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2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€3,200
Total Entries
708
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 708
Filter
Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 25
I arrived at the very tail end of the hand, all the chips finding their way into the middle on an
board. As Zimbler was shown
, he leapt from his chair in frustration, "So sick! Flopped a set." His opponent rose to shake his hand, and Zimbler accepted. "I wouldn't put 1,800 in with three outs," he added with a shake of the head.Nevertheless, Zimbler finds himself with less than 1,000 after losing what must have been a circa 30,000 pot and in desperate need of a double up... or five.
versus 
on a 
X board.
. Kerrane led out for 3,500 before Lewis reraised to 9,000. Kerrane shoved and Lewis quickly called.Kerrane:
Lewis:
Lewis had two pair but Kerrane had a straight flush draw. Unfortunately for the latter, it was pretty much over by the
turn, only the or 
could win Kerrane the pot while the case Queen would mean a split.The river was the
though and that put the youngster up to about 36,000.
waiting patiently on the felt, Mark Boon led for 850, Sigi Stockinger raised it to 3,850 and Peter Barrable shoved all in for around 8,500. Boon paused momentarily before pushing his stack of circa 15-20,000 across the line, and Stockinger quickly followed, sliding in what looked to be little more.
"One of us must have the same hand," deduced Barrable as he tabled
, and he was right to be cynical as Stockinger revealed . What neither men will have predicted was Boon's hand, as he flipped 
for the open-ended straight flush draw, not to mention bottom pair.As the final two cards were dealt, Stockinger and Barrable held their breath in unison, and you would have been forgiven for thinking they were the men behind. But they were right to be apprehensive (after all, Barrable had gone from the ecstasy of holding the nuts with a bet and a raise in front of him to the dismay of merely splitting with a vulnerable hand), as the
turn was quickly followed by the......
.Whilst Barrable said an unrepeatable word and Stockinger raised his hands aloft, Boon sat motionless, jumping for joy inside, but remaining politely calm on the outside. "Good luck, everyone," wished Barrable, as he quietly slipped away. Stockinger returned, in silence, to his now paltry stack.
"The Hungarian guy in seat 1 was opening about 95% of pots from the cutoff before the antes so he's probably opening 99% of them now we have them. The small blind then flatted and he's been limping on the button a lot and not wanting to play big pots. So I jammed 33BB's with
from the big blind but the Hungarian guy actually had 
!" he explained.The board came
and suddenly from being one card away from elimination, the Brit now has just over 20,000.
on the button, only for the initial raiser to make the call with . The eight-high flop teased a straight, but to no avail, as the turn and river both bricked out.
. The big blind thought for 20 seconds before calling with , which held up on an uneventful board."Not sure what he was thinking about," commented Docherty in the aftermath. "There's no need for that."
