Irish Open ends, Londoner takes top prize

March 25th, 2008
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Neil Channing, 40, of London, England, bagged his first huge tournament win yesterday when he outplayed Irish Donal Norton and the rest of the final table in just more than three hours.

Channing took home a huge trophy and €801,400 of the PaddyPowerPoker.com guaranteed €3 million prize pool. Though the event is being considered a success, with over 650 players showing up at the City West Hotel in Dublin to try their hands, $200k+ of that guarantee was supplied by PaddyPowerPoker rather than being covered by entry fees.

In all, according to the PaddyPowerPoker blog, 72 players in all cashed out, from €4,500.00 at the bottom all the way up to Channing’s quite tidy sum.

The rest of the final table:

Donal Norton — €420,000
Thomas Dunwoodie — €275,000
Tim Blake — €220,000
Danilo Paulsen — €175,000
Edwin Tournier — €135,000
Carsten Joh — €100,000
Eric Larcheveque — €75,000
John Keown — €50,000

Photo courtesy PaddyPowerPoker


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