Paddy Power Irish Open DAY ONE LIVE UPDATE

[MrDigital]

GOOD LUCK 

King (CROWSFEET) Hawko
KP (Good Read) Nuts
Shaaaaaaaaaaaamoooooooown Sha

Unlucky B4(LETSOMEONEELSEWINFORACHANGE)Matt

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[dino1980]

Just had a text off Matt D. He's just retired someone and is up to around 20k now

Is Matt D the young lad in his 20s with average length brown hair. Kind of looks like a public school boy?

Not sure if you'd class matt as young! this is he - http://poker.meetup.com/321/member/1964070/photos/

[Djinn]

Mark Bartlog is OUT - just when Kev was getting you a picture of Large Hair Corner (the young lad to his right has even more) - he got it all in with but found against him.  He said, "I just thought you were having a go at re-raising..." It was close, but the other fella took him out.

Elsewhere: 

Dave McGeachie    8,000
Mark Hawkins       11,400
Richard Ashby      10,400

I can't remember if that covers everyone's early requests... please try again if not!

Also, we've just been handed the full player list and seating positions by Brendan, who is running a very tight ship for the Press Area.  Many thanks to him and Paddy Power for making this large event more manageable...

[totalise]

distinguished reporters,

any info good/bad about mafews (rory)?

much appreciated

[Reardon27]

how is  bigTR doing now?

[Djinn]

Chili just took a guy down from the button, having called his preflop raise.  Michael Dunne didn't look like he was enjoying the flop overly much, and when he bet about a quarter of his stack - 1,500 - Chili immediately moved all-in and he passed.

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[snoopy1239]

Hey Guys...

Just registered wonderin how brian lyttle, ivan donaghy, paul lecky, mal dawson, mark muldoon, sean murphy are gettin on?
Thanks!!!

hi there.

Given that they haven't moved seats:

Brian Lyttle -- 7.7k
Paul Lecky -- 18k
Mal Dawson -- empty seat (eek)

[Dubai]

Snoops any chance of a chip count on Hugh Jass please. You cant miss him, big skinhead fella.

[snoopy1239]

Trevor Reardon is on 12.4k.

Just imagine how much he would have been on if he hadn't been sitting in his hotel for an hour watching the footie. 

[snoopy1239]

Snoops any chance of a chip count on Hugh Jass please. You cant miss him, big skinhead fella.

Just had a quick look m8, can't see him. Do u have a picture?

[snoopy1239]

Chili is doing a 'mini yoyo' and is 'back up to 10k'.

She was fibbing though, big stylee, she's actually on 9.5k.

Ooh, what a porky pie-er.

[snoopy1239]

Jim Reid took a hit and has doubled up a young Irish lad. A-K v J-J. No help.

[Dubai]

Ariston look alike!

[Djinn]

James Akenhead finds himself yet again on Joe Grech's table.  They have 11,050 and 8,000 respectively, and I don't think they've taken the brakes off yet.  Then again, it's been a half hour since I had a look over there.  This room is very large, but nicely spaced out so we can wander round the tables in comfort.  But with everyone playing at once, it's tough to see everything - like watching individual termites in their little castle...

Elsewhere:

Dave O'Callaghan   13,000
Michael Greco         4,700 (he was having a bit of a whinge to someone on another table, so I reckon something bad happened recently).

[Ironside]

what about mickey?