1st - Declan Connelly - €48,389

Declan Connelly will be crowned our 2013 D4 Events European Deepstack Champion after defeating Jimmy De Barros in a short heads up battle up. Coming into todays play 2nd in chips he ended up managing to maintain a level head & after a few topsy turvy swings in fortunes he was on the good side of it when it mattered. Catching him on the stream yesterday we had Tom Kitt note that he wasn't really going to step out of line and would play a straight up solid game, in 2010 he final tabled the Irish Open and since then has a nice few entries on his Hendon Mob and this will certainly be a nice addition.

Ok folks that's it we are done & dusted here at the D4 Events European Deepstack Championship, we kicked off on Thursday by the time registration closed 9 levels later we had 454 entrants, starting off into Day 2 with 296 players and of those our 9th place finisher Marc MacDonnell would be our overnight tournament chipleader. Ten levels were scheduled for play towards the end of it we were rapidly approaching the money bubble but just missed out on bursting it so it would onto  Day 3 before we finally got to it, Noel O Brien would end up finishing Day 2 as chipleader after being one of the last people to register and not even turning up until the start of play, 45 players would make some return on their investment but we still had 48 players and 3 of those were just going to miss out, Florian Herve Bulliard was the player to bubble the money when he was eventually knocked out by final tabilist Matthieu Duran when his AJ couldn't get there against JJ with that all players were guaranteed a minimun of €950. Day 3 saw us play down to our final table of 9 players Bridget Chaney would just miss out on that most coveted spot on a final table. Onto the final days action Jimmy De Barros come in with nearly a 2/1 chip leader, Marc MacDonnell would get off to a great start when doubling through Jimmy De Barros bust a couple of hands where he had people dominated and a flip or two would see him exit off the final table after being one of 3 people (Dara O Kearney & Raf De Wever) to make two European Deepstack final tables quite the accomplishment.

The blog took a back seat one/two of the days as I made my live stream debut doing most of the commentary for the weekend, cheers to all the people who swung by for the weekend to give their input on the action. Cheers to everybody that tuned into the coverage and participated in the chat box.

Prizepool -

1st - Declan Connelly - €43,839

2nd - Jimmy De Barros - €33,000

3rd - David Jansen - €23,500

4th - Roland Gradert - €17,000

5th - Raf De Wever - €13,400

6th - Matthieu Duran - €10,475

7th - Gaeten Lheureux - €7,600

8th - Pat Smyth - €5,725

9th - Marc MacDonnell - €4,300

10th - Bridget Chaney - €3,500

11th - Kurt Klarin - €3,500

12th - Steve Toisul - €3,500

13th - Noel O Brien - €2,800

14th - Keith Brennan - €2,800

15th - Andrew Sweeney - €2,800

16th - Andre Dos Santos - €2,145

17th - Michael Farrelly - €2,145

18th - David O Kelly - €2,145

19th - Guillaume Jordan - €1,525

20th - Conor Phelan -  €1,525

21st -  Tobias Weber - €1,525

22nd - Bo Nielsen -  €1,525

23rd - Kevi Killeen - €1,525

24th - Simon Lindell - €1,525

25th - Damian Quinlivan - €1,525

26th - Jay O Toole - €1,525

27th - Karl Kennedy - €1,525

28th - John Stokes - €1,200

29th - Niall Henderson - €1,200

30th - Remi Bollinger - €1,200

31st - Gerrard Harraghy - €1,200

32nd - Morten Kristoffersen - €1,200

33rd - Franco Munafo - €1,200

34th - Patrik Bemek - €1,200

35th - Jamie Dale - €1,200

36th - John Keown - €1,200

37th - Yves Rolland - €950

38th - Mark Schrier - €950

39th - Ruairi Park - €950

40th - Johannes Van De Pol - €950

41st - Olivier Rouiller - €950

42nd - Arnaud Demange - €950

43rd - Marcus Hennemann - €950

44th - Robin Van Lochem - €950

45th - Alex Flackigel - €950

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We Have a Winner

Declan Connelly will be our 2013 D4 Events European Deepstack Champion after beating the final days chipleader Jimmy De Barros in a short heads up play.

De Barros from Luxembourg was the chipleader for a good portion of the day and absolutely bossed it at times only lost the lead a couple times throughout the day, as we got to heads up play he just held onto a slight lead by a couple of hundred thousands as the stacks were pretty much even at 11,000,000 a piece.

Couple of swings in heads up play with Connelly getting a double up with KK vs AQ & De Barros retaken the lead another crucial hand were De Barros could of ended it he held J9 on a Jack high board but the Irish man managed to get there on the turn when he paired his Queen onto our final hand De Barros found himself trailing while holding KsJs vs Connellys AhKd as the board ran out 7c2h6h7s8d one time chipleader would find himself finishing in 2nd place.

2nd - Jimmy De Barros - €33,000

3rd - David Jansen - €23,500

David Jansen was our 3rd place finisher, having nearly been knocked out a few minutes previous by Declan Connelly holding Ah10h vs Ad10s hearts were freerolling the board as it fell 9h8c3h but Jansen managed to fade the draw after it went brick brick!

Onto his exit hand it was he was up against Connelly once again this time on the bad side of it as he held 5c5d & was crushed by KhKd board running out 10d2h9d8hAd

The chat box on the live stream was blowing up as he had a big contingent on the virtual rail from back home in Belgium.

4th - Roland Gradert - €17,000

Roland Gradert will be our 4th place finisher, losing a big flip the hand previous his exit he called Declan Connellys all in with Ah10c vs Kd6h when his opponent flopped an 6 it left him very short on circa 700,000

David Jansen opens to 340,000 with Gradert moving all in behind but he gets a quick call by JsJd while holding Ad4s needing to hit an Ace it wasn't to be for the Swede as the board ran out QcKc6h2s6s

5th - Raf De Wever - €13,400

Raf De Wever who was one of the 3 people to have made two European Deepstack final table has busted in 5th position after moving all in for 1,700,000 with Ac7c got the call from Roland Gradert with As5s

Dealer spreading a JhKsJs flop he it Gradert pretty hard as he was drawing tot he nut flush as we went onto the turn it fell 8s and it locked up the hand and we were losing another player as an inconseuential 5c hit the river.

6th - Matthieu Duran - €10,475

Matthieu Duran finishes in 6th place after shoving the button with JcJh with Roland Gradert in the BB called with Ad9d

Gradert flopped pretty well as it the flop came 9s9h2s with Duran sitting in his seat shaking his head, turn Ac & river As

7th - Gaeten Lheureux - €7,600

Gaeten Lheureux will be our 7th place finished been very close in chips to David Jansen we had to have countdown of the stack Jansen had him covered.

Lheureux shoving from the CO with 6c7d he ran into Jansens AsKc in the button, 3h9h2h was spread he picked up a couple extra outs when 10d peeled off on the turn but a brick 5d and it was curtains.

8th - Pat Smyth - €5,725

Pat Smyth will be our 8th place finsiher, hadn't been involved in much of the action so far but all in pre flop with AsKh vs JdJc of Jimmy De Barros for 2,200,000

Board running out 7d4h2s8sQs with that win now he will be just shy of 10,000,000 and a commanding chipleader.

9th - Marc MacDonnell - €4,300

Marc MacDonnell will be the first player eliminated from our feature table, after an early double up things just turned bad for him. Instead of having 4-5,000,000 chipstack he was left with a little over 600,000

First hand that took the chunk of his stack Jimmy De Barros opens the action with MacDonnell repoping it when Raf De Wever moving all in for 1,625,000 quick call as he held KK vs AQ flopping top set things were looking good as but there was a 10 on the board blank on the turn so the only card left in the deck was any of the remaining Jacks and that's what binked on the river, hand to knock him down open with 66 got shoved on from David Jasen for just shy of 1,000,000 chips 66 vs AdKd as the dealer spread the flop of diamond/diamond it was another sweat and when we go to the river he once again had to sit there in dismay as he got rivered again.

Onto his exit hand it was a blind on blind battle between himself & Jimmy De Barros who set him all in, MacDonnell sat back in his seat milling the hand through his head and probably knew that De Barros was going to be putting the pressure on with a wide range of hands.

De Barros - Ks4d

MacDonnell - Kh8h

He was out in front as the cards went on their back but this time it was De Barros who was going to flop a 4 just as he had done so himself earlier as the flop fell As4h8h bottom pair vs flush draw but it was brick brick turn/river as the board ran out 9cQc to send him to the rails, really would of made for an exciting table if he had a bunch of chips to play with.

Early Double Up

Just like his start to yesterday's play Marc MacDonnell has managed an early double up after coming from behind, tournament chipleader Jimmy De Barros opens to the button for 105,000 & MacDonnell out of the SB moved all in for 1,440,000 quick think about the action and it's called.

De Barros - Ah9d

MacDonnell - As4s

As the dealer spread the flop 5d8s4c it was bottom pair and snatching the lead in the process, when the turn fell 3s it was one of De Barros outs taken away as he could no longer hit the 9s he had two outs in the deck to hit but as the rivered peeled Jh it was the first major hit De Barros had taken to his stack that we have observed.

Shuffle Up & Deal

Blinds restart at 30,000/60,000/8,000 with 34 minutes left in the level our final nine players line up.

Final Day

Good afternoon folks and welcome to Day 4 of the D4 Event European Deepstack 2013 9 players remain and today we will crown a new champion.

Play will be underway in about 15 minutes time.

Day 3 Wrap Up

After 9 hours play here on Day 3 of the D4 Events European Deepstack Dublin 2013 we have our final table set. Just missing out on making it into the money yesterday 48 players returned for a 1pm start with 45 lucky players making some return on their investment while 3 unlucky people were going to miss out, Florian Herve Bulliard was the player to bubble the money when he was eventually knocked out by final tabilist Matthieu Duran when his AJ couldn't get there against JJ.

There was rush of quick exits once the money bubble burst and it looked at one stage like we could blaze through the field and have a quick finish to the day but once we got down to 18 things looked up for a bit, monitoring the coverage from the live stream we didn't really get a chance to see the chipleader going into tomorrow Jimmy De Barros play very much but when we changed from the feature table to the secondary he always seemed to be involved in pots and just added & added chips to his stack, 18 players down to 12 we ended up taking a 1 hour dinner break when play recommenced we had two quick eliminations in Kurt Klarin & Steve Toisul meant that we were only 1 player away from completing play for the tonight. Alas it wasn't to be because we had a couple of different spots when the short stacks got it all in with the worst of it but a couple suckouts later play would continue until Bridget Chaney was the eventual final table bubble, KJ no good against AQ of Declan Connelly setting the final table but in the midst of that hand another hand was playing out on the feature table between Raf De Wever & Gaeten Lheureux, flop 6c9h10s De Wever check called a 300,000 bet turn 5h went check/check river card 9d is were all the chips went into the middle, De Wever moving all in for 716,000 sending his opponent into the tank for a pretty big dwell before finally cutting the chips out of his stack and sliding them in, shown 7c8c for the flopped straight Lheurexu flashed a 10 before mucking his hand.

Raf De Wever & Marc MacDonell as far as I know are the first person two people to make two European Deepstack final tables, De Wever finishing 2nd in Slovenia in 2011 & now this one impressive, not forgetting to mention Day 1 chip leader Marc MacDonnell who came back today on a stack of 350,000 second hand into play he got QQ in vs AA and binked the Queen to stay in the tournie and give him a big double up and at one stage taking the lead today, couple of dips on the feature table he always seemed to remain calm and not panic much to his credit,  final tabling this event back in 2008 finishing 7th. Correction to the list of two who have made final tables Dara O Kearney won in 2008 & in 2010 came 9th.

Jimmy De Barros will be the tournament chipleader heading into the final days,

Jimmy De Barros - 6,365,000

Final Table Line Up & Chipcounts -

Seat 1 - David Jansen - 1,127,000

Seat 2 - Roland Gradert - 3,145,000

Seat 3 - Declan Connelly - 3,500,000

Seat 4 - Pat Smyth - 1,082,000

Seat 5 - Jimmy De Barros - 6,365,000

Seat 6 - Marc MacDonnell - 1,566,000

Seat 7 - Raf De Wever - 2,282,000

Seat 8 - Matthieu Duran - 1,476,000

Seat 9 - Gaeten Lheureux - 2,125,000

Blog was a little light on updates as we switched to coverage on the live stream but it was a fun change to try out something different. Play will recommence tomorrow at 1pm big shout out to Tom Kitt for coming in today and doing some commentary on the live stream, until tomorrow folks catch you all on the flipside...

Finishing positions so far -

10th - Bridget Chaney - €3,500

11th - Kurt Klarin - €3,500

12th - Steve Toisul - €3,500

13th - Noel O Brien - €2,800

14th - Keith Brennan - €2,800

15th - Andrew Sweeney - €2,800

16th - Andre Dos Santos - €2,145

17th - Michael Farrelly - €2,145

18th - David O Kelly - €2,145

19th - Guillaume Jordan - €1,525

20th - Conor Phelan -  €1,525

21st -  Tobias Weber - €1,525

22nd - Bo Nielsen -  €1,525

23rd - Kevi Killeen - €1,525

24th - Simon Lindell - €1,525

25th - Damian Quinlivan - €1,525

26th - Jay O Toole -  €1,525

27th - Karl Kennedy - €1,525

28th - John Stokes - €1,200

29th - Niall Henderson - €1,200

30th - Remi Bollinger - €1,200

31st - Gerrard Harraghy - €1,200

32nd - Morten Kristoffersen - €1,200

33rd - Franco Munafo - €1,200

34th - Patrik Bemek - €1,200

35th - Jamie Dale - €1,200

36th - John Keown - €1,200

37th - Yves Rolland - €950

38th - Mark Schrier - €950

39th - Ruairi Park - €950

40th - Johannes Van De Pol - €950

41st - Olivier Rouiller - €950

42nd - Arnaud Demange - €950

43rd - Marcus Hennemann - €950

44th - Robin Van Lochem - €950

45th - Alex Flackigel €950


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Final Table is Set

That's it folks we are done here for the night here our final table is set I will be along shortly we a wrap up and chipcounts.

Bridget Chaney is the unfortunate final table bubble (woman) boy towards the end of play before the dinner break she took a bit hit to her stack when she paid off a Matthieu Duran river bet holding A10 vs AJ for two pair, then ground out a stack for awhile dropping short and then finding spots to double. While before her exit hand she was all in with 78 vs Durans K9 when she housed up but onto her exit hand Declan Connelly opens AsQc & Chaney found KsJc in the SB playing 545,000 and moved all in to be called.

When the board ran out 6s10h9c7h7d she exited stage left to head to the cash desk to collect €3,500 for her effort.

Final Table Bubble

With the elimination of Kurt Klarin & Steve Toisul we are at 10 players when we reach 9 play will be stopped and we finished for the night.

12 Remain

Table 1

Seat 1 - Pat Smyth - 926,000

Seat 2 - Roland Gradert - 2,336,000

Seat 3 - Steve Toisul - 980,000

Seat 4 - Marc MacDonnell - 2,805,000

Seat 5 - Raf De Wever - 1,210,000

Seat 6 - Gaetan Lheureux - 2,024,000

Table 2 

Seat 1 - Kurt Klarin - 748,000

Seat 2 - Matthieu Duran - 2,220,000

Seat 3 - Declan Connelly - 2,338,000

Seat 4 - David Jasnsen - 1,125,000

Seat 5 - Jimmy De Barros - 5,508,000

Seat 6 - Bridget Chaney - 498,000

Level 27

Blinds now running 25,000/50,000/600 12 players remain with an average stack of 1,891,667

Dinner Break

1 hour dinner break in the main, we will be back with you all shortly. 12 players remain.

Finishing Positions 45th-19th

19th - Guillaume Jordan - €1,525

20th - Conor Phelan -  €1,525

21st -  Tobias Weber - €1,525

22nd - Bo Nielsen -  €1,525

23rd - Kevi Killeen - €1,525

24th - Simon Lindell - €1,525

25th - Damian Quinlivan - €1,525

26th - Jay O Toole -  €1,525

27th - Karl Kennedy - €1,525

28th - John Stokes - €1,200

29th - Niall Henderson -  €1,200

30th - Remi Bollinger - €1,200

31st - Gerrard Harraghy - €1,200

32nd - Morten Kristoffersen - €1,200

33rd - Franco Munafo - €1,200

34th - Patrik Bemek - €1,200

35th - Jamie Dale - €1,200

36th - John Keown - €1,200

37th - Yves Rolland - €950

38th - Mark Schrier - €950

39th - Ruairi Park - €950

40th - Johannes Van De Pol - €950

41st - Olivier Rouiller - €950

42nd - Arnaud Demange - €950

43rd - Marcus Hennemann - €950

44th - Robin Van Lochem - €950

45th - Alex Flackigel €950

18 Players

We are down to 18 players in our main event, table 1 & 2 line up like this,
Blinds now running 12,000/24,000/3,000 average stack 1,216,111

Table 1

Seat 1 - Michael Farrelly - 397,000

Seat 2 - Pat Smyth - 1,571,000

Seat 3 - Roland Gradert - 749,000

Seat 4 - Steve Toisul - 1,228,000

Seat 5 - Marc MacDonnell - 2,037,000

Seat 6 - Raf De Wever - 564,000

Seat 7 - Gaeten Lheureux - 3,585,000

Seat 8 - Noel O Brien - 1,638,000

Seat 9 - Matthieu Duran - 656,000

Table 2 

Seat 1 - Kurt Larin - 479,000

Seat 2 - David O Kelly - 491,000

Seat 3 - Keith Brennan - 2,194,000

Seat 4 - Declan Connolly - 1,816,000

Seat 5 - David Jansen - 1,053,000

Seat 6 - Andrew Sweeney - 727,000

Seat 7 - Jimmy De Barros - 1,909,000

Seat 8 - Andre Dos Santos - 928,000

Seat 9 - Bridget Chaney - 706,000