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Sam Grafton and Stephen Chidwick both finished their Sunday online poker tournament sessions with yet another title in the bag. Grafton s victory came at PokerStars while Chidwick was triumphant over at Grafton was one of 75 entrants in the $1,050 Sunday Cooldown event at PokerStars, where he recently joined the Team Pro stable. The field was compact, but crammed full of poker s biggest names. Grafton outlasted them all. Only 11 of the starters finished in the money places, although many more saw a slight return on their investments due to the progressive knockout structure. Grafton s fellow Brit, Conor 1 conor b 1 Beresford burst the money bubble, but banked $1,625 worth of bounties before he crashed out. ....
By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant Community theater groups from throughout the United States and Canada converged at the Geva Theater Center in Rochester, New York for the 24th Annual Acting Irish International Theater Festival in April. The adjudicated festival, founded in 1993, consisted this year of seven full-length productions presented over five days, all of which were attended by Oleans-based theater adjudicator and former president of the Theater Association of New York State Paul Nelson, who reviewed each play and its links to the traditions of Irish drama. As the host organization, the Irish Players of Rochester drama group opened the festival with a production of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!, which centers around the principal character’s upcoming migration to the U.S. from the fictional town of Ballybeg, County Donegal. The winners of the 2016 Milwaukee event’s “Best Production” category, the Liffey Players Drama Society of Calgar ....