Paddy Power Irish Open: Day 2 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

They've just switched TV table to the Molander/de Wolfe one and spread the previous one's contents throughout the room (sigh).  Plus, a table just broke - pandemonium with all the spectators sneaking in and being shifted out every few minutes.  Here are a few more counts, though:

Jarund Strand     35,800
Liam Reddin        17,000
Andy O'Flaherty   61,000
Paul Gourlay        113,000
David Barker        44,000
Billy Ngo             51,000
Philip Starrs         28,000
Andrew O'Leary   18,100
Stuart Hill            40,300
Surinder Sunar     70,000+
Jules Adamson     75,000
Thomas Fougeron  86,000
Dan Smith             75,000  (the last five are on the same table, lots of tall, hard-to count stacks, but more chips than any other, I reckon)
Ram Vaswani        57,000
Ivar Borthen         120,000  (just knocked someone out with JJ vs AK adding a good 30k to his stack)
William Johnstone    104,000
David Kierins           24,500
Dan Harrington       30,000

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Mike Sexton ('some American', as BA Kildalen called him) has just eliminated the bubbly and forever smiling Willomena Connolly, semi-reluctantly (he said 'Oh Boy' in true Sam Beckett manner) calling the 5.8k all-in from the big blind with .

Willomena turned over , and was happy with the Flop, but her delight soon turned to chagrin as the River brought a King.

[Djinn]

Hartwith has had an interesting hand with Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, which could have been a lot bigger than it was... Jules raised with the , got Thomas calling (I imagine his table image is more like jello than granite).  Flop:  7-3-7  He bet, and thought he heard Thomas say, "All in."  So faster than fast he announced, "Call," and flipped his Aces over. 
In fact, his opponent had said, "Raise," hence a Ruling:  he can no longer create action.

They check it down and Fougeron's Eights escape giving Jules the extra 20k he was going to raise on the flop. 

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Philip Rosenberg is up to 60k after winning a bit pot with Aces v Ace Queen.

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Two Irish Daves are OUT in O'Callaghan and Masters.

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All-in preflop.

Jerker Eriksson =

Mikael Lindback =

Board =

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Chip counts for many of the players requested today:

Maz Nawab -- 97,200
George Geary -- out
Billy Ngo -- 62,700
Billy Johnstone -- 108,100
Chris Moorman -- 86,800
Bryan O'Connell -- 26,200
Brian Johnson -- 26,200
Ian Frazer -- 66,800
David Poole -- 38100
S Mizzi -- 41,300
Mick McCloskey -- 40,600
Danny McHugh -- 55,100
Alan Betson -- 49,500
Arnaud Mattern -- 24,900
John Conroy -- 37,200
Reyaaz Mula -- 21,400
Simon Childs -- 18,000

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The enigmatic Torres Santiago is OUT, all-in against last year's finalist, Jon Wong, with vs. .

Board =

[Djinn]

Lots of Drama, No Call News Now:

1)  Moorman gets it all in and is given the full dwell before a pass.

2)  Someone looks to have just pulled the all-in lever in Mad Marty's head - twice in a row he's pushed in preflop, once on the small blind for a little under 30k and then the very next hand on the button.  The second time he gets the third degree dwell from both blinds, Brian Johnson and big blind Cristiano Blanco, who really did have a decision.  Mad Marty kept up the expected verbal assault all the way through both all-ins, nattering, "You wanna play softball or hardball?" at dwelling Blanco, at which Brian adds, "You play cricket."

He changes tack, saying, "Italy's a long way from here...you play for two days, want to go out now?  Just put your hand in the middle. [pause] Clock!"

Drawn like an embroidered-denim ant to peanut butter, Devilfish shows up as the table becomes thronged by paparazzi. 
"Don't you touch me, you jinx!" shouts Marty.
"That's not what you said last night," responds the Fish.

Cristiano passes face up, and the insanity continues.

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John 'The Rockstar' Conroy has doubled up with vs. all-in pre-flop, not sure he liked the first two cards though...



Raymond McKenna the victim.

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Samuel Monigadon has just made a good call, but been punished by the board.

Mike Sexton raised it up, Monigadon called, Mateyboy on the big blind pushed, Sexton folds, Monigadon calls.

vs.

Board =

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The 100k Club:

Cyril Bensovssan -- 205,500
Paul Dooley -- 175,200
Nicolai Kostakis -- 144,200
Christian Lohmann -- 144,100
Peter Eastgate -- 124,500
Maz Nawab -- 121,800
Paul Gourlay -- 118,200
Dan Smith -- 108,800
Julian Adamson -- 103,500
Eduards Kudrjavevs -- 100,500

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott is OUT, eliminated from the feature table after re-raising A-7 with Kings. The Kings opted not to fold.

More news...

Julian Thew went busto (all the cool cats are saying that) a while back at the hands of Ian Woodley, moving over the top of the Londoner with A-5 and being called (Woodley was committed) by K-J. A-J-x-x-K board

[Djinn]

Mad Turk Yucel Eminoglu whispers in Paul Gourlay's ear...and it might have been something like:

"I am Climber of the Day, without a doubt.  I was down to just 8,000 and am now comfortably topping 100k!  Like you!  One huge pot I took off that guy who came third in Monte Carlo - he bluffed me for 40k and I called him with Ace high."

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A yelp from the corner of the room lures me over, and before I get there I see the familiar figure of Mad Turk jumping up from his seat and punching the air in that energetic way that many Walsall regulars will be accustomed to.

"Yeah, baby!" exclaims Turk as the pot is pushed towards him.

A-K vs. the A-Q of someone who I believe to be Alan Gilmore (I'll need to confirm this), and we're a player down, but a Turk up... 150k in fact.

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Meanwhile, there's a battle of who can look the most serious being undertaken by Irishman Joe Rafferty (if anyone looked Irish, it'd be this man) and flying Swede (he can't really fly) Jonas Molander.

With Jonas eying up his opponent's every move on every street like a wolf stalking its prey, Joe Raffery bets the Flop (8k) and Turn (12k) of a board, only to to check the River. Jonas, intense as ever, also checked, and showed , possibly afraid that his opponent was trap-checking the River.

Much to the amusement of the rest of the table, Joe revealed and we had a chop chop situation.

[Djinn]

Dan Harrington is OUT - The huge stacked button raised his big blind and he moved in after a think - about 25k or so - called instantly by .  He held .
Flop: 
Turn:    Suddenly he's got 16 outs for the river
River:    That wasn't one of them and he gets a special mention and a round of applause as he exits the roped-off area.

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Thomas Fougeron is OUT.

Made a move with with , but was picked off by Ian Fraser and his .

board.

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Mick McCloskey has the cake... a big three tier one!

Chris Moorman raised under the gun.

Robin Lacey called.

Mick McCloskey pushed for 60k.

Chris Moorman called all-in for about the same figure.

Robin Lacey called.

Robin Lacey =

Chris Moorman =

Mick McCloskey --

Board =

Chris Moorman exits.

Robin Lacey cries into his 10k stack.

Mick McCloskey goes all antsy in his pantsy.

[Djinn]

A few quick counts (getting more difficult as the stacks reach skywards and no sign of a chip higher than 1k):

Ram Vaswani   54k
Terry McDaid   88k
Cristiano Blanco  30,100
Mad Marty         30k
Eddie Gorman   9,400
Tim Flanders     130k
Brian O'Connell   100k
Billy Ngo            88k
Paul Dooley      230k
John Wong       65k
Ian Frazer         46k
Chris Smith        110k
BA Kildalen        27k
Sorel Mizzi         250k(?) just involved in large pot, story coming...
Mick McCloskey   170k
Rosey Bensley    26k
Paul Gourlay       175k
Bruce Yamron     50k
Surinder Sunar    30k
Mad Turk            160k
Roland de Wolfe   36k
David Benyamine  69k
Jules Adamson      160k
David Barker         56k

Carolyn Manson is OUT, eliminated by Roland de Wolfe.