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Welcome to sunny Dublin for the paddypowerpoker Irish Open.

It's shuffle up & deal at 5pm, & blonde will be there from start to finish.

Plan, initially, is for Dave Colclough & tikay to play, with Rhow in charge of the updating. Dave, myself, & a little network of blonde-ites, will feed Rhowena with the early action for immediate updating. And once tikay exits, it'll be the full Beauty & The Beast double act. Might take a level or two though, ol 'tikay can grind for ever in these big stack slow clock jobbies. See you mid-evening, then.......

Do as a favour and keep your eye on Steve Walmsley (he is burnley johns travel partner this week). He is due a big result and will probably get one now I'm not there with him  ::)

GOOD LUCK D/C THE FLORIDA GROUP WIN BE WATCHING SO WE EXPECT A VERY GOOD SHOW, JUST WIN BABY / JUST WIN!!!! ;D

Thanks Russ & WSOPin05.

The Preview / scene setting will continue now, sorry for delay, the 'puter dropped out again, pah!

Although the paddypowerpoker Irish Open is promoted by Liam Flood & The Merrion Casino, it is in fact being held at The City West Hotel, which is about 10km west of Dublin.

The CityWest Hotel is amassive conference centre & resort hotel, maybe 1,000 rooms. It has 2 Golf Courses, two Helipads (TWO!,Travelodge's rarely have more than one Helipad...), & is set in lovely countryside.

The Hotel has the swankiest set of courtsey cars you ever saw - a spanking new Rolls Royce, a Mercedes S600, & 4 (FOUR!) top of the range Range Rover Vogues. I fancied a ride in the roller, so asked if they could sort me out for transport to Dublin. No prob, they said, "we'll book a taxi for you".....

Despite all that, it's only 70 Euros a night to get a lovely room here this weekend. The Poker Rate is 90 Euros, but the Easter Break rate is 70 Euros, so everyone is taking an Easter Break!

I asked for the Senior Citizens Discount they said I was FAR too young. Lovely people these Dublin folks....

We have just had the "welcome" speech by Liam Flood & Mr Paddy Power. And on the stage, he was flanked by Tony Cascarino & Teddy Sheringham, both of whom are playing today. In fact, I believe Tony finished 9th or similar in this last year.

The room where the comp is being held is a sorta large ballroom, plenty of room, & all the tables are brand new, very nice.

On one side is a Portakabin jobbie which is the Cashier's office, & next to that, the sponsors have a sort of promotions stand.

One oddity is that we have to pay for tea or coffee - 2 euros for a paper cup served lukewarm out of a flask. How bizarre!

Right now, there are about 6 or 7 one table satellites for the Main Event in progress.

Entry costs 2,000 Euro, plus 150 Euros juice. The juice has attracted some negative comment, but as Paddy Power are adding 20k, in effect we are playing juice free.

10,000 starting chips & a 45 minute clock, blinds start at 25-25-50.

25-25-50? Nah, not a typo, we are playing 3 blinds here, two smalls & a big. No idea why, but it's quite common in Ireland.

Who's here? Well, this is not an exclusive list, but I have spotted the following folks, & doubtless forgotten many more.

A full local crew, headed by the likes of Padraig Parkinson, Noel Furlong, George McKeever, Frank O'Callaghan, Roy The Boy Brindley, Kevin O'Connell, Andy The Monk Black, Donnache O'Dea, & Mike Lacey, aka LuckyBlind.

From France we have Isabelle Mercier, with whom I am sure I am becoming infatuated, she really is some personality, but she's not a lady to get wrong side of.

Dave Colclough heads the big boys from the UK, with Simon Trumper, Julian Thew (and brother Graham who got 9th on Thursday), Howard Plant, Mad Marty Wilson, Julian Gardner & Dad Dave.

Carlo Citrone is here on his comeback of course, & he got 5th in the Omaha last night, in which yours truly busted out in a massive pot in 9th. Poo poo POO.

Burnley John Falconer, Mike Pura (Vienna EPT Finliist), Greg Junior Hill (Walsall runner-up), Jim Reid, David Lloyd, George Geary & his brother, Ian McDonald. By the way, young Greg Hill is on fire, & has just won his seat for tonight in a one table jobbie. Heads up with a local, Matey Boy moved in with K-9, Greg says "call" & flips over KK!

Live Updates from blonde?

Rhow will be on the computer, so Dave & me will be feeding the info to Rhow, & we have a little team of blonde-ites who will be providing info to Rhow. So if you have a player or players who you want to follow, just let us know.

It's a 10k chip slow clock jobbie, so tikay is hoping to grind it out for a good while, but once I am out - which could take, oh, hours - I will be on hand to help Rhow.

TV coverage? Well Paddy Power have a film crew here, & so does "our very own" Poker 425. We will be doing player interviews & stuff for "stock" footage, & some stuff for next week's show.

A couple more "names" I forgot to mention, Paul actionjack Jackson & Jon Shoeman.

1 hour to go now, & as other players arrive, we will let you know.

And right on cue, Rumit Somaiya has just walked in. These guys determind to make plenty of work for me, arriving in ones & twos.

And Maltese Joe Grech.

Good luck Tikay et al....

Wish i was there playing as well.

Isn't it about time you went and got focused Tikay? We would all much prefer to be looking at the lovely Mrs C. Good luck tonight and dont forget to tell Julian no chop chop unless hes chip leader!! 100-1 was a price I couldnt resist and I would hate to be done because of a dodgy deal. ;D
ariston

Owdo ben, wish I was there to. May see you at the vic next week.

Yeh i will be playing every event at the Vic next week...

Bring it on

William Hill Poker have a full team here, Julian Yoyo Thew, Smokin Steve Vladar, & Xuyen Bad Girl Pham. Be a surprise if one of those three fail to money.

Have we got a "blonde bombshell" bet today Mr Langley?

Our Tournament Director is Thomas Kremser, resplendent in pink shirt (pink!) & stripey tie.

100/1 Ariston - about whom?

Oops, forgot Eric The Screw Barker.

I got heads up with Eric in a satellite yesterday. We get all-in, my A-J suited, against Eric's A-5. Flop A-J-5, nice, turn blank, river....5! To be fair, he was chip leader, & he had kindly offered me a 500 Euro "saver" for the runner-up. I decined, being the perfect Gent. For pefect gent, read perfect idiot.

yoyo tikay

Go Get em Carlo ;D

Now Howard Plant has turned up. He is wearing a black jacket, on the back of which is embroidered:

"Women Adore Me. Fish Fear me".

You have to love him, eh?

Talking of refined Gentleman, Rob Shifty Stevens has just wandered in.

Howard is very subdued. He says he always thought he was magnificent in bed, but has now found out that hisw ife of 20 years has asthma. That's Howard's joke, not mine, by the way....

You took 100/1 about tikay Russ? You must be MAD.

Mind you, I had a mountain of chips on Thursday in the Hold 'Em, but ran into QQ with my AK, hit my A, & Matey Boy hit his set! 4 off the money, too!

Then last night, exited in the Omaha Final in a monster pot. Story of my life, ALMOST good enough......

By the way, DEX is Carlo's Mum, she has taken over from Carlo as a super blonde poster.

Wel, correction. DEX is the Dog, Carlo's Mum has the username DEX. Clear as mud?

Good Luck Carlo!

Chris Singh, third in the Walsall biggie, has just strolled n.

I took 100s about yoyo thew.. you really should put your glasses on tikay. I think if you put your glasses on you will find howards jacket says women abhore me.
 ;)

Ahh, that makes a LOT more sense Russ......

More latecomers. Stuart Fox, 4th in Walsall, & a blonde tip for the top, and Rory Liffey both just arrived.

HOLD UP - SHOCK NEWS JUST IN.......

Isabelle Mercier just arrived, & she came up & kissed me. Twice.

It only needs the apple of my eye, Justine, to arrive, & I could die a happy man now.......

We are due to start in 5 mins, but I fancy we will bea little late.

Micky Cook just arrived.

Turning into a tidy field.

And a big welcome to Isabelle's Mum who is tuning in to blonde for the first time today.

Bonsoir mademoiselle.

I gather there are 170+ runners.

Alan Betson is at the bar, but he will be here shortly......

OK, we start in 2 minutes, so I'm outa here, Rhow will take over shortly.

Please with isa all the best from me and any pictures would be appreciated.fed up with looking at your mug all day!! ;)

sorry i am late folks

good luck to all the players

now i have decided that as my predictions are usually rubbish

that i will predict the following wont make the top 3

so you guys go and put your money on them now

elblondie
tikay
padraig

any want want any further predictions phone ironside tipster hotline
on 0898 youmustbejoking

My tip is Bad Girl....great record in Ireland and due a change of luck.

Hello guys, I'm stepping in now for a bit to keep you all up to date with what's doin'

Just spoke to tikay and he let me know that he had 13,000 chips. So a good start for blonde.

Liam Flood has just GONE!! First one out. He got a grand anouncment over the mic too.

On Table 18 we have our very own El Blondie, Stuert Fox, Mick the clock Cook, Donnache O'Dea, John Burberry, Carlo Citrone & George Mickeever
Value Value Value

Hi, how long are the buy ins?

Julian Thew come across KK on the first hand and get paid by Burnvey John. Then two hands in a new fella tried to bluff him off a big hand. Julian YO YO Thew now has 23K. A cracking start for Julian.

No Buy ins. It's a freezeout event. Don't think there would be too many foks with several 2000 buy ins in their poket if it was!

Dex there are no buy ins... its a freezeout

Starting chips were 10,000

Level two has just begun with the blinds now 50-100

174 runners

when are they planning to break for the night?

Could you find out how Mike Lacey is doing please

Could you find out how Carlo is doing Please?

can you find out how sean fagan is doing, thanks

Hey .. great work - when possible can you keep me informed of Paddy "treemore" O'connor and Paul Jackson's chip stacks please ? Many thanks
Marty Clarke.

On a break now. Just checking the field now.

Some chip counts for you all:
Paul Jackson 12500
Willie Tann 8000
Blondie stuggling a bit on that tough to say the least table 3000
Mad Marty had had a rough time too, loosing trip sixes to trip Queens. Leaving him with a pitiful 300
Smokin' Steve 14500
Bad Girl 9500
Eric the Screw Barker 7000
Stewart Fox 13,000
Greg Hill 12,000
Isabelle Mercier 10,000
Howard Plant 9800
Rumit 12,000

any news on Carlo?

166 runners left
Blinds now 75 -150

Prize pool 368,000 with 20K added by Paddy Power.

18-16 2500
14-15 3000
11-13 3500
10 5300
9 5300
8 7000
7 10,750
6 14,400
5 18,000
4 24,500
3 40,250
2 71,500
1 146,000

Alright all you Carlo fans out there desperate to know how he's getting on....

He has 11,500

Thank you  :)

Kevin O'Connell is OUT
and Rumit who has been having a terrbile run at the moment being knocked out in Vienna with Aces, and again this time with Kings.
His kings were up against poket Aces, and Poket Jacks. The flop came over with two jacks on the board.
A hard put down for the Aces but Rumit had to call being short stacked.

Adrian Walsh is OUT

George Geary who knocked Rumit out with his QUAD Jacks, has got a very tidy 25K
Sean Fegan 13K
Mike Lacey - Luckblind is sitting still with 10K

One hour Lunch Break now, play recommences at 9.00pm

154 left...

Hi Mrs C.,

Fine reporting job as per usual.

Is Lucy over there ?

Oh and BTW, could you mention to Tikay that Isobelle's mum would most likely be Madame.

 ;)

as if english lessons on THM forum wasn't bad enough now were getting french lessons on blondepoker 8)

Has play started back? :-\

Roy the boy just raised it up with 2,2 and was called by Eric the screw with 3,3.
They both trap check a flop of 9,3,2
War broke out on the river though when Roy made quads....lot of 'em about tonight
Roy doubled up.

But Eric wasn't kept down for long. He eliminated Blondie with 9,2 suited!!

tikay is up to 18K and very proud.

Mad Marty just vacated his seat

Is Carlo still in there?

Carlo just doubled up to 10k ;D

How is Mike Lacey doing?

Chip cout for you all devoted fans:

Sean Fegan 10K
John Falkner 25K
Bad Girl 8K
Willie Tann 21K
Paul Jackson 7K
Smokin' Steve 15K
George Geary 31K
Simon Trumper 7600
Greg Hill 12K
Howard Plant 15K
Stewart Fox 12K

Richard Ashby just went out AQ against A10, flop comes J7356

Carlo Citrone is OUT

Massive hand on Tanle 15.
KK v's 77
board comes 3,4,6,5
guy with the sevens is getting really excited now, damn sure he has this one made but.....
River is 7! And the pot is split.

Have a see if you can find steve walmsleys chip stack please. He was sat next to mad marty earlier and is rooming with burnley john. cheers
ariston

Eric Barkner 38,500
Julian Thew 33K
Mike Lacey - Lucky Blind has been treading water and still has 10K

how about owen mullan? 200 matched on him on betfair at 70s

does steve W have balding grey hair and a tash?

Simon Trumper is smiling now with 16K

No mrs c. hes around 40 and looks a bit like an accountant  ;). nice quite guy. ask howard or burnley john or isabelle and they will point him out,

122 runners left
blinds are 150 - 300

Isabelle has 18K
Steve Walmsley 9K

ty, good work.

no news on this owen mullan chap then? how's willie going mrs. c? tell him all the betfair boys are cheering him on

Trying to find out about Owen for you.
Willie had 21K last time I checked, I'll be sure to tell him all his boys are behind him

much obliged mrs. c! May I just add how lovely you're looking tonight  ;)

lol Ruru ..... :o

Tikay here, we are on a short break. A few counts:

Julian Thew 31k

Burnley John - 25k. Great comeback.

Dave Gardner 25k

Eric The Screw Barker 35k. Eric had 33 on a 93622 board. Matey Boy had Quad 2's.......

Tikay 18k.

Howard Plant 15k

Paul Actionjack Jackson 12,500

as always iis the words you are looking for ruru.

Mike Lacey, aka Luckyblind, 12k

Isabelle Mercier, 12.5k

Tikay you look different, you done something different with your hair?

Behave now Ariston........

Maybe it was the kiss from Isabelle. should be a frog to a prince though  ;)

lol ariston

Behave now boys, please.  ;)

Willie Tann 19,200
Mika Pura 31K
Noel Furlong 12,200
Joe Gresh 9200

113 players left
Blinds 200 - 400

Mike Lacey - Luckyblind not so lucky today. He just made an exit.

Owen Mullen has 8K

Took me a while, sorry about that.

no problem Mrs. C. - much obliged  :)

tikay doing well with 33K

wish tikay good luck please, hows carlo doing? great job btw

Is Lucy not there Mrs. C. ?

Simon Trumper just won a big pot.
He has A10 against poket 5's
Flop comes QA5JK Simon pulls in the chips.

He's carrying a shamrock in his poket, the Irish charm seems to be working it's magic with Simon tonight.

Smokin' Steve has just lost a BIG chunk of chips. He's down from 18K to 2K!
Julian 14K
Bad Girl up to 14K
tikay 35K

Two big stacks 60K and 50K, on table 7, are slaughtering the players around them.

95 players left

Tony Cooney is the man with the 60K stack. Normaly an Omaha cash player.

Alan Betson 35K

yep the big pot was v steve walmsley. he called a reraise on flop then set himself allin on turn, steve called and watched the king hit the river. Better lucky than good.

COME ON TIKAY

any news of carlo??

Any news on Paddy "Treemore" O'Connor please tx

No she is not.

Isobelle just got knocked down to 6K. She had AK and was up against A3, you know what happend next....

Greg Hill just moved up to 27K
Donnachea O'Dea 7K and his son Eoiun out shining him with 27K
Sean Fegan 16K
Padraig is short stacked

Lucy is on the pp cruise.

Peter Roach 37K - on the same table as Sean and Padraig - bit of banter being passed around on that table

Thanks for the info. guys.

are you sure it's banter being passed round the table and not something that looks like a cigarette ???

Paddy treemore has a short stack at 9K
Smokin' steve is Out
Sean Murphy out with 44 against AQ. All in before the flop, with a queen on the river.
Isobelle down to 3K - not looking too promising

Two international Rugby players and two Soccer players still in.
Shane Horgen Potential Rugby Lines player 20K
Regy Corrigan 30K
Tony Cascarino 20K
Teddy Sheringham short stacked

Hi Camel hope the old boy is feeling better.

Tony Cascirino 17K
Teddy Sheringham 5K
Julian Thew 17K

85 players remaining, just over half way.....

Teddy Sheringham just got knocked OUT

Are we having bets on which celeb last the longest then?

gotta be Cascarino 8)

Does Tikay count ?

He was on telly the other night !

 :)

nope i am making no predictions

Yes you cause strange things to happen to the folks you make 'em on don't you

Jon Shoreman just doubled up to 12K with Q7 against AJ making a flush on the river

any news of carlo, I did say please,

Poket 4's against AK, the 4's stand up but the dealer thinks AK has won, wow is explclaimed at the table, so the dealer starts to move the chips over toward the guy with the fours but gives them to the guy next to him instead, he isn't even in the pot!

Alan Betson 30K
Julian Gardner 23K
Greg V's Peggie Corrigan, AK V's A10 - 10 flopped
Greg now has 34K and Peggie 50K
Andy Black 7K
Bad Girl 14K
Willie Tann 22K
Mika Pura Bluffed 5K off Eoughn O'Dea and showed his cards.

Sean Fegan Just doubled up with QQ v's KQ taking his stack up to a nice tidy 25K

sorry red dog, Carlo Went a while ago I'm afraid

Greg Hill doing well with 34K

players just had a short break - they have been serving up these really tasty sausages, which go in three seconds! Poor Mad Marty claiming poverty came running in only to find them all eaten up.

tell him howard plant ate them all and tape the arguement so we can all have a laugh later

Paul Jackson has just gone.
He was holding A10 on the button, sitting with a short stack and gets a caller. The flop comes 10, 8, 2, and Paul raises all in for 2100. Fancying his hand as the winner.
The other player calls and rolls over a fair and square winning QQ's

Peter Roach just took 15K off Sean Fegan on the second hand after the break.
Peter now has a heavty 50K, leaving Sean with a rather depleated 11,500

Cheeky  :P

Shane Horgan - Irish Rugby Player - 60K
Julian Thew 20K
Dave Gardiner 25K
Padraig 13K
Julian Gardiner 20K
Mika Pura 33K
Alan Betson 37K
Rory Liffey 40K
Isobelle 10K

John Falkner has taken the chip lead with 83K :o

is willie still going ok?

Willie is still going strong with 32K
Tony Cooney 65K
Yucel 50K
Bad girl moved up to 17K after making all in re-raise on a flop of 7,4,2. Her opponent laid down the hand and she scooped.
tikay 32K
Simon Trumper 55K
Scott Crey 6K
Paddy O'C OUT

Bit of action on Julian Thews table:

Julian gets involved with 9,10 against an Irish player who has AQ
The Irish guy raises 13,500, and Julian re-raises 11,500. The Irish fella moves all in and Julian Calls.
The flop comes 10, Q, 10 giving Julian trip tens and scoops a huge 40K pot

Julian Thew now has 58K

Peter Roach down from 50K to 26K
Tony Cascarino still in and sitting with 20K
Mick McCloskfy 20K

Padraig makes a come back doubling up through Bad Girl hitting a flush while she held two pair.
Padraig now has 30K

Isobelle has just gone

was that action pre or post flop

i can't imagine it preflop

Pizza party has just started in the cardroom. Someone tell the starving Mad Marty

Yes sorry Ironside I didn't make that very clear, it was post flop

I'm trying really hard not to be tempted to the Pizza that is on the table right next to me. It smells great. Anyone hungry?

Im starvin here for god sake

starving parents are away for the weekend and i went into kitchen still don't know what the kettle looks like
found some bread in the cupboard so i am having dry bread and a tin of tennants for my breakfast just now

How many are left Row and what are we playing down to?

GL Tikay, Willie , Julian and everybody :) 

Keep up the updates, keeping me amused  ::)

Sounds far too healthy and nourishing!

We are down to 54 players.

The blinds are 700 - 1400

The plan I believe is to play down to 28 tonight, so a fair few hours left in it still for me. yawn.

I just want to say a big thank you to Lucky blind, Mike Lacey, for helping out with the old reporting here in the cardroom tonight.
Thank you Mike.  :)

cheers mike, now run off and find out how the 3 guys i tipped not to make the final 3 are doing and see if any of them have over 30% of the tourny chips yet

Some more action just in:
Rainbow flop of 4,10,7,J,4 Rellie Corrigan wins a 30K pot with a 10K bet on the river uncalled. Moviing up to 60K

Alan Betson 40K
Peter Roach back up to 55K
Sean Falen went out with - rephrased - not a very good hand

John F down to 60K
Julian down to 45K
Creg 32K
Declan Barker 27K
Tony Cooney down to 40K

Julian Gardiner all in 21200 V's Willie Tann. Willie Raised 4800 Willie has poket 8's and Julian has AJ and 4 flushed it.

Julian now has 45K
willie 20K

John F poket kings v's AQ flop comes Q,J,10,4,4
John takes a 50K pot.

Padraig bluffed his way back down to 10K

John F 106K

Julian Thew bets 24K against Peter Roach into a 20K pot on a flop of 10,3,4,6
After a very long think Peter folds

little tip dont ask willie for a chip count for a fews minutes or so (like untill he wins a pot)

Which three would that be then? same as the other night?

15 min break just started.

no my first post of the day said i wasnt gonna predict a winner as i am always wrong

so i will predict 3 people that wont make the final 3 and then they might all get a good pay day

they are tikay, elblondie and padraig

Connor Smyth 18K

52 players left.

They play to 18 tonight, not 28 as I previously thought.

did anyone tell the TD that the clocks have gone forward and its now 3 30 am

thats "tree tirty" in ireland

330, no wonder Im tired

me too and i didnt get up till around 6pm

ps

anyone know how to make cornflakes i still got the munchies

As an Irishman I'll ignore that. Any word on Joe O'Neill by any chance. Probably gone long ago but was wondering. Peter Roach will know him.

hi there,

 is george geary still in.
   
          thx

blimey is that the time?
i need to get a life, glued to this from now on in!!
Ian

Actually silly me Mike (luckyblind) knows Joe too.

good thing though, just watched England score another 4 goals past N Ireland (twice in one day)
good stuff this, the kids can find their own bloody easter eggs in the morning!
Ian

I'll find out about joe and George for you in a mo.

tikay has had a bad run and is now down to 21K
Bad Girl was a stack....of 100's.....they just coloured up though and is a big stack no more. 5K
John O'Callagman father of David who came 2nd in Barcelona is sitting on 35K

willie tann has moved up to 36K

suitedace get him get him

unless your from teh south then forget i said anything

Joe O'Neill has gone, and George Geary has 25K

 
  ok thank you hun.

Thanks for that Mrs. C. I'm from the south so I have a different footie result to worry about :)

anyone know how to make cornflakes i still got the munchies

saw it on the telly, open the box, pour in milk, tip box all over your head.
Hope this helps,
ian

Howard Plant keeps asking me to say something nice about him, he said to tell everybody he is good in bed
Do we beleive him?

Pete Haslam 24K - Foxy introduced us.

said Pete was feeling left out

good at what, sleeping and eating?

If he's from the midlands then yes i'm afraid it's true ;D
ian

There's a big fuss going on. Julian Gardiner just raised issue after coming back from the break to declare chips missing.

A chip count is now taking place and players are not happy. :(

Mad Marty probably ate 'em :)

Has Mr Gardner had a pint?

Surely he'd have double the chips??
ian

Thats true...how silly of me....;o)

how about a compy to predict how many hours there will be before reaching 18 and having to stat to play the 2nd day

good night all, not sure i've got the stamina for this late night poker mallarkey#!

forgive me, but how will a chip count help??

They have failed to change his 100's corrrectly at the chip up. He has not received chips for his 100's. Acoording to another source that is.

Well done Mrs C and company for all the updates. I played in today's event ... not very well, sadly, I was KOed in around 80th, very shortstacked, button steal with KJs went wrong when called by big blind with JJ :( ... but on a lighter note, amusing hand of the day occurred only around 2 hours into the tournament ... Ireland rugby international and novice poker player (sponsor's invite) Shane Horgan has invested over 4k of his starting 10k stack in a 9k-ish pot ... board ends up 6666A and poor Shane FOLDS to his opponent's all-in bet on the river :)

They have solved the problem. There was an error in the colour up, and Julian has been given his 20K back.

They have coloured up differently to normal, firstly they have not asked one player to buy all the 100's at the table, and they did the colour up while all the players were out on their break.

But it's all sorted and players have started play again.

Hmmm that gives me an idea for a TV show. Yes thats it I'll call it poker mallarkey.

Julian thew just got knocked out. Peter Roach took his chips from him.

Tony Cooney with A10 V's 33
Flop comes K,4,5 and players go all in creating a 30K pot
turn comes 10 then a river 8 follows but it's already all over for the other player and Tony moves up to 80K

ok i am off for an early night got busy day ahead tomorrow reading the instructions on the can opener then the cooker and i might get some beans on toast (thats if i work out where the toaster is. :P

good luck!

good night all, I need my beauty sleep, boy, do I need beauty sleep!

Yucel is in his first major tournament and wins a 55K pot with a made flush v's draw and is up to 80K

Shane H has AK against Irishman who has KK
Flop comes 525 all the money's in the middle after Shane raises all in
Turn is a 10, river Q
Irishman wins a 100K pot :o

That's the biggest pot we have seen all day.

Reggie Corrigan the rugby player is OUT.
Young Irishman moved all in for 31,500 with AK Reggie calls with QQ King comes on the flop.
Good players these Irish guys 'eh?


Robbin McComrick was the Irishman who took out Shane

Most of these Irishmen have names, if it makes it easier, name them Paddy 1-10. Not much use to us watching though.

Yucel and John F have just been to war with each other with yucel raising to 10K.
John Re-Raises to 30K and Yucel moves all in for 78500
John is now left with 11K if he calls and loses, so he folds his poket J's and Yucel shows poket Q's
Yucel up to 112K

how many left?

Tony Cooney get involved in a pot with AA against Declan Barker who has 7's - Declan was 24th in Monte Carlo the other week
Flop comes 5,Q,J,Q,2 and another local gone tough there are still plenty still fighting on. Chip count to come.

39 players left and they have just anounced they will only be playing one more level with the current one finishing in 7 mins.

Blinds about to go up to 1500 - 3000

Tony Cooney has over 100K in chips and looks to have the chip lead.
Rory Liffey is not far behind that.
Alan Betson 50K
John O'Callahan 30K
Daisy 16K
Eiouin O'Dea 5K

 How long are they playing for tonight please?

 Also, do you have a chip count for the legendary Willie Tann?

Simon trumper all in with AJ against poket J's which Howard Plant is holding.
Flop comes with an Ace and Simon takes the pot knocking the very nice and good in bed, acording to him, Howard Plant out.

Willie tann just doubled up catching another player bluffing with 9,10. Willie had poket K's.

Stuart Fox has QQ against Dave Gardiner with 10,10
cards come 6,K, 10.....2, Q
Stuart picks up a 60K pot and Dave is knocked down to 6K

Willie has 70K

Greg Hill and Bill O'Keffe from Corck, are both on the blinds and fighting for 'em
greg has J,3 and Bill has A,10
Bill wins the pot and greg is down to 11K

they are playing this level out. twenty five mins left

Tony Cooney 130K
Julian G 70K
Yucel the mad turk 115K

My little helper has retired to bed. I'm so jealous.

Hi Mrs C
How is Tikay doing please?

Alan Betson just took out Steve McAlistair.

They have just brought in a load of chinese food now, They are really keeping these players fed. Talk about midnight feasts!

tikay is hanging on with 20K

They are wrapping up for the night. At long last my bed is within site.

Four tables left.

Join us here at 4pm for the final tomorrow.

Good Night

last min chip count:
Bill Geary 45K
Michael Dwyer 58K
tikay 16K
Joe Grech 54K
Ian McDonald 20K
Rory Liffey 168K
Mal Daleson 27K
John Burberry 25K
George Geary 40K
Robbie Cormack 97K
John O'Callagham 77K
Yule Rmiloglu 124K
Burnley John 76K
Willie Tann 75K
Pete Haslam 33K
Kevin Malopy 47K
Nick Peter 31K
Alan Betson 151K
Peter Roche 119K
Stuart Fox 50K
Jimmy Lan 47K

Scene setting

Day 2

Day 2 arrived and so did the large contingent of British and European players, but the venue was still looked up no staff and no Local players.
Sure enough an hour later the staff and players started turning up stating that they are Irish and dont do British summer time, so when do your clocks move forward tikay was over heard asking Padraig Parkingson oh thats easy when we can be bothered to get up and move them came the reply.

Once inside it quickly became clear that mad Marty Wilson had still not forgiven Howard Plant for eating all the buffet sausages Howard kept claiming his innocence but Marty claimed to have a witness (Mrs Elblondie who was seen in the background holding a tape recorder)

Tikay on the other hand was getting himself geared up for the task ahead on interview he was asked how was his stack was a monstrous 16k came the reply. It was rumoured that during yesterdays play a mop and bucket was called for to clean up the mess from Tikays nose bleed after having to climb over his 50k stack to see his cards
A feat not often entertained by tikay.

At the bar Elblondie was still trying to deny rumours he was Debbie Harry is disguise, while Kevin OConnell was moaning about the lack of Guinness and was heard saying to the barman what you mean we drank all 6 barrels last night.


Anyway over to the blondie team to give us the low down on the runners and riders

good luck today lads. 16k at the end of day 1 Tikay, just how many walks in the blinds did you get? ::) I will be rooting for Burnley john and Tikay today so you may as well check out of the hotel now (you just been boked I'm afraid). Bet of the day Howard to be in the luminous yellow shirt- 1-6...Nailed on.

ariston

Good luck to Mr "Miagi" Tan, Tikay and Burnley "The Skull" John. From the Notingham Boys.

Your boy bullitpete crashed out in 20th (according to pokerineurope.com) just outside the money ... all-in QQ v A8 and river 8

river A obviously!