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Claudio Rinaldi
Andreas Gülünay raises to 80k, Claudio Rinaldi goes all-in for 480k, and Gülünay calls showing while Rinaldi shows . The board comes , giving Rinaldi a flush draw, but the comes on river and Claudio Rinaldi is eliminated in fifth place earning 193,000 Euros. Andreas is our new chip leader on 1,289,000.
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Perez raises from the button and Torsten Haase calls from the small blind. The flop comes , Haase checks, Perez bets 100k, Haase check-raises to 300k and Perez folds. Haase tells Perez, "If you would have pushed, I would call immediately."
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Diego Perez
Michael 'Timex' McDonald raises to 75k pre-flop, Diego Perez re-raises all in and Timex calls with . Perez shows and the flop comes , the turn is and the river is . McDonald's pair of deuces wins the monster pot. Diego Perez is eliminated in fourth place, earning €234,200. McDonald is the new chip leader with 1,683,000 in chips, ahead of Torsten Haase on 1,224,000 and Andreas Gülünay on 1,199,000.
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Thorsten Haase and Michael McDonald see a flop of and both players check. The turn is , Haase checks again, McDonald bets 205k and rakes the pot as Haase folds.
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Torsten Haase
Torsten Haase raises pre-flop and both McDonald and Gülünay call. The flop comes , McDonald goes all-in and Haase calls. McDonald has and Haase has . McDonald is ahead with a pair of queens over Haase's pair of fives. The turn is and the river is , and Haase is eliminated in third place earning €307,000.
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We have reached heads-up play in Dortmund and Andreas Gülünay has 1.1 million in chips against Michael "Timex" McDonald, who has just over 3 million. In a couple of minutes the final battle will begin.
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Gülünay and McDonald
The two remaining players, Andreas Gülünay and Michael "Timex" McDonald, took some time away from the table before heads-up began to have a friendly chat. A lot of money is at stake as the winner will get €933,000 and the runner-up €522,000.
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Andreas Gülünay raised pre-flop and McDonald called. The flop came , Gülünay bet out and McDonald mucked. In the first four hands the players have won two hands each.
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Andreas raises pre-flop and Timex calls. The flop comes and both players check. The turn is , check-check. The river is , Andreas goes all-in and Timex folds.
In the following hand Andreas bets on the flop again and takes down another pot. In the third hand, Andreas bets out pre-flop and wins his third hand in a row. Andreas is now up to 1.5 million and Timex has 2.6 million.
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Timex raises pre-flop to 80k and Andreas calls. The flop comes , Andreas checks, Timex bet 120k, Andreas raises to 300k and Timex calls. The turn is the ; Andreas bets 300k and Timex calls. The river comes and Andreas goes all-in into the 1.4 million pot and Timex calls, holding . Andreas has and he finishes second in this year's PokerStars EPT German Open. The winner is 18-year-old Michael "Timex" McDonald from Toronto, Canada.
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while Rinaldi shows 
. The board comes 
, giving Rinaldi a flush draw, but the 
comes on river and Claudio Rinaldi is eliminated in fifth place earning 193,000 Euros. Andreas is our new chip leader on 1,289,000.
, Haase checks, Perez bets 100k, Haase check-raises to 300k and Perez folds. Haase tells Perez, "If you would have pushed, I would call immediately."
. Perez shows 
and the flop comes 
, the turn is 
and the river is 
. McDonald's pair of deuces wins the monster pot. Diego Perez is eliminated in fourth place, earning €234,200. McDonald is the new chip leader with 1,683,000 in chips, ahead of Torsten Haase on 1,224,000 and Andreas Gülünay on 1,199,000.
, Haase checks again, McDonald bets 205k and rakes the pot as Haase folds.
, Andreas goes all-in and Timex folds. 
and Andreas goes all-in into the 1.4 million pot and Timex calls, holding 
. Andreas has 
and he finishes second in this year's PokerStars EPT German Open. The winner is 18-year-old Michael "Timex" McDonald from Toronto, Canada.
