Good Luck to all the Irish !!!

The Al Lad

The world cup of poker is starting today in Barcelona,

So, good luck to all the Irish taking part.

meathman 007

whos on the team? - read negreanu is playing for canada

valor

Derek Murray is on our team so we are screwed

fabsoul

meathman 007 wrote:

whos on the team? - read negreanu is playing for canada

Ireland team
ROONEY_DIVES
luckysod
Conno!!y
greenrizla-- Derek Murray
TBD
all info http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/labels/World%20Cup%20of%20Poker.html

watch it live
http://www.pokerstars.tv/wcp/

Mellor

TBD is the celebrity player right?


3.55pm: The World Cup is under way, and it's first blood to Romania. Pre-flop, it's passed round to Derek Murray, of Ireland, on the button, who raises. Razvan Bengulescu, in the small blind, calls. Both players check an all-diamond flop, then Derek bets 300 when a fourth diamond turns. Razvan calls. On the jack of spades river, Ravzan bets 1,000 and Derek folds.

4.10pm: Action slows for a while, until Michael Watson steals a couple of pots for Canada. The first is a standard pre-flop raise, the second after he calls a pre-flop raise then check-raises a low rainbow flop. Greg Raymer, of Team USA, then joins the fun, raising from the cut-off, slipping on the lizard-eye specs, then taking it down on the turn with a 400 bet.

5starpool

The lad that was on here last week said Mick McCloskey was Irelands celebrity player.

Mellor

Heat 1 line up

1 - Derek Murray - Ireland
2 - Razvan Bengulescu (captain) - Romania
3 - Jorge Marques - Portugal
4 - Greg Raymer - USA
5 - Friorik Jorgensson - Iceland
6 - Michael Watson - Canada
7 - Antonio Chiladakis (captain) - Mexico
8 - Patrick Kuberyt

Goodluck2me

valor wrote:

Derek Murray is on our team so we are screwed

played against him once before, he is terrible, one of the worst ive palyed with. I remember him open raising and getting it all in with 56o at the final table of a tournament in Vegas against my QQ.

Hitman Actual

valor wrote:

Derek Murray is on our team so we are screwed

Sometimes I wish you'd use tags. It's easy to know when, say, RoundTower or HJ are being sarcastic, but it's still a bit tough with you.

Mellor

Was he not being serious??

The Al Lad

goodluck2me wrote:

played against him once before, he is terrible, one of the worst ive palyed with. I remember him open raising and getting it all in with 56o at the final table of a tournament in Vegas against my QQ.

lol

just watching this live, saw him limped UTG with Q 10 sooooooooooted

LuckyLloyd

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fabsoul

LuckyLloyd wrote:

How do you watch it live?

EDIT: Nevermind. Reading comprehension ftw.

http://www.pokerstars.tv/wcp/high_en.html

nicnicnic

The Al Lad wrote:

lol

just watching this live, saw him limped UTG with Q 10 sooooooooooted

&!!!! whats the problem i thought him that one

The Al Lad

nicnicnic wrote:

&!!!! whats the problem i thought him that one

fair play to ya !!!

will ya ive me a few lessons:p

Goodluck2me

nicnicnic wrote:

&!!!! whats the problem i thought him that one

Ara nicky he`s brutal!


by the way i know Derek, and he is a fantastic player i was joking with my earlier comments, as im sure was His Valorness there....

nicnicnic

fireworks there now from thestarsblog


World Cup heat 2 - all the action

12.40am: We might end up setting a peculiar precedent here: the first poker tournament where all the players are blinded away. There's still a marked lack of action, with the small stacks occasionally moving in but no one calling. However, as the blinds go up the fireworks are certain to go off any moment.

The Al Lad

Is Conolly a man or a woman ???

Goodluck2me

how dya watch this?

sumoward

goodluck2me wrote:

how dya watch this?

God Its soporific crap.

Fold fold fold fold

The Al Lad

goodluck2me wrote:

how dya watch this?

http://www.pokerstars.tv/wcp/high_en.html

Connolly all in with A K v A 9

flop 10 7 6

turn K

river 8

not out just crippled

bad beat thread ???

Wisesmurf

dont know if its live coverage I'm watching but did anyone see that A9 v AK all in hand!

Wisesmurf

lol very next hand Ireland all in with A3h vs 76o.

flop brings a 6, river brings an A!

The Al Lad

Wisesmurf wrote:

dont know if its live coverage I'm watching but did anyone see that A9 v AK all in hand!

it is live coverage

Connolly just tknocked out a portugese player

AIPF 6 7 v A 2 for Ire

6 on the flop and Ace ball on the river

SHIIIIIIIP ITTTTTTTT

The Al Lad

LOL stop posting at the same time as me

fabsoul

Wisesmurf wrote:

dont know if its live coverage I'm watching but did anyone see that A9 v AK all in hand!

No it not live, it about 30/40 mins delayed.

The Al Lad

bye bye USA get in there Connolly

SHIIIIIIIP IIITTTTTT

chip leader now

Wisesmurf

Revenge against the A9 wielding American monkey that crippled our lad.

AK against AQ this time ...AK holds up

Wisesmurf

lol Al I'll leave the reporting to you.

sumoward

At least it livened up.

Good to see the American donk get rivered.

fabsoul

sumoward wrote:

At least it livened up.

Good to see the American donk get rivered.

yea he a donk, but it was Joe Connolly AK v AQ American king on flop

nicnicnic

seems Dereck was a bit unlucky in his heat getting m in in a three way pot AK v QQ v JJ, cant do much more in a stt then get your chips in as a big money favorite

fabsoul

2.30am: Down to two. This time Halldor Sverrisson, of Iceland, accounts for Florin Constantin, of Romania. Hand details are unknown at present, but Florin earns nine points for his country. Iceland and Ireland are heads up.

Wisesmurf

we need a big result here only 2 pts from the first game.

The Al Lad

that canadian bloke is a MUPPET

BB is 1200

he has 2k chips and folds leaving 800 behind

next hand SB is 600 he folds again leaving 200

how the fcuk did he qualify online out of 3,000 canadians

worldcup-aments

sumoward

At least its a bit more interesting now.

Tony3004

ireland has won every hand heads up...... 2 good players should be good game iceland still has bout3to1 chip lead

Tony3004

irelandA 3 vs A 8 iceland win

fabsoul

Latest standings after two heats:

Romania - 21 points
Canada - 20 points
Iceland - 16 points
Ireland - 14 points
Germany - 12 points
Portugal - 10 points
USA - 8 points
Mexico - 6 points

top 4 teams go tru after 5 heats

DeVore

I hope Mick McCluskey IS our celebrity player, that would be a result!! Imagine, the US will probably get Jennifer Tilly (*shudder*)...

DeV.

The Al Lad

DeVore wrote:

I hope Mick McCluskey IS our celebrity player, that would be a result!! Imagine, the US will probably get Jennifer Tilly (*shudder*)...

DeV.

he is,

he was there in the background

cardshark202

The US have Raymer, Canada have Negreanu.

Requiem4adream

Enjoyable day yesterday.....Derek played pretty well as did Joe. Gotta remember this structure is most definitely designed for tv (5k starting stacks, blinds 50/100 25 min levels). After 2 hours it's 200/400 and generally the average is still 5k, last night it got to 400/800 with 7 players left.

We didnt get the rub of the green in Heat 1. For example, at 150/300 level Derek was walked in his bb whilst holding AA. At that stage of the game a walk was unheard of! Then he was faced with the AK decision.

The Live Streaming is delayed about 30 mins and i think slightly edited, he thought for a couple mins before calling there.....it's an instacall in a individual event (blinds 300/600 open push from Rock UTG 3k def a pair or AK, protection reraise by big stack AK thru 99 type of range prob, derek 3.4k bb), in the context of the team event it takes a little bit of thought....if in folding the Canadian knocked the Portuguese lad out, then we move up a spot and he still has chips (albeit very short).

Im sure it's very doable to come up with an equation where you can factor the points into your thinking on a decision....but in practise out there it's pretty tough.

Im playing today im in Seat 8, Negreanu in Seat 7. Bit of a hangover from last night thankfully so im not thinking too much about strategy. Hopefully i can play well and get some points on the board.

** The celebrities were drawn in Heats at random, then the captains drew cards from A - 8 representing the order they could pick a player in 1 of the heats. That process took about an hour on camera lol. We were delighted to have Mick as an anchorman, we're just hoping now we can get enough points on the board so we dont leave him with a tough ask in his heat.

Jesus Wept

5starpool wrote:

The lad that was on here last week said Mick McCloskey was Irelands celebrity player.

lol. Celebrity? I need a new dictionary.

The Al Lad

Requiem4adream wrote:

Enjoyable day yesterday.....Derek played pretty well as did Joe. Gotta remember this structure is most definitely designed for tv (5k starting stacks, blinds 50/100 25 min levels). After 2 hours it's 200/400 and generally the average is still 5k, last night it got to 400/800 with 7 players left.

We didnt get the rub of the green in Heat 1. For example, at 150/300 level Derek was walked in his bb whilst holding AA. At that stage of the game a walk was unheard of! Then he was faced with the AK decision.

The Live Streaming is delayed about 30 mins and i think slightly edited, he thought for a couple mins before calling there.....it's an instacall in a individual event (blinds 300/600 open push from Rock UTG 3k def a pair or AK, protection reraise by big stack AK thru 99 type of range prob, derek 3.4k bb), in the context of the team event it takes a little bit of thought....if in folding the Canadian knocked the Portuguese lad out, then we move up a spot and he still has chips (albeit very short).

Im sure it's very doable to come up with an equation where you can factor the points into your thinking on a decision....but in practise out there it's pretty tough.

Im playing today im in Seat 8, Negreanu in Seat 7. Bit of a hangover from last night thankfully so im not thinking too much about strategy. Hopefully i can play well and get some points on the board.

** The celebrities were drawn in Heats at random, then the captains drew cards from A - 8 representing the order they could pick a player in 1 of the heats. That process took about an hour on camera lol. We were delighted to have Mick as an anchorman, we're just hoping now we can get enough points on the board so we dont leave him with a tough ask in his heat.

happy days,

so who are you ???

online name aswell ???

Requiem4adream

The Al Lad wrote:

happy days,

so who are you ???

online name aswell ???

Im pleading the 5th Ammendment Shower time, on in 2 hours

Killme00

best of luck today

LuckyLloyd

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5pin5

best of luck to all the team .

cardshark202

On a break atm, rooney_dives is in the heat with DN to his right.

bohsman

rooney_dives walking all over the table.