St. Patrick’s €100K For €100 – Day 4 Wrap
Chess is known as the game of kings. Poker is the game of life. In one night of playing poker, you can experience everything from joy, excitement, elation, trust, betrayal, success and defeat to name but a few. The one thing you can not predict as in life is how and when these circumstances will present themselves. Saturday, the penultimate day before the Main Event final tomorrow. Excited and eager players not yet qualified for the event flooded the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin
The early bird catches the worm and players flocked to join the Dublin €100k for €100 Main Event Day 1D with 391 entries. Irish Poker Tour regulars such as Donegal man Tomas Flanagan. Patrice Goberville, a French native who resides in Westport and his partner joined the mix, one of the most recognisable couples and when they attend they always add a great deal to any festival they attend, it almost felt like they were getting ready for the Holigames tournament, that will take place at the start of the Monster Festival next month, our Holigames partner and friend Stephane Blasques was also amongst the players and around 6pm the GTD was hit. Top chipleaders in 1D was Alfredas Pipiras with 697,000, 2nd was Paul Craig 672,000 and 3rd Patrice Goberville with 625,000.
In the Omaha 250 4 Card, there were 51 entries with the guarantee rising to €10,770. On a hot streak as of late the King from Friday, Michael Merrigan yet again made it to another final table. Micky went out in 5th place with another €850 in his sky rocket. Darren “The Drummer” Harbinson made his push to put his mark on the festival and finished 3rd with €1,640. In 2nd was Fergal Coyle who won €2,400. The winner Daryl McAleenan took home €3,800.
In €100k for €100 Main Event Day 1E a whopping 452 entries joined the festivities, pushing the Main Event guarantee to over €100k. Bringing forward the highest chip stack was Gundars Lazdins with 980,000. Followed by John Coyle with 730,000 and a native of Lithuania but living in Dublin for over half of his life Karolis Brazdeikis had 653,000.
Players who had already qualified for the Main Event on Sunday and those unlucky in their run had the Friday Night NLH €10k to have a go at. With 4 players remaining, a break was called to discuss a deal, but all players wanted to lift the trophy. Play continued to settle it. In 3rd place was Killian Farrell who’s slice was €1,460, Pavlo Havrylyshen took home €2,100 in 2nd and the winner was one of the Doyle’s Club lads David “Panda” Fitzpatrick taking the trophy and €3,200.
In the €100k for €100 Main Event Day 1F a further 231 entries joined in, bringing the prizepool to €128,088. At the final count, Shane Keary who is 2nd in the Paddy Power Poker Leaderboard 2024 had 497,000 was top of 1F. After him was Kenny Sweeney with 436,000 and in 3rd was John Cassidy with 362,000.
With one more flight to play, starting at 11am. The prizepool is only set to grow as eager entries try to secure their place in the Main Event. Although focus will always be drawn towards the Main Event with players hoping to be in the money when the bubble bursts. There are other trophies up for grabs in what has been as always, a fantastic event at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin.
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