Irish Amateur Poker Championship - Fitzwilliam Club, Dublin - Live Updates

[MarkTheShark]

Play will be underway at 14:30 for the Irish National Championship here in Dublin.

I"ll be bringing you the usual pics, reports, updates and eliminations as they happen live from the event

Full player list as soon as play gets underway and we know the number of runners.

Should be a great day!!

[fandango]

Good luck to all.. Have fun lets see an APAT 1,2,3!!

[AAroddersAA]

Who is on updates in Larry Murphy"s please?

[MarkTheShark]

Who is on updates in Larry Murphy"s please?

Larry is  

[AAroddersAA]

Let"s play the predictions game again. Who will win and three other finalists.

My bet is winner: Ger Smyth

Final Table: Darren Shallis, Paulie Davies and Rich Baker

(Larry will be unhappy if this is the case)

[frankieb]

winner.                 Shaz Roberts


Final Table.           Darren Shallis,  John Murray,  Damien Bailie.

[fandango]

Let"s play the predictions game again. Who will win and three other finalists.

My bet is winner: Ger Smyth

Never took Rodders as a junkie!

[Fatcatstu]

Over/under on how many times Ger gets asked "are you out?" Every time he goes for a ciggy? I will set the line at 73.

[HOLDorFOLD]

Over/under on how many times Ger gets asked "are you out?" Every time he goes for a ciggy? I will set the line at 73.

Good luck you guys .... usual suspect chip counts throughout the day please.

I would usually ask for a beer count too but ffs this is Dublin .... just quadruple Portugal"s daily intake

[AAroddersAA]

Let"s play the predictions game again. Who will win and three other finalists.

My bet is winner: Ger Smyth

Never took Rodders as a junkie!

I think this is a great prediction in this specific tournament. Club is dry and Ger is not able to get drunk during breaks. Ger is actually good when he is playing sober and it is in Ireland his home event so he will actually be trying.

I stand by this call.

[AAroddersAA]

Over/under on how many times Ger gets asked "are you out?" Every time he goes for a ciggy? I will set the line at 73.

How many times will Ger go to Larry Murphy"s on day one whilst still in? I am going to say 5

[Laxie]

Over/under on how many times Ger gets asked "are you out?" Every time he goes for a ciggy? I will set the line at 73.

How many times will Ger go to Larry Murphy"s on day one whilst still in? I am going to say 5

I"ve a feeling Ger will mostly be missing from about 5pm, regardless of how many chips he has.  Cork (my team) vs Clare (his team) in the All Ireland Hurling Final (replay) today - kick off at 5pm.  God help ye if his team happens to win and he still has chips after it!  

[MarkTheShark]

Here i am!!

Chaos in Dublin city centre meant whilst the tournament gt underway at 14:30, a few dealers were stuck in traffic - so your intrepid reporter took to the tables in a dealer capacity to help out for the first 2 levels to ensure we got underway smoothly and no self dealing shizzle!!

Due to the Winamax event at the Regency oversubscribing, we"ve had an unexpected influx of players, primarily French, as youd expect, so we are currently at 76 entrants, with a level and the first break available for players to late reg.

So just under 6k in the prizepot - ill now endeavour to get the names of the runners and riders and get some pics up!

[MarkTheShark]

Your runners in the 2013 Irish Amateur Poker Championship


Sindijs Anspoks
Warren Arless
Damien Bailie
Frank   Bailie
Richard Baker
Pasquale Di Bari
Dylan Bayeux
Elie Bonamour
Morad Bouarfe
Shane Bruton
Dale Buchanan
Peter   Burnnet
Brendan Byrne
Sean   Byrne
Hugh   Cairnie
Peter   Campbell
Sophie Clarke
John   Creaney
Paul   Davis
Patrick De Ferriera
Peter   Decsi
Andrew Duncan
Debjani Duncan
Patrick Eagers
Des Fagan
Anthony Fauquet
Darragh Finneran
Przemyslaw   Flak
Paul   Gildea
Graham Gorton
Denise Gorton
Chris   Green
Paddy Hicks
Colin   Joseph
Keith   Joseph
Djibril   Kamara
James Kemp
John   Kennedy
Seb   Kerrien
Brian   Kiely
James King
John   Leonard
Remus Matache
Kenneth McBride
Martin McCabe
Colin   McGrane
Walter McMahon
Roy   Musielak
Bryan   Napier
Richard Nish
Martin Norbury
Declan O"Connell
Kevin  O"Hanlon
Nicholas O"Kane
Susan Pearson
Frank   Piednoel
Patrick Piednoel
David   Pilkinston
Sergio Pinherio
ilona   Porr
Donald Roberts
Sharon Roberts
Seb   Goncalves
Stuart Samuels
Rachel Samuels
Gary   Satelle
Darren Shallis
Davis   Smith
Ger Smyth
AlanTang
Julien   Varin
Patrick Vickers
Vongmanak   Vongsanith
Thomas Whelan
Lee Wyatt
Dainius Zilinaskas

[MarkTheShark]

Please forgive the slowness of the reporting at the moment -as usual the Wifi at these places isnt the greatest!!

Anyway, 6 players down so far - Kevin O"Hanlon amongst them. He seemed a little bemused as to what had happened, telling me quickly his exit hand - which i think was him running into a flopped flush - before saying he must rush to get the bus - only to take the fire exit out of the room rather than the main exit - a few seconds later he appeared back in, sheepishly saying "oops, wrong door" - and off he went.

Few minutes before the end of L3 where ill be able to get a few chip counts.