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9.10pm: Femi Fakinle wins the UKIPT Killarney Farrell open shoves from the button and Fakinle makes the call. It's a race (unsurprisingly). Fakinle: J♠Q♦ Farrell: K♥8♥ It looked like a tournament saving double up for Farrell when he flopped K♦5♠6♣ but the running turn and river cards of Q♣ and...more

8.55pm: Break time It's a 15-minute break and a much, much needed colour up of chips. Why it wasn't done at the dinner break is beyond me. The players have been having to reach round huge stacks of redundnant yellow 1,000 demonination chips. It must be some EU statute. --RD...more

4.30pm: Break Players are off on a 30-minute break. 4.20pm:Peter Barrable eliminated in fourth place winning €17,700 Peter Barrable opened to 50,000, Femi Fakinle three-bet, Peter Barrable moved all-in and Fekinle called. Barrable: A♣Q♥ Fakinle: 8♣8♦ The board of 5♥K♣4♦2♣6♣ gave Barrable quite a sweat but Fakinle eliminated another player...more

There are two stories today and appropriately for the UKIPT one is from Ireland and the other from the UK. First we have Irishman Femi Fakinle who started the day midfield with 96,100 and finished the day with a table cracking 1,045,500. He's some 400,000 ahead of the pack...more

9.05pm: Conor Fennell bubbles the final table in 9th place Any bubble can be brutal and few more so than a final table as Conor Fennell has just fouond out. Mike Hill raised under the gun to 30,000 and Femi Fakinle three-bet to 100,000. Fennell moved all-in behind him for...more

6.55pm: State of play Here's how the remaining players stack up at the end of level 16. Femi Fakinle is the chip leader with 690,000. Table One: Seat One: David Rowley, 470,000 Seat Three: Oskar Prehm, 145,000 Seat Four: Nicholas Newport, 204,000 Seat Five: Aonghus O'Farrell, 75,000 Seat Six: Jens...more

Another day, another bubble and another broken dream for one poor bubble boy. However that also means a hell of a lot of celebration, renewed hope and glory for thirty-two others. Tonight's wayward soul happened to be Dave McAndrews who had a fairly grim outdraw with 9♦9♠ to 6♣7♣ on...more

10.20pm: Dave McAndrews is the bubble boy Vinny Gavin raised to 6,700 pre-flop and was three-bet to 18,000 by Dave McAndrews, Gavin called. On a flop of 3♦3♣7♥ McAndrews bet 22,000 and was snap called by Gavin. The turn was the 4♦. McAndrews checked and Gavin moved all-in, covering McAndrews....more

The 64 remaining players are now on a one hour dinner break, during that time we'll be combing the room to see who the biggest stacks are so keep an eye on our chip counts page. --NW Andrew Laurie was in the top ten in chips coming into today,...more

It's said that if you took a long enough lever and had a place to stand you could move the Earth. Well, that's what Archimedes said but then again he did run naked down the streets of Syracuse shouting 'Eureka!' so perhaps you shouldn't trust everything that flew out of...more

1.20am: End of day chip leaders As players were bagging and tagging their chips we scoured the room for the chip leaders, unofficially the top three are: Vinnie Gavin: 79,850 Sean Molloy: 77,350 Nathan Watson: 75,125 We've been told we'll have full chip counts by 2.30a.m --NW 12.40am: End of...more

8.15pm: O'Neill binks big before break We caught up with the action when UKIPT Galway final table finisher Cat O'Neill led 2,000 onto a 3♦K♠7♥A♥T♦ board. Her opponent, online qualifier Richard Strittmatter I believe, raised to 6,000 and O'Neill three-bet to 12,000. Strittmatter made the call showing top set with...more