2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day: 5
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Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
4♠3♠
Prize
€1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,725,000
Entries
945
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 945
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Seat 1: Marko Neumann – 2,185,000

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Marko Neumann
Marko Neumann
PokerStars qualifier

From Recklinghausen, Germany, Marko Neumann has been playing poker for five years; the last three years as a professional. He is a very successful online multi-table tournament and sit-n-go player, but has had a bad run in live events until now -– playing numerous EPTs and two WSOPs without cashing.

He said he has been a bit frustrated by this and EPT Berlin is his first major live tournament since Summer 2009. The final table here is obviously his breakthrough on the live poker circuit and he has good supporters on the rail including his girlfriend Aga.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 2: Marc Inizan – 3,655,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Marc Inizan
Marc Inizan
The young professional took up on poker in 2005 after stumbling upon a WSOP broadcast on late-night French TV. Seeing those 20-somethings winning millions playing cards inspired him to start an online account. Through trial and error, Marc Inizan built up a bankroll, playing sit-n-gos and multi-table tournaments and, helped by his math background, gradually moving up the stakes.

Two years later, he was playing his first big live event in Canada after qualifying online, ending up in 24th place for a $52,000 prize. Since then, Inizan played several live events, and took up playing cash games with great results, while winning several major tournaments online. The Berlin EPT final table will be his best career result to date, following two consecutive final tables - at the Belgian Championships last November and the Antibes Deepstack last week.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 3: Kevin “ImaLuckSac” MacPhee - 6,070,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Kevin MacPhee
Kevin MacPhee
Kevin MacPhee started playing poker with college friends in 2003 after seeing Chris Moneymaker win the Main Event at the WSOP. He collectively made the transition from “Magic: the Gathering” to poker.

At first, they played each other but soon turned their attention to playing online. He’s been a pro for three to four years, but April 2008 was his real breakthrough. He broke the PokerStars TLB record and has amassed over $100,000 profit. He’s been on the road ever since playing live events and has won over $250,000 to date. He continues to shine in online tournaments, consistently near the top of ranking lists with his biggest result being $218,750 for final tabling a $5,000 event.

He’s being supported in Berlin by fellow pros Richard Grace, Jonathan Weekes and Laurence Haughton. His dad got up to watch EPT live at 3am today and will be supporting him from Idaho tomorrow.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 4: Artur “wesylaa” Wasek - 3,530,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Artur Wasek
Artur Wasek
Artur Wasek has been playing poker for two years. His biggest online success was coming fifth place in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up for $37,000. His best live result was winning a tournament in Warsaw for $10,000.

Wasek bought in directly to EPT Berlin, winning his entry fee in cash games at Spielbank Berlin casino across the road on Monday night. This is his fourth EPT, but first cash. He is being supported from home by his wife and six-year-old daughter Susanne.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 5: Marcel Koller – 3,590,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Marcel Koller
Marcel Koller
Marcel Koller is the only player at the EPT Berlin final table who is not a full-time pro. He’s a computer programmer by trade and says he gives his work 100% -- but he’s no slouch when it comes to winning at poker either.

He has been playing the Swiss form of 7-Card Stud -– involving a 36-card deck -- for years but only took up Texas Hold’em four years ago. His best result to date was winning a daily $30,000 tournament on PokerStars for some $8,000 a few months ago. He is being supported in Berlin by a large group of friends that include three-time Swiss champion Daniel Walter.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 6: Nico Behling - 960,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Nico Behling
Nico Behling
Nico Behling is one of the most successful German “young guns” and a good friend of Team PokerStars Pro Sebastian Ruthenberg. Nico has a lot of live poker experience and has made nearly half a million dollars in live tournaments.

He finished second at EPT Warsaw last season. Online, Behling grinds the short-handed cash games but he also sometimes plays tournaments on PokerStars. Last week, he came third in the PokerStars Sunday Million for $145,000. When he is not playing Poker, Nico likes to watch and play soccer.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 7: Ketul Nathwani - 4,685,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Ketul Nathwani
Ketul Nathwani
PokerStars player

Despite describing himself as an online cash-game specialist, Ketul Nathwani is no stranger to live poker and has put together a string of notable results during the four years he has played the game. He went deep in the 2007 World Series Main Event and then took down a £1,000 buy in tournament in his home city of London, outlasting 423 others to win £119,780. He is a former computing student at Imperial College but is now a professional poker player.

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

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Seat 8: Ilari Tahkokallio - 3,940,000 chips

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
Ilari Tahkokallio
Ilari Tahkokallio
Whatever happens from now on, Ilari Tahkokallio has already earned credit for one of the classiest poker moments of the week.

When the tournament was interrupted, Tahkokallio and Luca Cainelli were involved in a huge all-in pot. At the turn, Cainelli had {A-?}{Q-?}, Tahkokallio had {A-?}{10-?} and Cainelli looked good to double up. Then, the tournament was interrupted and all players and the dealer left the area. When they returned, tournament director Thomas Kremser said that, if they wanted, the players could consider the hand dead and take their chips back. Although he was losing, Tahkokallio said the river card should be dealt because he had already made the call -– a sporting gesture greeted by applause.

The river was a blank and Cainelli doubled up. Later, Tahkokallio ended up busting Cainelli and now sits on nearly four million in chips.

Tahkokallio, who has been a professional poker player for two years, won the PLO/PLH £1,000 side event at EPT London after beating Kevin MacPhee heads up. Of today’s decision, he said, “I like to be fair and play in good spirit. It wasn’t even really a choice for me.”

Bios courtesy of PokerStars

Tags: Ilari Tahkokallio

Welcome to the EPT Berlin Final Table

Donnie Peters
Donnie Peters
In the midst of all the mayhem of the armed robbery yesterday, a poker tournament was played. The 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin set its final table last night with the following line up of players.

Seat 1: Marko Neumann - 2,185,000
Seat 2: Marc Inizan - 3,655,000
Seat 3: Kevin MacPhee - 6,070,000
Seat 4: Artur Wasek -3,530,000
Seat 5: Marcel Koller - 3,590,000
Seat 6: Nico Behling - 960,000
Seat 7: Ketul Nathwani - 4,685,000
Seat 8: Ilari Tahkokallio - 3,940,000

Kevin MacPhee began the day atop the 24 players that returned for Day 4. At the end of the day, he was on top once again. He was the only player to bag up more than five million chips, and even went one higher to bag up over six million. Only two players are below the average chip stack of approximately 3.54 million, while four of them huddle right around it. Ketul Nathwani had a roller coaster of a day and finished in second place on the leaderboard.

To find out more about each player, you can check out the player bios courtesy of PokerStars below. MacPhee, Tahkokallio and Nathwani have shared a final table before, in the £1,000 PLH/PLO side event at last year's EPT London. It'll be interesting to see how the history between these three plays out at this final table.

If you'd like to watch the live feed of the final table, which will resume today, check out EPT Live.

Play will begin at noon local time and we'll see you then!

Tags: Kevin MacPhee

Not Yet, But Soon

EPT final tables are not known for starting on time, and today is no exception.

The players are in the tournament area now, but they have to have their photo taken and the like before we can get underway. Shouldn't be too long now though...
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