The International Poker Open in Dublin was my destination courtesy of Boylepoker.com, who invited me to play as a guest and a bounty. Little did I know that this would involve wearing a Sunderland shirt for the duration of the day! This pained me a little bit being a lifelong Liverpool fan but we all have to suffer for our art sometimes.
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I was standing around at the Killarney tournament recently and the talk was that the bar had been raised. Some of those who weren’t paying attention fully went on a complete tilt because they thought that they’d have to climb over rubble to get their next drink. But they calmed down when they realised that it just meant that a new standard for Irish tournaments had been set. The IPO certainly met that standard, thanks to a fine piece of organisation from Stephen and a marvellous team effort in the hospitality department from the Boylepoker team. They don’t use the term team lightly.
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He’s from Cavan and from Texas, and that’s the way he likes it. He can hold’em and he can fold’em, so listen to what he told’em, it’s Texas Poker Joe - at the AYEEEE-PO.