€1,150 Main Event Day 1b | 2026 Irish Open

5 days 16 hours ago

Bellamy Gets Huge Double With Flopped Flush

Frank Visser

Level 14 : Blinds 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

Catching the action on a 6♣4♣5♣3♦ turn, there were already around 110,000 chips in the pot when Henrik Hoerwing checked from the big blind to Fraser Bellamy in the cutoff.

Bellamy fired a bet of 75,000, which Hoerwing quickly called. The K♦ river then completed the board. Hoerwing checked again, seeing his opponent enter the tank before moving all in for 141,000.

"I flopped the nut straight and have a club," Hoerwing claimed as he thought things through. "If you have a flush, I'm happy for you. I'm not folding."

He stuck in calling chips and tabled 8♠7♣ for a straight. Bellamy did have a flush with his Q♣3♣, however, and he was shipped the massive pot to be among th eleaders of Day 1b.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fraser Bellamy	542,000 542,000	542,000
Henrik Hoerwing	125,000 187,000	187,000

Tags: Fraser Bellamy Henrik Hoerwing

Level: 15

Blinds: 2,000/5,000

Ante: 5,000

5 days 15 hours ago

Penfold Cracks O'Connors Aces During Late-Night Surge

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

James O'Connor and Lawrence Penfold got all their chips in the middle preflop, with O'Connor's stack of about 175,000 being at risk.

James O'Connor: A♠A♥ All in
Lawrence Penfold: Q♥Q♦

Penfold flopped a set on 9♦2♠Q♠ to take a big lead, and he locked up the pot when the Q♣ turn provided him with quads.

O'Connor said his goodbyes as the meaningless 5♠ river rolled off, and Penfold added some more chips to his impressive stack.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lawrence Penfold	620,000 620,000	620,000

James O'Connor	Busted

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5 days 15 hours ago

More Late-Night Bust-Outs

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Marle Spragg	Busted

Vetle Holum	Busted
Chris Dowling	Busted
George Devlin	Busted
Trevor Reardon	Busted
James Colhoun	Busted
Mo Xu	Busted
Abraham Serrano	Busted
Francois Vuille	Busted
Jim Reid	Busted
Dara O'Kearney	Busted
Michele Dargenio	Busted

5 days 15 hours ago

Bokowski Claims Another Victim

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Augustas Bareisa opened to 10,000 in the hijack, which Nicolas Bokowski three-bet to 30,000 in the small blind. Bareisa then moved all in for 145,000, and Bokowski looked him up with the covering stack.

Augustas Bareisa: A♠3♠ All in
Nicolas Bokowski: A♥10♦

Neither player improved on the 6♥8♠Q♠J♦4♦ runout, seeing Bareisa exit late on Day 1b.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nicolas Bokowski	465,000 154,000	154,000
Augustas Bareisa	Busted

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5 days 15 hours ago

Final Three Hands

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The floor has announced that three more hands will be played on each table before Day 1b wraps up.

5 days 15 hours ago

Dixon Downs Lyons During Final Few Hands

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

A completed board of 8♥A♣A♥5♦J♦ was already dealt when Juan Lyons slid a bet of 129,000 into a big pot of 225,000 from under the gun, leaving only 5,000 behind.

His opponent was Ben Dixon in the hijack, who snap-called and tabled A♠J♠ for a full house. Lyons shook his head and sighed as he returned his cards face down to forfeit the pot.

Lyons became one of the final eliminations of Day 1b as he lost his final chip not much later.

Player	Chips	Progress
Lawrence Penfold	770,000 150,000	150,000

Ben Dixon	514,000 426,000	426,000
Luca Bernardi	495,000
Juan Lyons	Busted

Tags: Ben Dixon Juan Lyons

5 days 15 hours ago

Final Day 1b Eliminations

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Terelle Tavares	Busted
Gary Satelle	Busted
Tiaran O'Kane	Busted
Ivan Chegusov	Busted

Michael McAleer	Busted
Thomas Clack	Busted

5 days 15 hours ago

Day 1b in the Books

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

The 709 entries of Day 1b have been whittled down to 149 players, who are all bagging up as play has been completed.

Stay tuned for full chip counts and a recap of the day.

5 days 15 hours ago

End of Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

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Frank Visser

Level 15 : Blinds 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Lawrence Penfold	796,000 26,000	26,000

Abel Pruchon	666,000 156,000	156,000
Fraser Bellamy	665,000 123,000	123,000
Hamza Nasir	617,000 207,000	207,000
Gavin Sardini	544,000 19,000	19,000
Thomas Waters	532,000 402,000	402,000
Pierre Basely	530,000 190,000	190,000
Danilo Donnini	527,000 207,000	207,000

Vincent Ciarrocchi	521,000 95,000	95,000
Ben Dixon	519,000 5,000	5,000
Nicholas Toledo	516,000 282,000	282,000
Nils Mallon	515,000 117,000	117,000
Luca Zapatero	512,000 327,000	327,000
Fabio De Lima	463,000 153,000	153,000
Luca Bernardi	452,000 43,000	43,000
Bruno Hennig	450,000 188,000	188,000
Anthony Fagan	396,000 238,000	238,000
Conor O'Driscoll	391,000 101,000	101,000
Ivan Svitlychnyi	378,000 378,000	378,000
Benjamin Kuch	375,000 71,000	71,000
Richard Koppel	371,000 46,000	46,000
Nils Jarefjall	337,000 202,000	202,000
Panagiotis Kostopanagiotis	337,000 114,000	114,000
Arjen Weel	336,000 45,000	45,000
Leo Worthington-Leese	335,000 75,000	75,000

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