14:20 Day 1 at the Iwish Winter Festival come to end with Luke Marsh and John Rafferty fighting it out for the chip lead. Luke Marsh ended up the Irish Winter Festival chip leader with 110,625 in chips, taking pole position for day 2. However, at the otherRead Full Article

After a gruelling 11hrs, day 1 finishs with 192 players. Some big names are still in and some are gone. Tommorrow morning I will update with all players that are still left and try and get their chip stacks. Good Luck to all the players.

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 leadRead Full Article

21:40 List of some of the resent chip counts: John O’Shea – 36k Martin Dunn – 14k Stevie ‘Allinstevie’ Devlin – 32k Bob Elkin – 33k Marty Smyth – 13k Emmett Davis – 16k Neil Channing – 21k Markus Sippe – 22k Dermot Blaine – 10k Average chipRead Full Article

21:35 Paul Smallwood is out after running pocket 6s into pocket Aces. However it took to the flop before he moved all his chips in. How ever as soon as he did, he got instant called from one of the large stack who had pocket Aces for theRead Full Article

21:00 After having a poor start to the Irish Winter Festival, Rory Liffey ended up short stacked, due to a few coolers and being card dead for the last few hours. So with only 7k in chips, Rory thought it would be a good time to shove fromRead Full Article

20:30 As the second half of the players to break return, I thought it be a good time to let you’s know some of the players to bust so far in the Paddy Poker Irish Winter Festival. James Glass Ray Masters James Daly Mick Stephens Slobodan Savic PádraigRead Full Article

19:25 I don’t have exact bet sizes or what the final pot came too. But from Jay Danters reation it was substantial. After a good bit of betting on a A-8-8 flop, and then more on the turn when another 8 came. However, when the final 8 cameRead Full Article

19:20 As the second batch of players start to trickle in from their hour break, I thought this be a good time to give a brief update on the stage we are at in the tournament. Blinds: 150/300 Average chip stack: 17,400 players left: 344 Confirmed prize pool:Read Full Article

18.20 Neil Channing and Irelanda Nicky Power just got involved in a moster pot, that featured dialoag that you would think was straight from a film. After 2 players limp into the pot, Nicky makes it 2800 and was heard saying,’I bet everyone folds’. However, Neil Channing repliesRead Full Article