{"id":1304,"date":"2016-03-30T22:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:32:01","slug":"daniel-wilson-wins-168000-irish-poker-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/daniel-wilson-wins-168000-irish-poker-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Wilson Wins $168,000 in the Irish Poker Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday, the 2016 Irish Poker Open ended and Ireland\u2019s own Daniel Wilson ended up in first place. Wilson gained approximately $168,000; a bit more or a bit less depending on the euro\u2019s conversion rates to dollar in any given day.<\/p>\n
In 2016 there were 802 entrants, a big increased from the 321 of 2015 and this was due to a reduction of the entry fee of $ $2,350 to $1,500.<\/p>\n
Even though this tournament is the oldest one in Europe, it has seen over the years an alarming attendance decrease, that\u2019s why prominent local players as O\u2019Kearney asked for a change.<\/p>\n
In 2015 O\u2019Kearney wrote the following on his blog:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like the sponsors dropped the ball in the run-up to the Open and either got complacent or simply failed to recognize the many negative signs\u201d.<\/p>\n
As a response, organizers of the event dropped the buy-in this year and guaranteed a $560,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n
The tournament started on March 24 at Dublin\u2019s Citywest Hotel and the great and the good of the poker world attended, but on March 28 Michael Conaty was leading the Final Table.<\/p>\n
Conaty stayed on the top for a while but Wilson stole the momentum.<\/p>\n
Wilson had over five million chips more than Conaty heading into the heads-up and he held himself strong in the back-and-forth battle.<\/p>\n
After a classic Hold\u2019em race, Wilson emerged as the victor.<\/p>\n
Conaty had in his pocket nines and Wilson had Ac-Kc. The As- 5s- 2d of the flop and the two consecutive sixes of the turn and the flop gave the victory to Wilson.<\/p>\n
1\u00b0 Daniel Wilson – $167,920<\/p>\n
2\u00b0 Michael Conaty – $95,155<\/p>\n
3\u00b0 Tomas Soederstroem – $58,212<\/p>\n
4\u00b0 Vegard Ropstad – $40,861<\/p>\n
5\u00b0 David Costello – $31,905<\/p>\n
6\u00b0 Petr Vejmelka – $25,188<\/p>\n
7\u00b0 Brian Nolan – $20,150<\/p>\n
8\u00b0 Igor Arkhipov – $16,204<\/p>\n
9\u00b0 Micheal Rossiter – $13,602<\/p>\n
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