Irish Poker Championships: Day 2 - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Dermot Jacob -- 42,800

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Stephen McLean -- 47,800

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Sligo John -- 58,400

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Shane Cleary -- 64,200

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Phil Harris -- 6,900

[Djinn]

Double through for Bernard Dunne (champion boxer guy) off Stephen MacLean -

Stephen raised to 6k (blinds 1k/2k) and found Bernard on the button moving in for another 14,600 on top.  A great big dwell followed:
"Here's your chance to say you knocked me out."  (This was only funny to me in retrospect when I found out he was a famous boxer).
"Or doubled you up," mused MacLean.  Eventually, he called with , but found against him.
The flop brought straight split outs for Stephen as well as a Queen - , but the harmless came next and that's a 20k hole in MacLean's stack.

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Timely double up for Eoin Olin who takes a chunk out of Dan Smith's monstrous stack.

All-in on a Flop of with Pocket Jacks, Eoin, who ran well in the Dublin EPT, fends off Dan's with great ease, especially when he fills  up on the Turn.

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Double through for Bernard Dunne (champion boxer guy) off Stephen MacLean -

Boxer or no boxer, I layed down the challenge, suggesting we go at it if he finds a few spare minutes.

"Yeah, now worries, don't forget to bring a couple of mates," replied Bernard.

I pointed to the guns. "These are the mates I'l be bringing along"

 

He soon backed down.

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Blinds about to go up to 1,500/3,000 with a running ante of (200)

There are currently 52 of the original 310 remaining with the average stack at 59,615.

The 750 is also underway, involving the likes of Nick Slade, Ken Powell, Tom McCready, Ian Woodley and many more. Field of 160 I believe.

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Dermot Jacob -- 42,800

Is this guy like the "nike" angel?
Or do you need to take some more photography lessons snoop? To augment what you learnt in Amsterdam

Good news. Northern monkeys liverpool getting spanked by Arsenal. Northern monkeys. 

[snoopy1239]

And here is your current chip leader (who was Day 1 chip leader too)... Lam Trinh with 240k.

Looks pretty laid back about it.

[Djinn]

Threeway min-raise pot, it looked like, with a flop of .  Tommy Watson in the big blind bet out 9,000, the player in the middle passed and late position Le called.  The turn brought the .  Check-check.
River:  .  Tommy checks again, and checks behind.  Very wise not to take a shot at it, considering he got shown for a nice big house...

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Dermot Jacob -- 42,800

Is this guy like the "nike" angel?
Or do you need to take some more photography lessons snoop? To augment what you learnt in Amsterdam

Good news. Northern monkeys liverpool getting spanked by Arsenal. Northern monkeys. 

Unfortunately, he has one of the funny caps that have a shiny silver rim at the front. Reflects right back and ruins the photo. Bah!

[Djinn]

Dan Smith bluffs off a few chips to a big blind, having limped in mid position and checked it down heads up until the board read .  The smallish-stacked big blind then bet 7k on the river, and Dan raised him a further 16k.  Even though it was most of his stack to call, something must not have sat right about this raise (why so much, hmmm?) and he called, winning it with the for a pair of Jacks.  Not too dented, Mr. Smith, though.

[Djinn]

*****************************DINNER BREAK**************************

If it's anything like yesterday's, we'll be back in an hour, having tried some mystery stew and drunk a gallon of coffee.  See you then.