2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day: 2
Things Not Over for Pescatori
The flop came down and the two blinds checked. The turn was the and the small blind bet 5,000. The big blind called. The river was the and the small blind checked. The big blind fired 12,000 and the small blind folded.
"Show a bluff!" yelled out Pescatori, but his opponent in the big blind had made a pair with his . Pescatori was able to stick around though, when he rolled over the for a better pair. He got back up to 8,500 on this hand.
Barbosa Robusto, Sort of
Three More Hands
Pescatori Out
Chartier Goes From Eight Big Blinds to Fifty
The turn added the to the board and the first player checked. Chartier took a minute before betting 32,000. His opponent called rather quickly.
The fell on the river and now the board contained two pair, aces and nines. The straight and flush draws that were out there on the flop failed to get there and the first player checked. Chartier tanked for a few minutes while most of the other tables in the room were bagging and tagging. Eventually, he fired a bet of 30,000. His opponent quickly called again.
Chartier tabled the for a full house, nines full of aces, after flopping three nines. His opponent mucked with a disgusted look on his face and the pot went the Canadian's way. Charter has gone from grinding on the short stack to bagging up just under 300,000 chips at 296,500. The last quarter of the final level saw Chartier hit a crazy rush to go from having under eight big blinds to finishing with what will be just under 50 big blinds to start the day tomorrow.
Goodbye, Day 2
In seven 75-minute levels we have lost 360 of the 484 players who started Day 2 - almost three quarters of the field - and got ourselves well into the money which started at 144th place.
Countless notable folks have fallen by the wayside today - Thierry van den Berg, Jeff Sarwer, Noah Boeken, Florian Langmann, Barny Boatman, Antoine Saout and Vicky Coren were all among the hapless hordes who failed to make the money.
Once the bubble had burst, those big names just kept on busting. George Danzer, Max Pescatori and Tobias Reinkemeier all earned themselves a min-cash but won't be coming back tomorrow.
Nevertheless it's looking to be a pretty star-studded Day 3. Still in the running on big chip stacks are Team PokerStars Pros Jude Ainsworth and Johannes Strassmann on 720,500 and 794,500 respectively. Also still in, albeit on slightly more modest stacks, are William Thorson, Julian Thew, Marcel Luske and Joao Barbosa.
Leading the field, though, is young Swiss national Stefan Huber. After a late surge, he finished up on 1,087,500 - the only player yet to have broken the million chip mark.
Whatever happens tomorrow, it promises to be very, very exciting. 124 players remain and there is literally everything to play for. Official chip counts will magically appear overnight, and we will back here at noon CET to bring you all the crazy action direct from the cardroom floor.
2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day 2 Completed