Paddy Power Irish Open: Day 1 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Antonio Esfandiari, Praz Bansi, Peter Gould and Jim Kerrigan are all OUT.

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Barney Boatman is OUT.

"It just wasn't my day," he said in defeat.

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Nicolas Levi is also OUT.

He was down to just 2.5k after a torrid first few levels, and found himself up against 8-8 after re-raising from the blind with A-2. No help arrived.

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Joe Beevers is down to 4k.

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Pascal Perrual and Jennifer Tilley are both OUT, the latter ran a straight into a bigger one.

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Meanwhile, the bad beat of the day goes to Stephen McLean, who had Aces v Kings on a K-A-3 flop, but was outdrawn by Quads on the River.

[Djinn]

OK, I counted chips until the world started to go fuzzy round the edges - the order in which these appear is the order I got to the tables, therefore the further they are from the start of the list, the more likely they are to be still accurate:

Jeff Kimber    10,300
Tony Chessa   15,900
Padraig Parkinson  7,000
Iwan Jones       6,150
Markus Golser    4,175
Rob Yong         8,800
Mickey Wernick  4,400
Peter Eichhardt   10,700
Thomas Fougeron  9,625
Paul Jackson         10,550
Dave O'Callaghan   14,200
Michael Greco       10,650
Nick Slade           12,300  (Paul Gourlay told me last break, "he's either out or been in the loo for two levels."  It was the latter.)
Pippa Flanders     9,325
Pascal Perrault     OUT
Mel Judah           6,800
Phil Laak             5,350
Stuart Nash        5,300
Julian Thew        4,025
Ali Mallu              7,250
Karl Mahrenholz    4,025
Tim Flanders        9,600
Nicolas Levi           3,850
Santi                   13,350
Julian Gardner       7,200
Priyan                  10,300
Tony Mackay        17,500
Paul Zimbler          38,000
Bambos                9,200
Dave McGeachie    9,200
Mad Marty            30,000  ("Tell them I'm playing disciplined poker.")
Paul Higgins          11,800
Neil Channing        10,950
Brendan McHugh    11,550
Arnaud Mattern      16,350
Rolf Slotboom         3,600
Ramzi Jelassi           4,850
Jimmy Fricke           12,275
Annette_15           12,000
Surinder Sunar        10,700
Dan Smith              19,675
Roy Brindley           10,700
Billy Ngo                20,100
Rumit Somaiya       24,300  ("I am three-level Rumit now")
Ross Boatman        10,600
Ram Vaswani          32,000
Jesse Jones            19,800
Ash Hussain            5,100
Peter Roche           23,600
Ian Woodley           10,800
Cristiano Blanco          8,200
Patric Martensson      12,900
Azad Pirooti              27,000
Liam O'Brian             10,750
Stephen Pearce        32,400
Fredrik Hostrup         10,050
Jules Adamson         12,650
Kevin O'Connell        11,475
Carl Hostrup            18,600
Jonas Molander         9,750
Mad Turk                 20,000
Carlo Citrone             12,800
Roberto Romanello     5,300
Richard Ashby           17,000
Willie Tann                23,000
Chris Smith                7,000  (That's what he told me to say)

[Djinn]

Dave Masters (whose stack has apparently now recovered to 19k after this) just lost a chunky pot to neighbour (Patrick Rath, according to my list).  With the blinds at 100/200 he raised to 1,875 over two limpers (as you do).  Rath called out of position - the flop:
  Rath checked in the dark, Dave bet out 3k almost immediately.  A decent think later, "Clock!" calls Dave and his opponent called, gingerly.
Turn:    Now Rath moves in for around 5,500.  Dave calls, with - he sees against him.
River:    and it's the flush, in the end, which officially wins that big pot.  "What a call preflop..." marvels Dave Masters, and I'm inclined to agree with him...

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€2,336,400 collected
10k starting stack
561/708 remaining
150/300 blinds
Average stack = 12,600

[Djinn]

George Danzer is OUT - and bravely volunteered his story:

Down to under 5k, he said, "I meant to raise to 300 with K-5."  Alarm bells went off - this wasn't going to be pretty... He actually threw in 3,000 and when the big blind pushed he had to put in his last 1,200...facing A-K it was a quick walk of shame, and he said, "I'll see you in Vegas..."

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Rory Matthews -- 15,285
Philip Starrs -- 14,550
Graham Clarkson -- 8,400
Dave Colclough -- 8,750
Rob Yong -- 12,450
Paul Jackson -- 8,300
Paul Gourlay -- 5,100

Michael Greco, Nik Slade, Ash Hussain and Matt Tyler all OUT.

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Mickey Wernick is OUT, and it was with those Darn Queens that seem to haunt him.

Con O'Sullivan the assassin with Ace King.

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Chris Smith is on 11k. He was down to 4k at one point, but nicked his way up to 5.5k before doubling up with Nines vs. Ace King.

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Ian Herbert raised it up to 800, Mark O'Donnell made it 2,400, Ian pushed and Mark called for 3k more.

Whilst Ian nervously revealed his Pocket Tens, perhaps thinking that at best he was in a coinflip situation, Mark showed a rather intriguing , which, come the board, failed to improve, subsequently ending his stint in the comp.

[Djinn]

And let's not leave out Paul Zimbler, who's lost a bit after his early lead... his table encouraged him to relate how he "gave away chips"- once someone "didn't lay down AK" to a big re-raise, and another time Paul's Queens bet a K-9-6 flop (2k) got called, checked the 6 turn and tried to get the other guy off the 9 river with a 4.5k bet.  K-Q wasn't having it, and that was another 7k chunk out of his chip tower.  Still over 15k, though.
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Julian Thew:  "Up over 10k at last."  He called a button's raise with , and they both checked the 3-4-6 flop.  The turn brought a - now the button bet 1,100, Julian made it 2,600 and was called.  River:  (making a flush possible) and Julian checked his top pair, and then called the Button's 4,500 bet  - he was shown the busted flop up'n'down draw in return, and is now on 15,700.

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The wonderfully named Oliver Spagnuolo is OUT, moving in with Q-J but finding himself in a 4-way pot against Kings, Queens and a mucked hand.

The board read , meaning Sorel Mizzi took the lion's share (although not the whole pot) with the cowboys.

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John Webb -- 29,800
Mike Sexton -- 37,775
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 16,500
Jon Wong -- 18,325
John Exley -- 12,325
John Kelly -- 1,200
Paul Jackson -- 19,450
Danny McHugh -- 15,850
Ian Palmer -- 5,200
JP Kennedy -- 25,750
Sharon Goldman -- 15,350
John Cooney -- 17,600
John Kabbaj -- 12,900
Dave Callaghan -- 11,400
Thomas Fougeron -- 22,800
Ian Broadrick -- 23,300
Martino Libertini -- 12,100
Kay Hollis -- 5,100
Klaus Haunschmidt -- 3,125
Bo Sehlstedt -- 20,500
Tony Chessa -- 13,175
Jay O'Toole -- 5,750
Paul Daly -- 18,900
Sheamus O'Reilley -- 11,775
Owen Mullan -- 14,525
Michael Hunt -- 4,050
Mick Fletcher -- 7,725
Jeff Kimber -- 19,550
Christian Tardia -- 16,225
Michael Dwyer -- 9,675
Thomas Loersch -- 8,250
Eoghan O'Dea -- 5,050
Joe O'Neill -- 14,750

Just as I left that table, Joe O'Neill lost most of his chips with Queens v Kings.

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Dave Colclough is OUT.

Down to 6k, re-popped with Sevens, but was called by A-K and outdrawn in the coinflip.

[Djinn]

Updates on Sorel Mizzi (imper1um) , Jeff Garza (ActionJeff) and Annette_15 plz. For the online railbirds out there! Oh yeah gobboboy too.

I know that Gobboboy has exited (the majority chip dent from running A-K into A-A with the likely consequence)... will check on the others in next circuit.

Other counts, which you didn't exactly ask for but are surely interesting and might as well go up while the Wifi's good:

Azad Pirooti       43,000
Jonas Molander  13,800
Ryan Fronda        8,900
Simon Mycock    42,000
Ruben Gravlien   52,000
Andy Black         16,000+
Mick McCloskey   42,000
Roland de Wolfe   56,000
Martyn Cavanagh  19,200