€1,150 Main Event Day 2 | 2025 Irish Open

04-19-2025 12:20 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Sean McDermott	Busted
Attila Koncz	Busted
Mikkel Christensen	Busted
Arben Cimilji	Busted
Conor O'Sullivan	Busted
Manus O'Donnell	Busted
Keith Touhey	Busted
Marco Caricato	Busted
Edgar Fic	Busted
Matthew Clark	Busted
Hugh Smyth	Busted
Damien Collins	Busted
Henry Coleman	Busted
Damien Cluzel	Busted
Giuseppe Dedone	Busted
Andrew Gonder	Busted
Jean-Philippe Pepin	Busted
David Botty	Busted
Gian Baumann	Busted
Carlos Estivill	Busted
Gareth Devereux	Busted
Mario Del Valle	Busted
Sean Prendiville	Busted
Cristian Vilches	Busted
Zsolt Molnar	Busted

Zarghami Takes Three Bet Pot

Patrick Cole

Level 16 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Robbie Toan opened to 12,000 from early position. Emad Zarghami raised from the hijack to 28,000. Action folded around and Toan called.

Toan led the 8♣8♥7♦ flop for 35,000. Zarghami called. The 3♦ was checked around before Toan checked again on the 7♣ turn. Zarghami bet 45,000 and Toan snap-folded.

Player	Chips	Progress
Emad Zarghami	225,000 158,500	158,500
Robbie Toan	142,000 85,000	85,000

Tags: Robbie Toan Emad Zarghami

04-19-2025 12:31 UTC

Allen Rockets to Huge Double-Up

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Frank Visser

Level 16 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Kevin Allen had gotten his above-average stack of 253,000 in preflop on the button. He had been looked up by Rafael Navas, who played an enormous stack in early position, and the players showed down.

Kevin Allen: A♠A♦ All in
Rafael Navas: A♥Q♥

Allen had Navas drawing dead after the 3♣6♠7♣8♥ turn, rendering the 5♠ river meaningless as he doubled to over 100 big blinds.

Player	Chips	Progress
Rafael Navas	740,000 160,000	160,000
Kevin Allen	528,500 329,500	329,500

Tags: Kevin Allen Rafael Navas

04-19-2025 12:37 UTC

Bouwmeester Busts

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Patrick Cole

Level 16 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Action was picked up with Ricardo Bouwmeester all in and at risk versus the covering stack of Brian Harris.

Ricardo Bouwmeester: Q♦Q♥ All in
Brian Harris: K♦K♥

Harris's Cowboy's held against the Ladies of Bouwmeester across the 7♦9♣A♦6♦8♥

Player	Chips	Progress
Brian Harris	225,000 120,500	120,500
Ricardo Bouwmeester	Busted

Tags: Brian Harris Ricardo Bouwmeester

04-19-2025 12:46 UTC

Hoang Doubles Through Big Stack

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Frank Visser

Level 16 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Adam Bromley had made it 10,000 to go when Nils Linden three-bet to 30,000. Starny Hoang, winner of the Irish Open Deaf Championship, then jammed all in for 77,000, which only Linden called.

Starny Hoang: A♠A♣ All in
Nils Linden: K♠Q♦

Linden paired up the 10♦Q♥2♦ flop, but it was not enough to crack Hoang's aces on the 2♣5♣ runout, doubling up Hoang.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nils Linden	615,000 85,000	85,000
Starny Hoang	168,500 33,500	33,500
Adam Bromley	70,000 255,000	255,000

Tags: Adam Bromley Nils Linden Starny Hoang

04-19-2025 12:55 UTC

Player	Chips	Progress
Arnas Ubartas	250,000 97,000	97,000
Dara O'Kearney	Busted

Player	Chips	Progress
Jessica Marks	Busted

Michael O'Brien	Busted
Robert Bull	Busted
Daryl Mcaleenan	Busted
Mor Kamber	Busted
James Farnhill	Busted
James Rogan	Busted
Henning Andre	Busted
Bradley King	Busted
Colm Chan	Busted
Marijus Vicas	Busted
Leddy Duffy	Busted
Darren Harbinson	Busted
Justin Chu	Busted
Damien Sparkes	Busted
Vikrum Mehta	Busted
Martin Tosoni	Busted
John Doherty	Busted
Bostjan Mozic	Busted
Daniele Grasso	Busted
Richard Frey	Busted
Mark Buckley	Busted
Christopher Scholes	Busted
Paul Keogh	Busted
Thomas Waters	Busted

Break Time

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Patrick Cole

Level 16 : Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

The field have been sent on a 30-minute break.

04-19-2025 13:12 UTC

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Level: 17

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 6,000