Irish Poker Championships: Day 1 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Dave Masters is OUT.

Moved all-in with 2-2, but found 2 callers in Eddie The Eagle (??) and Lam Trinh.

Just caught the action at the Turn with a board of .

Lam bet 4k and Eddie called, but the Jack of Hearts River was checked down and Trinh scooped a big pot with A-T of spades.

As a result, Lam Trinh is now on around 45k.

[Djinn]

Missing presumed lost:

Joe Grech
Lawrence Grosney
Padraig Parkinson

Well, I know that Joe Grech is still in, with 19,200 unless he's gone in the last minute and a half.  The others seem pretty OUT though, along with Jim Kerrigan, Sunny Chattha, Kunkuwap and lots more (down to a nearly-round 201 players).

Some more counts:

Ian Woodley     7,000
Karl Mahrenholz  11,300
Smurf               28,000
Dan Smith         33,000
Ryan Fronda      10,150
Matt Tyler          2,700
George Geary    8,500
Jim Reid            7,000


Meanwhile, Nik Slade has just eliminated Ashley Hayles with Q-6 vs A-9, 6 came.


Average Stack = 15,735
Next Level = Level 7, 200/400 (5)
197/310 remaining

[snoopy1239]

Huge pot and shocking acting news now...

10k+ already in the pot.

The board is

Kevin Parkes (from London but recently moved to Sheffield - how's that for detail??) checks

Tim Gillig (who I believe is German) bets 8.5k.

Kevin Parkes pauses for a moment before waving his hands and saying "Okay, okay, I'm moving all-in".

Tim calls for his last 11k.

Kevin (who had 12k in change), shows .

Tim revealed A-K off.

River brings a harmless 4.

Big pot, but not quite the biggest.

Kevin Parkes now has around the 60k mark, whilst Tim Gillig is OUT.

[Djinn]

Decision for John Poland - he'd raised preflop after an early limper to 1,750 (blinds 200/400 ante 50).  The limper took his time and called.
Flop:  .  Limper - Thomas Finneran - checks, John bet 3,500 (leaving himself around 10k behind).  Thomas moves in, with a slightly bigger stack.
The dwell that came after looked as tortured as they get, with the talking-to-himself and the pot counting and everything.  But eventually he passes and would clearly liked to have seen to what...

[snoopy1239]

181 left, average stack = 17,127...

Enda MacGearty -- 7,450
Richie Lawler -- 21,475
Matt Tyler -- 16,775
Jim Reid -- 5,275
Roy Brindley -- 22,750
Lam Trinh -- 40,200
Rob Taylor -- 23,600
Ken Powell -- 24,475
Conor Smyth -- 16,550
Michael Muldoon -- 12,300
Paul Morrow -- 33,000
David McGreachie -- 7,050
Nik Slade -- 17,000
John Keown -- 50,000
Rob Garfield -- 5,625
Karl Mahrenholz -- 12,300
Eddie the Eagle -- 3,450
Joe Grech -- 14,175
Chris Huyton -- 8,775
Ian Woodley -- 15,825
Noel Hayes -- 16,800
Carlo Citrone -- 12,600
Christie Smith -- 8,200
C Constantinou -- 25,800
George Geary -- 6,725
Peter Evans -- 13,600
Thomas Dunwoody -- 17,625
tikay -- 11,075
Toni Dicesare -- 8,650
Terry Grimley -- 66,200


The following players are all OUT:

Mick McCool
Dave Masters
Ashley Hayles
Lawrence Gosney
Jim Kerrigan
Iwan Jones
John Magill
Padraig Parkinson
John Tabatabai
Liam Flood
Chaz Chatta
Ian Frazer


Missing, presumed lost:

Ryan Fronda
Alan McLean

[Djinn]

I see Matt doing some explaining, as he walks off his table with no chips and the rest of the players are scattered around the room.  "Rivered again," he mutters downheartedly.  "I turned the straight, but his trips housed up on the river."  He was, until now, vying with Nick Slade for "Yo-Yo of the day" but seeing as he's just been eliminated that leaves Mr. Slade to take the trophy.

[Djinn]

Carlo Citrone is OUT.  He flopped two pair to someone else's straight.  Short and sharp and no house on the river for him.

And so is David McGeachie.

[Djinn]

Elsewhere - Tikay has managed to turn his 22k a few levels ago into a danger-zone 7,800, as the blinds have risen to 300/600 ante 75.  Just saw him moving in on the cutoff, and although Stephen MacLean (stack - 21k) gave him a good staredown from the small blind, he got that one through.  It was all too much for me to stay and watch that though, so I wandered around as Snoopy said, vulture-like.

I found Joe Grech doing what looked like some shortish stack grinding (I don't know for sure but I think he's been under 20k pretty much all the time), just now raising with and showing to the passers...

Also:  Paul Higgins   18,250
Thomas Dunwoody  28,000   because they were in roughly the same quadrant and I have sore feet.

[snoopy1239]

Colette Murphy -- 36,250
John Keown -- 53,150
Noel Mannion -- 24,100
Mats Iremark -- 28,875
Roy Brindley -- out
Christie Smith -- out

[Djinn]

With a mere 15 minutes of play tonight remaining, they're down to 138 players, with one dropping a minute, it feels like.

Nick Slade was one of them.  I know because his name was just called over the tannoy for him to go to his €500 sit'n'go.  Professional or what?

[snoopy1239]

Just 5 minutes remaining....

Nik Slade -- 14.7k
tikay -- 15.5k
Lam Trinh -- 75.1k
C Constantinou -- 28.6k
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 22.0k
Colette Murphy -- 33.2k
Jim Reid -- 7.8k
Ian Woodley -- 12.6k
Richie Lawler -- 22.2k
Mike Maree (sp?) -- 22.0k
Colette Murphy -- 36.1k
Shane Geary -- 50.2k
John Keown -- 63.7k

Some other counts, seeing as when play ends in less than five minutes, we are going to make a dignified retreat and go to bed before we collapse...

Rob Taylor     14,500
Dan Smith      24,000
John Poland    7,000
Patrick Stephens Jr.  32,000
Sligo John       49,000
Damien Cavagh  17,000
Shaun Bollard     9,500
Thomas Finneran  36,000
Noel Minnion       20,600
Chris Huyton        18,300
Kevin Parkes        63,900
Noel Hayes          14,200

[Djinn]

Final Counts from some bags, spotted by Snoopy in a last ditch count:

B. Cunningham      10,100
Sean Paul Fagan    17,000
Robin Mahadaz      15,700
Paul Roper            55,700
Damien Callaghan   6,300
Kieran Tregen       15,900
Alan Swan            14,200
Barry Donovan       34,800
Paul Cooney          13,300
Kieron Small          21,000
Tikay                   13,600
Patrick Tobin        23,300
Manus Burk           7,800
C. Constantinou    23,200