Category Archives: Irish Open – Final Day

Ian Simpson: Winning The Irish Poker Open 2013 – Final Table

Two years in a row I manage to make the final table of the Irish Poker Open. Last year I entered as the chip leader and finished 4th. This year I entered 4th in chips and managed to finish first. I … Continue reading

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Friday’s Caption Competition

It’s Friday again! And that means it’s time for a caption competition. First of all though, the password for the Freddie Mays bounty tournament at 8pm tonight is: pussycat And the reason for that choice of password is easily understood … Continue reading

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Paddy Barnes & Michael Conlon confirmed for the IWF Doubles Event!

  The €50 + €5 buy in event will see two players make up each team and alternate at the table every level. The structure is double chance with a starting stack of 5,000 for player one at the start … Continue reading

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Friday’s Caption Competition

Well it’s Friday again! And that means it’s caption competition time too. First of all though, the password for the Freddie Mays bounty tournament at 8pm tonight is: homewins I saw this little spoof article breaking the “news” that Man … Continue reading

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Hourly rate? How’s about the MINUTELY rate?

Remember when poker TV programmes went through that phase of fixing up the players to heart rate monitors? It must have been about four years ago now but I remember watching one of these shows and there was this player … Continue reading

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Poll of The Week

Well that was just brilliant.  The chants of “USA USA” replaced by those of “Eurrr-ooop, Eurrr-ooooop!” (pretty drunken chants to be fair). I loved it. I mean I couldn’t care one jot for golf but I really do like the … Continue reading

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Double or Split!

It’s Friday! And that means it’s caption competition time again. First of all though, the password for the Freddie Mays bounty tournament at 8pm tonight is: croatian The reason for this choice of password (and also my continued absence all … Continue reading

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Friday’s Caption Competition

It’s Friday again! And that means of course, it’s time for another caption competition. First though, the password for the Freddie Mays Bounty tournament at 8pm tonight is: hamilton The usual rules apply. Whoever knocks me out wins $100 and … Continue reading

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Nein !

I was tearing my hair out earlier when I read an article about the luck vs skill debate in poker. Apparently four Germans recently conducted a study which they claim illustrates that poker is a game of luck, not skill. … Continue reading

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Poll of the Week

It’s been a week now since the big poker news broke.  The story has been covered extensively elsewhere so I won’t rehash it all here. But these are the main points. Following a deal with the US Department of Justice … Continue reading

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