2010 EPT Berlin Main Event Day 4 | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

03-06-2010 17:08 UTC+1

Ladies Represent

Apparently the ladies' event is going ahead after all. We always suspected that ladies were braver than men...

03-06-2010 17:18 UTC+1

The players are back in the tournament area now, attempting to figure out how many chips they're meant to have under the supervision of TD Thomas Kremser. We have no idea how long that's going to take, but hopefully it won't be too long.

03-06-2010 17:21 UTC+1

Super Sat Suspended

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By the way, the super-sat to EPT Monte Carlo which was scheduled to start at 9pm tonight has been cancelled. Anyone hoping to play that is just going to have to hit the online tables or get themselves to Monte the old-fashioned way.

03-06-2010 17:59 UTC+1

Not Yet, But Soon

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The tournament are is absolutely full of players and press swapping war stories, but so far they're not playing as there is still some dispute over the stacks.

The best commentary came from Ilya Gorodetskiy. "Eh, I am from Russia. We had a civil war in the streets not long ago. Did I tell you that I was the victim of one of the biggest armed robberies ever in Moscow a few years ago...?"

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03-06-2010 18:05 UTC+1

Tahkokallio Does the Fair Thing

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A large hand was in progress when chaos broke out in the tournament room and everyone fled. Ilari Tahkokallio (we have recently discovers he goes by Ilari, not Iikka) raised to 70,000 under the gun, and Luca Cainelli moved all in from the big blind. It was another 503,000 for Tahkokallio to make the call, and he did. Cainelli was at risk with {A-Spades}

and in good shape to double through Tahkokallio's {A-Diamonds}

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The flop was a safe {K-Clubs}

and the turn was a harmless {4-?}

. Then all of a sudden there was shouting and a wall of people running away from the tournament room entrance toward (and on top of) the main event tables. In the scramble, tables were overturned and chip stacks knocked over, but somehow the board and the players' hands remained on the table.

Once the players returned to the table to sort out their stacks, Thomas Kremser, the tournament director, told Ilari Tahkokallio and Luca Cainelli that if either of them did not want to carry on with the hand, then they would chop up the pot and move on to the next hand. In good shape to double up, of course Cainelli said that he'd like to play out the hand. Tahkokallio stands to lose almost 600,000 chips in the hand and has only three outs with one card to come. But rather than call it a wash and take back his chips, Tahkokallio said that he'd made the call and it was only fair to see the river. We'll let you know what happens when action resumes. If karma exists, Tahkokallio deserves some run good tonight.

03-06-2010 18:06 UTC+1

No More Webcast

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Donnie Peters

It has come to our attention that there will no longer be a live webcast of EPT Berlin due to the circumstances. For updates you can stay right here on PokerNews and we'll bring all the action we can to you.

03-06-2010 18:08 UTC+1

Cainelli Doubles Up after Four Hours

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As reported earlier, Luca Cainelli was all in against Ilari Tahkokallio when play was interrupted for four hours. Tahkokallio only had three outs with just the river to come to avoid shipping Cainelli about 600,000 chips, a sizable portion of his 1.5 million stack.

Given the choice to chop the hand and avoid seeing a river, Tahkokallio said since he'd made the call, he'd play the hand all the way through. The extremely delayed river was a blank, and Cainelli doubled up. Hard not to hope that the poker gods took note of Tahkokallio's respect for the game.

03-06-2010 18:16 UTC+1

And We're Back

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The stacks have finally been agreed upon, the location of the button ascertained, and cards are in the air.

What armed robbery? Shuffle up and deal!

03-06-2010 18:24 UTC+1

Theo Jorgensen Eliminated in 20th Place (€23,500)

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And immediately, we have action.

Short-stacked following his pocket queens losing out to {A-?}

on the hand immediately prior to the robbery, a blind on blind confrontation saw Theo Jorgensen (big blind) all in and called by Evgeniy Zaytsev (small blind).

Jorgensen: {A-Diamonds}

Zaytsev:

Flop:

"An ace!" said Jorgensen.

Turn: {K-Hearts}

"Ace!"

River: {5-Spades}

to ship the pot to Zaytsev.

Tags: Theo Jorgensen

03-06-2010 18:29 UTC+1

Jude Ainsworth Eliminated in 19th Place (€23,500)

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Donnie Peters

Jude Ainsworth opened from middle position to 65,000 and then Kevin MacPhee reraised from the button to 200,000. When action got back to Ainsworth, he moved all in for a little under 600,000. MacPhee snap-called and the cards were revealed.

MacPhee: {9-Diamonds}