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Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
UK & Ireland Poker Tour Galway
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€1,000
Prize Pool
€970,000
Total Entries
860
Level
28
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 860
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Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Surinder Sunar is out, his last chips went in with 
but he was dominated by Harry Maurer's 
which held decisively on a 
board.
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
PokerStars qualifier Daniel Henderson just doubled through Full Tilt Poker qualifier Hasmuka Khodiyara. The former for his last 10,775 all in preflop holding the 
and was flipping against the latter's 
.
Henderson was looking to dodge an ace and king, which is exactly what he did after the board ran out 
. Ship the double to Henderson.
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
This past Sunday, the UKIPT Galway Festival featured the inaugural Irish Bridge Masters, sponsored by Full Tilt Poker. To be honest, we're not too familiar with bridge tournaments, so we'll reference Gareth Chantler's piece from the Full Tilt Poker Blog:
How does a bridge tournament work, you ask?
Each team of two plays every other team in the tournament once. Since this is a long process, it is broken up across multiple sessions. In the case of the Full Tilt Poker Irish Bridge Masters, there were three sessions, two yesterday and one today.
There are sessional awards for the best performers in any given session of the tournament, meant to incentivize those who are mathematically eliminated from contention to begin any given session. Of course, the trophy goes to the best aggregate score, so every trick counts.
After yesterday’s two sessions Sally Brock and Barry Myers of England were the leading tandem with a winning percentage of 65.98%. They would have to fall back to earth in the third session to relinquish their hold on the top spot. And that’s exactly what happened. Blame it on variance in the table draw or the well attended wine and cheese players’ party last night, their third session score of 55.98% was good for just 13th in the field.
Walking through that open door was Jason Hackett and Alex Hydes who had played well in the first two sessions, maintaining third place. The pair surged into first place with the best third session percentage of 67.93%, 2.5% better than overall fourth place finishers James Heneghan and Willem Mevius.
It was that consistency across sessions, third, third, and first, that netted them a healthy 64.08% aggregate, beating out Brock and Myers’ 62.65% soundly. A handsome €5,000 reward for a paltry €60 buy-in was awarded to the victors. Sally Brock and Barry Myers would have to settle for a €2,000 second place purse. Not too bad for a weekend’s work.
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
One of our goals this weekend is to bring you updates on Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Martins Adeniya, and that includes his exploits both on and off the felt.
Regarding the former, Adeniya is holding strong with a stack of 32,000. As far as the former is concerned, the Londoner had an hour off from poker during the dinner break and decided to join forces with Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree to take on the buffet located across the street at the Harbor Hotel, which is where both have been calling home this week.
What that buffet had on it we do not know, but Adeniya seems primed for a night full of poker.
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
We didn't see the hand when it happened, but Full Tilt Poker Ambassador Ben Jenkins just informed us that he was eliminated when he shoved his last 6,000 or so from middle position holding the 
only to have the big blind wake up with the .
The flop actually delivered the Newcastle man a flush draw, but neither the turn nor river completed it. Jenkins is now lingering about the Players' Lounge and entertaining those in attendance.
Level 7
: 300/600, 75 ante
The Entertainment Lounge at The Full Tilt Galway Festival is bustling with exciting games to play. Laura Cornelius chats to one of the players fighting for a chance to play Gus Hansen heads up on August 9th.
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Level 6 has expired and that means it's time for the one-hour dinner break. Players are off to do whatever it is they do when not playing poker, and we're off to find some Irish grub. See you in an hour!
