€1,150 Main Event Day 1b | 2024 Irish Open

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,000/2,000

Ante: 2,000

03-28-2024 21:54 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Ulf Gustafsson	Busted
Roope Tarmi	Busted
Symeon Alexandridis	Busted
Andy Black	Busted
David Docherty	Busted

Elias Fisz	Busted
Leigh Wiltshire	Busted
Tam Ho	Busted
Nicky Roeg	Busted
Aurelian Teodorescu	Busted

No Elimination for Ju

Frank Visser

Level 11 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Samuel Ju and Maciej Przemyslaw were heads up on a turn of 10♥8♣5♥2♣. With 55,000 chips already in the pot, Ju checked from under the gun and Przemyslaw jammed all in for the size of the pot.

Ju went into the tank, asked for a count, and asked the dealer to spread the pot. Eventually, he decided he could not lay his hand down and made the call with the covering stack.

Maciej Przemyslaw: J♠J♥ All in
Samuel Ju: Q♥8♥

Ju was looking for a heart or one more of his hole cards, but the 6♣ river brought none of them. Przemyslaw raked in a huge double-up while Ju was left with around 35 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maciej Przemyslaw	161,800 161,800	161,800
Samuel Ju	55,000 15,000	15,000

Tags: Maciej Przemyslaw Samuel Ju

03-28-2024 21:36 UTC

Chuttani Flips Out Funari

Frank Visser

Level 11 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Sahil Chuttani raised to 3,500 from the cutoff and received a call from Michael Mazilu on the button. Christopher Funari then shipped in 37,100 from the small blind and Chuttani made the call before Mazilu got out of the way.

Christopher Funari: 10♠9♠ All in
Sahil Chuttani: 8♦8♣

Funari could not hit the A♣7♠5♥Q♥2♣ board and he was consequentially eliminated from the Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sahil Chuttani	127,000
Michael Mazilu	50,000
Christopher Funari	Busted

Tags: Christopher Funari Michael Mazilu Sahil Chuttani

03-28-2024 21:26 UTC

Final Numbers for Day 1b

Frank Visser

Level 11 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

Day 1b of the Irish Open Main Event saw 835 entries being made, a significant increase from the 644 that were made in 2023. The total prize pool has breached the guarantee and stands at €1,275,300.

Of those, 335 are still battling on the felt and they will need to survive four more levels before the remaining players bag and tag for Day 2.

03-28-2024 21:21 UTC

Nguyen Ships Big With Kings

Frank Visser

Level 11 : Blinds 800/1,600, 1,600 ante

On a completed board of 4♠Q♠J♠10♣5♦, and with 65,000 chips already in the middle, Daniel Lenham went all in for 30,000 chips from the hijack.

Tommy Nguyen was his opponent, in the cutoff, and made the call after thinking it over for a bit.

Lenham sighed and tabled A♠J♥ for a pair of jacks. Nguyen showed K♥K♣ for a better pair and sent Lenham home while chipping up to a six-figure stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tommy Nguyen (NO)	140,000
Daniel Lenham	Busted

Tags: Daniel Lenham Tommy Nguyen

Level: 11

Blinds: 800/1,600

Ante: 1,600

03-28-2024 21:08 UTC

Recent Eliminations

Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Sven Stok	Busted
Arjan Welleweerd	Busted
Niall Farrell	Busted

Sokratis Linaras	Busted

Niall McAree	Busted
Mark Baxter	Busted
Bert Stevens	Busted

Padraig O'Neill	Busted

Jean L'Huillier	Busted
Zeik Tuit	Busted
Gary Stokes	Busted
Erik van den Berg	Busted
Dominik Nitsche	Busted

Mark Tamas	Busted
Birger Larsen	Busted
Mario Niciforo	Busted

03-28-2024 21:04 UTC

Reconstructed Flop Leads to Double-Up

Frank Visser

Level 10 : Blinds 600/1,200, 1,200 ante

When the action was caught, Antoine Savaria and Pablo Villena each had 6,000 in chips in front of them, along with 7,500 in the pot. However, apparently, the dealer thought that the hand had finished and mucked the flop.

The floor was called over and thanks to the help of some players on the table, the 10♠9♦8♠ flop was eventually reconstructed. The deck was then reshuffled and play went on as normal.

On the subsequent 6♦ turn, Savaria bet out for 15,000, after which Villena jammed all in for 32,300. A quick call followed from Savaria and the cards were tabled.

Pablo Villena: J♦7♦ All in
Antoine Savaria: A♠7♣

Both players had a straight, but Villena had the higher one. The 5♠ river did not bring a chop and the unconventional pot was shipped to Villena, leaving Savaria with less than ten big blinds.