Main Event
Day 1c Completed
Main Event
Day 1c Completed
Day 1c of the of the €300,000 guaranteed partypoker Grand Prix Killarney €340 Main Event at at Ireland’s National Event Centre (INEC) and Gleneagle Hotel was fast and furious with blind levels reduced from the 40 minutes that were featured during the first two opening days to 25 minutes. The day was a success with 128 entrants joining the field to create a field size of 784 entrants with still one more turbo opening day to take place tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time.
A total of 44 players bagged chips from the Day 1c field making it a total of 217 entrants have bagged chips during all of the opening days so far. However, this might be reduced slightly for any player that survived multiple opening days.
Sean Byrne managed to have the best day out of all the players in the Day 1c field after bagging 203,800. For awhile it appeared Sean Lai was going to run away with things after he amassed a huge stack of more than 200,000 while blinds were only 200/400 and with an ante of 50. However, Lai gave a good amount of his stack back but still managed to bag 72,900.
Other players on top of the Day 1c field included John Conroy (second - 197,000), Remus Matache (third - 188,300), Glen Garaway (fourth - 166,000) and Ralph Kenneth (fifth - 131,600).
However, Byrne will enter Day 2 chasing a few other players including the currently over chip leader Cormac Hutton who bagged 263,400 in chips on Day 1b earlier today.
Among the players unable to bag chips included partypoker Project Manager Charlie Goodwin.
The final opening day of the Main Event, the turbo Day 1d, will kick off at 10 a.m. local time tomorrow. As soon as that ends, Day 2 will begin at 2:30 p.m. local time. The PokerNews live reporting team will be back on the floor to provide a recap of the final opening day along with full coverage of Day 2.
They have drawn and three more hands will be played before the day draws to a close.
Colin McCoughlin was all in and the player at risk holding against Kathriona Kearns with the .
The board ran out and the better two pair of Kearns took a nice pot near the end to send McCoughlin to the bar.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Kathriona Kearns
|
80,000 | |
Colin McCoughlin
|
Busted |
There were 132 entries for this flight and with 56 players remaining they have just clicked over to the last 25 minute level of the day.
When there are 10 minutes left on the clock it will be paused and they will draw for the number of remaining hands.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
Charlie Godwin has just been all in twice and is has manged to emerge alive but bruised.
First Godwin was all in with against and .
A runout of saw the king-nine get there to leave Godwin on a meagre 6,400.
Not long after though there was an open to 1,600 from Mike Wash and Godwin picked her spot to get it in from late position and managed to get it heads up.
Wash tabled and Godwin .
The board ran out and two pair was good for a double up to put Godwin back in the game.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Charlie Godwin
|
13,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
Jennifer McClellane limped from the cutoff before Vytautas Aganauskas raised to 2,500 from the button. Sean Lai called from the small blind as did the player in the big blind and McClellane.
All four players checked after the appeared on the flop. Lai led out for 3,000 after the appeared on the turn. The player in the big blind folded, while both McClellane and Aganauskas opted to call.
The completed the board on the river. Lai led out for 6,000. McClellane called before Aganauskas opted to min-raise to 12,000. Lai called while McClellane folded.
Lai mucked his hand and stared at McClellane after his opponent turned over for the straight.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Sean Lai
|
145,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Vytatutas Aganauskas
|
60,000 | |
Jennifer McClellane
|
24,000 |
Level: 11
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Darren Loftus was all in for just under 10,000 and had got calls from Antonious Poulengeris and Sean Lai.
The flop was and Lai bet 20,000. Poulengeris looked suspicious but let his hand go.
Lai wasted no time in turning over his and a dispirited and tired looking Loftus tabled .
The turn was the and the river the .
Loftus was done and another pot slid the way of Lai.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Sean Lai
|
180,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Darren Loftus
|
Busted |