Irish Poker Championships: Final - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Jens Klaning is OUT and becomes the 6th place finisher winning €17,000

Forced down to the felt by the previosu hand, he decided to move all-in from the small blind for his last 67.5k.

John Clancy in the big blind (10k) made the call blind.

Klaning =

Clancy =

Board =

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McDaid calls under the gun, small blind Ciaran Burke makes it up, and Scott Byron checks the big blind.  Flop:  .  Ciaran bets out 70k and faced a raise involving a stack of grey 25k chips from Terry McDaid (after Scott got out of the way).  He eventually passed.  This isn't the first time I've seen him bet out early and get pushed off by a raise from late - I wonder if he's got nothing and bets unappealing flops, releasing if anyone shows interest, or if he's hitting a little bit and just playing it weak.

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Chip counts - unashamedly copied from Tom Murphy's notepad:

Kieran Burke (apologies if I've been spelling this with a 'C' incorrectly)  920,000
Scott Byron       610,000
Terry McDaid     750,000
John Clancy       550,000
Keith Cummins   300,000

[Djinn]

OK - We're going to settle on CIARON for the spelling of Mr. Burke's first name.  You've got to understand, to say some of the names on the original sheet were illegible is an understatement - they bore little relation to language, more like cave paintings. 

[Djinn]

Blinds are now 12k/24k ante 2k.

Chips (roughly)

Ciaron Burke     750,000
Scott Byron      625,000
Terry McDaid    940,000
John Clancy      270,000
Keith Cummins  480,000


Only seen one hand shown, and that was the of Keith who moved in on the button, picking up the blinds and antes.

[snoopy1239]

After Cairon Burke took two sets of blinds in a row, we suddenly found ourselves with a four way pot with Cairon in the Big Blind.

Byron folded, McDaid called 24k, Clancy called, Cummins made up the blinde and Burke checked.

Flop =

Cummins checks, Burke checks, McDaid bets 100k and Clancy, who can is pictured below at this very moment, pushes all-in for 251k.

McDaid makes a swift call only to find his dominated by his opponents

Turn = , River =

Double up for Clancy who is now on over 500k.

[snoopy1239]

Keith Cummins is OUT and becomes the 5th place finisher winning €21,000

Battle of the blinds with John Clancy in the small and Keith Cummins in the big.

Flop =

Clancy bet 100k and Keith called.

Turn =

Clancy checked, Keith moved all-in (pot was around 250 by this point) and Clancy, after a long dwell, made the call with .

As he turned over his , Keith seemed surprised that Clancy had made the call with such a marginal hand.

Either way, the River was close but no cigar and we've lost the man from Kerry.

[Djinn]

Rough Chip Standings

Ciaran Burke    1,100,000
Scott Byron       380,000
Terry McDaid      655,000
John Clancy     1,030,000

Recent action has seen short stack Byron pushing in on the small blind, but getting no call, and Ciaran nicking some blinds.  A hand also got checked down all the way between preflop standard-raiser Terry McDaid and small blind caller Ciaran Burke.  Board:  , and I think it was Ciaran's Ace-high which took that one.

Hmmm.

[snoopy1239]

We almost had an exit, but not quite.

Perhaps influenced by the previous hand in which Byron moved all in from the small blind after Ciarán had limped on the button (he folded), McDaid decided that Byron had a foldable hand once he'd raised 110k the next hand.

McDaid pushed all-in from the small blind but was chagrined to hear Byron announce 'call', and even more dismayed when he saw that his A-3 was dominated by A-K.

The 7-5-7 Flop provided split pot potential, but it never quite arrived as the Turn and River came Ten and Six.

McDaid now down to just over 100k and looks to be the favourite to depart next.

[Djinn]

As expected, Terry McDaid was all-in on the button the next hand, called by both blinds.  It was quickly checked down until the board read .  The all-in player's hand was , and neither John nor Ciaran could beat it.  Treble through.  Back in it.

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Pics of the final four

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=18813.msg382701#msg382701

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Terry McDaid finishes in 4th place, winning €28,000

Not content to sit on his short stack as long as possible, he made a stand with .  But small blind John Clancy wasn't going to let him off by folding, and called with his .  A good decision, especially since an Ace on the flop put Terry in a position from which he was unlikely to recover.  And he didn't.

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HUDDLE!

They've gathered over a list of the payouts.  I think a deal might be afoot.  It looks like Scott Byron is in fact the chip leader, and I think with his experience he's the favourite to win it, so if he's up for dealing I think he'll find agreement...

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HUDDLE RESULT:

1st is now €114,000
2nd is now €75,000
3rd is now €55,000

That seems reasonable.  Less top-heavy, but still not a chop or a crapshoot-generator.  Nearly €60k between third and first place still.  Off they go.

[Djinn]

A huge pot to preface the latest elimination hand now -

800,000 chips have gotten in by the river, half from Ciaran Burke and half from Scott Ryan - they're looking at and Ciaran thinks for a while before calling the 200k bet on the river.  He's shown Scott's for the straight, and is severely shortened.

So much so that he's all in pretty soon with against Scott Byron's .
Flop: 
Turn:    Now there's real hope...
River:    But that's not it and so Ciarán Burke is the 3rd place finisher, taking €55,000



Approx chip counts:

Scott Byron -- 2 million
John Clancy -- 1 million