The results from the first ever Pokerstars UKIPT event are in and it’s Padraig Parkinson who has taken down the 125,000 euro first place prize money. The tournament started with a field of 259 runners which made the total prize pool 471,400 euros. A assize 116 of the total field qualified online at Pokerstars via the many UKIPT satellites they have been running. Padraig bought straight into the event for 2,000 euros and we’re pretty sure he’s pleased he did.Read Full Article

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….

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 Vincent Cosgrove 150000 Cat O’Neill 150000 Jurgen Hermann 120000 Nicky Power Ireland 120000 Ben Lefew 110000 ChristopherRead Full Article

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 John Dooley Jurgen Hermann Matt Perrins Michael Graydon Michael McFadgen Nicky Power Padraig Parkinson Paul Marrow PaulRead Full Article

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 Javed Abrahams are still looking fairly strong. Padriag is also looking a bit less loose than theRead Full Article

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       Kelleher               200000 Vincent  Cosgrove             196500 Javed    Abrahams           193000 Jason Paul  McCarthy            170500 Michael Graydon              169000 Benoit  Read Full Article

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 with Kings against Aces. Then we had the lose of some of the top players including PokerStarsRead Full Article

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

After a crazy opening hour at Padraig table that saw him knock out no less that 3 players, and chip up to chip leader. Of all the hands the best one was when the player on the cut off raises Padraig’s big blind, with out looking at his hand Padraig shoves his whole 45k stack at the inistial raiser. The guy insta-calls and shows his Aces, Padraig turns over his 7-3 off. The flop comes 6-6-5 turn 4 river 10Read Full Article

After coming back for day 2 fairly short stacked, Stevie (Allinstevie) Devlin found himself down to about 15 big blinds. So when he shoves from late position and gets called by the small blind it wasn’t looking good. It got even worse when the small blind turns over his A-K suited to out trump Stevie’s A-Q off. However when the flop brings a Q on a Q-9-3 board, it was looking good for stevie. That quickly changed when the turnRead Full Article