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. Having flipped their hands, O'Connell had sort of tucked his kicker under the ace, and waited to see what the board would bring. It worked out well for him - a double paired 
board split the pot to keep him in the tournament.
2009 PaddyPower.com Irish Open
€3,500 Irish Open Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2009 PaddyPower.com Irish Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€3,200
Prize Pool
€2,243,200
Total Entries
700
Level
26
Blinds
30,000 / 60,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 700
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. Having flipped their hands, O'Connell had sort of tucked his kicker under the ace, and waited to see what the board would bring. It worked out well for him - a double paired board split the pot to keep him in the tournament.
Anything can happen, though, and he's on a pretty tough table. EPT Baden champion Julian Thew is at his right while Dave "Riverdave" Penly is on the table as well...
vs. McSweeny's 
. McSweeny had hit top pair on a 
flop. We caught the hand as Brindley, from the button, moved his 40,000 stack over the line and McSweeny, in the cutoff, then considered making the call.This went on for a little while - the pot standing at 25,000. Eventually McSweeny called, saw the aces, and hoped to hit. The turn and river did not oblige and Brindley made a brief arms-in-the-air victory sign -- like someone winning the Tour de France. He doubled up to 105,000 while McSweeny is now on 30,000.
Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
Maurice Harmon - 155,000
Andy Bradshaw - 114,500
Daniel Flower - 96,000
Jimmy McSweeny - 90,500
Bradley Verburg - 88,000
Jani Vilmunen - 85,000
were brutally busted by Darryl Roome's 
. The board came down 
to give Roome the broadway straight. The two shook hands as Roome doubled up to around 25,000.
Eventually, after one of his trademark lengthy dwells, it was Martin who came out on top, as Kassouf folded.
. With around 12,000 in the pot, Vilmunen counted out the call, which represented over 90% of his own stack, and then thought quietly for awhile.Eventually he called with
, finding it to be in good shape against Georgiev's 
. "Good call," said his neighbor as he stacked the 62,000 chips that were pushed his way.
into 
in an all-in preflop race. There was no spike of the overcards and a disappointed Channing is forced to pass on his Irish Open title. Having nursed a short stack which dropped to 6,000 today, he made a good go at getting back in the running. He finished just outside of the top 200 players.
