Parkinson: Back To The Future - Padraig Parkinson Blog
One Tuesday night in the mid-eighties, I drove to Hanlon’s corner in Dublin to check out The Eccentric’s Club. I could tell you it was because it was where the first no limit hold’em tournaments to be held in Europe took place when, a few years earlier, Terry Rogers had imported them from the World Series Of Poker in Binions, Las Vegas. Or I could tell you I wanted to meet Donnacha O’Dea and Colette Doherty, legends I’d read about in the newspaper. But really , I just had to see the joint that had a name like that. It didn’t disappoint. I was early so Terry opened the door himself....
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