Irish Open: Interactive Thread

[TightEnd]

From the Pre-final interviews, via a PPP press release


 Ben Roberts: He’s a life coach from England and had great experiences of Ireland.  Reaching the final table is the icing on the cake of his trip here, and he believes despite the chip stacks the table is completely open!

- James Mitchell:  He’s from Wimbledon and admits to have been running good all weekend.  He’s feeling pretty confident and likes his final table seat draw

- Ed Sweeney: The Derry man works in the construction industry and won his seat on Thursday night in the live super satellite

- Robert Sherwood (€100k Sole Survivor): He qualified last Sunday via a paddypowerpoker.com Last Chance Saloon online satellite and had a good Day 1, where he went from the 10k starting stack to 40k by end of play.  He didn’t think about the Sole Survivor element until only 3 participants were left and once he had won the package, he felt calm enough to concentrate better on his play.

- Peter Murphy: The Louthman is a well-known Irish online professional player and had a lot of support in the cardroom

- Declan Connolly: He’s a former forklift driver and salesman who is now concentrating full-time on poker.  The 26 year old Dubliner is feeling confident and will see how play goes

- Santeri Valikoski: He’s a 24 year-old poker pro from Espoo in Finland and didn’t get much sleep last night!

- Paul Carr: The Limerickman probably has the most vocal support of any of the players on the final table, with more on the way!  He is a live poker player who bought his ticket from a friend who couldn’t play and didn’t have a great start to the Irish Open, being down to 5k in chips after 20 minutes of play.  He also mucked a flush on the river for a 20k pot late on Day 1, so it is amazing he’s here at all!

[GreekStein]

gogogogogo Mitchell.

Best of luck to Ben Roberts too, who I had the pleasure of sharing a table with most of the weekend. What an absolute gent.

[TightEnd]

blinds up 12k/24k/2k

[dino1980]

According to 2+2 Santeri Valikoski is the legendary 'idiot from northern Europe' in the hand vs Hellmuth from the 2008 WSOP (7 mins 15 secs in).

[GreekStein]

According to 2+2 Santeri Valikoski is the legendary 'idiot from northern Europe' in the hand vs Hellmuth from the 2008 WSOP (7 mins 15 secs in).

and at about 8min 16 seconds in you can see another final tablist, Ben Roberts peeking behind

[Knottyhunk]

is the link sticking for anyone? or is it just my connection?

having same prob here

yesterday streaming was excellent , but today it is sticking and lagging... not brilliant to watch ... hopefully problem will be rectified soon...

[TightEnd]

Carr and Donnelly tangle. Carr raises pre, Connelly re-raised to 160,000, Carr calls

flop 2-4-K two diamonds

Carr checks, Connelly bets 80,000 and Carr folds, Connelly shows 6-6

[TightEnd]

is the link sticking for anyone? or is it just my connection?

having same prob here

yesterday streaming was excellent , but today it is sticking and lagging... not brilliant to watch ... hopefully problem will be rectified soon...

Welcome to blonde. We'll record as much as we can feed or no feed

[Chili]

The action prior to this hand went something like this:

Roberts raised - folded round

Santeri raised - folded round

Carr raised - folded round

Santeri raised - folded round

James raised - folded round

[outragous76]

Carr and Donnelly tangle. Carr raises pre, Connelly re-raised to 160,000, Carr calls

flop 2-4-K two diamonds

Carr checks, Connelly bets 80,000 and Carr folds, Connelly shows 6-6

25% pot bet gets a fold.............. hmmmmmm questionable call pre

[TightEnd]

Paul Carr shirt dilemna in my OCD brain


He is wearing a yellow Munster shirt, but Munster rugby play in red. Is this a hurling shirt? Gaelic football?


Please put my whirring braincells getting frazzled in their uncertainty over this crucial issue, at rest, ty

[Eck]

Link correct? I am only getting the recording on that link and o'dea still hasn't folded that set.

[TightEnd]

Mitchell pushes Ace-Five off


Declan Connelly calls with Pocket Eights


Ace on the flop with 3-J-3-2 completing the board and Mitchell and Mitchell doubles back up.


Board from the TV screens


James Mitchell whilst all in.

Click to see full-size image.

[TightEnd]

Link correct? I am only getting the recording on that link and o'dea still hasn't folded that set.

http://www.irishpokeropen.com/tv/index.php is working with lags, interruptions etc but it is working

[gatso]

this one's for rugby