Markus Sippe has won the 2009 BoylePoker IPO. Here's how the action unfolded over the weekend.
01:45 IT'S ALL OVER
Less than 10 minutes into the heads up battle and it's all over. It didn't take long for the two to clash with Jay getting 45o in pre-flop only to be called by the A4 of Marcus. The flop brings Jay a gutshot, the turn gives him the double belly-buster but the river pairs the board meaning Marcus Sippe takes down the IPO 2009 for a cool $62250. Jay will take $47490 home to Galway as his "consolation" prize. It's been a great days poker and both players thoroughly deserved their results!
01:35 Heads Up
Mark Troy has just been eliminated after becoming shortstacked and being forced to go all-in from the blinds. He was unfortunate to be dominated by Jay Renehan's AK as he was holding K4. He never caught up and this means that we're heads up with Marcus Sippe having the slight edge with 7.5 million to Jay Renehans 5.5m. You can follow Padraig Parkinson and John O'Shea call the heads up battle by tuning into the live stream.
00:34 Cat runs out of lives
We're now three handed after Cat O'Neill shoves with QJ only to run into AJ. She picks up an open-ender on the flop but fails but the only thing she hits is the rails, in 4th place for $24,736. Padraig Parkinson and Fintan Gavin are still on the live stream doing the play-by-play and watching to see if chipleader Marcus Sippe can bring the title home to Luxembourg.
00:30 And then there 4
Gary Cavazza's great run has come to an end. For a while he was dominating the tables but a few mis-steps cost him dearly in a tournament with this aggressive structure and he found that if you live by the sword, you die by the sword. He shoved with Queen high only to run into Marcus Sippe's Ace-3. An Ace on the turn meant that Gary has gone in 5th place for $19425. The remaining players can see the finishing line and you can follow the progress hand for hand by tuning into the live stream which currently has Padraig Parkinson and Fintan Gavin at the reins.
00:28 Home stretch
If you've been watching the live feed then you will have noticed that Stephen Egan and Colin Rutherford have been the latest players to have been knocked off of this final table. Chipcounts at the moment: Jay Renehan: 4.1m, Mark Troy: 3m, Marcus Sippe: 2.9, Gary Cavazza: 1.675m, Cat O'Neill: 1.575m
23:15 Massive blinds
Blinds are now a massive 100,000/200,000 with 7 players left. Sean Venny was our last player eliminated over an hour a go. Surely it can't go on much longer?
22:36 Cat O'Neill doubles up
Cat O'Neill has just doubled up to 1.1m after she finds JJ and gets it all in against Colm Rutherford who has 66! The board runs 5-A-7 / 3 / A which leaves Colm crippled with 375k.
22:12 Not much activity
The swift elimination of Martin Dunne has done nothing to settle the nerves of the remaining players. Jay Renehan recently doubled up Mark Troy when Jay raised pre-flop and committed himself to make a crying call with 66 after Troy shoved all-in with QQ.
21:50 Neil Channing takes up the commentary
21:47 First player out
Martin Dunne has become the first player out on this final table. His push with AQ was called by AJ and the TK6 flop quite good for him but the Queen on the river sends him to the rails in 9th place for $6,335.
21:46 Final table!!!
We're down to our final 9 players after Jay Renehan made a massive call to knock Stephane Tiab out in 10th place $3,220. On aboard that read 3s7s6d / 5s, Jay checks into Stephane who shoves all-in for 450k into a pot of about 600k. In probably one of the biggest calls we've seen all tournament Jay shoves his chips over the middle and shows Qh6h for second pair with no draw! Stephane can only compliment Renehan as he sheepishly shows 3-9 for bottom pair with no draw. The river is the Ah which means we're down to 9! Chip counts of all players to follow