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

[NoflopsHomer]

We've lost William Martin from the feature table to Eric Larcheveque. Martin helds Eights, the Frenchman had Ace King, flopping one pair and turning a second. 13 left.

[NoflopsHomer]

Danilo Paulsen moves all-in under the gun. It's passed around to Andrew Grimason in the big blind who thinks for two minutes, before calling. Paulsen shows him the Aces and Grimason makes a face like he's just been forced to taste Marmite as he shows .



A board later and it's Grimason who is now short.

[danafish]

John Keown and Eric Larcheveque see a J-x-4 flop and Eric bets - John Keown goes all in! But Larcheveque folds. Keown shows J-4!

[NoflopsHomer]

Is there much play at the moment, guys? From here it seems like it's raise, all-in, call, coinflip, and whoever the Poker Gods smile upon wins.

It is all pretty much preflop action, the average stack started today with about 16BB's being the average, but now it's about 21BB's. But that's still not enough to play a flop really unless both stacks are deep.

[danafish]

Carsten and Hassan see an -Jh-A flop, which they both check.

The turn is the and Carsten bets 75k; Hassan folds.

The railers are applauding everything, cheerful types that they are.

[danafish]

Is there much play at the moment, guys? From here it seems like it's raise, all-in, call, coinflip, and whoever the Poker Gods smile upon wins.

Lots of nicking of blinds, punishing of limping etc. Few interesting big hands that do not result in either an exit or a double up, as the average is still around 20 big blinds...

[NoflopsHomer]

TV Table counts

Mohammed Hassan -- 283k
Neil Channing -- 819k
Mark Spellman -- 491k
John Keown -- 153k
Erik Larchevque -- 692k
Carsten Joh -- 646k

Dana is just getting the other table stuff.

[JungleCat03]

Big stacks kick off!!!!

I join the table on a flop contested by two of the larger stacks, Pete Linton and Tim Blake...

Check from Pete, bet by Tim of 50k or so...CALL by Pete...

TURN:

Check Pete, check Tim...

RIVER:

Pete now picks up what looks like about 100k in chips and bets it and Tim flat calls his bet after a small pause...

Pete shows A-K confident that his 2 pair value bet is ahead BUT Tim shows K-Q for a superior 2 pair, sweeping up the pot to much applause whilst Pete shakes his head a little disappointedly and licks his wounds disconsolately...



The Tim-inator...

[danafish]

I counted the chips after that big pot that Pete Linton lost to Tim, by the way - just to clarify, he has 470k after that.

[danafish]

...And another one bites the tournament dust, this time Andrew Grimason.

Blind-on-blind action, Grimason shoved with 8-3 and Kai Paulsen found Fives to turn Andrew into a Grim weeper (totally Junglecat's pun).

[NoflopsHomer]

Hassan Mohammed is out, running into Carsten Joh's Aces.

An eight came on the flop, but to no avail. 11 players left.

[JungleCat03]

Carsten John just had John Keown ALLIN on the feature table...

John Keown
Carsten John

John was in bad shape with his tournament life on the line but Carsten's strong advantage was utterly reversed by a flop-tastic, flush-tastic and pair-tastic flop

Pair and flush draw for John left Carsten drawing thin and a pair of blanks on the turn and river completed the outdraw, doubling John up crucially to some lusty bellows from the enthusiastic rai!!!!

[NoflopsHomer]

RAILER OF THE DAY

Dana, "The pattern on the trousers looks like he nicked a logo from a health club or something..."

[NoflopsHomer]

Sadly, Pete Linton is out, 5-handed, he pushed for about 350k from under the gun, Tim Blake asked for a count, before passing. Edwin Tournier snap-calls and shows Queens. Pete is in hot-water with Q-J.

A A-T-A-4-3 board later and Pete is OUT in 11th place winning €32,500. Which seems scant consolation at the moment for him.

Tim Blake says afterwards that he passed Tens!

[danafish]

Carsten John raises to 82k preflop, called by Neil Channing on the button.

The flop comes T-8-x where x might have been a Queen... sorry for lack of this card, but it only got interesting when Carsten check-raised Neil's 90k bet on the flop up to 240k...  A brief pause, and Neil moved all in!  Covering his opponent, he then caused Carsten to pause a bit longer as he debated calling for his tournament life...

Carsten passed, and another quarter mil plus headed for the Joker's stack - which might well now be the chip leader's...