2010 EPT Berlin Main Event | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

03-07-2010 19:58 UTC+2

Inizan Not Afraid

[user46392]

Marc Inizan (small blind) checked the {10-Hearts}

flop and Kevin MacPhee (big blind) bet 335,000. Inizan now check-raised to 915,000.

MacPhee looked him up and down in what to the casual observer seemed a most intimidating way - MacPhee, hidden behind baseball cap and super-reflective aviators, could be a bad guy in a Terminator movie. Inizan didn't look particularly bothered, though, and eventually MacPhee laid it down.

Tags: Kevin Macphee Marc Inizan

03-07-2010 19:58 UTC+2

Check-raise Works for Tahkokallio

donpeters

On the button, Marc Inizan raised to 250,000. Ilari Tahkokallio was in the big blind and made the call after Kevin MacPhee folded. The flop came down {5-Clubs}

and Tahkokallio checked. Inizan fired 260,000 on the continuation bet. Tahkokallio check-raised to 680,000 and Inizan folded.

Tags: Ilari Tahkokallio Marc Inizan

03-07-2010 20:05 UTC+2

Marc Inizan Eliminated in 3rd Place (€350,000)

donpeters

On the flop of {J-Hearts}

, Marc Inizan checked to the preflop aggressor Kevin MacPhee. He fired 360,000 and then Inizan opted to check-raise to 890,000. There's been few check-raises since coming back from the dinner break so this seemed expected. MacPhee then reraised to 1.72 million before Inizan moved all in. MacPhee made the quick call.

It was an easy call for MacPhee as he tabled the nuts with the {10-Spades}

. Inizan held the {J-Clubs}

for a pair and a gutshot.

The turn was the {4-Hearts}

and then the river the {A-Clubs}

to give MacPhee the win and send Inizan to the rail in third place. He took home €350,000 for his finish and MacPhee was left to face Ilari Tahkokallio heads up with the chip led.

Tags: Kevin MacPhee Marc Inizan

03-07-2010 20:07 UTC+2

Mattern Eliminated from High Roller

[user140525]

French Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern just busted from the High Roller event in eighth place. He finished short of cashing, and the remaining seven players are now on the money bubble.

03-07-2010 20:08 UTC+2

Heads-up Deja Vu

[user46392]

This is not the first time that Messrs. MacPhee and Tahkokallio have been heads up. At EPT London they went heads up in the £1,000 PLH/PLO and that time Tahkokallio came out on top. This time MacPhee goes into the HU with a significant chip lead, plus he's running like, well, a lucksack. Tahkokallio, though, has karma on his side after making perhaps the most gentlemanly decision of all time yesterday, allowing Luca Cainelli to double through him after the hand in question was interrupted for four hours by the armed robbery. To state the obvious, it could go either way.

MacPhee - 17,675,000
Tahkokallio - 11,035,000

03-07-2010 20:12 UTC+2

MacPhee Increases Lead

donpeters

On the first hand of heads-up play, Ilari Tahkokallio had the button and Kevin MacPhee was in the big blind. The two saw a flop of {A-Clubs}

and that's where we'll pick up the action.

MacPhee checked and Tahkokallio fired 320,000. MacPhee called. After the turn came the {10-Spades}

, MacPhee checked again. Tahkokallio fired 625,000 and MacPhee called, bringing the pot to 2.4 million

The river completed the board with the {A-Spades}

and MacPhee reached into his stack. He fired 1.33 million and Tahkokallio mucked. MacPhee showed {Q-?}

and increased his lead. Tahkokallio dropped below 10 million chips.

Tags: Ilari Tahkokallio Kevin MacPhee

03-07-2010 20:13 UTC+2

Tahkokallio Gets a Fold

[user140525]

Kevin MacPhee raised preflop, and Ilari Tahkokallio called. The flop came {J-Hearts}

, and Tahkokallio bet out 310,000. MacPhee called, and then both checked the {3-Spades}

. The

drew a 657,000 bet from Ilari and a fold from MacPhee.

Tags: Ilari Tahkokallio Kevin Macphee

03-07-2010 20:15 UTC+2

MacPhee Three-bets

donpeters

Ilari Tahkokallio raised to 275,000 from the button and then Kevin MacPhee applied some pressure with a three-bet to 825,000. Tahkokallio mucked and another pot went MacPhee's way.

Tags: Ilari Tahkokallio Kevin MacPhee

03-07-2010 20:19 UTC+2

Gigantic Pot in the High Roller

[user46392]

Kabrhel doesn't have to stretch around a big stack anymore.

It seems as though Martin Kabrhel has shipped the chip lead to Andreas Bauer in the High Roller - Bauer flopped a flush and got it in against Kabrhel who'd flopped two pair. No full house on the turn or river, and Kabrhel is down to 80,000. Bauer meanwhile doubles up to 380,000.

Seat 1: Martin Kabrhel - 80,000
Seat 2: Jeff Sarwer - 83,200
Seat 4: Dominykas Karmazinas - 125,000
Seat 5: Bijan Zahmat - 65,000
Seat 6: [Removed:39] - 100,000
Seat 7: Jyri Merivirta - 120,000
Seat 9: Andreas Bauer - 380,000

Level: 31

Blinds: 80,000/160,000

Ante: 20,000