{{short description|Irish bookmaker and poker player (c. 1943 – 2014)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox poker player | name = Liam Flood | image = <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: liamflood.jpg --> | caption = <!-- Flood in the William Hill Poker Grand Prix --> | nickname = The Gentleman | birth_date = {{circa}} 1943 | birth_place = | death_date = 16 August 2014 (aged 71) | death_place = | wsop bracelet count = ''None'' | wsop money finishes = 2 | wsop main event best finish rank = ''None'' | wsop main event best finish year = | wpt titles = | wpt final tables = | wpt money finishes = | ept titles = | ept final tables = | ept money finishes = }}
'''Liam Flood''' ({{circa}} 1943 – 16 August 2014) was an Irish bookmaker and professional poker player who was the 1997 European poker champion.<ref name="Kirby">Kirby, Terry (2005) "[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/poker-playing-robots-surely-not-497770.html Poker playing robots? Surely not]", ''The Independent'', 6 July 2005, retrieved 7 November 2010</ref><ref name="Tusca">{{Cite web |date=29 August 1984 |title=Irishman wins big poker pot |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f4I0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=zaUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5652,8300517&dq=liam-flood+poker&hl=en |access-date=18 December 2023 |website=The Tuscaloosa News |via=Google News |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
==Poker career== Flood began playing poker tournaments in the 1980s in Ireland. He won the Irish Poker Open in 1990 and 1996,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Irish Poker Open 1996, No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=17662 |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=O'Kearney |first=Dara |date=24 August 2014 |title=Obituary: Liam Flood, poker player and tournament organiser |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/obituary-liam-flood-poker-player-and-tournament-organiser/30531686.html |access-date=18 December 2023 |website=Independent.ie |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=28th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1997, Hold'em Pot Limit |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7811 |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref> In 1998, he had a 15th-place finish in the no-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series.<ref>{{Cite web |title=29th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1998, No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7862 |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Party Poker World Open, Final - No Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=12489 |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref> Flood also appeared in the 2005 World Speed Poker Open. His total lifetime professional tournament winnings exceeded $1,100,000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liam Flood's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=258 |access-date=16 November 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Partypoker.com European Open III, No Limit Hold'em - Final |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=25823 |access-date=2024-04-13 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}</ref> This was his first outright win in a televised tournament.
On 16 August 2014, Flood died at the age of 71.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Burton |first=Earl |date=22 August 2014 |title=Poker's Liam Flood, Tony Korfman Pass Away |work=PokerNewsDaily.com |url=http://www.pokernewsdaily.com/pokers-liam-flood-tony-korfman-pass-away-26099/ |access-date=18 December 2023}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/24534-liam-flood/results Card Player profile] * [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=258 Hendon Mob profile] * [https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=17215 WSOP profile]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Flood, Liam}} Category:1943 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Bookmakers Category:Irish poker players Category:Irish Poker Open winners Category:Sportspeople from County Dublin