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Vojtech Ruzicka had checked the river of a 
board across to Christophe De Meulder who moved all-in for 8,300 into a pot of around 11,000. Ruzicka took several minutes before finally making the call but the Belgian Team PokerStars Pro turned over 
for top pair which had turned the nut flush draw which had rivered top two pair.
De Meulder won a couple of pots afterwards and now has 35,000.
Just before the break we lost EPT London winner David Vamplew, the poor Scot suffering the double indignity of being on one of the more difficult to access tables and therefore spent a couple of minutes just trying to leave the tournament area.
This one is just 15 minutes. Enough to grab a quick pretzel and a €5 bottle of water. Then on to level 5.
By the by, the numbers are now official! We got 458 runners today, which added to the 315 yesterday makes 773 in total - down a fair bit from last year's 945, but to be honest we'd be hard pressed to fit any more people in the Spielbank Berlin today. They might need to build another floor to the casino next year.
Prize pool information should follow around about the dinner break, we understand.
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Some of the players whose aggressive early level play often builds them tournament-winning stacks have not had their style pay off on this Day 1b. Praz Bansi has been under 10,000 for quite a while, it seems (although if anyone could win the Grinder of the Day Award multiple times it's him). Similarly Sebastian Ruthenberg, who started off so well, now has just 18,500. He still appears to be playing every hand. Finally ElkY is under 20,000 too, but in the time it takes to traverse the tournament floor that could all have changed, one way or the other...
Liv Boeree, meanwhile, is out. "Rivered twice and coolered on another," was her gleaned Twitter report.
George Danzer has had a bit of an upturn in this, his homeland EPT. He's just eliminated serial EPT casher and fellow Team Pro Luca Pagano. A pretty standard case of Danzer's 
holding against Pagano's 
for the latter's last 5,000 or so.
Danzer has about 70,000 still.
PokerStars Team SportStar Boris Becker has been knocked out after he moved all-in over a raise for his final 6,500 with 
and got called by Gert Roland Zumkehr's 
but the board came 
and Becker made two pair, but Zumkehr's two pair was slightly better. Becker then had to make the long walk to to the rail followed by several cameras.
Orpen Kisacikoglu opened to 750 preflop and George Danzer flat-called on the button before Oleg Elkin reraised to 2,300 from the small blind. Kisacikoglu folded but Danzer set Elkin all-in, snap call.
Danzer:
Elkin: 
The board came 
and Elkin doubled up to around 32,000. Danzer dropped to about 55,000.
Kevin Vandersmissen raised under the gun with suited, and a couple seats down Kevin "imalucksac" MacPhee called. The gentleman in the big blind called as well, and they all saw a flop.
Flop: 
The big blind checked to Vandersmissen who bet 1,200 into the 2,300 pot. MacPhee made the call, the big blind folded, and they continued heads up to the turn.
Turn: 
, which we understand gave Vandersmissen a flush draw as well as top pair
Vandersmissen checked and this time MacPhee bet 2,700. Vandersmissen called, and they were at the river.
River: an offsuit 
Vandersmissen checked again, and this time MacPhee went all in for 30,200 - a massive overbet to the 11,000 pot. Vandersmissen made the call - a huge call, we should add - and sure enough, his was ahead of the reigning champion's 
.
We will therefore be crowning a new EPT Berlin champion this year. EPT Snowfest runner up Vandersmissen is at 56,000.
