So close but yet so far!, With 6 players left and the Blinds at 6,000-12,000 / Ante 2,000 at the Final Table of the Irish Poker Championship, Carlos Lopes was involved in a hand against the same guy to his left that he already bluffed big time before. In another previous hand he shoved against [...]
At poker you need luck, reading skills and balls and Carlos Lopes has just shown the table that he definitely got the last two. The previous table Chipleader already doubled up one opponent on a Flop Q♠ 7♣ 2♣ when he called the all-in of an opponent (Q♣ J♣) with 6♥ 7♥ and just proceeded [...]
It was one of the shortest Final Tables ever of the World Poker Tour and below you can find the official payout of the final 6 as well, we included Steven Moreau even though he has been eliminated in the last hand of Day 3. PlacePlayerPayout in €1David Shallow202,6802Charles Chattha111,1303Ronan Gilligan74,0904Patrik Vestlin52,6005Steve Watts39,2706Steven Moreau31,120
We have our winner! First Charles “Chaz” Chattha took the Chiplead for the first time ever in this tournament when he doubled up with Q♠ Q♣ against the K♠ 3♠ of Dave Shaloow and soon after the final hand would happen in a similar fashion when a preflop raising war ended up in both players [...]
We are down to the last 9 players and the average at Blinds 3,000-6,000 / Ante 1,000 is at 471,100 Chips, Carlos Lopes made the Final Table with 430,000 and in a few minutes we will be back to finish Level 18 with almost 80 Big Blinds by average. This could definitely be a very [...]
Dave Shallow raises from the SB to 125k, Ronan Gilligan calls from the BB and we see the Flop 5♣ 2♠ 9♠. Shallow leads out, Gilligan raises and gets theee-bet to 1.1 Mio Chips before the Irish went all-in. Shallow makes the call to create a monster pot of 7.5 Mio Chips and we are [...]
Patrik Vestlin raises from the Cutoff at Blinds 20,000-40,000 / Ante 5,000 and former short stack Ronan Gilligan makes the call out of the Big Blind. On the Flop J♠ 7♠ 3♠ Gilligan check-raises his opponent to 450,000 and Vestlin goes all-in for 1,750,000. The Irish has a tough decision with J♣ 9♦ but makes [...]
Chipleader Dave Shallow has previously doubled up two opponents before we saw the first elimination on this final table. Ronan Gilligan raises to 115k, and Steve Watts shoves for around 900k, the Blinds get out of the way and Gilligan makes the call with Watts at the risk of elimination:Steve Watts: 10♣ 10♠GilliganA♣ K♦The Flop [...]
There are only 5 players remaining after the double elimination in the last hand of Day 3 and the action has started after all interviews and pictures were done. We will finish Level 26 at Blinds 20,000-40,000 / Ante 5,000 first and Dave Shallow is the huge Chipleader with 60 % of all Chips in [...]
The screens show 20 players left and Carlos Lopes lost a few pots and fell back to 160,000 before he picked up K♦ K♣ and saw a raise to 9,000 in front of him at Blinds 2,000-4,000 / Ante 500. He reraised to 21,000 and was called by the table Chipleader just in front of [...]
