AUTHOR: Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
TITLE: The Paddy Power Poker Irish Open
DATE: 7:35 AM
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Day 1 of the Paddy Power Poker Irish Open was something of a marketing<br>dream. A record breaking field, some huge names in attendance and a few<br>legends of the game leading the pack. Day 2 was a journalistic nightmare,<br>the big names fell and players were busting like a &#163;5 rebuy on a Friday<br>night. Never have we seen such fast action in a deepstack tournament and it<br>was impossible to keep a track of the busts and the chip counts which were<br>up and down like a yoyo. Dan Harrington, Mike Sexton, Mad Marty Wilson,<br>Surinder Sunar and David Benyamine all fell despite such dominating starts,<br>as did up and coming Paul Gourley who was the day 1 chip leader. Roland De<br>Wolfe lost his big stack early but  has picked himself up and is gathering<br>momentum again, keep an eye on the WPT/EPT champion today to make some moves<br>towards the final table. The last hand of the night summed it up really.<br>Jerker Eriksson&#39;s Aces vs Danny D&#39;Borin&#39;s Kings vs Frank Davis&#39;s Queens<br>creating the biggest pot of the night. Amazingly it is Danny D&#39;Borin who<br>gained the most, becoming chip leader from the side pot and now has 450k.<br>Eriksson and D&#39;Borin are our chip leaders and amongst the other big stacks<br>are Dusk Til Dawn&#39;s Paul Zimbler, who was crippled earlier down to 18k but<br>is well over 250,000 going into day 3. With only 41 players left and the pay<br>bubble very much burst don&#39;t expect the action to slow down, we are unsure<br>yet as to whether the final table will start today if we get to it, but get<br>to it early we almost definitely will!
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