Live från Showdown Poker Tour Dublin 2006

Craig Savage just got knocked out by Ram Vaswani in place 19 when his top pair got outdrawn by a flush.

More action at table 3.

Christopher Clarke with :Ky: :Ty: and Paul Cryan is all in with :Ay: :Qy: preflop.

Flop :6y: :4y: :5y:

Turn :4y:

River :5y:

Paul Cryan doubles up to 5400 in chips.

Sviten-Niklas dubblar upp!

Niklas lyckas syna sig all-in med A♣ A♠ på floppen 8♣ 8♥ 9♣, efter bet, raise, re-raise, all-in. Det gillar Ben Grundy som sitter med 8♠ 3♠

Två springande klöver räddar Niklas från att slås ut men istället får han stå ut med några glåpord från bordsgrannarna.
Niklas har nu ca 14.000

Niklas Öhman doubles up after his A♣ A♠ turns into a flush at the river against Ben Grundys flopped set of eights. Niklas has about 14.000

Jimmy Wan, Niklas Öhman and Ben Grundy at table 2

Barny Boatman loses a big pot to Christopher Clarke, after betting hard with :Ay: :Ty: On a flop of :Ty: :9y: :7y: and a turn of A♥

Barny check called the 1500 bet on the :6y: river, only to lose the pot to Christophers :9y: :8y:

Another big hand, this time at table 1.

Antonino Zito and Roy ”The Boy” Brindley gets all-in preflop.

Antonino has :Ay: :Ay: and Roy has :Ay: :Qy:

The board reads 7♣ 9♠ 3♥ Q♠ K♦ and Antonino doubles up to about 6000

Play resumes after a short break. Blinds 50 – 100

Interesting hand at Table 3:

Ola Brandborn raises on the button with :Ay: :Ky: . Big blind (Sylvester Geoghgan) and Christopher Clarke, who originally limped in, calls.

Flop 2♣ T♦ Q♠

bb checks, Christopher bets 500, Ola and bb calls

Turn: Q♦

bb checks, Christopher bets 1500, Ola folds, Sylvester calls

River: 4♦

Sylvester checks, Christopher bets 3000 and Sylvester moves all-in for 4900 and gets called.

Sylvester shows K♣ Q♣
Christopher shows T♥ T♠

Sylvester Geoghgan is the first player out.

Nu är det 15 minuters paus. En kortintervju med Ram Vaswani från Hendon Mob som precis har dubblat.

Vad tycker du om tävlingen?
Arrangemanget är mycket bra. Den långsamma strukturen kännns mycket gynnsam för bättre spelare, vilket känns bra.

Vad tycker du om Showdown i allmänhet?
Tycker det är ett spännande intiativ som kan bli ett bra alternativ till tävlingar som t ex EPT.

Hur ligger du till?
Dubblade upp för ungefär fem minuter sen, så nu har jag 13k i marker.

A 15 minute break. We got a chance to speak to Ram Vaswani from The Hendon Mob who just doubled up.

How do you like the tournament?
The event is great. The tournament structure is very slow which is a advantage for better players, which is nice.

What are you thoughts on Showdown in general?
It’s a very exciting tournament, if successful it can become a great alternative to EPT for instance.

How are you doing in the tournament?
I doubled up about five minutes ago, I am at 13k in chips.

First all-in called

Ram vaswami had the button with :6y: 2♦ and made a steal raise, wich was called by Antonino Zito with :5y: :5y:

Flop: 4♦ 5♦ 7♠ And ram got all his money in. A diamond draw developed by the turn ( X♦ ) and tha straight got there on the river :3y:

Ram Vaswami doubles up!