Irish Poker Championships: Day 1 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

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Back 10pm.

[snoopy1239]

John Magill is OUT...

received a nice round of applause.

Joe Grech -- 12,950
Dave McGreachie -- 11,425
Iwan Jones -- 13,000
George Geary -- 12,950
Matt Tyler -- 12,225
Nik Slade -- 31,200

[Djinn]

Now slightly overtaken in chips, Daniel Smith is still well ahead of the field.  He won a very chunky pot with , flopping the wheel (two spades on board), but finding the against him ready to commit the whole lot.  Not the most comfortable turn and river to dodge, I'd imagine, but dodge it he did, rocketing him up over 26k pre dinner break.

[Djinn]

With 268 players remaining, some random chip counts are making their way to the announcer, and thence to me.  Average chips is around 11,500.

Paul Morrow     20,000
Roy Brindley      19,000
RED-DOG          15,000
Tikay                 6,550
Thomas Nolan    5,000
Alan McLean      10,000

[snoopy1239]

Bedlam on Table Slade:

First Asheley Hayles doubles up (and a bit extra) to around 20k with A-J.

Raised 800 pre-flop, 2 callers, including Nik Slade with .

Bet 2.5k on Flop, Nik calls.

All-in on blank Turn, Nik calls.

No diamond or 5.



Then, just a few hands later, David McGreachie is forced down to the felt, losing a A-K vs Q-Q race on an unaiding 6-5-T-4-6 board.

[snoopy1239]

Lawrence Gosney is down to 7,425 after his 2.4k bet on a 4c-6h-5h-Th board was re-raised to 7k. Gosney folded.

(1) Terry McDead -- 26,350
(2) Phil Harris -- 3,950
(3) Noel Haze -- 5,225
(4) Peter Rodjers -- 7,75
(5) Toni Dicesare -- 10,000
(6) Peter Rahir -- 6,050
(7) Kevin Hicky -- 14,075
(8) Warren Woodall -- 5,100
(9) Lawrence Gosney -- 7,425
(10) Tommy Gawghrobe -- 12,525

Roy Brindley -- 21,725
Tom McCready -- 10,300
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 18,200
Dave Masters -- 13,200
C Constantinou -- 20,225
Rob Taylor -- 12.6k
Ryan Fronda -- 9,550
Rob Garfield -- 8,100
Jim Reid -- 5,900
Chris Huyton -- 12,450
Joe Grech -- 12,375
Mark Billig -- 17,450
Praz Bansi -- 12,900
Michael Muldoon -- 16,300
Ken Powell -- 17,175
Chaz Chattha -- 3,400
Padraig Parkinson -- 6,025
Ian Woodley -- 8,800
Sean O'Liathais -- 6,375
Mark McGeaver -- 4,125
Mick Dorn (sp?) -- 7,750
Paul Roper -- 34,800
Dave Lane -- 25,900
Collette Murphy -- 32,200
Mark Spellman -- 13,525
Ian Frazer -- missing, presumed lost

[Djinn]

RED-DOG has dropped to 9,200 after a preflop raise-off between him (the cutoff, ) and the loose, but chip-leading big blind.  Tom made it 600 to go, the big blind made it 1,800, Tom re-raised by a further 4k, and then when the big blind moved in, he passed, to the Aces.  Ah well, back to the starting chips.

[Djinn]

Going Up

Blinds now 150/300
Players remaining 255

They're going to need all of all three days for this tournament.  No early nights for us.

[snoopy1239]

Joe McDermitt is OUT.

Eliminated by Roy the Boy who had vs Joe's on a Flop.

Turn came the leading to Roy clapping his hands and saying "That's my card, baby!"

River was a harmless and Brindley takes down a big pot.





A quick Irish update for you now...

The following have all bitten the dust:

Brendan Walls
Micahel O'Sullivan
Keiran Walsh (who won this event last year)

[Djinn]

Dan Smith is looking quietly confident, or at least showing the relaxation of one who has a lot of chips, and has the table convinced now that he's not afraid to use them.  Just now he found in the big blind, and a short stack had raised to 1,000 in late position.  He quickly re-raised enough to put the short stack all in (around 5k) and got the call.  was the hand he was up against.
The board came .  "No one raise my big blind," said Dan.  It sounded more like a statement than a warning.  He's up over the 30k mark.

[Djinn]

RED-DOG is out...

Dwindled to around 6k, he found and raised to 1,200 after there had been two limpers.  Both called.  The flop came , and when it was checked to him, the rest of the chips went in.  Pass from one opponent, call from the other, whose had spiked the set to knock Tom out on Day One.  He doesn't look too unhappy, as the side events look pretty good.

[snoopy1239]

Blinds up 150/300 with a 25 running ante.

220 players left


Meanwhile... Tony Harvey takes a big hit off Sylvester Geogheghan with Aces versus Sevens all-in pre-flop. 7 on the River.

[Djinn]

Breaking news - Dan Smith doesn't just call or raise, he also passes sometimes - calling the small blind's raise on the big blind with , he hit a flop pretty well. He called a 2k bet here, but then when the came on the turn, several different alarms went off when his opponent just moved all in quickly.  One of them was right, and the one which put him in the worst shape - he was up against and by passing here he lost just a chunk rather than more than half of his stack.  On 25k now.

[Djinn]

Chips retrieved from the ether, but I think thanks are really due to Antes Up...

Sligo John 19,000
Iwan Jones  8,000
Padraig Parkinson  7,000
Paul Campbell    19,000
Pat O'Callaghan -- 20,000
Alan Swan -- 35,000
Jim Reid     7,000
Dave Masters   6,000
tikay 9,000


Matt Tyler is down to just 5k after having his Aces busted against A-T and Q-Q.

Queen first card.

[Djinn]

Iwan Jones is OUT.

Thanks to Fintan Gavin for this tidbit, and many thanks for the warm welcome he's given blonde, complete with Guinness delivered to the press cage. 

Enda MacGearty -- 16,050
Pat O'Callaghan -- 20,000
Roy Brindley -- 40,275
Alan Betson -- 13,450
tikay -- 18,400
Rob Garfield -- 6,550
Peter Evans -- 9,400
John Morris -- 22,000
Praz Bansi -- 5,475
Kevin Buckley -- 23,000
Nick Slade -- 3,500
Carlo Citrone -- 14,700
Terry Grimley -- 68,000
Ashley Hayles -- 2,125
Dave Johnson -- 17,175
Mats Iremark -- 23,250
Dave Masters -- 1,325
Rob Taylor -- 27,125
Alan Swan -- 35,000
Kevin Parkes -- 36,000