Neil “Bad Beat” Channing is this year’s winner of the PaddyPowerPoker.com Irish Open. He won more than $1.2 million (€801,400) and a trophy for outlasting the whopping 666 other players who showed up at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin to try for the title.
The tournament had a €3 million guarantee, and PaddyPowerPoker had to overlay more than $320,000 (€200,000) to meet the guarantee. The top nine finishers follow:
- Neil Channing — $1.2 million (€801,400)
- Donal Norton — $662,000 (€420,000)
- Thomas Dunwoodie — $433,000 (€275,000)
- Tim Blake — $346,000 (€220,000)
- Danilo Paulsen — $275,000 (€175,000)
- Edwin Tournier — $212,000 (€135,000)
- Carsten Joh — $157,000 (€100,000)
- Eric Larcheveque — $117,000 (€75,000)
- John Keown — $78,000 (€50,000)
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