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Betfair regular "Dubai" Leads WPT Ireland Main Event
Betfair regular "Dubai" Leads WPT Ireland Main Event
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http://betting.betfair.com/poker/poker-news/david-shallow-wins-world-poker-tour-ireland-main-e-090112.html
Rewind to five or six years ago and David “Dubai” Shallow was tipped for a massive future in the game and touted as one of the best up and coming poker players of his generation. He had gained quite the reputation in online poker circles for being extremely aggressive and was a formidable opponent in heads up sit 'n' go tournament with buy-ins ranging from $500 to $5,000. Fast forward to today and although he still makes a living from this crazy game and has a massive $600,000+ score from the 2010 WCOOP, Shallow has never really had a breakthrough in the lie tournament area. That is until now. Because you see, Mr Shallow is the latest person to become a World Poker Tour champion after taking down the inaugural WPT Ireland Main Event at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin. Shallow had been amongst the chip leaders since Day 2 and his friend “KingHawko” Tweeted to me on Saturday morning that “The guy is a machine with chips, It's all over!” and how correct his prediction was. Shallow went into the final table armed with more than 60% of the chips in play thanks to a double elimination right at the death of the penultimate day's play, on the final table bubble. Here is pair of jacks cracked the pocket queens of Shaun Conning and the aces of Steven Moreau when he turned a set after all three players were all in preflop! When the dust had settled after that hand Shallow had a stack of 6,115,000 chips from the 10,140,000 that were in play. WPT Ireland Final Table Seat Draw Seat 1: Steve Watts: 1,345,000 Seat 2: Patrik Vestlin:1,070,000 Seat 3: Charles Chattha: 835,000 Seat 4: David Shallow: 6,115,000 Seat 5: Ronan Gilligan: 775,000 Play started with the blinds at Level 26 meaning they were 20,000/40,000/5,000a so it did not take very long at all for the short stacks to start splashing around and getting their chips into the middle. Thirty minutes into proceedings a preflop raising war between Ronan Gilligan (CO) and Steve Watts (SB) broke out that resulted in Watts being all in and at risk with a pair of tens against the ace-king of his Irish opponent. The tens stayed ahead on the Qh-Jh-7s-9s board but then improved to a set of ten when the 10d landed on the river which also improved Gilligan to a hand winning straight. Four become three minutes later when Patrik Vestlin was sent to the rail by Gilligan. After a raise and a call the pair got their chips in on an all spade flop reading 9s-7s-3s with Gilligan holding Js9d to the Swede's AsQc. The dealer burned a card before putting the 10c out on the turn which many though was a spade but alas it was not. Neither was the 8c on the river and each of the surviving players were only two eliminations away from WPT glory. The home crowd were becoming increasingly vocal due to the fact Gilligan was looking unstoppable but they were silenced when Shallow took out their hero. All the chips went in on a flop reading 10x-5x-2x with Shallow's Td9d being the best hand but needing to avoid an ace or six as Gilligan had 4h3d in his hand. Shallow did indeed fade the open-ended straight draw to take the WPT Ireland Main Event to the heads up stage. Shallow's heads-up opponent was the Hit Squad member Charles Chattha, a talented tournament player with more than $700,000 in cashes to his name. From the start it looked like it was going to be the Shallow show thanks to him starting the one-on-one encounter with a 7,280,000 to 2,860,000 chip advantage but Chattha fought his way back into contention and even took a slender lead when his QcQs held up against Ks3s all in preflop. Chattha was well-supported by friends and family on the rail but their presence just was not enough to see their boy home. The final hand took place around two and a half hours after the day had begun and was a cooler hand when one considers the images of both players. With blinds of 30,000/60,000/10,000a Shallow opened to 140,000 only to see Chathha three-bet to 360,000. Shallow paused before four-betting to 600,000. Chattha obviously did not believe him as he moved all in but looked sick to his stomach when Shallow snap-called and revealed a pair of queens which completely crushed his nines. The board ran out a rather drama-less Kc-Kh-2d-8s-3s and with that Chattha rose from his seat and shook Shallow's hand who then stood himself and saluted his friends on the rail. Most poker players would jump straight into the next major tournament and try to ride the crest of the wave but it is highly unlikely we will be seeing Shallow on the live circuit in the next few months due to the fact his partner is seven months pregnant with Shallow Jr and so he does not want to stray too far from home. Congratulations to David Shallow, WPT Ireland champion and a father-to-be to boot! WPT Ireland Final Table Results 1st: David Shallow: €222,280 2nd: Charles Chattha: €111,130 3rd: Ronan Gilligan: €74,090 4th: Patrik Vestlin: €52,600 5th: Steve Watts: €39,270 |
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Who is Yorky Pud out of interest?
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not me
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nice one!
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Well done Dubai.
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Thanks for messages but last time I checked I was banned from playing here, so not sure "regular" is a very appropriate word unless Hayleys Comet is regularly seen. Obviously if you want to confirm I'm no longer banned then I will open a new account :)
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@Waheyyyy - I'm just a low stakes poker player who is also a freelance writer for Betfair, editor of UK PokerNews and blogger for most European WPTs, not Ireland though.
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YorkyPud writes on betting.betfair http://betting.betfair.com/authors/matthew_pitt/index.html as well as writing one of the best poker blogs on the net http://betting.betfair.com/poker/puds-poker-progress/
I should really be a publicist.......oh yeah I am !  |
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note the lack of comment from BetfairPRManager on the post at 14:12
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Great result. Well done.
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Are you chat banned also Dave ? Would love to hear your thoughts on impending fatherhood.
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Dave / Falcon
Send me your alias in a DM or to prteam@betfair.com and I will check your current status |
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wow that photo !! he likes his food don't he
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He must have lost at least 6 clem since that photo was taken.
He probably has gym membership or something now ! |
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Lypo (Nap)
Hawk |
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Colonal Irrigation ( NB ) ?
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Thanks for messages but last time I checked I was banned from playing here, so not sure "regular" is a very appropriate word unless Hayleys Comet is regularly seen. Obviously if you want to confirm I'm no longer banned then I will open a new account :)
Dave who says betfair can't pick up on multiaccounting? big congrats btw |
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Well done that man
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spending his winnings on a pie factory stop eating you fat Bas!!!!!!
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hi,
well played man.... Well played Dave. Ice cool finish. Great work... |
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congrats.. well played and keep it up.... well done Dave..
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very well done Dave
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ffs i still have that borstal spot after name.
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ffs i still have that borstal spot after name.
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