A large field of 47 for last night's Mid-Month Madness produced a prizepool of over €6000 and almost produced an epic rags to near riches story.
John"Dead Money"Costello entered the Turbo Satellite yesterday afternoon with his last €25 and, despite playing very scared, took one of the four €150 tickets available. Five tough hours of play later, John was lying second in chips with five players remaining.
Only Bill Tully had John covered in chips but, unfortunately for John, Bill was sitting to his left and kept raising and raising and raising. Finally, John cracked and went all in from the small blind with 73. Bill, knowing that John was losing his cool, called immediately with 10 10. Goodbye Dead Money, and goodbye to a great story.
Jarlath Noone then lost two races to Manus Burke a.k.a. Bubble King to finish fourth. Jarlath had been down to the carpet with 25 players left so was happy enough with his €750 cash.
After a short phoney war between the last 3, Bill, Manus and Frank Dunleavy, the three veterans (combined age of over 250) agreed to split the money and go home for a nice mug of cocoa.
Each collected €1450 for their troubles.