The 26th Irish Open got underway in explosive fashion yesterday and, as one might expect from a field comprising some of the world’s leading players mixing it up with a slew of online poker qualifiers, Irish cardroom stalwarts, aggressive Scandinavians, English raiders and a clutch of celebrity chancers, the action came thick and fast.
Carlos Mortensen was the first casualty when his aces were cracked by kings in the 11th minute – to the audible shock of the entire room - and by close of play at around 2am only 247 of the original 708 were left standing.
Other notable casualties were Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Andy Black, Teddy Sheringham and Michael Greco.
Blazing a trail in the tournament, with well above the average chip stack of 28,000, are Mike Sexton, Paul Gourlay, Roland deWolfe, Ram Vaswani and Dan Harrington.
In a less desirable position but nonetheless living to fight another day are Padraig Parkinson, Donnacha O’Dea, Jeff Kimber, George McKeever and James English.
The full chip counts at the end of Day One are
Paul Gourlay 107400
Roland De Wolfe 92400
Ian Frazer 87800
Bill Mulrooney 85200
JP Kennedy 74000
Mazhar Nawab 72600
Cyril Bensovssan 72400
Ivar Borthen 70500
Christopher Moorman 69000
Noureddine Ziane 67000
Ali Mallu 66300
Metin Antar 65500
Mike Sexton 65200
Niall McCann 63700
Pol Astaniotis 62900
Simon Mycock 60300
Mick Mccloskey 58400
Eduards Kudrjavevs 58000
Len Collin 55300
Alec Torelli 52600
Val McCaul 51300
Raymond Mckenna 49900
Stuart Hill 49700
Eunan Doyle 49400
Paul Zimbler 49400
Marty Wilson 48800
Ram Vaswami 48500
Sebastian Wagner 48400
Dan Harrington 47900
Martin Dullaghan 47800
Richard Ashby 47600
Thomas Fougeron 47500
Brian O'Keefe 46600
Conor Smyth 45800
Timothy Flanders 45300
Sharon Goldman 43900
William Johnstone 43300
Philip Starrs 42500
Dave Ulliott 42100
Marty Smyth 42100
John Quinn 41700
Trevor Mcgoona 41600
Phil Ruddy 41200
Sorel Mizzi 41200
Ruben Gravlein 39800
Peter McGranaghan 39200
Nicolai Kostakis 39200
Albert Sapiano 39100
Paul Dooley 39000
David Poole 38600
Billy Ngo 38600
Fuat Can 38500
Darrin Melwani 38300
Jesse Jones 38100
Ian Dobson 37700
Ian Herbert 37700
Julian Adamson 37500
Adam Fallon 37200
Christian Tardea 36600
Christian Lohmann 36600
Terry Mcdaid 36600
Daniel Smith 36300
Dr. Namir Mohammed 36300
Peter Eastgate 36100
Thor Hansen 35900
James Chan 35500
Stephan Kjerstad 35200
Robin Lacey 35100
Innes Young 34900
Peter Evans 34600
Michael Mccool 34500
David Benyamine 34200
Steve Brecher 33400
Patric Martensson 33300
Brian Johnson 33300
Joe O'Donaill 33300
Mark Mckeever 33300
Jon Young 33100
Cathal Kelly 32700
Bruce Yamron 32200
Tim Farrelly 31800
Lesley Divine 31600
Ian Nelson 31500
Michael O'Sullivan 31200
Peter Maughan 30800
Rosey Bensley 30700
Jarund Strand Soma 30500
Carlos Citrone 30300
Anthony Young 30200
Ian Woodley 30200
Brian O'Connell 29900
Patrick O'Connor 29900
Alan Betson 29900
Paul Corrigan 29500
Simon Childs 29400
Mikael Lindbäck 28900
Ivar Abusedal 28300
Jay O'Toole 28200
Andy O'Flaherty 28200
Steven Frezer 28000
David O'Callaghan 28000
Brendan Walls 27900
Mark Wallis 27900
James Killilea 27600
Andrew Feldman 27400
Scott Gray 27300
Anthony Padden 27100
Kevin Farrelly 27000
Dennis Collins 26900
Rick Wampler 26800
Arnaud Mattern 26700
Tommy Hutchinson 26500
Mick Cook 25975
Eoghan Lyons 25700
Eddie Gorman 25700
Samuel Monigadon 25500
Julian Thew 25500
Chris Smith 25200
Chris Chu 24600
Murat Yalkin 24300
Alan Barnacle 24200
Eshan Husseini 24000
Ian Broadrick 23800
Jude Duffy 23700
George Geary 23000
Philip Baker 23000
Eugene Hanratty 22900
Danny Mchugh 22500
Colm Smith 22500
Santiago Torres 22500
Bjorn- Andre Kildalen 22200
Christy Smith 22200
Matthew Doyle 22200
John Webb 22100
Pat O'Callaghan 22000
Peter Hardgrove 22000
Martine Libertini 21900
Michael McCarthy 21700
Jeremy O'Leary 21600
Joeseph Rafferty 21500
Stefan Raffay 21500
Nicky Power 21400
Ole G Holgersen 21400
Stephen Kenna 21300
Bhupinder Kohli 21100
Henric Carlsson 21000
Terry Grimley 21000
Paul Jackson 20700
John Cooney 20600
Owen Mullan 20500
George Cunningham 20300
Wai Kwan Yuen 20200
Paul Daly 19800
Thomas Finneran 19500
Danny D'Borin 19200
Patrick Rath 19100
Mark Reeves 19100
Jonas Molander 19100
Andrew O'Leary 18900
Sean Donaldson 18900
Brian McCarthy 18800
Ivo Donev 18700
Cristiano Blanco 18500
Kent Ballegaard 18500
Dairmuid Hurley 18400
John McNaughton 18200
Reyaaz Mulla 18200
Michael O'Connor 18100
Tom Collins 18100
Sheamus O'Reilly 18100
David Kierins 17900
Bo Sehlstedt 17900
Peter Laverick 17600
Tomas Kavanagh 17600
Willomeana Connolly 17600
Mark Keane 17200
George McKeever 17100
Jean noel Said 17100
Eddie Moor 16800
Barry Fox 16600
Stewart Samuels 16500
Thomas Nolan 16400
Ken Walsh 16200
Padraig Parkinson 16100
Chris Murphy 16000
Gary Byrne 15900
Niall O'Callahan 15700
Soren Kongsgarre 15700
Roy Leacy 15400
Micheal Veale 15300
Dave Masters 15100
Shyam Markus 15000
Adrian Byrne 14850
Philip Green 14700
Tom Hanlon 14700
Roger Lillejord 14600
Bobby Willis 14400
Frank Davis 14400
Noel Hayes 14400
Albert Kenny 14100
Colin Stoddard 14000
Kevin Fitzpatrick 13900
Jerker Eriksson 13800
Ciaran Cryan 13700
Abby Wing Shek 12800
John Conroy 12600
Azad Pirooti 12200
Frank Cruess Callaghan 12000
Diarmaid O'Riordan 11800
Daniel O'Donovan 11700
Damir Buhovski 11600
Günther Koch 11500
Michael Mcgoldrick 11500
Ken Corkery 11400
Rolf Inge Kvanik 11100
David Barker 11000
James English 11000
Carolyn Manson 10900
John Wong 10900
Harri Pehkonen 10800
Alan Gilmore 10700
Christopher Simmonds 10700
Orlaith McManus 10500
David Dean 10400
Oliver Cummins 10300
Surinder Sunar 10300
Donnacha O'Dea 10200
Liam Reddin 10000
Vincent Melinn 9700
Eoin Olin 9500
Ross Byrne 9300
Anthony Donohoe 8800
Yucef Eminoglu 8700
David Carberry 8600
Brian Donnelly 8400
Philp Rosenburg 8300
Jeff Kimber 8200
Dominick Hever 8000
Pat Murray 7900
Toras Alelius 7700
Barry Griffin 7700
Jonathan Rich 7500
William Delaney 6700
Paul Maskell 6600
Jimmy Kelly 5800
Glen Mccabe 5800
Duncan Keane 4800
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