Bruce Poker Launch Festival Live Updates

jbravado

The Bruce Poker Launch Fesitval starts tonight.

Friday 14th Nov - €10,000 Guaranteed & €5,000 and €2,500 Trip to Las Vegas Added
Reg 7pm Game 8pm
Buy €120 (€15 Reg Included)
1 Rebuy or Top-Up €50
Starting Chips 5k
Rebuy/Top-Up 7k
Blinds 20 Min for 10 Levels followed by 30 Min
Dealer Dealt

Myself and Mellor are going to be providing regular updates of all the action tonight while Adam and I will be following all the action tomorrow.

If you have any chip requests feel free to post then up here and we will do our best to respond as quickly as possible.

There is a real buzz in the room and the players will soon be taking their seats for the opening tournament of what promises to be a fantastic festival.

Mellor

Play has started, 25/50 20 minutes for the first ten levels.
5k stack

163 runners

Mellor

And somehow, a player managed to lose his stack on the first hand.


On a jack high flop, Our very own Nicky Power shipped the loot in with 9,10.

Nicky has an open ended straight draw,
And was looked up by Paul Coyle with top and bottom.
Nicky makes a pair on the turn, no magic trips on the river as Paul fills his house.

Mellor

Plenty of the usual suspects in attendance. Boardsies spotted thus far include-ppspecial, Ozpoker, Conbro, Smurph, Sideshow, NicNic, The Clamper (perhaps that should have been in capitals!) and AKQJ10.

Mellor

And again Nicky Power is all-in again.

Flop
7 10 J (two diamonds)
Nicky bets out and is called in one spot,

Turn a 5 of diamonds,
Nicky goes all in. Called by the button.

Nicky asks "have you the flush".
He doesn't and table A7
Nicky tables 89 for the flopped straight, his straight flush re-draw is not needed as he has the lock.





Just as I post this, Nicky is all-in again. This time with bottom set and he holds up.

Nicky on 20k, average 5.5k

Mellor

Ladbrokes festival winner Jimmy McSweeney is hovering with intent on over 11k. The Killarney winner,who pocketed over 100k is hoping to add another impressive result to his Cv.

Mellor

Colette "Smurph" Murphy,
Raises pf with 88,
A player in late position pushes for 2k,
Smurph makes the call and is shown A7 diamonds.

The flop is 568.........giving smurph top set, but the two diamonds give the shortstack a flush draw to go along with the open ender.
Smurph breaths a sigh of relief when two bricks fall.

Mellor

smurph

Go on the Smurph !:D:D

jbravado

Steven McLean has left the building. Despite picking up huge starting hands AA, KK, QQ in quick succession he was unable to hold in any of the huge pots that developed.

Mellor

Chip Counts

Nicky Power - 6k
Paul Coyle - 22k
ITT Pat - 8k
Jeff Taylor - 6k
Dara O'Kearney
JBravado - 9k
ConBro - 5k
Yuletired - 6k
Sylvester Geoghegan - 10.5k
Keith Mauire - 13k
Smurph - 6k
Dave Masters - 7k
Paul Leck3y - 9.5k
Jimmy McSweeney - 13k


One or two interesting tables,
Nicky Power, Paul Coyle and Paul Leckey on 7,
And right beside them on table 6 is Sam Ali, Dara O Kearney and Jimmey McSweeney

jbravado

Sylvester Geoghegan does not know how to lose. Sly called a 2k bet on the river,announcing bottom pair. Despite misreading his hand and actually only holding ace high, he still claimed the pot. What a read!

valor

Nicky seems to be playing a tight solid game anyway, tell him he is very old and bald

jbravado

165 players started tonight,with just twenty minutes left to rebuy we still have 155. The shorter stacks are now looking to gamble as the early pace setters look forward to the freezeout period.

BigCityBanker

whats the cash action like out there lads?

should I stop 6 tabling here to go out there instead?

Mellor

Players on a 20 minute break,


BCB, Cash is starting up after the break,
1/2, 2/5 and 5/10

Rake is considerably lower than other festivals.

BigCityBanker

thanks ^ il have a think about it..

jbravado

Players are on a twenty minute break. The rebuy period is over as our remaining 134 players return to 200-400 blinds.

jbravado

Sideshow is up to over 25k winning a series of small pots since the restart.
Nicky Power is having a great time and moving his chips around liberally. He also has over 25k.
The average stack is 15k and the prizepool stands at a juicy 26k.

jbravado

Paul Burke has got off to a good start winning the trip to Vegas provided by Bruce poker! Viva indeed!

Mellor

Jimmey McSweeney is gone.


Blinds 200/400,
Dara O'Kearey raises to 1200 after a limper,
Next to act flat calls, followed by a push for 5k from Jimmy McSweeney,
Limper folds and Dara makes the call, After a dwell, the flat caller folds.

Dara shows AK, and Jimmy is live with 74,

The board reads;
K Q 2 K 5

And Jimmy is gone. Dara is now up to 20k.

jbravado

Young Dubliner, Troy Prendergast is cruising with over 30k and is looking to extend a remarkable run that stretches back to his big cash in the Sporting Emporium Betdaq freerole.

jbravado

Marc McDonnell (AkQJ10) is on life support and desperately looking for a double up. He was left crippled when his flopped staright was unable to hold against two opponents who remarkably held the same hand. He is down to less than 5k.

jbravado

The Bruce Poker sponsered Nicky Power from the deise is up to 35K and looks comfortable on a star studded table that includes Northern Irish player Paul Lecky, Pat Storan and Denis Reyes.

Derek "The Clamper" Williams is very short stacked with just over 6k.

Mellor

Tension was high after the break as four names were pulled from a hat by Bruced sponsored Nicky Power.

Brought up to the stage and each presented with a girl and an envelope. Three contained a silver ticket worth €100, but the much sought after golden ticket was worth a Trip to Vegas.

Paul Burke was the lucky gent to pull out the golden ticket. Earning himself a trip to vegas courtesty of Bruce Poker.
Pictured below the winer Paul Burke with Paul Smallwood and Thomas Byrne of Bruce Poker, and of course the Bruce poker girls.




Fear not if you missed this change to win a trip away.
Bruce Poker are doing it again tomorrow and Sunday.

Saturday
Trip to Vegas, plus cash prizes.

Sunday
Trip to see Man Utd in the Champions League, plus cash prizes.

jbravado

Alan Kelleher "Big Al" has raced into the chiplead. He has over 70k courtesy of a triple up when his AK managed to turn both his opponents respective QQ. The money could well be finding its way to Cork!

jbravado

Boards chipcount.

Conbro El Busto. Circumstances unknown!

Yuletired Gone. He was seen with what looked like a very nice pint so all is not lost.

Smurph 6k

Sideshow 17k

ITT Pat 9k

Jbravado Gone. Coolered in the most cruel fashion. Obviously.

Mellor

Bruce Poker are feeling generous, just this minute Paul from Bruce has decided to add another Champions League Trip on Sunday, so that’s two trips to be won, plus cash prizes for runner-ups.
One trip will be part of the Freeroll, and another to be given away at the end of the night.

To be in with a chance to win, you have to have a Bruce Poker Account (Required to play ME) that had €50 lodged to it. Simple.

jbravado

Paul Quinn is moving up through the field and has joined the chip leaders with an imposing stack of over 80k. He just moved over the top of a 7k open with Akc and looked as shocked as everyone else when his opponent folded with just 10k left behind!

Great job so far lads, keep it up.

Mellor

"ITT PAT" Mitchell,
Raises to 4700 preflop with,
One caller,
A25 Flop,

Pat check calls to the river, Where he faces a bet of half his remaining stack.
Turn was an 8 and the river a 2.
After dwelling up, Pat shoves to be met with a snap call.
Pat instantly flips his slowplayed AA for top house and the other player mucks.

Pat now on 35k

jbravado

Dermot Blaine is our latest faller. Facing a serial raiser he moved in for 14k from the button with the Aqh. He found himself a little unlucky and in bad shape against Ak. The flop brought an ace but Dermot could not spike a queen. We are now left with 78 brave souls.

jbravado

The Running man, Dara O'Kearney is the latest victim of a tournament ending bad beat. He reached a peak of 30k early doors, but was unable to find a hold when it really mattered when his QQ was rivered by KJ. Remarkably considering Dara's image the chips found their way into the middle preflop.

Mellor

The chip lead is a toss up between three players at the moment.
Sideshow Bob, Jackie Delaney and Nickt Power.
All of whom have roughly 60k, although Nicky Power is liable to fluctuate by 30k at any minute

jbravado

Sporting Emporium regular Noni Pham could be tonights chip and a chair story. She has built her remaining 3k chips into a formidable 40k and is winning a lot of pots.
Damo Kavanagh is another one who has come back from the brink,running his last 4k into just over 30k.

jbravado

There is no doubt about it, the poker Gods have a mischievious sense of humour. Nicky Power called his opponents preflop shove with JJ. He quickly flipped his
hand however his opponent only turned one card, a king.
He completed the slowroll by eventually flipping another King to match it.
With great vengenance and furious anger the poker Gods proceceeded to wait for the river to deal the case jack for Nicky!Sheepishly,his opponent made his way to the rail with his tail between his legs.

jbravado

The breakdown of prizes is as follows:
18-15 Euro: 350
14-11 Euro: 450
10th Euro: 550
9th Euro: 700
8th Euro: 900
7th Euro: 1200
6th Euro: 1500
5th Euro: 1800
4th Euro: 2300
3rd Euro: 3500
2nd Euro: 5500
1st Euro: 10000

For those that way inclined an 18 way chop would equate to a cool 1700 each!
Apologies my euro button is out of action!

Mellor

It appears that the Gods are looking favourable on Eamon Donnelly also, he took a hit early in the first level and was forced to rebuy. Shortly later he got the loot in the middle once again. He was ahead, but sadly, the big draw got there and rejected, he got up to take the walk of shame as the first player out. Tourney Director JP McCann even marked him off the tourney info displayed around the room.
Lucily the dealer relised that his rebuy was 7k, and the winning player should of still had his original starting stack of 5k. Eamon was called back to his seat and trudged along with his useless 2k stack.

Players are now on a 20 minute break. And Eamon, is still in, his 2k has grown and he now sits aoung the chip leaders with 58k. wp sir

jbravado

58 players remain. Noteable faces include

Nicky Power 75k
Sideshow 35k
Smurph 30k
Oz Poker 34k
Troy Prendergast 40k
Big Al 50k
Robert Gleeson 60k

Glen O'Rourke is the first man to break 100k!

Mellor

We've a new chip leader,
In a raised heads up pot, the BB checks raises all in.
Feeling pot commited, Paul makes the call with Ace high. The BB has 77,
The turn pings up an Ace and the river pairs the board.
Paul Coyle is awarded the 80k pot and the chiplead.

jbravado

Sideshow has been eliminated in cruel fashion. Utg moved in for 16k,his last 8 big blinds.
It was folded around to the button who called immediately-quicker still Bob moved in for last last 30k,the button called after a long dwell.
The best hand going in finished last however, as Bob's QQ was outdrawn by Aq and 79c who rivered a straight for the main pot.

Mellor

Nicky Power, action junkie, has been getting it in at every opportunity.
But the life of a junkie, is often cut short. Blinds 2k/4k with a 200 ante and folded to Nic in the he ships 44k into the middle. The BB wakes up with JJ and makes the call.
No magic ace for Bruce's own, and Nicky is content with a Heineken on the rail.

jbravado

Some chip counts

David Bunyan 90k
Oz Poker 60k
Smurph 55k
Niall Cambell 90k
Big Al 45k

Joe Keogh,who entered the tournament just two minutes before the end of new entries is one of the chipleaders with nearly 130k.

There are 37 players left with an average stack of 64k. Blinds are now 3-6k with a 300 running ante.

jbravado

We have a new leader! Peter Halpin, slayer of Nicky Power is now the clear chip leader with 200k plus.
He just raked a huge pot when his JJ was able to hold versus K10c and A9. All the money went in on a 9 high, two club flop. A serious sweat but Peter is now in great shape.

jbravado

Peter Hanlin almost extended his chip lead but his QQ fell short against KQ and Aq. The dealer ignored the chants for a queen but threw up a king on the turn to match Anthony Murphy's who now has over 100k.

ITT-Pat

Mellor wrote: »

"ITT PAT" Mitchell,
Raises to 4700 preflop with,
One caller,
A25 Flop,

Pat check calls to the river, Where he faces a bet of half his remaining stack.
Turn was an 8 and the river a 2.
After dwelling up, Pat shoves to be met with a snap call.
Pat instantly flips his slowplayed AA for top house and the other player mucks.

Pat now on 35k

there's so much wrong with the reporting of this hand;)

jbravado

We are down to 28 players in the opening event of the Bruce Poker Festival. The blinds now stand at 4-8k with a 400 running ante. The average stack is 86k.

jbravado

Noni Pham has doubled up and is the latest player to break the 150k mark. Damo Kavanagh beat her into the pot with his last 40k when she open shoved up front with AK. Damien had to dodge a bullet but was unable to when the window card came an ace.

jbravado

Layton Curry is running hot!He now has over 160k when his KK stayed ahead of 910 and 1010.

Mellor

ITT-Pat wrote: »

there's so much wrong with the reporting of this hand;)

no, there really isn't (turn and flop 5 may be fabricated)

The Snapper

remaining runners and counts :)