Paddy Power Irish Open: Day 3 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Last Longerest Dusk Till Dawner Paul Zimbler says he's like totally psyched (I paraphrase).  Chipped up (over 600k) and not too worried, as it turns out, at being sat right next to monster chip leader Roland.  He was comfortable on the TV table, playing a few hands which might get on TV - he says he pushed off five limpers with 9-9 from the big blind once, plus got the Aces, but re-raised too much preflop - he says he was hoping the overbet would tempt in a small pair...

Of his J-Q preflop call of a short stack's raise and subsequent push on the flop he is unrepentant - even though he was called by A-K and won by spiking a Jack, he reckons that pushing on a raggy flop was a good chance for him to win it...

As for his opponents, he rates young Canadian Sorel Mizzi highly, but is looking to get "me and Roland heads up." 

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First hand back and we've lost one in Peter Peter Maughan.

All-in with , Peter runs into the of Julian Adamson, which holds up on a board.

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Roland raises it up to 60k, Darrin Melwani moves all-in and Roland calls.

vs.

Board =

Melwani doubles through.

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Jules Adamson loses one - to the highly popular fox O'Keefe:

Raising to 40k, O'Keefe called and they saw a 7-8-4 flop.  O'Keefe immediately moved in, forcing a pass (and show of ) from Jules.
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Roland's armour somewhat cracked:  He gets Glen McCabe all in (around 300k, which he called reasonably fast) with ...Glen had .
Flop: 
Turn: 
River: 

So the first big-pot outdraw of the chip leader - followed quite abruptly by his call of all-in Darrin Melwani, whose stayed in front of Roland's .  That was a smaller pot - I heard the announcer announce the figure 177k - but I wonder if the halt of his smooth rise to domination is tilting him ever so slightly...

Plus, I will feel bad if he destroys 1.5 mil in chips because I picked him and last time I did that, he said, "You bokked me in Dortmund."

[Djinn]

Bruce Yamron is eliminated by Sorel Mizzi:

Missed the preflop action (they're on the TV table), but the heads up flop came .  Bruce Yamron moved in, call from Sorel, who held , now comfortably ahead of Yamron's ...  The turn brought a which prompted a rustle of "King..." from his supporters, but the rivered knocked Bruce out and we are down to 15.

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I join the action with the flop reading , Marty Smthy having checked and with Jerker Eriksson betting 100k.

Marty Smyth dwells it up, counts out his chips and makes the call.

Turn =

Marty checks, Jerker moves all-in and Marty calls instantly for his remaining 167k.

Jerker mucks before seeing the academic River.

"Great play," praises O'Keefe as Marty reveals Pocket Tens for the full house.

Jerker is furious with himself and his newly depleted 110k stack, but forces himself to tap the table nonetheless.

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The action's still thick and fast and it shouldn't take too long, but not unless they stop chopping pots up, the latest being an all-in clash between Danny McHugh and Paul Dooley, vs. ending up in a split pot on a board.

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Possibly suffering the tilt effects, but not in a position to do much else, Jerker Eriksson moved in with and got a caller in Nicky Power with his .
The board was pretty emphatic, so a disappointed Jerker Eriksson is suddenly on the rail, finishing 15th, winning €19,000...

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Rough counts, as we approach the dinner break:

Tom Finneran 590k
Jules Adamson  210k
Nicky Power     630k
Marty Smyth    615k
Peter Eastgate  400k
John Quinn       305k
Brian O'Keefe    335k

[snoopy1239]

Lost Mr 12th... John Quinn, who was unfortunate to run Jacks into the Kings of Peter Eastgate.




Chip counts courtesy of Paddy Power:

On The TV Table.

Seat 1: Roland De Wolfe: 950,500
Seat 2: Paul Zimbler: 365,500
Seat 3: Sorel Mizzi: 806,000
Seat 4: Danny McHugh: 219,000
Seat 5: Glen McCabe: 567,500
Seat 6: Paul Dooley: 950,500

Outer Table.

Seat 1: Thomas Finneran: 603,500
Seat 2: Julian Adamson: 182,000
Seat 3: Nicky Power: 618,500
Seat 4: Peter Eastgate: 766,500
Seat 5: Marty Smyth: 655,500
Seat 6: Brian O’Keefe 275,500

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Julian Adamson is the first post-dinner exit and, as Neil 'I shot JR' Kelly comments, "It's a sick game, it's a sick game."

Peter Eastgate raises it up pre-flop, Julian Adamson pushed all-in and Peter made the obligatory call.

Peter =

Julian =

Flop =

"Stick a 9 of clubs down, dealer," begs Julian.

Turn =

River =

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Danny McHugh has doubled up, vs Paul Zimbler's

Board =

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Preflop battle between Tom Finneran, who started it by raising to 60k (blinds 10/20k), and Peter Eastgate, who re-raised out of the small blind, to 210k.  Back to Qualifier Tom, who announced "all-in" - it looks like he probably covered Eastgate, who went into the tank.  Eventually he passed, and got shown .  A bit of adrenaline fuelled chat from Tom, including "something-something-f***ing-something" which got an immediate warning from the TD. 

[snoopy1239]

Paul Zimbler is OUT.

A-7 vs. Fours, no improvement.

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A vastly supported Brian O'Keefe has doubled up, cracking Aces in the process. I couldn't get near the table to get the details as the audience had crashed the barrior and were swarming the table. I did hear the announcer say that Brian has Turned a flush draw and then Rivered the Flush, so it sounded like a painful one.

Word is out that we're talking about a 700k pot though, so a huge one for O'Keefe which he didn't hesitate to celebrate to the fullest.

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Glen McGabe is OUT.

All-in on the feature table with A-9, Glen found himself in big doggy doo against Sorel Mizzi, the North American holding a seemingly formidable A-T on an A-T-3 Flop.

3 Turn and 8 River were no help and we lost our 10th man in Glen McGabe, who exited like a gentleman, shaking hands with all remaining players on that table.

[snoopy1239]

Seat 1: Danny McHugh -- 690,000
Seat 2: Bryan O'Keefe -- 550,000
Seat 3: Sorel Mizzi -- 1,650,000
Seat 4: Peter Eastgate -- 250,000
Seat 5: Marty Smyth -- 700,000
Seat 6: Nicky Power -- 580,000
Seat 7: Thomas Finneron -- 930,000
Seat 8: Roland de Wolfe -- 510,000
Seat 9: Paul Dooley -- 1,000,000

Sorel Mizzi -- 1,650,000
Paul Dooley -- 1,000,000
Thomas Finneron -- 930,000
Marty Smyth -- 700,000
Danny McHugh -- 690,000
Nicky Power -- 580,000
Bryan O'Keefe -- 550,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 510,000
Peter Eastgate -- 250,000

[Djinn]

And literally 30 seconds after I relieve Snoopy of his tedious "And then X nicked the blinds" watching - This Happened:

Short stacked Peter Eastgate (he's Danish, I believe) moved in, and found a re-raiser in Tom Finneran...a bit of a ruling about what constituted a raise for Roland (it's double the bet, not the raise here) later and they were on their backs:
Peter: 
Tom: 
Board came: 

SO Peter Eastgate finishes 9th, winning €35,000

And after a 10 minute break to move the final nine to the off-camera table, there's another one to move them back on the TV table.  Beautiful logistical control.