Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 14, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

The final day, and the final table, has just started at the Galway UKIPT. By the end of the day there will be a new Irish Poker Champion crowned, and all Irish fans are hoping that Padriag Parkinson can claim the title. The biggest threat to the Irish Poker Championship moving away from Ireland is English born Paul Marrow. However, if you talk toRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

Day 3 of the PokerStars UKIPT Galway has came to an end and the final table has been decided. After a day that seen many players drop, the remaining players are: Padraig Parkinson Michael Graydon Cat O’Neill Paul Marrow Ben Lefew Vincent Cosgrove Michael McFadgen Paul Dooley Trevor Bulless Once the chip counts have been confirmed, I will get them posted….

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

Padraig Parkinson Ireland 735000 Michael Graydon Ireland 665000 Javed Abrahams United Kingdom 618000 Paul Marrow United Kingdom 490000 Ben Lefew USA 470000 Christopher Brammer United Kingdom 377500 Vincent Cosgrove Ireland 301000 Michael McFadgen Canada 243500 Dermot Blain Ireland 236000 Paul Dooley Ireland 204000 Reggie Corrigan Ireland 203000 Benoit Mouret France 187000 Trevor Bulless United Kingdom 170000 Jurgen Hermann Austria 137000 Cat O’Neill 135000

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

The PokerStars UKIPT Galway is now down to 2 tables after losing a bunch of players in a fairly short time. The tables have now been drawn and look like the following: Table 1 has been broken and the seating plan now looks like this: Table 2 1. Michael McFadgen 2. Vincent Cosgrove 3. Christopher Brammer 4. Padraig Parkinson 5. Cat O’Neill 6. MichaelRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

PokerStars UKIPT Galway chip counts Paul Marrow United Kingdom 500000 Padraig Parkinson Ireland 435000 Javed Abrahams United Kingdom 420000 Michael Graydon Ireland 410000 Thomas Nolan Ireland 390000 Michael McFadgen 280000 Philipp Salewski 237000 Matt Perrins United Kingdom 230000 Benoit Mouret 225000 Paul Dooley Ireland 215000 Alan Kelleher Ireland 175000 John Dooley Ireland 170000 Dermot Blain Ireland 160000 Brian O’Farrell 160000 Paul Frost 158500 VincentRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

We are now over 2 hours into day 3 of the PokerStars UKIPT Galway and lost a large percentage already of the players who started day 3. So here is a list of the remaining players still left in…. Adrian O’Donoghue Alan Kelleher Ben Lefew Benoit Mouret Brian O’Farrell Cat O Neill Christopher Brammer Dermot Blain Dominic Hever Jason Paul McCarthy Javed Abrahams JohnRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

As soon as Day 3 started it was always going to be bedlum. As the prize for finishing doesn’t change, players where always going to be looking to gamble. So less than 2 hours into day 3 of the Pokerstars UKIPT Galway and we are down to 25 players. Out of the 25, players such as Padriag Parkinson, Dermot Blaine, Nicky Powers and JavedRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

Day 3 of the Pokerstars UKIPT in Galway is about to start, and here is the list of players remaining in the tournament and their chip count’s… Took awhile to count but here they are: Matt  Perrins                     430500 Reggie  Corrigan               373500 Padraig Parkinson            372500 Christopher Brammer     276000 Thomas  Nolan                   272000 Philipp  Salewski               264500 Alan      Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

Day 2 of the PokerStars UKIPT Galway has came to an end, and it has been a very interesting day. For starters we had the surprise addition of Football legend Teddy Sheringham turning up for day 2 after a mix up at the Airport the day before. Teddy ended up running his 10k starting stack for day 2 upto 60k before going out withRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 12, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | 1 Comment »

The two largest chip stakes in the tournament have now been moved to the same table. Padriag Parkinson and Flipper Walsh would be the 2 largest chip stakes left in the UKIPT Galway, both with over 160k in chips. Their is a few other big stacks at that table also, which makes Bob Elkin’s stack of 65k look short, yet he still has overRead Full Article