Paddypoker.com Irish Open - Day One : At A Glance

[danafish]

Disaster for Ram Vaswani!

Not sure what happened, but I saw him making his exit with A-9 against Ergun Macit's Q-K, with a board that read Q-7-9-8-Q.

And with a Ram, bam, thank-you ma'am (actually a "Good luck, guys" and a resigned sigh), he's gone, leaving Mr Macit probably feeling pretty Va-smarmy about it.

[JungleCat03]

Back to the poker...Doyle and his iconic hat have been busy, striking down Anthony Young, his J-9 holding on a J-9 x board against Young's A-J...The old guard will not be denied!

[danafish]

A small but perfectly formed selection of chip counts:

Brian O'Keefe - 28k
Andy Black - 40k
Roland De Wolfe - 30k

[danafish]

An absolutely



I arrive at roughly the turn of a board. Thomas Fougeron checks,and Sorel Mizzi bets an amount that is between medium and massive; let's call it large. Fougeron calls.

River - and again Fourgeron checks. Mizzi now bets an amount that is between massive and all in; let us call it exactly 12.5k. Fougeron calls.

Fougeron -
Mizzi - , thus winning the

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[JungleCat03]

How's the Mike McDonald fella getting along?

Better than me or Jen I guess...

No he was OUT, level 3 i believe so he actually did worse than you guys really! Not Timex's day...


Meanwhile Roland De Wolfe has knocked out Mateyboy.

On a flop, Matey shoved for 8k, Roland called showing 8-8.

Matey's A-6 was behind. "One time" yelled the wolf, and for what is probably the 7,000th time in Roland's illustrious career, his overpair held vs Matey's top pair.

After a little wobble, Roland is back up to 35k.


Patrick Murray looks to have picked up a few chips too and is in the region of 10k again, making a mini recovery there.

Kieran O'Leary is doing well...

Facing a push from John McEnroe Cory Albertson on a flop, he eventually called, showing As ...

Cory had for top pair.

"Spade or Ace, Spade or Ace!" shouted Kieran and his exhortations were rewarded in the form of a on the turn. "Yes!" + classic fistpump followed shortly.

Cory was drawing dead but didn't go down the route of his tennis playing doppleganger, choosing instead to simply shake hands with Kieran before departing in his comical oversize baggy shorts. Bad luck sir!

"Gotta win a few of those!" said Kieran happily sweeping up his flushtastic gains.

[danafish]

CHIP COUNTS FROM FLOPPY WHO SEEMS TO BE FEELING MUCH BETTER AND HAS NOW GOT OVER US MAKING FUN OF HIS CHEAPO HEADPHONES:

Trond - 24k
John Duthie - 20k
Maz Nawab - 30k
Andy Black - 40k
John Conroy - 22k
Reyaaz Mulla - 33k
Pascal Perrault - 13k
Doyle "Supercool" Brunson - 45k
Roberto Romanello - was up to 25k, then down to 16k, then further down to his current 9k
James Honeybone - 25k
Roland De Wolfe - 23k

Floppy also witnessed Mr Patrick Murray double up in a 40k pot with against Albert Sapiano's - I'm guessing from the Notes Of Floppy that they were all in on the flop, which was a spadey .

Turn - an irrelevant
River - not a spade, but the for the double up.


PAGE 2 OF CHIP COUNTS ETC A LA FLOPPY

Graham Clarkson - 36k
Sorel Mizzi - 50k
Thomas Fougeron - 7k
Maria Maceiras - 22k
John Wong - 21k
John Kabbaj - 30k
Dave Colclough - 24k

Maria Maceiras has so many chips and Dave Colclough has so few because the two of them got involved in a raising war, which Maria won. Maria made it 2.1k, I believe from the button, and big blind DC made it 6.3k, to which Maria moved in for 18.65k. Colclough laid it down.

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Padraig Parkinson has doubled up, apparently shoving his micro-stack in utg and getting himself called by the unimpressed gent in blue.

Padraig P -
Unimpressed Blue Guy - 
Board -

And Padraig is back up to the heady heights of, um, around 10k.

[danafish]

Roberto has been up and down, and further down, like a dangerous lift in dire need of maintenance...

Chris reported him as being up to 25k, but when I passed him a little while ago he was down to 16k. Then he called one Mr Nick Coon all in on a flop.

Roberto -
Nick Coon -

Turn -
River -

Which is how he got down to 9k or so.

[JungleCat03]

Andy "Chub" Grinason has just doubled through.

On a flop, he led out for 1.5k, raised to 6.5k by Eric Barker, back to "Chub" and he ramped it up another 12k putting himself allin.

Eric felt committed to call wtih his 5-6 now and did so, Andy tabling the superior 7-7 set.

"Pair the board!" said Andy, but although that didn't happen a pair of blanks on the turn and river were sufficient to double up the popular "young gun" to 32-35k or so, and dent Barker, who looked to be down to 16-20k...

[JungleCat03]

The entertaining and eccentric Andy Black is a late casualty.

He must have been crippled from his earlier heights of 35-40k as he was down to 7.5k when he shoved over a raise to 1800 and a flat call with A-9.

Unfortunately for him he was looked up by mateyboy's dominating A-Q and although a 9 on the flop propelled him temporarily into the lead, the colourful Irishman was sent crashing to the rail as Matey hit a back door straight.

Bad luck Andy, the tournament won't be quite the same without you!

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Play has now finished for the night. Some stuff I saw before that though -

The below gent pictured leaving is OUT with no match for the also-pictured Young American who held .

They were all in on the flop, but here is the whole board for your edification -

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Also, on Brunsonwatch, Doyle has 50k but Todd has only 10k


John Duthie is OUT last hand, KK v QQ, and the dude hit a Queen.


Trond looked to have around 40k. Here he is:

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[JungleCat03]

Yes folks play has ended on level 8 and we are finisihed for the day...

Chip counts will be forwarded to us at some point later tonight and we will post them up asap but for now thanks for following us guys, much appreciated. It's been a fun day with some great poker as expected.


We'll be back tomorrow for more folics, carnage, bizarre hoodies, trond references from Dana and bad beat stories from floppy! Bet you can't wait! (Oh an you may get an update on Yoda if you're lucky)

See you at 2:00pm for the start. Be there or be somewhere else!

 

[NoflopsHomer]

Yesterday's chip counts, courtesy of Nic 'Derren Brown' Whelan.

82,250 Jay Renehan
78,700 AlexanderFitzgerald
72,375 Carsten Joh
69,325 Mazhar Nawab
60,100 Thomas Dempsey
59,275 David Gregory
59,150 Keith Littlewood
56,225 Sorel Mizzi
55,225 John Keown
53,800 Doyle Brunson
51,300 Graham Clarkson
47,075 Andrew Grimason
46,925 Reyaaz Mulla
46,000 Michael Finn
45,650 Ciaran Burke
43,950 Tyler Reiman
43,875 Philip Gurian
43,150 Trond Eidsvig
42,625 Jack RosenFeldt
41,975 David Albertsson
41,725 Timothy Barany
41,650 Hassan Mohammed
40,450 Soren Konsgaard
39,200 Magnus Hulden
39,150 Eric Barker
39,075 John Conroy
38,750 xuantien Nguyen
38,325 John PaulFox
37,800 NicholasRomanello
35,575 Anthony Fagan
35,375 Kyle Johnston
35,200 Thomas Bichon
34,875 John Kabbaj
33,525 Michael McCool
33,100 Daniel Bolton
32,975 Hartmut Renken
32,600 John Wong
30,075 Brian O’Keefe
29,050 Ciaran O’Leary
28,925 Dick Phelan
28,275 Javed Abrahams
28,025 Padraig Parkinson
27,750 Andreas Hedman
27,350 Juuso Leppanen
27,100 David Brennan
26,825 Kenneth Greaney
26,675 Anthony Wetherall
26,575 Kieran Small
26,200 Paul Baird
26,125 Janne Ruotsalainen
25,450 Pat Murray
25,150 ChristopherO’Connor
24,700 TominariKobayashi
24,650 James Honeybone
23,975 Roberto Romanello
23,075 Tony Cooney
22,975 Thomas Fourgeron
22,700 Anders Knudsen
22,450 Cuong Le
21,825 BelkacemLaouar
21,275 George Mc keever
20,225 Dave Colclough
20,050 Carmel Dunne
19,975 David Dean
19,825 Nick Coon
19,375 Joeseph Sullivan
19,100 Danilo Paulsen
18,500 Taylor McFarland
17,700 George Devine
17,500 Pauric Ryan
17,075 John Juliano
16,600 John O’Reilly
15,425 Roland De Wolfe
15,300 Thomas Finneran
15,125 Steven Silverman
14,975 Adam Elpayaa
14,375 Mark Phillips
14,350 Jaka Faraz quddus
14,175 John Spinella
13,850 Marcel Baran
13,750 Annette O’Carroll
13,500 Robert Willis
13,175 Oliver Boyce
13,100 VladimirBotto
13,025 Edwin Tournier
13,000 Ivan Donaghy
12,925 Ergun Macit
12,775 CarolineManson
12,650 Graeme Newman
12,525 Peter Malbasha
12,450 Ville Nyman
12,025 Peter Mansson
11,900 Jan Larsen
11,425 David Lindstrom
10,625 Michael Guttmann
10,400 Robert Cazali
10,275 Todd Brunson
10,175 JonathanRich
10,100 Des Wilson
9,800 Antonio Maestro Lorenzo
9,775 Rune Sletten
9,575 JohannesStraussman
8,700 Kazimer Strupinski
8,600 Maria Maceiras
8,600 Eoghan O’Dea
8,050 William Kervick
7,975 Samuel Lethonen
7,875 Noel Mc pike
7,250 Greig Crawford
7,200 FredericLevy
6,750 Adrian O’Donahue
6,400 John Hanaphy
4,125 Albert Sapiano
3,700 Tino Lechich
3,700 Giovani Safina
3,600 Michael Nolan