Day 2 Wrap

That's it folks from us here at the D4 Events Amateur Championship of Poker 2013, it's a new event from the promoters where the aim of the event is to give the recreational player the chance to play in a tournament with all the trappings of a big buy-in event for a modest entry of €200 and I think it was a resounding success.

Phil Baker maning the live stream for the entire two days didn't miss a beat and sitting beside him for the weekend (even managing to jump in for a stint) have to say was excellent, found out earlier that he will be back in action next week at the Europan Deepstack so looking forward to that.

Total of 198 players took to the felt and generated a prizepool of €32,670 74 players made it through Day 1 and out of those Sammy O Brien was the chipleader who eventually went on to cash in 7th for €1,225 not a bad showing from the local player, we got off to a flyer today in terms of bustout as I was feed a constant stream of media cards from TD Nick O Hara and within a short couple hours play we were down around the money bubble, down to 20 players and the last lady remaining in the even Willow Connolly asked about paying all remaining players a notion that was shot down pretty quick, with that done and done play commenced for a little while longer until Connolly herself had the misfortune of being crowned the bubblegirl and just missed out on a payday.

Everybody now in the money things started to flow a little easier that all remaining players were going to be guaranteed a return on their investment, as we made our way from 18 down to 10 Nigel Millar missed out on the final table eliminated at the hands of Mark Spelman with KK vs AK. Final table was set & Spelman going onto the table as the chipleader it wasn't going to be his day as things transpired to go against him, Conor Blain was the first player to bust out from the table after which the knockouts seemed to stagnate for awhile, but as soon as 8th went the rush of exits was pretty quick as we dropped down to 4. Pausing play while the players trashed out a deal we eventually got back underway and made our way down to heads up play between Kieran Small & Mark Delaney who would go to take down the event when he was victorious with Q9.

Would just like to say a huge thank you to all who tuned into the blog and viewed the live stream, for all the comments we received over the duration of the two days, myself on the blog/Phil Baker on the stream/Ailbe Collins on cameras/Gary Jarman behind the scenes, cheers folks. Don't forget to like ACOP on Facebook & follow @D4_Events on Twitter, where you can see videos that were shot over the two days.

With that I will bid you all adue and please do tune into our next coverage from Thursday next week when we will be bringing you all the action from the European Deepstack Poker Championship, catch you all on the flipside...

Finishing positions -

1st - Mark Delaney - €9,100

2nd - Kieran Small - €5,960

3rd - Shane Mullan - €4,125

4th - Colm McCreary - €3,050

5th - Mark Spelman - €2,200

6th - Michael O Neill - €1,670

7th - Sammy O Brien - €1,225

8th - Henry Port - €900

9th - Conor Blain - €690

10th - Nigel Millar - €525

11th - Matt Dobbins - €525

12th - Graziano Zezina - €525

13th - Patrick Clarke - €400

14th - Jo Comiskey - €400

15th - Barry Rock - €400

16th - Richard O Neill - €325

17th - Bob Tait - €325

18th - Perry Galbraith - €325

Winner Winner - Mark Delaney

With that we have crowned out champ here at the D4 Events Amateur Championship of Poker Winner 2013, Mark Delaney will be forever know as the first one to do it. Chatting to him after the the winners pictures he mentioned that he hasn't played tons of event's but has managed to satellite into the PPP Irish Open & Winterfest but this event has been his biggest cash to date, no doubt he will be first on the list to attend this event next year to defend his title.

He was on his way to the bar are stowing his winners trophy and will be taking the day off work tomorrow as he makes the trip back home to Wexford, congratulations to you sir!

We Have a Winner

After a topsy turvy heads up battle we can crown Mark Delaney as the inaugural Amateur Championship of Poker 2013 Winner.

Going into heads up play against Keiran Small there was four crucial hands that changed the chip leader in the space of about 1 hour but on the penultimate hand Delaney had a commanding chiplead and held Qc9h vs Jd10s

Flopping a pair of 9's on Ac7c9s it gave the gutterball draw to Small onto the turn the dealer paired the board with an Ad as we went onto the last card the dealer pinged the Qs on the river and with that card we were able to crown our champion.

2nd - Kieran Small - €5,960

Heads Up

We go heads up now between Mark Delaney & Keiran Small, Delaney holding a commanding chip leader but gave up now after two big all ins.

3rd - Shane Mullan - €4,125

After a lot of back and forth between the final three Shane Mullan has finished in 3rd place after been eliminated holding 10d9s vs Ah8s of Mark Delaney

Board running out Js6d3c3hJd

4th - Colm McCreary - €3,050

Once killing the final table and chip leading Colm McCreary has finished in 4th place been eliminated by Mark Delaney when his Ah8s outkicked the Ac5h

Board running 7s2hJsKs3d

Back Off

After a quick chat and talk of a deal the 4 remaining players have come to an agreement and play has recommenced.

Blinds 40,000/80,000/10,000