Day 1 Wrap

That's a wrap from here at the inaugural D4 Events Amateur Championship of Poker, €25,000 guarantee was smashed with a total prizepool of €32,670 generated from 198 players who took to the felt today.

Tournament concept to draw in the recreational/amateur to the game and give them all the trappings of a big festival feel for a mid to low buy-in, live blog/live stream interviews throughout the day (some of which can be found on the D4 Events YouTube page) top staff to over see the running of the event, I'm looking forward to hearing the feedback from the players on their overall experience.

Quick start to the day when Aido O Reilly was the first player eliminated shortly into play, Bob Tait had a good kick off to the start of play when he had a bagpiper play him into his seat at the end of the end was a sight to behold, also throughout the day there was spot prizes and an auction for a signed Celtic shirt that Eamon Connolly ended up bidding €350 to go to a good cause of Our Ladys Hospital for Sick Children Crumlin.

75 players remain from the 198, chipcounts & seat draws will be posted when I receive them, Sammy O Brien will be heading into Day 2 as the tournament chipleader after making a mistake with a call just a few hands before the of play with 8s9s to crack QQ which left him with a stack of 156,000

Sammy O Brien - chipleader

Don't forget to like ACOP on Facebook & follow @D4_Events on Twitter, play will resume at 1pm tomorrow where we will play down to our winner catch you all on the flipside. Cheers to everybody that tuned into today, Phil Baker will be back on the live stream tomorrow along with Ailbe Collins on cameras and Gary Jarman behind the scenes.

- Danny

Prizepool -

1st - €9,100

2nd - €5,960

3rd - €4,125

4th - €3,050

5th - €2,200

6th - €1,670

7th - €1,225

8th - €900

9th - €690

10th-12th - €525

13th-15th - €400

16th-18th - €325

& Done

We are done here for the night play has finished I shall be a long shortly with a brief wrap up of today's action.

Last 3 Hands

TD Nick O Hara calls last 3 hands.

Double Up

Adrian O Donoghue got himself a much needed double up and would want to pick up another one a long the way to put together a stack and in a great position. Button raise to 4,800 & O Donoghue in the SB shoves for 11,000

O Donoghue - 6h6c

Button - As10s

Dealer spreading Kc6s9h and it was the virtual hammerlock on the hand with a set of 6's as the rest of the board ran out 2h & 7d

Bust Out

Seamus McKee is one of the most recent eliminations, UTG and playing 7,800 he moved all in UTG+1  called action onto the button who also called.

Flop 8c4s3h UTG+1 checked to the button who lead for 14,000 forcing the other player out of the hand, McKee Ah9c button held 9h9d with the dealer turning Kd & rivering 8h it was to the rail for McKee.

Last Level

We have reached the last level of the night, blinds now running 800/1,600/200 86 players currently remaining with an average stack of 46,047

I'm Back

Just finished my stint on the live stream, not high quality content but a little banter Michelle Gavigan took my spot.

Going to jump back into the blogging now, 20 minutes remaining in this current level blinds now running 600/1,200/100 90 players remain with an average stack 44,000