Siobhan Blaney sat down today at what was no doubt the toughest heat of the Womens World Open iii , In seat one was the Spaniard Maria ( May ) Maceiras who's total tournament winnings todate exceed €130,000 , in seat two was the German Pro Sandra Naujoks ( No1 seed ) recent winner of the EPT main event in Dortmund and who's total tournament winnings exceed a massive €1.1million todate .In seat three was the realitively unknown english woman Lisa Calder . Taking seat four was our own Siobhan Blaney , in seat five was Cressida Calder and in seat six was the english pro Maria Demetriou who's tournament winnings total almost €50,000 .
The day started cautiously enough with Siobhan playing a solid game , watching the table and learning her opponents game getting some early raises in forcing Naujoks and May to fold their hands showing she has no fear of the pros , unfortunatley Siobhan ran into the amature Clader. Siobhan raised 7k with Ad8d and Calder calls with her black Aces the flop is 5d 10 d Qs , Siobhan checks her nut flush draw and Calder bets out 10k , Siobhan repops all in and Calder calls , blank on the river and Siobhan doubles Calder up to 51k
Siobhan is now in third position with 79k . The action continues with Maria and May making most of the play , Maria Demetriou is the clear chip leader with 283k after knocking the EPT winner Sandra Naujkos out and she is playing her stack extremely well
Siobhan is furthur reduced to 52k wisely laying down A other a numer of times to pocket pairs preflop
Now Siobhan moves calling a limp from Edwards with a 7d4s , Edwards has 8d6h .The flop is 7h9s4c , Edwards bets out 6k Siobhan reraises 25k , Edwards ships , Siobhan calls ... turn Qc river 8h ..... Siobhan doubles up !!!
Edwards now raises 15k , Siobhan ships with 2c2s , Maria folds 5's ! , Edwards folds !!!!
The Matchroom forum is hopping with crys of support from the Galway posters
Maria raises 16k with j8 ... Siobhan reraises to 37k with A10 ..... maria folds continued ....