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

Wading to Victory

The field is too vast to confirm, but Waheed Ashraf could well be your current chip leader with 55,000. A regular at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, 'Wade', as he is more commonly known, told of a brave, if not maniacal bluff he just pulled off to help reach that figure:

"There was a raise to 525 and a couple of callers, including myself with pocket fours. The flop came {A-?}{5-?}{7-?} rainbow, and we all checked. On the {10-?} turn, the first guy led out for 1,200, the initial raiser folded, and I made it 2,600. He reraised to 5,500, I made it 9,000 and he called. Then, on the {8-?} river, I stuck him all in and he folded. When I showed the hand, he said, 'That was a really good bluff', so I reckon I must have got him off A-5 or something."

Note to self: don't mess with Wade.