2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k7
Prize
€712,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,725,000
Entries
745
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Baumstein Shove Gets Through

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

From the hijack Dmitry Grinenko set the price to play at 900 and the cutoff, Germany's Andre Klebanov made the call. The button and small blind folded but Scott Baumstein raised it up to 2,900 from the big blind.

With the action back on Grinenko he four-bet to 5,500 folding out Klebanov but Baumstein was not done with this hand by any stretch of the imagination. Instead he restacked all of his chips and moved in for 16,050. Grinenko took a long, hard look at his cards before sending them towards the muck.

Tags: Scott BaumsteinDmitry GrinenkoAndre Klebanov

Cold As Ice

Konstantin Puchkov is a player who seems to have the same expression whatever is happening to him at the table. He is Russian and they have more ice in their veins than the Scandies do. He just lost a pot to drop little, but you'd never know just by looking at him.

He was in the big blind and defended a button raise to 850 from Santiago Nadal. The flop fell {5-Hearts}{9-Spades}{9-Clubs} and Puchkov check-called a 800 continuation bet from the Mexican before both checked the {j-Diamonds} turn. The river saw Puchkov go back into check-call mode. The bet from Nadal was 3,025 and Puchkov mucked upon seeing {j-Clubs}{q-Hearts}.

Player Chips Progress
Konstantin Puchkov ru
Konstantin Puchkov
40,500

Tags: Konstantin PuchkovSantiago Nadal

Vandersmissen Takes on Chartier

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Kevin Vandersmissen is never one to shy away from an opponent, even if that opponent is the current chip leader. In a hand just now, which we joined on the {J-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{7-Clubs} flop, Canadian Sam Chartier checked from the UTG+1 seat and then called when Vandersmissen fired a bet of 2,525 three seats to his left.

The dealer placed the {K-Spades} onto the turn and Chartier check-called again, this time an increase bet of 4,550. But when the river was the {Q-Diamonds} both players tapped the table and checked.

Vandersmissen turned over {K-Clubs}{10-Diamonds} and Chartier could not beat that and his hand found its way to the muck. The Belgian Irish Open champion now has 46,200 whilst Chartier slips slightly to "just" 103,000.

Tags: Sam ChartierKevin Vandersmissen

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Stefan Huber ch
Stefan Huber
86,000
18,000
18,000
Dennis Bejedal
Dennis Bejedal
79,000
Shaun Deeb us
Shaun Deeb
70,000
-5,000
-5,000
Vanessa Selbst us
Vanessa Selbst
68,000
5,780
5,780
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Michel Abecassis fr
Michel Abecassis
64,000
34,000
34,000
Stephane Albertini fr
Stephane Albertini
57,000
Ilan Boujenah il
Ilan Boujenah
56,000
-3,000
-3,000
Andrew Chen ca
Andrew Chen
52,000
8,500
8,500
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Anton Wigg se
Anton Wigg
52,000
2,000
2,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Angel Guillen mx
Angel Guillen
48,000
-3,200
-3,200
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Andrew Brokos us
Andrew Brokos
44,000
14,000
14,000
Fabian Quoss de
Fabian Quoss
38,000
17,750
17,750
Pierre Neuville be
Pierre Neuville
36,000
-3,000
-3,000
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David Peters us
David Peters
34,000
1,800
1,800
Kunimaro Kojo jp
Kunimaro Kojo
34,000
-4,000
-4,000
Vladimir Geshkenbein ru
Vladimir Geshkenbein
34,000
5,000
5,000
EPT 1X Winner
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
33,000
-1,000
-1,000
EPT 1X Winner
Theo Jorgensen dk
Theo Jorgensen
32,000
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Santiago Nadal us
Santiago Nadal
31,500
-1,000
-1,000
Olivier Busquet us
Olivier Busquet
28,000
-2,000
-2,000
Bill Chen us
Bill Chen
27,500
-2,500
-2,500
Mustapha Kanit it
Mustapha Kanit
25,000
8,600
8,600
Winamax
Igor Kurganov ru
Igor Kurganov
22,000
1,800
1,800
Alec Torelli us
Alec Torelli
22,000
-11,500
-11,500
Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
20,000
-4,500
-4,500

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News in Brief

  • Anton Wigg is up to 50,000 after raising his button and betting flop and turn. The board read {2-Hearts}{6-Hearts}{3-Spades}{j-Hearts} and the big blind called two bets before he folded to Wigg's 5,250 turn bet.
  • Dermot Blain was busying trying to build a stack that was heading south. We witnessed him successfully squeeze a 700 raise and call to 3,400 (out of a 20k stack), but by the time we left the room his media card was in the pile of those players eliminated.
  • Bryan Piccioli and Ludovic Lacay are both sat at the same table and trying to make things happen from early position. Piccioli raised from under the gun and took the blinds and antes before folding his cards high up into the air. Lacay thought he saw a king but the American insisted he had pocket tens. The next hand saw Lacay raise but quickly fold to a three-bet. He's wearing new headphones and hope they will bring him more luck than his last "retro" pair.
Player Chips Progress
Anton Wigg se
Anton Wigg
50,000
20,000
20,000
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
Bryan Piccioli us
Bryan Piccioli
40,000
Ludovic Lacay fr
Ludovic Lacay
34,000
22,000
22,000
EPT 1X Winner
Dermot Blain ie
Dermot Blain
Busted

Tags: Anton WiggBryan PiccioliDermot BlainLudovic Lacay

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Marc Möbius' Loose Preflop Action Rewarded

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Sometimes at the poker table the Poker Gods decide to reward crazy play and this was one of those times.

Marc Möbius open-limped from late position in rather unconventional fashion and the action folded to Joel Benzinou in the small blind and he raised to 1,000. With the action back on Möbius he made it 2,900 to play only to see Benzinou click it back to 5,600. Möbius called and the flop came down {7-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{Q-Spades}. Benzinou checked, Möbius bet 4,400, Benzinou then shoved and Möbius instantly called.

Benzinou: {A-Diamonds}{A-Clubs}
Möbius: {10-Spades}{6-Spades}

Slightly unorthodox preflop play we're sure you'll agree but it was rewarded after the turn was the {8-Hearts} and the river the {2-Spades}, the river completing Möbius' flush! That's how you do it folks.

Tags: Joel BenzinouMarc Möbius

Schormann Unafraid Of Carlsson's Three-Bet

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

From under the gun Conrad Schormann set the price to play at 700 but it was soon increased to 2,600 when Carl Carlsson, next to act, three-bet to 2,600. Schormann called and the pair shared a {10-Diamonds}{8-Spades}{4-Spades} flop. Despite the three-bet preflop Carlsson did not pull the trigger when Schormann checked to him and he then folded when Schormann bet 3,000 when the {7-Hearts} appeared on the turn.

Tags: Conrad SchormannCarl Carlsson