2017 PokerStars Festival Dublin

Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2017 PokerStars Festival Dublin

Event Info
Buy-in
€1,100
Entries
544
Players Left
2
Average Chip Stack
8,160,000
Total Chips
16,320,000
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
20,000

Gary McGinty Flexes His Muscles

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 2,000 ante

Patrick Rooney raised to 45,000 from under the gun and it folded to Gary McGinty on the button who three-bet all in. The blinds quickly folded.

With the action back on Rooney, he muttered something like: "You can only do that with Tens or Jacks," before open-folding {a-Spades}{q-Spades}.

McGinty showed {j-Hearts}{j-Diamonds} and Rooney seemed pleased with his fold.

Player Chips Progress
Gary McGinty ie
Gary McGinty
2,030,000 550,000
Patrick Peter Rooney ie
Patrick Peter Rooney
100,000 27,000

Tags: Gary McGintyPatrick Rooney

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 2,000

Pot For Worley-Roberts As O'Callaghan Dodges Flush

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Andrew Earle opened from under the gun for 24,000 and got a call from Deborah Worley-Roberts on the button and James Patrick O'Callaghan in the big blind.

The flop came {6-Hearts}{2-Clubs}{3-Hearts} and all three checked. The turn card was the {3-Spades} and James Patrick O'Callaghan led for 43,000. That got a fold from Earle but Worley-Roberts called.

The river was the {10-Diamonds} and they both checked.

Worley-Roberts showed {a-Hearts}{10-Hearts} which prompted O'Callaghan to say, Just as well it didn’t come. I got lucky.”

Player Chips Progress
Jim O'Callaghan ie
Jim O'Callaghan
460,000 -55,000
Deborah Worley-Roberts gb
Deborah Worley-Roberts
Day 1B Chip Leader
320,000 35,000

Sacha Lebreton Doubles Up

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Daniel Ulvrell raised to 21,000 from the cutoff and Sacha Lebreton three-bet all in for 182,000. It folded back to Ulvrell who called.

Daniel Ulvrell: {a-Spades}{q-Diamonds}
Sacha Lebreton: {8-Spades}{8-Hearts}

The board ran out {2-Hearts}{k-Spades}{3-Clubs}{10-Spades}{9-Diamonds} and Lebreton doubled up, leaving Ulvrell perilously short with just two big blinds.

Player Chips Progress
Sacha Lebreton ie
Sacha Lebreton
370,000 180,000
Daniel Ulvrell se
Daniel Ulvrell
20,000 -240,000

Tags: Sacha LebretonDaniel Ulvrell

Mark Buckley Runs Into Aces, Busts

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante

Mark Buckley moved all in for 150,000 and James Patrick O’Callaghan re-shoved. No more interest from any other players so cards were om their backs.

Buckley: {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds}
O’Callaghan: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades}

The board ran out {6-Diamonds}{3-Diamonds}{k-Clubs}{9-Diamonds}{7-Spades}

No help from the deck for Buckley and he has the rest of the evening free.

Player Chips Progress
Jim O'Callaghan ie
Jim O'Callaghan
515,000 173,000
Mark Buckley ie
Mark Buckley
Busted

Gary McGinty Putting Chip Leader's Chips to Good Use

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Gary McGinty
Gary McGinty

Coming back from dinner break Gary McGinty was the chip leader with 1,150,000 and we went to check up on him and see whether he was well rested from his dinner break.

Daniel Ulvrell opened from the hijack and Sacha Lebreton flat-called in the cutoff. Virgilio Dicicco also called on the button before McGinty three-bet from the big blind to 105,000. Lebreton was the only caller.

The flop came {4-Spades}{3-Spades}{9-Clubs} and McGinty continued for 79,000. Lebreton raised to 158,000. McGinty moved all in and Lebreton eventually folded.

McGinty showed {q-Clubs}{q-Diamonds} while raking in the pot, meaning he moves up to just under 1,500,000.

Player Chips Progress
Gary McGinty ie
Gary McGinty
1,480,000 330,000
Sacha Lebreton ie
Sacha Lebreton
190,000 -274,000

Tags: Gary McGintySacha Lebreton

Chip Counts at the Break (full)

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
Gary McGinty ie
Gary McGinty
1,150,000 905,000
Padhraic Mulligan ie
Padhraic Mulligan
815,000 305,000
James Salmon us
James Salmon
750,000 390,000
Virgilio Dicicco it
Virgilio Dicicco
725,000 445,000
Ivan Tononi it
Ivan Tononi
686,000 366,000
Sean Bradley ie
Sean Bradley
564,000 461,700
Sean Prendiville ie
Sean Prendiville
520,000 -90,000
Edoardo Poggiali it
Edoardo Poggiali
510,000 165,000
Edgar Fic pl
Edgar Fic
507,000 192,000
Johann Zeitoun fr
Johann Zeitoun
487,000 411,000
Sacha Lebreton ie
Sacha Lebreton
464,000 -276,000
Michael O'Sullivan ie
Michael O'Sullivan
400,000 90,000
Daniel Wilson ie
Daniel Wilson
Day 1C Chip Leader
400,000 10,000
Peter Murphy ie
Peter Murphy
380,000 267,600
Shengjie Tao cn
Shengjie Tao
370,000 100,000
Hector Mendoza es
Hector Mendoza
360,000 200,000
Andrew Grimason ie
Andrew Grimason
350,000 -280,000
Jay Renehan ie
Jay Renehan
350,000 289,900
Jim O'Callaghan ie
Jim O'Callaghan
342,000 265,100
Declan Connolly ie
Declan Connolly
340,000 310,000
Yiannis Liperis cy
Yiannis Liperis
340,000 242,200
Sean Foley ie
Sean Foley
335,000 216,900
Steven Vollers nl
Steven Vollers
309,000 231,900
Florian Duta ro
Florian Duta
309,000 -186,000
Jorn Gunther no
Jorn Gunther
300,000 -85,000

Read full

Level: 19

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000