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 the situation here at the RDS and Barry McMahon from Ireland will be back tomorrow as chip leader for the (rather unexpectedly) final table of the €250 Mini Irish Championship.
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.
| 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 |
Prizes left 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 |