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Hello and welcome to Dublin for what should be an Easter Poker Extravaganza with the 2010 Irish Open

Today from 3.30pm is Day One with up to 700 runners competing for an enormous prize pool, befitting the €3200 + €300 buy-in

Please join us then for the start of the tournament

Updates on the Bumders: Boyd, BAM and Bignose please tytyty

"What is the Irish Open?" I hear you silently mumble to yourself

Well, The Irish Open, Europe’s longest established poker tournament, was first held in 1981 by the late, great Terry Rogers. Terry had visited Vegas and befriended legends such as Benny Binion, Johnny Moss and Doyle Brunson, taking a keen interest in No Limit Texas Holdem, a variation of the game previously unknown outside the US.


Upon returning to Ireland Terry established the Irish Open which became instrumental in spreading No Limit Holdem’s popularity throughout Ireland and across Europe.


Looking at the list of past winners shows quite some pedigree

Year     Winner

2009    Christer Johansson
2008    Neil Channing
2007    Marty Smyth
2006    Vincent Melinn
2005    John Falconer
2004    Ivan Donaghy
2003    Joe Beevers
2002    Nick Bernie
2001    Jenny Hegarty
2000    Alan Betson
1999    Liam Barker
1996    Liam Flood
1994    Mickey Finn
1993    Christie Smith
1992    Noel Furlong
1991    Colette Doherty
1990    Liam Flood
1989    Noel Furlong
1988    Jimmy Langan
1987    Noel Furlong
1986    Bryan McCarthy
1985    Irene Tier
1984    Tony Byrne
1983    Jimmy Langan
1982    Frank Conway
1981    Sean Kelly
1980    Colette Doherty

These days the event is sponsored by Paddy Power and they have kindly sponsored this update alongside our partners at DTDPoker. Thank you to them both

A month or so ago DTD ran a Live Satellite with seven seats to the Irish Open guaranteed and these were the qualifiers

Waheed Ashraf
Stephen Boyd
Jonathan Butters
Greek Jack
Ramzi Abbassi
Jason Herbert
Gurdeu Millan


This is a high powered set of qualifiers.

Waheed for example won the DTD Monte Carlo in December.

 Mr Boyd - themole- is well known to many on here and is a high stakes Online Pro.

Greek Jack has over 40 top twenty cashes in major festival events

Ramzi chopped the last DTD Deepstack

Jonathan is a sometimes controversial figure on updates but a GUKPT Main Event finalist

Jason finished third in the Inaugural UKIPT last December

Gurdeu has five top twenty finishes in DTD>£300 events in the last twelve months



Good luck to them all, and we will be following their progress over the next four days until one of them scoops!

Here is the event structure and you'll be able to follow the stage of the tournament by following the live tournament update clock at the top of the board
 Irish Open Main Event €3200 + €300

Stacks:10,000
Blinds: 60 mins for the 1st six levels / all levels 75 mins after this
Levels: All of them!


My partner in updating crime will be the estimable spelling Pedant Chili. Big welcome back to blonde Updating for her.

Just googled Noel Furlong,sick man.Does he still play ?

GLGL all blondes

It's already been an interesting trip

The 8.30pm flight from Luton took off at midnight, amidst a lot of forum related text messages and I eventually arrived at the hotel at 2am. Sharing my journey was one GreekStein

Mr GreekStein had chosen to buy a book from the airport WH Smith, which came in handy as we wiled away the hours in Departures. His choice, amongst no doubt thousands of tomes to choose from?

Dwight Yorke: The autobigraphy

I gather even the till lady sniggered

The blurb for the book quotes one Tony Cascarino, ex football player and now noted Poker Player

"Yorke has enough dirt on Jordan, Fergie and Keano to write ten books"

Mercifully for the rest of us, he appears to have stopped at one


Anyway, I digress. I got into the hotel lift aching and frazzled and pressed for the fifth floor being joined by a gentleman just before the doors closed.

"Where are you from?" slurred an East Coast/Boston accent alongside me

"England" i intoned in my finest voice

"Gee" he sighed "so you hate all the Irish then??"

and proceeded to stare at me for an uncomfortable few seconds until the 5th floor ping broke an uneasy silence



Lets hope today is a better experience than yesterday!

Live streaming over all four days, to accompany your enjoyment of this update at:

http://www.irishpokeropen.com/tv/index.php

GL to

Eames
Both Rutters
Pez
Cody
Lewis
Brammer
Millar
Greeky
Bam

And anyone else I might have missed. Any of the shrewdies playing this? Can honestly say was one of the best trips ever last year. Gutted to be missing it this year!!!! Me Middy, Eames, Rutter and Soren Mfkin Konesgaard

GL all blonde playing this

Special mention to Cos  -ship it all buddy!

I am gutted to be missing this, playing poker in Ireland just feels right, but after last year i need the year off!

Ill be on this thread all weekend

GL Tighty and Chili - im sure you will have fun

It will be interesting to hear peoples thoughts on the Burlingotn rather than City west

gogogogogogogogogogogo

GLGL To all Blondes paying get paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiid!!!!

This....

Why no comps in 95, 97 or 98?

The Irish Open was organized under the auspices of the charity fundraising organization started by Terry Rogers called the Eccentric Club. It attracted mainly local players but Rogers already had is eye on expanding the event.

Notable English players who came over for the game included Derek Webb, Nick Cook, Derek Baxter.

Donnacha O'Dea remembers the stunts Rogers pulled to generate interest in the Irish Open. “He’d publicise betting on the tournament in the Racing Post along with an event such as the Super Bowl so he could get around the law on advertising such events. He’d install an outsider such as ‘Suitcase’ Johnny as favourite. Poker players would then see these odds and think to themselves, ‘Well I’m much better than this guy who’s favourite’ and immediately want to take part in the tournament.”

Terry Rogers once declared “I have been the greatest single factor in the worldwide spread of competitive poker.”

One of his most enduring legacies was founding the Irish Open. In the late 1970's Terry started to hold poker tournaments for charity under the auspices of the Eccentric Club. According to Liam Flood, a fellow bookmaker and friend of Terry's the games would get "anywhere between 100 and 300 players playing five-card draw for £100 to £200 per game. That was a lot of people for that kind of money at the time. Every year Terry would go to America on business. In May 1979 he had a few days off and went to Las Vegas. He saw this high stakes poker game going on and met Benny Binion and the rest is history.”

Always one to spot an opportunity Rogers cemented his relationship with Binion and his band of high-rolling players by taking bets from them on the outcome of the games, offering the type of long odds the Americans had never seen before.

“Guys like Benny Binion, Doyle Brunson and Chip Reese really held Terry in high esteem,” states World Series of Poker bracelet winner and former Irish Olympic swimmer Donnacha O'Dea. “He’d give them great odds, better than any American bookie would give, but he still made sure he had a 20% edge.”

After the 1979 World Series Terry returned to Ireland enthusing about what he’d seen. Stud and draw were the poker variants of choice in Ireland but the new variation he’d seen in Vegas, no-limit hold’em, beat them all for excitement and skill.

In the following years he returned to Vegas for the World Series with Liam Flood but his bookmaking activities brought the attention of the Las Vegas Police Department and on one occasion Terry and Liam ended up being arrested and imprisoned. The irony of being jailed for gambling in Vegas was not lost on them according to Flood.


The Irish Open fell into abayance in the early 1990s as Terry concentrated on nursing his mother through ill-health. It was resurrected again in the mid 1990's.

Terry Rogers himself passed away in 1999.

Google continues to be my friend

Paddypowerpoker.com began sponsorship of the event in 2005 and has overseen the huge growth in the tournament in the last number of years. By 2006 the event, with 339 players, had outgrown the Merrion Casino and was held in Jury's Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. In 2007 the venue was changed to the Burlington Hotel, Dublin to accommodate an even bigger field, while in 2008 the Irish Open venue was Citywest Hotel, Dublin.

The 2007 Irish Open Main Event was won by Belfast man, Marty Smyth who captured the title and the €650,000 first prize following a two hour heads up battle against World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour winner Roland De Wolfe.

The 2008 Irish Open Main Event was won by English poker pro Neil Channing, who won €801,400 after defeating local favourite Donal Norton of Tipperary heads up. Channing added £50,000 to his winnings by putting a £500 bet on himself at 100/1 with Paddy Power at the mid-point of the four day tournament.

The 2009 Irish Open Main Event was won by Swedish professional Christer Johansson, who won a €600,000 first prize. He beat British-Canadian Kara Scott after an entertaining heads up struggle.

In recent years, he has not traveled much to play poker, preferring to concentrate on his business and other interests. Furlong owns a carpet distribution company that does over $100 million worth of business a year. Because of his involvement with the carpet business he doesn't play poker frequently, usually only the WSOP and tournaments in Ireland and western Europe.

Furlong other interests include owning horses and working also a horse trainer.

Mr End,

When it comes to updating, you are, to quote an old Chinese proverb, the dogs borrocks.

Looking forward to it. Have a good one.

PS- Chili, you da man.

LOL,yeah I read this on wiki,I wondered if he was playing this,nice life.

looking forward to updates. gogogo railtard1 too.

everyone hungover this morning?

Good luck to high volume single table tournament specialist Greekstein

Good luck to all you blonde balla's lucky enough to be playing this.

Updates on Stu Brownsen plz......last year he put a €1000 wager on at 250/1 to win the event................gg €1000

Updates on the Czech Ray Sallin and the Russian twins, Trebet and Vorbet Shov.

Good luck all, enjoy the guinness! :)

GL GL GL to all the blondes!!!  

Had hoped and planned to make my way up this afternoon, but the crew are all missing and I didn't want to leave Cassie and Lily home alone.  Sigh.  Roll on the blonde bash at DTD!!!

Millar is going to ship this mofa. GL to rutter as well

This is what they are playing for, the trophy..with feature table behind

Jesse May in a very fetching Purple velvet suit today is interviewing Christer Johannson, left and Kara Scott, right with Dena the dealer


Today is looking up

Good afternoon folks.  Just got set up ready to make some informative posts and pre-event information!

Cheers Tighty, what a set up to an update.  I can tell I am going to have a great weekend :)

The place is buzzing already with a steady stream of hopefuls registering at the desk and getting rewarded with a lovely chat with Dena.

We shall be looking out for our usual blondes and DTD Irish Open qualifiers but if anyone has any other update requests then please post on here for me to go and shove a camera in their face and count their chips.

Be lively people and help me and Tighty have a busy and fun 4 days......

671 runners currently registered, with a queue for more

The whole place is buzzing and, quite frankly, is decked out spectacularly with a space age feel feature table

Good luck to Bam and the Mole in their 20p last longer.

I guarantee that this is both of their priority's. Forget the trophy and €800k. Bragging rights for that 20p is king!!!!

Furlong landed one of the biggest gambles ever at Cheltenham  about 25 years the coup was legendary.

Your first feature table on the live stream will be featuring Joe Grech, Roberto Romanello, George McKeever amongst others. Just being mic'ed up now



Record number of runners in this event is 708, currently 678 registered with 15 minutes to go

€350 one hand turnovers for a seat are busy!


Shame the Irish aren't gamblers, really

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Announcements over, the seat draw is up. Play will commence shortly

Waheed Ashraf and Greek Jack Dionysiou interviewed a few minutes ago


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Lol, good story Tighty. Always knew Mr Papertits was a bit of literary intellectual.

The players are seated and we are waiting for those special words any second now.  Below are 3 reprebates that I found at the bar bemoaning the fact that the bar doesn't sell alcohol lol.

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Minieri on railtard1's right. There may be fireworks!

They're not serving alcohol?!  You're not serious...surely.

LOLOLOLOL just been informed by the Irish in the office that they won't be getting any drink in Dublin on Good Friday!!!!


OH HAPPY DAYS LOLOLOLOLOL......

Play finally underway 695 runners

8 levels today, 4 at 60 minutes, 4 at 75 minutes

10k starting stack

http://www.irishpokeropen.com/tv/index.php for the live stream

Gogogogogo Paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipertits  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;


Superb piece of scene-setting for this update Tighty, I'm really looking forward to what promises to be an epic.

Tighty could you post up list of runners if possible please.

Thank you.

Just got hold of the first seat draw.  Beware of some spelling mistakes (not mine) and although its in Table order, the seats are a little jumbled.

Table   Seat      
1   1   Craig   Fiona
1   9   Fallon   Adam
1   5   Gosney   Lawrence
1   10   Horvath   Daniel
1   2   Kennedy   Anthony
1   4   Laumer   Thomas adonis
1   3   Martin   Brian
1   7   Murphy   Micheal
1   6   Nolan   Graldine
1   8   Reeves   Mark
2   5   Devine   Gorge
2   7   Dwyer   John
2   3   Flynn   Gvin
2   8   Gerlich   Matthias
2   2   Hawkins   Keith
2   10   Nathan   Tommy
2   4   Olsvik   Marius
2   6   Rodger   Paul
2   9   Taylor   Darren
2   1   Zach   Smon
3   7   Brink jensen   Frederik
3   1   Corcoran   Kevin
3   4   de Wolfe   Roland
3   9   Garcia rivas   Dvid
3   5   Gourdon   Veronique
3   8   Hever   Dominick
3   2   Romanello   Antoni
3   6   Smurfitt   Alan
3   10   Tureniec   Micheal
3   3   Weber   Rudiger
4   3   Blake   Tim
4   4   Hogan   Francis
4   2   Keenan   Brendan
4   8   Lo   Devin
4   10   McFadden   Keith
4   5   Millan   Grdev (tony)
4   7   Patterson   Tyler
4   1   rafferty   joe
4   9   Shine   Cathal
4   6   Stevens   Craig
5   3   Bjoersland   Janÿ
5   2   Campbell   Paul
5   7   Convey   Mrc
5   4   Doherty   Colette
5   8   Manzoni   Gianfranco
5   6   Patras   Cristos
5   10   Peltola   Hannu
5   9   Sawicki   Pawel
5   5   Soulier   Fabrice
5   1   Whelan   Maurice
6   8   Collopy   James
6   9   Cooney   Conor
6   6   Fusciardi   Denise
6   1   Gaines   Lee
6   10   Garvey   Donal
6   2   Hermans   Enst
6   4   johansson   lars
6   7   Lorent-in de betou   Magdalena
6   3   O'Shea   Jhn
6   5   Roberts   Jamie
7   7   Baghai   Nick
7   1   Carrick   Grry
7   2   Devereaux   Rwan
7   10   Doherty   Kn
7   3   Fauglie   Espen
7   4   Gerin   Sephan
7   6   Graydon   Micheal
7   9   James   Dwi
7   8   Odea   Eoghan
7   5   Parkhill   Ross
8   3   Ashby   Richard
8   2   Becker   Jonas
8   10   Boatman   Brney
8   5   Byd    Jhn (stef)
8   8   Koivurinne   Riku
8   1   McLean   Stephen
8   4   Moore   Dean
8   9   Murphy   Emonn
8   6   Weissman   Nicky
8   7   Yilmaz   Huseyin
9   2   Domingues   Ncolas
9   4   Gunther   Matthias
9   7   Hansen   Stefan
9   9   Karkkainen   Antti
9   8   Koch   Marcel
9   10   Mcauley   Allen
9   5   Moorman   Chris
9   1   Nemeth   Andras
9   6   O'Kane   Gary
9   3   Woods   Darren
10   10   Dirnberger   Emar
10   3   Flavin   Pil
10   4   Flood   Lam
10   1   Kastle   Casey
10   8   Kenna   Stephen
10   9   Lundberg   Jan
10   2   Mitchell   James
10   5   Naujorks   Sandra
10   7   O'Loughlin   Caran
10   6   Purcell   Micheal
11   7   bansi   praz
11   9   Duggan   Neil
11   4   Fennell   James
11   6   Harling hede   Oiver
11   3   Kiernan   Elaine
11   1   Misztela   Przemyslaw
11   2   Moczulski   Maxime
11   8   O'Callaghan   Jim
11   10   O'Sullivan   Trry
11   5   Teng   Andrew
12   3   Black   Andy
12   6   Dowling   Christopher
12   8   Doyle   Eunan
12   5   Fox   Stuart
12   2   Hristov   Sotir
12   1   McKie   Archibald
12   7   O'Reilly   Sheamus
12   4   Petersem   Mickey
12   10   Romanello   Frank
12   9   Smith   Christy
13   1   Aho   Tero
13   8   Berends   Thomas alexander
13   2   Cunningham   George
13   7   McGrath   Bridget
13   3   Murphy   nigel
13   6   Spelman   Mark
13   9   Taggart   Caran
13   10   Tapinas   Adrius
13   5   Turner   Mark
13   4   Vigezzi   Lse
14   6   Behbehani   Slman
14   1   Bisogno   Cosimo
14   9   Domonkos   Dniel
14   3   Gourlay   Pul
14   8   Ivert   Annica
14   5   Johnson   Richard
14   10   McKnight   Jmes
14   7   Saarisilta   Nichlas
14   2   Slattery   Maurice
14   4   Williams   Craig
15   5   Bermingham   Ptrick
15   7   Carr   Pul
15   9   Collins   Damien
15   4   Jonker   Henrik
15   10   Klebanov   Andre
15   3   Mullins   Jhn
15   1   Nielsen   Kasper
15   2   O'Riordan   Gr
15   8   Parkes   Kevin
15   6   Silke   Martin
16   10   Chiang   Jen-yue
16   8   Debus   Aexander
16   7   Devlin   Steven
16   2   Dombrowski   Chris
16   3   Farrelly   John
16   1   Frost   Lars
16   9   Gledovic   Bjan
16   4   Lehtonen   Samuel
16   5   Monem   Joe
16   6   Nouvel   Eric
17   1   Dalimore   Mrk
17   5   Eklund   Hnrik
17   6   Foley   Nelius
17   2   Hayden   Vivion
17   3   Hugaard    Jsper
17   10   Jude   Smon
17   9   McCormack   Fancis
17   7   Noseworthy   Steven
17   8   O' Connor   Dnal
17   4   Watson   Tommy
18   5   Albert   Sebastian
18   6   Aly   Jamie
18   10   Bttersÿÿ    Jnothon
18   7   Dion   Ynn
18   8   Haughey   Wlliam
18   9   Hussain   Ashad
18   2   Kelly   Mark
18   1   Meelis   Jlmer
18   3   Parker   Sam
18   4   Stabell   Stian
19   1   Ekerot   Gustav
19   10   Harmon   Murice
19   2   Inizian   Marc
19   3   Kabitzke   Julian
19   5   Lannermark   Mttias
19   4   Masters   Ray
19   7   O'Kearney   Dara
19   6   Pagareckas   Mindaugas
19   9   Persaud   Nik
19   8   Verkaik   Nicholas
20   9   Bonniou   Yannick
20   3   Daly   Simon
20   2   Dunne   Clm
20   1   Larsen   Rasmus
20   4   Loser   Glen
20   8   Reefman   Ken
20   6   Riou   Julien
20   7   Scott   Rchard
20   5   Tew    Jlian
20   10   Wernick   Michael
21   3   Connolly   Dan
21   10   Damyanov   Ian
21   2   Holloway   Ian
21   4   Hoog   Jsper
21   8   Kolev   Yuliyan
21   1   Maistriaux   Jmel
21   7   Paulsen   Kai danilo
21   9   Pizzi   Fancisco
21   5   Rutter   Stewart
21   6   Schick   Dorlan
22   6   Conroy   John
22   2   Loser   Sherill
22   3   Marketz   Andreas
22   7   McIlroy   William
22   10   Monaghan   Paul
22   1   O'Kane   Denis
22   9   ™hlund   Jonny
22   4   Renaut   Claire
22   8   Scott   Carl
22   5   Thorpe   Drek
23   7   De koster   Ptrick
23   10   Kapitzke   Laszlo
23   2   La ronde   David
23   1   Milne   Richard
23   6   Neu   Mattias
23   3   Nevalainen   Janne
23   5   Oreilly   Colm
23   8   Sarwer   Jff
23   4   Welbourne   Samuel
23   9   Ylitalo   Robin
24   8   Andrulis   Kristijonas
24   10   Blackmore   Ben
24   4   Bonnar   Patrick
24   2   Hartree   Kathrine
24   7   Loughnane   Finbar
24   5   Lukacs   Tamas
24   6   McMahon   Noel
24   9   Mulrooney   Bill
24   3   Sheringham   Teddy
24   1   Sj”blom   Mts
25   4   Dooley   Paul
25   8   Flanders   Pppa
25   6   Hanratty   Eugene
25   5   Laouar   Belkacem
25   1   Leonard   Glen
25   2   McHugh   Danny
25   3   Miller   Ngel
25   7   O'Neill   Cat
25   10   Sweeney   Paul
25   9   Valikoski   Snteri
26   7   Bernede   Loic
26   2   Jansen   Jsper
26   8   Kyprianou   Andreas
26   10   Lamagnere   Matthieu
26   4   Macrae   Alisdair
26   5   Millar   Michael
26   6   Reilly   Mark
26   3   Rodgers   Brian
26   9   Sudano   Santo
26   1   Torney   Matthieu
27   6   Bonkowski   Tler
27   8   Cichocki   Grzegorz
27   9   Coren   Vicky
27   10   Firth   Helen
27   7   Goodall   Nick
27   1   Hanitz   Mrtin
27   4   Lapszewicz   Ireneusz
27   5   Taylor   Krry
27   2   Weigel   Jens
27   3   Wigg   Anton
28   2   Abrahams   Javed
28   6   Chadwick   Steve
28   4   Durrer   Michael
28   10   Fenlon   Stephen
28   7   Habib   Dvid
28   1   Harraghy   Gerard
28   5   Hoban   Kieran
28   8   Meyer   Rainer
28   3   Yilmaz   Ismail
28   9   Zinno   Athony
29   1   Belhacene   Odile
29   7   Hajbarati   Shahin
29   10   Harguindeguy   Olivier
29   3   Hehir   Brian
29   4   Hellyer   Shane
29   9   Liikanen   Kari
29   8   Lyttle   Darren
29   6   Pearson   Jeff
29   5   Rentes   Chris
29   2   Trueick   Alan
30   4   Abassiÿÿ    Rmazanali
30   9   Caracuta   Christian
30   8   Hill   Mike
30   10   Hinchey   Jck
30   5   Jang   Hunbong
30   7   McNamee   Vincent
30   6   O'Brien   Michael
30   2   Stanley   Damion
30   1   Sweeney   Edmund
30   3   Zimbler   Paul
31   7   Combes   Charlie
31   8   Grogan   James
31   6   Lundon   Edward john
31   1   Morath   Andre
31   10   N‚meth   Zolt n
31   4   Neumann   Marko
31   2   Pishvafar   David
31   3   Storr   James
31   9   Vachulka   Mloslav
31   5   Willis   Bbby
32   4   Anderburg   Pntus
32   2   Channing   Neil
32   9   Fenton   Karl
32   5   Herbert   Jason
32   10   Isberg   Bjorn
32   1   Kimber   Jeff
32   7   Montgomery   Anne
32   6   Nolan   Darren
32   8   Roberts   Ben
32   3   Young   Anthony
33   10   Bichis   Martin
33   6   Callaghan   Tim
33   1   Gallagher   Ronan
33   8   Hytonen   Sampsa
33   4   Jenssen   Steffen
33   5   Lo chow   Elsa
33   2   Logue   Paul
33   7   Lynch   Oliver
33   9   McCormack   Robbie
33   3   Savic   Slobodan
34   4   Bell   Matthew
34   9   Byrne   Jmes
34   1   Cachia   Jckie
34   7   Cimerman   Pimoz
34   10   Darabos   Istv n
34   2   Docherty   Dvid
34   5   Geary   George
34   3   Lynch   Nall
34   8   O'Donoghue   Adrian
34   6   Peters   Philip
35   3   Baran   Mrcal
35   4   Czierpke   Rbert
35   1   Fitzpatrick   Kevin
35   8   Jensen   Johnny
35   2   Lavery   Mrtin
35   5   Nagy   Andrej
35   9   O'Callaghan   Ger
35   10   Picot   Dominique
35   7   Serhan   Fuad
35   6   Tompkins   Jason
36   7   Alternam   Pul
36   4   Etalepera   Tommi
36   5   Gustavson   Aron
36   6   Juhasz   Benjamin
36   10   Kitt   Tom
36   1   Murray   Derek
36   3   Omahoney    Rymond
36   8   Roche   Colin
36   2   Sorel   Mizzi
36   9   Travers   Amby
37   5   Ainsworth   Jude
37   6   Brownson   Stuart
37   4   Crosby    Shane
37   3   Frasure   Steve
37   10   Lersy   Jr“me
37   1   O'Neill   Jim
37   9   Ryan   Brian
37   8   Sol   Rotem
37   2   Wemelbeke   Cristophe
37   7   Wright   Jhn
38   10   Haydn   Daniel
38   3   Healy   Bernard
38   5   Keown   Jhn
38   4   Lenfestey   Paul
38   7   Lewis   Crispin
38   1   O'Beirne   Edward john
38   9   Romanello   Nicholas
38   6   Rowan   Reg
38   8   Sullen    Sane
38   2   Waterman   Dennis
39   8   Campbell   Lon
39   10   Dimitrov   Dagommir
39   4   Ellis   Ian
39   5   Hgan    Rry
39   7   Mason   Jenny
39   2   McGrath   Stephen
39   3   O'Dea   Donnacha
39   1   Pantling   Wesley
39   9   Pavlov   Alexy
39   6   Wilson   Matt
40   6   Danchev   Dimitar
40   1   Finneran   Thomas
40   5   Gomez rebenaque   Jose manuel
40   2   Greco   Mchael
40   8   Hallett   Mark
40   3   Hogan   Seve
40   9   Jjohansson   Birgitta
40   7   Murphy   Peter
40   4   Nolan   Thomas
40   10   Wright   Anthony
41   8   Aggarwal   Om
41   3   Connolly   Declan
41   9   Crochemore   Antoine
41   4   El sayed   Sam
41   7   Fry   Wlliam
41   10   Marrow   Paul
41   5   Mazilu   Michael
41   6   Sherwood   Rbert
41   1   Uhrskov   Claus
41   2   Wheeler   Brent
42   10   Bertaud   Cyril
42   7   Coomber   Michael
42   3   Ekerot   Erik
42   1   Galassi   Frederic
42   9   Gruber   Pter
42   8   Magill   John
42   6   Rees Brennan   Rry
42   2   Rovella   Sndro
42   5   Some   Kari
42   4   Spelman   Jonathon
43   1   Dobson   Benjamin
43   5   Furlong   Noel
43   9   Graham   Desi
43   4   Harford   Ronan
43   8   Heath   Eli
43   7   Kiy   Alexander
43   10   Laine   Marko
43   2   Nouri   Malik
43   3   Smyth   Mrty
43   6   Torres Hermoso   Francisco Jose
44   2   Butler   Danny
44   9   Caputo   Aex
44   5   David   Gerald
44   3   Hjulstr”m   Linus
44   1   Lewis   Toby
44   10   O'Connell   Aidan
44   7   O'Connor   Patrick
44   8   O'Sullivan   Mchael
44   4   Pizz   Romano
44   6   Sebban   Mchael
45   2   Duffort   Ncolas
45   4   Eames   John
45   9   Emanuel   Kaj
45   7   Kovesi   Attila
45   5   McCloskey   Paddy
45   6   Plens   Jonathan
45   10   Solomon   Snny
45   8   Strobel   Jlian
45   3   Van slujis   San
45   1   Yuen   Sida
46   9   Flanders   Tm
46   6   Govsa   Esref
46   5   Krikkay   P‚ter
46   2   Mahoney   Jred
46   3   Mallu   Ali
46   1   O'Shea   Thomas
46   8   Prager   Jsh
46   7   Truin   Simon
46   10   Visser   Ruben
46   4   Wu   Dnny
47   7   Ashrafÿÿ ÿ   Wheed
47   9   Collins   Cornelius
47   1   Gardner   John
47   10   Gr„del   Urs
47   2   Kers   Pontus
47   8   Lorieu   Anthony
47   4   Ryan   Larry
47   5   Thompson   Aron
47   3   Van wieringen   Pim
47   6   Waldron   James
48   3   Austin   Richard
48   4   Brophy   Graeme
48   7   Burlot   Rgis
48   9   Gangstoe   Smon
48   10   Hicks   Paddy
48   5   Lynch   Eoin
48   8   Mattern   Arnaud
48   1   Naylor   Drren
48   2   O'Donnell   Kenneth
48   6   Wood   Matthew
49   1   Eramaja   Luri
49   10   Hoepke   Claudia
49   3   Kaiser   Pter
49   4   Kastner   Norman
49   5   Lucey   Pul
49   6   Nash   Steve
49   7   Ralph   Kenneth
49   2   Sequeiros jimenez   Victor
49   8   Tamburini   Massimilianoÿ
49   9   Teresko   Konstantin
50   5   Fabretti   Paolo pier
50   7   Healy   Val
50   10   Kalmar   Jonathan
50   2   Lakatos   Szabolcs
50   1   McFayden   Neil
50   4   Mohammed   Barkatul
50   3   Navarro   David
50   8   Somaiya   Rumit
50   6   Tobin   Kara
50   9   Trimby   Michael
51   3   Arlott   Anthony
51   4   Bradpiece   Jerome
51   10   Dabbagh   Danny
51   7   Duffy   Ray
51   5   Flaherty   Andrew
51   8   Kontsevich   Aexander
51   2   Loughnane   Terry
51   9   O'Heochaidh   Eoin
51   6   Poland   John
51   1   Wilson   Marty
52   2   Blain   Dermot
52   9   Callaghan   Dave
52   3   Corrigan   Reggie
52   10   Davey   Daragh
52   6   Dolan   Fionan
52   4   Ellis   Micheal
52   1   Heather   Nick
52   8   Helander   Anders
52   5   Jensen   Pter
52   7   Merved   Thomas
53   10   Dillon   Alan
53   2   Doherty   Larry g
53   6   Harrington   Dn
53   5   Kavanagh   Alan
53   8   Mc Brearty   Pauric
53   4   Oyong   Mrtin
53   1   Rynski   Brtosz
53   3   Sharpe   Jeff
53   9   Wan   Tommy
53   7   Zinser   Hns-j”rg
54   3   Allard   Sephane
54   10   Hull   John
54   7   Johnston   Kle
54   4   Martin   Benjamin
54   8   Negre   Gilles
54   6   Oneill   Michael
54   1   Price   James
54   9   Regnault   Christophe
54   5   Rock   Mark
54   2   Roycroft   Ed
55   3   Dean??   Dvid
55   8   Freymann   Rne
55   10   Gagliano   Antonino
55   4   Inman   Lawrie
55   9   Loughman   Graeme
55   2   McCormack   John
55   1   Mette   Armin
55   5   Ryan   Paedraic
55   7   Rynski   Lukas
55   6   Sudwort   James
56   3   Balfe   Donal
56   9   Benington   David
56   7   Cascarino   Tny
56   4   Clynes   Willie
56   2   Cryan   Paul
56   6   Dragun   Martin
56   5   Eichardt   Peter
56   10   Feeney   Mck
56   8   Fitzpatrick   Willie
56   1   Gavin   Fintan
57   7   Fourie   Rdolf
57   10   Gall   Zombor
57   8   Haigh   Robert
57   4   Houghton   Laurence
57   6   Lovgren   Sofia
57   1   Odonnell   Joe
57   9   Power   Ncky
57   3   Renihan   Jay
57   5   Suddes   Mark
57   2   Ward   Ady
58   6   Cahill   Joseph
58   8   Gregory   Sean
58   5   Lyons   John
58   3   Margets   Lo
58   10   Minieri   Dario
58   2   Montenegro   Felipe
58   7   Odderskjer jensen   Michael
58   9   Reid   Jim
58   4   Sinnott   Nicky
58   1   Wright   Marc
59   6   Catic   Damir
59   1   Dancs   Itv n
59   9   Grimason   Andrew
59   5   Jarrett-smith   Rob
59   10   McCloskey   Dominic
59   4   McDonnell   Marc
59   7   Mears   Simon
59   2   Muldoon   Michael
59   8   Rayner   Paul
59   3   Vassallo   Giuseppe
60   7   Boatman   Ross
60   10   Dinneen   Trevor
60   5   Dunwoodie   Thomas
60   8   Florin   Rdei gabriel
60   6   Giglione   Vincent
60   9   Griffiths   Mark a
60   2   Horacikova   Zzana
60   1   Johansson   Mikeal
60   4   Jones   Iwan
60   3   Mette   Aexander
61   9   Brazda   Rene
61   3   Goodwin   Mrc
61   5   Hjerpe   Jan
61   2   Kerrane   James
61   8   Luongo   Gerardo
61   1   Olin   Eoin
61   10   Robinson   Owen
61   4   Swingler   Adrian
61   7   Tschanz   Michael
61   6   Wiedecker   Charles
62   9   Brandborn   Ola
62   6   Brander   Andre
62   3   Charlton   Rbert
62   5   Finn   Mckey
62   4   Goody   Christopher
62   8   Hoff   Bernd-philipp
62   7   Kangasvieri   Teemu
62   1   Stromberg   Frederik
62   2   Stuwe   Rymond
62   10   Sunar   Surinder
63   7   Cowen   Robert
63   8   De koster   Ewin
63   3   Hynes   John paul
63   10   McDonald   Francis
63   6   Murphy   Noel
63   9   perrins   matt
63   1   Pitko   Janne
63   4   Robinson   Richard
63   2   Smith   Mark
63   5   Wenzel   Markus
64   4   Gueorguiev   Aanas
64   8   Helebi   Toman
64   6   Hume   Knny
64   2   May-potter   Claire
64   7   Mayers   Gorge
64   3   McDonald   George
64   1   Nitsche   Dominic
64   9   Paparestis   Constantine
64   5   Rodrigues   Kevin
65   6   Ainsworth   Connor
65   5   Bagnall   John
65   9   Carl   Steffen
65   2   Donovan   Barry
65   4   Lingnau   Mtthias
65   3   Melinn   Vincent
65   8   Minnock   padraic
65   1   Townsend   Brian
65   7   Zmmitt    Agelo
66   3   Barrable   Peter
66   6   Boon   Robert
66   9   Cattin   Gael
66   7   Dubuisson   Forent
66   4   Job   Carsten
66   5   Reilly   Tony
66   8   Shahid   Waseem
66   1   Stockinger   Sgi
66   2   Storm   Ncolas
67   4   Brider   Chris
67   9   Day   Seve
67   3   Dionysiouÿÿÿ    Kyriacos
67   5   Dudley   Sephen
67   2   Frazer   Ian
67   7   Grudev   Gudi
67   1   Herbert   Richard
67   8   Macintyre   Fraser
67   6   Mircea   Mresan
68   4   Conlon   Christopher
68   6   Geleziunas   Tomas
68   5   Grech   Joe
68   1   Knorr   Torsten
68   2   Martin   Gerard
68   8   McKeever   George
68   7   Rasmussen   Anders bisgaard
68   3   Romanello   Roberto
69   3   Barnard   Christopher
69   8   Hanlon   Tom
69   4   Jones   Dvid
69   1   Kassouf   Wll
69   5   McDonald   Ian
69   6   Miles   Andrew
69   7   O'Dowd   Pter
69   2   Parkinson   Padraig
69   9   Socko   Brtosz

Good Luck to Tim 'Timinator' Blake!!

Early DTD Qualifier action

Gurdeu Millan raises on the button

Craig Stephens in the small blind re-raises

Gurdeu 4-bets

Craig 5 bet fist pump shove jams (ok terminology kids?)

Gurdeu folds KK face up

Craig shows, kindly, AA


Gurdeu has done over half his stack and has gone for a walk "just to get me head round that I've had that five minutes into the competition"

The not so secret diary of Cos "GreekStein" Paparestis, (mental) aged 13 3/4

(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq80/blondepoker/th_46fcb65a.jpg) (http://s435.photobucket.com/albums/qq80/blondepoker/?action=view&current=46fcb65a.flv)

Tighty you are my hero!!!!

scary

Sleep?? Dude why weren't you up balling it up!!! Sick deal on the seat

wait til you see the picture of who GreekStein is sitting next to.....

Stop slowrolling!!!

In all fairness Tight one.  You've had 3 or 4 minutes FFS.  Get it posted man!!!

Please be Schwartz or Feldman........

i got a text telling from cos telling me who he is sat next to. i lol'd.

TADA!!!!!

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YMFEkwewI/AAAAAAAAIew/4w4RMxqOb6M/s576/IMG_0754.JPG)

 rotflmfao rotflmfao ;snoopy'sguns; ;snoopy'sguns; rotflmfao rotflmfao

Thanks to Celtic for helping me piece it together...OMG and LMAOOOOOOOOO

I thought it about time to snap some of the DTD qualifiers:

Jonathan Butters
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YMEVUEphI/AAAAAAAAIek/lpSWu6Q_Fcg/s576/IMG_0751.JPG)


Wahheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Asraf
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YMEk-mg9I/AAAAAAAAIeo/hufcwO1UiFQ/s512/IMG_0752.JPG)

lol Could have put Kellett the other side of him

Greek Jack and neighbour Ian Frazer

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YMEw_4A1I/AAAAAAAAIes/hRD8_4DWbFw/s576/IMG_0753.JPG)


Ramzi Abbassi

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YMFSY_FgI/AAAAAAAAIe0/nhX0JIKmNYM/s512/IMG_0755.JPG)

Here's DTD player Stephen "themole" Boyd


"Hi mate, how are you?" I enquire

"Hungover and I cannae get a drink" replied the Scot


I expect that accounts for the photo below

Blimey.  No drink.  Good swerve by me then.  Enjoy the day Lads.   rotflmfao 

For those of you watching the stream, the commentators


a bloke, and Rebecca MacAdam.

Last year's runner up, Party Poker Professional, High Stakes Poker presenter and well, the photo speaks for itself

Kara Scott


If you like this photo and would like more, you can transfer sums to me on Stars......

Oh Teddy Teddy, Teddy Teddy Teddy Teddy Sheringham


Teddy is today sporting the latest in England strip retro fashion and the brightest white trainers and socks you did ever see.

Dario Mineri and Marc "railtard1" Wright flank the dealer

Chris Moorman. Going to bink a live biggie soon. Could this be it?

Tim "T8MML" Blake

Stuart Fox is here. Nice guy, very fine player, dodgy taste in t-shirts  ;)

Wadey is doing well and glowing.  He is upto 17k after turning the nut flush but on a paired board and by playing Aces sneekily but perhaps didn't need to be so cheeky as his opponent had Kings.

Wadey "I got a feeling about this one Maria, yeah, I got a gooood feeling!"

Cossy pants on about 7k after holding Queens v Kings and telling me in Greek which was quite amusing as Feldman was straining to listen in lol.

 

Where ever I seem to go today, I am getting knowing nods and giggles!  Erm I only had 3 or 4 drinks last night and honestly I can remember every detail.

So from 707 starters so far we have lost 13 already.

Just 15 minutes into Level 2 - 50/100

Maybe they've seen you play on TV?

Or maybe your buttons are undone?

I arrive as Praz Banzi check calls on a  Jc 7h 6s board to a 1500 bet from neighbour Jim O'Callaghan (right of your picture), which is a pot sized bet

On the Td turn Banzi checks and O'Callaghan fires out an over-bet of 6,500, more or less setting Banzi in

Banzi immediately folds  Qh Qd face up and O'Callaghan shows  Ks Kh

I just asked Tighty to check if I have a IDIOT sticker on my back - all clear!

Joey Lovelady (cheeky happy scouser on left) is loving the day so far.  He is up to about 17,000 after playing 3 hands and having Aces on 2 of those occasions - mbn?

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YW6-CbzDI/AAAAAAAAIks/C3KKEZvgDZs/s576/IMG_0781.JPG)

How much? and username pls.

gl to all blondes... can i have constant updates on Gurdeu Millan/tony millan...

Secret Diary of GreekStein (Mental) aged 13 3/4

a text message arrives from the Sharkscoped genius


"Just owned Feldman"

They got the Leicester game on, Tighty?

Good updates btw.

With 707 runners in the field we've now broken the Irish Open record. 696 remain mid way through Level 2


Some chip counts


Dewi James with 12,000 is sitting next to Snooker's Ken Docherty with 11,000

The Camel has 13,000 chatting merrily to Roland DeWolfe on the next table (90 minutes into his current massage) 12,000

Wadey Ashraf 20,000 when I just popped past

John Eames 9,000 and a study in concentration

Ali Mallu 9,000 but eyes flitting everyhwere, fidgetting in his seat. No blackjack tables here Mr Mallu!

Rumit Somaiya 11,000

Kara Scott 9,000

Greek Jack Dionysiou for DTD 13,000

Brian BAM Martin 9,000

Nik Persaud of BlackBelt over 20,000

The Mole 13,000 sitting two to the left of Richard Chufty Ashby 11,000.Same table Barney Boatman 8,000

Chris Moorman 8,000

No game on here, updates back at me please

nil-nil says my computer screen. good updates, gogogogo all blondes/dtd'ers.

can i have a update on andy oflaherty and loz gosney please?

Is that the same bloke then marcin? 

Here is the DTD Qualifier below, currently on 3k and not very happy bless him since his earlier wicked laydown of his Kings pre.

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YaGmKxypI/AAAAAAAAIk4/PnnGBPFheHo/s512/Gurdeu%20Millan.JPG)

LOLLL.... Perfect seat draw!

Wadey Ashraf pops over for a breather and reports that he had  7c 8c in the small blind, unopened pot, calls

big blind raises to 300 and Wadey calls

flop  4c 6d Kc and Wadey check calls 600

turn is a blank  2d

check check

river is  5h giving Wadey the nuts

He bets 1200 and is paid off to go to 22,000

Will do, watching the game on sky so will let you know if anything happens. 0-0 after 12 mins so far.

yup thanks... wish him luck from me tyty....

Roland DeWolfe (with Rob Taylor alongside) calculates the cost of his latest massage

The ex football boys are looking bright today considering a night at the bar:

Tony Cascarino
(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_M7mySuUsa6c/S7YW6w6lOQI/AAAAAAAAIko/M80Qb-5GOrE/s512/IMG_0780.JPG)

Update on Joey Lovelady, Ste King and Ben Blackmore if possible please?

Andy 9,500

Gosney 18,000

any update on Tim 't8mml' Blake?

Iwan Jones (oioisaveloy on blonde) feels he is now "free-rolling"

Why?


Well first he flopped a set of sixes but ran into Ross Boatman's flopped straight

Escaping with only minor damage he played 55 in early position and saw an unraised flop of

4-7-7 against Big blind Rene Bradza

Bradza bet, Jones raised and Bradza called

It went check-check on the 10 turn

The river came a 5

Bradz led out for 1,000, Jones made it 3,100 leaving himself 3,100 back and obviously calling anything

Bradza flat called


Jones reports "so obviously I must have him, lovely river. I flip over my house and go to rake in the pot at which point he turns over 10-10!"

Left with 3,000 then, Iwan thinks anything from here is a bonus

7,000. Earlier I saw him lose some chips with 10-4 suited in the big blind. He check raised a limper with a board of 10-7-6 rainbow, he was called and both checked down on the J turn and Q river. Opponent flipped K-10 off to beat him

Thanks!

updates on rutter and millar pls

1-0 West Brom James Morrison (38).

Really good strike from about 20 yards on half volley, they don't really deserve it and Leicester have been the better side.

We're on a twenty minute break here

708 started, 668 left

Prize Pool €2,265,600

Jen Mason bounded up to tell me she has 23,000 and "things are going really well. Just so excited to be playing as it's been quite a while since I have"

Sorry but Joey has moved and the other 2 chaps are not on the player list.  Ill find Joey soon and get some counts.

Gosney on fire  and giving the updaters rubdowns for a change.

"Hey Maria, you used to be a poker player right?"  Sighhhhh

Maybe his chatter is due to his chip stack - 28k

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2-0 to WBA

This.

Koren right on stroke of ht,

Any chance of an update on Stu Brownsen aka 'flipflop' plz call him this too

The Kidz NON Tez Crew  at the break:

Left to Right - Toby Lewis 20k, any help on the white hoody?, Matt Perrins 7k, Stu Rutter 7.5k, Jake Cody 9k

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Vicky's foreign brother?

Wow you've made Lewis look like a right porker

Where's Eames? Dunnit?

Yep I'll find the flipflop as Level 3 75/150 has just begun.  We are playing 8 levels today.

I've not seen Jon all day, I'll have a shufty.

be great to see lawrence have a deep run

get him on teh tv table for comedy value!

11,000.

"Are you Flip-Flop?" I asked him

A broad smile stretched over his face as his neighbour looked at me very oddly.

Perhaps it meant something different to him

Mike "dousche" Millar struggling with 4,500

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Jeff Kimber 14,000 sitting alongside Neil Channing 8,000

Vicky Coren 9,000

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Cos Greekstein had a near double up to 16k just before the break.

A lady had limped 100 utg and Cos bumped it up to 275 from the cutoff.  Lady makes it 1k, Cos takes a flop:

 Kc Js 3h

check, check

Turn:  Ad

Lady fires out 2k, Cos calls

River  Tc

Lady checks, Cos fires out 4,875 leaving about 1k behind in change.  After some dwellage the lady painfully called to show a flopped set of Kings and Cos sheepishly got out of jail on the river and tabled  Ahrt Qh for the straight!!

Joe Grech in the break, having just come off the feature table

Would love to do more of these short videos but the uploading speeds are very slow, a shame

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Hows Marc Wright doing? Also Minieri? Any big names from America made the trip? Is this the tournie that Doyle suppourts.

upload a picture of andy oflaherty

Doyle does usually support this tournament but he is not here today due to playing at Mohegan (East coast of USA) in a few days.

The superstar that is Dan "action Dan" Harrington is here though. I watched him earlier seeming to have lost 3 or 4k but he was watching the table like a hawk.  Analysing everyone whilst he was out of hands.

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valloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

gogogogogog Cos

Think he missed 1k's worth of value

DTD Qualifiers Update

Wadey 18k
Stephen Boyd (Mole) 14k
Butters 12.1k
Greek Jack 7k  (took a hit with AQ v AK on an Ace high flop)
Ramzi Abbassi 3.7k
Gurdeu Millan 3.6k

Who is he trying to kid? he flew out this morning and he always looks that bad.

Javed Abrahams struggling on 5k

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Marc Wright 20,000

Dario Minieri 7,000

Great start to what looks like an epic-to-be update Mr Prew.

Welcome back Mr Chilli sir, how long did it take you to get there in the tractor?  ;)

Good luck to both for the long weekend

Geo

Anyone remember former Luton dealer Ashley?

She left Luton and moved to Spain, met a fella and moved to Ireland. Married said fella and settled in Ireland, and here she is. Dealing and then partying with Dena, she tells me

Any chance of a chip count for Feldman and also John Gardner??? Many thanks in advance!

The Scouse Connection

Joey Lovelady 21k
Ste King 14k
Ben Blackmoore 10k (on the TV table with Teddy Sherringham)

Someone has still got three and a half days to work with me. She looks pleased at the prospect

gl to these 3

Any chance of an invite to said party ?

Andrew Feldman 8k
John Gardner 3k ("Not very many, just say that!")

Mickey Wernick 1.7k and sighing

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James Mitchell  16k

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Moorman 8.6k
Praz 6k
Cos 30k

Brian Townsend 8k - Hoping to go one better than his mrs last year.

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whats the payout structure? if known yet?

Blinds are up.  Level 4 - 100/200
607 players left.

No payout structure has been published yet but I'll post it as soon as.

Its pretty hard to catch a hand of any interest at the moment.  There are so many tables you don't know where to look and it looks like pretty cagey stuff with not many flops.  I'll head back out into the field and see what I can find.

I thought I was gonna get lucky just now on passing Dan Harringtons table.  From a 7k stack he makes it 625 from the small blind. 
The bb made it 1,600 to play.  Dan thought thouroughy, handled his chips, over and over and at one point I thought he was gonna 4 bet.  Instead he went a little red and folded instead......sigh.

I too haven't found many big pots, even with 60 tables to choose from. Pot luck whether you happen to be in the right place at the right time



In news, Greek Stein has been moved two to Channing's left, and still looks confident on over 30,000

Keith The Camel Hawkins also has over 30,000 and I saw him raise pre-twice and take down both pots uncontested post-flop with continuation bets


DTD Qualifier Jonathan Butters approaches 20,000, with Gurdu Millan still nursing a short-stack

Also short and clinging on is Iwan Jones, back to 5,500


Roland De Wolfe 12,000

Tim Blake back to his 10,000 starting stack


Jen Mason who is on the same table as legend Donnacha O'Dea is going onto the feature table next

Flip Flop Brownsden up to 16,000 

Half the field now goes on its dinner break

Tighty any chance you can give me some semi regular updates of Neil  McFayden. Cheers

I saunter over to Wadey Ashraf's table who is never short of action.

Early position matey makes it 550, Wadey calls and the bb comes along too.

 Ahrt 5d 7c  checked by all 3

Turn:  Th  big blind bets 1,100, original raiser gets out the way.

Wadey made it 2,800
BB makes it 6,200
Wadey makes it 10k and BB flats.

River:  8d

BB checks and Wadey picks up a good stack of 1k chips and plonks them over the line. BB instafolds.

Wadey "You wanna see?"
BB  shrugs "I know what you have thanks"
Wadey  "Yeah? You do? Here you go then"

Wadey tables  4h 4s for a wonderful in your eye moment.

Then carries on "I knew you didn't have much though"  hehehe

GUKPT London finalist Rumit Somaiya stands up and I congratulate him on his recent result

"ahhh, should have been better" he replies but he seems in good spirits as he moves to put his frying pan sized Phillips headphones back on

Sicko

Keith Hawkins 50,000. Difficult to tell for sure but around and about the chip leader from a quick scoot round the tables

get him to text you?

Jim Reid (Jim R on blonde) going well


I'm counting his chips and he tells me

"105,000"

the table chuckles and I tell him

"35,000"

and he replies

"Yes but I am saving you some time, it will be 105,000 later on"

Praz Bansi & Javed Abrahams are both out and both looking for flights to "get out if this bokd country"

They kinda mirrored each other, both getting there short stacks back to over 10k.

Praz 3 bet with AhKh and got a shove from a similar stack which Praz called and couldn't beat pocket 7's.

Javed 3 bet with A10 and ran into Jacks.

Brian Townsend down to 5,000

"I butchered the hand" he comments but won't tell me how

so i should ask him to text me, instead of following the update live on blonde?  You would advocate that i take my viewing eyes somewhere else?

I think i will stick with the update if its all the same.

Level 5 blinds 150/300
Average 12,800
553 left

Tables 33-71 are now going on dinner for an hour
Tables 1-32 go level 6

Andy Ward moved past me with a tray of chips saying:

"I just got a bad beat, I was ready for my dinner and my table just broke and I've moved into the non-dinner half.
I'm bloody starving"

:)

Carry on Billy, his table has gone for dinner break now for the next hour.

there are 600 people in the room - many blondes/dtd/ or even famous players and there are 20 odd people reading this thread

you do the math on your semi regular updates

On another update it says he has bust.

Problem solved

The TV table live feed is desperate choppy by paddy's.  Just glad you lot are keeping us going or I'd be watching the telly ages ago!  Keep up the good work!!!

Here is Wadey Ashraf as he goes on dinner break, in confident mood

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Meanwhile on table chatter, Jeff Kimber (30,000), Neil Channing (8,000) and Cos Paparestis (28,000) are sitting in a row

Ramzi Abbassi the DTD Qualifier struggling on 6,000

Some Random Chip Counts

Dewi 5k
Stephen Mole Boyd 6k
Moorman down to 6k and in shove bot mood
Nik Persaud 27k
Julian Thew 14.6k
Matt Perrins 8.5k
Stuart Rutter 5k
Andrew Feldman 11k
Lawrence Gosney 18k
Joey Lovelady 23.5k
Andrew Teng 22k
Ross Boatman 32k
Andy Black 10k
Liam Flood 11k
Iwan Jones upto 18k from 3k
Roland de Wolfe 18k

Tim Blake left with 1,300 after having pocket 5's on a KK5 board.  River was a King, his oppo held K5!!!

Roberto Romanello  OUT
Teddy Sheringham  OUT

Yes its so annoying and the two doing the commentary are't much better.

I've  managed to find a list of BUSTO's.

Courtesty of Paddy Power:

David Pishvafar

Tim Flanders

Elmar Dirnberger

Xue Yun Wu

Sean Gregory

Leon Campbell

Dario Minieri

Guy Steel

Antonino Gagliano

Robert Cowen

Ismail Yilmaz

Andre Brander

Christopher Goody

Sam El Sayed

Joe Monem

Mark Reeves

Ciaran O’Loughlin

Adrian Swingler

Philippa Flanders

Colin Roche

Danny Butler

Jens Weigel

Anthony Lorieu

Rymond O’Mahony

Wesley Pantling

Henrik Jonker

Mark Dalimore

Noel Furlong

James Collopy

Adam Fallon

Gerald David

Adrius Tapinas

Thomas Laumer

Mark Flanagan

Robert Czierpke

Rwan Devereaux

Ian Damyanov

Andreas Marketz

Norman Kastner

Ali Mallu

Riku Koivurinne

James Sudwort

Cathal Shine

Sandro Rovella

Marcel Koch

Torsten Knorr

Shane Hellyer

Jesper Hougaard

Richard Johnson

Brent Wheeler

David La Ronde

Connor Ainsworth

Martin Bichis

Katherine Hartree

Jamel Maistriaux

Barney Boatman

Casey Kastle

Tero Aho

Simon Truin

Paul Rodger

Michael Ellis

Reg Rowan

Matt Wilson

Thomas O’Shea

Pontus Anderburg

Santo Sudano

Charlie Combes

Hans-Jorg Zinser

Paul Dooley

Alisdair Macrae

Laszlo Kapitzke

John Conroy

Martin Lavery

Martin Silke

Sotir Hristov

Darren Woods

Nick Goodall

Michael Wernick

Marius Olsvik

Darren Taylor

Marty Smyth (2007 IO Champ)

James Price

Joseph Cahill

Raymond Stuwe

Adam York

Sida Yuen

Rotem Sol

Jesper Hoog

Thomas Berends

Paul Rayner

Simon Mears

Om Aggarwal

Erik Ekerot

Michael Trimby

Bjan Gledovic

Michael Millar

Ane Montgomery

Sampsa Hytonen

Marc Convery

John Keown

Marko Laine

Garry Carrick

Nigel Murphy

John Gardner

Neil McFayden

Alan Kavanagh

Martin Dragun

Felipe Montenegro

Radei Gabriel Florin

Peter Barrable

Carsten Joh

Simon Ou

John O’Callaghan

Cosimo Bisogno

Siman Behbehani

Dara O’Kearney

Sherill Loser

Andrej Nagy

Kenneth O’Donnell

Nicky Weissman

Christy Smith

Ireneusz Lapszewicz

Pimoz Cimerman

Phillip Hardy

Yannick Bonniou

Ross Boatman makes it 900 in the cut off and Lise Vigezzi (who I recognised from, I think, series of Late Night Poker) re-raised on the button to 2,100

Ross then makes it 4,500 to go and Lise insta-ships for 15,000.

Ross calls as quickly as a fireman going down his station pole


Ross A-A

Lise A-K

The board comes out a harmless, for Ross, J-2-4-J-3 and Boatman moves into the 50,000's

Greek Jack Dionysiou has fallen. All in with Queens, called by Jacks and Jack is undone by a Jack on the river

Praz/Javed/Kimber?

matthew bell plz guys

Tim Blake takes us through a disappointing day

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Praz/Javed busto.

reported earlier on the thread, Praz, Javed out and lookign to get home, Kimber 30,000 and he is just coming back from dinner

Ste is King

On a board reading  2c Ahrt 9h 6s 8s

Ste bets 6.5k into his oppo who snap calls before the chips have stopped falling.

Ste tables  9d 9c for a flopped set and is now upto 20k

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The dinner break is over for half the field so we play Level 5 150/300 again for them whilst the others earn a much needed hour break.

498 left
average 14,200

Keith Hawkins is up to 75,000 as his flight departs for its dinner break


"they play a bit funny over here" he says

"well you seem to be coping with it ok" I say and he describes a recent key hand


"There is an Early position raiser and a cold caller. I have Aces in the big blind. I pump it up. Original raiser passes and the caller flats me. Flop 8-9-10 and we manage to get it all in. He shows Q-10. At this point the original raiser tells the table he passed J-J. I fade the outs, but wouldn't have faded Jacks which would have won the 45,000 pot"

gurdeu millan chip count please...

DTD Qualifier Gurdeu Millan has had an eventful Irish Open so far.

Down to 2,300 he fought his way upto 8k and then had a beauty with Aces V Kings on an all diamond flop.

Both players held a diamond and all the money went in right there and then.  Milllan now on 33k, what a comeback!


Jen Mason up to 36k.

HAHA as if by magic!

errrr who shall we trust in this dispute over chip counts?

learn to quote posts George

 ;) Mr Chili, of course.

Just back from dinner and looking a little perplexed as to why I was asking him for a chip count lol.

15k

tytytyty...

you should know I am always right!!

Usually Maria there would be no contest but you are up against Sir Tightend.

1-0 to Maria

Humour her, I find that is the best tactic

 here is the list of bustouts since I last reported on them!

Dagommir Dimitrov

Frederic Galassi

Graeme Brophy

Anders Helander

Christophe Regnault

Michael Muldoon

Seve Day

Jared Mahoney

Kari Liikanen

James Fennell

Stephen Kenna

John O’Shea

Ian McDonald

John Lyons

Barkatul Mohammed

Tommy Nathan

Gregorz Cichocki

Mark Griffiths

Mick Feeney

Pontus Kers

Javed Abrahams

Praz Bansi

Gianfranco Manzoni

Joe Rafferty

Eunan Doyle

Romano Pizz

Thomas Nolan

Karl Fenton

Eoin O’Heochaidh

Slobodan Savic

Tony Cascarino

Brian Rodgers

Shahin Hajbarati

Andreas Kyprianou

Kieran Hoban

Craig Stevens

Anton Wigg

Claire May-Potter

Noel McMahon

Frank Romanello

Fabrice Soulier

Dan Connolly

Roberto Romanello

Matthias Gerlich

Sam Parker

Belkacem Laouar

Cat O’Neill

Alan Trueick

David Dean

Colm Dunne

Maurice Slattery

Joe O’Donnell

Sandra Naujorks

Jeff Pearson

Michael O’Brien

Lise Vigezzi

Laurence Houghton

Chris Brider

Francis McCormack

Steven Devlin

Jim O’Callaghan

Jay Renehan

Kevin Corcoran

Sean Donaldson

Tim Blake

Markus Wenzel

Stefan Hansen

Christer Johansson (the reigning Irish Open Champion)

Francis Hogan

The Camel, without the hump, at this stage

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Some more chip counts from the early dinner ers?!?

Wadey 42k
John Eames 9k
Toby Lewis 15k
Kara Scott 22k
Rummit Somiya 14k
Surinda Sunar 7k
John Kalmar 10k these 4 all sat together
Marty Wilson 14k
Andrew O'Flaherty 8.6k
Mark Wright 29k
Will Fry 24k
Marc Goodwin 25k
Moomin (on dinner) 10,025

The mystery of the whereabouts of Television's Anthony Kendall has been solved here in Dublin. I almost didn't recognise him without the TV make-up, or the trademark blonde dyed syrup, but here he is grinding away and talking to the dealer about trains

Jerome Bradpiece who short stack himself came up against fellow shortie.

 Ad Jh for Jerome
 8c 8d for shorty

A jack on the river knocked out matey, jerome upto circa 8k

Kara Scott again for me her legions of admirers

This is scandolous! That's never Tikay. He has too many chips :D

I caught the end of an odd hand.  Mark Wright had moved to Dan Harrington's table about an hour a go, he says Dan hadn't played one hand prior to this one.

With a 7k stack at the start of the hand, Dan went all in the turn for about 3k. The board was

  Jh 8c 3d 8h

Matey who was all in with the call, indeed made the call with  Ks 8s.  

Dan tabled  5s 6s with a few raised and furrowed brows from his table mates. No out to help Dan possible and he is outski.

Toby Lewis showcases a little known hobby of his, few know he moonlighted from Online Pokers as captain of the USA Kingdom Polo team in the 2006 All American Games. Requires a bigger saddle nowadays though

Another 10 minutes till we have all players actually - playing.  So I'll do a full update of the remaing DTD qualifiers then.

Interesting hand for Marc Goodwin

He raises pre flop and Peter Gruber calls in the big blind. The flop comes

 Qs 9s 2d and Marc c-bets 2,500 which is more than a pot sized bet. Gruber check min-raises to 5,000. Goodwin immediately shoved and there was an audible gasp from the rail when Gruber folded leaving himself just a few thousand to play with.

Goodwin is now on 24,000.

Stu "Flip Flop" Brownsden (I hope)

DTD Qualifier Ramzi Abbassi, chopper of last month's DTD Deepstack (update tomorrow afternoon on blonde) talks us through his tournament so far:

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DTD Qualifiers Time

We have 5 left from the 7 that started.  Sadly Henry Zamit bought his seat from Jason Herbert so we don't know what he looks like or what his fate is....

Wadey 42k
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Stephen Boyd 6.5k
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Jonathan Butters 15k
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Ramzi Abbassi 7.5k
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Gurdeu Millan 33k
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The antes have kicked in now.

Level 6 150/300 (25)
451 players
average 15,700

Dewi James may be having a tough day, but he has a reassuring message for his many friends on blonde:

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Gurdeu Millan is certainly running better in recent levels

Unopened he just limped for 300 on the button, both blinds completed/checked


the board of 7-Q-7-K was checked through

On the 7 river the small blind makes a rather inconsequential bet of 300. The big blind shrugs and calls and Gurdeu gives a bigger shrug and overcalls, flips 4-4 and beats Ace high in the small blind and Jack high in the big! 

Andrew Teng thinks he's in a club.

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Happy Happy Stu "the nutter" Rutter

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Mr Thew displaying the remnants of a black eye recieved by his 1yr old!

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Who the hell is this??

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Kara Scott action

Last year's runner up bet 1,000 on a flop of


 5c 3h  Kh saw Kara bet 1,000

 Ac on the turn, and things got tastier. Rumit checked, Kara bet 2,500 and was check-raised to 6,500


Kara called and Rumit said “so we’re going to play a big pot”.

The 7c on the river was an action card, Rumit checked (which, as we will see, was a great ploy) and Kara Scott shoved for her last 9,000


Rumit snapped with the nuts  Kc 2c.

With a coquettish smile and a flutter of her eyelids Kara turned over  Jh 2h for a flopped, but busted, flushdraw.


Down to just 2,000 the rail stayed around for what we expected would be the kill. She shoved next hand with K3o and was called by Rumit with AQo. A king high flop doubled her up but with a long way back to get into the game again

Run Good Toby

James Kerrane opened from the cutoff and Toby Lewis reraised to 2,250 on the button. Kerrane made the call and they saw this flop:
 Kd Jd Qc . Kerrane led out for 3,500 before Lewis reraised to 9,000. Kerrane shoved and Lewis quickly called.

Kerrane:   Qd Td
Lewis:   Qh Js

Lewis avoided everything and now has 36,000.

Jeff Kimber sitting on a 50,000 stack, going very well alongside Neil Channing


Meanwhile GreekStein is across the table, enjoying himself with the banter

Players are now on a short 15 min break.

Coming back to the penultimate Level of the day:

Level 7
200/400 (25)
396 players remaining
average 17,900
Now with 75min levels

Tom McDonald is out

Folded around to Michael Purcil who limps in the SB at 150-300.

Macdonald raises to 1,100 in the big blind and called by Michael.

Flop comes QQ3 with 2 diamonds. Check, bet, check-raise, shove and call in the blink of a blinky thing and on their backs

Purcil turns over Q6o

McDonald 3d7d, the draw misses and he's out

how does that work/
qq3 two d
3d7d?


GOOOOOOOOOOO PAPERTITS

Good point, can't read my own notes. All in on the turn when the fourth diamond fell, apologies

is rutter still in, how many chips?

The Camel knocks out Simon Zach

On a board of J-3-8-9-J Zach has pushed his last 10,000 in and Camel makes the call with 10-8 and the read is confirmed when Zach mucks

We in the room here have Keith/The Camel as chip leader still with 85,000

Interesting feature table up there, Brian Townsend, Ross Boatman, Sean Murphy the controversial owner of the Cavendish Club in NI...


anyone watching? what's the coverage like?

DTD Qualifier Gurdeu/Tony Millan takes us through his day so far

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The English Poker Open hosted by DTD last year - runner up Michael Tureniec.  He also was runner up in the EPT London in 2008.

The uber aggressive Swede going well as usual with 32k

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Mark Wright winner of the Pokerstars Sunday Milliion a couple of weeks ago, is going strong.  He is sat to big chippy Keith Hawkins right;

38k

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4 Qualifiers left from DTD.

We lost The Mole before the break.

Waheed Ashraf 50,000

Tony Millan 30,000

Jonathan Butters 15,000

Ramzi Abbassi 10,000

372 left, average 19,000

Some Brit chip counts

Joey Lovelady 23,000

Michael Greco 55,000

Toby Lewis 45,000

Jen Mason 40,000 (and every time I walk past she is being v aggressive)

Chris Moorman recovered to 30,000

Jeff Kimber 65,000

Cos Paperestis down to 18,000 (lost chips to Kimber?)

Feed's running much better now. They're even commenting on hands sometimes.

give it 20 minutes, but a nice video with Jesse May coming up

(only three attempts to end the interview along the way, as he went from subject to subject lol )

Jesus man,having a bad day? Quit being so abrasive.

I'm sure the updaters can speak for themselves without you sticking your oar in for the sake of it.

I do agree though,it is a disgrace asking for updates on the updates thread like that.

Liam Flood with tons of small denomination chips, suggesting perhaps busy boy.
Still only 20k

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Andy Ward has moved around all day and struggling on 8k

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Jim Reid never without, apart from maybe the 2 stone he has lost recently - 32k

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Roland deWolfe has run 88 into 1010 pre and is down to 3,000

Moorman is going from strength to strength


Blinds 200/400 ante 25

UTG James Sudworth opens for 1025, called by middle position player, and called by Chris Moorman in the big blind

Flop  2s 5c 7h

 Chris checks and James leads for 1825. Third player folds and Chris calls.

The turn is  8d. Check-call of 3025 by Chris. The river is  7d and it goes check, check. Chris quickly turns over  6h 8h and takes the pot.

Dan Harrington interviewed today, courtesy of our hosts PaddyPowerPoker

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYg3qdyWnWg

Jerome Bradpeice is OUT.  He was pretty short most of the day and with 6k left raised with the ducks and got shoved on.

"Maybe I should have passed" said Jerome, but he didn't and his 2's didnt play well against 8's.


Paul Zimbler is also OUT, he just couldn't get going all day and just ran hands into bigger hands.

The International Poker School.


FYP

Last level of the night begins


75 minutes left, encouragement needed please!!


Have been thinking, does anyone think the 10k starting stack is a bit stingy for this structure? EPT Monte Carlo has 50k(?).

reckon with 350 still left and "only" 7m in play, its going to crunch down awfully quickly tomorrow and into Day three.

good work guys

Great updatering guys, any news of paiiiiiiiipertits please ?

There is a humdinger of a table in existence now due to table breaking

Jen Mason (55,000) has moved to table Camel/table Railtard


Camel has 65,000 and looks to have lost some ground to Marc Wright/railtard1 now over 60,000 too


All of them are pretty tired, but all four pots I saw while taking a quiet nosey over there were three and four bet.


Make it the feature table!

The Papertits table broke, and the man himself confirmed that he "did 30,000 chips to Kimber"

Still in there fighting with 18,000, slightly below the 21,800 average with 330 left

Any 20p's been shipped? ***please be brian***

BAM has ground a shortstack for hours, playing OOP to Moorman too


the mole went out some time ago


does this mean he's shipped the 20p last longer?

yes and


WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now its 14k and "Im playing like a nit now!"

Marc Wright: 50k
Keith Hawkins: 80k
Chris Dombrowski: 60k
John Magill: 45k
Kara Scott: 14k
John McCormack: 55k
Michael Greco: 60k
Thomas Nolan: 60k

Ash Hussain happy to have reached 15k
Jonathan Butters 25k
Kara Scott slowly improving each level to 14k
James Mitchell on the slide to 8.5k

Good work updaters!

People have been campaigning for changes to the structure for several years.They finally relented this year by adding a couple of levels and moving the clock to 75 mins after 6 levels.

A €3k buy-in still needs more than 10k starting stack though.I'd guess we can expect 1 5k increase in around 5 years and maybe be playing with 20k by 2025 fingers crossed. ;tk;

After ironing for the last 4 or 5 hours, I've lost the will to live...and the will to search back.  Sooooooooooo, how's Dewi getting on?  Please and ty.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, he did the fandango. Ken Docherty was his thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening (for the bar staff)

Worth checking back for the video with him earlier though. Perhaps you can translate?

At last, the iconic Jesse May

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DTD Qualifier Tony Millan just lost a good chunk of his chips but is still left with about 19k.

I only arrived at the river with the board reading:

 9h 8c 7s  Qc 6d

Millan's oppo went all in on the river for 13k and with Millan holding  Th Td, the river 6 pretty much ensured the call.

Matey had  Jd Ts for the flopped straight!

Jesse's wife is lovely!  See if she's there and have a wee chat with her too.

Jen Mason looking rather cute after raising the button with 2 very short stacks sat in the blinds.

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DTD Qualifier Ramzi Abbassi has gone

J-J versus Barry Donovan's Aces, all in on a 9-10-Q flop, and Aces faded the outs

About 20 mins left now till the end of the day.

280 players remain.  A full chip count of all remaining players will be emailed to us overnight so we shall post that up at the earliest opportunity.

A chipped up corner of this cavernous room sees a railtard and a Camel sparring.

The old guard and the New guard colliding. Who will win out to form the Right Guard?

Chip counts for joey lovelady, ste king and ben blackmore if possible please

Moorman1 late exit

Chris had been involved in a few pots prior to this hand so probably was down to around 20k.

I only got there on a flop of

 Js 4s 3d

Chris bet out 2,700 and his neighbour 3bet to 14k practically putting chris all in, he called, on their backs.

Chris  Tc Ts
Matey  Aspades 5s

Turn:  2d
River:  Kc

Thats it for the moominster.

They just announced last 3 hands for the night, so I ran off to find your boys:

Joey Lovelady 15k
Ste King  28k
Ben Blackmore  OUT

So that's it for DAY 1 guys, me and tighty are just left feeling thankful that there is no DAY1b tomorrow :)

With no exact figures in just yet, we are looking at approx 250 players returning tomorrow at 2pm.

There will also be a seat redraw for Day2.

Refreshed and raring to go tomorrow with a lot less tables to manouvre through, we should be able to pick out more of the action from specific players.

Remember guys we are here to help you too so get your requests in nice and early for anyone you want us to focus on.

Full chip count to follow in the morning.

Goodnight all!!!

Waheed Ashraf ended on 22,000 "had a battering in the last level"


Cos Paperestis ended on 42,000! Reshoving in the last level continually, until he found AK, saw a King high flop and moved in on a check raiser, got a fold. Then he 3 bet 10-5, unshown and chipped up without showing a hand in the last level

Goodnight! Thank you for following today, much appreciated

Please join us at 2pm tomorrow for Day 2.


Chipcounts when we get them/wake up.

Fantastic updates Tighty/Chilli thanks very much!!!


Looking forward to tomorrow    :)up

Meh, finished on like 60k.. average is like 26k i think.
Got to like 90 maybe, but lost a chunk in the last hand... sigh,
Had a good day thought, played pretty good in general i think and had some good good table draws. Had a couple of cool hands that might put on PHA at some point, but pretty tired now, so gonna sleep.
gl everyone else still in!

Was going great guns til he got to the end bit.   rotflmfao

Well done on the updates the pair of ya and good luck to all the blonde going into day 2!!!

Great updates Guys thank you very much.

Awesome introduction to the thread.

This made me smile ;)

plz include the 5bet vs Camel.

It was nice to meet a few of you down there yesterday.

Ill be down there again today with the Boylepoker boys, trying to wind up the sponsors Paddy Power by handing out free pens and flyers for free bets.

Unlucky to my nephew Nick Heather who bit the dust late last night, im sure its only a matter of time before he wins something big.

Sorry guys no overnight counts in my Inbox yet, frustrating

Especially as we think The Camel is chip leader with over 100,000. Won a 30k pot late last night with  Aspades 2d v  Ahrt  Jd on a three spade Jack high board, immediate service on the turn


Will post them when I get to the venue.


Going back to bed!

Yeah, post that hand plz ;)

Cheers Tighty & Chili, lovely job  :)up

whats the prize structure?

Nice recovery Cos


glgllglgglllgl today - hope you get a good table draw


Great updating guys keep up the good work

[ ] Cos bought me a beer

I hope I get on his table today and bust his greek arse

Good luck McFoook, bring the bacon home Bri.  ;goodluck;

Here’s a list of player-supplied chipcounts at the end of Day 1 of the Irish Open 2010 (these are not verified by paddypowerpoker.com or the Jackpot Card Club) and the table redraw for the start of Day 2:


Name  Chips Table Seat
Hawkins Keith 111,600 23 9
Kennedy Anthony 88,300 19 5
Gallagher Ronan 78,850 10 9
Mason Jenny 75,150 24 4
Jensen Johnny 75,050 20 1
Nolan Thomas 73,700 26 8
Lundon Edward John 68,000 19 6
Valikoski Snteri 67,700 23 2
Burlot Regis 66,100 20 2
Greco Michael 65,925 3 1
Donovan Barry 65,125 13 6
Noseworthy Steven 64,675 16 4
Krikkay P‚ter 62,225 3 3
Boatman Ross 61,675 20 3
Wright Marc 60,500 16 7
Mitchell James 59,950 12 3
Taggart Ciaran 59,875 21 7
Juhasz Benjamin 59,325 16 6
McDonnell Marc 58,250 9 4
Boon Robert 57,200 21 5
Rasmussen Anders Bisgaard 55,950 11 8
McFadden Keith 53,850 2 3
Kiernan Elaine 53,625 24 5
Loughnane Finbar 53,500 18 7
Ryan Larry 53,500 16 2
Mazilu Michael 53,200 2 6
Bonkowski Tyler 52,300 4 2
Daly Jamie 51,800 17 3
Miles Andrew 50,925 11 3
Roycroft Ed 50,850 8 8
Lehtonen Samuel 50,225 7 6
Reefman Koen 49,975 7 5
Dombrowski Chris 49,925 2 1
Febers Paul 49,325 17 8
Loughman Graeme 48,375 9 3
Wood Eoin 48,050 13 8
Magill John 48,025 6 7
Ylitalo Robin 47,775 5 5
Hanitz Martin 45,575 20 8
Misztela Przemyslaw 45,200 12 1
Romanello Nicholas 45,050 18 3
Horvath Daniel 45,025 26 6
Buttersÿÿ Jonothon 44,550 8 6
Waterman Dennis 43,850 4 9
Flood Liam 43,475 7 4
Brownson Stuart 43,350 11 9
Sweeney Paul 43,225 13 7
Jarrett-smith Rob 42,900 12 2
Kolev Yuliyan 42,575 11 6
Gruber Peter 42,475 9 2
Foley Nelius 42,350 15 7
Nitsche Dominic 42,250 25 6
Paparestis Constantine 42,200 24 7
Chadwick Steve 41,925 28 7
Socko Bartosz 41,450 28 5
Doherty Ken 41,000 20 6
Sherwood Robert 40,950 17 1
Trueick Alan 40,400 14 6
Cunningham George 40,350 16 3
Kangasvieri Teemu 40,000 4 5
van Slujis Sean 39,875 20 4
Hicks Paddy 39,425 10 6
Taylor Kerry 39,375 24 1
Lewis Toby 39,350 17 9
Jones Iwan 39,075 21 8
Suddes Mark 38,875 23 5
Scott Carl 38,650 7 1
Rentes Chris 38,550 8 5
Nielsen Kasper 38,350 10 5
Dowling Christopher 37,825 1 9
Wan Tommy 37,425 21 9
Thompson Aaron 37,300 9 9
Zinno Anthony 36,475 15 9
Odderskjer Jensen Michael 35,625 22 9
McGrath Stephen 35,475 14 5
McHugh Danny 35,225 8 3
Carr Paul 34,775 6 2
Klebanov Andre 34,175 14 3
Giglione Vincent 33,050 29 6
Tompkins Jason 33,050 12 7
Gunther Matthias 32,800 18 5
Nouri Malik 32,400 9 6
Dancs Istv n 32,375 28 6
Merved Thomas 31,800 11 5
Morath Andre 31,625 9 7
O’Neill Jim 31,600 14 2
O’ Connor Donal 31,275 17 6
Lundberg Jan 31,125 26 2
Somaiya Rumit 31,000 14 1
Dion Yann 30,300 16 8
Murphy Micheal 30,250 20 7
Goodwin Marc 29,850 26 4
Renaut Claire 29,850 22 5
Caracuta Christian 29,775 13 3
Fry William 29,500 3 5
Gall Zsombor 29,500 3 9
Freymann Rene 29,350 8 9
Callaghan Dave 29,075 5 6
Milne Richard 29,000 29 5
King Steven 28,900 10 3
Dabbagh Danny 28,075 7 2
Schick Dorlan 28,050 25 5
Patterson Tyler 28,025 27 1
Durrer Michael 27,850 19 9
Kimber Jeff 27,550 3 8
Allard Stephane 27,525 24 9
Loughnane Terry 27,300 23 3
Robinson Richard 26,975 16 5
Sweeney Edmund 26,900 19 1
Purcell Micheal 26,850 14 9
Mette Armin 26,675 4 4
Meyer Rainer 26,450 26 7
Herbert Jason 25,475 17 5
Persaud Nik 24,925 16 9
Riou Julien 24,800 20 9
Austin Richard 24,575 23 1
Emanuel Kaj 24,525 18 9
Balfe Donal 24,100 24 2
Eames John 24,050 4 6
Whelan Maurice 23,950 2 9
Caputo Alex 23,900 10 8
Feldman Andrew 23,875 4 8
Mattern Arnaud 23,400 5 9
Tureniec Micheal 23,125 9 5
Duggan Neil 22,975 14 4
Dillon Alan 22,675 24 6
Martin Brian 22,550 22 6
Luongo Gerardo 22,450 4 3
Doherty Larry 21,850 6 4
Hjulstr”m Linus 21,725 6 6
O’Dea Donnacha 21,700 10 2
Rafter Anthony 21,350 11 1
Strobel Julian 21,300 25 3
Fabretti Paolo pier 21,250 10 4
Murphy Peter 21,000 21 3
Lannermark Mattias 20,900 18 4
Romanello Antoni 20,850 1 1
Ashrafÿÿ ÿ Waheed 20,800 21 4
Hoff Bernd-Philipp 20,650 27 5
Conlon Christopher 20,500 23 8
Dobson Benjamin 20,500 13 9
Lynch Niall 20,350 19 7
Gerin Stephan 20,100 5 4
Ashby Richard 20,050 28 4
Hill Mike 19,825 29 3
Millan Tony 19,500 21 2
Collins Damien 19,300 15 8
Hallett Mark 19,225 27 6
Finn Mickey 19,175 15 3
Lenfestey Paul 19,150 1 3
O’Beirne Edward John 18,475 28 1
Torres Hermoso Francisco Jose 18,325 22 4
Herbert Richard 18,275 7 3
Geleziunas Tomas 18,200 2 8
Dolan Fionan 18,000 22 7
De koster Erwin 17,900 12 6
Wu Danny 17,825 8 4
Fitzpatrick Willie 17,600 25 7
Lovgren Sofia 17,500 24 8
Wiedecker Charles 17,475 17 4
Farrelly John 17,450 6 3
Hanlon Tom 17,425 3 4
Govsa Esref 17,350 23 4
Harford Ronan 17,300 5 8
O’Dea Eoghan 17,250 29 8
Burke Kenny 17,150 27 2
Reilly Mark 17,100 19 3
Roberts Ben 17,075 6 5
Uhrskov Claus 16,975 28 3
Patras Christos 16,850 7 9
O’Reilly Colm 16,800 10 7
Black Andy 16,625 1 2
McAuley Allen 16,400 19 8
Heath Eli 16,375 22 3
Gaines Lee 16,025 1 4
Jang Hyunbong 15,900 29 7
Reilly Anthony 15,875 17 2
Thew Julian 15,850 24 3
Connolly Declan 15,575 4 7
Travers Amby 15,525 11 2
Frost Lars 15,375 27 8
Williams Craig 15,350 18 2
Smurfitt Alan 15,150 9 8
Grimason Andrew 15,050 15 5
Murphy Sean 15,050 14 7
Nevalainen Janne 14,825 28 8
McCormack John 14,725 25 8
TMhlund Jonny 14,725 22 1
Lovelady Joseph 14,625 11 7
Kelly Mark 14,600 26 1
Roberts Jamie 14,425 19 4
Cruess Callaghan Frank 14,375 25 2
Grudev Grudi 14,250 9 1
Bermingham Patrick 14,200 6 1
Wilson Marty 14,200 28 2
Jones David 14,175 12 5
Petersem Mickey 13,825 4 1
Beranda Marius 13,750 13 1
Healy Val 13,750 12 9
Welbourne Samuel 13,650 7 7
Monaghan Paul 13,625 5 1
McLean Stephen 13,450 27 3
O’Reilly Sheamus 13,050 5 7
Hermans Ernst 12,875 2 7
Sorel Mizzi 12,875 15 2
Kitt Tom 12,675 10 1
Vachulka Miloslav 12,600 8 2
Maker Bharminder 12,550 29 2
Storm Nicolas 12,425 17 7
Masters Ray 12,150 3 7
O’Donoghue Adrian 12,025 1 6
Hume Kenny 11,725 12 8
O’Sullivan Michael 11,400 29 4
Miller Ngel 11,375 11 4
Navarro David 11,175 26 3
McKie Archibald 11,150 14 8
Bjoersland Janÿ 10,950 21 6
Craig Fiona 10,950 3 6
Channing Neil 10,925 27 7
Peltola Hannu 10,900 12 4
Weber Rudiger 10,650 25 4
Bell Matthew 10,575 13 5
McKeever George 10,500 29 1
Kassouf Will 10,350 20 5
Rutter Stewart 10,350 2 5
Willis Bobby 10,100 3 2
Duffort Nicolas 9,975 13 2
Ivert Annica 9,825 23 7
Ellis Ian 9,750 25 1
Hynes John Paul 9,700 1 8
Olin Eoin 9,675 23 6
Hgan Rory 9,650 13 4
Jenssen Steffen 9,400 1 7
Mette Alexander 9,400 6 8
Becker Jonas 9,250 21 1
Teresko Konstantin 9,100 6 9
Ryan Brian 8,975 2 4
Hussain Arshad 8,775 16 1
Cattin Gael 8,725 18 8
Thorpe Derek 8,450 15 4
Flynn Gavin 8,300 18 6
Murray Derek 8,275 18 1
Gourlay Paul 7,675 26 5
O’Callaghan Ger 7,625 22 8
Lo chow Elsa 7,550 5 2
Byrne James 7,450 19 2
Naylor Darren 7,450 27 4
Isberg Bjorn 7,150 8 1
Loser Glen 6,950 1 5
Andrulis Kristijonas 6,575 2 2
Mullins John 5,825 8 7
Taylor Rob 5,700 22 2
Holloway Ivan 5,000 15 1
Verkaik Nicholas 4,700 7 8
Sebban Michael 3,350 15 6
Saarisilta Nichlas 2,275 5 3

Thank you sir!

No problem.

Hello and welcome back to coverage of the 2010 Irish Open from the Burlington Hotel in Dublin - Day Two


Play begins at 2pm with 256 left and blinds 400-800 next, average stack 26,500

Here are the overnights


I have bolded known blondes/Brits and people I am funking for!

Here’s a list of player-supplied chipcounts at the end of Day 1 of the Irish Open 2010 (these are not verified by paddypowerpoker.com or the Jackpot Card Club) and the table redraw for the start of Day 2:


Name  Chips Table Seat
Hawkins Keith 111,600 23 9
Kennedy Anthony 88,300 19 5
Gallagher Ronan 78,850 10 9
Mason Jenny 75,150 24 4
Jensen Johnny 75,050 20 1
Nolan Thomas 73,700 26 8
Lundon Edward John 68,000 19 6
Valikoski Snteri 67,700 23 2
Burlot Regis 66,100 20 2
Greco Michael 65,925 3 1
Donovan Barry 65,125 13 6
Noseworthy Steven 64,675 16 4
Krikkay P‚ter 62,225 3 3
Boatman Ross 61,675 20 3
Wright Marc 60,500 16 7
Mitchell James 59,950 12 3
Taggart Ciaran 59,875 21 7
Juhasz Benjamin 59,325 16 6
McDonnell Marc 58,250 9 4
Boon Robert 57,200 21 5
Rasmussen Anders Bisgaard 55,950 11 8
McFadden Keith 53,850 2 3
Kiernan Elaine 53,625 24 5
Loughnane Finbar 53,500 18 7
Ryan Larry 53,500 16 2
Mazilu Michael 53,200 2 6
Bonkowski Tyler 52,300 4 2
Daly Jamie 51,800 17 3
Miles Andrew 50,925 11 3
Roycroft Ed 50,850 8 8
Lehtonen Samuel 50,225 7 6
Reefman Koen 49,975 7 5
Dombrowski Chris 49,925 2 1
Febers Paul 49,325 17 8
Loughman Graeme 48,375 9 3
Wood Eoin 48,050 13 8
Magill John 48,025 6 7
Ylitalo Robin 47,775 5 5
Hanitz Martin 45,575 20 8
Misztela Przemyslaw 45,200 12 1
Romanello Nicholas 45,050 18 3
Horvath Daniel 45,025 26 6
Buttersÿÿ Jonothon 44,550 8 6
Waterman Dennis 43,850 4 9
Flood Liam 43,475 7 4
Brownson Stuart 43,350 11 9
Sweeney Paul 43,225 13 7
Jarrett-smith Rob 42,900 12 2
Kolev Yuliyan 42,575 11 6
Gruber Peter 42,475 9 2
Foley Nelius 42,350 15 7
Nitsche Dominic 42,250 25 6
Paparestis Constantine 42,200 24 7
Chadwick Steve 41,925 28 7
Socko Bartosz 41,450 28 5
Doherty Ken 41,000 20 6
Sherwood Robert 40,950 17 1
Trueick Alan 40,400 14 6
Cunningham George 40,350 16 3
Kangasvieri Teemu 40,000 4 5
van Slujis Sean 39,875 20 4
Hicks Paddy 39,425 10 6
Taylor Kerry 39,375 24 1
Lewis Toby 39,350 17 9
Jones Iwan 39,075 21 8
Suddes Mark 38,875 23 5
Scott Carl 38,650 7 1
Rentes Chris 38,550 8 5
Nielsen Kasper 38,350 10 5
Dowling Christopher 37,825 1 9
Wan Tommy 37,425 21 9
Thompson Aaron 37,300 9 9
Zinno Anthony 36,475 15 9
Odderskjer Jensen Michael 35,625 22 9
McGrath Stephen 35,475 14 5
McHugh Danny 35,225 8 3
Carr Paul 34,775 6 2
Klebanov Andre 34,175 14 3
Giglione Vincent 33,050 29 6
Tompkins Jason 33,050 12 7
Gunther Matthias 32,800 18 5
Nouri Malik 32,400 9 6
Dancs Istv n 32,375 28 6
Merved Thomas 31,800 11 5
Morath Andre 31,625 9 7
O’Neill Jim 31,600 14 2
O’ Connor Donal 31,275 17 6
Lundberg Jan 31,125 26 2
Somaiya Rumit 31,000 14 1
Dion Yann 30,300 16 8
Murphy Micheal 30,250 20 7
Goodwin Marc 29,850 26 4
Renaut Claire 29,850 22 5
Caracuta Christian 29,775 13 3
Fry William 29,500 3 5
Gall Zsombor 29,500 3 9
Freymann Rene 29,350 8 9
Callaghan Dave 29,075 5 6
Milne Richard 29,000 29 5
King Steven 28,900 10 3
Dabbagh Danny 28,075 7 2
Schick Dorlan 28,050 25 5
Patterson Tyler 28,025 27 1
Durrer Michael 27,850 19 9
Kimber Jeff 27,550 3 8
Allard Stephane 27,525 24 9
Loughnane Terry 27,300 23 3
Robinson Richard 26,975 16 5
Sweeney Edmund 26,900 19 1
Purcell Micheal 26,850 14 9
Mette Armin 26,675 4 4
Meyer Rainer 26,450 26 7
Herbert Jason 25,475 17 5
Persaud Nik 24,925 16 9
Riou Julien 24,800 20 9
Austin Richard 24,575 23 1
Emanuel Kaj 24,525 18 9
Balfe Donal 24,100 24 2
Eames John 24,050 4 6
Whelan Maurice 23,950 2 9
Caputo Alex 23,900 10 8
Feldman Andrew 23,875 4 8
Mattern Arnaud 23,400 5 9
Tureniec Micheal 23,125 9 5
Duggan Neil 22,975 14 4
Dillon Alan 22,675 24 6
Martin Brian 22,550 22 6
Luongo Gerardo 22,450 4 3
Doherty Larry 21,850 6 4
Hjulstr”m Linus 21,725 6 6
O’Dea Donnacha 21,700 10 2
Rafter Anthony 21,350 11 1
Strobel Julian 21,300 25 3
Fabretti Paolo pier 21,250 10 4
Murphy Peter 21,000 21 3
Lannermark Mattias 20,900 18 4
Romanello Antoni 20,850 1 1
Ashrafÿÿ ÿ Waheed 20,800 21 4
Hoff Bernd-Philipp 20,650 27 5
Conlon Christopher 20,500 23 8
Dobson Benjamin 20,500 13 9
Lynch Niall 20,350 19 7
Gerin Stephan 20,100 5 4
Ashby Richard 20,050 28 4
Hill Mike 19,825 29 3
Millan Tony 19,500 21 2
Collins Damien 19,300 15 8
Hallett Mark 19,225 27 6
Finn Mickey 19,175 15 3
Lenfestey Paul 19,150 1 3
O’Beirne Edward John 18,475 28 1
Torres Hermoso Francisco Jose 18,325 22 4
Herbert Richard 18,275 7 3
Geleziunas Tomas 18,200 2 8
Dolan Fionan 18,000 22 7
De koster Erwin 17,900 12 6
Wu Danny 17,825 8 4
Fitzpatrick Willie 17,600 25 7
Lovgren Sofia 17,500 24 8
Wiedecker Charles 17,475 17 4
Farrelly John 17,450 6 3
Hanlon Tom 17,425 3 4
Govsa Esref 17,350 23 4
Harford Ronan 17,300 5 8
O’Dea Eoghan 17,250 29 8
Burke Kenny 17,150 27 2
Reilly Mark 17,100 19 3
Roberts Ben 17,075 6 5
Uhrskov Claus 16,975 28 3
Patras Christos 16,850 7 9
O’Reilly Colm 16,800 10 7
Black Andy 16,625 1 2
McAuley Allen 16,400 19 8
Heath Eli 16,375 22 3
Gaines Lee 16,025 1 4
Jang Hyunbong 15,900 29 7
Reilly Anthony 15,875 17 2
Thew Julian 15,850 24 3
Connolly Declan 15,575 4 7
Travers Amby 15,525 11 2
Frost Lars 15,375 27 8
Williams Craig 15,350 18 2
Smurfitt Alan 15,150 9 8
Grimason Andrew 15,050 15 5
Murphy Sean 15,050 14 7
Nevalainen Janne 14,825 28 8
McCormack John 14,725 25 8
TMhlund Jonny 14,725 22 1
Lovelady Joseph 14,625 11 7
Kelly Mark 14,600 26 1
Roberts Jamie 14,425 19 4
Cruess Callaghan Frank 14,375 25 2
Grudev Grudi 14,250 9 1
Bermingham Patrick 14,200 6 1
Wilson Marty 14,200 28 2
Jones David 14,175 12 5
Petersem Mickey 13,825 4 1
Beranda Marius 13,750 13 1
Healy Val 13,750 12 9
Welbourne Samuel 13,650 7 7
Monaghan Paul 13,625 5 1
McLean Stephen 13,450 27 3
O’Reilly Sheamus 13,050 5 7
Hermans Ernst 12,875 2 7
Sorel Mizzi 12,875 15 2
Kitt Tom 12,675 10 1
Vachulka Miloslav 12,600 8 2
Maker Bharminder 12,550 29 2
Storm Nicolas 12,425 17 7
Masters Ray 12,150 3 7
O’Donoghue Adrian 12,025 1 6
Hume Kenny 11,725 12 8
O’Sullivan Michael 11,400 29 4
Miller Ngel 11,375 11 4
Navarro David 11,175 26 3
McKie Archibald 11,150 14 8
Bjoersland Janÿ 10,950 21 6
Craig Fiona 10,950 3 6
Channing Neil 10,925 27 7
Peltola Hannu 10,900 12 4
Weber Rudiger 10,650 25 4
Bell Matthew 10,575 13 5
McKeever George 10,500 29 1
Kassouf Will 10,350 20 5
Rutter Stewart 10,350 2 5
Willis Bobby 10,100 3 2
Duffort Nicolas 9,975 13 2
Ivert Annica 9,825 23 7
Ellis Ian 9,750 25 1
Hynes John Paul 9,700 1 8
Olin Eoin 9,675 23 6
Hgan Rory 9,650 13 4
Jenssen Steffen 9,400 1 7
Mette Alexander 9,400 6 8
Becker Jonas 9,250 21 1
Teresko Konstantin 9,100 6 9
Ryan Brian 8,975 2 4
Hussain Arshad 8,775 16 1
Cattin Gael 8,725 18 8
Thorpe Derek 8,450 15 4
Flynn Gavin 8,300 18 6
Murray Derek 8,275 18 1
Gourlay Paul 7,675 26 5
O’Callaghan Ger 7,625 22 8
Lo chow Elsa 7,550 5 2
Byrne James 7,450 19 2
Naylor Darren 7,450 27 4
Isberg Bjorn 7,150 8 1
Loser Glen 6,950 1 5
Andrulis Kristijonas 6,575 2 2
Mullins John 5,825 8 7
Taylor Rob 5,700 22 2
Holloway Ivan 5,000 15 1
Verkaik Nicholas 4,700 7 8
Sebban Michael 3,350 15 6
Saarisilta Nichlas 2,275 5 3  
 

DTD Qualifier wise the following players are left

Butters Jonothon 44,550 8 6
Herbert Jason 25,475 17 5
Ashrafÿÿ ÿ Waheed 20,800 21 4
Millan Tony 19,500 21 2


Which means that Mr Butters must have had a stonking last level as he was marooned on 15,000 chips all day

An apology to Jason Herbert, we were told he had sold his seat yesterday and yet here he is on the overnights! Will clear that up when the players arrive, yet we didn't follow him yesterday. Sigh, sorry.


Good luck to the DTD lads today

This promises to be a very exciting day. We have The Camel in the chip lead, where he was for most of yesterday. The very talented blonde legend Jen Mason is lurking just behind, and she was certainly sounding very confident at the end of play yesterday.

Elswhere the likes of railtard1, 810ofclubs, GreekStein, RobS, FlipFlop Brownsden, BAM and JaffaCake are all in with a shout for blondes. I know they'd appreciate your support this afternoon and onwards


All you need to do is shout them on, request information from us and we'll (it being easier to get hands on 25 tables rather than 70) do the rest

Remember also this is a bumper live update day on blonde with Kev and Kinboshi bringing you the first day of the April DTD Monthly deepstack.

So settle back, fire up DTDPoker via blonde (I'm not begging, but requesting! :D) and enjoy the action


As I said yesterday this update is only possible because of the genorosity of PaddyPowerPoker and DTD Poker who have sponsored blonde to provide this update. A round of applause for them please


Finally, tonight at 8pm there is a blonde Live Update Online MTT on DTD for you to play while the action hots up. Please support that, every player makes a difference!

Table 24

Jen Mason, Julian Thew and Cos


Any other interesting tables you see please point them out to me

Reminder to self while I go off in search of food priced as if there is a global wheat famine centred on Dublin City centre, where the last known sandwiches are about to be sold due to the exorbitant price of bread. For a man who likes his food and is on a budget, this is tough!


Follow today

Rob S: Rob Sherwood. Stalwart supporter of the blonde card-room, really good player  table 17

Kerry Taylor. Essex's finest, on blonde too,  table 24

[ x ] Cos asked you at the bar.

[ x ] You had a pint in your hand and said no.

[   ] A real man like Matt Russells would have said no.

Really enjoyable tournament so far.

Initially sat in the 9 seat and seat ten was empty for the first five when Andrew Feldman sat down. [  ] He didn't look mortified when I introduced myself.

I'll definitely be writing some sort of report whatever happens.

Yday was a real yo-yo day. Only one player I came up against gave me real problems and that was Jeff Kimber. He got way the better of me and played real good but I enjoyed his and Channings company on that table. Made the day go faster.

Great last level for me going from 9k to 42k.

Let's gogogo today.

Thanks for support and texts etc yesterday guys. Keep it coming. It really helps.

Also, com at the bar when everyone was talking about bedi's poker xfactor butchery.

Great reporting, keep up the good work

We are sitting and watching the updates, (and the boat race at 3.10pm)

Mark Webber got Pole in F1 qualifying in Malaysia ;dewi; ;popcorn; ;popcorn;

GL Blondies!

go on fellaaaaaaaaaaaa

would love to have seen the feldman intro - epic seat draw

glglglglglggll today

nice easy table draw for you  ;whistle;

Kennedy Anthony 88,300 19 5

the guy who final tabled the 300 in jan?

gooooooooooooooooooooo papertits!

Good Morning campers!  We are just about to start bang on time (give or take a few minutes).  I had a great nights sleep unlike the night before where I was a little dehydrated so to speak.  I hopefully will be bang on form today so I'll just scoot off and take a few pictures of the lucky day2ers.

Toby Lewis before the start

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Two ecstatic table mates today.
Julian Thew & Top 5 Chips Jen (ne Jenny) Mason

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Cos sat opposite those two, playing it cool.

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Julian's new hobby of ventriloquism starts well, then 

One of the DTD Qualifiers was a certain Jason Herbert who we didn't look out for yesterday because we heard he sold his seat to his friend. Indeed he did but he did play the event due to winning "2 or 3" seats, hence the paddy power shirt alongside his DTD badge.

Jason Herbert - 25, 475
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A little overview of some of the tables:

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Feature TV table

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Julian and Jen's table pre-start, and Hi-der Cos

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2 scousers pleased to have my camera in their face:

Joey Lovelady 14,625       Ste King 28,900

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Prize structure announced


Total     €2,265,600

1st    €600,000

2     €312,600
3        €205,200
4     €163,300
5      €130,600
6         €100,800
7        €75,000
8     €56,300
9      €37,700

10-12    €24,900
13-18    €18,300
19-27    €13,700
28-36     €9,800
37-45    €6,900
46-53     €5,500
54-63     €4,500
64-72     €4,000

GL to all the blondes in this gogogogogogo and win it all....

Neil Channing has been all-action on the feature table. Went from an overnight 10k to 20k via a double up, back down again in a big pot and has just turned Quad fours to go back up the rollercoaster again


Link to the live stream http://www.pokerchanneleurope.com/news/paddy-power-poker-irish-open-2010/

Andy Black just claimed a scalp in the aptly named Glen Loser.  Glen with only 7k at the start of the day but still its some more amunition for Black to either quadruple or donk.

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Good luck to all the blondes left especially, Cos, Toby & Marc.

Oh and PLEASE, no more side shots of Cos please. Thanks.

DTD Qualifier Wadey Ashraf is out

AK on the button, raises. Big blind Ciaran Taggart re-raises. Wadey ships, big blind Taggart has Aces


Wadey now investigating the Omaha Sidey later, not that he likes action

When I took his picture, he did ask me if I got his full nose in the shot!

updates on matthew bell when you can guys, got a text from him saying he lost a big pot wit qq v at and now has circa 11k. That was last night.

Cos Paparestis news

raises with  Ks Ac on the button receives a call

c-bets a  Kc Qc 6d board

bets a  Jc turn

unfortunately can't get paid when he hits his Royal on the river with  Tc


The very next hand he gets Quad Aces!

updates on toby lewis and marc wright pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee

Next to Michael Greco and Jeff Kimber, short-stack Bobby Willis pushes 10-10. Next door Peter Krikkay isolates with K-K

board A-9-A-6-10 and Krikkay doesn't mutter, but could

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw9oX-kZ_9k

Marc Wright (railtard1) makes it 1,800 on the button.  Small blind Yann Dion 3bets to 4,800, Marc flats.  Flop:

 4c 7h 4d  check check

Turn:  3c  Yann leads for half the pot, Marc called.

River:  Ad  Yann bets out 12k and sends Marc to tankcity.

He eventually calls the 12k and gets shown pockets ACES from Yann.

Marc mucks - "Yeah, you either have the world or nothing"

Michael Greco, in the top ten of chips

updates on toby lewis when you can cheers

GreekStein's table neighbour Sofia Lovgren

Toby has slightly improved to 45k and says to you NigDawG "I'm surprised he's actually up, tell him to get back to bed!"

i cant see this in lobby yet ?

DTD Qualifier Jason Herbert has added a few chips to his stack.

There was an early open to 1,900 and Jason called from the small blind with  7c 7d after another 2 callers.

They all checked the  Qd 8c 6c flop but the  7s on the turn got checked to Jason who bet out 5k and "was happy to take the pot there and then with flush and straight possibilites."

any updates on stu rutter? last i heard he had around 15k. Tell him to double up

Mathew has bumped himself up to about 25k after a good start.

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I didn't see the pre-flop action but arrived in time to see Toby Lewis receive a large-chip sized gift

On a board of  Ahrt 8h 8c Toby bets from the Small blind

Charles Wiedecker raises in early position (a pre-flop raiser I assume)

Toby asks him how much he has, receives a Germanic terse answer and says "I am all-in"

Without much thought it seemed, Wiedecker called all in


Toby showed  Ac Kh

Wiedecker  9h 9d


turn, river  Ad  8c

and Toby is launched somewhere towards the chip lead. Stack over 80,000

Still in and about the same he says.  He was overjoyed this morning to finally getting above his starting stack for the first time in the tournament :)

MTT>Private, or should be. I can't get on from here. Any problems let Laxie know

DTD Qualifier updates


Jonathon Butters 45,000 steady today

Tony Millan 25,000

Jason Herbert 45,000

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

blow up if he loses from here

haha, brilliant. Maybe he should set his goals a tat higher? thx

Problem.  Not there.  Just letting ya know.  lol  

Will do what I can to track it down or get it sorted and report back in a bit.

Stalwart blonde Rob S, Rob Sherwood from Manchester

50,000

Kerry Taylor, another blonde poster

This is American (very American, at that) Dennis Waterman

He travelled over on his (Sweeney) Todd, no Minders, and is learning some New Tricks here in Ireland

PS  The one listed under 'MTT > Private' is for the DTD Live blonde bash in May folks, so feel free to register for that while you're at it and join us for a great week-end!   ;)

Any update on Stuart 'flipflop' brownson please guys?

Also glglgl to cos, toby, Jen, all other blondes and the dtd guys!

Iwan Jones, from 2,000 yesterday to a comfortable stack now

Tighty

April fools was the other day, factual report only please  :D

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

go on my son

also ogogoggo Rutter.................. over his starting stack, the man is dangerous from there  ;)

Go on Matt!

Thanks Maria, regular updates would be greatly appreciated.

Great updates so far guys, good job.

Any news on Stu Brownson yet? Had a great day y'day!

Good luck blondes

As Ken Docherty knew he was going to be late today, Madame Tussauds kindly lent the Burlington the waxwork version, so as the players would be fooled into not nicking Ken's blinds until he got here

An update on Brian (BAM) Martin would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff Kimber plodding along on 24k

Niki Romanello left with about 22k after losing 30k in a flip.  All in preflop with QQ's v AK, king first card out.

Blinds are now up and the clock reads 57mins since I took the photoo below:

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Is that Matt Bell as in Badbeat's ? FlukeSkywalker :-)

Channing has now rollercoasterd his way OUT of the Irish Open.  He was bemoaning the fact that they chose a feature table with no player having above avergae chips!  I believe his exit was A5 v A6 whilst turning a 5 but not liking the 6 on the river.

There is now a new feature table with Keith Hawkins (the camel) and Iwan Jones who has done a great come back job.

Live Stream below:

http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tournaments/irishopen/livestream (http://www.paddypowerpoker.com/tournaments/irishopen/livestream)

Cos on 77k. glglglglglgl

Gogogogogogo paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipertits  ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader; ;cheerleader;

+1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He says he has been slaughtered today and is well short stacked under 10k!!

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+100


Go on my new (if you scoop) friend

At least Brian's smiling.  20p will do that I suppose.  

The in form Rumit Somaiya is also going well


He just knocked out Jan Lundberg, who looks suspiciously like a Scandinavian Walrus. I caught up with the hand on a Jd-7d-5c flop;


Lundberg had bet 4,500, Somaiya raised to 14,000. Lundberg shoved.

Somaiya called, but wasn't happy about it with QdQs against, as it turned out, Lundberg’s AdJc.

Lundberg picked up a flushdraw when the 4d fell on the turn but failed to improve as the river bricked out. Somaiya is now up to over 60k.

Thank you.

Apparantly Andrew Feldman just folded a set of nines to a river bet from Donkowski (real name).  The river just made a backdoor flush but gave donkowski top 2 pair.  Feldman showed his set and the guy obligingly showed him the worst hand :)

Flip Flop Stu Brownsden in an exclusive interview for his fans

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Stu Rutter is positively flush.  He has gone from 5k to 24k whilst being all in 5 times and winning 3 of them.

He also knocked out Paul Gourlay with AJ v KJ and left Gourlay reeling after just hearing about the free drinks in the players lounge.  It's ok, Paul can probably just buy out the entire bar!!

from another blogger with our hosts PaddyPower (thanks to him)

I joined the action on table 4 as a large crowd developed to watch a 3 way pot. Mickey Petersem was all in, leaving Tyler Bonkowski and Andrew Feldman to battle it out for the 20 odd k in the middle. With the board reading Kc-9s-4d-6c-Jc Bonkowski led the river for 12.5k, sending Feldman into the tank. After several minutes the clock was called as Feldman agonisingly mulled over the decision before him. When the ten second warning came Feldman folded his hand but was certainly not happy about it, it looked like a mother giving her child away! Worse was to come though as Bonkowski realised that his intended value bet had become a bluff; asking Feldman if he folded a set. Feldman flipped over 99 for middle set while Bonkowski got the old needle in by showing KJo for top two. Bonkowski’s stack is now up to 75k.

Quality, gogogo stu

Jaffa Cake or Jaffa Orange?

It's a bit blurred, but here is one of your live feed commentators Rebecca MacAdam

Inadvertently (sort of) I managed to diss her co-commentator (Emmett somebody) who when I positioned myself in front of their commentary station perked up, removed his headphones and straightened his hair while we waited for Rebecca to finish commentating shut up

Sorry" I said to the earnest gentleman "I just need one of Rebecca"

If the commentary is a bit subdued for the next level, you know why, his spirit is crushed.

Cos was upto 82k down to 65k and now currently residing on 72k.  With table mates big stacked Ross Boatman, Ben Roberts & the WSOP near final tablist John Magill, I suspect things will be lively.

Julian steady on 17k
Jen slightly up 95k and staying quiet.
Ben Dobson  20k

James Mithcell battled pre flop with his oppo's 20k stack but came up against QUEENS which were triumphant v his JACKS.

He still has 3 tall stacks behind (very descriptive I know lol).

The organisers tell me that "in theory" we shall be playing 6 levels today.  

If we hit the money at 72 players though, the day will definately come to a stop!

Currently 170 players remaining.

maria can u ask cos if he takes this comp down will he back me online?
 Kthnx

DTD Qualifier Tony Millan is out

Frustrated he tells me he moved table, first hand sitting down he got dealt KK on a misdeal. Next hand he defends in the big blind with QJ. Q high flop two clubs, the raiser with AcKc turns a flush, money in on the flop

That leaves Jonathn Butters with 50,000 and Jason Herbert with 40,000 flying the DTD flag



Jeff Kimber is out. He tells me "The lunatic on the table manages to find Aces on my big blind. I defend with Q-10, 10 high flop sinks me"

The lunatic is Dublin's Thomas "The Bomber" Nolan. I must stress that it is The Bomber with a capital "B". He's about ten pints into today and I wasn't going to argue with him

The answer will be NO ;)

Stuart "not the Unabomber" Rutter

Sigh! Please ask tho just incase! x

nice life cos, gl buddy.

 

Maria, Constantine (I back him Online, but not live) and I lunched in a local hostelry

This was on the Specials board

Honey and Roast Parsley soup.


Twenty minutes after discovering this I was still pondering how you Roast Parsley. Or any herb for that matter. Maria's eyes were glazing over, Cos was trying to watch the football

Just as they were about to leave me in disdain at my OCD, the answer emerged on a board behind us. Spelt correctly, Roast Parsnip.

Marc Wright is OUT.

He lost a big pot to his neighbour who he tangled with earlier.  Marc held JQ on a 10 9 6 flop but his oppo held J10 and held.

That hand left him with 3 bigs so he shoved with A9 and the big blind checked down his 74 to take the pot and the scalp of our railtard1.

Chip leader, I think, is Ciaran Taggart. 150,000 or so

"Who is he?" I enquire of my Irish blogger counterparts

I am told

"Young lad, was a dealer and got put into a few tournaments. Tore them up, gave up poker dealing and here he is"


He finished 3rd in the Green Joker Shorthanded, which is his major result to date

Players are now on a 20 min break.  We'll return with Level 11:

blinds 600 / 1,200 (100)
165 players
average 42,900

my sentiments exactly, go on cos. gl toby, romanello's, jen, james, rob etcetc and about time camel had a score.

Jen Mason 95,000 at the break

"should have 130,000 but I out-thought myself just then. Still, going well and enjoying it"

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Yes Indeed it is, I was just talking to him at the break.  He is currently on 28k.

Ross Boatman at the break was kinda annoyed by calling off 16k to a shove UTG who had Queens.

I asked if he donated to my mate Cos.  He says "Dunno, which one is he?"
I told him "It's the Jewish looking kid but is infact Greek."
Ross - "Oh is he Greek really?...........Yeah he definately looks Jewish!"

tough life lol...

Meanwhile back in UK,

Hot favorites Oxford led the boat race for the first half of the race,

 but after the bends Cambridge pulled ahead more than a boats length to go on to win

The Oxford team blamed the wet conditions , and the lack of grip round the corners

no way sigh...

Stuart Rutter, interviewed in the break

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Julian Thew is OUT, pretty short all day. I was only there on the river where he clashed with fellow shortie Nik Persaud.

JQ for Julian
77 for Nik which hold.

Nik now on 44k

Thanks Maria, when he wins this he will be my new best mate.

Chippies

Stu Rutter  24k
Michael Greco 85k
Joey Lovelady 55k
Ste King 91k
Michael Tureniec  35k
Iwan Jones  20k
Toby Lewis  40k
Keith Hawkins 115k (was down to 60k)
Jason Herbert 44k
Jonothan Butters 58k
Niki Romanello  30k
Richard Ashby  80k
Marty Wilson  40k
Ross Boatman  50k
Ben Roberts 70k
Arnaud Mattern  29k
Liam Flood 41k
Rummit Somiya  150k
Jen Mason 90k
BAM 18k
Mathew Bell  19k

Average 46,600

PaperTits Up?


I arrive at GreekStein's table just as he forgets to put in his ante and tells the dealer "Sorry, I am on tilt"

Uh Oh, I think to myself as I notice his stack has taken a hammering

On the next hand he makes it 2900 at 600-1200, the small blind Paul Carr re-raises to 10,000 and Cos dwell-tank-for effect-folds


I gingerly walk round to him  and beckon him towards me, in part to get the story but in part to give him a minute's break to cool down

"What happened?" I Ask


"I triple-barrelled half my stack off" he says mournfully

"I raised pre to 2900. Big blind (Patrick Birmingham) peeled.


I bet 3900 on the  9s 5h 4h flop and was called


Turn was  Qc. I put him on the flush draw and decide I have to fire again. 7700, and I am called


The river bricks the flush draw  2s and I have to go again for 16,900. I am called by  Qh Th"



A few seconds pause and I say "So what did you have?"

The silence that ensured is an eloquent testament to a hand so poor that he couldn't even bring himself to say it to me




Time to re-group, but is he mentally together enough?

The 1997 world snooker champion Ken Doherty just knocked out Feldman

Feldman had JJ and a short-stack in early position, Doherty found was Aces in mid position and flopped the set to snooker Feldman and get a big break up to  a 70,000 stack, right on cue.

I'll give it a rest now

this guy has a pretty sick good game iirc

Przemyslaw Misztela has just been eliminated. He got his stack in before the flop with 99, only to run into the KK of British player Rob Jarrett-Smith. The Kings held up on a board of A-5-Q-2-8, and Misztela was sent to the rail in 155th place.


Misztella nevertheless has the considerable consolation prize of being awarded "Mr My name is Scrabble-tastic" by the blonde Poker updaters. He wins absolutely nothing but the gratitude of myself.

Stuart Rutter comes across a Nutter, sends his heart aflutter


Stuart Rutter raises to 3,000 utg, blinds 600-1200

Michael Mazilu next to act announces "All in" for 90,000. Michael is European, wearing a bright Ferrari F1 Jacket, sunglasses and has the sort of spray on orange tan that suggests that if in doubt, you should call him


Stuart asks him "So you have Ace-King"

Michael says "Yes"

Stuart visibly flinches, laughs and I think he believes him, anything is possible Stuart's body language is saying


Stuart eventually says "I have to call" which with Q-Q, 20,000 left and the blinds going through he probably does

Mazilu the Ferrari man flips Ad10d, misses and Stuart doubles up to 50,000

Nik Persaud just knocked out Iwan Jones and is currently on a heater.  Iwan only had about 18k but had AQ against Persuads QQ.  Now on circa 70k.

On a board reading:

 Kd Qd Jc  8h  3c

James Mitchell bets out 15k with about 70k behind.  With about 15k already in the pot, his opponent folds.

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Yea alex, cash game player mainly anything upto 5/10 nl.

AND he is very tall - some guys have it all :)

Nik Persuad and The Camel now flank the dealer, each with 90-100k stacks. Good news for them, looks like they are getting a +EV dealer change

Brian "BAM" Martin shoved the hi-jack and Toby Lewis re-shoves the button

BAM has nursed his short-stack, and has a 12,000 stack

Brian 8-6 suited

Toby A-Q off

Queen on the flop sends BAM to the rail and Toby back up to a 50,000 stack

whats stu tanking there for, the amount of hands he's played online and live he knows its a snap.

kind of like would stu call if his oppo turned over AK?

Cos Paparestis "back to an average stack, won a routine pot to get there"

Rumit Somaiya 100,000 and sharing a table with Jen Mason 85,000


Rob Sherwood 65,000

Stu Brownsden 50,000



72 paid, 117 left. Getting to business time

Liam Flood, Jason Herbert, Chufty Ashby

The excellent James Mitchell, 120,000 now. Consistently successful player, likely to go deep imo

Jen Mason adds another 35k to her stack.  A chap made it 3,800 to play, Jen 3bets to 8,500, matey makes it 20k leaving only about 8k behind.

Jen does tank a little bit but eventually says CALL rather than all-in to put the guy all in.  They agree to get it all in pre-though and matey is gutted to see Jen's JACKS seeing as he has TENS.  No drama's as the board runs out.

Some local player news


Alan Trueick is the chip leader after taking A-Q versus Michael Murphy's J-J and seeing the sort of flop you quite like when racing overs v pair: A-A-5


The magnificently named Zsomber Gall was far from sombre, or galled, when he bust Peter Krikkay's K-K with 4-4 on a 10-4-2 board. Krikkay had raised in E-P and Zsomber called on the button


Peter Murphy (Irish, who'd have thought?) cracked the Aces of Samuel Lehtonen (Finnish, finished) with K-10 that turned two pair on an innocuous looking board  

Chip leaders, assembled by various blogging teams comparing notes!


Alan Trueick: 181k

Marc McDonnell: 150k (crazy lunatic live player apparently, but capable says another source.Reputation for getting big stacks and blowing them)

Benjamin Juhasz: 145k

Nelius Foley: 135k (Online MTT player, successful) (Screen-name DanceoftheDead on PokerStars)

Rumit Somaiya: 130k

Keith Hawkins: 128k

James Mitchell: 122k

Anders Rasmussen: 115k

Peter Murphy: 110k (Professional Punter from Louth, solid player)

Tyler Bonkowski: 110k

Steven King: 103k

Janne Nevalainen: 95k

The price of poker has risen again:

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Joey Lovelady and James Mitchell join the feature table with Andy Black


First hand up Mitchell raises the button, Lovelady short-stack ships the big blind with K-Q

Mitchell calls with K-K

Queen on the flop, but no further help and Mitchell goes from strength to strength

Thomas "TheBomber" Nolan, who seems to have a limitless capacity for drink is out K-J versus 10-10 and has decimated a big stack

I would criticise further but I am not sure how he got his nick-name. This therefore is a post with prudence and self preservation in mind.


Hard luck "The Bomber" (capital T and B)

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I'm in and had a late night last night, so easy chips for someone!! 

Join us for a bit of banter to pass the night away while we keep track of the Lad's updates.

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See you there!!!

NiK Persaud has moved to Cos's right.

Jonothan Butters is playing the long hard game - 24k

Michael Tureniec is moving into gear. The EPT and EPO runner up got into a pre-flop raising war with John Magill (10th WSOP Main 2006)

Each had about 30x bb and on their backs Tureniec had  8c 8s and MacGill  Ahrt Ks

flop  Kc Qc 9c. Something for everyone

Turn a conclusive  3c and Tureniec wins and moves to 80,000



As Maria said Nik Persuad is alongside Cos, Cos with 55,000 and over the tilty phase it seems


The Camel with 150,000+ (towers of blue 1,000 chips, twenty chips high make it a very orderly stack to count) has moved to a table two to the right of Rob Sherwood with 85,000

Enjoying it ladies and gentlemen?


Requests and interaction please, helps us get that second wind in the middle of a long day!

Well as you asked, chip count for anthony kennedy please

Kara Scott or that TV bird available for pics? If failing any other hottie thats railing?

toby lewis update plz. wish him luck from me  . thanks  ;dewi;

Michael Tureniec has busted in a 250,000 chip pot to make a new chip leader

Tureniec raised to 3,500 pre-flop

Called by Janne Nevaleinen in the big blind

flop  Ad 6d 2d

Nevaleinen leads 7,500, called

turn  Qs  27,000 lead by Nevaleinen, called

River  Kc and Jannes pushes his 100,000 remaining

Turnenic has 80,000 left so all-in to call, for what is a pot sized river shove

Five minutes later he calls and is shown  Qd Jd for the second nuts

Tureniec departs, and later tells interviewers he had top two A-K

Instant gratification.  Just hovered around Toby chatting about everything but poker then this happens:

Matey raises 4,100 in middle position, Toby insta makes it 12,000, matey insta goes all in and has Toby covered.  Toby insta called.

Toby  9s 9h
Matey  Kd 3d

 Ahrt Qs Th  ("always a sweat")

blank blank.

Toby doubles up to 105,000

Toby's opponent in the picture too.

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lol. hes a genius !

"A lot less than before!"
Anthony Kennedy - 25k

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Rumit Somaiya has been mortally wounded

He raised with 10-10 and a "Cake Poker branded Scandie" re-shoved him for 48,000 more

"I had to call, his image was horrible"

So 10-10 was up against 9-J off.


flop 4-9-9 and Rumit is philosophical but short-stacked

This is Andy Miles from Southampton who occasionally plays at DTD

100k

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Stu Brownson - 80k - All table mates of Kennedy's

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Could you find out if there is a certain Ben Dobson still in the tourney please? I fear he is out :(

Marc McDonnell as noted earlier has managed to demolish his top 5 stack. I didn't catch his oponent's name or ID number under a mountain of chips but McDonnell called a raise in the blinds

check called pot sized bets on a  Ahrt 2h Td Jc board

Checked the 9h river and faced a 100,000 river shove. He called after a dwell for the ages and mucked when the raiser showed  Kh Qh


Lots of disbelieving of Flushing boards/scare cards going on today!

opponent was Benjamin Juhasz who is challenging Nevaleinen for the chip lead

gogogogo FLIP FLOP!!

who is it... a leeds based player???

Marc McDonnell now out


With the board reading 8c- 3d 9h 3s. Yann Dion, who is a Wanderer,  led out for 9,700, prompting 2003 Irish Open runner-up Frank Cruess Callaghan to push the remainder of his stack over the line. Dion called without hesitation, and we had a showdown of:

Callaghan: Qs- Qc

Dion: Kd- 3c

Dion had taken the lead on the turn by making trip threes, rendering Callaghan’s Queens almost useless. With only two cards left in the deck that would turn the tables for Frank, the assembled crowd saw a river of the  Ks, giving Dion a Full House, and sending Frank Cruess Callaghan to the rail.


It's tournament Heart goes on time for Dion

Yea Stu Brownson picture above ^^^^^

Apologies that apparently I was just shown on the live feed. I do hope you were not eating, or had warned watching children in advance

They were giving out about the Lad across from you who had gone to McDonald's and not brought any back for them.  Yer safe.  He's off Rebecca's Christmas card list.

Ben Dobson is still in, but has been nursing a short-stack all day. He recently re-raised all with A-10 and ran into A-Q only to river a 10. He is up to 33,000


I gather Ben is/was a student at Nottingham Uni and plays at DTD

cos update pls

just me and you so far