Kieran Walsh - New Irish Poker Champion
Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
KIERAN WALSH - A NEW IRISH POKER CHAMPION
And in a follow-on, the Brits beat Ireland's best...
This week saw the entertaining poker tournament finale of the Boyle Poker Irish
Poker Championships in Dublin, with a surprise win by Kieran Walsh
- a young poker player from Cork, who walked away with Euro 150,000 in winnings.
It was no mean feat, considering the quality line-up of professional poker players
included The Hendon Mob, Andy Black and Roy “The Boy”
Brindley with the first three prizes of Euros 150,000, 70,000 and 30,000 going
to local lads from Cork and Dublin.
Barney Boatman, the only pro poker player who made it to the final table,
walked away with fourth prize and Euro 18,000.
The championships began in September with regional heats and finals nationwide.
Over 3 000 people took part making it Ireland’s biggest ever poker tournament.
Andy Black said, “It was a brilliantly run tournament, which was clearly
as a result of all the effort Boylesports have put in over the past few
months. All their hard work has paid off.”
After the main tournament, a Heads Up international 'test' was played between
England and Ireland. The Hendon Mob who represented England, convincingly
defeated their Irish rivals Andy Black and Padraig Parkinson.
Paul Magee, spokesperson for Boyle Poker was delighted with the weekend.
“It was a fantastic weekend of poker with some of Ireland and the world’s
best poker players competing. The event has been successful and is now the biggest
poker tournament in Ireland and one of the biggest in Europe. We are already looking
forward to next year”.
