PaddyPower.com Irish Open: Day 3 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, welcome to the penultimate day of the Irish Open where the remaining 52 players and an average stack of 16BB's mean that hopefully the remaining few will be whittled down to the nine (eight?) players for tomorrow's final.

Here's the remaining players with their seat draw.

Mark Spellman 337500
Lars Hougaard 295500
John Kabbaj 282000
Peter Linton 266500
Iam Van Trinh 264500
Donal Norton 255000
Hassan Mohammed 250000
William Haughey 244500
Tim Blake 214000
Eric Larcheveque207000
Thomas Finneran 193000
Sorel Mizzi 185000
William Martin 167000
Julian Thew 164000
Neil Channing 156500
Conor Tate 155500
Nariman Faramarzi-Rad 144000
Thomas Dunwoodie 142000
Kieran Small 133000
Padraig Parkinson 130000

Knut Rysstad 126500
Mazhar Nawab 120500
Kiko Lacasa 117500
Edwin Tournier 113000
Kristoffer Nyberg 112500
Tony Salmon 112000
John Conroy 109000
John Keown 100000
James Daly 99000
Danilo Paulsen 97500
Thomas Fourgeron 95000
Bill O’Keefe 93500
Philip Stards 93000
Anthony Fagan 92000
Nick Goodall 91000
John Moran 89000
Carsten Joh 89000
Frederic Levy 82000
Andrew Grimason 80500
David Dean 74000
Charlie Harvey 66000
Kenneth Greaney 64000
Tominari Kobayashi 56500
Surinder Sunar 56000
Emmett Davis 47500
Thomas Dempsey 41500
Belkacem Laouar 40500
Brian Antoniotti 31000
Jaka Faraz Quddus 24000
Willie Clynes    20000
Sebastien Caleechurn  15000
Dominic Heaver   13500

Peter Linton 1 1
Sorel Mizzi 1 2
Kenneth Greaney 1 3
Kieran Small 1 4
Emmett Davis 1 5
David Dean 1 6
William Martin 1 7
Tim Blake 1 8
William Haughey 1 9

Philip Stards 2 1
Danilo Paulsen 2 2
Julian Thew 2 3
Lars Hougaard 2 4
Knut Rysstad 2 5
Willie Clynes 2 6
Thomas Fourgeron2 7
Jaka Faraz Quddus 2 8
Thomas Dempsey 2 9

John Conroy 3 1
John Kabbaj 3 2
Mazhar Nawab 3 3
Thomas Finneran 3 4
Anthony Fagan 3 5
Brian Antoniotti 3 6
Tony Salmon 3 7
Edwin Tournier 3 8

Andrew Grimason 4 1
James Daly 4 2
Charlie Harvey 4 3
John Moran 4 4
Donal Norton 4 5
Kiko Lacasa 4 6
Belkacem Laouar 4 7
Sebastien Caleechurn 4 8
Neil Channing 4 9

Hassan Mohammed 5 1
Padraig Parkinson 5 2
Mark Spellman 5 3
Thomas Dunwoodie 5 4
Frederic Levy 5 5
Nariman Faramarzi-Rad 5 6
Conor Tate 5       7
Carsten John 5       8

Nick Goodall 6       1
Eric Larcheveque 6 2
Surinder Sunar 6 3
Tominari Kobayashi 6 4
Bill O’Keefe 6 5
Kristoffer Nyberg 6 6
Dominic Heaver 6 7
Iam Van Trinh 6 8
John Keown 6 9

[JungleCat03]

We're off guys!

And it doesn't take long for the fireworks to commence. Brian Antoniotti shoving allin on the feature table and getting a call from Maz Nawab. On their backs gentleman.

Brian Antoniotti 7-7
Maz Nawab A-J



Let's race folks!

FLOP: A-J-T

"I liiiiike...." thinks Maz.

TURN: Q (split maybe)

RIVER 2 (blankety blank)

....meaning Brian Antoniotti is OUT! An early casualty of the day and Maz increases his strong position yet further.

[NoflopsHomer]

Surindar Sunar has knocked out Dominic Heaver with A-J vs J-2

Thewy just busted the awesomely named Jaka Faraz Quddus with vs ...Seven first card.

Belkacem Laouar has doubled up his meagre stack to 70k with vs on a board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Thewy just busted the awesomely named Jaka Faraz Quddus with vs ...Seven first card.

I don't think we can continue without highlighting this Thewy special. 

I'd love to say that the guy must have been short, but not always true with Golden Yoyo Balls.

What if I told you he was just all-in vs Lars Hougaard with vs blind on blind and the flop was ...

Fortunately a and turn and river and it was chop chop!

[NoflopsHomer]

Pete Linton has knocked out David Dean with vs on an to add another 50k to his stack.

[JungleCat03]

So much action! So much action!

John Conroy shoves on the feature table and is called by John Kabbaj...

Conroy - 5-5
Kabbaj A-J.

Another race...

FLOP: Q-J-2 Kabbaj races into the lead, hitting middle pair

TURN: 3

RIVER: 7! No 5 on the river and rockstar John Conroy bites the dust after a commendable performance. Well played, good game sir!

Kabbaj marches on...

[JungleCat03]

Next up, we have Willie Clines shoving his stack in and getting looked up by Phil Stards.

What kind of match up will we have this time I wonder...

A-K for Willie

8-8 for Stards

Oh look another race! This is getting ridiculous!

FLOP: 8-7-5 a pretty decisive flop catapults Stards into the lead and his tattoed arm clenches as he bellows his approval.

TURN: 7 ! That wraps up this hand and a 4 on the river completes the deal but once more we have an elimination on a race...meaning....

Willie Clines is OUT and Phil Stards receives a welcome boost to his stack.

Willie Clines and celebrity stalker intrepid updater Dana awaiting what will prove an unfavourable flop.




Phil Stards raking in his new collection of chips...

[danafish]

Surinder Sunar has just now been moved on to the TV table. With a 10-big-blinds-tastic 85k, I expect there will be some action soon, eek.

By the way, what with some people busting out and all, the average stack is now up to almost 19 big blinds...

[NoflopsHomer]

Neil Channing just won a big pot to knock out James Daly with vs , the vital appearing on the flop. Elsewhere Pete Linton is picking up a few pots here and there, the latest one with a small bet on a board vs William Martin.

Thomas Dempsey just doubled up with Ace Jack vs Lars Hougaard's priced-in 7-5 on a board.

[NoflopsHomer]

Nariman Faramarzi-Rad is OUT. All-in with vs Padraig Parkinson's Aces on a Jack high flop. Ace on the turn sealed the deal.

Julian Thew has just lost a big chunk of his chips having in the small blind vs Danilo Paulsen's button-raising and failing to win the race.

[danafish]

Any news about the Norwegians Knut Rysstad and Danilo Paulsen at table 2?

Just love your updates! Keep up the good work!

Knut, at least, is behaving most raisy-ly. Most recently he tried it on from the small blind with big blind Tominari Kobayashi, who folded leaving himself just 40k or five big blinds. Knut showed A-K...

[JungleCat03]

mr tattoo is actually phil stars from edinburgh-not stards just so you know

Ty sir!


Neil Channing has been a busy beaver so far today and gets involved in another pot, and this one's a biggie...

Raising to 20k from late position, he finds young gun Grimason, who has been shoving with some regularity shoving for 90 odd k behind him.

The BB also briefly considers getting involved but ultimately passes leaving Channing mulling his options over. He ums and ahs and counts the stacks, before saying "OK I CALL!"

Channing turns and Grimason is ecstatic as he tables his dominating .

A board of ensues, meaning "Bad Beat" Channing can't live up to his name, whilst Grimason, who fellow blogger Gary "Don't call me Mclovin" Clarke (aka Mclovin) has tipped for greatness, sweeps up the pot with a ten high fliush to channing's inferior 9 high flush.

Here's Channing looking less than ecstatic as his stack is dented considerably.



Grimason, happy as larry to be int he lofty realms of 190k now...

[NoflopsHomer]

Thomas Dempsey has doubled through Knut Rysstad with vs on a ("Royal Flush!" shouts someone enthusiastically, but they've obviously got the wrong Dempsey) then .

Sorrel still can't lose a race, he's just busted Kenneth Greaney with vs . Pete Linton says that he and Sorrel are taking it in turns to steal the other players blinds. Pete keeps going after William Martin's blind, a fact not lost on the latter:

"You like my blind, don't you?"

"I just play my cards," protests Pete. As William folds his Q-5, Sorrel and Pete giggle like schoolboys.



Thomas Fourgeron has knocked out, I think, Tominari Kobayashi with Kings vs Ten. A king on the river sealing the deal for the amiable Frenchman (and Ghostbusters 2 Villain lookalike).

[danafish]

Padraig Parkinson was on 180k last I checked.

Danilo Paulsen - 220k

thank u, can please tell me how Lam Van Trinh Doing?

Not massively well, I'm afraid. He was doing massively well, but now he's not.

He just unavoidably doubled up Hassan Mohammed on a classic coinflip - against .

Board -

Hassan now has around 400k, and Lam is down to a less-massively-well-doing-but-still-thoroughly-manageable 250k.

[JungleCat03]

John Moran is OUT, his A-7 failing to beat the A-9 of table partner Donal Norton on a 6-8-3-K-T board...

gg sir!