Karl Hutson, Paddy Power Poker’s operations boffin, defeated Mr. Blue Square James Dempsey in a ‘Battle of Tribeca network’ heads up grudge match at the first International Charity Heads Up Council (ICHUC) tournament recently in the Fitzwilliam Card Club, Dublin for the benefit of the Poker 4 Charity and OnePercentPledge charities. The event raised almost €2,000.

Karl’s victory however was not enough to stop the Great Britain team romp to an 8-3 victory in the 22 person event.

Eleven players from each team competed, mano-a-mano, over a variety of games designed to test the strength-in-depth of each country’s skills: eight games of no-limit hold em, one pot limit Omaha game, one pot limit Omaha high-lo game, one pot limit seven card stud game.