The Players
The Eglinton Casino is proud to host the ICC Cup for the 2nd year. With Betpack.com sponsoring this years event and adding €1000 to the prize pool there is €11000 for this years winner.
Marty Smyth has a track record including wins in the 2007 Irish Poker Open Championship and the 2008 Poker Million. He won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2008 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship
Jude Ainsworth won the 2008 Iirish Poker Championship and his career has sky rocketed since, winning a $1,00,000 in the PokerStars SCOOP Main Event and cashing in a number of EPT's.
Martin Silke won the GUKPT London main event in 2009, and finished 2nd in the GUKPT league the same year.
Tom Hanlon is best known as a pot limit omaha cash game player and is regarded by many as the best PLO player in the business. Tom has a 7th place finish in the WSOP PLO main event in 2008. Marty Smyth when on to win that event.
Fintan Gavin picked up over $1,000,000 in the EPT Barcelona in 2008 where he finished runner up and adding that to his 2nd in the Bellagio Cup in 2009 make Fintan currently 4th in the Irish all time money list.
Nicky Power finished 6th in the 2007 Irish Open and since that result Nicky has been a constant at the latter stages of major Irish events showing an unmatched level of consistency to run deep. There have been many five-figure results for Nicky over the last two years including $60,000 at the Irish Poker Classic 2008 and $30,000 at the 2009 World Series of Poker main event.
Derek Murray is an incredibly consistent tournament player online, amassing over $600,000 in winnings. He also likes to remind the live players of how good he is from time to time and has several final table finishes to his name in the last year including a 2nd place at the Macau Christmas festival and an 8th place finish in this year’s IPC. He followed this with a win in the Lakes of Killarney main event and also cashed at last year’s WSOP.
Paul Carr exploded on to the scene when he finished second place in this years Irish Open where he collected €312,000 for his troubles.
Michael Graydon AKA Big Mick G is one of Irelands top players and holds the online status of Super Nova Elite. Big Mick also has a string of live results to his credit, with a win on the Irish Poker Tour, 4th place in this years Irish Poker Championship and cashing in the 2009 WSOP Main Event.
Cathal O Bradain is the unknown quantity at the table, he qualified for the ICC Cup in the exclusive Betpack.com online satellite.