The Royal Dublin Society is a capacious, comfortable, conveniently-located place for the Irish Open, able to accommodate both the huge swell of entries in the €2,500,000 Guaranteed Main Event and Friday's side events, which include Day 1I in the €250...
Level 2: 100/300/300 Entries: 106/116 Prize Pool: €56,260 Peer Zahl and Danilo Donnini were getting up out their chairs, and their stacks were being passed to Philip Clarke, after he woke up with [As][Ah] against the [Ks][Kh] and [Kd][7d] of...
Level 21: 15k/30k (30) Entries: 7/175 Elizabeth Bennett-Martin pushed all in for around 300,000, and was called by Kristina Stauere, who had the Canadian covered. Bennet-Martin: [6s][6c] Stauere: [as][ts] The board ran out [9s][7s][8c] [qd] [2s] For a second, Bennett-Martin...
[caption id="attachment_31848" align="alignnone" width="1707"] Ben Miller[/caption] Level 2: 100/300/300 Entries: 106/110 Prize Pool: €53,835 Iwan Jones, Ben Miller, Michael Malm and Geraldine Manon are the first players to bust the Shoot-Out Championship.
[caption id="attachment_45482" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Brandon Harris[/caption] Level 2: 100/300/300 Entries: 106/110 Prize Pool: €53,835 With around 6,000 in the middle on a completed board of [Kd][Jc][2d][Ts][9d], Brandon Harris checked from the big blind to Keith Johnson in the cutoff. Johnson...
Level 19: 10,000/20,000 (20,000) Entries: 22/176 Prize Pool: €179,256 UTG+1, Seamus Bowman min-raised to 40,000. Ciaran Hetherington made the call from the Cut-off before Dermot Sweeney moved all in for 177,000 from the Small Blind. Bowman too shoved, before Hetherington...
[caption id="attachment_49160" align="alignnone" width="1024"] The Inimitable Debs the Destroyer[/caption] Level 20: 10k/25k (25) Entries: 9/175 There was a three-way all in when short stacks, Deborah Worley-Roberts and Kristina Quinn got their chips in the middle against Marina Mendy -- with...
Level 18: 8,000/16,000 (16,000) Entries: 24/176 Prize Pool: €179,256 Day 2 of the Seniors has kicked off at a rapid pace, with four players already out. Action folded to Fraser Bellamy, who open-shoved for roughly 160,000 on the Button. Adam...
[caption id="attachment_48433" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Michael Malm[/caption] Level 1: 100/200/200 Entries: 97/97 Prize Pool: €32,980 Ionut-Alexandru Moldovan was raking in a full double-up, after his [Ac][Kh] came off best against Michael Malm's [Ad][8d] on the [As][Jc][7s][9d][7d] board. For clarity, there is...
As The Beastie Boys said, back in 1989... HEY LADIES!! Yesterday, we saw a good-natured, but fiercely contested day of play -- lasting almost exactly 12 hours, from beginning to end. From a record field of 175 entries, the field...
