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The Irish Poker Open is the longest running No Limit Texas Hold 'em poker tournament in Europe and second longest in the world after the World Series of Poker, Las Vegas.

 First organized in 1981 by Terry Rogers, a well known Irish bookmaker, the tournament has experienced tremendous growth over the years. Well known for the electric atmosphere and character like no other, this poker festival is now a firm fixture on the international poker calendar and a 'must attend' for many of the top poker players in the world.

 The paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open 2011 will take place from 22 – 25 April 2011 in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. The buy-in for this event is set at €3,200 + €300 and players will see a radical change to the structure in that the starting stack will increase from 10,000 to 20,000 chips.

The event will once again feature a €100,000 Sole Survivor promotion meaning that the longest lasting paddypowerpoker.com qualifier in the Irish Open 2011 will win a €100,000 sponsorship package (50% salary, 50% buy-ins and expenses) in addition to any event prize money they may be awarded.

Date    Event    Buy In   Time

Thursday 21 April    Irish Open Super Satellite    €200 + €20    19:00

Friday 22 April    Irish Open Main Event    €3,200 + €300    14:00

Saturday 23 April
   Irish Open Main Event    Day 2    14:00
     Pot Limit Omaha Championship    €750 + €75    17:00
     Turbo €300 NLH Freezeout    €300 + €30    20:30

Sunday 24 April    
        Irish Open Main Event    Day 3    14:00
     Pot Limit Omaha Championship    Day 2    14:30
     Ladies Championship    €300 + €30    15:00
     €1,000 NLH Freezeout    €1,000 + €100    17:00
     Turbo €200 NLH Freezeout    €200 + €20    20:30

Monday 25 April    
         Irish Open Main Event    Final Table    14:00
     Ladies Championship    Day 2    14:30
     €1,000 NLH Freezeout    Day 2    14:30
     NLH Scalps    €270 + €30 + €30    15:00

anyone going? what are you playing?


News, counts, reports on this thread from Friday

 

I'm in, playing everything I think, hangovers permitting....

10% of the ladies championship please. I just failed in the last chance saloon so will be spending Easter with the kids. So not all bad

lol

Good luck and enjoy the paracetemol's.

Live stream begins at 1pm today with commentary through to Monday's final

http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/irish-poker-open/livehttp://www.paddypowerpoker.com/irish-poker-open/live

busto, didn't play great, barely won a pot, just a bad day at the office I think, I love this comp too, so soft for a 2million prize pool. Camel busto too, meeting Rob Sherwood for a beer now....so take it he busted too :(

Mitch just bust aq vs aj aip.

Anyone know how thewy and gerrard harraghy are doin?

Thewy doubled up 6th hand of the comp

Thewy knocked the first person out. Flopped top set with 1010 and his opponent couldn't wait to get in 20k at 25-50 with aces (from IO blog)

James Mitchell chipped up according to blog

How early did mitch bust?

Eck is currently massive chipleader and is already odds on to make the final.

GL Eck TID !!!

20p in pls

Last hand of level  6.

:-(

Ul mate, I only asked cos from the order of the posts it seemed like u busted first level or something. Misread.

where to go for counts on this? the paddypower blog looks lacking.

excerpts from the event blog

615 of the worlds best poker players descend on the famed Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Between them, a jaw dropping €1,968,000 prizepool was generated from the great value €3200 + 300 event but only 295(?) of them will be returning tomorrow with their eyes set on the €550,000 first prize.

No chip counts but Neill Channing, Dan Harrington, James Mitchell, Marty Smyth and Noel Furlong are reported in contention.

Play begins  at 2pm with the blinds moving to 500/1000 and a 100 ante.

I'm amazed that there are no chip-counts available.

http://paddypowerpokerblog.wordpress.com/

just gone up. The point is the demand of viewers for info is such that chips have to go up before the day's play is said to be complete imho, for a blogger

Some UK counts


John Paul    Kelly    136450 2nd in chips
   
James    Mitchell    96000
John    Eames    92725
Surinder    Sunar    86400
Samad    Razavi    68900
Julian    Thew    66625
Ben    Carpenter    66600
Tim    Blake    65850
Jake    Cody    61700
Thomas    Dunwoodie    54575
Jonathan    Spinks    54175
Teddy    Sherringham    53725
Tim    Flanders    51950
Neil    Channing    51400
David    Dean    48500
Sam    Trickett    41900
onathan    Kalmar    36700
John    Conroy    36100
Stuart    Fox    33700
Michael    Fletcher    31500
Dave    Ulliot    29000
Keith    Johnson    27300
Ben    Roberts    26950
Steve    Walmsley    26275
Ian    Frazer    16300
Stuart    Rutter    15850
Richard    Ashby    10275
Waheed    Ashraf    9550

Exactly, that's what I meant.

Missed Ben Blackmore (Kingbenno) George McDonald (Wellchief) Jamie Roberts

I'm blogging this for Paddy Power and the chip counts didn't come through to my email until 6am, over 4 hours after play ended. Chipcounts will be up much quicker at the end of todays play because there could very well be under 100 players thus making the task much easier for the 2 people in charge of counting chips.

Is there a live stream link?

Via PP homepage.

http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/irish-poker-open/live

GL Thewy, Keith Johnson & the rest of the uk players!

from Thewy

120,000

average 100,000

120 left, 64 paid

Julian gone 84th, KK<QQ

JP and Eames in the top five, Spinks annd Foxy still in too glglgl boys

from the Paddy Power Blog

55 left

the top 10

669,500 – Julian Herold
651,500 – Niall Smyth
620,500 – JP Kelly
564,000 – John Eames
475,000 – Noel Furlong
404,000 – Umar Khan
347,500 – John Gillespie
341,000 – Niall McCann
310,000 – William Haughey
309,000 – Sampo Ryynanen



Other Brits

267,000 – Surinder Sunar
261,500 – Jonathan Spinks
168,000 – Stuart Fox
123,500 – Philip Peters


good luck to all of them

550,000 Euros for first

Eeaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmes
Jaaaaayyyyyyyyy Peeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnkkkkksssss

eddie eames if frighteningly good

Gl to eames and spinks!

DID ANYONE SEE EAMES interview on paddy power live blogg. basically said irish players are terrible and excellent value. see irish poker boards forum  for the reaction, very comical. hope he can take it down but would also like to see stu fox back at the top of the game again. taken a sabatical for a couple of years after the birth of his child. gl to em both

link to said irish poker boards pls.

Take your shoes off if you love John Eames!

oh feck off alex. will try to do it am on my own with kids and may take time

hurry up! interview plsss

http://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8985&page=5
starts post 99 then goes on....anyone wanting  an IT assistant i'm not your man

sure took time.

think of the kids first ffs ;)

Spinks and Eames on the final table please

cant find the interview...reckon paddypower could have pulled it just in case john wins it lol

I saw the interview and he said nothing of the sort, he actually said Irish players can sometimes be unpredicitable and that makes them difficult to play against, if some people take offence to that they need get a life IMO.

Jon Spinks chipping up (From Irish Poker Boards)

Woweee, some hand I just witnessed.

So Jonathan Spinks has been clashing with Noel Furlong a fair bit. This is because Spinks has three short stacks to his immediate right (including John Weafer), so it is often folded to him allowing him an opportunity to open the pot and attack the blinds of Lorna Lancaster (who is super tight) and Paul Petrus Berende.

So, again Spinks opens to 13.5k and is called by Noel on the button.

So 40k in the middle and a flop of 5h, 8s, 2h

Spinks throws out a limp continuation bet of 13.5k and Noel calls without too much hesitation.

67k for a turn of 8d

Again Spinks dumps out 13.5k, this time Noel quickly announces raise and pops it to 50k.

There is a decent dwell from Spinks and he eventually calls.

River of Js and Spinks insta checks. Furlong then verbally announces 100k and the big decision is back on Spinks.

100K represents ~half of his remaining chips and he goes very dark and deep into the tank, pulling his hood over his head and clearly agonising over the decision. Through it all Noel maintains a fairly level pose, hand over mouth with elbow leaning on table.

Eventually (and I mean eventually), Spinks pushes forward a small stack of yellow chips announcing his intention to call. The news is bad for Noel and he half exposes his cards and peers ever closer at the board, reluctantly exposing 6s7s.

Spinks turns over....drum roll.....Qs5s for better air. Indeed the dealer is so shocked at the hands being opened for such a decent pot that it takes her a decent amount of time to correctly begin pushing the pot to her right.

Seems he has figured out Noel anyway!!

is q5 not second pair on the flop, then the top card pairs the turn? Not that amazing is it?

oh com on jeff the lad deserves a bit of credit. playing a guy of 72 and deep in a major tourney. (see dave got your lads back)

Gwan Sponks!!!!

stu fox just gone over half a million. class act class guy

Goooooooooooooooo Foxy  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

Anyone else grab some of the 50/1 PP were offering this lunchtime?

Bugger according to Channing Foxy's a goner, still think 50/1 was a rick by PP.

27 left, Spinks moves to the feature table....

just saw jude ainsworth get it in pre for a 900k pot with qq vs kk

qqx flop

mbn

eames aipf with Ak vs QQ

booooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

8 5 K x x

1.2m - probs 3rd

(http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/outragous76/businesswoman_in_mid-air_holding_her_shoes_j3178031.jpg)

omfg

aipf KT vs A9s for 2m chips  - the kid snapped eddies shove with A9dd

JJ8 9 T

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[ ] snapped called

not much!

he had A9!

i didnt see the hand but assume he knew what he was gonna do when he made the 3-bet

Nice shout out.

Go John "Raise Fold" Eames!

How many left/where can I follow updates on my phone?

Ps. Shoes off

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. not nice.

That Urush guy has ran awful. Lost with kings to Jude's flopped quad quuens then QQ vs Eames AK and now aces vs J10.

thadeus gg'd with AQ vs A9 then his bowl went in with J9 vs Q10 of eames and eames turned a frush.

final table bubble now.

gogogogo eames.

Where can I follow this on my phone pls?

try www.livestream.com alex

Lol nice level

huh?

that's what im watching it on

worked for me ty

GLGL Eames tmoro, TID!!!!!

andy black bubbles ft.

looks like eames cl on final.

gogogoog

Nah I said I'm on my phone, just want text updates or something.

Alex do you have an I phone/ smartphone and you can watch paddy power live stream

^^^ this , wp Bas as well

Here is the final table line up

2038000 – Niall Smyth

1783000 – John Eames

1594000 - Aleksi Savela

1530000 – Martin Petri

1366000 - Surinder Sunar

1329000 - Karl Rudwall

1310000 - Seamus Cahill

915000 – Robert Taylor

434000 - Niall McCann



gl to the two Brits, one for the old guard, one for the new guard.

1st. (€550,000)
2nd. (€290,000)
3rd. (€180,000)
4th. (€145,000)
5th. (€115,000)
6th. (€85,000)
7th. (€63,000)
8th. (€45,000)
9th. (€30,000)


live stream link for this afternoon

http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/irish-poker-open/live
 

wow John Eames is sooooooo consistent.  Does variance exist in his world?  He almost seems to have the ability to overcome variance.  I had the pleasure of sharing a table with John for a number of hours at the UKIPT Manchester.  He is a really nice guy and an absolutely amazing poker player.  I really hope John takes this down.

Here's the book on paddy power. Cahill seems decent value


John Eames

9/4


Niall Smyth

3/1


Seamus Cahill

9/2


Petri Martin

11/2


Surinder Sunar

11/2


Aleksi Savela

6/1



Karl Rudwall

10/1


Robert Taylor

11/1



Niall McCann

22/1

omg Paul Marrow? pls stop talking lol

He plays great all the time, makes VERY VERY few mistakes and approaches the game in such a proffesional manner = winning.

Running good of late, but he's had some misfortune in huge spots which have meant the difference in hundreds of thousands and a couple of deserved trophys

I REPEAT.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Who is worse. Paul Marrow or Paul Zimbler... only one way to find out.

Oh and by the way- if you're ever at a table with Marrow and you have aces- just 4 bet him

if surinder calls here he HAS the goods. yep he's called he has the good.

..........

I think he has QJ or KJ

[ ] The Goods

It sounds so much like a level.

"let me tell you something about Eames, if he stacks his chips back he is folding, if they are forward he is calling or raising"

Love the black and white reads... Marrow is hurting my ears, I had to turn the sound off. Please post when he goes.

must say i love listening to "The Shoes" but then again i would pmsl

Think CL has flatted with aces or kings here

Just had a look at that WSOP Warrior they were talking about. seems pretty doable.

Yeh tis a good way of qualifying for Vegas

Cos just got mentioned on the stream. Says Eddie is one of the top 5 hes ever played against. Eddie then goes on to tank call vs quads XD

Nice BOK Cos.

eames called river bet on a K10JJQ board. Guy had quad jacks.

Then jammed 15 bigs BoB with KQ. BB had AJ. Board AQ32A

sure was a bok. i sent that message yesterday and it was mentioned then too.

gg eames ul

so now you are trying to take credit for johns deep run. pppfffffffff

bullshit

I usually don't get too critical of tournament reporting but I have been very unimpressed with the Paddy Power Blog over the tournament, reports are few and far between, there are no graphics for cards and sometimes the suits are missing (which is always a pet peeve of mine). Also, look at the way they report Eames losing to quads.

John Eames was just taken to value town by Aleksi Savela. John Eames makes it 90k to get the action started and Aleksi Savela makes it 290k from the blinds. Eames calls and we see a flop of K-J-T.

Savela leads out for 155k and this is quickly called by Eames.

The turn is the Jc and action goes check-check.

We see the Qd on the river and Aleksi leads out for 425k, just under half of Eames stack. Eames calls but mucks immediately when he sees the superbly played JJ of Aleksi

Chips: 3.1m Aleksi, Eames: 600k

1) Pretty sure Valuetown is one word in this context. (I know, not that important and I'm being pedantic)
2) How can you play quads superbly on a 4-straight paired board when your opponent has a very strong narrow range? Surely checking turn is bad here as Eames' range is things like A-Q+, T-T+ which he can't be folding at this point. Obv John has moves but he's not spazzing around 8-handed on a big final table here.

On the plus side, Jesse May is great as ever on the live stream.

The reason that they say "superbly" is that anyone who doesn't understand poker thinks that any line involving some element of slow play is the most sublimely talented thing you can do.

And yes, value town is used completely out of context. You do not take someone to value town by value betting quads against what must be at least a straight (I think probably tens full for Eddie?), you take someone to value town by betting three streets with KT on JT3J4, for example.

It's a wonderful tournament, one of the best, and a great atmosphere, but there are always a few comical misunderstandings. The assumption that bringing the news on the bubble that the bubble finisher would get a 2011 package (and therefore effectively that there was no bubble), would be well recieved by everyone, is pretty funny; I imagine there were a few angry big stacks at that point.

I thought he had TT during the mad tank at the end, but during the turn I thought he maybe had Aces?!?!

Yeah, it seems unlikely on the river he had an ace, as AK he would risk all his points pre , he can't have AJ as there are only four jacks in most decks, and AQ he probably (though possbily not) back raises vs the kid on the flop.

If he had tens full, he succesfully avoided ValueTown.

Apparently he said he had KQ whih if true is a fairly surprising call but makes sense for his line on other streets.

I guess his big problem is trying to pick up how much the Finnish guy, if he himself has little SDV,  will pick up on and use the fact that it's tough for Eddie to have an ace. But it seems an unlikely bluff line in a live tourney, don't know how much of a sicko the Finnish guy was.

Love that bluff from Surinder!!!!

Yeh that report is complete BS. Valuetown. Good one.

the "expect analysis" is (i believe i was once told to use the word) "interesting"

Completely agree with this. The blog is also difficult to read - lots of separate pages rather than one continous report. I stopped reading it tbh.

the  shoes is in the booth for his personality not his poker annalysis. he was nominated for irish poker personality of the year last year. he is a genuine guy  a nice fellow and loved by most of the irish players. give the guy a break please

Maybe he should stick to trying to be a personality then talk about poker cos he's awful

he will have been asked to do this george. he never claims to be any good at poker but do agree he is not suited to poker annalysis. i'm rooting for  surinder but have played with seamus twice and he is very much in the keith johnson mould. he is awesome at poker but is quiet and unassuming. they could have been seperated at birth

He can always say no Jase. Him trying to commentate poker is like me commentating on the pole vault. If I was asked to do I would politely decline

or if the irish love his personality - then get someone in the booth to talk poker  and let him crack the [  ] jokes

I with george - i know commentary is a very difficult job, but you dont havee to say yes! His hand analysis is "interesting"

Ok. He is my friend so am I little more tolerant. Just think it's better than saying let's put the hands in poker stove and see. I have  seen keys on sky poker and must admit he did an excellent job but much prefer to hear the ramblings of Neil. Some people want to listen to BBC commentary but give me keys and Gray anyway

So someone invites you guys offers to pay you a fee for doing a job you know not alot about and you turn it down in favour of getting hee haw and letting someone else take the gig.

TV poker is not made for poker players.   I don't know many people that play poker at any serious level who take TV poker/commentary seriously.

+1

Take the job fine but expect criticism from people in the know if ur not up to the job

in the past week we've shot down paul zimbler, paul the shoes and was it gabe kaplan. jesse may gets all the giggs but he aint the greatest player / analyist. 

The May fella is terrible but he makes the game sound exciting, a bit like that Sid Waddell fella on the darts.   Poker can only be an exciting game if you play it/understand what the fucks going on but for some random flicking through Sky they haven't got a clue you have to make it out to be exciting.

Jeezo have any you ever watched Sky Poker?   The commentators on there appear lolbad but hey it seems to be going from strength to strength and when I read posts on here from that old bloke he is always making the same point.   Horses for courses innit.

Was surpirsed he wasn't relieved of duties after yesterday saying " maybe Surinder is doing it for the karma... or korma, or vindaloo"

[ ] good personality

I thought it was that welsh lass of Big Brother...... ;hide;

is this epic choas thing ment to be funny?

super annoying imo

ths surender sooner thing is annoying also

+1

u fo real i dont believe giggs would be banging that lass from big bro

I haven't watched any of the footage but if this was said then this baw who was responsible should have been marched out the building. 

Yeah, it just got some nervous laughter from Jesse May, at which point he repeated the punchline in case the joke's subtelty couldn't be fully understood on just one telling.

[ x ] like a budget version of the Devilfish

I was thinking this but then I thought maybe it's just me being sensitive.

I think Jesse May does a good job of what he's supposed to do. He isn't there to give expert analysis, but simply commentate on what's going on and add excitement to the game. As for the guest commentator, would much prefer someone like Neil Channing, James Keys, James Mitchell or Cos than Paul Marrow. Cos should get the gig next year imo, he gets mentioned on the live feed enough times!

The commentary has become totally inane in that three-way pot with two players allin.

Paul Marrow: Surinder's calling all day long here

Irish fella: You think so?

Paul Marrow: Yeah don't you worry about that.

Paul Marrow: Oh, he's thrown them in.

Awkward silence

Paul Marrow is a top guy with a massive ability to laugh at and take the piss out of himself. He has a pretty dry sense of humour and I wouldn't have thought he would think he was offending anyone for a second with the karma line.

Think sometimes people on here need to look at bigger pictures. Paul gave an amazing speech about George Geary which received a massive round of applause, as it should. George's son's Keith and Paul, plus his wife and daughter were extremely touched and emotional about this. It came from the heart.

Makes me giggle at criticism from people who have never had to attempt to do live commentry - and are unlikely to ever be asked. Paul lives his life by his own rules - if you know him you'll understand that, and I personally admire that. He cares about his family and friends, but what a stranger thinks of his tongue in cheek commentary will be of zero interest to him.

Sometimes Blonde does a cracking impression of the Emperor's New Clothes.

good post imo

Well Freerollin who is Asian has already admitted it offended him and I thought it was pretty close to the bone as it seems did others.  He may well be a top bloke and the stuff about George Geary was very admirable but you just can't poke fun at peoples race anymore.

shit i am a dick edit..if paul said the karma korma joke then that was a bit crass. sorry caroline he is my mate too but that was unacceptable

I've no idea - and nor could I give a monkey's - but it seems to be all over the interwebs and I thought it was a bit funny.

Live feed seems to have got a bit laggy. Be nice to see Surinder win.

It doesn't matter if he didn't mean to offend anyone, I'm sure he didn't. It's unacceptable to make that joke anywhere, but to say it as a commentator on a big event like this, on a live stream is absolutely outrageous imo

What has that got to do with the fact that Paul isn't a very good 'expert poker analyst'? Paul Marrow might be the nicest guy in the country, and I have no reason to think he isn't, but you could tell that some of things he was saying were just lacking any poker aptitude.

As for the joke, if he said that line to Surinder then I'm guessing Surinder wouldn't take it offensively at all, he'd just take it as a joke. However, this doesn't mean you can say something like that on a web cast that is being streamed live internationally. Weren't the commentators saying all this time, this stream is being followed in so many different countries? Anyway, I think it was probably just a lack of experience from Paul, that's all. No serious harm done. :)

just out of interest what to you guys think of the cat and blind 5 a side football add paddy power run every break?

Really tilts me how some people still think random open racism is still ok. Its 2012 ffs. Im comfortable with 2 freinds having racist private banter/harsh banter between themselves, but not openly and in a huge broadcast.

Well im watching it in India  :)

Personally I didn't take offence but would feel uncomfortable if someone had said that to me.

And the way I see it is he gets asked to provide analysis which is poor he is gonna get criticism for it. Simple. Not saying its an easy job

i find it annoying

also the i to i
me to you
advert is annoying also

Always knew Alex Martin was way ahead of anyone else.

I'm sure he is a great guy to his friends, but you can understand a random watcher to not guess this when they hear a (borderline) racist comment. I think it's a good thing if Blonde is a place where this gets criticised, not a case of the emperor's new clothes.

My comment was more out of frustration with the organisers of the feed. He obivously didn't mean it offensively, otherwise he wouldn't have said it, but it's a big mistake of theirs to hear that comment be made, and to be inviting him back the next day; it doesn't look too good.

With the commentary, it is a difficult job, and you don't want to be rude to anyone personally. However, once again, it's really difficult to see why they have chosen him, when they could have picked one of about fifty people still knocking around in the hotel to provide at least some decent analysis. There's far more of a demand nowadays from people watching the feeds to hear something meaningful and interesting at the same time.

lol they havent got paul marrow in to commentate pmsl

Whether they did or not, that's what he did, including making random punts about what was defintiely going to happen before it  [ ] did, and sharing a [ ] cast-iron tell on possibly the best live player in Europe atm.

carnage trigg.

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Niall Smyth Spins €10 Each Way Bet On Grand National Winner Into €650,000 At Europe’s Oldest Poker Tournament


Dublin, Ireland: April 26, 2011 –  Niall Smyth has won the 2011 paddypowerpoker.com <http://www.paddypowerpoker.com>  Irish Open. He topped the field of 615 players at the €3,200 + €300 buy in event at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin to take down the €550,000 first prize in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
 
Smyth was a double winner as he also scooped €100,000 in tournament buy ins and cash for being the paddypowerpoker.com <http://www.paddypowerpoker.com> Sole Survivor, outlasting 160 online qualifiers including two at the final table.
 
The young Irishman qualified for the event after winning a Grand National bet at PaddyPower.com, transferring the winnings to his poker account and winning a satellite.

He beat Irish Open stalwart and former World Poker Tour champion Surinder Sunar from England heads up. He held a commanding chip lead at the start of the heads up dual but Sunar fought back to take the lead before losing it again and much of his momentum. In the end Smyth had to river a 5 to make a pair and overturn Sunar’s ace-high.
 
“Unbelievable. I just can’t believe it,” said an exhausted but elated Smyth after the 3 hour 30 minute heads up slog. “It started when I put €10 each way on the winner of the English Grand National, I won €200 euro and now I have €650,000. Surinder is such a great player, my support has been fantastic, and here I am!”
 
The final table payouts were:
1: Niall Smyth (Ireland) - €550,000
2: Surinder Sunar (England) - €290,000
3: Martin Petri (Denmark) - €180,000
4: Seamus Cahill (Ireland) - €145,000
5: Aleksi Savela (Finand) - €115,000
6: Karl Rudwall (Sweden) - €85,000
7: Rob Taylor (Ireland) - €63,000
8: John Eames (UK) - €45,000
9: Niall McCann (Ireland) - €30,000
 
The chips counts going into the final day’s play were:
Niall Smyth  - 2,038,000
John Eames -1,783,000
Aleksi Savela - 1,594,000
Martin Petri - 1,530,000
Surinder Sunar -1,366,000
Karl Rudwall - 1,329,000
Seamus Cahill - 1,310,000
Robert Taylor - 915,000
Niall McCann - 434,000

The total prize pool created was €1,968,000 and 64 players got paid with the bubble, Oliver Lynch, receiving a buy in to next year’s Irish Open from sponsor paddypowerpoker.com

There was an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman     ........................................