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Autumn 24, London, Killarney & A Trophy - Part 2

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Clonmel I bricked all events at last weekends Irish Poker Tour's "Siege of Clonmel Festival". It is thankfully unusual for me to go a festival without some returns these days so hopefully that's the bad one out of the way with a busy few weeks coming up.  Tommy Heads up in the Main Event Clonmel Congratulations to all the winners over the weekend in Clonmel especially Tommy Geleziunas who finished 1st in both the PLO-&-Max Event and the Main Event for €2,500 and €20,000. Well done Tommy!   There was a great response over the weekend to last week blog with many people mentioning it to me in Clonmel. Thanks everyone for the likes and shares on social media platforms and indeed everyone who has taken the time to read the blog. Dublin Poker Club I had three events left to cover finishing up last week and will start with the best result at my sponsors KKPoker's tournament in Dublin. Victory at Dublin Poker Club It was Fantastic to win the first event my sponsors KK

Autumn 24, London, Killarney & A Trophy - Part 1

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The last blog brought us up to the end of August. The six weeks since have been pretty hectic and exciting. As you can see below from the Hendon Mob screenshot there's been a bit of everything.  An exciting 1st in A KKpoker live event, a 2nd and a 3rd, a few other crossbars and I even managed to stone cold bubble the main event in London.   Hendon Mob I'll start with Killarney which only comes second for me to the Irish Open for festival's in Ireland. I've been travelling to poker festivals in Killarney since the late noughties and what a wonderful venue the Gleneagles has always been.  The Champion This years €700 buy-in main event saw one of the toughest late stage line up ever assembled battling it out for the title. The 30 players who returned for day three  of the 881 starters was like a checklist of  great players in the country; Marc MacDonnell, Conor O'Driscoll, Darren Harbinson, Patrick Clarke, Keith Cummins, Seamus Cahill, Chris Dowling, Rory Liffey, Zeke