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EPT Dublin – Irish Masters Day 1b The second half of the 400 strong field took their seats today as the four day tournament continued. JP Kelly was amongst their number, as was David ‘Geeforce1’ Gent (pictured below), a regular Blue Square player. While JP is sponsored by Blue Square, David had paid for half of the €5,000 entrance fee using 5 million action points that he has accumulated over the last year. Redemption of these points earned him a one off sponsorship package worth $3,500. The rest he topped up with his own money, but for David, who is a very successful online player, this would have been a drop in the ocean.
The game started off hectically for JP. In the first 30-minutes he reported more action than in the previous two EPT events put together. In an early exchange with Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, JP was forced to pass the second nut flush on the river and not long after he was all-in for the rest of his stack with a flush and gutshot straight draw. Thankfully he hit his flush on this occasion and lived to make it past the first level. |
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2005 WSOP champion Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer, Willie Tann, all four Hendon Mobsters and the voluminous Ade Bayo were also in attendance. Ade Bayo is famous for his trash talk at the table and true to form, it was not long before he was kissing his arm and declaring loudly “I love myself” at every possible occasion. A true wind up merchant and fun to watch. He won’t be too pleased when he sees the TV coverage though. At one point, during one of his hand victory speeches, Roland de Wolfe placed a slice of lemon on his head while the cameras rolled. Ade was unaware of this until after he had finished his rub down.
Meanwhile David Gent was facing something akin to the Sahara desert as anything resembling a good starting hand had complely dried up for him. By the time the dinner break came around JP was back to just above his 10,000 starting chips, while David was a bit below. WSOP final tablist Paul ‘Pirate Pab’ Foltyn was also rueing a big pot that he had lost just before the break. He would have been sitting pretty on over 20,000 but a pesky river card had reduced him to about the 6,000 mark, as the players headed for the buffet.
By the time play had recommenced, JP’s table, which also included Rob Yong and Phil Peters, had a new arrival in the shape of the aforementioned World Champion Greg Raymer. JP (pictured left) tussled with him in a few pots and before long had wrestled almost all of the multi-millionaire’s remaining chips away from him. He coaxed Raymer into calling for all but 600 of his chips with three diamonds showing on the board. The big man mucked his hand as JP turned over A-9 of diamonds to reveal the nut flush. A few hands later Raymer was off collecting fossils again.
Feeling confident with his game and happy to be playing well, JP was then moved to a new table and was seated next to Neil ‘Bad Beat’ Channing. It wasn’t long before they got involved in a big hand together and this time there was no bad beat for Channing. JP moved all in on a 7-8-T flop showing two hearts. JP held the A-8 of hearts for second pair and a flush draw. Neil called with J-T of clubs - top pair and a straight draw. Two further sevens on the turn and river provided no help for JP and he was out. David Gent had also been eliminated by this time, making a move with J-Q only to be called by pocket nines, which stood up.
Although defeated and out of the tournament, JP, as always, was in good spirits and happy with the way he played. Defeat is the downfall of so many players, who go on monster tilt sessions when they get knocked out of tournaments, but it does not seem to affect the 20-year old in this way. He drew only positives from his performance.
Not long after we were all in the bar enjoying the Irish Craic and I was introduced to a game called Crash, which is a popular side game played by several leading UK players these days. It is effectively 13 card brag and JP and I we were playing for €10 a point with Welshman Iwan Jones and Scotsman Tony Chessa. They assured me my liability per game would be €200 in the worst-case scenario. Two games later I was down almost €500 and was wondering why on earth I had agreed to play this ‘fun’ game. However, in the 3rd and final game we played I scooped over €600 and finished over €100 up for the night. It was an experience.
The EPT continues today as the remaining 130 or so players return to do battle for a first prize of over €500,000. Sadly there are no Blue Square players left, but tune back in tomorrow for another instalment of this blog.
Jonathan ‘AlrightJack’ Raab
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