It was matter of time until the World Poker Tour made it's way to the poker hotbed that is the country of Ireland. Ireland already hosts top events such as the Irish Open, the Euro Masters, the Unibet Open and the various poker Festival Main Events ... well know, it's WPT title time!
WPT Ireland kicked off on Thursday with an impressive 338 player field, creating a prizepool just short of 1M US! Many star players made their way to the Citywest Hotel in Dublin eyeing the WPT title.
Dublin has not been kind to most name player however. 2011 PTPR Top Scorer "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier, McLean Karr, bracelet winner Marty Smyth, Kara Scott, Leo Margets, Toby Lewis, Tatjana Pasalic, WPT title holder Sam El Sayed, Andy Black, Jake Cody and James Dempsey are all gone and gone - maybe these players now have plans to invade the PCA in the Bahamas or the Aussie Millions earlier than expected?
With so many big names out, the event is wide open and is for anyone to take at this point. Day 3 is already underway, the current chip leader is David Shallow. Shallow owns almost 1M chips, his closest competition is Franck Boyer, who is sitting at around 800K in chips.
Stuart Fox - who had 2011 PTPR Scores at EPT Tallin and at the DTD Monte Carlo in July - sits in the Top 5, hoping his previous experience in big events will serve him well.
Hendon Mobster is still alive, he has the 12th largest chip stack at the moment.
We're playing down to a final table today!
WPT IRELAND PAYOUTS (IN USD):
1- $289,031
2- $144,502
3- $96,339
4- $68,396
5- $51,063
6- $40,465
7- $30,349
8- $22,625
9- $16,384
10 - 12- $11,079
13 - 15- $10,116
16 - 18- $9,154
19 - 27- $8,192
28 - 36- $7,217
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January 5-8, 2011
Citywest Hotel | Dublin
Buy-in: $3,180 | Prizepool: $988,878 | Entries: 338
Defending Champion: Inaugural Event
PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 128
2nd position 78
3rd position 48
4th position 38
5th position 33
6-7th position 28
8-11th position 13
12-15th position 11
16-18th position 8
A great overall night for poker. I was rooting for Mad Marvin the whole time!
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