2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open

Main Event
Day: 1
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Event Info
2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
€600,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,200
Entries
708
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
4,000
Players Left 1 / 708

Camel Has The Chips

The Camel: Not Spitting (At the moment)
The Camel: Not Spitting (At the moment)
Keith 'The Camel' Hawkins looks to be one of the chip leaders now with almost 50,000, a stack with which he hopes to exert some pressure.

"With a 10,000 chip stack, you lose a pot early and it's a struggle. But if you double up then you can really exert pressure on people if they're still on their starting stack. Raise to 700, bet 1,100 on the flop and then 2,200 on the turn and they're having to risk their stack. Usually you can't do this until level 6."

Praz Bansi, who is busy grinding away with 6,000 said, "I'm so used to playing with 30,000 stacks that I'm having to remember how to play with 10,000. It's who can adapt really."