Gorman -- 46k
Terry McDaid -- 73k
Nicolai Kostakis -- 191.5k
Bryan O'Connell -- 107k
Tim Flanders -- 252k
Paul Dooley -- 98k
Stephen Kjerstad -- 98k
Andy O'Flaherty -- 35.5k
Ian Woodley -- 60.5k
Paul Zimbler -- 200k
Bryan O'Keefe -- 36k
Julian Adamson -- 150k
BA Kildalen -- 88.5k
Carlo Citrone -- 107/5k
Roland de Wolfe -- 78k
Cyril Bensovssan -- 129k
D Bonio -- 330k
Christian Lohmann -- 203.5k
Marty Smyth -- 88k
Paul Gourlay -- 108k
Jon Wong -- 102.5k
Maz Nawab -- 316k
Noel Hayes -- 108.5k
Joe Rafferty -- 130k
Dan Smith -- 73.5k
Jonas Molander -- 83k
Alan Betson -- 24k

61 players remaining (I think we're already in secondary level prize money - structure coming any minute)...

Average stack 116,100

1st.....................650,000
2nd....................325,000
3rd.....................210,000
4th.....................175,000
5th.....................130,000
6th....................100,000
7th......................75,000
8th......................50,000
9th......................35,000
10-12..................26,250
13-18..................19,000
19-27..................14,000
28-36..................10,000
37-45....................7,000
46-54....................5,000
55-63....................4,250
64-72....................3,500

An intensely dejected Mad Turk has been forced on to the rail, fist missing a flush draw for a 100k pot and then losing a coin-flip with Fives v K-T.

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Roland de Wolfe has seen off shortstacker Owen Mullan, Ad 5d vs. Kh 7h.

Board = Qc 9s 8d 9h 9c

Billy Ngo doubles up PaddyPower online qualifier Eddie Gorman, with the mighty 5h 7c.  Gorman had Th Ts, and somehow it was all in preflop (perhaps Eddie raised, Billy in the blinds re-raised?  Got stuck calling with that filthy but at the same time alluring hand?  Yes, that sounds plausible).  A five on the flop but no more interest and a delighted Gorman gets a stack back.

Danny McHugh's stack has just been dissected by David Barker, Aces v Tens, T-5-K-J-8 board.

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Meanwhile, Ian Woodley has gone, A-5 no good against pocket eights.

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Ian Fraser is OUT. No hand details.

Er... 0

Short stacked after losing that Gorman confrontation and I'm guessing a couple more, he was all in for about 30k with Aspades 2h, against Td Ts...
Flop:  Jc 7d 8h
Turn:  9s  and with the 3c on the river all hope disappeared and he shook hands and headed calmly for the rail.

52nd place, €5,000, not bad.

(1) Sorel Mizzi -- 580k
(2) Danny Deborin -- 320k
(3) Paul Dooley -- 305k
(4) Paul Zimbler -- 265k
(5) Tim Flanders -- 250k

Brian 'The Fox' O'Keefe has just doubled up with Fives v Aces, a Five hitting the Flop to take a few chips away from current leader, Sorel Mizzi.

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Sorel Mizzi had disposed of last year's finalist Conor Smyth, Kings v Threes.

These four are tablemates:

BA Kildalen     97k 
Carlo Citrone   140k
Roland de Wolfe  170k
John Wong      65k

BA says John Wong has been pushed off raises three times in the last half hour - just saw Roland re-raise him out of the blinds and start that whole, "What have you got?  You show and I'll show..."  before John backed off.  He's now pretty short stacked with the blinds at 4k/8k.

Paul Dooley has elimanted another player, A-J vs. J-T, A-K-9-6-6 board.

Meanwhile, it looks as though Danny McHugh is going to make it through to Day 3, he's currently remaining steady with 80k.

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Bedlam here. Are you keeping up?

Lost another...

Paul Gourlay, Rivered by Mick McCloskey according to my source.

Word on the grapevine is that Frank Davis is OUT after becoming involved in a three-way pot in which his Queens were the 3rd favourite (!!!)

Of course, he was up against Aces (Jerker Eriksson) and Kings (Danny D'Borin).

The Aces stood up, leaving Jerker to take the side pot.

Absolute mayhem at the end there - that threeway monster final hand had a ring of spectators three-deep round it, BA was standing on his chair shouting something in Norwegian, the 'Day's Play Bubble' had already burst and they were already bringing the bags and the tags while 600k or so was changing hands...

So down to 44 now, and they'll all be back at 3pm tomorrow for more of the same, probably.

Some end of day chip counts:

Dan Smith -- 79.5k
Noureddine Ziane -- 142k
Joe Rafferty -- 243k
Thomas Finneghan -- 244.5k
John Quinn -- 124k
Maz Nawab -- 213k
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 228.5k
Bruce Yamron -- 155k
Marty Smyth -- 172.5k
Jon Wong -- 79.5k
Jeremy O'Leary -- 90k
Paul Zimbler -- 275k
BA Kildalen -- 103.5k
Jerker Eriksson -- 270k
Roland de Wolfe -- 163k
Christian Lohmann -- 55k
Bensoussan C -- 129.5k
Henrik Carlsson -- 152.5k
Mick McCloskey -- 273k
Danny D'Borin -- 454.5k
Peter Eastgate-- 232k
David Barker -- 135.5k
Gunther Koch -- 38.5k
Peter M -- 167.5k
Bill Mullrooney -- 64k
Jules Adamson -- 244k
Carlo Citrone -- 135.6k