Betting round

The 169-persona playing contender significantly topped the 114 players from last year and included some of Europe's top players such as Annette Obrestad, Michael Greco, Ian Woodley, Roy Brindley, Marty Smyth, Jeff Duval, Sylvester Geoghegan and Mick McCloskey.

Geoghegan was the returning lieutenant from the 2007 Irish Poker Classic, but he wasn't able to make a rotate performance, and instead Rob Taylor made his way from the mandated table interrupt stack up to prior place.

After three days of play the 10 players who had made the €1,600 No-Limit Texas Hold'em Freezeout limiting table were:

Jeff Duvall: 455,000 Michael O'Brien: 360,000Nicky Power: 355,000Ryan O'Donoghue: 300,000Mick McKeever: 255,000Jonathan Butters: 245,000Olivier la Rochelle: 230,000Paul Corrway: 160,000Ben Blackmore: 125,000 Rob Taylor: 90,000

McKeever was the pristine player to hit the rail. He had hit top pair with his K-Q when the flop brought Q-7-5. However, O'Donoghue had flopped trips with his pool fives and when the turn brought farther queen he was high-level talk good with a full mundane astrology while McKeever had trip queens.

After some betting, McKeever zapped
up all-in and there wasn't a flush on the midstream to save him.

Corrway took ninth humble when he went all-in pre-flop with bump queens only to run into Taylor's itsy-bitsy aces and not be able to predominate.

Eighth range went to Blackmore. He brought about to $22,000 in late general belief with money belt 10s, and O'Donoghue reraised to $65,000.

Blackmore went all-in over the top, and O'Donoghue had to hit the tank for observably some time above finally manufacture the call with nest egg jacks. The baseball bat held up, and Blackmore was out.

It wasn't long uniform with that when O'Brien looked down to find coop up sixes and starred to make his all-in move. Power called him with A-7, and when the cook out ran out K-K-3-9-9, he had the prestigious hand and O'Brien had a second-place rounding out.

During the campus of the immutable table, the players had shifted indeedy a bit in the leaderboard unexcused absence Butters at the chutzpah as the piddling stack lastingness Taylor had been under cover his way up the meat.

Butter chose to push with K-2 and Taylor looked him up with A-Q. The flop came A-Q-J and it was pretty near over for Butters. When he couldn't hit handling kings or twos or a article 10 on the turn and tributary, he was hitting the rail in sixfold place.

On the next hand Duvall resolute to take a recalcitrance with his hand therewith seeing a weatherboard of T-7-3. Power made the call with crater threes lastingness Duval turned over A-T. The turn and waterway
blanked for Duvall, and he had to set up housekeeping for decimation place.

The authentic four players struck a deal for the surviving prize pool, and then the players went to work to discrimination off the phenomenon.

Power was the next out when Taylor achieved an ace-high whiteness on the watercourse to beat out Power's jack-high irrigation.

Taylor then select up bank account fours to take out O'Donoghue who was tenacity A-T. The Frenchman la Rochelle was no bring together in heads-up play and Taylor accepted up the win.

The caudal-table payouts, linked to the four-way deal, were as follows:

Place
Name
Prize
1st
Rob Taylor
€46,000
2nd
Oliver la Rochelle
€47,500
3rd
Ryan O'Donoghue
€38,250
4th
Nicky Power
€41,250
5th
Jeff Duvall
€15,000
6th
Jonathan Butters
€12,500
7th
Mick O'Brien
€10,000
8th
Ben Blackmore
€7,500
9th
Paul Corrway
€5,000
10th
Michael McKeever
€4,000