Even in a freezeout with relatively short blind levels (30 minutes), you don’t predict a tournament field of 421 entries to reach a final table in 12 hours. But that’s what happened on Sunday’s Day 1 of the Mini Main, and Ireland’s Barry McMahon goes into Monday as chip leader not merely of some amorphous “Day 2” – with just eight players left, McMahon returns as chip leader of the actual final table of the €250 Mini Irish Open Championship. Play resumes at noon, and if the pace is anything like that on Day 1, we should be crowning a champion not long after that.
McMahon bagged up 1,875,000 followed by British player Tim Appleby on 1,560,000. Michael O’Neill, Hugh Smyth, Thomas O’Shea, Simon Nickmans, Gary McCoy and Adrian-Ioan Ionescu complete the line-up. Between them they will be taking home the lion’s share of the €90,305 prize pool. This is what our final table looks like:
| 1 | BARRY MCMAHON | 71 | 7 | 1875000 |
| 2 | SIMON TIMOTHY APPLEBY | 71 | 3 | 1560000 |
| 3 | MICHAEL ONEILL | 71 | 5 | 810000 |
| 4 | HUGH SMYTH | 71 | 4 | 750000 |
| 5 | THOMAS OSHEA | 71 | 1 | 415000 |
| 6 | SIMON NICKMANS | 71 | 2 | 330000 |
| 7 | GARY MCCOY | 71 | 6 | 310000 |
| 8 | Adrian-Ioan Ionescu | 71 | 8 | 260000 |
And this is what’s left for them to fight over:
| 1 | €17,590 |
| 2 | €11,180 |
| 3 | €8,380 |
| 4 | €6,780 |
| 5 | €5,345 |
| 6 | €4,080 |
| 7 | €3,000 |
| 8 | €2,205 |
We’ll be bringing you as much coverage as we can while flitting about between this, the Seniors, not one but two Mystery Bounties, and so on and so forth. Who will win the tiny trophy? Join us from noon to find out!