Poker for the Homeless Raises €10,000Another Successful Poker for the Homeless Event; €10,000 Raised |
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The Boylepoker.com Poker for the Homeless March Madness festival took place over the weekend just gone in the Jackpot Club in Dublin and was a massive success.
The festival raised €10,000 for Dublin Simon, which added to the money raised over the past three years for Irish homeless charities, amounts to more than €150,000.
Celebrities also did their bit, with former Miss World Rosanna Davison, legendary broadcaster and journalist Eamon Dunphy, and snooker champ Ken Doherty launching the festival (pictured right).
Friday saw the first event, a €100 + €10 no-limit hold’em freezeout, where all registration fees and 20 percent of the prize pool went to the charity. Damien Balfe received the top prize, taking home €2,200 for his efforts.
Boylepoker.com continued its streak of success when a team made up of organisers Paul Spillane, Lisa Condon, and Ciaran Corbett, plus secret weapon Multiplier Challenger Peter Murphy won the team event on the Sunday. They also found their new sponsored pro, Noel Magner, via the Boylepoker.com Be Our Sponsored Pro event on Saturday evening.
The team event was staggeringly popular, with maximum capacity stretched to its limit. There were teams of Irish pros, local poker faces, media teams, and also just groups of people who wanted a good day out in aid of a great cause. Card Player was among those priviliged to take part in the weekend and also made it to the final table of the team event.
Padraig Parkinson, ambassador for Poker for the Homeless, said, “It’s fantastic to see such great support for this weekend as it continues to grow and we’d like to thank everyone who played and helped organise the weekend including the Jackpot Club without whose help none of it could have happened. Special thanks to the well-known faces who helped launch the event and well done to Team Boylepoker who not only got lucky sponsoring the festival but also winning the final event!”
The full results of the weekend were:
Fri., Mar. 27:
€100 + €10 individual event. 92 runners.
1st Damien Balfe €2,200
2nd Phlip Godkin €1,200
3rd Noel McMahon €910
4th Connor Sweeney €750
5th Steve Chambers €500
6th Eamonn “Daisy” O’Grady €500
7th Eamonn Connelly €500
8th Anto M €400
9th €400
Sun., Mar. 29:
Team poker event. Buy-in €400 + 40 per team. 25 teams played.
1st Boylepoker €3,000
2nd Team Mafia €2,000
3rd DevilfishPoker €1,000
Individual prizes:
1st Dave Byrne €1,100
2nd Bridie Gribbin 700
3rd Nicolas Newport €600
4th Rob Taylor €500
5th Maurice Buckley 400
6th Veronique Gourdon €250
7th Pete Murphy €200
8th Paul Spillane €150
9th Rebecca McAdam €100
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