Paddypower.com Irish Open : Day 1b - At a glance

[JungleCat03]

Olivier   Padilla was looking pretty short and just shoved allin for 3k ish, to be looked up by Paul Roper's A-8.

His A-J was good however and as the board came K-Q-5-Q-6, it remained that way, meaning Padilla stays in the tournament.

"Double up!" he announced chirpily.



Good work slipping the noose of Paul"The Hangman" Roper...

[danafish]

Denise Fusciardi - just 1.6k, eek. I hung around her table for a good long while, but witnessed no shoving.


No action on that table from Denise, but an absolute bunch of it from everyone else. Olivier Padilla was back down to about 1000, and shoved from the button. The blinds both passed. Padilla showed Aces, and giggled hysterically.

[danafish]

Continuing on Table Denise, this young gent, who may or may not be James Daly, has doubled up with quad Aces against Christa Johanssen...

Click to see full-size image.

[danafish]

Mr Tim Blake - 8k
Pete Linton is on 14k, and grinding.
Lucky Lloyd is also on 14k, and extremely angry about the Brian Blessed thing.

[danafish]

A gent who may or may not be Michael Dwyer bets 1.5k on an board, and Rumit calls.

River -

And I believe that there is no further betting, for Mr Maybe Dwyer is turning over and Rumit is turning over . Says Rumit, "It plays." Mr Possibly Dwyer explodes with a noise that I cannot distinguish as either laughter or crying. I have no idea why. Rumit's on 14k now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dario Minieri is OUT. Just had the old Kings vs Aces shennanigans...

[NoflopsHomer]

Any news on Thew? Last I heard he was around the 10k mark. It's his round and he only buys when he's won!!!

He has 11.5k, but was pointing out that Conor Tate to his right was playing very well, and as I mention this, Connor re-raises a 3.4k bet on a board by throwing out a stack of blues that would effectively set his opponent in. Opponent folds.

Nicky 'Stewie' Power and Conor Tate.



Sylvester Geoghan -- 7k

[JungleCat03]

Assorted counts...

Jerome Bradpiece 7k
Jim Reid 12k
Dave Masters 14k
LuckyLloyd 11k
Pete Linton 15k


There's always plenty of excitement at tournaments but there are also moments when the pace slows to a crawl, not much happens for a while and time can start to drag. It can be hard to tell, but sometimes you notice a small change in the players expressions that can give this away.

Using my

I beleive I spotted one such moment.

What do you thiink???

[JungleCat03]

To be fair to Pete Linton in the picture above, he perked up considerably once he saw me and went on to win a nice pot the very next hand with a good call on the river. He definitely seems happy with the way things are going at the moment and even had time to ask how my day was going, which was nice!


He would have been even more entertained, had he noticed Devilfish entertaining the masses with his array of musical talents.

I give you the guitar playing, lead singing musical prodigy that is the Devilfish...

[NoflopsHomer]

Bambos managed to double up in a fortuitous circumstance with vs turning a flush.

Julian Thew and Nicky Power butt heads, when Nicky raises preflop and Julian re-raises to 2.5k, Nicky calls but then check/folds to Julian's 3k bet on an board.

Amusing comedy fact:

Stuart Rutter lasted precisely 3 seconds on the mechanical bull. "I found something that I'm worse at than pool!"

[NoflopsHomer]

Lloyd O'Farrell, "Stop calling me a poker pro or I'll rip off your head and feed it to you!!!"

(pause)

"I haven't thought my insults through properly..."

How is he getting on?

About 13k, he has two very good Americans on his table, but luckily they're both to his right. At least that's what he said to me. In a very poker-professional-sort-of-manner.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mike Ellis, who Dana reckons looks a little like Stephen King, has just knocked out Teddy Sheringham and another player with against the former footballer's and the other short stack's . The vital Ace hitting the flop.



Ray Bitar, nope, I've not heard of him either, but he's apparently the owner of Full Tilt Poker



Dave Masters, doing 'the one ear on one ear off' headphone routine.



No caption necessary.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Masters just got lucky to knock out a fellow Irishman, re-raising with but finding himself up against . But a board later and Dave was the one stacking his chips.

[JungleCat03]

Leo Kam just played out a big pot.

I joined him with 18k in the middle of an 8 7 T flop. I'm not 100% but I think it went in preflop. Both players certainly had their hands on their backs - Leo showing K-K and Mateyboy, the previously well behind but got there in the end T-T.

The pot was swept toward Kam's nemesis and Leo was left shaking his head and nursing his crippled stack, although he still had 10k which with 30 BBs is still very playable...


Pete Linton was in good spirits. He told me he had just been picking up little pots here and there, and the tall towers of 100s and 25s in his stack were testament to this...

"Oh wait, I did play one big pot!" he told me.

He had called a raise with A-Q and the flop had come A hi.

"I bet out 1500 and this guy (he points to someone on his table) raised it another 9k allin. Anyway I thought about it and I couldn't put him on A-K as American players play that like the nuts preflop, so I called in the end, only to be shown A-Q for him too! I was a bit scared I must admit!"

Gogogo Pete...


Random count:

Bambos 15k

[danafish]

Apologies for the delay, I have been Experiencing Technical Difficulties...


Mr Enda McGearty has doubled up against the other guy in this photo, v preflop.

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