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Down to the serious business... All tense on the final table!
Report from Dublin by MICKY
McCLOSKEY
HUGE FIELD at the INTERNTIONAL POKER OPEN
Busy calling the shots: Padraig Parkinson (right) and his friend making all the rights calls in Dublin!
The Boylepoker International Poker Open took place in the Regency Hotel, Dublin, on October 15th -17th.
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The brainchild of Stephen McLean of
Pokerireland.ie, the organiser of this event, the buy in for the tournament was
set at a very reasonable e180 + 20 giving players of all abilities the chance to play in a large well run poker tournament for the normal price of a monthly club event, as well as the opportunity to sit down with a number of high profile pro players and celebrities.
These included the likes of Neil Channing,
Jesse May, Marty Smyth, Padraig Parkinson, Ashley Hames, Reggie Corrigan, “Mad” Marty Wilson, George McKeever, Liam Flood and Scott Gray. All these players, and a number of others, had a bounty
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placed on their heads and it gave anyone who knocked them out of the tournament the chance to play for a Boylepoker sponsorship package worth e10,000. Apart from any of that, it gave players the chance to walk away with a serious wedge of cash from the large prize pool with e20,000 added by the sponsors, Boylepoker. This fact attracted a huge field of 1,293 players and built the prize pool up to a very impressive total of e252,740. This year’s numbers fell a little short of the record breaking total of 1,440 players who turned out in 2009 but is still, probably, the biggest turnout in Europe this year. This is all the more impressive considering that players from France, who made up a large proportion of the 2009 total, were not
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