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The Irish Open online finals at bwin offer players two shots each week at taking down a $8,000 trip package to the upcoming Irish Open in April. We’ve seen a mix of familiar faces and new names play their way onto the bwin Team roster in recent weeks, and last Sunday’s online finals would feature a battle of new and old when it came down to heads-up play.

kobe71 represented bwin at the 2009 APT Macau and would be trying to win another trip with the Team, facing off against tbac1 in heads-up action after the rest of the field was eliminated. tbac1 has never been on a trip with the bwin Team but he was coming off a huge GSOP series that saw him take down more than $100,000 in total prize money, so he was definitely on a roll.

In the end it’d be the veteran who’d prevail, with kobe71 getting it all-in pre-flop with A9o versus tbac1’s A7o, and kobe71’s dominating hand held up to ship him the $8,000 Irish Open trip package and another amazing trip with the Team, this time to Dublin.

kobe71 at the 2009 APT Macau

7 more players are slated to do battle at the bwin poker tables on March 6th at 20:00 CET, as the following players have qualified to compete in the Head Hunter finals which features $9,390 in prizes (including a $8,000 trip package to the Irish Open):

ALCIONE12
JonnyRocker_
kouaki
gio8325
loupoulou80
Diethelm007
Mr13Mike

As far as how they got there (and how you can qualify in future events), each running of the new Bounty Hunter tournament on bwin not only sends winners directly to the Irish Open with a $8,000 trip package in hand, but it also offers a nice consolation prize to players who claim the most bounties for knocking out other players.

Excluding the winner of the Bounty Hunter (who gets a $8,000 trip package for the win), the qualifiers in the Head Hunter finals are those players with the most knockouts in the Bounty Hunter. bondjamebond was the winner of the most recent running of the Bounty Hunter, claiming his $8,000 trip package. The qualifiers for the Head Hunter finals, then, are the 7 players in the Bounty Hunter who had the most knockouts (excluding the winner). Below are the knockout totals for the qualifiers for the March 6th Head Hunter finals:

Diethelm007 – 16 KOs
gio8325 – 11 KOs
loupoulou80 – 11 KOs
JonnyRocker_ – 9 KOs
ALCIONE12 – 9 KOs
kouaki – 8 KOs
Mr13Mike – 8 KOs