2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Main Event
Day: 1
Level: 6
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Drum Roll Please
Yes, it's been a torrid day for the former GUKPT Walsall Champ, Bradpiece unable to truly get going and missing flops left, right and centre.
Meanwhile, Marty Wilson is cheering up/driving the table wild with his usual banter, even triggering a neighbour to sigh, 'You remind me of this woman I know, she just never stops talking either.'
Barny Trouble
"I keep getting this hand, and now when I look at, I think, 'OK, how many chips am I going to lose this time,' especially here."
Ultimately, he played his kings rather slow this year, and ended up checking it down on the river of a queen high board to lose just a third of his stack.
Instead, it was left to fellow Londoner Richard Ashby to pick up the pieces, queens holding up against Boatman's jacks to send the Hendon Mobber home.
More For Mattern
Predictably there was no miracle and the Frenchman took a sizeable pot.
One Gone; One Survives
Meanwhile, Aron Gustavson just doubled up, in somewhat clinical style, making a full house on the turn against on a board.
Mason-ry Stack Building
She raised to 800 preflop receiving one caller from the big blind.
Mason bet 1,200 on the flop and got called. On the turn, the big blind lead out for 2,200 and Mason made the call. The river was the and the big blind fired once more to the tune of 3,400.
Mason made the call with just but it was good as the big blind just mucked.
James & the Giant Stack
Most of that ascent was due to a well-timed bluff. Picking up in the blind, Mitchell three-bet an initial raise of 900 to 2,800, which was subsequently called. On the flop, Mitchell led for 3,600, his opponent made it 8,000, and Mitchell jammed.
"He thought for a while, but eventually folded," reported a relieved Mitchell.
Cowboy Spells Danger for Mark
You'd be forgiven for thinking that early pace setter Brandborn had more chips than Harry Ramsden's after his out-of-the-blocks stack, but the Swede's stack has been up and down like a kangaroo on a bungee, and he still has 30,000, despite taking the most recent scalp.
Raising and de Wolfe
This did seem to irk de Wolfe somewhat but he immediately min-raised the next hand and took it down with a 600 bet on the flop against the big blind.