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Any players heading over to County Cork will be hoping that success in the sixth annual Irish Poker Classic might divert some of the lips that were otherwise bound for the Blarney Stone.

The combination of suckers and rocks is expected to produce some lip-smacking poker action and the organisers at the Macau Sporting Club are salivating at the prospect of the main event.

It begins tomorrow and is scheduled to last three days but it is the €150,000 guaranteed prize pool that is proving the biggest draw.

As is common in Irish poker, the tournament is a Deep-Stack special. Players will start with 15,000 chips and the levels will only increase every seventy-five minutes.

Some big names are expected to …

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If you believe that every team has a certain amount of good luck every season, then Liverpool surely used up a massive slice of it last night. Let’s face it, they were lucky bleeders in their Champions League tie against Standard Liege. By rights, they should have been 2-0 down early in the first half – when Liege missed a penalty and had a ‘goal’ clawed back from behind the line by Pepe Reina – and perhaps even further behind by half-time. Escaping Belgium with a goalless draw could be one of their best results of the season. They’ll surely finish the job off properly at Anfield in the second leg and make it through to the Champions League group …

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