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Anybody going or thinking of going?

I know Dale's mentioned it in his blog that he'll be there.

I'm vaguely considering going atm...

If you've not been to Galway before you won't regret going.

Best place in Ireland for a night out and they know how to run their poker there as well.

Thinly veiled 'I am crushing in my prop bet so I might buy in to this and I still have time to look at blogs' soon to be staking request post, imo

lol

I went to this last year and what a weekend it was, the irish certainly are the best at putting on a tourament and drinking!

Status has been upgraded from "vaguely considering" to "seriously considering" :)

That's code for "I've told the missus I'm going and leaving her with the kid?"

No.  It's code for "I REALLY want to go to Galway.  Now to figure out how I'm getting it past the Missus."

MC is just going to tell her he has got another prop bet on that week and he must not be disturbed for a week, then climb out the window. It is what I like to call manning up and showing them who's boss.

Rofl.

Fortunately didn't have to resort to climbing out the window, the missus has approved me going, either I run good and she's very understanding or she'll be spending my time away with my son's future step dad lol.

Hey I don't really know many of you guys yet other than the ppl I knew before I joined here. But I would really like to go to this event I asked a few of my close poker mates but they didn't seem too keen on a) the buyin or b) the fact it was so close to the DTD Monte Carlo event.
Well I'm going to be playing the Monte Carlo event regardless and I've never played a comp in Ireland before. Judging by your reviews it sounds great so I might come along even if it is by myself to  have a good time and try and TID :D.

Does anyone know where you fly too is it Dublin or Galway? geography isn't my best subject if I'm honest.

Here's a map of the airports to give you a better idea

http://www.gettingtoireland.com/airports.htm

They have links to all sorts of info on that site, but if you get stuck give a shout and I'll do what I can to point you in the right direction.

You fly into Galway man. I'm yet to play in Ireland either...

Yeah shame it's so close to Monte Carlo thing and might have preferred a slightly reduced buy-in, but it's supposed to be a soft field which can only be aided by the # of Stars qualifiers.

Thanks guys for your help. I'm just off to sleep now.. yes sleep at 9-24am lol the life of an online poker player is wrong! I'll take a proper look later, thanks again!

me and nigdawg r goin Jimbo, prob com with us??

Could be up for this since I can't make Monte Carlo. I'll have a look at chat to you about it.


You all booked and set to go Toby? Let me know plans!

im booking flights now, already qualified for tournament on stars, you guys might wanna buy in on stars because it might sell out??

When is this sorry?

The 5 day festival will take place at Galway’s Radisson Hotel from December 10th to 14th

Toby Lewis in live poker shocker!

Can't make Galway either now. Seriously FML. GL though, ship the lot!

Cool guys, I still haven't sorted out flights and shit should probs get onto that.

You think there's a good chance it will sell out??

P.S. Goddam you Sunny ;)

Lol, I run so bad! Think I'm deffo going to still go to the Deepstack one in Feb. Infact, going to book flights on that soon as well, so I remember not to double book myself!

Am def going now, have booked flights and hotel :)

cool i might pop down and say hi.

I'm gonna try a Qualifier on Saturday (cancelled playing footy and everything lol) if I have no joy then I'll jus buyin on the site, cos I think hotels might be a nightmare to book and I need to be within 500ft of Brammer so I can rub him down when he gets owned by the worst player in the comp as usual, joking Chris I love you really ;-).

Just booked the hotel and flights (Not a fan of flying). So hopefully see you guys there!

Good luck Lads and have a great time!!!

msn convo with james was pretty com

consta saying how much he hates planes then when he finally grows a pair and books his flights you can tell his face turned to horror when he found out about Aer Arran green flights policy:

James: this planes a bit old school
James: they use spinners
nigdawg: lol
james: ffs im not kidding
nigdawg: lol adds to the fun
nigdawg: tbh i hate planes too
james: im not gna lie
james: im regrettin booking tht flight lol

Hahaha ffs! And by spinners I mean propellors lol!

OMG......

You have not lived until you've flown Aer Arran to a grass runway at Galway.......

Grass runway?? Are u kidding Tikay?!

LOL stop winding him up he won't sleep at night now

Lol at wind up. It's the only way in to Galway unless you drive. No runways big enough for proper planes so you get these little things.

They're perfectly safe though, I've been on them loads of times. Just goes bump a bit when it lands.

The one i went on about a year ago was delayed two hours because something needed to be fixed and they were using superglue to do it and the delay time was for it to dry.

Flight was fine though.

Enjoy your trip.

Bet you thought I was referring to the poker tourney, huh?   rotflmfao

Still it could be worse, I could be on this going to the moon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8400692.stm

[  ] You are safer with Aer Arran

There planes are fine, i also hate flying and have to have a few beers before i get on but i felt more comfortable in there planes than say BA.

Cheers Madone! I really hate them you wouldn't realise unless I told you though feel its better to be honest else I'll worry too much, I have a good poker/plane take-off face but inside I am ****ing it - bit like when you make that bluff where you are praying the other guy folds, outside you look calm but inside your hearts beating like a drum at 100mph!

Unfortunately its one of the reasons I haven't been to Vegas yet! :(

Get to the airport early.  Have a few relaxing drinks.  Then have a few more in case the first lot wear off before you land in Galway.  Sorted.

Reads on the flight crew are crucial in these spots.

gotta love the 9am flight then lol

ahahahahhah

If things go wrong seriously wrong in Jet, gg.
If things go seriously wrong in a prop, no worries.

Here's the ultra spcious interior of the Aer Arran Bombadier CRJ.

Here's one that's been for sale, hurry before it gets snapped up. It been on sale for the last 7 years.

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://img.alibaba.com/photo/10997011/Bombardier_CRJ_Aircraft.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.alibaba.com/product/jetsbiz-10997011-10679041/Bombardier_CRJ_Aircraft.html&usg=__hUgjR-VoKO8Jp3HWukwqvkDcp-E=&h=272&w=374&sz=70&hl=en&start=1&itbs=1&tbnid=pS57lndKUlj6qM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=122&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbombardier%2Baircraft%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DG

Ugh.  Bad beat.

Enjoy yer flight. 

+1

Having had a few flying lessons in a 2 seater Cessna I would say you are way safer if things go wrong in the prop plane.
However you could argue that the chance of something going wrong in the first place is greater  :o

mm now i know what i am going to spend all my poker winnings on ................. well i might get a model plane ha ha but i an dream

planning on having my first pint of guinness this weekend

Do Galway, and then you can tackle the flight to Vegas!

wiiiiiii won the 11 rebuy turbo crapshoot sattelite thingy last night so i will be playing this. only a 45 min drive from my house too so no dodgy planes for me lol.

MC if you see this would you want to swap 5%?

cheers

moon

Nice one. GL.

    My son Paul And friend Ricky are off to deal. Say 'hi' to them please.

Thread moved here for the duration of the event for, hopefully, railing purposes

Please see http://blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/26891  for details of live coverage

grats moon, who would have thought you would win a seat in a crapshoot!

hate flying anyway heard some scary stories about this flight lol

so driving/ferrying it across with Perrins later today, first time in Ireland should be fun

probs see some of you there later if we dont get lost

Rooting for you to scoop the loot. After getting flooded last month you're due a break.

Binking from $11 would be immense

+1!!!

thanks for the good wishes much appreciated i will do my best, wasnt strictly $11 tank i did have to rebuy 14 times but figured i had to go all out for my local tourney. now if i can convince them to change the structure to a 1500 starting stack and 10 min levels i should be golden lol.

will try and update on here

cheers
moon

14 is a good number of rebuys. GL :)up

FYP + Gl Moon, MC + other blondes.

Just remember in Ireland it's 2 pints before you start and then 1 top-up per level thereafter.

Keeps things ticking along nicely.

i havnt been drunk more than 3 times in the last 10 years (my hangovers are too bad) so if i followed the norm i would be asleep by level 3!!!

Wow!

and sigh - my hangovers are currently intollerable - i have been trying to drink through it TBH but it isnt working - anyone know any good cures?

fyp

MILK THISTLE!!!  Dunno how many times I gotta say it around here.  Some day some few of ya might listen.  

Anyway, milk thistle in either tablet or liquid form works a treat!  They sell out in the shops around here on the run up to Christmas.  Great for the liver.  I take the tablets in the run up to any big nights out and if I think of it, a glass of water with a few drops of the liquid version after a night out.  Only complaint I have the next day after a late night out is being tired.

Drink again

Anywhere doing updates for this?

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2009/ukipt-galway-062331.html#more

Cheers!

Up to 24k at dinner was down to 15 but kk and 44 on a 4383 board. Helped
Met dale and mc too  don't know what they have

got up to nearly 35k but then bluffed off a pile lost some more with house<house then did the last 10k KQ<88 all in on a flop of Q85 turn was a queen to at least give me a sweat, river bricked though obv. MC on 24k with one level left  he was on 37k but he did 13k with jacks vs aces though.

I have quite a few chips in this thing but can report both Toby Lewis and James Williams busted day 1 - idiots

259 entries

Gavin O Rourke         104000
Christopher Brammer   81975
Jude Ainsworth      Team PokerStars Pro   81850
Kieran Walsh         76925
Reggie Corrigan         76150
Paul Hogan                 72600
Alan Kelleher         71075
Mark Flanagan         69600
Anthony Rafter         69000
Michael Graydon         64825
Thomas Miller         63450
Emmett Kane         61600
Garry Hughes         60750
Pat Dusty McFadden      60575
Pat Kearney         60475
William Walsh         59850
Michael OSullivan         56600
Friedrich Dollenz         55200
Francis McCormack      51700
Fergal Coyle         50600
Jason Tomkins         49925
Aidan Connolly         48625
Michael Hynes         48500
Julian Thew         47875
Eric Schwarz         46800
Spencer Lawrence      46250
Eldon Orr                 45925
Patrick Kennedy         45525
Benoit Mouret         43225
Neil Channing         42750
Michael McFadgen      42175
Sean O'Conner         41325
Colin Studdard         40975
Vincent McNamee      40825
Michael McCool         40600
Peter Murphy         39875
Johan Van Til         39700
Peter Barrible         39500
James McManus         39450
Ioannis Triantafyllakis      39050
Robert Elkin         38975
Raymond Omahony      38925
Conrad Schormann      38825
Dominic Hever         38750
Jaye Renehan         38725
Keir Ratcliff                 38425
Paul Dooley         38250
Laurence Doherty      38225
JP Kelly      Team PokerStars Pro   37975
Michel Bringuier         37875
Michael Hill                 37525
Mark Doak                 37275
Seamus Cahill         37250
Ben Spraggons         37200
Thomas Nolan         36925
Ben Lefew                 36650
Eamonn Murray         36400
James Atkin         36200
Dennis Hansen         36125
Philip Hepburn         35400
Charles McIntyre         35175
Markus Sippe         34975
Vincent Cosquero      34250
Dale Philip                   34225
Larry Ryan                 34125
Nigel Murphy         33775
Jurgen Hermann         33700
Philipp Schreiber         33200
James McCarthy         32850
Aidan Brady         32700
Jason Paul McCarthy      32275
Adrian O'Donoghue      31475
Dave Callaghan         30975
Daniel Olmer         30550
Philipp Salewski         30450
Noel McMahon         30450
Matei Daniel         30275
David LaRonde         30200
Lajos Van der Velde      30075
John Duthie      Team PokerStars Pro   29900
Harry Zammit         29850
Trevor Bulless         29075
Patrick Stephans         28800
Tom Kitt                 28750
Karl Hargrove         28050
Thomas Gurberlet      27775
Nicholas Cunnane      27050
Michael Collins         26350
John Dooley         26000
James Walsh         25925
Soma Csomak         25750
Simon Ou                 25725
Danny McHugh         25425
John Costello         25350
Iain Cheyne         24900
Rob Taylor                 24575
Nicolas Hahn         24525
Brian Mullan         24500
Jakub Klimek         24250
Matt Perrins         24050
Dan Rankin                 24050
Bryan O'Connell         23850
Declan Grace         23700
Clement Thumy         23600
Chris Crawford         23500
Chavanne Arnaud      23225
Nelius Foley         23150
Patrick McCloskey      23000
Javed Abrahams         22925
Padraig Parkinson         22750
Stephen Devlin         22175
Arkadiusz Liszewski      22100
Brian O'Farrell         22025
William Martin         21900
Patrick McFadden      21350
Denny Collins         20900
Paul Frost                 19800
Gino Gabriel         19300
Fionan Dolan         18125
John Divilly                    17925
Laurentius Martinus Sloot    17825
Vincent Mascheroni      17800
Paul Johnston         17375
Adam Anthony Searle      17325
Paul Marrow         17050
Trevor Dinneen         17000
Joseph Reid         16850
Colin Harrison         16850
Tom Hanlon         16675
Darren Naylor         16625
Andy Black                 16075
Paul Nash                 16050
Scott Gray                 15475
Jake Cody                    15225
Alexandre Tomas         14600
Liam Flood                 14450
Thomas Finneran         14450
Dermot Blain         14150
Marty Smyth         14000
Johannes Meyer         13875
Jeff Kimber                 13625
Edward Lundon         13075
Martin Silke                13050
David Connors         12475
Thomas Piccirilli         11825
Mark Spellman         11800
Tommy Watson         11750
Steve Stolzmann         11450
Dean Clay                 11100
Brendan Slevin         11025
Cat O'Neill                 11000
Jimmy Wan                 10975
Teddy Sheringham      PokerStars sponsored   10925
Peter Higgins         10500
Sean Clery                10300
Sean Lally                 9875
Kenneth Bowe         9850
Seamus O'Reilly         9775
Arjen Witteveen         9525
Simen Ekstr         9025
Nicky Power         8400
Dara O'Kearney         8375
George McKeever      7775
Jason Karl Herbert      7300
Barry McPhilips         6850
Jerome Bradpiece      6700
Tadhg Bannan         6675
James Finigan         6250
Kamal Vercauterem      5100
Jarlath Kilgallon         3900

blinds begin day 2 at 300-600/50

all info from http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/

Spencer Lawrence      46250


^ This is daleroxxu iirc

gl all left in

Com on bacon head keep it going !  ;goodluck;

Nigdawg. No blow ups in this one.

No it isn't

Dale Philip 34225 = Daleroxxu

Damn it,I saw that guy on the official list as "Mr Spencer Dale Lawrence" from the UK.

Was hoping I was outing him as a Spencer.

Enjoying the tourney so far, felt I've played v.well bar perhaps the JJ hand :-/ ... Keir Ratcliff (the recipient) was on my left and a thorn in my side, though had fun chatting to him he's an excellent player, but would say the field is pretty soft generally.

Was good to meet moon&back, hopefully will catch more of Dale, and there's a fair bunch of friendly faces around so that's cool.

Hopefully will run good today :)

Jake Cody is still in on 14k, posts here as neverbluff I think

Good luck to the lot of you still in!!!

Sigh.

I peel in the big blind against a 2.5x raiser and a button flat call with J9.

Flop = QTK with two hearts.

Get it all in on the flop for a ~85k pot. He has AJ. GG me.

UL mc

Anyone have a latest chip count for Jake?    Cheers.

gogogooo Javed, 150k

Perrins and Brammer still in with decent chips

gogogogogo

Have 276k matt has 420k and change I think

Matt Perrins - 430500
Reggie Corrigan - 373500
Padraig Parkinson - 372500
Christopher Brammer - 276000
Thomas Nolan - 272000

top 5 according to blog... gogo nigdawg!!!!!!

 ;first;  would be so sweet. you can do it Ernie   !!!!!!!!!!!

wow mus b soft, padraig has a stack.

gl blondes

Payout structure is

The payout structure is as follows:
1. €125,000
2. €82,000
3. €52,000
4. €36,000
5. €22,000
6. €17,000
7. €13,000
8. €11,000
9. €9000
10-12. €7000
13-15. €5000
16-18. €4200
19-24. €3400
25-30. €3100
31-36. €2800

36 left, all in the money

Matt Perrins         430500
Reggie Corrigan         373500
Padraig Parkinson         372500
Christopher Brammer      276000
Thomas Nolan         272000
Philipp Salewski         264500
Alan Kelleher         200000
Vincent Cosgrove      196500
Javed Abrahams         193000
Jason Paul McCarthy      170500
Michael Graydon         169000
Benoit Mouret         168500
Paul Frost                 158500
Jurgen Hermann         146000
Jerome Bradpiece      137500
John Dooley         134000
Trevor Bulless         131500
Eamonn Murray         117500
Paul Marrow         110500
Ben Lefew                 109500
Cat O'Neill                 106500
Nicky Power         100500
Michael McFadgen      93500
Paul Nash                 93500
Paul Dooley         90500
Dermot Blain         78500
Pat Dusty McFadden      66500
Thomas Miller         63500
John Duthie      Team PokerStars Pro   61000
Adrian O'Donoghue      52500
Rob Taylor                 48000
Brian O'Farrell         46500
Jake Cody                 45000
Harry Zammit         41000
Dominic Hever         39000
William Martin         33500

blinds begin today at 2000-4000/500

all info from http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ where you can find updates today

Sigh don't I get my name highlighted, got a M of 9 when I go back, hopefully I get lucky in the shovefest.

Would of had 260k if my AJ had beaten my french friends A2s with 3 to the money i 4 bet him all in and A2 is obv the nuts for your tournament life on the bubble.

GO ON MY SON!

I'd love to see Nicky Power or Padraig ship this.

FYP

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Table 1
1. Benoit Mouret
2. Matt Perrins
3. Christopher Brammer
4. Jake Cody
5. Nicky Power
6. Cat O'Neill
7. Dermot Blain
8. Paul Dooley
9. Jason Paul McCarthy

Table 2
1. Michael McFadgen
2. Vincent Cosgrove
3. John Duthie
4. Padraig Parkinson
5. Thomas Miller
6. Michael Graydon
7. Philipp Salewski
8. Paul Nash
9. Eamonn Murray

Table 3
1. Jerome Bradpiece
2. Reggie Corrigan
3. Jurgen Hermann
4. Rob Taylor
5. Paul Marrow
6. Dominic Hever
7. Javed Abrahams
8. John Dooley
9. Harry Zammit

Table 4
1. Trevor Bulless
2. Paul Frost
3. Alan Kelleher
4. Thomas Nolan
5. Brian O'Farrell
6. Adrian O'Donoghue
7. Pat Dusty McFadden
8. William Martin
9. Ben Lefew

seat draw for last 36 btw

+1. go onnnnnnnnnnn

by the looks of the prize payouts Matt finished 23rd for €3400 and nigdawg is still in 15 left aparently

this is true, he has ave with 11 left gogogoggoo

Christopher Brammer Lol
4 minutes ago via Facebook for iPhone · Comment · Like

 
Unlucky mate ... it will happen for you for sure  , although it must feel like this at the mo   ;frustrated;

what happened? Blog sure is live

Perhaps some dodgy wireless connection. Rick is a good guy, it's very hard to cover a whole tournament on your own!

[  ] Whole tournament
[X] 11 players

final table tomorrow

Padraig Parkinson
Michael Graydon
Cat O'Neill
Paul Marrow
Ben Lefew
Vincent Cosgrove
Michael McFadgen
Paul Dooley
Trevor Bulless

from pokerstars blog

link? I can't find anything!

lol, even still it can be quite fiddly with the Stars software sometimes, and if two or three people bust out all in quick succession, you have to be there to get all the hands or follow up to players at the table to find out what happened and then backdate the reports, which seems to be what is happening now.

New forfeit if you don't win a comp should be that you have to completely update the next blonde bash on your own! ;)

http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/ukipt/2009/ukipt-galway-day-3-level-2021-062399.html

lol

Apologies for the brag post, but I shipped the €500 side event.

Wiiiiiiiii :)

Ship, how much?

n1

€12,500...4 handed we agreed to flatten the payout structure. 100 odd runners. My 1st live tournament win so I'm pretty happy :)

mev, wpwp!

Well done James. Pleased for you!!

nice one James. toasty.

very toasty sir. WP.

Take the rest of the month off MC to ensure two 5 figure months in a row

VWD!!!   ;applause;

Tyvm everyone :)

Yeah good timing for being able to take Christmas / New Year off, still have to play the Monte Carlo jobby though!

well played James

delighted for you james could'nt happen to a nicer fella.

vwp James and Brammer

Weeeeeeeeeeee! So happy for you James, great work.

Come and celebrate in Brum on Wednesday!

Nice one James.

Homer is right. I don't think many people appreciate just how much bloggers have to do to bring as much reporting to folks back home as they do. Even with only 11 players, a lone blogger has to try and keep an eye on the action, report it as best as he can, update chip counts, update the prize payout page, organise and publish photos and occasionally videos too. All that while coping with publishing times for each section.

They work extremely long hours in difficult conditions, and there is just no way a blogger working on his/her own can reproduce the weight of work that you have come to expect, say, from an EPT which might have four bloggers working flat out.

Final table profiles from Poker Stars

THE FINAL TABLE

Paul Marrow from Liverpool, United Kingdom (50)
Final table chip count: 1,000,500
Chipleader Paul has been playing poker for around 4 years and is a man with a point to prove. 'I'm known as a bit of a lunatic player and I'm always getting friends like Neil Channing telling me to just play poker and stop being stupid.' Marrow, who plays cash games online and live a couple of times a week, headed to the event knowing that he was going to win it. Whether the other players have something to say about it is another matter.


Ben Lefew from Harvard, Illinois (24)
Final table chip count: 928,500
Lefew qualified for the UKIPT Galway through a $8.88 rebuy at the beginning of December, but that's not to say this is an ordinary low stakes player. The full time pro's biggest score was in the WCOOP main event where he finished 6th for $375,000 under the name Chong94. He's been playing around 5 years and qualified for the event for a total of $26 because he 'wanted to do some travelling and this was a cheap way to do it.'

Padraig Parkinson from Paris, France (52)
Final table chip count: 693,500
Irishman Padraig Parkinson needs little introduction as one of Irish poker's most famous sons. A professional poker player for 20 years Parkinson has successfully turned his hand to commentating and broadcasting as well as doing a lot of charity work for the homeless. Parkinson finished third in the WSOP Main Event in 1999 for $489,125 when fellow Irishman Noel Furlong won.

Michael McFadgen from Toronto, Canada (23)
Final table chip count: 585,500
One of a few young professional poker players at the table, McFadgen has been playing for 5 years and owns training site SNGMentors.com. His friend kardlo69, who is in line for a percentage of his winnings, won 3 seats for the event at PokerStars and passed one on McFadgen.


Michael Graydon from Dublin, Ireland (24)
Final table chip count: 585,000
BIGMICKG as he is known online is a feared sit-and-go player who topped sit-and-go leader boards last year. The former supernova elite made the money at this year's World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event for $25,027. Graydon qualified for the UKIPT through PokerStars.

Cat O'Neill from Dublin, Ireland (27)
Final table chip count: 535,000
Online fraud analyst Cat O'Neill has been playing poker for two years and tries to play as frequently as possible. She was bought into the event by her boyfriend, Rob Taylor, who also played and cashed in 34th place for €2,800. O'Neill said, 'He buys me in and I spend the winnings!'


Paul Dooley from Letterkenny, Ireland (37)
Final table chip count: 376,500
After playing for four years it seems Paul Dooley has worked out what it's all about. Fresh off a final table finish in the Irish Masters for €22,400 the part-time player is well positioned to make another sizeable score if the cards run his way. When not at work at a bank he also likes to play golf.


Vinny Cosgrove from Tuam, Ireland
Final table chip count: 301,000
Hometown hero Vinny Cosgrove hails from Tuam, a small town in County Galway. Cosgrove has had the most vocal support of the tournament and could make the final table an electrifying event if he gets an early double up.

Trevor Bulless from Essex, United Kingdom (65)
Part-time player Bulless has been playing for 8 years at a local casino and since retiring from the motor industry poker has become a favourite pastime. Although he's scored a few final tables during his poker career this is by far and away his biggest with a guaranteed payout of at least €9,000. If he wins big he intends to use some of it to bankroll entry into bigger tournaments such on the EPT circuit.

this

and wp

Hehe, thanks again every1, Weds is looking good methinks!

GL to Mike McFadgen in the final, nice fella who I met over the weekend.

Grats on the shippage MC.

Well done MC, impressive performance.

GTFO


also,


How would you like to be paid sir?

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Ahhhm just stuff some cash in a bag, whatever.

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vwd James!!

Congrats Mick

;applause;

(nice pics Dale)

Well done, James. Good to see you layeth the smackdown and pick up a good win.

PADRAIG PARKINSON WINS
POKERSTARS.COM UKIPT GALWAY

Irish poker legend Padraig Parkinson has won the Irish Poker Championships
and is the first PokerStars UKIPT Galway champion. Parkinson takes home
the �125,000 first prize and receives an entry into the �5,250
PokerStars.com EPT London event which is the season finale to the UK &
Ireland Poker Tour. In addition to that he will also initially top the
Season 1 UKIPT leader board which awards over �60,000 worth of added
prizes to the top 100 players over all of the events from Season 1 with
the top placed finisher receiving all of their buy-in and hotel
accommodation for Season 2.

Parkinson originally from Galway and who now resides in Paris, France is
best known for his third place finish in the 1999 WSOP Main Event and his
victory in series five of the Late Night Poker Show in 2002.

Parkinson, came to the final table third in chips and faced stiff
competition from PokerStars qualifier Ben Lefew, who also final tabled the
PokerStars.com WCOOP Main Event in 2009, former PokerStars Supernova Elite
Michael Graydon and Englishman Paul Marrow who was runner-up.

Parkinson finally won the heads up when he called Paul Marrow抯 all in
with K-Q of hearts and it held up against Marrow抯 5-2 off suit. However,
the real damage had been done a few hands earlier when Padraig had won a
massive all-in pot against Marrow holding A-Q against Marrow抯 pair of
sixes. A queen on the flop was enough to give Parkinson the pot and an
overwhelming advantage.

Parkinson paid tribute to his heads up opponent and friend Paul Marrow in
his post event interview before adding 揑 don抰 think there抯 been anyone
who has won this title before who has felt as good as I do now, coming
back to Galway and being a Galway lad, it means everything.�

PokerStars qualifiers Ben Lefew and Michael Graydon both played
excellently, ultimately finishing third and fourth respectively for prizes
of �52,000 and �36,000.

In all there were 259 players, including 116 PokerStars.com players, who
entered the inaugural �2,000 buy-in UKIPT Galway event creating a prize
pool of �471,380. Among those who competed were former England football
international Teddy Sheringham, Irish rugby legend Reggie Corrigan and
former WBA Super Bantamweight champion Bernard Dunne. Also in attendance
were Team PokerStars PROs John Duthie - who finished 35th for �2,800 � JP
Kelly and Jude Ainsworth a former winner of the Irish Poker Championships.

Nick Wealthall, UKIPT Host says, 慦e couldn抰 have asked for a stronger
final table line up to start the tour or a better winner. Padraig has
always been a top tournament player and he抯 proved it again here; the
fact that he抯 a native of Galway makes it all the more special. Everyone
watching the event knew Padraig was going to win � after all he started
celebrating 3 days early. The whole event had an amazing atmosphere and
none of us can wait for the next event in Manchester.�   

Final table/payouts:

    Name    Country    PokerStars status    �
1    Padraig Parkinson    France        125,000
2    Paul Marrow    United Kingdom        82,000
3    Ben Lefew    United States    PokerStars Qualifier    52,000
4    Michael Graydon    Ireland    PokerStars Qualifier    36,000
5    Michael McFagden    Canada    PokerStars Player    22,000
6    Paul Dooley    Ireland        17,000
7    Vinny Cosgrove    Ireland        13,000
8    Cat O扤eill    Ireland        11,000
9    Trevor Bulless    United Kingdom        9,000
       

My sincere congrats to Padraig, I'm really pleased to see him take this down.

Great result Mr P.

Howdy all! MC congrats I didn't actually meet you in Galway not sure which guy you was, I went pretty deep in the €500 too and didn't see you pretty unlikely we werent on eachothers table? I have to say thanks Tikay for scaring me about the flights which were totally fine by the way, although my fear is still not cured.

Have some funny incidents to mention about the main event some pretty comical hands which makes poker fun.

At the start of day 2.. 1st hand back Padraig comes to his table, just in time to play his BB, the button raises, Padraig still steaming drunk from day 1 doesn't even look at his cards before announcing "ALLIN" and shoving his chips over the line with nearly his hole-cards following which was like 50k or something a huge overbet the button snap calls with Aces, padraig turns over 7-3os the flop brings 6-5-5 and the turn a 4 to complete the straight lol. Surely a legend for doing this but mbn to bink!

Later on he opens UTG the guy from the button 3bets Padraig flats theres like 36k in the pot Padraig checks the button shoves for like 3 times the pot on a 10-9-3 flop x 2 diamonds padraig snap calls with q7dd a diamond FD the button turns over 6's and Padraig makes the flush lol these being his comical hands of the torny he was v drunk when I saw him.

But he also made a really good play against Mick 'Dabookie' Hill, although it is a cooler he opened EP with KK Mick 3bet from the button, Padraig flatted the flop came 10 high 2 hearts Padraig check-raised Mick who then shoved, Mick had QQ Padraig KK. I actually had a solid table all day 1 but I knew there was some soft players in the field.

On the bubble a friend of mine Matt Perrins had an interesting hand, who is playing the bubble to perfection opening most hands 3betting putting pressure on everyone. An old guy opens EP Matt decides to 3bet him the old guy insta passes Kings face up before saying to Matt "Oh F Off, your a W***** you are!". Matt actually had Q4 priceless lol.

Loved the trip it was brilliant, didn't win much and spent loads on booze would definately recommend blondes to attend next year.

sigh, just sigh at all of the above!

nice report and well done

HAHAHA I would have loved to be there to see the old guy fold KK I love Matt.

Seems like Padraig crushed the field sigh.