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2 of 19/385 heading into Day three of the Irish Winter Festival in Dublin

€100,000 to the winner

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Bol matey

GLGL Jules!!

VBOL Julian.

Ooooooooooooooooohhhhhh

Yes, very best of luck indeed! Show dem pesky kidz sir!

Standard.

 :)up

Good luck Julian. Tom Finneran a close 2nd tho please. Ty

Good luck mate.

GL Julian

Glglgl

Good luck!

Is there any live streaming?

Good luck Julian, take it down

I was 9/30 in this before I gifted Julian all my chips. 300k I had he had 250k pre with blinds at 2500/5000 500 ante, I open raise QQ from CO, folds around to him in the bb and he flats 33. Board 389 two diamonds he checks I cbet 15k, he rr to 42k I repop to 250k putting him in. I thought the fold or call was terrible and without thinking too much about the third option had my chips in without realising all options were terrible so you often HAVE to fold.

So gross to learn an important lesson this way. Played very well the whole tourney with exception to this and respect to Julian for putting me in this spot. One other factor making it worse for me and so great for him is with exception to the few players per table that weren't afraid to 3bet you were easily getting open bets through pre and little resistance really without it being quite obvious.

All the best to Julian, get it won sir!

good luck thewy

Gl julian ship it!

glgl

gl mate get the lot

Such a hero glgl!!

very best of British luck to the second nicest man in poker

Very best of luck!

In a very rare case of role-reversal, I stole this from next door, with thanks to "Trev".

This was at the first break, around 4.30pm.


Tim Hartmann – 1,485,000
Ronan Gilligan – 1,010,000
Julian Thew – 800,000
Marc McDonnell – 775,000
Patryk Pietnoczko – 682,000
Declan Wallace – 565,000
Jay O’Toole – 520,000
Trevor Dinneen – 406,000
Ahmed Eydan – 390,000
Daniele Nestola – 310,000
Ali Duncan – 310,000
John O’Shea – 245,000

Your Irish Winter Festival 2012 Main Event Final Table looks like this, and is now underway:

Seat 1: Daniele Nestola – 540,000
Seat 2: Ahmed Eydan – 275,000
Seat 3: Jay O’Toole – 475,000
Seat 4: Marc McDonnell – 745,000
Seat 5: Ronan Gilligan – 875,000
Seat 6: Trevor Dinneen – 362,000
Seat 7: Tim Hartmann – 2,440,000
Seat 8: Julian Thew – 1,175,000
Seat 9: Patryk Pietnoczko – 710,000

start of the final taken from PP

4/7 with 1m

Go-go Yo-Yo!!

VBOL mate!!

Down to 6! come on Julian!

any live feed pls

Proper fella this one.

When people talk about poker "pros" I sometimes think they get confused with players on a heater. This guy and Channing are the only 2 I would cross a room and have a chat with. Always gracious and supportive of the poker game of all standards of players.

Would love him to bag this.

Again, borrowed from Trev, next door.....

5 remain.

Tim Hartmann –  2,150,000
Patryk Pietnoczko –   2,000,000
Ronan Gilligan –  1,788,000
Julian Thew –  1,080,000
Marc McDonnell –  872,000

Gogogo #due

absolute hero, total gent and an ambassador to UK poker :)

GL mate x

on a side note, Ronan Gilligan seems to crush every tournament in Ireland! I spoke to him in Dublin he said he only ever plays local comps!

Thewy finished 4th for €28,000, or so it has been reported.

Nice bink, helps to pay for the Christmas pressies for Team ThewyKidz.

VWD Thew another good result! keep it going, enjoy just heater up in UKOPS :)

wd mate

Legend.

Nicest man in poker (2008-2011).

Nice one Julian!!

Legend as ever

Well done Julian

whats Julian done naughty this year and is Nick Hicks now number 1?

It is widely rumoured that late in 2011, he uttered a minor profanity. Think it was "damn". Hence his fall from grace.

Excellent Jules!

wpwpwp

Nice score Julian, pleased for you, congrats.

Well done Julian, was good to see you again as always. Did fancy you for minimum second. That Tim fella flopped sets for fun and ran so well he seemed to have his name on it from 2 tables in. Still €28k + a fantastic result.

Well done Julian.Funny old game.

Wpwp

tx for the rail & kind words guys,

was thrilled to final table, messed up on a few levels when we got short handed, more lessons learnt  ::)

& ul ant, over pairs are never the easiest to play, especially when your opponent looks like he's been hustling to run up a stack,

off to the play 1500 at the masterclassics in amsterdam on friday for old times sake...does anyone go anymore?

It was great seeing you in work tbh. You dealth with the aggressor on our table very well, picking great spots to 3 bet and win most of the hands you contested with him.

I had a brain fart, if i am going to be honest. If i was online and could visually see both our stacks pre hand i doubt i would have been in such a quandary #livegamenoob

Also, refreshing to hear you too are making mistakes and learning from them, makes me feel much less of a nob, and that mistakes can happen to the best of us. WP another great flag. 

Nice work Jules.

I may be at Masterclassics on Sunday so poss see u there mate.

Ant - not sure if we have met but you're pretty unlucky that an A or K hasn't flopped. I've been trying to work out how u lose the minimum there with a 50bb stack pre flop, only by checking flop, calling 15k on turn and 60k ish on river I guess, that wud be a pretty scared way to play QQ versus Julian. Alternatively call his 42k on flop and fold turn possibly. Tough situation for u and go me thinking what the optimum play is, maybe it's to bust out!

middy is going, i booked a flight with him but moorman forced me to go rail him in bristol

Nice one.

I didn't know Julian was Irish though, he didn't sound Irish when I sat next to him at the last DTD deep? lol

He is married to a fine Irish lady and the Irish players love him to bits.

I once talked to him about this, it seems when you mix Ireland and Nottingham you get a weird Bristolian accent.

I never knew Mrs Thew was Irish! She hails from Central England as far as I know, speaks posh & everything.

Julian lived in Dublin for most of his life, & moved back to the UK as an adult.

His Mum, Dad, & brother Graham (a better player than Jules, but not as lucky.....) all still live in Dublin.

Dubliners consider Jules one of their own, & quite rightly.

Oh my bad then Tony. I assumed when he was staying with family in Ireland I assumed it  was his wife's family. He takes the kids over quite a bit when he plays over there.

Assumption is the mother and all that.

He generally takes the tribe because Nana & the rest of the family like to see them, though he never took them this time.

I can't begin to imagine the hassle it must be to travel to Dublin, be it by air, or ferry, with 4 saucepans aged 7 & down. The mind truly boggles. Luckily, they are all good kids, & all boys.

i remember them all being in Killarney too when I took my kids. Now that's one nightmare of a drive with a car full of kids. Typical Ireland, driving down country roads get to a toll both for a motorway, pay your money and 5 miles later you are back on the country roads again.

Has Julian wrote a diary or auto biography. I seem to recall he moved to Nottingham to be closer to Holme Pierpoint to further his canoeing.

He's not penned  a biography, no, but he does plenty of Blogs for Sky Poker, in fact he did one only last week.  :)

You are correct as to Holme Pierrepoint, that was why he moved to Nottingham I believe, back in the day when he was quite a hot paddler bloke.

I would come and have a look next door but don't want to ruin it for you :)

Oh my, I have enough headaches already, PLEASE stay away.......

Wp Julian gl in Amsterdam.

just read Ryan's blog. I like the Palms

WARNING - thinly disguised spam.

Thewy got back from Dublin yesterday, & then played the three UKOPS Events last night, cashed in two of them, including a Final Table for about £1,700 I think.

He is in tonight's £530 High Roller, too. Anyone fancy finishing 2nd?

i was high on face paint, bubbly & haribos,

#thesecretofmysuccess

Sigh wish I ran like Julian he doubles up with ace king , I doubled down n out ,v qq ,best hand I'd had for hours too

Hi Julian

Good to see you still making a few bob.

Its been a few years since I ventured to the masterclassics and boy do I miss that festival and the associated good times.

Good luck there.

In training for the 'dam then..

they sell face paint over there?

superb!

 Nicest guy in poker? Tosser. Didn't even make an attempt to buy me dinner despite threatening to.

The buffet diners are free for poker players in the Burlington ?

don't be pushin me channing,

meal deal of your choice in bristol next week if you dare

oh yeah, sorry about your bet btw  ;whistle;

He bought me a Magnum once, but Nick Hicks once bought me a double vodka.

Confirmed second nicest guy in poker.

 If I bust on Friday I shall be straight on that train but otherwise dinner will be lovely. Don't worry about the bet - she didn't really want to go to Melbourne.

Missed this. Nice work again Jules. good luck in Amsterdam

Well done yo yo!, nice result :)

The kids have shoes for another while.   :D  Very well done and best of luck in Amsterdam!!!