[Ulysses]

Actually it is a near perfect usage of the word irony.

Nope. You're making the same mistake many people do. Just because something is unusual or unexpected does not make it ironic. Or, as Alanis Morrissette should have been told, just because something sucks does not make it ironic.

irony != coincidence

It would have been quite ironic had Paul busted out of the tourney w/ two sevens after that interview. But his winning with that hand is merely a coincidence, albeit a quite unlikely one.

Here's a Usage Note (from dictionary.com) to explain the distincton in more detail:

Usage Note: The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply “coincidental” or “improbable,” in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly. Thus 78 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the use of ironically in the sentence In 1969 Susie moved from Ithaca to California where she met her husband-to-be, who, ironically, also came from upstate New York. Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us. By contrast, 73 percent accepted the sentence Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market, where the incongruity can be seen as an example of human inconsistency.