Well Done Conor

Pokerevents

One of the better players that made the televised final table deserves a lot of credit for his performance. I thought he had a very strong chance of winning this title. Fair play Conor and well done.

Mr. Flibble

I'm half watching the event on TV. Was he the guy who layed down the 99 to AQ, trip queens?
The commentators were berating him for folding, but I thought it was a legend laydown.

okidoki987

5th and 60k? Not bad.
I'd say this won't be over for hours by the looks of the table.

Ollieboy

Mr. Flibble wrote:

I'm half watching the event on TV. Was he the guy who layed down the 99 to AQ, trip queens?
The commentators were berating him for folding, but I thought it was a legend laydown.

the final laydown was a brilliant laydown, but why waste 200k on calling to the river and than laying down, he played the hand badly, but as played great all weekend, wp Conor

Mr. Flibble

Ollieboy wrote:

the final laydown was a brilliant laydown, but why waste 200k on calling to the river and than laying down, he played the hand badly, but as played great all weekend, wp Conor

Well, he has more information at the river to tell him to lay it down. He could have folded on the flop, but more often than not I think that would be bad play.

The Ace Face

Played with Conor nice guy, he knocked out MR X when he had 35k average stack 100k. He done well, was card dead for most of FT.

Gl to him.

Ray

Pokerevents

It s heads up and I'm in shock at the call Brendan made to send him home in third.

ntlbell

Pokerevents wrote:

It s heads up and I'm in shock at the call Brendan made to send him home in third.

Yep, madness, lays down top pair for all his chips then calls them off with K high, mad.

cooker3

ntlbell wrote:

Yep, madness, lays down top pair for all his chips then calls them off with K high, mad.

yep it was horrible, I love the justification, I thought he had a small pair so I thought I had some outs!!!
To be fair it is a very tiring 3 days and fair play to him for getting 3rd

a-k-47

pub player...

roy brindley was giving some stick...just as he was slating vincent on the 28s flop..brindley saying whats he thinking about in that bald head of his, when brendan min raise 200k pot. vincent "raise to 300k" quality timing. fair play to him for winning it, well done. irish winner:D

shoutman

Congrats to conor
But I have to agree with Trumper, I think Wong was the best player at that final table and if his A10 V A9 had held up I think he would have taken it down.

Plus I'm gutted as I had a tenner on him

Quality player though, some of his lay downs just boggled me and he obviously had very good reads on some of his opponents.

a-k-47

wong was the best player when it was down to 4..sick river. poor fella.

Daithio

Ollieboy wrote:

the final laydown was a brilliant laydown, but why waste 200k on calling to the river and than laying down, he played the hand badly, but as played great all weekend, wp Conor

I thought he played the hand brilliantly. It's very hard to lay down 99 to that flop, and then the turn makes it look even more likely that he's ahead. He read the value bet on the end to perfection. An awful lot of players will go broke on the flop or turn there, but he used all three streets to get information relatively cheaply. 99% of players will make a crying call on the river, knowing they're behind, but he had the discipline to fold. I was very impressed.

Pokerevents

shoutman wrote:

Congrats to conor
But I have to agree with Trumper, I think Wong was the best player at that final table and if his A10 V A9 had held up I think he would have taken it down.

Plus I'm gutted as I had a tenner on him

Quality player though, some of his lay downs just boggled me and he obviously had very good reads on some of his opponents.

I was at the same table as Wong for the start of the event. I was literally fightened at some of the plays he was making. He was ultra aggressive. At one stage he re-raised a sizable bet in late position, check-raised the flop all-in only for the original raiser to fold. His friend who happened to be sitting in the next seat asked him asked was it Aces u had, and he replied no I had absolutly nothing. About 3 hands later he and his friend got into a raising war. When his friend bet the flop Jon went for his chips and his friend said if you raise I promise I will move all in(which I think should be a foul). Jon did raise and his friend did move all in and Jon called. Friend had k high flush Jon had Nut flush and that was that. I thought to myself what a set up.
IMO Conor, Paul Daly and himself were the best players at the final table by a mile.

NickyOD

I spoke to Wong afterwards and he certainly felt very hard done by. To be honest I didn't give a ****e who of the final 6 won it. When you looked at the final 27 players it looked like it was going to be a real quality final but it was just a great big disappointment and one by one the big names went to the rail. Wong was lucky to be there at all. He moved all in with JQ against AK against Roper in the final nine. Flop came A-X-X and Wong hits running Jacks to stay alive. I think of the final 9 Peter Hessin would have be the one player who could roll the rest of them over shorthanded but was unlucky to walk Jacks into Queens. Mick McCloskey told me it was only Melinn's 3rd ever live tournament. The last one was the WSOP main event and he busted out the first hand he decided to play!! Fair play to him anyway. He seemed like a very nice man, but I'm very disappointed we didn't see a real quality poker player take it down.

NickyOD

Pokerevents wrote:

IMO Conor, Paul Daly and himself were the best players at the final table by a mile.

When it was down to 7 Daly got 70% of his stack in with AK then folded on a A-Q-T flop because he wanted to be on TV. If they hadn't lowered the blinds for the final six he would have only had only 2 big blinds left!!

HookOrCrook

Excellent summary of the final here:

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2006/4/irish-poker-open-vincent-melinn.htm

As regards the Conor 99, the point Brindley made is that it is better to re-raise the 99 on the 25Q flop as it should answer any questions more clearly before the opponent gets a chance to draw more ammo on the turn and river. The longer Conor called, the less chance he had of staying ahead (had he been ahead which he wasn't). If Melinn calls the flop re-raise, it tells Conor that Melinn has probably got a piece of the flop and he might even re-re-raise with his AQ and Conor could have folded. Would Melinn call a re-raise on the flop if he hasn't got a Q or high pocket pair? Maybe, but, in the circumstances, he probably wouldn't want to waste chips as he would put Conor on a strong hand himself. By flat-calling, Conor was taking greater risks.

It is easy to say of course watching from the sidelines!

5starpool

HookOrCrook wrote:

Excellent summary of the final here:

http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2006/4/irish-poker-open-vincent-melinn.htm

As regards the Conor 99, the point Brindley made is that it is better to re-raise the 99 on the 25Q flop as it should answer any questions more clearly before the opponent gets a chance to draw more ammo on the turn and river. The longer Conor called, the less chance he had of staying ahead (had he been ahead which he wasn't). If Melinn calls the flop re-raise, it tells Conor that Melinn has probably got a piece of the flop and he might even re-re-raise with his AQ and Conor could have folded. Would Melinn call a re-raise on the flop if he hasn't got a Q or high pocket pair? Maybe, but, in the circumstances, he probably wouldn't want to waste chips as he would put Conor on a strong hand himself. By flat-calling, Conor was taking greater risks.

It is easy to say of course watching from the sidelines!

This is what I was thinking at the time myself but Melinn actually checked out of turn in this hand, so Conor bet it himself and Melinn hadn't the option to reraise. It is hard to put your opponent on a Q here though, and he did well to get away from it in the end I think when the second Q came up.

Lafortezza

Pokerevents wrote:

One of the better players that made the televised final table deserves a lot of credit for his performance. I thought he had a very strong chance of winning this title. Fair play Conor and well done.

Who is this Conor guy, is he on boards? gg and all that.

pokertroll

lafortezza wrote:

Who is this Conor guy, is he on boards? gg and all that.

Plays on tribeca as Conor Joseph - also plays in the fitz occasionally.

Pokerevents

lafortezza wrote:

Who is this Conor guy, is he on boards? gg and all that.

He's from Leitrim and lives in Dublin. Plays our bigger events. I was on the same table as him in the Irish open last year, all round nice guy, but can be very headstrong when he wants to be. I'm told he plays with much success on PPP.