Cathal Shine emerged victorious in the \u20ac500+50 European Deepstack Poker Championship main event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin from 17-23 February, after defeating start-of-the-day chipleader Joost Schippers heads-up and winning \u20ac38,375 for his efforts.<\/p>\n
Down to three players a deal was struck that also included Jonas van Bogaert from Belgium, with \u20ac4,800 and the trophy for the winner left to be played for.<\/p>\n
Play was faster and more aggressive after the deal; Dutchman Schippers lost a big pot against van Bogaert and then Shine won a lot of small pots to take the lead. Schippers then doubled up through van Bogaert with A-9 versus K-9 on a 9-7-7 flop and van Bogaert never recovered from that to hit the rail in third place.<\/p>\n
Shine had more than a 3:1 chip advantage once heads-up play started and even increased that to an almost unassailable 9:1 by picking his spots carefully and constantly putting pressure on his opponent.
\nSchippers doubled up once after his A-6 held up against K-9 on a 4-A-K-4-7 board, but he still found himself far behind in chips.<\/p>\n
The final hand saw the man from Holland ship all-in with pocket nines and Shine call with fishhooks (JJ). Despite picking up a flush draw on the 2S-7S-AS flop, the KD turn and six on the river offered no rescue for Schippers and he had to settle for second place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cathal Shine emerged victorious in the \u20ac500+50 European Deepstack Poker Championship main event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin from 17-23 February, after defeating start-of-the-day chipleader Joost Schippers heads-up and winning \u20ac38,375 for his efforts. Down to three players a deal was struck that also included Jonas van Bogaert from Belgium, with \u20ac4,800 and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}