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

[danafish]

The Joker is deadly serious about winning this now.

He, Carsten John and Eric Larcheveque limp in to see a flop; it is K-6-6. Eric checks and Carsten bets 100k. The Joker calls and Eric doesn't.

The turn is a Four and Carsten checks. Channing does not call all in as the confused announcer says, but rather he moves himself all in to absolutely no betting from Carsten. In other words, he bets very large. Carsten folds. The Joker cackles evilly and brutally murders everybody in the room.

I made that last bit up, sorry.

[NoflopsHomer]

Have we got a more up to date chip count please.

A full chip count should be forthcoming since there are now nine players left.

Suffice to say, Neil Channing has been drinking the Thewyade...

[JungleCat03]

ooh ooh oohh action!!!!

Mark Spellman just had allin in great shape versus the of all-powerful mega-villain and new target of Dana's fixated photoshop obsessions Neil Channing...

FLOP:

AN all diamond flop gave Spellman a flush draw to go with his overpair.

TURN:

All over bar the shouting as Channing draws to one out on the river.

RIVER: !!!

OMG, Channing hits his one out to send Spellman crashing to the rail in an invisible puff of smoke. Spellman took his one out final table bubble beat in remarkable spirit though, managing to shake everyone's hands and smile as he left the table, without any enforced insistence from Neil Channing (like this...

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Great game sir!

We have our final 9 players and final table!

Although we are having a short break, we will be playing down to 6 players tonight and we will see if Channing will continue stomping all over all the other players like an unstoppable collossus...

[NoflopsHomer]

Payouts:

1st -- €801,400
2nd -- €420,000
3rd -- €275,000
4th -- €220,000
5th -- €175,000
6th -- €135,000
7th -- €100,000
8th -- €75,000
9th -- €50,000

[danafish]

Chipcounts:

Seat 1 Neil Joker Channing - approx. 2 MILLION!!!!!
Seat 2 Carsten John - 425k
Seat 3 Tim Blake - 850k
Seat 4 John Keown - 300k
Seat 5 Eric Larcheveque - 380k
Seat 6 Kai Danilo Paulsen - 720k
Seat 7 Thomas Dunwoodie - 280k
Seat 8 Edwin Tournier 860k
Seat 9 Donal Norton - 780k

[JungleCat03]

Some shots of the final table...




And from the other side, we see Neil Channing desperately trying to ward off any further borderline offensive photoshop creations by insane caricaturist, Dana "Sedate me immediately" Immanuel.

[danafish]

John Keown steals the blinds with a 100k raise.

Neil has been wandering off to the rail; as he comes back, he says to Keown, presumably concerning something he did before he wandered railwards, "I'm really sorry about that. I never do that." Raise six times in a row? Murder everybody with poison gas? Bask in a glowing golden aura? We will never know.

[danafish]

Now Eric Larcheveque steals the blinds.

Pete Linton is at the rail. He is making the Universal Sign Of The Noose at me, like an absolutely random man I have picked off the internet to illustrate but then removed because someone didn't like it, sorry.

[danafish]

Tim Blake has lost maybe half his stack to the Golden Joker Neil Channing.

He checked the flop, and then called the 85k bet from Neil.

Turn - and Tim bet out 100k; Neil flat-called.

River - and Tim bets a giganto-140k. Neil flat-called, and Tim just mucked when he turned over ...

[NoflopsHomer]

And now Tim has got all his chips back in a nice little double-up. Neil (shock!) raises, Tim moves in with . Neil calls with .

Flop:



And I don't even need to add the turn and river, but I did it. Just for you guys.

[danafish]

Basically nothing happened for a bit - some blinds were nicked, some walks were granted, some French updaters were urging Eric Larcheveque to go all in with 6-2, etc.

Then action! It happened so fast I'm not certain who did the shoving, but Thomas Dunwoodie was in the big blind and John Keown was on the cutoff, so let's assume that Keown raised and Dunwoodie pushed, then the calling. Anyway.

Thomas Dunwoodie -
John Keown -

Board -

Double up for Dunwoodie! With the blinds up to 20k/40k though, he's still not in great shape with a now 400k or so stack...

[NoflopsHomer]

The original plan was to move the Final Eight to the TV table, then move the Final Final Six to sleep for the night and come back tomorrow.  But the TV stage is totally dark and the table appears to be wrapped in plastic.  SO, playing all the way down. 

Neil Channing just peered at everyone's stack on his left when it passed to him, and made it 150k, probably intending to play this hand all the way... Tim and Carsten passed, but Eric Larcheveque found and moved in for 250k more.  Neil made the call with .  "It's of SPADES - he clarified for the audience."  Suited and all...

Flop: 
Turn:
River:

And Eric Larcheveld is OUT in 8th place winning €75,000.

[danafish]

I leg it over to the table where Thomas Dunwoodie is all in with to Edwin Tournier's massively-dominatey . Eek!

Board - wait for it... !!!! And Thomas is rather overcome with emotion and runs away. River an irrelevant , and he doubles up off the rather unimpressed Dutchman.

[JungleCat03]

Sorry, John Keown is OUT, eliminated in 9th spot, winning €50,000 for his troubles...



His A-4 shortstack push ran into the powerhouse of A-K in the hands of Paulsen.  Good game sir, well played...

[NoflopsHomer]

Donal Norton raises to 140k, Carsten Joh moves in over the top and Norton calls.

Norton: 3-3

Carsten: A-Q

Board: K-8-7-2-6

Carsten Joh is OUT in 7th place winning €100,000