Two Easter Live Updates on blonde Poker

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Rob Sherwood wins the Sole Survivor €100,000 in cash/tourney entries


Yay Rob S!!

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61 Players began Day Three of the 2010 Irish Open at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin in contention for the €600,000 first prize.

Amongst them was the last DTD Online Qualifier Jason Herbert who began with above average chips and continued to play well until unfortunately being outdrawn in 40th, all in with Q-Q against James Mitchell's Ace-Queen, Ace on the turn. Herbert nevertheless took home over €5,000 for his efforts, all from a £100 Live rebuy satellite at the DTD Club.

Play continued down to an eight handed final table after fourteen hours of gruelling play. Those returning for the final table tomorrow are Englishmen Ben Roberts, Robert Sherwood and James Mitchell alongside Finn Saniteri Valikowski and Irish players Declan Connelly, Paul Murphy, Ed Sweeney and Paul Carr.

Paul Carr from Limerick won a 1,500,000 chip pot on the final table bubble when finding Aces to knock out Canadian Yann Dion with Queens, and hit the final table as chip leader

Notable British finishers in the run to the final table were Keith Hawkins in 20th, Kings into Ben Roberts' Aces, Marty Wilson in 17th Queens into Aces all-in pre-flop, and Online Qualifier Richard Robinson in 10th. Well done to them all.

Congratulations to Manchester's Rob Sherwood who won the Sole Survivor Last Longer award and won €100,000 from the sponsors in cash and tournament entries

Final table play begins at 2pm on Monday and will be covered on www.blondepoker.com/forum as we find the 2010 Irish Open Winner. Please join us.

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1 –Peter Murphy   546,000
2 – Ben Roberts  419,000
3 – Ed Sweeney  407,000
4 – Santeri Valikoski  1,722,000
5 – Rob Sherwood  497,000
6 – Paul Carr  1,596,000
7 – James Mitchell  1,155,000
8 – Declan Connolly  735,000


1st    €600,000
2     €312,600
3     €205,200
4     €163,300
5     €130,600
6     €100,800
7     €75,000
8     €56,300

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Easter Monday saw the eight remaining players from 708 starters contest the final of the 2010 Irish Open at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. The final table line up consisted of Four Irishmen, three British Players and a Finn with the chip leader Paul Carr from Limerick. At stake was €600,000 to the winner and the prestigous title in Europe's longest runnign Poker tournament.

First player out was Louthman Peter Murphy, unluckily eliminated by aggressive Englishman James Mitchell. Murphy's Ace-King outdrawn by Mitchell's King-ten, all-in pre-flop with a ten on the flop followed by Declan Connolly with Ace-King against Paul Carr's Pocket Tens. Ulsterman Ed Sweeney exited in sixth before veteran English Player Ben Roberts pushed once too often and his Queen-Jack failed to out-draw Santeri Valikowski's Ace-King.

Four handed Carr had over Four Million of the Seven Million Chips in play, a position that held until three handed once Rob Sherwood from Manchester had been knocked out in fourth. At that point, helped by James Mitchell flopping trip Aces, and turning Quads against Paul Carr's flopped nut flush draw, the chip counts levelled up and at the dinner break the chip counts of the final three were as follows:

Paul Carr   2,087,000

James Mitchell   2,622,000

Santeri Valikoski   2,328,000

Therefore the title was there for the taking for all three.

 After the break Carr's relentless aggression gave him the upper hand and Valikoski struggled to maintain his stack eventually falling in third to Mitchell when forced to push on the button.

Heads-up, England against Ireland, Mitchell against Carr with Carr beginning with a narrow chip lead. The Heads-Up lasted over two hours until eventually Mitchell took a 5-1 chip lead after beating Queens with Ace-Six, all-in pre-flop and a rivered Ace and then flopped two pair with Ace-Eight on a J-J- board to call Carr's steal push with Queen-Five.


So James Mitchell from London became the 2010 Irish Open Champion. Congratulations to him

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