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PaddyPower Irish Open

Main Event - No Limit Hold'em
Final Day

April 9, 2007
The Burlington Hotel
Tournament Schedule

Buy-In	3,300 EURO + 200 EURO
Prize Pool	3,118,493 EURO
Entries	708
Report Available

Martin Smyth

Place	Name	Prize
1	Martin Smyth (Ireland)	650,000 EURO
2	Roland de Wolfe (London, UK)	325,000 EURO
3	Sorel Mizzi (Toronto, ON, Canada)	210,000 EURO
4	Danny McHugh AKA "the rock" (Claremorris, Ireland)	175,000 EURO
5	Brian O'Keefe (Ireland)	130,000 EURO
6	Nicky Power (Ireland)	100,000 EURO
7	Thomas Finneran (Ireland)	75,000 EURO
8	Paul Dooley	66,734 EURO
9	Peter Eastgate (Denmark)	46,714 EURO
10	Glen McCabe (Northern Ireland, UK)	35,036 EURO
11	Paul Zimbler (London, UK)	35,036 EURO
12	Julian Adamson AKA "hartwith" (London, UK)	35,036 EURO
13	John Quinn (Ireland)	25,359 EURO
14	Darrin Melwani (Rochfort Bridge, County Westmeath, Ireland)	25,359 EURO
15	Jerker Eriksson	25,359 EURO
16	Bruce Yamron (Naples, FL, USA)	25,359 EURO
17	Peter Maughan	25,359 EURO
18	Jeremy O'Leary	25,359 EURO
19	Henric Carlsson	18,686 EURO
20	Joe Rafferty (Ireland)	18,686 EURO
21	Mick McCloskey (Derry, Ireland)	18,686 EURO
22	Bryan O'Connell (Ireland)	18,686 EURO
23	Nicolai Kostakis (Denmark)	18,686 EURO
24	David Barker	18,686 EURO
25	Danny D'Borin	18,686 EURO
26	Dan Smith (London, UK)	18,686 EURO
27	Bjorn Andre Kildalen (Oslo, Norway)	18,686 EURO
28	Terry McDaid	13,347 EURO
29	Noureddine Ziane (Allen, TX, USA)	13,347 EURO
30	Carlo Citrone (Manchester, UK)	13,347 EURO
31	Tim Flanders (UK)	13,347 EURO
32	Eduards Kudrjavevs	13,347 EURO
33	Gunther Koch	13,347 EURO
34	Eddie Gorman	13,347 EURO
35	Noel Hayes (Ireland)	13,347 EURO
36	Mazhar Nawab (Sheffield, England, UK)	13,347 EURO
37	Cyril Bensovssan	9,343 EURO
38	Bill Mullrooney (Ireland)	9,343 EURO
39	Johnathan Wong (Los Angeles, CA, USA)	9,343 EURO
40	Bobby Willis (Ireland)	9,343 EURO
41	Christian Lohmann	9,343 EURO
42	Frank Davis (USA)	7,000 EURO
43	Tommy Hutchinson	7,000 EURO
44	Stephen Kjernstad	7,000 EURO
45	Adam Fallon	7,000 EURO
46	Paul Gourlay (Normanton, England, UK)	5,000 EURO
47	Connor Smyth (Ireland)	5,000 EURO
48	David Kierins	5,000 EURO
49	Stephen Kenna (Dublin, Ireland)	5,000 EURO
50	Jonas Molander (Stockholm, Sweden)	5,000 EURO
51	Alan Betson (Dublin, Ireland)	5,000 EURO
52	Billy Ngo (UK)	5,000 EURO
53	Ian Fraser AKA "flasher" (Montrose, UK)	5,000 EURO
54	Ian Woodley (London, UK)	5,000 EURO
55	Unknown	5,000 EURO
56	Owen Mullens (Ireland)	4,250 EURO
57	Seamus O'Reilly (Ireland)	4,250 EURO
58	Mark Reeves	4,250 EURO
59	Yucel Eminoglu (UK)	4,250 EURO
60	Rolf Inge Kvanik	4,250 EURO
61	Metin Antar (Sweden)	4,250 EURO
62	Colm Smith	4,250 EURO
63	Joe O’Dhonaill	4,250 EURO
64	David Benyamine (Paris, France)	3,500 EURO
65	Anthony Padden	3,500 EURO
66	Patrick Rath	3,500 EURO
67	Simon Childs AKA "O" (Louth, Lincolnshire, UK)	3,500 EURO
68	Trevor McGoona	3,500 EURO
69	Pol Astaniotis AKA "Evil Elvis" (London, UK)	3,500 EURO
70	John Conroy (Dublin, Ireland)	3,500 EURO
71	Patrick O'Conner (Ireland)	3,500 EURO
72	Mikael Lindbaeck (Boras, Sweden)	3,500 EURO

Tournament Report

Marty Smyth wins €650,000 first prize at paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open

Belfast man triumphs in Europe’s largest poker tournament
Popular Northern Irish man Marty Smyth won the 26th Irish Open in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin 9th April 2007, earning himself a whopping €650,000.
Waterford boys, Nicky Power and Brian O’Keeffe went out 6th and 5th, earning €100,000 and €125,000 respectively. Mayo man Daniel McHugh picked up €175,000 for his fourth place finish. 19 year-old Canadian Sorel Mizzi lifted €210,000 and Roland de Wolfe, who has won WPT and EPT event netted a cool €325,000 for second place.
Tom Finneran from Galway came 7th and also won the ‘Paddy Last’ competition, beating over 70 players to win a €12,500 trip to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
This year’s event, broadcast on RTE Two and Challenge TV (late April), was the biggest tournament ever held in Europe with 708 players and a €2.4 million prize pool (Ireland’s richest ever sporting event; €3,500 buy-in).