Main Event Day 2 | UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway

08-10-2013 13:34 UTC

UKIPT Galway: The Full Tilt 50 - 10th August

Chad Holloway

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 300 ante

Laura Cornelius brings you a 50 second update from The Full Tilt Poker Galway Festival.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 300

08-10-2013 13:09 UTC

Break Time

[user76023]

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Players are now on their first break of the day.

08-10-2013 13:09 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Jarlath Kilgallon	Busted
Michael Ryan	Busted
Roger Mcgrath	Busted
Deborah Worley-Roberts	Busted
Tobias Hariefeld	Busted
Stephen Forde	Busted

Daniel Scothorne	Busted
Luke Grant	Busted
Szablocs Horvath	Busted
Cassio Oliveira	Busted
William Flood	Busted
Andrew Morris	Busted
Denis Murphy	Busted
Damian Krauze	Busted
Dermot Fleming	Busted
Gareth Boyce	Busted
Thomas Hall	Busted

Pablo Nerro Diaz	Busted
Hana Soljan	Busted
Craig Mehlbaum	Busted
Noel McIvor	Busted
Ciarian Cooney	Busted
Sean Prendiville	Busted
John Horan	Busted
Robert Duncan	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Michael Piper	Busted

Full Tilt Poker Qualifiers Collide

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Ryan Straub, who qualified for this event on Full Tilt Poker, opened for 6,000 from early position and received a call from Bulgaria's Yassen Jotev on the button. After the small blind folded, FTP qualifier Edward O'Brien opted to shove for 15,200 from the big. Straub made the call and Jotev got out of the way.

Straub:
O'Brien:

O'Brien needed a little luck and found some on the flop. He hit a pair of queens with an open-ended straight draw and was a huge favorite to double. That quickly changed when the dealer burned and turned the . Straub hit Broadway and suddenly O'Brien needed either an ace to chop or a queen or jack to make a full house. The dealer burned one last time and put out the , the last card O'Brien would see here in the UKIPT Galway Main Event.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ryan Straub	95,000 29,000	29,000
Edward O`Brien	Busted

Tags: Edward O`Brien Yassen Jotev Ryan Straub

08-10-2013 12:59 UTC

An Orbit with Chip Leader Alan Gold

[user252447]

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

How do you wield the big stack in the early levels of Day 2 in a tournament? Do you pressure the short stacks with relentless raises, or do you bide your time, pick your spots and preserve your hard earned stack? We spent an orbit watching chip leader Alan Gold to find out.

Hand#1 (Big blind) A raise from mid-position to 6,500, folded round to Gold in the big blind who checks his cards and folds.

Hand#2 (Small blind) Folded round to Gold in the small blind, he raised to 5,000. The big blind folded. Gold sighed and turned his cards up.

Hand#3 (Button) Facing an all-in from late position, Gold and the blinds fold.

Hand#4 (Cut-off) Gold opens for 4,100. Cahal Heapes in the big blind counts his chips and raises to 13,000. Gold folds.

Hand#5 (Hi-Jack) No action when it gets to Gold, who folds.

Hand#6 (Lo-Jack) Gold opens for 4,100. Folded around to Ruairi Park in the big blind who moved all-in. Gold calls and shows against Park’s . The board ran out to knock Park out.

Hand#7 (Mid-Position) Folds.

Hand#8 (UTG+1) Gold folds to an raise from UnderThe Gun

Hand#9 (UTG) Folds.

So there you have a small sample. Nothing too crazy, going with his premium hands when he gets them, folding to resistance when he does. Gold looks calm and collected, settled in for the long day of poker ahead.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ruairi Park	Busted

08-10-2013 12:47 UTC

The FTP UKIPT Galway Main Event Nationalities

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

The Full Tilt Poker UKIPT Galway Main Event drew 860 runners from 44 different countries. Here's how it broke down:

Country	# of Players
Ireland	395
United Kingdom	282
Germany	28
Poland	19
Netherlands	11
United States	10
Lithuania	8
Sweden	8
Norway	7
Spain	7
Brazil	6
Italy	6
Hungary	5
Canada	4
Denmark	4
France	4
Israel	4
Romania	4
Russian Federation	4
Slovakia	4
Bulgaria	3
Croatia	3
Finland	3
Malta	3
Portugal	3
Switzerland	3
Austria	2
Greece	2
Japan	2
Slovenia	2
Albania	1
Argentina	1
Australia	1
Belgium	1
Colombia	1
Czech Republic	1
Hong Kong	1
Islamic Republic of Iran	1
Latvia	1
Luxembourg	1
Republic of Moldova	1
Ukraine	1
Uruguay	1
Vietnam	1

08-10-2013 12:38 UTC

Croatian FTP Ambassador Eliminated in Brutal Hand

Chad Holloway

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 300 ante

Hana Soljan may be a Full Tilt Poker Ambassador for Croatia, but she made her way to Galway to take part in this prestigious event. Unfortunately for her, a brutal river just put an end to her run.

It happened when Soljan shoved under the gun for around 50,000, which was 25 BBs. The UK's Nathan Gallagher ended up making the call and the rest of the field got out of the way.

Gallagher:
Soljan:

Soljan had the granddaddy of all hands and was in a prime spot to double to 100K. The flop was safe enough, as was the turn. All Soljan needed to do was dodge a king on the river to stay alive, but as you already know the river was brutal.