All Neil! Channing the King of Ireland
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Neil Channing has won the €3 Million paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open
in Citywest Hotel, Dublin, 24th March, earning himself an enormous
€801,400 payday, the biggest win of his career.
Neil Channing has won the €3 Million paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open
in Citywest Hotel, Dublin, 24th March, earning himself an enormous
€801,400 payday, the biggest win of his career.
Channing proved to be a popular winner despite defeating the
home crowd favourite, Donal Norton from Tipperary, heads-up. Norton
picked up €420,000 for his weekend’s work.
The final table of six players played out in front of a packed
TV audience, most of who were hoping to see Norton reverse
Channing’s dominating chip lead. First to leave the final table was
Edwin Tournier, who finished 6th, taking home €135,000. He was soon
followed by Kai Danilo Paulsen (5th, €175,000), Tim Blake (4th
€220,000) and Thomas Dunwoodie (3rd €275,000) leaving Channing and
Norton to battle it out.
Emmet Davis was the longest lasting paddypowerpoker.com online
qualifier earning a free entry to next year’s Irish Open as part of
the site’s “Paddy First” promotion. Davis outlasted 63 other online
qualifiers to win the prize on top of his €9,000 payout for
finishing in 40th place overall.
This year’s event, broadcast on RTE TWO, attracted 667 of the
best poker players from around the world including the likes of
Doyle Brunson, Padraig Parkinson, Ciaran O’Leary, Noel Furlong,
Andy Black, Roland De Wolfe, Sorel Mizzi, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott
and defending champion Marty Smyth. The players competed for a
total prizepool of €3,001,400 of which paddypowerpoker.com
contributed €200,000. The buy-in for the tournament was €4,500 with
72 players making the money.