Monster Sides Make for Monster Mains
A huge field of 801 turned out to play with a little more space between the chairs today at the Royal Dublin Society, as Day 1 of the €350 NLH 6-Max Championship tested the limits of the hall’s capacity. With 568 unique entries representing 51 countries, this is the sort of field that a lot of Main Events would be proud to attract.
Running alongside several other events, its attendance surpassed that of the Mini Main, €1,150 8-Max, and PLO High Roller combined. Lucky that this ultra-popular tournament has a day 2 (Thursday, April 15). Players are fairly deep in the money already, with the bubble having burst when Matthew Micallef’s pocket jacks saw him play down the streets, making a fateful river call that cheered up everyone else in the tournament.
From 119th place onwards, people exited via the cash desk, with a mincash worth €550 and top prize of €44,600 awaiting the winner. Missing out on a cash but presumably telling everyone that it was just a warm-up for the Main Event anyway were the likes of PokerStars Ambassadors Lasse Jagd Lauritsen, Barny Boatman, Felix Schneiders, Marle Spragg, and Caitlin Comeskey.
Leading the remaining players is Giustino Monzo with 1,450,000 chips, one of three players to bag over a million (the other two being Ionel Serbu and Dominic Oertle). Also in the running for this unsurprisingly tough-to-acquire trophy are double WSOPE bracelet winner Alessandro Pichierri, Philippe Souki, Mateusz Moolhuizen and Robbie Bull.
Click here for prizepool information and payouts so far.
Day 2 will be covered from 13:00 here on the irishpokeropen.com blog (as with nearly all side events, just click the event in the Schedule for reporting, galleries, chip counts, results and structure information).
