Liam Flood (c. 1943 – 16 August 2014) was an Irishbookmaker and professional poker player who was the 1997 European poker champion.[1][2]
Poker career
Flood began playing poker tournaments in the 1980s in Ireland. He won the Irish Poker Open in 1990 and 1996,[3] 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.[4]
He was a finalist in series 1 and 2 of the Late Night Poker television series and went on to be the floorman for the Celebrity Poker Club spin-off. In 1997, he had an 11th-place finish in the pot-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series of Poker.[5] In 1998, he had a 15th-place finish in the no-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series.[6]
His biggest cash win to date is a second-place finish at the Party Poker World Open in Maidstone, Kent, England on 3 April 2005. He won $150,000.[7] Flood also appeared in the 2005 World Speed Poker Open. His total lifetime professional tournament winnings exceeded $1,100,000.[8]
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.[9] This was his first outright win in a televised tournament.
On 16 August 2014, Flood died at the age of 71.[10]
