2009 Irish Poker Open Winner is Christer Johansson

Over the weekend seven hundred and one players met in Dublin to compete in the 2009 Irish Poker Open Championship. The players created a prize pool of €2.2 million which would give the winner a nice prize of €600,000. It was Christer Johansson of Sweden who was able to outlast the field and take the title win.

When final table play began the chip stacks looked like this:

Seat 1: Lee Brooke-Pearce — 998,000
Seat 2: Andrew Pantling — 2,286,000
Seat 3: Andrew Bradshaw — 351,000
Seat 4: Kara Scott — 701,000
Seat 5: William Kassouf — 569,000
Seat 6: Bradley Verburg — 217,000
Seat 7: Christer Johansson — 906,000
Seat 8: Atanas Gueorguiev — 990,000

The first player eliminated was Andy Bradshaw. Bradshaw was re-rasied all in by Atanas and called with A-Q. Atanas held pocket Kings and they held up knocking out Bradshaw in eighth. Next out was Bradley Verburg. Verberg went all in with A-2 and was called by Pantling who held K-J. Pantling got a Jack on the flop and it held up knocking Verburg out in seventh.

The next few players to be eliminated would be William Kassouf, Lee Brooke-Pearce, Antanas Geuorguiev and Andrew Pantling, in that order. That would leave Kara Scott and Christer Johansson to compete in heads up play. Scott held a slight chip lead when play began.

Johansson would fight back and earn most of Scott’s chips before the tournament would end. The thirteenth hand of the match up would decide the winner. Kara raised and was called by Christer. The flop came K-J-7 and Kara bet while Christer rose. Kara moved all in and was called by Christer. The cards were flipped to show Kara holding J-9 and Christer held K-3. The turn was a Queen and the river an Ace so Christer won the tournament with the higher pair.

Final Results:

 1^st          Christer Johansson          600,000

2nd        Kara Scott                          312,600

3rd         Andrew Pantling               205,200

4th         Atanas Gueorguiev           163,300

5th         Lee Brooke-Pearce           130,600

6th         William Kassouf               100,800

7th         Bradley Verburg                74,600

8th         Andy Bradshaw                  56,000

 

 

 

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