Terry Jordon is one of the more well-known faces sat at the tables so far. He has a reputation for an ultra-aggressive style that sees him taking a lot of flops and putting pressure on his opponents. More often than not, this leads to Jordon accumulating a large stack early on or an early exit.
In an early hand though, Jordon displayed a more cautious approach.
Greame Evans opened for 250 and picked up a call from Gastao Teixeira on the button with Jordon defending his big blind.
The flop was and Teixeira bet 700 when it was checked to him. Jordon threw his cards in but Evans called.
They both checked the turn and river where Teixeira showed the winning .
A while later Edvinas Gruzdas opened for 350 and Jordon called from the button this time with the big blind making it three ways to a flop of .
Gruzdas continued for 700 and Jordon called. The turn was the and a check from Gruzdas saw a bet of 1,725 from Jordon.
Uday Bansal raised to 350 and Victor Ilyhukin called. Xiacheng Chen then three-bet to 900. Joseph Lalor then four-bet to 3,500 out of the blinds and Bansal and Ilyhukin folded. Chen called and the flop came .
Both players checked and the turn was the . Again both players checked. Lalor checked the river and Chen bet 3,500. Lalor called and mucked when Chen showed for a rivered full house.
With play underway, we'd like to clarify the re-entry policy to this tournament. If a player busts on Day 1A they cannot play Day 1B. If a player busts on Day 1A or 1B their only option is to play the turbo Day 1C which is for re-entry players only.
Therefore the maximum number of bullets a player can fire in this tournament is two.
Team PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker has issued the "Shuffle up and deal!" here at the Regency Hotel in “Sunny Dublin” and play is underway on Day 1a.
Moneymaker will be playing Day 1a and had an auspicious start to his Dublin trip last night at the €1/2 cash tables where he hit his third ever Royal Flush. No one called his river bet but when he was called out on a flush he said, “One better than that,” and rolled it over.
We'd like to extend a warm welcome to our coverage of the PokerStars Festival Dublin Main Event. Today is the first of three starting flights of the Main Event, which comes with a generous €700,000 guarantee.
This is the first visit to Dublin since February 2016, when Dzmitry Urbanovich continued on his meteoric rise to the top by taking down the EPT 12 Main Event stop held at the Royal Dublin Society for €561,900, but PokerStars has a long and storied history with the Irish capital.
Season
Date
Field Size
Prize Pool
Winner
Country
Prize Money
EPT 1
Oct 2004
163
€244,500
Ram Vaswani
United Kingdom
€93,000
EPT 2
Oct 2005
248
€992,000
Mats Gavatin
Sweden
€317,000
EPT 3
Oct 2006
389
€1,847,750
Roland de Wolfe
United Kingdom
€554,300
EPT 4
Oct-Nov 2007
221
€1,701,700
Reuben Peters
United States
€532,620
UKIPT 1
Sept 2010
590
€295,000
Max Silver
United Kingdom
€72,000
UKIPT 2
Sept 2011
718
€348,230
Joeri Zandvliet
Netherlands
€83,500
UKIPT 3
May 2012
597
€417,900
Richard Evans
Wales
€75,500
UKIPT 4
Feb-Mar 2014
682
€463,078
Kevin Killeen
Ireland
€87,700
UKIPT 5
Feb 2016
1,002
€971,940
Vladas Tamasauskas
Lithuania
€176,900
EPT 12
Feb 2016
605
€3,025,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich
Poland
€561,900
This year's festival is already off to a rip-roaring start with the PokerStars Megastack, a €50,000 guarantee for just a €170 buy-in attracting 465 players, smashing the guarantee by almost €20,000. The organisers will have high hopes then for the rest of the festival as well as the PSF Main Event.
There are a total of three starting flights for the Main Event. Day 1A and 1B start today and tomorrow at 12:00 local time, while the third and final starting flight commences at 21:30 on Friday, September 29th. This flight will be a special turbo flight available for re-entering players only, where the levels are reduced to 20 minutes in length as opposed to 45 minutes in Day 1A and 1B. Levels increase to 60 minutes in length for Day 2 onwards.
Players receive 30,000 in chips for their buy-in and there will be 12 levels of play on Day 1s, with Day 1A and 1B scheduled to finish at around 21:45 each day.
Here is the structure for today:
Level
Length
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
1
45
50
100
0
2
45
75
150
0
3
45
100
200
25
4
45
250
300
50
5
45
200
400
50
6
45
250
500
75
7
45
300
600
100
8
45
400
800
100
9
45
500
1,000
100
10
45
600
1,200
200
11
45
800
1,600
200
12
45
1,000
2,000
300
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the updates throughout the Main Event