Mark Buckley – Photograph Credit score: PokerNewsMark Buckley efficiently defended his residence turf, taking down the principle occasion title on the Irish Poker Competition in Dublin.. The highest prize cash was price $192,930 for the Irishman, the second six-figure money and fourth stay win on his poker resume. He now has $750,000 in profession earnings.
“It was a really lengthy closing desk,” he instructed PokerNews reporters. “There have been numerous ups and downs, numerous swings, however we received there ultimately. It was a tricky closing desk with numerous good, very aggressive gamers. It was easy from the start. I mainly max late-regged, shopping for in on Day 2.”
The $3,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event attracted a discipline of 285 entries over 4 beginning flights. The whole prize pool got here in at $821,130 with the highest 29 gamers cashing out for at the least $8,720 in prize cash.
There have been 117 gamers that superior to Day 2 of the event, with the sector enjoying all the way down to the ultimate 18 gamers for the beginning of Day 3. The defending champion of the occasion Michel Molenaar was eradicated on the cash bubble in the course of the day’s motion.
Notables eradicated on the ultimate day of play alongside the best way to the ultimate desk included Eoghan O’Dea (seventeenth), Tomas Flanagan (sixteenth), Alec Torelli (eleventh), and Richard Ashby (tenth).
Buckley entered the ultimate desk second in chips, however he was proper on the heels of chief Joni Rantamaki when playing cards received into the air among the many closing 9.
Poker triple crown winner Niall Farrell struck first on the closing desk when he took out Florian Fuchs in ninth place. Ignas Navickas was out subsequent in eighth place, and Ignotas Tamasauskas adopted in seventh place. A prolonged battle for sixth place ended with Leo Worthington-Leese hitting the rail.
Farrell ultimately fell in fifth place, as Sean Hegarty scored his third knockout punch on the closing desk and elevated his chip lead among the many closing 4 gamers. Farrell earned $41,000 for his newest deep end, giving him $6.9 million in profession earnings.
Buckley then scored an enormous double up in essentially the most consequential hand of the event when his A-5 discovered a 5 on the river towards the A-Okay of Hegarty to take the chip lead. Hegarty was out in fourth place a short while later, and Conor O’Rourke adopted in third place to arrange the ultimate match.
Buckley held a virtually 4:1 chip benefit over Rantamaki when heads-up play started, however Rantamaki gained the primary all-in confrontation to double up and ultimately take the lead. A short while later, Buckley nabbed a double up of his personal to show the tables.
The ultimate hand of the event noticed Rantamaki transfer all in brief preflop holding 10-4 offsuit, and he was means behind the A-3 suited held by Buckley. The board introduced no rescue to take out Rantamaki in second place. He took residence $123,170 for his deep run within the event, the most important rating ever for the participant from Finland.
Remaining Desk Outcomes
Place
Participant
Payout
POY
1
Mark Buckley
$192,930
684
2
Joni Rantamaki
$123,170
570
3
Conor O’Rourke
$76,300
456
4
Sean Hegarty
$54,500
342
5
Niall Farrell
$41,420
285
6
Leo Worthington-Leese
$34,335
228
7
Ignotas Tamasauskas
$29,975
171
8
Ignas Navickas
$26,160
114
9
Florian Fuchs
$22,345
57
*Photograph by Irish Poker Competition – PokerNews
