Swede Christer Johansson Lifts Irish Open 2009 Title

The €3,500 buy PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open 2009 attracted a robust 701 players, up from the 668 who participated last year.  This created a prize pool of over €2.2 million . When the dust settled and the final table was set it looked like this:

Seat 1: Lee Brooke-Pearce — 998,000
Seat 2: Andrew Pantling — 2,286,000
Seat 3: Andrew Bradshaw — 351,000
Seat 4: Kara Scott (pictured right) — 701,000
Seat 5: William Kassouf — 569,000
Seat 6: Bradley Verburg — 217,000
Seat 7: Christer Johansson — 906,000
Seat 8: Atanas Gueorguiev — 990,000

The eliminations came thick and fast before head's up play commenced.

Andrew Pantling Eliminated Third (€205,200)

Antanas Gueorguiev Eliminated Fourth (€163,300)

Lee Brooke-Pearce Eliminated Fifth (€130,600)

William Kassouf Eliminated Sixth (€100,800)

Bradley Verburg Eliminated Seventh (€74,600)

Andy Bradshaw Eliminated Eighth (€56,000)

At the beginning of heads up play the chip counts were:

Kara Scott: 3.7 million
Christer Johansson (pictured right): 3.3 million

The two-player battled saw the Swede grind Kara Scott down until he had most of the chips in play. Then in hand 13 it was all over.
 
Kara raised to 140,000 and Christer called.

Flop: K J 7

Kara bet 175,000, Christer then pushed a stack forward and raised to 575,000 total. Kara moved all-in for 2.5 million.
It was another 1.9 million for Christer to call and he did.

Kara: J-9
Christer: K-3
Turn: Q
River: A

The popular Kara Scott was eliminated in second place and Christer Johansson won the Paddy Power Poker Irish Poker Open 2009.

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