2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Main Event
Day: 2
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

That's Not Wright, Mr Thomsen

"What the f##k?" shouted Steven Thomsen after the dealer revealed his hand. He had shoved the river in a hand versus Marc Wright. Wright called and Thomsen mucked and got up to leave.

"Why did you showdown?" he continued to bellow.

A floor man was in attendance and told him they were the rules and he knew that. Thomsen was very angry still and stormed off.

Player Chips Progress
Marc Wright gb
Marc Wright
390,000
207,400
207,400
Steven Thomsen
Steven Thomsen
Busted

Tags: Marc WrightSteven Thomsen

Zoike Wins Without Needing to Show

Action folded over to Cesar Garcia Domínguez in the cutoff seat and he raised to 4,000. On the button, Armin Zoike three-bet to 8,000. Domínguez called and the flop came down {J-Diamonds}{7-Diamonds}{6-Diamonds}. Domínguez checked and Zoike bet 5,000. Domínguez called.

The turn was the {10-Hearts} and both players checked before the {5-Clubs} landed on the river. Domínguez fired 12,000 and Zoike announced a call. Domínguez mucked his hand without showing when he heard Zoike make the call. Zoike didn't show his hand and raked in the pot.

Player Chips Progress
César García
César García
320,000
135,600
135,600
Armin Zoike
Armin Zoike
117,000
77,000
77,000

Tags: Cesar Garcia DomínguezArmin Zoike

More News from Twitterville

Spencer Hudson on his downfall: "Busted out after not being able to pick up any pots then getting it in with Aj vs 22 on j82 flop vs spewy Russian. #fcktournaments"

David Vamplew on his positive progress: "Open Q7s ep, bb peels, c/cs Q73r w 1 club and crai 4c turn with 95cc. I fade and have 140k! #eptberlin."

Martin Jacobson on a miss-timed bluff: "Tried to bluff the real jeff hakim, didnt work. Down to 65k."

Player Chips Progress
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
140,000
73,000
73,000
EPT 1X Winner
Martin Jacobson se
Martin Jacobson
65,000
-53,000
-53,000
StakeKings
Spencer Hudson us
Spencer Hudson
Busted

Deres Spikes Double Against Guillen

Angel Guillen and Gerasimos Deres got all the money in preflop. Guillen held two red jacks against Deres' two back eights. Deres was the play at risk and all in for the small amount of 7,600.

Things stayed clean for Guillen until the river as the board ran out {K-Diamonds}{5-Diamonds}{4-Spades}{10-Spades}{8-Hearts} and Deres doubled up.

Player Chips Progress
Angel Guillen mx
Angel Guillen
75,000
-10,000
-10,000
Gerasimos Deres se
Gerasimos Deres
16,000
-54,100
-54,100

Tags: Angel GuillenGerasimos Deres

Gruissem Four-Bets Preflop, Then Check-Folds Flop

Philipp Gruissem on the right
Philipp Gruissem on the right

Philipp Gruissem raised to 4,000 from middle position before Stephane Albertini three-bet from the cutoff seat to 10,200. Gruissem four-bet to 21,000 and Albertini called.

The flop came down {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs}{6-Hearts} and Guissem checked. Albertini bet 18,000 and Gruissem gave it up.

Player Chips Progress
Philipp Gruissem de
Philipp Gruissem
130,000
130,000
130,000
StakeKings
Stephane Albertini fr
Stephane Albertini
105,000
-37,500
-37,500

Tags: Philipp GruissemStephane Albertini

Kamutzki Having a Great Day At The Felt

Sometimes in poker, everything you do just seems to work and it looks like Heinz Kamutzki is having one of those days. He started the day with around 62,000 chips and now he has 212,000 of them. Cue the shouts of "Must be nice."

In a hand just now he opened to 4,000 from the UTG+1 seat and the action folded all the way around to Stefan Höing in the big blind and he three-bet to 10,000. Kamutzki obviously thought his hand was still the best because he clawed back his original raise and four-bet to 21,500. Höing made the call and the dealer got busy putting out the flop.

Flop: {j-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{a-Diamonds} - Höing chcked to Kamutzki who riffled a pile of black chips before betting 13,700. That was enough for Höing and he slid his hand back to the dealer.

Player Chips Progress
Heinz Kamutzki de
Heinz Kamutzki
212,000
149,300
149,300
Stefan Höing
Stefan Höing
65,800
27,500
27,500

Tags: Heinz KamutzkiStefan Höing

Winkler Regains Composure and Rebuilds Stack

About 90-minutes ago Sebastian Winkler looked like a man who was about to descend into the dark abyss that often claims the tournament lives of players who are on tilt after he lost out to Anton Wigg. You can read about that here.

In that post we said he needed to quickly regain his composure and it appears to have taken our advice, cooled down and started playing poker again because we just saw him on a new table laughing and joking with a new stack of 157,000. Well played that man.

Player Chips Progress
Sebastian Winkler de
Sebastian Winkler
157,000
112,700
112,700

Tags: Sebastian Winkler

Turmezey Game

Tournament poker is not always about firing three barrels, running huge bluffs and making hero calls. Sometimes hands play out very simply indeed.

Ana Marquez saw the action fold to her in the hijack and she made it 4,500 to play. Peter Turmezey was on the button and he three-bet to 11,800 without much pause for thought and when the action was back on marquez she passed her cards back to the dealer.

Simply does it.

Player Chips Progress
Peter Turmezey hu
Peter Turmezey
143,700
19,100
19,100
Ana Marquez es
Ana Marquez
103,300
55,100
55,100

Tags: Ana MarquezPeter Turmezey

Feature Table Chip Counts

The production crew have been kind enough to provide us with chip counts from the feature table even if they won't let us have access to it so we can report some action for you!

Player Chips Progress
Vladimir Geshkenbein ru
Vladimir Geshkenbein
520,400
50,400
50,400
EPT 1X Winner
Hussain Zbib
Hussain Zbib
178,800
82,400
82,400
Jeff Sarwer fi
Jeff Sarwer
149,700
105,400
105,400
Jan Heitmann
Jan Heitmann
146,400
21,400
21,400
Walter Beckmann
Walter Beckmann
114,800
54,400
54,400
MIke Watson ca
MIke Watson
103,200
103,200
103,200
EPT 2X Winner
JP Kelly gb
JP Kelly
95,800
40,900
40,900
Mario Walkner
Mario Walkner
60,800
-30,100
-30,100
Susanne Kaufer
Susanne Kaufer
35,000
-41,100
-41,100