2009 PaddyPower.com Irish Open

€3,500 Irish Open Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2009 PaddyPower.com Irish Open

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
jx9x
Prize
€600,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,200
Prize Pool
€2,243,200
Entries
700
Level Info
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
4,000

To Bust or Not to Bust?

To be fair, it's not always a simple choice, and no one chooses the former willingly. Nevertheless, as expected, shorter stacks are dropping left and right -- among them Pat Vickers, Sean Donaghy and Stephan Gerin.

Moments ago, Eugen Gout made quite a laydown, potentially avoiding the same result. He raised to 4,800 preflop from early position (for just over 20,000). Action passed to Dave Penly on the button, who calmly moved in his two highest denomination stacks - covering Gout. Back over to him, Gout tanked for quite a while until another player prompted him to make a choice.

"It's quite a decision," said Gout, before folding {Q-Hearts} {Q-Spades} face up. Penly didn't show.

Tags: Dave Penly