2010 PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Poker Open

Main Event
Day: 3
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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

End of Day 3

And on that cooler of a note, we have our last eight, Finland's Santeri Valikoski taking the chip lead into tomorrow's final table.

Seat 1: Peter Murphy -- 546,000
Seat 2: Ben Roberts -- 419,000
Seat 3: Edmund Sweeney -- 407,000
Seat 4: Santeri Valikoski -- 1,722,000
Seat 5: Rob Sherwood -- 497,000
Seat 6: Paul Carr -- 1,596,000
Seat 7: James Mitchell -- 1,155,000
Seat 8: Declan Connolly -- 735,000

It's been a long, yet hectic day, with more highs and lows than a mountain range, but after 13 hours of play, nine plucky survivors have gone that one bit closer to fulfilling their dream of becoming Irish Open Champion.

One man in particular, Rob Sherwood, is already going home with more booty than he could have imagined, the online pro from Manchester fending off numerous other online qualifiers to end the day as the last man standing, an achievement that sees an additional €100,000 drop into his back pocket.

Many congratulations to him, and all of this year's finalists. Join us again tomorrow at 2pm as we look to whittle eight down to one. Until then, stick a fork in me, I'm done.