Main Event
Day 2 Started
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,865,000
Entries
773
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Welcome to Day 2 at the PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
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Level 10 at this year's Berlin EPT is set to start in one hour - now with the entire field combined and 353 players battling for 120 cashing finishing positions. Of course it's the €825,000 first prize that will be in the back of players' minds, but we're still a long way from the final.
The Spielbank will be full once again, with two floors of Main Event players vying for space with the side event entrants and cash game players. Leading the field remains Sander Berndsen, the Day 1b top finisher with 242,900 in chips. Oleg Elkin lies in second place, and there are ten players either over the 200k mark or close enough to swing a cat and hit it.
These big stacks have been redrawn amongst their average and short brethren, and when play resumes it's guaranteed to be action-packed. Live reporting will begin as soon as the third 'shuffle up and deal' of the week is announced.
Feature Table
Just as we are setting up here, the first feature table has been announced as table 9 which includes EPT winners Roberto Romanello and Lucien Cohen as well as Matt Affleck. In seat order:
Alexander Hering
Markus Grewe
Simon Cuq
Anton Porarinsson
Waldemar Welmann
Lucien Cohen
Roberto Romanello
Sascha Sirtl
Matt Affleck
The Plan
TD Thomas Kremser is on the mic right now, explaining to the masses who are seated downstairs what the plan is for today.
As predicted we will be playing six levels or down to the money today, whichever comes first. After the fourth level we'll be breaking for dinner come what may.
Level: 10
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 100
Double Double for Microstack
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
A rocketing start for Peter Fürmaier who returned today as the tournament short stack with 7,800. The blinds started at 600/1,200 so it was not surprising that these chips were over the line in a heartbeat. He was already up to 17,400 when we caught him shoving preflop again, this time called by Michel Abecassis. His 
held vs. Abecassis' 
to give him a stack which suddenly shows promise.
On the Matterntables
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Arnaud Mattern is back into the fight after chopping 
against then shoving 
against Saar Wilf's 
in a blind on blind battle. The Frenchman spiked a king and now has about 35,000.
That Mitchell and Ebb Look
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Empty seats are appearing all over the main tournament room now, and with the wandering TV crews pouncing on all-ins it's hard to keep track of them all!
Within five minutes of the restart, Irish Open champ James Mitchell was heading for the exit. Another player from the UK, Gareth Boyle, followed shortly thereafter, when his depleted stack (17,600) was taken by Tuncay Tutus who called his preflop shove with 
. Ace-high remained good against the all-in 
and they're already breaking tables upstairs.
Making it Rain-er
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
Ivaylo Dimtchev check-raised all-in on a flop of a 
against Rainer Emde and Max Heinzelmann, Emde reraised all-in and Heinzelman quickly folded.
Dimtchev turned over 
, Emde shook his head and flipped 
needing a king or heart to knock out the Bulgarian.
The 
sent Emde into the lead and the 
river changed nothing as Dimtchev wordlessly got up and left the table.
Hnatow Depressed
Level 10
: 600/1,200, 100 ante
EPT Deauville finalist Anthony Hnatow has lost about two-thirds of his chips, mostly in one pot where there was around 60,000 in the middle on a board reading 
. Hnatow sigh-called off 10,000 on the river only to look as he'd been physically sick when he saw Martin Hanowski's . The Frenchman flashed 
and threw them into the muck.
A couple of hands later and Hnatow made it 2,600 to go in early position and Seamus Cahill flat-called on the button but then Johan van Til reraised to 10,000 out of the big blind. Hnatow muttered to himself and folded once more, Cahill folded behind as well.