2008 Irish Poker Open Underway; Chris Moore Wins Wynn Poker Classic.
March 20, 2008
The 2008 Irish Poker Open has started play this week, with members of Team Bodog looking for a strong showing in the event. The tournament has a stronghold of both online pros (some of which aren’t of legal U.S. age of 21 to gamble) and live cash game/MTT specialists competing in it, with all of them focused on the near $1,000,000 first-place prize.
Last year’s winner, Marty Smyth, will be defending his crown against one of the toughest fields of this year’s tournament circuit. As of right now, the first day is near conclusion, with Europeans Ram Vaswani and Andy Black holding strong with above-average chip stacks. I’ll be back to report on the final table of this tournament when the time comes - so please stay tuned!
Also, in other news (this time it’s stateside in Las Vegas, Nevada), Chris Moore improved on his 3rd place finish in last year’s Wynn Poker Classic to take down 1st place in this year’s event. Moore battled Ryan Young heads-up for a decent amount of time before he would eventually dispatch of his opponent for the win and $692,286. Here are the final table results and payouts for the 2008 Wynn Poker Classic:
1. Chris Moore - $692,286
2. Ryan Young - $355,020
3. Blake Cahail - $177,510
4. Ardavan Yazdi - $95,855
5. Jace Markgraf - $71,004
6. Larry Wright - $53,253
7. Ricky Chow - $44,378
8. Alemu Tesema - $35,502
9. Eugene Todd - $31,952
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