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

[danafish]

Double up for Thomas Dempsey on the TV table, and possible identification of our sole remaining Mateyboy? ? ?

Dempsey moves in with pocket Nines; Matey calls with A-K. Matey is announced as something that sounds like "Kai". I deduce from the original player list that it is Kiko Lacasa. After a brief argument between me and Phil from AWOP as to whether he went out some hours ago, I decide that it is he, until James comes back and tells me that Kai is in fact Danilo Paulsen's first name. Most disappointing.

Board - Q-6-7-J-Q

[JungleCat03]

Surinder raises and Pete Linton re-raises enouogh to set him in...

He counts and shuffles and stand sand scratches his beard, counts his stack once more, and ultimately CALLS!

Pete shows , whilst Surinder shows the surprisingly strong !

It's looking bad for Pete, who is dominated BUT a flop of brings succour in the form of a flush draw.

Surinder shakes his head and flexes a tendon in his neck.

TURN: Pairing of the board opens up some split outs for Pete and....

RIVER: ! A double pairing of the board saves Pete's bacon.



Surinder looks unhappy at this, but there's nothing he can do about it.

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it up folks!

[danafish]

More from Table TV -

Thomas Fougeron shoves, and Carsten John calls.

Carsten - A-Q
Lord Vigo - not looking good with Q-T

Board - 8-K-A-Q-8

And it is not enough for Vigo!!!! Slams fist on table and roars!!!!! No, he doesn't really. But he is OUT. Sorry, Frenchies...

[danafish]

Channing has just knocked out Tony Salmon, who played like a fish, ah ha ha ha. No he didn't really, but a spot of bad luck there for him, as he ran his pocket Nines into Channing's pocket Tens. The board a very irrelevant .

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Blake is the new chip leader, Donal Norton has been raising his blind constantly and did so again to 40k. Tim re-raised to 100k and Donal called.

The flop came down K-J-7 with one clubs and Donal called Tim's 100k bet. Another small raggy club on the turn and again Tim bets 100k. Donal passes. Tim shows , Donal is slightly tilted. Tim has 700k.

Thomas Dunwoodie has picked up a helpful double up, he open-pushed in early position but Willie Haughey hadn't seen the push and said call. He was forced to call with 9-8o but wasn't in too bad shape vs Thomas' J-T. Both hit a pair, so Thomas doubles up.

[NoflopsHomer]

***************1 HOUR DINNER BREAK******************

[JungleCat03]

Frederic Levi has fallen victim to John Keown, his A-T good enough for a shortstacked push but no match for John's superior A-J...

Frenchman down...

[NoflopsHomer]

We lost Willie Haughey, he pushed with and was looked up by Mark Spellman's , the board bricking out .

Now a big pot...

John Kabbaj raises to 50k from the small blind. Pete Linton announces, "All-in," from the big blind. John thinks for a while and then calls for his stack.

John:



Pete:

John stares dispassionately at the table whilst Pete doesn't know where look and just has his hands on his head.

Board:



John Kabbaj is out in 19th place, Pete looks like he might faint, but is now in 2nd place behind Tim Blake with around 660k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Rough chip count (before we broke to two tables, and already slightly out of date):

Phil Starrs -- 230k
Kai Danilo Paulsen -- 210k
Andrew Grimason -- 350k
Carsten Joh -- 560k
John Keown -- 233k
Tom Dempsey -- 240k

Surindar Sunar -- 170k
Neil Channing -- 470k
Thomas Finneran -- 215k
Pete Linton -- 660k
Edwin Tournier -- 220k
Mohammed Hassan -- 500k

Mark Spellman -- 660k
Thomas Dunwoodie -- 215k
Donal Norton -- 300k
Eric Larcheveque -- 360k
William Martin -- 260k
Tim Blake -- 720k

These are all rough from around the time of John Kabbaj's exit.

[danafish]

has pete been on the televised table at any point?

Nope. He was saying before that he didn't want to be on there because he was certain he was going to make the final, but then changed his mind when he became less certain that he was going to make the final. Anyway, he hasn't, and he will indeed have to make the final six if he's going to get his face on TV this Irish Open...

[NoflopsHomer]

Surindar Sunar is OUT.

A shortstack push with found Donal Norton pushing behind him with .

A board later and we lose the WPT champion.



Edwin Tournier has doubled up through Tim Blake with vs . Board: . Tim drops about 160k in that hand, but it's not a disaster.



Pete Linton rebuilds his stack a bit re-raising William Martin's early position raise of 58k right up to 120k. Martin folds, Pete shows Queens.

[danafish]

A few chip counts -

William Martin - 176k
Channing - 730k
Mark Spellman - 643k
Donal Norton - 439k
John Keown - 195k
Eric Larcheveque - 401k
Carsten John - 579k

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Blake raises from the cut-off, Thomas Finneran moves all-in from the big blind. Tim calls in the classic 57-43 battle.

Tim:

Thomas:

Board:

[JungleCat03]

Andrew Grimason just tangled with Thomas Dempsey.

Both players had a big part of the flop, Thomas holding A-J and Andrew .

The diamond on the turn however left Thomas drawing dead, busto and out of the competition.

GG Thomas

Andrew's many supporters cheered loudly and gustily from the sidelines as their champion marched on relentlessly and enhanced his credentials as a candidate to take down the title...

My, what drama! Pete can barely look...

[danafish]

Hassan Mohammed announces all in on the TV table, but no-one is up for it and he takes the amazingly huge blinds.

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Now Carsten John nicks those good blinds on Table TV.

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It folds to the Joker on the small blind, who raises and thus steals Mark Spellman's big blind.