Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Fabrice Soulier | 1,079,400 | |
Alessandro Laubinger | 742,400 | |
Giuseppe Pantaleo | 578,500 | -31,500 |
Thorsten Schäfer
|
541,000 | |
Martin Jacobson | 539,400 | 127,400 |
Henrique Pinho | 518,100 | 74,100 |
Mario Adinolfi | 456,000 | 204,000 |
Darren Kramer | 446,500 | |
Alexis Morlet
|
383,400 | |
Tristan Clemencon | 379,400 | 174,400 |
Ben Wilinofsky | 374,400 | 174,400 |
Kent Lundmark | 374,000 | 284,000 |
Hugo Lemaire | 369,800 | |
Ruslan Prydryk
|
359,800 | 119,800 |
Kristijonas Andrulis | 337,200 | 82,200 |
Anton Morgenstern | 321,100 | |
Jean-Philippe Raymond
|
318,700 | |
Andreas Doletzki
|
318,000 | |
George Danzer | 310,500 | 30,000 |
Peter Eastgate | 301,500 | 111,500 |
Alexander Mette
|
294,700 | |
Saar Wilf | 292,800 | 177,800 |
Igor Ivashkiv
|
291,300 | |
Nima Ahrary | 286,100 | -71,900 |
Sebastian Ruthenberg | 278,800 | -131,500 |
And with that ridiculously exciting triple bubble-all in, Day 2 at the PokerStars.net EPT Berlin ends abruptly with all 119 remaining players in the money. While we feel for the close-but-no-€7,500 Mr. Lobzhanidze, eyes are already on the Day 3 chip leaders.
First among these is Frenchman Fabrice Soulier, who won the biggest pot of the day and having reached 800,000 chips just kept on going until the final whistle. He ends the day with 1,079,400 - a tidy chip lead - while German qualifier Alessandro Laubinger lies in second with 742,400.
Team PokerStars lost over half of the remaining Pros in the field, including Arnaud Mattern, Jan Heitmann and Sandra Naujoks, but there are still two German Team members flying the Day 3 flag: Sebastian Ruthenberg (278,800) and George 'the Panzer' Danzer (310,500). Also still in the running, and now guaranteed at least €7,500 are EPT Snowfest winner Vladimir Geshkenbein, Team Pro Portugal Henrique Pinho, Nima Ahrary, Martin Jacobson and Peter Eastgate.
The march towards the final table and first prize of €825,000 will begin tomorrow at 12pm local time.
The other two hands going on at the same time as the bubble saw an elimination and a split pot.
Karl Heinz Klose was all-in preflop for 74,200 against Christian Knese, the former having made a very bold move with only to run into the of the latter.
The board came and Klose was eliminated but busts out in 119th receving €7,500 by degree of having more chips than Andrey Alexandrovich Lobzhanidze.
In the third hand, Maxim Panyak was at risk with against surviving a mighty scare on the turn of a board.
Play is now done for the night, we'll restart tomorrow, eight-handed, with 119 players.
Three all-in-and-call combos at once! This is the first time we've seen this in one hand-for-hand moment at an EPT. The tension was clearly great for Lobzhanidze, who had to wait while a) huge crowds grew around all three tables b) one of the camera guys fetched a spare battery and c) the TV table's hand (coming shortly) was played through because his was the largest at-risk stack.
Lobzhanidze stood on a chair, resplendent in red with at risk against Vladimir Geshkenbein's . Tense but patient and heckled and encouraged by the rail which seemed to have materialised out of thin air, Lobzhanidze watched sadly as the board brought and gave him no share of the prizepool.
Robert Wagner is the unlucky 122nd placed finisher, all-in with against Martin Jacobson's when the board came .
We're now going hand for hand.
Tough break for Nicholas Newport, who falls just short of the money in either 123rd or 122nd place (the screens briefly flicked between numbers as he stood with his tournament life at risk). He made the final bet (+49k) all in over Mario Adinolfi, who made the call with . Newport's dominated, but a flop changed all that.
On the turn, Newport gave the table a small frustrated slap, and was walking out the door on the river.
By the by, it has come to our attention that the reason that Fabrice Soulier has all of those chips (almost a million, we reckon) and Jason Helder has almost none (80,000 or so) is the that Soulier turned over after getting his whole stack in on the river of an board. Helder mucked and Soulier looks to be our chip leader still.
PokerStars qualifier Ben Wilinofsky found himself in a sticky spot against a short stack. Wilinofsky was holding against but somehow the poker gods granted him favour, the board came to cause a loud amount of groans from several players.
123 players remain.