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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.
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.
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.
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
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.
This one is just 15 minutes. Enough to grab a quick pretzel and a €5 bottle of water. Then on to level 5.
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.
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.
A bold move went horribly wrong for Javed Abrahams when he bet out around 6,500 from the big blind position on the turn of a 
board. The player in the cutoff called, and they saw the river.
The river in question was the and this time Abrahams bet out 13,000, leaving himself just 9,500, but Mr. Cutoff now instantly announced all in to cover Abrahams. This was presumably not what the young Brit was hoping would happen. He tanked up for a while, checking his hole cards in case they had magically turned into different, better cards. They had not, and he eventually folded.
Jan Heitmann, having shrunk to a mini-stack, has made a comeback of sorts at the end of level 4. His most recent full double up came courtesy of 
. Having flopped a set and built a pot of over 7,000 by the turn with the board standing 
, Heitmann moved all in for 5,325 when his opponent Nino Wagner checked to him. After a bit of a think, Wagner called with the optimistic , saw the set and missed on the river to give Heitmann a new lease of life.
"I don't play them well at all," said Heitmann of his pocket sevens, modest but still stacking.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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85,000
52,000
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52,000 |
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73,000
-2,000
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-2,000 |
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55,000 | |
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28,400
-3,600
|
-3,600 |
|
|
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17,000
-19,000
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-19,000 |
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