Irish Poker Championships: Day 1 - Interactive

[action man]

hi jen! see u in bolton next week

[Djinn]

Yes indeed.  January has a lot of stuff lined up (I'm not at my most eloquent after a few miles of hiking in the chill winds) - so we'll be following it from country to country as and when it happens...

As for this tournament they've already lost one player (thereby simultaneously creating a chip leader) and if the board can be believed they're down from 270 runners to 269.

[snoopy1239]

Hey all, bit of a trek into the middle of nowhere this one, but I've had my s.s.s and am raring to go.

No player list as of yet, but I have someone on the case.

[snoopy1239]

According to the dude on the mike, Terry Grimley is the early (very early) chipleader after eliminating Shaf from England.

[NoflopsHomer]

  Snoops and Jen, please wish I.C Wiener all the best from me.

[NoflopsHomer]

According to the dude on the mike, T Grimley is the early (very early) chipleader after eliminating Shaft from England.

Damn right.

[Djinn]

And no, the board can't be believed - the announcer just announced that the runners are over the 300 mark (they're going with a tentative 302) so that means a prize pool has been generated topping €400k, better than last year's record... more on that as it's confirmed.

[snoopy1239]

A few participants for you...

tikay
George Geary
A Hayles
Ian Woodley
Rob Taylor
Chris Huyton
Dan Smith
John Tabatabai
Chris Smith
Matt Tyler
Toni Dicesare
Mats Iremark
Jim Kerrigan
Iwan Jones
Karl Marhenholz
Carlo Citrone
Praz Bansi
Roy Brindley
Jim Mgill
Mick McColoskey
Tom McCready
Padraig Parkinson
David McGreachie
Mick McCool
C Constantinou
Joe Grech
Jim Reid
Ryan Fronda
Thomas Dunwoody
Liam Flood

I'm still pushing for a player list so I can update our Irish viewers on some of the locals. Failing that, I'll go in for the kill and just ask them their names.

[snoopy1239]

OOOO, yes please .  . .

Team BadBeat

-Chris 'zim' Smith
-Dan 'dakid' Smith (sorry, no picture)
-John 'Kunkuwap' Tabatabai . . . . troublesome bunch!

Thank you very much!

meds

I'll keep an eye out.

[Colchester Kev]

Has Ali made the trip ?

[Djinn]

The tournament area is one of those Convention Centres, but a particularly plush one (see pictured chandeliers).  In fact, this whole hotel is pretty plush, with its own golf course and helipad (there was a miniscule helicopter resting on this as we did what can only be described as our ascent of the Drive).  Which makes it all the more irritating that we've had to pay €30 for the privilege of using the Wifi - I'm not sure how convention goers like this kind of charge, but updaters, generally a poorer, meeker class of attendee, don't like it one bit.

[Djinn]

A view of the room, either side of our central command post (we're on a kind of raised dais right in the middle which gives us a great overview of the tournament).  Hopefully when we spot something happening, it will be happening to the 3% of players we currently know...

[snoopy1239]

Huuuuuuge action from Table RED/DOG/Chatta

Irishman, Sean Fagen, is OUT.

A-A vs 7-7 vs 5-5 on an x-5-7-x board.

Fagen held the Aces, the chap in the foreground with the headphones (can anyone name him?) had the Sevens and Terry Grimley (early chip leader who eliminated Shaf) was the unlucky set over set guy with Fives.

A blank on the River and Mr headphones took down the pot, although Grimley scooped the sidepot with his Fives.

[snoopy1239]

Has Ali made the trip ?

No sign of Ali, and Maria isn't playing either... although she is present.

Off down the Fitzwilliam soon, apparantly.

[snoopy1239]

10k starting chips.
310 entries
£418,500 prize pool
Blinds start at 25/50 before rising to 50/100, which is in 20 minutes time.