PokerStars UKIPT Galway

[thetank]

well played James

[moonandback]

delighted for you james could'nt happen to a nicer fella.

[KarmaDope]

vwp James and Brammer

[easypickings]

Weeeeeeeeeeee! So happy for you James, great work.

Come and celebrate in Brum on Wednesday!

[tikay]

Nice one James.

[SuffolkPunch]

what happened? Blog sure is live

Perhaps some dodgy wireless connection. Rick is a good guy, it's very hard to cover a whole tournament on your own!

[  ] Whole tournament
[X] 11 players

lol, even still it can be quite fiddly with the Stars software sometimes, and if two or three people bust out all in quick succession, you have to be there to get all the hands or follow up to players at the table to find out what happened and then backdate the reports, which seems to be what is happening now.

New forfeit if you don't win a comp should be that you have to completely update the next blonde bash on your own!

Homer is right. I don't think many people appreciate just how much bloggers have to do to bring as much reporting to folks back home as they do. Even with only 11 players, a lone blogger has to try and keep an eye on the action, report it as best as he can, update chip counts, update the prize payout page, organise and publish photos and occasionally videos too. All that while coping with publishing times for each section.

They work extremely long hours in difficult conditions, and there is just no way a blogger working on his/her own can reproduce the weight of work that you have come to expect, say, from an EPT which might have four bloggers working flat out.

[TightEnd]

Final table profiles from Poker Stars

THE FINAL TABLE

Paul Marrow from Liverpool, United Kingdom (50)
Final table chip count: 1,000,500
Chipleader Paul has been playing poker for around 4 years and is a man with a point to prove. 'I'm known as a bit of a lunatic player and I'm always getting friends like Neil Channing telling me to just play poker and stop being stupid.' Marrow, who plays cash games online and live a couple of times a week, headed to the event knowing that he was going to win it. Whether the other players have something to say about it is another matter.


Ben Lefew from Harvard, Illinois (24)
Final table chip count: 928,500
Lefew qualified for the UKIPT Galway through a $8.88 rebuy at the beginning of December, but that's not to say this is an ordinary low stakes player. The full time pro's biggest score was in the WCOOP main event where he finished 6th for $375,000 under the name Chong94. He's been playing around 5 years and qualified for the event for a total of $26 because he 'wanted to do some travelling and this was a cheap way to do it.'

Padraig Parkinson from Paris, France (52)
Final table chip count: 693,500
Irishman Padraig Parkinson needs little introduction as one of Irish poker's most famous sons. A professional poker player for 20 years Parkinson has successfully turned his hand to commentating and broadcasting as well as doing a lot of charity work for the homeless. Parkinson finished third in the WSOP Main Event in 1999 for $489,125 when fellow Irishman Noel Furlong won.

Michael McFadgen from Toronto, Canada (23)
Final table chip count: 585,500
One of a few young professional poker players at the table, McFadgen has been playing for 5 years and owns training site SNGMentors.com. His friend kardlo69, who is in line for a percentage of his winnings, won 3 seats for the event at PokerStars and passed one on McFadgen.


Michael Graydon from Dublin, Ireland (24)
Final table chip count: 585,000
BIGMICKG as he is known online is a feared sit-and-go player who topped sit-and-go leader boards last year. The former supernova elite made the money at this year's World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event for $25,027. Graydon qualified for the UKIPT through PokerStars.

Cat O'Neill from Dublin, Ireland (27)
Final table chip count: 535,000
Online fraud analyst Cat O'Neill has been playing poker for two years and tries to play as frequently as possible. She was bought into the event by her boyfriend, Rob Taylor, who also played and cashed in 34th place for €2,800. O'Neill said, 'He buys me in and I spend the winnings!'


Paul Dooley from Letterkenny, Ireland (37)
Final table chip count: 376,500
After playing for four years it seems Paul Dooley has worked out what it's all about. Fresh off a final table finish in the Irish Masters for €22,400 the part-time player is well positioned to make another sizeable score if the cards run his way. When not at work at a bank he also likes to play golf.


Vinny Cosgrove from Tuam, Ireland
Final table chip count: 301,000
Hometown hero Vinny Cosgrove hails from Tuam, a small town in County Galway. Cosgrove has had the most vocal support of the tournament and could make the final table an electrifying event if he gets an early double up.

Trevor Bulless from Essex, United Kingdom (65)
Part-time player Bulless has been playing for 8 years at a local casino and since retiring from the motor industry poker has become a favourite pastime. Although he's scored a few final tables during his poker career this is by far and away his biggest with a guaranteed payout of at least €9,000. If he wins big he intends to use some of it to bankroll entry into bigger tournaments such on the EPT circuit.

[outragous76]

Weeeeeeeeeeee! So happy for you James, great work.

Come and celebrate in Brum on Wednesday!

this

and wp

[MC]

Weeeeeeeeeeee! So happy for you James, great work.

Come and celebrate in Brum on Wednesday!

this

and wp

Hehe, thanks again every1, Weds is looking good methinks!

GL to Mike McFadgen in the final, nice fella who I met over the weekend.

[dino1980]

Grats on the shippage MC.

[brummieboy]

Well done MC, impressive performance.

[Dale]

Spencer Lawrence      46250


^ This is daleroxxu iirc

gl all left in

GTFO


also,


How would you like to be paid sir?

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Ahhhm just stuff some cash in a bag, whatever.

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[thetank]

 

[amcgrath1uk]

vwd James!!

[Royal Flush]

Congrats Mick