blondepoker.com Team Event: Day 1 - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

This is the moment Colin Fardey, currently on 39k, realised that I'd slipped Russ The Chicken Song onto his ipod playlist. How he survived the ordeal, I'll never know, he must have ears of steel.

[twosneverlose]

[/quote]

I've set McLovin's sights on Team Fish & Chips. In the meantime, I can reveal that the buffet was a rather simple affair, just sandwiches and soup. Nevertheless, it was more than satisfactory, but at the same time, we're immensely relieved that we consumed a beef lasagne before arriving today. Yum, I was like Garfield after a year's fasting.[/quote]
There you go again you just keep raising the standard bar for on-line reporting ,

[snoopy1239]

John Weafer -- 8,725

[snoopy1239]

I've set McLovin's sights on Team Fish & Chips. In the meantime, I can reveal that the buffet was a rather simple affair, just sandwiches and soup. Nevertheless, it was more than satisfactory, but at the same time, we're immensely relieved that we consumed a beef lasagne before arriving today. Yum, I was like Garfield after a year's fasting.[/quote]
There you go again you just keep raising the standard bar for on-line reporting ,
[/quote]

Thanks, the bar's still only at my shins though, unfortunately.

[snoopy1239]

We're a Dave down, and to the relief of Masters, it's McArthy rather than him. All-in with Aces versus A-K, you'd think Masters would be pretty confident, but I hear he slowplayed the Bullets at the Irish Masters last year and was made to pay. Although Neill Kelly teased the room by announcing a T-J-Q Flop, the real Flop did provide four extra outs, the dealer throwing out T-5-J onto the felt to give McArthy a lifeline. However, it wasn't to be, and a Six and a King later and McArthy was a gonna. "And Masters takes it," exclaims Neill. "he decided not to slowplay them this time."

[snoopy1239]

According to the powers that be (Neill Kelly, not God), play for the day will finish in 13 minutes.

[snoopy1239]

Matt Dobbins (in the background) has just felted the chap on the right of the picture, Mateyboy making a cheeky move on an A-A-T-T-K board but being called quicker than a jet propelled whippet by Dobbins' A-9. "He was bluffing big time," commented a neighbour to me.

A hand or two later, and Mateyboy was gone.

[snoopy1239]

A big hand kicked off on the nearest table, Brian Stott re-raising Mick Stephen's pre-flop raise all-in. Mick called and showed , but Brian had him in the stocks with . Rotten fruit at the ready, Brian prepared to hurl his tomato, but was stopped in his tracks as Mick slipped out off his stocks and hit a set on the Flop. Most shockingly, Margaret O'Mahony, who was understandably animated at the time, confessed to folding Pocket Jacks (ouch!). Anyhow, you have to be in it to win it (as a tantastic Dale Winton so often claims), and a and later and it was a timely double up for Mick.

[snoopy1239]

The final whistle has now sounded, but before Neill Kelly inflated his lungs, we had a couple of all-ins, one of which came in the form of a double up for Robert Brennon, all-in with against John Weafer's and quietly willing a raggy board.

It's strange in poker how the players' body language can sometimes display confidence, or lack of, before any cards are dealt, as if they can somehow already sense the result. On this occasion, it was Weafer who seemed to be feeling the negative vibes, even though he had no reason to be doing so. With his face scrunched up and his body perched on the edge of the table, the dealer lay a onto the felt, thereby giving Brennen a much needed double up. As a result, Weafer finishes the day with little over 5k.

[snoopy1239]

On the penultimate hand of the night, we also lost Eddie Gorman, his searching for a three against a dominating . A Flop didn't change much accept give him a potential split pot with a runner runner flush, but the Turn soon squashed that idea, before the River finally sealed his fate. As he departed, I overheard him confess to a friend, "I didn't fancy coming back tomorrow with just ten big blinds".

[rag2gar]

Some late night chip counts/photos of some of the selected teams remaining


For those avid Richie Lawlor fans we've got the latest chip counts and photos of the lads who are now heading out on the town according to Rich

Richie "The man himself, fish with chips" Lawlor 39,000


Mick "Vice captain, MD Wexford" Doran 50,000


Lorcan "junior member, The milkybarkid" Dooley 27,000


Brian "his place is really under threat with this chip stack, doesnt have a nickname that I know of" Stott 9,800

And then we have the chip leader, Colm Reville's team

Colm Reville 69,000


Chris Frisby 12,000


Darren O Reilly 14,000


John Kelly 25,000



Team Badcawl are two players down but the two that remain have healthy stacks


Joe Gallagher 35,100

Stephen Coglan 55,000

Vera Duffy's team is struggling but can at least be hopeful as they still have all four players remaining

Donal Norton 9,000

Rory Brown 25,000

Vera Duffy 11,000

Mick Stephens 15,000

[KevIRL]

Arrrrrrgh

After a nice pot to bump me up to 24K in the last hand, I arrive home to discover that next door appears to be having a full blown rave!

Nice updates guys...

[ITT-Pat]

With the Flop reading , once chip daddy Carl O'Connell pushes all-in for around 10k, leaving a tortured Davvy O'Sullivan with a decision for both his 4.5k in chips and his entire tournament life. As Carl peers down at the felt, his stare frostier than a snowman in the freezer, Davvy unzips the think tank and jumps in. After a few moments, he pops his head back out, trickles his chips over the line and reveals Pocket Tens, his breath held whilst he awaits his opponent to flip over his cards. To his relief, Carl shows an inferior -4s and Davvy is allowed to exhale the deep breath that he'd been holding. The Turn was a constructive one for Davvy, his opponent's outs reduced to just a Four, and as the dealer popped out a harmless on the River, he gently tapped the table in triumph and plonked himself back down in his seat. Karl, meanwhile, wore a face like a smacked bottom, or perhaps one who's fingers had been crunched in the poker cookie jar. Game on!

Any chance of an update on Carl O' Connell??

and Sam Hayes too?

[KevIRL]

Here are the players in today's Team Event:



Kevin K (c)
Wayne Hazcoran
Robert Power
Trevor Mitchell

Apologies for any mispelled names.

Wayne Halloran would be correct there. He sounds like someone out of Harry Potter with the name you've given him

[snoopy1239]

Righteo, peeps, that a wrap for today (whatever a wrap is). Word on the poker grapevine (well, Laxie) is that cards will be in the air at 2.30pm tomorrow afternoon. We hope you enjoyed not only today's updates, but also the debut performance of guesting updater Gary 'rag2gar' Clarke, who I'm sure you'll agree did a quite marvellous job, especially considering he was forced to dodge the sandstorm of McLovin references.

We're heading back to the hotel for a much needed forty winks. In the meantime, thank you for following the action here on blonde and be sure to tune in tomorrow to see which team reigns supreme in this inaugural blondepoker.com Team Event . As always, if you want a chip count or an update on a particular player, be sure to shout out and let us know who you want information on. It's pretty tricky with a room full unfamiliar Irish players, but we'll do our very best to hunt them down.

Toodle pip.