€1,150 Main Event Day 1a | 2025 Irish Open

04-13-2025 12:19 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
David Hu	50,000
David Gordon	50,000
Andrew Durkan	50,000
Starny Hoang	50,000
Sandro Carucci	50,000
Georg Ibrahim	50,000
Martin Ilavsky	50,000

Brian Harris	50,000
Michael Preschern	50,000

Risko Cracks Aces

Patrick Cole

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 0 ante

Action was picked up on the flop of Q♥8♥J♣ with Tibor Risko all in and at risk versus the covering stack of Raymond Wheatley.

Tibor Risko: Q♠Q♦ All in
Raymond Wheatley: A♦A♥

Risko flopped top set and his ladies held across the 6♠ turn and 10♠ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Tibor Risko	75,000 75,000	75,000
Raymond Wheatley	35,000 50,000	50,000

Tags: Raymond Wheatley Tibor Risko

04-13-2025 12:00 UTC

Wheatley Stacks Lange

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Patrick Cole

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 0 ante

Action was picked up on the flop of 3♦10♠2♣3♣. Daniel Lange moved all in and was called by Raymond Wheatley.

Daniel Lange: Q♥J♦ All in
Raymond Wheatley: K♣J♣

Wheatley was ahead and he hit his flush draw a X♣ river.

Player	Chips	Progress
Raymond Wheatley	85,000 85,000	85,000
Daniel Lange	Busted

Tags: Daniel Lange Raymond Wheatley

04-13-2025 11:53 UTC

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Patrick Cole

Level 2 : Blinds 100/200, 0 ante

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Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

04-13-2025 11:45 UTC

New Entrants

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Patrick Cole

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 0 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Kelly Slay	50,000 50,000	50,000
Steven Buckner	50,000 50,000	50,000
Stan van Dijk	50,000 50,000	50,000
Henry Ferguson	50,000 50,000	50,000
James Finnegan	50,000 50,000	50,000
Matthew Micallef	50,000 50,000	50,000

04-13-2025 11:35 UTC

Strijbis Leads River

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Patrick Cole

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 0 ante

Action was picked up with Johan Strijbis check-calling a bet of 300 from the small blind on the flop of 9♠J♣3♠. Ciaran Martin made the bet from early position.

Strijbis check-called again on the 9♦ turn, this time a wager of 600. On the 10♦ river, Strijbis led for 2,800. Martin went into the tank before folding.

Player	Chips	Progress
	51,500 51,500	51,500
	49,500 49,500	49,500

Tags: Johan Strijbis Ciaran Martin

04-13-2025 11:20 UTC

Roberts Wins Big Pot, Receives Warning

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Patrick Cole

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 0 ante

Action was picked up on the flop of 3♦J♠7♥ with around 35,000 in the middle. Daniel Lange bet 20,000 from the small blind. Junior Roberts called from the hijack.

Lange then led all in on the 8♥ turn and was snap-called by Roberts.

Junior Roberts: J♥J♦ All in
Daniel Lange: A♦K♥

Lange was drawing dead and the 10♦ was inconsequential. Roberts was then issued a warning as it transpired that he acted out of turn preflop.

Player	Chips	Progress
Junior Roberts	85,000 85,000	85,000
Daniel Lange	25,000 25,000	25,000

Tags: Daniel Lange Junior Roberts

04-13-2025 11:10 UTC

Kelly Gets There on the River

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Patrick Cole

Level 1 : Blinds 100/100, 0 ante

Action was picked up on the flop of 5♦8♣9♦ with Kristian Kostiander and Levi Kelly checking from the small and big blind.

Gerard Kelleher bet 300 from early position. Francis Mcdonald called on the button. Kostiander folded and Kelly called. Kelly then checked the Q♥ turn and Kelleher bet 600. Mcdonald folded and Kelly called again.

Kelly then check-called a bet of 1,300 on the 7♥ river. Kelleher tabled J♣9♥ for a pair of nines but was bested by Kelly's J♥6♦ for a nine-high straight.