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 over 50 big blinds and is about 7k above average. Who knows what going to happen atRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 08, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

The PokerStars UKIPT Galway is about to kick off this weekend, and PNB(PokerNewsBoy) will be running live updates straight from the event. PNB’s very own Gerry Poltorak (GerryPNB on the Cake Network) will be reporting on the event, while Lock Poker Pro Stevie Devlin (AllinStevie) and Bob Elkin (RedBob14)  participate in the event. AllinStevie and RedBob14, who are heavily involved in PNB, will hopefully run deep or even final table in the biggest live event before Christmas. So starting onRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Oct 24, 2009 Posted in Irish Poker News | No Comments »

Bob Elkin has been playing solid all day. So it came as a surprise when his opponent bluffed off 5.5k to him. After Bob raised pre-flop to get rid of the limpers, his opponent on the Big Blind decided to call. The flop brought Kd-Kc-Qh. His opponent lead out, and after a minute of thought Bob calls. The turn the brought 5c, really changing nothing. The Big Blind lead again, this time Bob took his time in calling. The riverRead Full Article