2010 EPT Berlin Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

03-06-2010 09:10 UTC+2

Day 4 Table and Seat Draw

donpeters

Table 1
Seat 1: Carsten Joh - 609,000
Seat 2: Artur Wasek - 1,405,000
Seat 3: Jude Ainsworth - 539,000
Seat 4: Johannes Strassmann - 515,000
Seat 5: Stefan Huber - 1,850,000
Seat 6: Kevin MacPhee - 2,526,000
Seat 7: Jonas Gutteck - 1,486,000
Seat 8: Ilya Gorodetskiy - 989,000

Table 2
Seat 1: Iikka Tahkokallio - 1,564,000
Seat 2: Mathias Kuerschner - 516,000
Seat 3: Norman Kastner - 1,270,000
Seat 4: Lennart Holz - 600,000
Seat 5: Marc Inizan - 2,109,000
Seat 6: Marko Neumann - 1,448,000
Seat 7: Joao Barbosa - 794,000
Seat 8: The Duc Ngo - 144,000

Table 3
Seat 1: Alfonso Amendola - 640,000
Seat 2: Ketul Nathwani - 2,056,000
Seat 3: Paul Thomas Otto - 1,546,000
Seat 4: Marcel Koller - 865,000
Seat 5: Nico Behling - 505,000
Seat 6: Evgeniy Zaytsev - 1,368,000
Seat 7: Luca Cainelli - 558,000
Seat 8: Theo Jorgensen - 2,408,000

03-06-2010 11:55 UTC+2

The Final Three Tables

donpeters

The 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin will see its second-to-last day take place in a little over an hour. A few days ago, 945 top pros, sports stars, amateur players and online qualifiers clashed on the felt for the Main Event and now only 24 remain. Those 24 can be seen below in the table and seat draw for Day 4, but it's Kevin Macphee who is the most notable of the bunch.

Why? Well, he's the chip leader of course. MacPhee was able to stay alive yesterday when he took his pocket nines up against Vikash Dhorasoo's pocket queens and spiked a nine on the river. That hand seemed to put MacPhee over the hump who's very-fitting online name is "ImaLuckSac". At the end of the day, MacPhee sent Christophe Gross to the rail which gave him the top spot on the leaderboard.

Team PokerStars Pros Jude Ainsworth and Johannes Strassmann are still alive as well and looking to represent for the host site here in Berlin. Beyond repping the red spade with the star in the middle, Strassmann is on his home turf and the German pro will be looking to keep the title on home soil. If Strassmann can't make it through the day though, nine other Germans will be looking to bring it home.

Play resumes at noon local time so be sure to keep your eyes glued to the screen here at PokerNews and get ready for the action.

Tags: Kevin MacPhee

03-06-2010 13:20 UTC+2

Soon, My Pretties, Soon

[user46392]

Players are engaged in rebagging and stacking their chips, and play should be underway in a just a few minutes.

Level: 23

Blinds: 12,000/24,000

Ante: 2,000

03-06-2010 13:29 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal!

donpeters

The cards are in the air and the trek to the final table has begun.

03-06-2010 13:54 UTC+2

Huber Over Two Million

donpeters

Stefan Huber raised the button and Kevin MacPhee called from the small blind. The flop came down {A-Clubs}

and both players checked. The turn brought the {J-Spades}

and MacPhee checked. Huber fired 24,000 and MacPhee called.

The river came the {J-Clubs}

and MacPhee checked again to Huber.With the pot at 188,000, Huber fired 86,000. MacPhee checked his hole cards one last time before releasing into the muck and Huber scooped the pot. Huber's now over two million chips.

Tags: Kevin MacPhee Stefan Huber

03-06-2010 14:07 UTC+2

Up and Then Down for Barbosa

[user46392]

Marc Inizan raised to 56,000 in the cutoff but Joao Barbosa made it 140,000 from the small blind. The Duc Ngo, woefully short in the big blind, thought about it for a while but eventually passed. Inizan folded too, and Barbosa took the pot.

The next hand Barbosa raised again, this time from the button. The unhappy Ngo folded again, but this time Iikka Tahkokallio called in the big blind.

They saw a {2-Spades}

flop and Tahkokallio bet out 59,000. Barbosa promptly made 180,000. Back to to Tahkokallio - and he made it 380,000 to go. Barbosa disappeared into the tank for a while, and when he came out again he folded.

Barbosa - 700,000
Tahkokallio - 1.8 million

Tags: Joao Barbosa

03-06-2010 14:10 UTC+2

Jorgensen Stack Increasing

[user46392]

There is no room at all to move on the tournament floor so we can only really speculate as to what happened before showdown, but we arrived to see Theo Jorgensen winning an enormous pot from Ketul Nathwani with {J-Clubs}

on an

board. Nathwani mucked and dropped to 1.7 million; Jorgensen meanwhile moved on up to 2.7 million - tying for the chip lead with Kevin MacPhee.

Tags: Theo Jorgensen

03-06-2010 14:16 UTC+2

The Duc Ngo Eliminated in 24th Place (€23,500)

[user46392]

Lennart Holz raised to 52,000 under the gun and The Duc Ngo finally pushed for 96,000 from the cutoff. Norman Kastner called in the big blind, and Holz called too.

The two players checked down the {4-Hearts}

board and when they flipped the cards it became apparent how much trouble Ngo had been in from the start.

Holz: {7-Clubs}

Kastner:

Ngo:

Thus, after some brief handshaking, we lose Mr. Ngo in 24th place.

Tags: The Duc Ngo

03-06-2010 14:16 UTC+2

Johannes Strassmann Eliminated in 23rd Place (€23,500)

donpeters

Carsten Joh raised to 50,000 and then Artur Wasek reraised all in for 1.431 million. from the button. Team PokerStars Pro Johannes Strassmann was in the big blind and went into the tank. He would have to commit all of his chips to make the call. He had a little over 500,000 chips. After a few minutes, he made the call and Joh folded.

Strassmann: {A-Hearts}