Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins leads the way with 111,600 but with so many players still left, anything could happen today!
2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€3,200
Entries
708
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 708
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Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins leads the way with 111,600 but with so many players still left, anything could happen today!
Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 50
And now there on the table...
Although he survived one all-in (pushing from under the gun and picking up the blinds uncontested), he couldn't duck the next, calling all in from the small blind after Robin Ylitalo had opened from early postion.
Fellow short stack Elsa Lo Chow also shoved from the small blind, and after Yliatalo threw in the extra shrapnel, the cards were on their backs:
Yliatalo =
Chow =
Saarisilta =
Board:
"Another hand perfectly played," complimented Aranud Mattern with a smile as the two early casualties slipped away.
unable to deflect the bullets, 
, despite a cheeky open-ended straight draw on a 
board."Good to see you're loosening up in your old age," joked serial wise-cracker Nik Persaud.
and Kolev was forced to call with 
against Lovelady's .The board came
with the Scouser feeling he got a little lucky that the small blind was making a resteal and forced the out of the hand"You'd have snapped me off!" said Lovelady as he stacked the 30,000 or so he had now in front of him.
"Kings into Aces," he said glumly.
I suspect he won't be the last person to have that happen to them today.
Of course, with every bad beat, there's a recipient, and on this occasion it was Goodwin. Having called an early position raise with
from French qualifier Daniel Horvath in the big blind, he then pushed all in for just over 20,000 (15,000 pot) on a 
flop.Horvath paused very briefly before calling (leaving circa 20,000 behind) with the adamant tone you'd normally associate with a monster, before turning over a surprisingly paltry
.A few shakes of the head later and the turn was dealt, a safe, harmless
, but on the river, the money card arrived in the form of an to award the Frenchman the pot, and the Brummie the door."Unbelievable," mumbled Goodwin under his breath, his feet seemingly glued to the floor. "****ing joke."
With
versus 
, Wan was looking for an ace/king-less board, but his prayers were slapped back as the flop came to serve up both cards. No snowman on the turn and river (6s and 4d to be precise), and Wan's stack melted to 12,000, whilst his foe received a nice, timely double up.
