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Irish Open

No Limit Hold'em Championship

March 19, 2008
City West Hotel
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Buy-In	4,200 EURO + 300 EURO
Prize Pool	3,001,400 EURO
Entries	667
Report Available

Neil Channing

Place	Name	Prize
1	Neil Channing AKA "Bad Beat" (London, UK)	801,400 EURO
2	Donal Norton (Tipperary, Ireland)	420,000 EURO
3	Thomas DunWoodie (Newcastle, UK)	275,000 EURO
4	Tim Blake (Wansford, UK)	220,000 EURO
5	Kai Paulson (Trondheim, Norway)	175,000 EURO
6	Edwin Tournier (Netherlands)	135,000 EURO
7	Carsten Joh	100,000 EURO
8	Eric Larcheveque (Paris, France)	75,000 EURO
9	John Keown (Northen Ireland, UK)	50,000 EURO
10	Mark Spellman	32,500 EURO
11	Pete Linton (UK)	32,500 EURO
12	Hassan Mohammed (Birmingham, UK)	32,500 EURO
13	Andrew Grimason (Ireland)	24,000 EURO
14	William Martin (UK)	24,000 EURO
15	Thomas Dempsey	24,000 EURO
16	Thomas Finneran (Ireland)	24,000 EURO
17	Surinder Sunar (Wolverhampton, UK)	24,000 EURO
18	Phil Starrs (UK)	24,000 EURO
19	John Kabbaj (London, UK)	18,000 EURO
20	William Haughey (Scotland, UK)	18,000 EURO
21	Frederic Levy	18,000 EURO
22	Tony Salmon	18,000 EURO
23	Thomas Fourgeron	18,000 EURO
24	Conor Tate (Bury, Manchester, UK)	18,000 EURO
25	Anthony Fagan (Dublin, Ireland)	18,000 EURO
26	Padraig Parkinson (Dublin, Ireland)	18,000 EURO
27	Nick Goodall (UK)	18,000 EURO
28	Bill O'Keefe (Ireland)	13,000 EURO
29	Mazhar Nawab (Sheffield, England, UK)	13,000 EURO
30	Charlie Harvey (Ireland)	13,000 EURO
31	Iam Van Trinh	13,000 EURO
32	Knut Rysstad (Norway)	13,000 EURO
33	Julian Thew AKA "yoyo" (Nottingham, UK)	13,000 EURO
34	Sorel Mizzi (Toronto, ON, Canada)	13,000 EURO
35	Lars Hougaard	13,000 EURO
36	John Moran	13,000 EURO
37	Kiko Lacasa (Spain)	9,000 EURO
38	Belka Laouar (France)	9,000 EURO
39	Kristoffer Nyberg	9,000 EURO
40	Tominari Kobayashi	9,000 EURO
41	Kenneth Greaney (Ireland)	9,000 EURO
42	Emmett Davis (Ireland)	9,000 EURO
43	Nariman Faramarzi-Rad	9,000 EURO
44	Kieran Small	9,000 EURO
45	James Daly (Ireland)	9,000 EURO
46	John Conroy (Dublin, Ireland)	6,500 EURO
47	David Dean (UK)	6,500 EURO
48	Willie Clynes (Ireland)	6,500 EURO
49	Jaka Faraz Quddis (USA)	6,500 EURO
50	Brian Antoniotti	6,500 EURO
51	Sebastien Caleechurn	6,500 EURO
52	Dominick Hever	6,500 EURO
53	Alexander Fitzgerald (USA)	6,500 EURO
54	Magnus Hulden	6,500 EURO
55	John Paul Fox	5,500 EURO
56	Simon Henessey (London, UK)	5,500 EURO
57	Dave Masters (Ireland)	5,500 EURO
58	Rumit Somaiya (Leicester, UK)	5,500 EURO
59	Michael Finn (Ireland)	5,500 EURO
60	Andrew Cowan	5,500 EURO
61	Tim Barany (Highland, IN, USA)	5,500 EURO
62	Keith Littlewood (UK)	5,500 EURO
63	Daniel Walley	5,500 EURO
64	James Honeybone (New Zealand)	4,500 EURO
65	Annette O'Carroll	4,500 EURO
66	Colin King	4,500 EURO
67	Abel Meijberg (Groningen, Netherlands)	4,500 EURO
68	Thomas Nyberg	4,500 EURO
69	David Albertson (Switzerland)	4,500 EURO
70	Gavin Moir AKA "BABYFACEG" (Armagh, Ireland)	4,500 EURO
71	Michael Nolan AKA "juniorbud" (mayo, Ireland)	4,500 EURO
72	Anthony Wetherall (UK)	4,500 EURO

Tournament Report

Neil Channing wins €801,400 first prize at paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open

Sunderland man triumphs in Europe's most prestigious poker tournament
Neil Channing, a poker professional from Sunderland, England, won the €3 Million paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open in Citywest Hotel, Dublin, 24th March, earning himself an enormous €801,400 payday, the biggest win of his career.
Channing proved to be a popular winner despite defeating the home crowd favourite, Donal Norton from Tipperary, heads-up. Norton picked up €420,000 for his weekend's work.
The final table of six players played out in front of a packed TV audience, most of whom were hoping to see Norton reverse Channing's dominating chip lead. First to leave the final table was Edwin Tournier, who finished 6th, taking home €135,000. He was soon followed by Kai Danilo Paulsen (5th, €175,000), Tim Blake (4th €220,000) and Thomas Dunwoodie (3rd €275,000) leaving Channing and Norton to battle it out.
Emmet Davis was the longest lasting paddypowerpoker.com online qualifier earning a free entry to next year's Irish Open as part of the site's 'Paddy First' promotion. Davis outlasted 63 other online qualifiers to win the prize on top of his €9,000 payout for finishing in 40th place overall.
This year's event, broadcast on RTE TWO, attracted 667 of the best poker players from around the world including the likes of Doyle Brunson, Padraig Parkinson, Ciaran O'Leary, Noel Furlong, Andy Black, Roland De Wolfe, Sorel Mizzi, Dave ‘Devilfish' Ulliott and defending champion Marty Smyth. The players competed for a total prizepool of €3,001,400 of which paddypowerpoker.com contributed €200,000. The buy-in for the tournament was €4,500 with 72 players making the money.