Day 2 APAT Irish Live Updates (Mon 26 Oct 15)

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Seat       Name
1            Ryan Mcgrath 770k
2            James Cussack 435k
3            Skip Van Den Assem 440k
4            Robert Blaauwgeers 1.1m
5            Benjamin Cook 590k
6            Ivan Yatsenko 600k
7            Mark McGuinness 1.1m
8            Bryan Backhaus 240k
9            Joseph Gournay 300k

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L21 12k/24k/3k

Ryan on the Button gets out of the way and we see James make up from the SB only for Skipp to raise to 200k, and James to instant shove and Skipp to instant call (300k more than James):

James and Skipp

Board and James" Q is good... reducing Skipp to 300k

1            Ryan Mcgrath
2            James Cussack
3            Skipp Van Den Assem
4            Robert Blaauwgeers
5            Benjamin Cook
7            Mark McGuinness

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Talk about having a good day!!

Ben raises from under the gun to 76k.

It folds round to Robert Blaauwgeers in the big blind who re raises to 210k

Ben thinks for a while and then moves all in.

Blaauwgeers calls and the cards go over

for Ben
Blaauwgeers has  

The flop is kind and comes down  

The   turn and   river mean that Ben doubles up to around 2.2 million!!!

With the average at 1.1 million and 5 players left...

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Updated Chip counts are:


1            Ryan Mcgrath 900k
2            James Cussack 600k
4            Robert Blaauwgeers 700k
5            Benjamin Cook 2m
7            Mark McGuinness 1.3m

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Massive chip movement with this hand.

Small raise pre flop sees Mark McGuinness and Robert Blaauwgeers go toe to toe and a checked flop of  

The turn comes the  

Robert checks, Mark makes it 60k to go, Robert re raises to around 150k

Mark thinks for a little while and ships.
Robert, the shorter of the two stacks with 640k, instantly calls.

Robert has  
Mark has  

The river is the   but matters not and Robert doubles up through Mark.

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Meanwhile, in the IPO we have reached a final table:

Chip counts
Seat 1 - 5,200,000
Seat 2 - 4,625,000
Seat 3 - 2,440,000
Seat 4 - 7,165,000
Seat 5 - 4,705,000
Seat 6 - 8, 000,000
Seat 7 - 2,960,000
Seat 8 - 3,030, 000
Seat 9 - Terry Evans - 6,985.000

46 min left of blinds 80/160k ante 45k

Terry Evans effectively runs the Live Pub Poker League "South West" Area League, based in Cardiff, and TDs those Area Finals... COME ON TERRY!

What"s the top 9 prizes in this? Is this the same event that Irish Tom won 2 years ago, and LPPLer Andy Hall finished 2nd in last year?... Incredible series of results if so!

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