Colette Doherty. Colette Doherty is an Irish poker player. In the first ever Irish Poker Open, the then-unknown Colette Doherty walked away with the championship and used that victory to move on to become the first European and first woman to ever play in.
I walked into the Eccentric's Club in Dublin for the first time in the mid eighties. It wasn't much to look at. Just a couple of floors over a shop in a building on the Northside, but that's where tournament poker in Europe began. Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers had chanced upon the WSOP in Binion's and seen the future. After getting lots of advice from Benny, he gathered together a colourful bunch of gamblers, founded the Eccentric's Club, founded the Irish Open Poker Championship, and the rest is history.
The first person I met was Terry himself, and he introduced me to a lady called Colette Doherty. OMG. I had read in the newspaper how she had won the Irish Open and gone off to Vegas to play the WSOP alongside Donnacha O'Dea. Terry, of course, milked it. She had no sooner won the Open than Terry theatrically phoned Benny and asked him to reserve a seat for her in the Main Event. Jesus! It's not like there was a queue.
Incredibly the Eccentrics Club ,where two or three tables was the norm, produced a WSOP Main Event winner. And another five guys who made the final table. It also produced lady players who won four Irish Opens between them. Terry didn't do things by halves! A few years after Colette's win, popular novice player Irene Tier, coached by Colette's son Peter, won a satellite (another copy of the Binion's model) and beat Ireland's finest to land The Irish Open. That might explain why women in Irish poker have always been treated as poker players first and women second. We learnt our lesson the hard way.
I got to know Colette well in the few years after I first met her. We both played a huge game in the Griffen Club that often ran for days, and we were usually the last two to leave. She told me how it all began. Colette being Colette, she jumped in at the deep end, joining the big private game Don O'Dea ran in the late 70s. She can't tell the story without laughing. Some of the players thought the idea of a woman poker player highly amusing. To be fair, knowing Colette, she probably played the part to perfection. She won lots. Week after week. It took a while, but her opponents eventually figured it out. Beneath the classy feminine exterior beat the heart of a gladiator with the compassion of a contract killer.
In 91, I watched Colette join the elite group of players who've won the Open twice. She eliminated Andy Black in fifth place (I think Andy had J5 or J6), before winning the lot with AQ against Metal Micky's A9. I can still remember the hangover from the celebration.
I've had a lot of laughs with Colette over the years from Dublin to London, to Vegas and Paris. One of the funniest happened on the second or third day of a self-dealt dealer's choice game in The Griffen. We were down to playing three-handed. At one stage, the third player took a bathroom break. I asked Colette if she'd noticed the other player was cheating by announcing the bet but putting in too few chips when bluffing: 'Of course I have, you plonker' she replied. 'And if you open your big mouth, I will kill you!' I didn't.
I'm delighted partypoker have decided to stage lady's event at the Irish Open this year and thrilled Colette has agreed to play. It'll keep her out of my game for a few hours!
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Someone who is looking to win the 2018 Irish Open is Willow Connolly, whose mother Jenny Hegarty is a former Irish Open champion. Team partypoker's Louise Butler wrote an article about Willow and interviewed her exclusively for the partypoker blog. You can read that article in full here.
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Become a Legend at the Most Historic Poker Tournament in Europe PADDYPOWER. POKER IRISH PP. OPEN Before the Irish Open Terry Rogers was hosting poker tournaments long before the Irish Open. He held charity poker events throughout the 70s at the Eccentric Club. 100 to 300 players, playing five card draw for €100-€200 per game, equates to TERR ROGE OFFER TWO CHA WIN OR COR TO NORYE 12 a lot of money for those days! Derek Webb, Nick Cook and Derek Baxter were notable English players that attended over the years. But Terry was about to change European Poker forever.. 1979 TO Fabulous Terry Rogers Goes to Vegas! LAS VEGAS The story begins as Terry watches a high stakes poker NEVAD A game in Vegas. He was so thrilled that he brought No Limit Texas Hold'em back to Ireland. 1981 Irish Open Established Colette Doherty goes down in history as the first winner of the legendary tournament. 1989 Noel Furlong becomes the second player to win twice. Furlong's poker winnings to date exceed $1,100,000! Cobra hearts slot machine youtube. 1991 - Colette Strikes Again! Colette Doherty wins a second time in 1991. She went on to use the £22,000 prize to enter the World Series. 1999 Terry Rogers sadly passes away, Liam Flood keeps the tournament alive. Liam Flood was awarded the 2nd place trophy in 1984 (pictured) and 1st prize in 1990 and 1996. 2005 IRISH The Irish Open becomes the Paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open as it begins sponsoring the PP. OPEN tournament and from then on contributes hugely to its growth and popularity. 2006 - The Irish Open goes Online! Paddypower.com launches online qualification for the Irish Open. As a result, the 2006 tournament attracted 339 players and had to be moved to Jury's Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. 2007 The prize pool this year is a whopping €2million. The winner, Marty Smyth goes on to become the highest earning European player of the year. 2010 - 2011 This year sees the number of entrants to the main event increase to over 700 players. By 2011, the cumulative number of entrants over the 30 year lifespan reaches over 7,000. 2012 - Paddy Power live up to their name! By 2012, tens of thousands of players have tried to qualify online through Paddy Power since the launch of online satellites. 2013 lan Simpson walks away with €265,000 and a fiancée. He freerolled his way into the Main Event by winning the Sole Survivor competition the year before. paddy powe poker VIVOR 2014 With an expected prize-pool in excess of €1,000,000 ? A new Irish Open Legend will be Crowned Could it be you? If you've got what it takes go to www.irishpokeropen.com
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The partypoker LIVE team are on the ground at the Irish Open reporting on all of the action taking place in the €1 million guaranteed Main Event, which runs from March 14-18th. You can read all of the updates via the My partypoker LIVE website.
Someone who is looking to win the 2018 Irish Open is Willow Connolly, whose mother Jenny Hegarty is a former Irish Open champion. Team partypoker's Louise Butler wrote an article about Willow and interviewed her exclusively for the partypoker blog. You can read that article in full here.
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If you already have an account with us, click here to open partypoker and hit the tables!
Over a decade ago Jesse May talked me into writing a magazine article by just telling a story or giving my thoughts on the poker world as though I was talking to a guy in a bar. I didn't need to practice. This is the result…
Paddy Power: Irish Open Poker Tournament
Become a Legend at the Most Historic Poker Tournament in Europe PADDYPOWER. POKER IRISH PP. OPEN Before the Irish Open Terry Rogers was hosting poker tournaments long before the Irish Open. He held charity poker events throughout the 70s at the Eccentric Club. 100 to 300 players, playing five card draw for €100-€200 per game, equates to TERR ROGE OFFER TWO CHA WIN OR COR TO NORYE 12 a lot of money for those days! Derek Webb, Nick Cook and Derek Baxter were notable English players that attended over the years. But Terry was about to change European Poker forever.. 1979 TO Fabulous Terry Rogers Goes to Vegas! LAS VEGAS The story begins as Terry watches a high stakes poker NEVAD A game in Vegas. He was so thrilled that he brought No Limit Texas Hold'em back to Ireland. 1981 Irish Open Established Colette Doherty goes down in history as the first winner of the legendary tournament. 1989 Noel Furlong becomes the second player to win twice. Furlong's poker winnings to date exceed $1,100,000! Cobra hearts slot machine youtube. 1991 - Colette Strikes Again! Colette Doherty wins a second time in 1991. She went on to use the £22,000 prize to enter the World Series. 1999 Terry Rogers sadly passes away, Liam Flood keeps the tournament alive. Liam Flood was awarded the 2nd place trophy in 1984 (pictured) and 1st prize in 1990 and 1996. 2005 IRISH The Irish Open becomes the Paddypowerpoker.com Irish Open as it begins sponsoring the PP. OPEN tournament and from then on contributes hugely to its growth and popularity. 2006 - The Irish Open goes Online! Paddypower.com launches online qualification for the Irish Open. As a result, the 2006 tournament attracted 339 players and had to be moved to Jury's Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. 2007 The prize pool this year is a whopping €2million. The winner, Marty Smyth goes on to become the highest earning European player of the year. 2010 - 2011 This year sees the number of entrants to the main event increase to over 700 players. By 2011, the cumulative number of entrants over the 30 year lifespan reaches over 7,000. 2012 - Paddy Power live up to their name! By 2012, tens of thousands of players have tried to qualify online through Paddy Power since the launch of online satellites. 2013 lan Simpson walks away with €265,000 and a fiancée. He freerolled his way into the Main Event by winning the Sole Survivor competition the year before. paddy powe poker VIVOR 2014 With an expected prize-pool in excess of €1,000,000 ? A new Irish Open Legend will be Crowned Could it be you? If you've got what it takes go to www.irishpokeropen.com
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