PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival Day 2 UpdateLeading Lights Bow Out As 22 Remain In Hunt for €187,000 First Prize |
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Day 2 at the €1,500 + €150 buy in PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Winter Festival main event saw the field reduced from 142 to just 22 with such well known faces as Andy Black, Neil Channing, Scott Gray, and Ciaran O’Leary biting the dust.
At the last level Black went from a very comfortable position to out in a couple of hands. The hand that did the damage involved Fiachra Meere. Black raised from the small blind and Meere called. The flop came: 9
3
2. Black led out and was raised all-in by Meere. “Go on,” said Balck as he made the call with Q-2.
Meere showed A-A. The turn was a 5 and the river a 7 which crippled Black. William Martin cleaned up what was left of Black’s chips.
Former Irish Open finalist Nicky Power had the poker gods on his side for most of the day. Approaching the bubble he pushed from under the gun and it passed around to the small blind, David Poole. He asks for a countdown and seemed to be faced with a difficult decision. He eventually called and the big blind duly passed. Poole showed A-A and Power had 9-9. The poker gods seem to hate slowrollers and waited right until the river for the Power to hit his set - the second time he'd out drawn Poole.
The approximate chip counts at the end of the night were:
Ronnie Lawton: 145k
Warren Woodall: 300k
Janus Thorsted: 210k
Jamie Zambuni: 150k
Andreas Schippani: 440k
Sinead Constant: 100k
William Martin: 155k
Mihai Manole: 115k
Dermot Jacob: 80k
Paul Murphy: 160k
Mark Emde: 110k
Chris Woods: 610k
Fiachra Meere: 220k
John Rafferty: 160k
Paul Nolan: 140k
Kevin Fitzpatrick: 200k
Chris Poole: 260k
Eugene Claffey: 140k
Brendan McFadden: 100k
Nicky Power: 150k
Waseem Shahid: 160k
James Nelson: 140k
Bendick Jan, won the €200 rebuy tournament for the sum of €31,000. Play in the main event resumes this afternoon and a €500 freezeout also gets underway.
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