From under the gun, Boris Caleta opened with a raise to 2,500. A few seats over in middle position, Australia's Kristian Lunardi flatted the raise before play folded to Paul Vas Nunes in the cutoff seat. He put in a three-bet to 8,000. Everyone folded back to Caleta and he also gave it up. Lunardi had other things in mind and fired back with a back-raise to 14,000. Vas Nunes jammed and Lunardi called off his last 30,000 or so.
Lunardi:
Vas Nunes:
Vas Nunes nailed a seven on the flop to take the lead as the dealer ran out the . The turn left Lunardi needing a king to win or a four to chop, but the on the river failed to keep him in the game and he was sent to the rail.
Pierre Neauville was the first player out today. The Team PokerStars Pro looked down on the first hand and saw ace-king. He moved all-in and was called by Kai Kumpulainen in the next seat. The Finn had pocket sevens and the first card out was another seven. Good game, thanks for popping in.
Welcome back gentle reader to coverage from Day 2 of the European Poker Tour Berlin Main Event where in just a few minutes time the 329 player who made it through from the two starting days are united for the first time in the luxurious Hyatt hotel's vast ballroom.
Each of the 329 hopefuls share a common goal - survive the day. Simple as that. They will have to battle it out at the felt for six 75-minute levels if they are to accomplish that goal. If they do make it through Day 2 they will be one step closer to the money places and that massive €825,000 first place prize.
There are still a whole host of big names in the field and some of them have inevitably ended up on the same table as each other. Some potentially interesting match-ups include Anton Makiievskyi and William Thorson (Table 13), Kevin MacPhee, Dominik Nitsche, Heinze Kamutzki and Giuseppe Pantaleo (Table 14), Will Molson, Jake Cody, Davidi Kitai, Andrew Chen and Mihai Manole (Table 18), ElkY and Viktor Blom (Table 19), Dmitry Vitkind, Michael "Sir Watts" Watson, Vladimir Geshkenbein and Jan Heitmann (Table 20). The list goes on and on!
Hold onto your hats ladies and gentlemen this could be an explosive one!