paddypowerpoker.com player Eoghan 'Intruder123' O'Dea captures ECOOP III Main Event

BigCityBanker

Popular Irish player wins $315,000 after outlasting 1,282 other players

The European Championship of Online Poker III came to an exciting close today with paddypowerpoker.com player Eoghan ‘Intruder123’ O’Dea triumphing over a field of 1,283 to earn a $315,000 payday and the title of ECOOP III Main Event champion.

The $1,060 buy-in tournament ran for a little over 15 hours, with the top 150 players earning a share of the $1,500,000 in the prizepool. O’Dea also wins a jewel-encrusted 18 carat gold bracelet, which was designed exclusively for the Main Event winner.

O’Dea will have the opportunity to overshadow his victory, the biggest in his career to date, when he moves under the studio lights later in the week to contest the semi-finals of the live Poker Million tournament in London, England. There he will join paddypowerpoker.com’s Ciaran ‘Big C’ O’Leary and 14 other of the world’s top players vying for a $1,000,000 first prize.

“We would like to congratulate Eoghan on his fantastic victory in the ECOOP III Main Event and wish him luck in the Poker Million later this week”, said Eric Booth, Head of Poker at paddypowerpoker.com. “paddypowerpoker.com players did themselves proud over the two weeks of the ECOOP festival, with numerous final table appearances, all highlighted by Eoghan capturing the biggest prize on offer!”

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rag2gar

Huge result, fair play to Eoghan.

Mauricmo

Congrats to him.
When will the live Poker Million tournament in London be televised?

rag2gar

Mauricmo wrote: »

Congrats to him.
When will the live Poker Million tournament in London be televised?

The final is live this Friday night with the semis on Thurs night

Conbro

nice one Eoghan

Four of a kind

rag2gar wrote: »

The final is live this Friday night with the semis on Thurs night

what time and channel?

5starpool

Wow, someone I have met has won one of these big events!!!! You'd know he doesn't (to my knowledge at least) post on boards or he never would have got there.

Congrats Eoghan, fair play, great achievement.

carrigeen

great result , congrats !!!!!!!

lillou

well done. what a result!

DeadMoney

Absolutely sick! Its hard to believe that these things actually do happen! And here I am grinding 200nl?? Well done!

OilBeefHooked2

Congrats Eoghan

reilly110

wp eoghan

carfax

Congrats Eoghan, amazing result.

ferdyfish

VWD:D is this chap any relation to donnacha o dea?

OpenEnded

his son

Mellor

WD, ship the jewel encrusted bracelet

smurph

It's been a while since I used this picture, well done Sir great result

nicnicnic

Mellor wrote: »

WD, ship the jewel encrusted bracelet

nice,

WD Eoghan

Van Dice

wp and gl in the Million!

spoofingjam

sweet result,WD Eoghan

FeetMagic

Ship the Poker Millio now. Well done! Always nice to see an Irish player getting a nice score.

Fatboydim

The first of many I would wager. WP

White Knight

VWP heads up

doke

White Knight wrote: »

VWP heads up

Didn't see it but can only magine. His edge HU over your typical MTT would be immense.

White Knight

doke wrote: »

Didn't see it but can only magine. His edge HU over your typical MTT would be immense.

According to chat comments at the time, his opponent was a "fishy cash game omaha player" but it was still well played to overcome the 4:1 chip lead.

edit: after 15 hours play also!

smoothcall

White Knight wrote: »

According to chat comments at the time, his opponent was a "fishy cash game omaha player" but it was still well played to overcome the 4:1 chip lead.

edit: after 15 hours play also!

lol picajjo ,hes in bits in plo alright.

unreal result, even though i play these tournys every sunday i never thought anyone actually won them... Now the greedy ****ers off to try win a million like 315 aint enough.

wp & glgl

Van Dice

White Knight wrote: »

According to chat comments at the time, his opponent was a "fishy cash game omaha player"

so there were two of them HU?
lol

BigCityBanker

Van Dice wrote: »

so there were two of them HU?
lol

to be fair OD pwned ur man hu, piccajo pretty much turned a decent hand with good showdown value into an absolute bluff to give OD the momentum in the game.

Yabbadimday

White Knight wrote: »

According to chat comments at the time, his opponent was a "fishy cash game omaha player" but it was still well played to overcome the 4:1 chip lead.

edit: after 15 hours play also!

What did he get for 2nd? I wouldn't mind having an mtt score like that 'fish':rolleyes:

Tom Hanlon

Super result Eoghan, well done.

Tom H

pppspecial

vwp sir. amazing achievement.

smoothcall

Yabbadimday wrote: »

What did he get for 2nd? I wouldn't mind having an mtt score like that 'fish':rolleyes:

165 i think, and yes he is a fish. Anyone can luckbox there way through a tourny to finish second ... Donal?? care to confirm my point??

Goodluck2me

Great result for the 1-2 grinders of the fitz, no doubt he'll blow the lot there. :pac:

Joe

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

White Knight wrote: »

According to chat comments at the time, his opponent was a "fishy cash game omaha player" but it was still well played to overcome the 4:1 chip lead.

edit: after 15 hours play also!

ye piccajo is a real bad plo player, play with him a lot so hopefully he will gift some of his winnings back

robinblinds

When it got down to the last 6, he had them in his pocket.

From what I've seen of him play, shorthanded, OD is scary.

12's for the Million.

ocallagh

n1 Eoghan, fantastic result.

con_leche

Congrats

speedytom

Thx Everybody

AKQJ10

smoothcall wrote: »

165 i think, and yes he is a fish. Anyone can luckbox there way through a tourny to finish second ... Donal?? care to confirm my point??

Never miss an opportunity

doke

smoothcall wrote: »

165 i think, and yes he is a fish. Anyone can luckbox there way through a tourny to finish second ... Donal?? care to confirm my point??

Were you always such a happy carefree person?

smoothcall

doke wrote: »

Were you always such a happy carefree person?

I actually am, but i cant help myself from having a pop at me ol pal Donal..

SpencerJames

smoothcall wrote: »

165 i think, and yes he is a fish. Anyone can luckbox there way through a tourny to finish second ... Donal?? care to confirm my point??

simmer simmer!

doke

smoothcall wrote: »

I actually am, but i cant help myself from having a pop at me ol pal Donal..

OK, never mind, apologies if I misunderstood playful banter between friends for something else.

smoothcall

ye it's only bitta banter, if he replies it'll be somethin about not being able to fold AQ . and ill go back to being quite.

Anyway back to wp speedy tom

MrPillowTalk

Well done Eoghan.

FeetMagic

smoothcall wrote: »

ye it's only bitta banter, if he replies it'll be somethin about not being able to fold AQ . and ill go back to being quite.

Anyway back to wp speedy tom

Donal Norton? Is he on boards?

HeeHawsCantona

legendary stuff
wp

5starpool

FeetMagic wrote: »

Donal Norton? Is he on boards?

Stavros*

maybe a slight bit of makeyupedness about this

one ill cat

Awesome result, vwp!

NickyOD

Nice to see genuinely good players getting big results. Well done Don junior.

Goodluck2me

FeetMagic wrote: »

Donal Norton? Is he on boards?

Well he is the best tournament player in Ireland....





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