APAT Irish Amateur Poker Championship LIVE UPDATE - FINAL DAY

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As Gabor was exiting the tournament, Mark Furlong was crippled in a hand against Eamonn Kelly. I joined the hand on the turn of a board, where Kelly had bet 55k and Furlong was all in for 120k. Kelly went into the tank and eventually called, revealing a surprising . Furlong could only show and the river was no help.

Furlong was left with about 2bb and this went in on the next hand against Rory Keogh. Furlong did not win this hand and left us in 18th.

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Mark Lassman has been eliminated in 17th place. He 3-bet to 62k over a raise from Eamonn Kelly, only to see Kelly push all in. Lassman, who only had 35k back, called and opened J-J-T-9 but Kelly had A-A-K-8.

The door card was a Jack but unfortunately there was an Ace underneath it and the set of Aces held on the board of A-5-J-7-3 and Lassman headed for the PLO8 side event.

The TD is currently breaking a table and we now have 16 players left.

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Gary Phillips has been eliminated in 16th place. He limped in EP only to see Richard Baker raise to 11k. BB Glen McCabe called and Gary flicked in the call. The flop was and Glen open shoved 35k first to act. Gary also had 35k and called all in. Baker also called and all 3 turned over their cards.

Baker: A-K-J-T
Phillips: A-K-Q-7
McCabe: J-J-Q-5

McCabe"s set was ahead but the other two players had straight outs. Neither hit though on the turn and river, improving McCabe"s hand to a full house and trebling him up in the process. Phillips headed to the side event and Baker took a hit.

Glen McCabe - 140k
Richard Baker - 90k
Gary Phillips - OUT.

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Players are now on a 20 minute break. There are 15 players left and blinds will be 3000/6000 when we return.

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And we"re back.

In the last hand before the break, Asa McGrath doubled up Colin Wilson. Colin now has 250k whilst Asa is down to 140k.

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Paul O"Callaghan has exited in 15th place. I have no hand to report as the gentleman in question never showed up today and was blinded out.

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Play has slowed down since the break with not many hands going to showdown. The average stack is around 30bbs and most of the shortstacks are on the same table, leading to a situation where one table is grinding and the other table with all the chips are just passing chips around as their stacks are too deep to get it in without coolers.

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Asa McGrath has bust in 14th place.

He never recovered after the big hand vs Colin Wilson just before the break and blinded down to 70k before getting it all in preflop with J-J-6-5 against Scott Gray"s A-A-8-2.

The A-A held on the Q-3-T-6-8 board and we have 13 players left, with 9 of them getting paid. Asa, on the other hand...has headed straight into the PLO8, with 2 mins left for late reg.

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Blinds are now 5000/10000.

Average stack is 225k.

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Rita Galvin has had a torrid time today and not been able to get going. Her stack had been slowly shrinking and unfortunately she is now out in 13th place. 12 left, 9 paid.

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Ken McBride has exited in 12th, losing to Colin Wilson.

Ken only had 41k at the start of the hand and he was in the bb for 10k. It was folded to Colin in the SB and he raised to 20k. Ken shoved and Colin was priced in to call.

Ken McBride:
Colin Wilson:

The flop would have ensured all the money had gone in anyway, as it was , giving Ken 2 pair and Colin the nut flush draw. Colin didnt need two cards to hit though, the turn meaning Ken had 4 outs for the redraw. He didn"t hit though, the river being the , and we are now down to 11 with 9 getting paid.

We will be going hand-for-hand when the next person exits.

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And we are hand-for-hand.

I arrived at Table 3 to see an all in preflop. Noel Mitchell had naturally gone all in with , but Eamonn Kelly had turned up with and managed to scoop the pot by rivering the flush on the board.

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We are still hand for hand. Rory Keogh and Glen McCabe have both been all in and at risk, but have managed to survive and double up.

Blinds have increased to 8000/16000. 10 left, 9 paid.

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Is Curly still in?.. Gl if he is time for a win IMO..