Monthly Archives: October 2011

We have also crowned our IWF 2011 Irish Mythical Champion Frank Callaghan

Noel O’Brien is all-in before the flop. This is for the tournament! Keown: Ad-5c Noel O’Brien: Kc-6c Keown has the lead going into the flop: Qs-4c-2d No help for O’Brien there, with Keown picking up an inside straight draw to … Continue reading →

After being crippled by John Keown, Noel O’Brien has earned two double-ups in quick succession, first of all having his K-3 hold up against Keown’s 9-4. Immediately afterwards, Noel found himself at risk once again when his flopped second pair … Continue reading →

On a flop of 4s-5h-3s, John Keown bet 500,000, only for Noel O’Brien to move all-in. O’Brien: 8d-3h Keown: Qs-7s Keown’s Queen-high was behind, but with his flush draw and two overcards, he was a statistical favourite going into the … Continue reading →

After the madness and mayhem of the last level, action has slowed considerably at the final table. We’re not seeing an awful lot of rivers, and even fewer showdowns. Both players are more or less equal in chips as the … Continue reading →

Blinds now increasing to 30,000/60,000

We have just seen another swing in the chip stacks with O Brien back up to 2.6 million, there is a raise and reraise between both players and they get all the loot’s in the middle. There was the likely … Continue reading →

We are only a few hands into the heads up play and we have see a huge swing in the chip count. I catch the hand from the live stream on a board that reads 4h4c9h7h O Brien has shipped … Continue reading →

We are now going heads up, 25,000/50,000 Noel O Brien – 3,465,000 John Keown – 2,460,000

Unfortunately we have just lost Chris Dowling in 3rd place, after putting up a valiant fight for most of the day when he lost the biggest pot of the tournament near the start of play (1.2million) today, he done well … Continue reading →