2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k7
Prize
€712,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,725,000
Entries
745
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Main Event

Day 5 Completed

Congratulations to Davidi Kitai: Winner of EPT Berlin and €712,000

Level 33 : 100,000/200,000, 30,000 ante
Davidi Kitai
Davidi Kitai

Davidi Kitai has become the first ever Belgian player to win an EPT after he defeated Andrew Chen in an epic heads up battle. We’ve used the word epic before this season to describe the many long heads up battles we’ve seen, but today we use it to describe the sheer quality of the poker on show. Many here have commented how they believe that the heads up battle here was the best of the season.

There were five-bet pre flop jams, check-raise river bluffs, three-bet three-street bluffs, and brave all-in river calls with marginal hands.

Kitai said on his victory, “I feel really great, it’s amazing. I never expected to beat this field.”

He was the first Belgian player to win a WSOP bracelet (2008 $2k PLH) and a WPT title (2011 LA Poker Classic Invitational), so becomes the fifth ever player to win Poker’s Triple Crown – although the WPT victory was an invitational. His victory here earned him a Shamballa bracelet worth more than €10,000, and a seat in the season-ending €100,000 free-roll Champions of Champions Event. Lynn Gilmartin spoke with Kitai table side after his win:

Chen was Tweeting back on day two (when he was very short stacked) that he had a feeling that he might bubble the event. Just a few days later and he has a cheque for €613,000 in his back pocket. Chen felt he didn’t play that well heads up but was not too disappointed as they had done a deal.

Here's how the final eight finished up:

PositionNamePrize
1Davidi Kitai€712,000
2Andrew Chen€613,000
3[Removed:285]€290,000
4Mario Puccini€220,000
5Bahadir Kilickeser€172,000
6Cesar Garcia€133,000
7Marc Wright€97,000
8Pratyush Buddiga€72,000

Buddiga won the Skrill last longer as well so got his €5,000 buy-in back.

If today only whetted your appetite for more top level poker action then you don’t have to wait long at all. We move straight on to Monaco for the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final. Right off the bat at the festival on Monday the biggest ever buy-in tournament in Europe will be taking place. The PokerNews reporting team will be there to cover all the action from the €100,000 buy-in Super High-Roller event. Don’t worry about the €10,000 buy-in Main Event that starts just two days after that as we’ll have that one covered too.

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Andrew Chen Eliminated in 2nd Place (€613,000)

Andrew Chen - 2nd Place
Andrew Chen - 2nd Place

From the button, Davidi Kitai raised all in holding the {K-Diamonds}{7-Hearts}. Andrew Chen looked down to see the {A-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} and made the call to put his last 2.455 million chips at risk.

The flop came down {K-Hearts}{6-Spades}{6-Diamonds} and Kitai took the lead by hitting the king. The turn was the {3-Spades} and that left Chen needing an ace on the river to stay alive.

The {K-Spades} hit the end of the board and that was all she wrote for Chen. Kitai won the pot and eliminated Chen in second place. For his finish, Chen walked away with €613,000.

Player Chips Progress
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
22,350,000 3,430,000
Winamax Team Pro
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
Busted

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Level: 33

Blinds: 100,000/200,000

Ante: 30,000

€10,000 High Roller Update

Level 32 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

The EPT Berlin €10,000 High Roller is still rolling along with three players. Here are the latest results and chip counts from the event:

SeatPlayerCountryChips
1Oleh OkhotskyiUkraine6th - €33,000
2Chris MoormanUK650,000
3David PetersUSA4th - €62,700
4Bertrand "ElkY" GrospellierFrance800,000
5Martin JacobsonSweden8th - €26,400
6Viktor “Isildur1” BlomSweden7th - €29,700
7Marvin RettenmaierGermany200,000
8Tobias ReinkemeierGermany5th - €46,200

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Another Fantastic Call From Kitai

Davidi Kitai
Davidi Kitai

Davidi Kitai has retaken the chip lead in dramatic style after another great call on the river.

He had opened to 350,000 with {k-Clubs}{5-Clubs} then called when Andrew Chen three-bet to 900,000 with {K-Spades}{J-Clubs}. Neither player hit the {2-Spades}{Q-Clubs}{8-Hearts}, Chen bet 615,000 and Kitai made the call. The {4-Spades} on the turn was a blank but that did not stop Chen betting again, this time increasing its size to 1,480,000. Kitai made the call and it was off to the river with a huge pot brewing in the middle of the felt. The {5-Diamonds} was the river card and Chen moved all in for 11,190,000 and he covered Kitai.

Kitai went into the tank for three minutes, going through the hand in great detail in his head. Eventually he sat up and said, "yeah, I call" and as he saw his pair of fives was good a huge smile spread across his face. Chen laughed but must have felt sick as Kitai had hit a three-outer on him. The conversation between the players suggested that Kitai thought his king-high was good! Amazing stuff here in the EPT Berlin Main Event!

Player Chips Progress
Davidi Kitai be
Davidi Kitai
16,230,000 7,735,000
Winamax Team Pro
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
6,090,000 -7,735,000

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