REMINDER

I am going to post this every week up to the event itself. Friday the 10th August in the Arklow Bay Hotel. €30 buy in, (rebuy details to be advised). Gauranteeing a 1st place prize of €1500! The tickets are being sold thick and fast for this and there is talk of 100 plus players. I have also been told providing it runs weel, this could be made into an annual event.

€1500 1st place is not to be laughed at but I will stick my neck on the line here and say it will be a slog to win it, especially a fundraiser!! action can be very hot!!

Here is a picture of the flyer, and as I said above Ill comment and post more details every week before the event.

Saturday Night Poker

Star Poker Bray is on tonight and its the same tournament as a Friday Night "the double chance tournament. Be knocked out or go bust before the end of the break and you can rebuy again for €25 (20 plus 5 reg). Starts at 8.00pm and you can register up to 9.30pm. Blinds are 15 mins and a 10k starting stack. Refreshments served throughout and hot food served at the break.

Cash Tables available when enough players are around to start. blinds are 25/50c, 10% rake once a flop is seen and capped at €3 per pot. I think the minimum you can buy onto cash for is €25 and the Maximum is €200

Star seem to be getting 30 plus players everynight, so I can only assume tonight will be no different.

Spotted

I believe Reggie Corrigan was in Star Poker playing the Thursday Night Tournament. Reports are he was impressed with their facilities and said he would return. From what I know Reggie plays a bit of poker and see his biggest cash was for around €7500. Good to see players like this playing around Wicklow and maybe more could follow.

I have tweeted a number of poker players to see if they are ever dopwn Wicklow Area to call in and play a tournament not just in SStar but wherever there is one on!! So Dara O'Kearney, Jason Tomkins, Dara Davey and Roy "the boy" Brindley come on down, the action is hot!!!!

Star Poker Friday Night Results

Well done to Lorenzo Fuscarida and Ciaran McGrath who split Friday's €25 +1 Re-Entry Tournament. They beat a field of 41 players to share Fridays top prizes. Top 5 were paid with first place paying €328. There was no winner of this Friday's Jackpot so the money will roll over to next week.

Star Poker Bray Thursday Night Results

Congratulations to Daryl Brack who beat a field of 33 players to win the thursday €30 Scalp Tournament. With a big chip lead Daryl called an all-in shove pre-flop with K/7 only to run in to Aces. Daryl hit a king on the flop and turned a seven to win. The top 4 were paid with first place getting €297. Thursdays Poker Jackpot will roll-over to next week.

Report from Star Poker Wednesday Night

Well done to Victor Antoci who won the Wednesday $20 Freeze-out. With 58 players entered, the top 6 were paid with first place pulling down $348. Victor called an all-in push pre-flop on the final hand with 7/7. His opponent had 3/3 and when a 3 came in the Window Victor thought he was gone, only to see a 7 right next to it. Set over Set, what a final hand ! Poker Jackpot rolls-over to next week.

Friday Night

The Weekend has Landed.........

Doyles Rathnew, starts at 8.00pm. Usually gets around 2 tables. €20 buy in and a starting stack of 2.5k and a 20 min clock. You can rebuy/topup 3 times and if your gone before the break you can buy a deadstack and the 3 topups for €50. All money taken in on the night goes back out in the prizefund. Will hopefully have a report here from tonight providing Peter is playing.

The Kennedy inn, Newtown. Starts at 8.00pm, again this game gets 2 tables. €20 buy in with a rebuy/topup for €20. Starting stack of 10k, 20 min blinds and a top up of 10k as well. This as i have pointed out before is a good game. Theres no messing and the play is usually quite strong. One of the better games around, in my opinion.

Star Poker Bray, have their €25 (20 plus 5 reg) double chance tournie. Bust or be knocked out before the end of the first break at 9.30pm and you can rebuy for a further €25. Starts at 8.00pm and you can late reg up to 9.30pm. Starting stack of 10k, 15 min blinds and usually 30 plus runners. Refreshments available throughout and hot food served at the break.

Cash tables run until late and usually have 2 going. 25/50c blinds. 3% rake once a flop is seen, capped at €3 per pot.

have a good weekend and good luck at the tables.

Poker Thursday Night

The usual 2 games tonight folks:

1st off, we start in the Coach House Roundwood.
Kicks off at 8.00pm, Buy in is €35 (20 buy in, 10 top up and 5 reg). If you dont take the top-up its €25. The starting stacks are 5k and the top is the same. Blinds are 15/20. Hot food served on the break. Not just for locals, some weeks this place has had 30 plus runners, but usually always has 2 tables. Awaiting reports from this game and Ritchie advised once his phone is in order I will get some pics etc.

Star Poker Bray, have the €30 (20 plus 5 reg & 5 scalp) scalp tournament tonight. Kicking off at 8.00pm, you can late register up to the end of the break at 9.30pm. Knock out any player and receive the €5 scalp. Starting stack of 10k and a 15 minute clock. Refreshments available throughout and hot food served at the break. Usually get 30 plus for this game. This is a pretty wild and fun game as ive been told, there are a lot of calls made just to get the scalp!! I played here last week and there was 36/37 runners.

Cash table available usually after 10 and fill up quickly. 25/50c blinds, 10% rake once the flop is seen and capped at €3 per pot.

Best of luck at the tables.

Tuesday Night in The Olde Forge Wicklow

Last night seen a new game kick off in The Old Forge Wicklow. There was 10 runners so it was decided that the league would start from next week.
€310 was paid out in prize money, 1,2,3 & 4th.

Results:

1. John Molloy €115
1. Stephen Tierney €115
3. Trevor Conyard €50
4. Brian Connolly €30

League starts next week and same structure as last night. Its been run by Craig Ledwith. Structure and game is good, and numbers could get bigger.

Monday Night Report for the Old Ship

Thanks to Craig, who continues to provide me with Pictures and Reports every week.


20 Runners tonight for our €30 Freezeout and we welcomed 4 new players to get almost 50 players on our leaderboard! There was an early exit for Egidijus Pukinskas who lost with the nut flush v full house in the first level!

Niall Higgins was the man to eliminate him and that early double up allowed him to open up his range, play aggressively and make the money with ease.. We paid the top 5 tonight and newcomer Barry Nugent was our bubble boy in 6th place.. There is nothibng worse than being the bubble but maybe Liam Power will disagree with that when he was all in with KK against Larry Deveraux who also held KK.. With 2 clubs on the flop and Larry holding the king of clubs it was pretty nerve racking for Liam.. A club on the turn gave him a horrible sweat and sure enough another club rivered to eliminate Liam in 7th place..

Larry Deveraux was our 5th place finisher to collect €30 and John O'Regan came 4th for €50.. It was a good night for "The Wicklow Niall's" as Niall O'Connor came 3rd for €70 and Niall Higgins 2nd for €110.. It was KArl Larkin though that prevailed wheb he called Niall's allin with Q8.. Niall held J5 and the board of 84932 gave Karl the win with 2nd pair.. The top 3 players were also our biggest movers in the league with Niall O'Connor going up 8 places from 23rd to 15th, Niall Higgins moving 9 places from 22nd to 13th, and Karl Larkin moving an incredible 18 places from 34th to 16th! There was also a change at the top as Larry Deveraux took advantage of a bad night for Reimo Reinpalu by going 3 points clear at the top.. LArry had been top between weeks 4 and 7 but Reimo has dominated the top spot for the last 6 weeks but LArry has now clawed it back.. An interesting tussle at the top will continue!

Apologies

Apologies for no posts tonight folks, some maintenance was taking place and I couldnt post anything.

We were as they would say "experiencing spome technical issue"

Normal Service Resumes Immediately.

Thanks for your support

Tuesday Night Poker

NEW TOURNAMENT ALERT NEW TOURNAMENT ALERT NEW TOURNAMENT ALERT NEW TOURNAMENT ALERT

Okay Folks, There is a new league starting tonight in The Old Forge, Wicklow Town.

Buyin: €30 Freezeout (€25+5 reg)

9k starting stack

1k early bird

500 extra chips for confirming by text (0862423535)

20 min clock for first 6 levels, 15 min for the remaining levels (inc antes, that increase with every level)

Cash game runs also, 50c - €1 NLH with 5% rake and capped at €10, min buyin to cash game is €25

Tournament players are also part of a league for 2 UKIPT tickets worth €770 each. Top 9 players at the end of the league qualify for the final table and top 2 of final table win a ticket each. Players chipstacks are calculated based on the amount of points they accumulate throughout the league. €40 is taken from the pot each week to make the money for the 2 tickets.

This is being run by Craig Ledwith from Chip & Chair Poker and Ive played the tournament he runs in Arklow and the structure is excellent.

Finally, (i got a few texts last week about this game asking me was i taking the mick!!)
The Tuesday game in Jacobs Well, Rathdrum. Each week they alternate between 2 games. 1 game is a €50 freezeout. starting stack is 62k (you are reading this correctly), blinds are 15/20 mins. no money kept behind all is paid out in prizefunds. starts at 8.30 and can run for a while with a stack this big!!

Their 2nd game is €30, with a €10 rebuy only for the first 3 levels. starting stack is not as big, i believe its around the 20k mark, and blinds are as above 15/20 mins.

As advised last week, Charles has informed me of these details and he seemed to be serious enough!! I can only advise of what I've been told.

Good luck at the table Folks.

StarPoker Sunday Night

Well done to Tom McGuire and Michael Jankowski who split this Sunday's €20 Freeze-Out. They beat a field of 30 players to share tonight's top prizes. Top 4 were paid with first place paying €203. There was no winner of this Sunday's Jackpot so the money will roll over to next week.

Good numbers again for a Sunday night.

Star Poker Saturday Night

Congratulations to Kevin Ward who beat a field of 29 players to win this Saturday's €25 Re-Entry Tournament. Top four were paid with first place taking €261. Kevin called an all-in with A 10 and came up against A 5. The flop came ace high and Kevin's kicker won him the tournament. Well done Kevin:) Jackpot money rolls over to next week.

Monday Night Poker

One game to report tonight, and it happens in the Olde Ship, Arklow.
Its run by Craig Ledwith from Chip & Chair Poker.

Buyin: €30 Freezeout (€25+5 reg) (Last Monday of each month they have €35 Scalp Freezeout)

9k starting stack

1k early bird

500 extra chips for confirming by text (0862423535)

20 min clock for first 6 levels, 15 min for the remaining levels (inc antes, that increase with every level)

Complimentary food at the break for all players

Cash game runs also, 50c - €1 NLH with 5% rake and capped at €10, min buyin to cash game is €25

Tournament players are also part of a league for 2 UKIPT Cork tickets worth €770 each that takes place in February 2013.. Top 9 players at the end of the league qualify for the final table and top 2 of final table win a ticket each. Players chipstacks are calculated based on the amount of points they accumulate throughout the league and there are already 40 players on the league table. €40 is taken from the pot each week to make the money for the 2 tickets.

This is a good game and has had good numbers the last 2 weeks. 20 runners last week as per the report on the page.

also for anyone interested here is the current league table from the Olde Ship:

1. Reimo Reinpalu - 114 points
2. Larry Deveraux - 110 points
3. Liam Power - 84 points
4. Dariusz Denisiuk - 78 points
5. James Doyle - 61 points
6. Egidijus Pukinskas - 59 points
7. Zenonas Sudeikis - 56 points
8. Lawrence Lee - 51 points
9. Patrick Gray - 48 points
10. Sean Tolan - 45 points
11. Paul Hempenstall - 42 points
12. John O'Regan - 33 points
13. Adrian Murray - 30 points
14. Pascal O'Reilly - 27 points
15. Gary Byrne - 26 points
16. Danny O'Reilly - 23 points
17. Daniel Ledwith - 22 points
18. John Molloy - 21 points
19. Carl McBride - 20 points
20. Mary Lee - 20 points
21. Wayne Kelly - 20 points
22. Niall Higgins - 18 points
23. Niall O' Connor - 18 points
24. Brendan Mates - 12 points
25. Bobby McGee - 10 points
26. Justas - 10 points
27. Wojciech Krzebietka - 10 points
28. Trevor Conyard - 9 points
29. Brian Davis - 8 points
30. Dominic Schonken - 8 points
31. Tommy Byrne - 8 points
32. Cliff Conyard - 7 points
33. Jacob Bobro - 7 points
34. Karl Larkin - 7 points
35. Ger Walsh - 6 points
36. James Forde - 6 points
37. James Tyrell - 6 points
38. Jeremy Jacobs - 6 points
39. Kyle Byrne - 6 points
40. Jim Connors - 5 points
41. Liam McCarthy - 5 points
42. Stephen Kavanagh - 2 points
43. Tommy Larkin - 2 points

Good Luck at the tables.

The weekend is nearly over....

One game to finish off the weekend tonight. Its on in Star Poker Bray.

Kicks off at 8.00pm and you can register up to the end of the break at 9.30pm. Buy in is €20 (15 plus 5 reg). 10k starting stack and a 15 minute clock. Refreshments served throughout and sambos served on the break.

Cash Tables available when enough players are around to start. blinds are 25/50c, 10% rake once a flop is seen and capped at €3 per pot. I think the minimum you can buy onto cash for is €25 and the Maximum is €200.

Good luck at the tables......