John Keown is gone

Hand unkown at this stage

Rob Taylor Gone!

Rob gets his chips in against A9 with AA on a 78TJ board in a pot which started with a lot of raising pre-flop.

Some Tables of chip counts:

Ciaran Burke 210k
Andrew Grimason 75k
Julian Thew 140k
Brian Maybin 54k
Don McKeown 45k
Paul Parker 30k
Barry O'Neill 70k
Chris Hall 98k
Karl Hutson 42k

Jaye Renehan 65k
Michael Osbourne 130k
Marc Bolton 54.5k
Liam Reddin 85k
Anthony Roux 110k
Paul Daly 40k
Paul Richards 45k
Damien Kent 90k

Good Call Monsieur !

Michel Abecassis just called Joe O'Neill's leads on the turn and river of a QJ4QT four heart board to show a good pair of Aces. Ship the 60k to the Frenchman.

Adam Fallon vs John Keown

In a re-raised pot Adam Fallon and John Keown get it all in on an AKQ flop.

John AA
Adam TJ of hearts.

The turn is the King of hearts, the Ace of hearts was on the flop. Instead of the miracle Qh the Qs fell on the river shippping a big pot to John leaving Adam on 25k.

Mmmm Min Raise?

Donal O'connor called a raise from Marc McDonnell in late position with AJ. The flop came down jack high all hearts. Donal has the ace of hearts and calls Marc's bet. The blank turn is checked but Marc bets out 15k on the blank river. Donal min raises to 30k and Marc makes the call with KK.

75 players left

Level 12 has started and 75 players remain.

We say goodbye to the 25s . . .

John Eames - Set Master

Not content with being Dermot Blaine's executioner when his set filled up on the river, he has now become the chip leader by flopping a higher set than Benjo Gallen and just to rub salt into the wounds he hit quads on the river. He has around 400k now.

Dermot Blaine gets unlucky

Dermot Blaine flops the nut straight and gives his opponent some rope. A 2 appears on the turn and he manages to get all in against a set of deuces. Unfortunatley for Dermot the board pairs the river and he is out.

JP Whyte Gone

JP Whtye was all in pre-flop holding A8 against Barry Hand's KK. The door card was an Ace but when the dealer slid out the cards it was hiding a king also. No miracles and JP is gone.

Rory Matthews Doubles Up

Rory Matthews called all in on a low 773 flop against Michael Trimby. Rory has JJ and Michael KT. No 3 outer and Rory gets shipped a 160k pot.

Dropping like flies

Other Exitees are Michael Rosanio and Seamus Cahill.

Bloggin The Bloggers

Especially for Mad Harper, Pokerstars Media Head Honcho. The chip counts of the players usually found updating tournaments all over the world.

Jen Mason 40k
Chris Hall 94k
Benjo Gallen 115k

Soxy Eliminated

Chris "Soxy" Sokrati has just been eliminated.

86 left

Shane Harker, Peter Heslin, Marc Le Campion, Lynne Beaumont all exitees.

Seat Draw Day 2

Two more gone,

Niall McNamara has gone.

Michael Muldoon's 88 was no good vs Damien Kent's AQ.

95 left.

Day 2 starts with a bang!

98 players returned for Day 2 proper. Already we have lost one player - Pat Bonner. Julian Thew said "He got imaginative" which coming from him means it probably was a strange hand :)~

Regis Burlot doubled up his French compatriot Nicolas Ragot in an AA vs AK coup.

Tony Baitson outdrew Cormac McGinty's AA with QQ to double up early.

97 left.

Combined Chip counts

The counts for Day 1a and 1b combined

End of Day 1b Chip counts

Play ended for the day,

Looks like Graham Clarkson has got through Day 1b with the most chips. He has 168,350.

1 hour to go.

The last level of the night has just started with 60 players left.

Blonde 5 min Massacre

2 Blondepoker forum members just bit the dust in sick circumstances. First Gordon "GiMac" McArthur flopped a set of sixes on a 367 flop. On the turn (9) he got all in vs Rob Taylor who had 88. the river was an 8. Gordon was unable to better his 6max bubble and Omaha final table performances in the earlier events.

Dewi "Dewi_Cool" James had QT on a TTx flop and got it in on vs T6, the 6 on the river sent the Welshman packing.

Anthony Cartwright is out

Anthony Cartwright pushed his last 6300 in on a TT5 flop containing 2 hearts. He was called by Stephen Sarsfield's pocket 4's. The turn and river came 8c 9s and the Liverpudlian is gone.

John O'Shea has been Busted!

John O'Shea's elimination means we have 63 players left and the Muldoon/Mattern/Devlin/Egan/Weafer /Taylor/Rosanio table has been broken.

Keith McFadden Eliminated

Keith McFadden has been knocked out of the tournament.

Alan Howcroft Eliminated

Two hands saw the demise of Alan Howcroft. First his AQ was no good vs KQ on a QQ2 flop, king on the river. Then he got his remaining chips in with KK against AQ and and ace on the turn killed his chances of progressing in the tournament.

Good Call by Fran Egan

Fran Egan raises it up in early position. John Weafer calls and Michael Muldoon re-raises. Fran calls and John passes.

The board reads 88T24 rainbow and Fran is facing a 30k bet after checking the river. He had check called 8k then 17k on the flop and turn previously. Some speechplay ensues before Michael calls the clock. More speech play follows and with 15 seconds to go still Fran makes the call and shows KT off which is good against Michael's unknown hand.

More chip counts

Paul Lenfesty 74.5k
Baz Hand 46k
Jim Cotter 25k
Karl Hutson 53k
Conor Tate 48k
Niall McNamara 22k
Warren Woodall 46k
Peter Heslin 48k
Anthony Roux 145k

Maurice Harmon 45k
Eamon O'Reilly 72k
Shane Walsh 32k
Ben Turnstill 66k
Pat Bonner 48k
JP Whyte 27k
Paul Richards 81k
Dermot Blaine 40k

Rory Rees & Shane McGrory Out!

Rory Rees gets his short (circa 10k) stack in with a flush draw versus the straight draw of Arnaud Mattern. Rory had a blocker as well but Arnaud still hits.

Shane McGrory got in versus Ben Turnstill and Shane Walsh on a 879 flop. The turn was a 5 and Ben then gets his last chips in with 88 and Shane Walsh makes the call with 9T. The river pairs the 7 and Ben rakes in a 66k pot.

Some more chip counts

Julian Thew 120k
Rein Zyjda 44k
Maurice Byrne 110k
Graham Clarkson 104k
Chris Cooke 48k
Paul Parker 52k
Adam Fallon 32k
Joris Jaspers 56k

Lynne Beaumont 50k
Stephen Sarsfield 35.5k
Christy Smith 69k
Keith McFadden 10k
George Dickson 82k
Collette "Smurph" Murphy 82k
Edel McDaid 70k
Anthony Cartwright 50k
Cormac McGinty 50k

Tony Baitson 83k
Shane Sills 41k
John Eames 56k
John Lavin 68k
Gordon McArthur 33k
Ricky 36k
John O'Shea 55k
Alan Howcroft 58.5k

Level 7 Blinds 200/400+50

News for Clarkson Fans...

Your Hero has 103,000.

Table 6

Dewi James 45k
John Weafer 64k
Joe O'Neill 43k
Rory Matthews 60k
Martin O'Rafferty 38k
James Browning 57k
Jamie Stretton 49k
Adam Noone 38k
Tony Rafter 90k

Oops!

There was one like this yesterday.....

After some raising Willie Robinson and Arnaud Mattern see a flop of AQQ and Willie ships for over 40k into a 20k pot. Arnaud has AQ - Snap Call! Willie looking for runner runner to go with his 88.

Another Table

Table 7

Joe Beevers 55k
Benjo Gallen 76k
John Falconer 41k
Wim Gunther Mohr 58.5k
Chris Sokrati 43k
Barry O'Neill 58k
Nicky Roeg 5.8k
Abel Meijberg 75k
Sean Shaffrey 43k

A Table of chips

Table 8 in seat order

Steven Devlin 63.5k
Willie Robinson 55k
Michael Muldoon 97k
Rob Taylor 53k
Michael Rosanio 25k
Rory Rees 63k
Fran Egan 55k
Arnaud Mattern 85k

Joe Beevers Doubles up

Joe Beevers rivered a flush against Nicky Roeg who also had a flush. Joe moved in and Nicky called. AKd for Joe and QTd for Nicky.

What Goes Around Comes Around...

Adam Fallon was the victim this time of a set over set situation. EPT Prague winner Julian Thew flopped a set of 4's against Adam's 3's and got the obligatory double up to 100k. Adam is left with 70k.

Vinny MacNamee is next to fall.

Another Gold club regular Vinny MacNamee has exited the tournament. After a slow start the pace is quickening as 70 now remain.