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

[NoflopsHomer]

Knut Rysstad just won a....



He was all-in with Kings vs Oliver Freitag's Queens and a short stack's K-T.

Nothing exciting on the board and Knut is our chipleader with roughly 66k.

[danafish]

Mr Daniel Zink, who I must confess I thought was a girl at first but on closer inspection (not that close though) turns out to be a man, is OUT, to Mr Conor Tate. Not sure when the chips went in, but all the cards looked like this at the end of the hand:

Daniel Zink - A-K
Conor Tate - K-K

Board - A-Q-7-K-5

[JungleCat03]

In the absence of any interesting hands as I traversed the playing area, here are a few counts.

First off, we have PokerVerdict shirted Neil "Bad Beat" Channing, sitting happily on a stack of 25k or so.

He appears to be arranging his stack here in the covetous manner of a character from Tolkien's middle earth realm.

"Chips, my precious, chips"




Rob Taylor is enjoying playing on home turf. Up to 18k here is along with table partner Surinder Sunar, who has been having less fortune, down to a mere 5 or 6k...




Finally, it is nice to see the main protagonist of classic Korean revenge film Oldboy has attended today. It's a few years since Oldboy was released to much acclaim but a little older its star is still clearly recognisable, even now...

[NoflopsHomer]

More from the same Knutty table as Dave Masters just gets a huge double through with Aces against Guillame Dacourt's Kings.

Dave Masters now on 50k...

[danafish]

Nicky Power - 11k
Pete Linton - 36k - "this table's been good to me"
Mr Offensive - down to virtually the felt with just 3 or 4k

[danafish]

Mr Haus Ritburg moves in with , as you do, and is called by Michael Ellis and his .

There is some murmuring around the table of the sort which suggests that a lot of Aces have been cracked of late, and sure enough, the board defies probability and comes down to double up Mr Ritburg.

[JungleCat03]

A few of the chip lead counts for you.

Frenchie for you Jpean...

Eric Larcheveque - a chunky stack of 51k

On a chocolate bar scale, starting at a single revel and ending in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, Eric's stack probably rates at about



Then there is  the well known player Conor Tate with a whopping old stack of  72k

Surely worth one of these...

[NoflopsHomer]

Stuart Rutter has doubled up with vs on a Q-9-6-2-8 board. Up to the heady heights of 10k.

Ryan Fronda's Roland De Wolfe hoodie, is down to the fact, Roland actually sells them on his website. "Roland said he's sold 80,000..." said Ryan, "But he's given me his lucky one..."



Smurph bets 6k (or 5k, I couldn't quite see) on the river of an 9-A-8-5-Q board, eventually the guy in seat 2 makes the call, it's a good one as Smurph shows A-7, inferior to Seat 2's A-T.

"A-7 was all your were beating," pipes up someone on the table.

[danafish]

Mr Miikka Suleva is OUT, his no match for the mighty of Oliver Freitag.

Board -

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Enda - 8.5k

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Steve Jelinek - 20k

[danafish]

Neil Channing checks an flop, and Derya Apuhan bets 3k. To which Channing moves all in. Then he puts his head down on the table and goes to sleep. Apuhan thinks about it for a long time. Then he folds.

Channing wakes up. "Good laydown," says he. The dealer takes away his cards. "Oh, I was going to show," protests Channing. They haven't quite been pulled into the muck; she pushes them back to him. "Oh, no, actually, it's ok," says Channing, and gives them back again. Raucous laughter all round.

[NoflopsHomer]

Knut Rysstad has added even more to his stack, just knocking out two more players with Aces vs Ace King vs Sevens. 89k now



Thomas Dunwoodie is also going very well with 60k+

[JungleCat03]

Here we have a gentleman I beleive is Oliver Freitag, doubling up courtesy of pocket 5's on an flop.

Unsuprisingly, there was no escape for his coldecked opponent who held 8-5 for top 2 pair! Wow, sick deal!

Freitag, happy as a bug in a rug with a slug with whom he has a strong mutual heartfelt connection...




Here is the dealer who dealt that cooler and she is in danger of toppling Dena the black widow as the most dangerous dealer in poker, as she has been firing out AA v KK and various other setup situations all day.

James Honeybone commented she must be responsible for the transfer of around 250k in chips today. Watch out when this lady's about!

[danafish]

Jonathan Paul, only 6 or 7k I'm afraid

[NoflopsHomer]

Any word on Adam Fallon

Thanks.

Hi, anymore updates on phil starrs please. thanks

We can't get in the area now, they've closed it off for the last few minutes.

Phil Starrs just moved in on a T-J-A board, Smurph folded an Ace. Phill showed Tens.

[danafish]

Jarrad Hollingdrake is OUT with A-Q against Desmond Carswell's J-J. Another Jack somewhere on the board, combined with absolutely no Aces, Queens, Tens, Kings, etc to make him any kind of hand, and he's gone.