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As always plenty of UK interest in this, with recent winners James Mitchell and Neil Channing. Will the UK scoop again

Information permitting, a daily round up on here of chip counts and news


The event

It's that time of year again. the Irish Open 2013!

BUY IN:

2013 sees a lowered the Irish Open buy-in to €2,000+ €250

The new buy in is €2,000 + €250 reg which is inclusive of the 23% VAT charge.


DATES

The Irish Open 2013 will as always take place over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend – the main event kicks off on Friday 29th March until Monday 1st April 2013.

STRUCTURE:

20,000 starting stack, with 60 minute clock for the first 9 levels and 75 minutes thereafter.

VENUE:

The event will once again return to the Burlington Hotel, Dublin.

Not that it really matters, but the starting stack was upped to 30k Rich.

Best of luck to any Blondes out there!

Is the VAT thing new for this year?

It's okay I get it now, the VAT is on the reg fee.

I see you've listed what my starting stack will be after level 1 rather than what everyone will be starting with (30k)

GL all

Got to be quick in this game Karl ;)

Good luck to all the blondes playing, hopefully JT might win it on 'home' soil.

Good luck to the DTD contingent.

Chip Counts.

Still a few of us blondes fighting away.

http://paddypowerpokerblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/end-of-day-1-chipcounts/

I'd love to see Albert win it even if he's not a blonde.

Me too!

There'd be some chuntering from the poker purists if he did.

Go Albert!

I saw him at The Vic a few weeks ago, & I fed him the usual lines, & got all the anticipated replies.

How are you running Albert?

Shocking, these kids never fold

Poor Doobs had Albert to his left - in a PLO8 Tourney!

Doubt Doobs had ever seen 'owt like it.

276 of a total field of 505 made day Two.  prize pool €1,010,000

chip leaders

Darren Nolan    240500
Szymon Gajda    178600
Albert Sapiano    153300
Sean Donnellson    151500
Brendan Ruane    147000
Gary Edgley    146100
Calvin Anderson    145200
Grant Mercado    144300
Ian H Simpson    136300

Brits

Seun Oluwole    130000
Andrew Hulme    118600
Timothy Chung    117100
Nicholas Fellone    98400
Stuart  Fox    92900
Tony  Millan    91900
jack Ellwood    79600
Jamie Roberts    78900
Keith Hathaway    73800
Niamh Peters    65100
Barry  Neville    64800
Dave Ulliott    61700
Simon Deadman    61500
Anthony Adderley    59600
Benjamin Jenkins    54100
Waheed Ashraf    51900
Mike Hill    50500
Jonathan Crute    47700
Oluwashola Akindele    45700
Chris  Bruce    41900
Kevin Williams    40900
Gareth Teatum    40100
Philip Peters    39700
Karl Marenholz    37900
Paul Grummitt    34100
Gerald David    29800
Fraser Macintyre    27900
Stuart  Kinghorn    27200
Thomas Dunwoodie    26700
Kevin Allen    23900
Nick Abou Risk    23100


I reckon, from memory, that 4 of the DTD Satellite quaifiers are through, discostu, Wadey, Barry Neville and Fellone

Is it true numbers are down despite reduced buy-in??

Raggy (James Clarke was on Feature Table yesterday) busted now, Skull Man on 300k

MARK ROBERTS. 41500. Is another qualifier from Dtd

GL too all of them and remaing blondes...

Mark busted

 ;marks;

I believe there's a whole 3 more than last year

PaddyPower were frantically trying to think of ways to give away a couple of seats as late reg was closing to ensure this was the case...

End of Day 2 Chip Counts and Wadey still in there.

http://paddypowerpokerblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/end-of-day-2-chipcounts/

lol cal has all the chips, gg everyone cheers for coming.

gl tim chung/andrew sweeney/karl mahrenholz though

Good luck to Mick Mccloskey too, the Tikay of Irish poker

Karl Holzrenholz ftw!

Love to see Wadey take this down. Foxy still there too!

Maybe cutting the juice rather than the buyin should have been their answer.

12.5% is wholly unacceptable.

Also.

GL Karl and Stu.

List of Brits left in, close to the bubble

Waheed    Ashraf    292500
Timothy    Chung    268000
Anthony    Adderley    264000
Stuart    Fox    219000
Surinder    Sunar    199500
Karl    Marenholz    130000

Here is a run down of the prize pool,

1st – €265,000

2nd – €141,500

3rd – €99,000

4th – €67,500

5th – €49,000

6th – €37,500

7th – €28,000

8th – €20,500

9th – €14,300

10th – 12th – €11,250

13th – 15th – €9,650

16th – 18th – €8,250

19th – 27th – €7,050

36th – 28th – €5,850

45th – 37th – €5,000

54th – 46th – €4,350

oioi mr Adderley top man

Hope Karl manages a spin.  Also, if reporting was right that's a pretty incred recovery from Surindar....sure I read a post four way all in involving Ian Fraser in a limp called pot where he held second set v overset and nut and 2nd nut flush draw apparently left him with like 8 bigs at 100/200.

 I was at the table with Surinder. He actually made a profit or just lost a little by about a small blind either way in that pot. On a flop of Ah3h5d four players were all in with QhJh 55 33 and Kh10h.

 Surinder got it all in with AdKd vs AA a little later and bust. He was reported as being in overnight along with 6 other people due to a technical fault with the new chip tracking software.

 

Wadey on the feature table at bubble time

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BGsxFgKCUAIqmLp.jpg:large)

Stuart Fox a top ten stack with 40 or so left

1    Brendan Ruane    1050000       
2    Calvin Anderson    800000       
3    Ian Simpson    775000       
4    Peter O’ Dowd    691000       
5    Declan Connolly    630000       
6    James Brady    625000       
7    Timothy Chung    560000       
8    Stuart Fox    540000       
9    Robert Jan Hoogendoorn    520000

40th – Waheed Ashraf – €5,000

41th – Karl Marenholz – €5,000

good luck to Foxy.

Need some pics of Foxy if you can find em Tighty. My wife's a big fan

Tim still in with 16 left. Come on son!!

And bust 16th. Sigh, megabok

Final Table Chip Counts


    Tom Brady – 3,674,000
    Calvin Anderson – 3,168,000 – Sole Survivor
    Namir Mohammed – 2,898,000
    Ian Simpson – 1,451,000
    Adam Fallon – 1,370,000 – Sole Survivor
    Declan Connolly – 1,193,000 – Sole Survivor
    Mark Davis – 684,000
    Michael Farrelly – 683,000

€265,000 to the winner

top Brit was 16th – Timothy Chung – €8,250 ahead of 22nd – Stuart Fox – €7,050

Ian Simpson is British. He also finished 4th last year. Final table two years in a row is pretty amazing!

Geordie if I'm not mistaken, so Tighty can be forgiven :)

Pretty sure he was sole survivor last year and looks odds on to repeat

Plays bad, runs pure. Poker is simple

yup.


sok cal will do alot of punish

Ian Simson tilted after losing a big pot shoved with j10 v qq flopped a set, keeps smiling at his missus and rubbing the octupuss card protector, he will never win this imo

Good commentary from Neil channing on this final table

Now doing exercises in front of his bird after winning 3 mill pot

has he won the sole survivor yet Wrighty?

Anderson was the sole survivor Herbie...

I thought he played really well today from what I saw, he knew how good Anderson was and didn't get into an ego war with him.

Obv ran well, but who is gonna win the tourney without doing so and epic scenes before the presentation!

Ian Simpson won the Irish Open, amidst both riotous and touching scenes as he proposed to his girlfirend on stage. She accepted.

(http://paddypowerpokerblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/944a5355_ppp_io_2013_untitled_dannymaxwell1.jpg?w=640)

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Jen Mason's report is masterful. Simply too good lol

http://paddypowerpokerblog.wordpress.com/

 Ian was Sole Survivor last year and as part of that got a free seat. He was obliged to wear the gear this year but wasn't in the Sole Survivor again. The winner of that was Calvin Anderson.

 I really enjoyed watching Ian. He really wore his heart on his sleeve, was happy to play the rush when it was going well, seemed to be having fun and seems like a really nice guy. Some people said he was pretty erratic and unconventional - I think he played really well. He isn't a professional player - he's a teacher, although that may have just changed.

 I'm told his blog is great and the scenes at the end were lovely.

 

I read he quit teaching after last years bink, congrats to him anyways, wal etc etc.

Ian is a really nice guy and I think he plays a lot better than most people on this forum seem to think. He had a tough seat draw with Anderson two to his left but didn't let that affect him. He took a year off from teaching to play the buyins he won from the sole survivor package that he won last year, but says he never wants to give it up completely. Calvin is a great player and will surely win a big live tournament sometime soon if he keeps playing live.

The marriage proposal had all the female dealers crying and it made a great story! Very happy for Ian and Emma, a worthy winner!

Most people on the forum ?

Two people made negative comments itt, meh who cares, I'm sure he doesn't.

Seemed like a nice guy from the interview I read.

who cares if you play good when you can just run good.



learn from him monda, win us all moneys then get yourself down to maccydsssssssss!

Thanks for the GLs (blow up for me again). Happy Ian won I agree with Channing he was a real nice guy and seemed to play great. Also UL to Ian on the badbeat he suffered after the tourney had finished it can only be mental fatigue.

(http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4894270788535854&pid=15.1)

Super-fab article by Jen Mason.

Anytime a well placed semicolon makes an appearance, I get a bit giddy.

Any idea who lasted longer out of surinder sunar and barney boatman, paddy power still not settled the bet.  Read surinder made day 3 then read he was knocked out on day one after set over set.

Yeah phrased that wrong. I guess I should have said 'than many people would probably expect'

I don't think Barney or Surinder got very far as I saw Barny in sides and Surinder's name kept getting called out for the cash games. You should be able to check the day two seat draw and see if either made it and are included in that?

 It was pretty close. They both went on day one. Barny came over to sweat my bustout and I think he had literally just gone himself. Surinder went about 45 minutes before that.

 I personally think bookmakers should generally only do last longers where one person must cash as it is open to arguments and hard to settle otherwise. At least they should say void if they bust on the same level.

 If you bet Barny I think you won. pretty poor that PP could nt monitor that themselves.

Thanks Neil they finally settled paying out on surrinder, will stay away from last longer bets in future.