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2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,725,000
Total Entries
945
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 945
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Michael Lampel hopes he'll be surging forward rather than driving elsewhere, but he's only got about 30,000 to work with. Lampel made a bet with a friend before he played in a super satellite for the Main Event. If Lampel won his seat and made Day 2, his friend would pay him €1,000 to wear his "No Parking" hat. If he won a seat but didn't make Day 2, he'd have to pay his friend €1,000. Lampel bought the traffic-stopping hat in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day two years ago and hopes it brings him good luck today in addition to the €1,000 he's already owed.
and Chartier fired a continuation bet of 4,000. Tuan To made the call.The turn was the
and Chartier hesitated and then checked. Tuan To saw this as an opportunity and fired a bet of 11,100. A minute went by before Chartier mucked his hand and dropped down to 91,000 chips. That's still above average though. Tuan To started the day with 212,600, but now has just 175,000 chips.
, German PokerStars Pro Johannes Strassmann hd a big bet of 40,000 laid out in front of him. His opponent was in the tank for a few minutes before making the call. Strassmann tabled, oh, just the nuts, with the 
and won a big pot to move up to 170,000 chips.
Ruthenberg found himself all in with two others players. One player held
, the other held 
and Ruthenberg 
.The flop came down ace high and put Ruthenberg in third place overall. But just like that, an eight binked off on the turn and then the case eight fell on the river. Can anyone say "one time"?
Ruthenberg's now got triple the chips he had a minute ago at about 84,000.
With about 6,000 chips in the pot, Ruthenberg had action checked to him on a flop of
. He checked behind. The turn was the 
and the first player checked again. Ruthenberg checked once more.After the river of the
, the player checked to Ruthenberg one more time. This time, Ruthenberg fired a bet of 2,800. His opponent called rather quickly and watch Ruthenberg turn up pocket eights. The player then tabled pocket tens and the pot was pushed his way instead of over to Ruthenberg, who dropped back to 27,000 chips.
and roughly 12,000 chips in the middle. Langmann's opponent had a bet of 7,300 laid out in front of him. Langmann had a bet as well in front of him, but his was for 20,000, signifying a raise.Action was back on Langmann's opponent, who was acting out of position. He was in the tank for about a minute before reraising all in. After a minute passed, Langmann asked for an exact count. The dealer broke down the chips to 66,800. Langmann took another minute and then mucked his hand. He slipped back to 108,000.
flop holding 
- but to his left Baris Ergün called with 
for trips which only improved into a flush on the 
turn and 
river.
