€3,500 Irish Open Main Event Day 3 | 2009 PaddyPower.com Irish Open

04-12-2009 21:29 UTC+1

Color up Time

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Players are on a short break while they get rid of the 500 chips once and for all.

04-12-2009 21:29 UTC+1

Eskilsson Killed

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Hans Eskilsson has just now exited from the feature table, it appears the victim of Andrew Pantling.

04-12-2009 21:25 UTC+1

Current Standings on the Non-Feature Tables

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Table 2

Paul O'Connor: 280,000
Massimiliano Tamburini: 222,000
Evan Hunt: 220,000
Atanas Gueorguiev: 322,000
Christer Johansson: 450,000
Philip Baker: 340,000
Heinrich Mayr: 220,000

Table 3

William Kassouf: 475,000
Niall Smyth: 400,000
Lee Brooke-Pearce: 260,000
Bradley Verburg: 480,000
Kara Scott: 300,000
Marcel Koch: 340,000

04-12-2009 21:16 UTC+1

Railers Getting Rowdy

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No matter who's winning, it now looks like the same loud hard core of fans is going to shout his name. The later it gets during the Irish Open, the more excitable the crowd, and this year is no exception. They roared when Kara Scott took the blinds with a button raise, and they went crazy when Niall Smyth bet William Kassouf off the {A-Diamonds}

board on the river and then showed {10-Clubs}

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They were also just now hollering "Brad! Brad!" when Bradley Verburg raised preflop and then bet 55,000 on the flop and 80,000 on the turn at William Kassouf -- getting a fold when the board read {K-Spades}

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The pace has slowed a lot lately, however: can they keep it up until a final table is reached?

Tags: Bradley Verburg William Kassouf

04-12-2009 21:07 UTC+1

Baker's Half Dozen

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The first multi-way limped pot for a very long time showed promise of fireworks, but the only player to show any interest in the {8-Diamonds}

flop was under-the-gun limper Philip Baker. One small bet of 38,000 was enough to take down that tasty pot right (around 70,000) there and then.

Tags: Philip Baker

04-12-2009 21:00 UTC+1

Kyprianou Nowhere to Be Seen

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Meanwhile, Andreas Kyprianou seems to have disappeared from the feature table, presumed busted in 20th place.

04-12-2009 20:59 UTC+1

"COME ON SMYTHY!!!"

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Niall Smyth has doubled through William Kassouf to uproarious celebration from his friends at the rail. It appears that Smyth raised under the gun and Kassouf for some reason reraised out of the big blind. A shove, a call, and a showdown.

Smyth: {4-Diamonds}

Kassouf: a rather esoteric but coinflipping {10-Clubs}

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Board: {J-Hearts}

04-12-2009 20:55 UTC+1

This is Why No One Calls Johansson

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Eventually it had to happen -- Christer Johansson had put his whole stack in the middle more times than anyone else, and he eventually got looked up by Massimiliano Tamburini.

Oops.

Tamburini: {6-Clubs}

Johansson: {A-Clubs}

Board:

Johansson is up to 440,000 and no longer in the short-stack zone; Tamburini is down to 250,000.

04-12-2009 20:50 UTC+1

Kassouf vs. Iversen Round 3: K.O.

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After tangling several times, it was to be William Kassouf who finished off Albert Iversen. A straightforward affair, really, although there was some ooh-ing on the flop from the many railers.

Iversen: {5-Clubs}