Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 17, 2009 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 theRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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 TrevorRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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 IrelandRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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 BrianRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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 25Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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                     430500Read Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 13, 2009 Posted in 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. TeddyRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 12, 2009 Posted in 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 thatRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 12, 2009 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 hisRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on Dec 12, 2009 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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 overRead Full Article