Liam Flood ( 1943 – 16 August 2014) was an

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Poker career

Flood began playing poker tournaments in the 1980s in Ireland. He won the

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in 1990 and 1996, becoming one of only four players to have won that tournament multiple times. He was a close friend of Terry Rogers who created the Irish Poker Open tournament, and has run the tournament since Rogers died in 1999. He was a finalist in series 1 and 2 of the ''

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. In 1998, he had a 15th-place finish in the no-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series. His biggest cash win to date is a second-place finish at the Party Poker World Open in

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on 3 April 2005. He won $150,000. Flood also appeared in the 2005 World Speed Poker Open. His total lifetime professional tournament winnings exceeded $1,100,000. In 2007, Flood won the Party Poker European Open, beating Darren Hickman in the final head-to-head and pocketing the first prize of $125,000. This was his first outright win in a televised tournament. On 16 August 2014, Flood died at the age of 71.

References

External links

Hendon Mob tournament results
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