Main Event
Day 4 Started
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Main Event
Day: 4
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 4 of EPT Berlin!
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Just 24 players remain here in the SpielBank Casino in the heart of Berlin, led by Daniel Pidun who sits at the top of the pack with 2,429,000 ahead of Maximilian Heinzelmann and PokerStars Online Qualifier Ben Wilinofsky. Also involved is Martin Jacobson who has already been the runner-up in both Deauville and Vilamoura this season and will be hoping that third time is the charm. PokerStars Team Pros Henrique Pinho and Joep van den Bijgaart are both already having their best ever EPT results but the question is, can they now make it all the way?
Today we'll be playing down to our final table of eight which will be live streamed tomorrow. The three tables are as follows:
| Seat | Name | Chip Count | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table 1 | |||
| 1 | Martin Jacobson | 687,000 | Sweden |
| 2 | Alessandro Laubinger | 507,000 | Germany |
| 3 | Vadzim Kursevich | 665,000 | Belarus |
| 4 | Fabrice Soulier | 890,000 | France |
| 5 | Mario Adinolfi | 550,000 | Italy |
| 6 | Daniel-Gai Pidun | 2,429,000 | Germany |
| 7 | Luis Jaikel | 436,000 | Costa Rica |
| 8 | Thomas Traboulsi | 156,000 | Germany |
| Table 2 | |||
| 1 | Armin Mette | 1,230,000 | Germany |
| 2 | Jonas Gutteck | 257,000 | Germany |
| 3 | Mikhail Lakhitov | 909,000 | Russia |
| 4 | Maximilian Heinzelmann | 2,140,000 | Germany |
| 5 | Robin Ylitalo | 1,221,000 | Sweden |
| 6 | Cuello Jorge Mariano | 1,060,000 | Spain |
| 7 | Henrique Pinho | 1,282,000 | Portugal |
| 8 | Konstantin Puchkov | 608,000 | Russia |
| Table 3 | |||
| 1 | Markus Grewe | 476,000 | Germany |
| 2 | Alexander Smolin | 161,000 | Russia |
| 3 | Ben Wilinofsky | 2,046,000 | Canada |
| 4 | Kristijonas Andrulis | 1,650,000 | Lithuania |
| 5 | Joep van den Bijgaart | 1,454,000 | Netherlands |
| 6 | Darren Kramer | 1,004,000 | South Africa |
| 7 | Gerardo Muro | 657,000 | Italy |
| 8 | Jeffrey Hakim | 561,000 | USA |
Play begins in around 40 minutes!
Feature Table
Table 3 will be the feature table today.
Level: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 2,000
You Can Hear a Pinho Drop
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Jonas Gutteck had reraised all-in from the blinds against Team PokerStars Pro Henrique Pinho for his final 233,000 or so, the Portuguese player made the call.
Pinho: 
Gutteck: 
The board came 
and Gutteck doubled up to almost 500,000.
One Hand Wonder
Level 22
: 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante
With 1:09 left on the clock for the 20k/40k level, there will be one hand (two if everyone folds round and the dealer is speedy) before they ratchet the blinds up.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 2,000
Jaikel Increases Stack
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Luis Jaikel opened to 47,000 from the cutoff and Alessandro Laubinger made the call from the big blind.
The flop came 
and Laubinger check-called a bet of 67,000 to see a 
turn.
Laubinger checked again and Jaikel moved all-in, the German tanked but eventually folded.
"Good fold!" said Jaikel showing the 
.
Alexander Smolin Eliminated in 24th Place... We Think (€20,000)
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
All press have been completely banned from going anywhere near the feature table, which is awkward as nobody is announcing the action and the TV crew aren't sharing any information with us.
Hence we can't really tell you the circumstances of his demise, but we can tell you that the first player to hit the rail today was the short-stacked Alexander Smolin. GG, Mr. Smolin. He picks up €20,000 for his efforts.
Gerardo Muro Eliminated in 23rd Place (€20,000)
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Gerardo Muro has fallen, racing 
preflop vs. Ben Wilinofsky's pocket jacks. We were alerted to this as Wilinofsky stood up and said, "Good luck," sounding for all the world like he genuinely meant it. The jacks held and with such a rate of elimination on the feature table Daniel Pidun has had to be moved to fill in one of the gaps.