APAT Irish Amateur Championship - Live Update

[Des]

And finally we lose one!

The still short Jason Buckley pushed all in on a flop of 4 4 10 and found the call from chipleader Abens Maurice, holding King Four.  A Four on the river rubbed salt in the wound and Buckley exits in 5th.

[Des]

Charles McCarthy and John Quinn have just gone to war.  When the smoke was over, both were effectively all in.

McCarthy A J
Quinn 7 7

6 A J

K

10

McCarthy had a few more chips so we lose John Quinn in 4th place. 



McCarthy is right back in the game now with around 400k

[Des]

We"ve just lost Benjamin Abbou in 3rd. 

With three diamonds on the board, he pushed his stack all in on the river and was called by chipleader Maurice.

Abbou showed two diamonds for a 9 high flush, but incredibly, Maurice had him beaten with a King high flush.



We"re heads up, with Maurice holding a significant chiplead.

[Des]

Abens has enjoyed more of the play heads up and he holds around 750k of the 1.2m chips in play.

[Des]

Heads up stream....

[Des]

Abens takes a 200k pot with a pocket pair of Tens on a Jack high board.

[AceOnTheRiver]

JP came 2nd in the side..... in case anyone cared  

[Des]

Charles McCarthy has had a lot of momentum over the past twenty or so hands and he"s edged ahead.  We"re seeing lots of flops, however chips are not being conceded needlessly and it looks like we"ll need two big hands to decide the tournament.

[Des]

The players are on a short break.

[Des]

All in and called, Charles holding Ace King and Abens Ace Nine.

We saw both a King and a Nine on the board and as Charles had Abens covered, we have a winner.

Congratulations to Charles McCarthy, 2012 APAT Irish Amateur Poker Champion.

We are about to do photos etc, but thanks for joining us on the stream and the live update over the weekend.

[kohan]

        congratulations  on another superb tournament des  and the live stream pictures were good  only missing was commentary  but i am sure  that you are happy with this weekends trial run with the stream and between now  & ecoap at dtd that everything will be fine tuned  

[Des]

Benjamin Abbou presented with his Bronze medal by Ken Corkery, of the Macau Sporting Club in Cork.

[Des]

The extremely cheerful, Abens "The Stripper" Maurice, presented with his Silver Medal by Ken.

[Des]

Charles McCarthy, APAT Irish Amateur Champion 2012, presented with his Gold Medal by Ken.

[Des]

Right that"s a wrap from Cork.  Thanks to Ken and his team of dealers at the Macau for a great weekend.  Thanks also to everyone who traveled to the event.  You might not have won, but you sure partied!