2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
76
Prize
€825,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,865,000
Entries
773
Level Info
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000

Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
[Removed:13]
[Removed:13]
111,000
9,000
9,000
Joep van den Bijgaart nl
Joep van den Bijgaart
80,000
49,000
49,000
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
65,000
30,000
30,000
EPT 1X Winner
Johannes Strassmann
Johannes Strassmann
64,000
35,000
35,000
Max Lykov
Max Lykov
63,000
21,000
21,000
Tobias Reinkemeier de
Tobias Reinkemeier
54,000
19,000
19,000
Kevin Vandersmissen be
Kevin Vandersmissen
52,000
-4,000
-4,000
Anthony Roux
Anthony Roux
35,000
5,000
5,000
Christophe De Meulder be
Christophe De Meulder
34,000
-1,000
-1,000
Scott Montgomery ca
Scott Montgomery
31,500
-3,600
-3,600
James Mitchell gb
James Mitchell
24,200
-10,800
-10,800
Javed Abrahams gb
Javed Abrahams
23,500
14,000
14,000
Antonio Matias pt
Antonio Matias
18,000
-17,000
-17,000
EPT 1X Winner
Praz Bansi gb
Praz Bansi
14,000
6,850
6,850
Ilari Tahkokallio fi
Ilari Tahkokallio
12,000
-15,000
-15,000

Joep in de Line, Rock Your Body on Time

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

Angelo Falcone fired out 3,750 on the turn of a {4-Clubs}{2-Spades}{3-Hearts}{q-Spades} board against Dutch PokerStars Team Pro Joep van den Bijgaart and the latter flat-called to see a {3-Spades} river. Now Falcone led out for 5,000 only for Van den Bijgaart to set him in for another 16,000 or so.

Falcone shrugged after a moment, before deciding to call and the Dutchman turned over {4-Hearts}{4-Diamonds} for the full house, Falcone flashing {a-Spades}{q-Clubs} into the muck as he was eliminated.

Tags: Joep van den Bijgaart

Andrulis Back to Square 1

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

Kristijonas Andrulis and one other player were looking at a {k-Hearts}{8-Spades}{3-Hearts} flop when we arrived at their table; the other player had checked in the hijack and Andrulis was betting 3,500 from the button. After a pause, his opponent made the call.

The turn was the {9-Spades} and again the hijack gentleman checked. This time Andrulis bet 5,000, leaving himself just 9,000 back. This prompted an impressive Dwell Of Ages - whole hands were played out at neighbouring tables, whole tournament fortunes won and lost, before our gent finally folded.

After six and a half levels of play, Andrulis is back up to his starting stack - 30,000.

Tags: Kristijonas Andrulis

Ruthenberg 'One-time'-d

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

It didn't hurt very much, though, as the person doing it was a very short stack moving in for just 3,850 over the top of Sebastian Ruthenberg's preflop raise. According to original seating plan this gent was Saab Rachad, but there's been more seat swapping here than on swings in the park so we'll call him Short Stsck. Ruthenberg's original raise to 1,500 had been flat called in mid position by another short-ish player with just 14,225 at the start of the hand, but this player folded when Ruthenberg set him in with an, "In for a penny, in for a pound," sort of look.

"Good fold," he said, showing {K-Spades}{K-Clubs} which were promptly outdrawn by the Short Stack's {A-Hearts}{10-Hearts} which hit two pair on the board.

Tags: Sebastian Ruthenberg

No Stress, Man

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Johannes Strassmann
Johannes Strassmann

Meir Dahan opened to 1,500 preflop and Johannes Strassmann was the only caller as the players saw a dry looking flop of {10-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{3-Clubs}. Dahan checked and Strassmann fired 1,100 only for Dahan to quickly check-raise to 6,000.

Strassmann studied the board again for the moment before electing to call to see a {2-Spades} turn. Dahan now quickly fired 30,000 basically setting Strassmann all-in and German quickly pushed for barely a thousand more and Dahan called.

Strassmann: {10-Diamonds}{10-Clubs} looking very unemotional
Dahan: {a-Clubs}{a-Spades} and looking very sad

The {2-Hearts} changed nothing on the river and Strassmann doubled to 65,000.

Tags: Johannes Strassmann

No Luck Yeah for Ascari

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante
Fabrizio Ascari
Fabrizio Ascari

By the time we got there, a complete board reading {7-Spades}{10-Diamonds}{a-Spades}{8-Diamonds}{4-Hearts} was out on the felt. The dealer was announcing, "Eight thousand. Eight thousand," over and over again. Kevin Vandersmissen had bet 8,000. Fabrizio Ascari was removing his earphones and looking around in bewilderment, as though he'd just woken up and suddenly realised that he was still in the hand.

So now aware that he was expected to make a decision, Ascari tanked up for a little while. He said something that sounded like, "Jacks for me. Jacks for me," and he made the call - but a second later he was banging the table and declaring, "Very good," followed by, "No luck yeah."

Vandersmissen: {7-Clubs}{7-Hearts} for a set - now up to 63,000
Ascari: {k-Spades}{k-Hearts} for just a pair of kings - now down to 57,000

Tags: Fabrizio AscariKevin Vandersmissen

New Leader

Level 7 : 300/600, 50 ante

We were just about to announce the ascension of Sander Berndsen to the probable chip lead (as the Dutch PokerNews were keen to have us believe) but actually their man trails Nima Ahary with 174,000 right here in level 7.

Tags: Nima AharySander Berndsen

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

Knesey Game

Level 8 : 400/800, 75 ante

PokerStars Team Pro Max Lykov check-raised Christian Knese's flop bet of 2,000 to 4,600 on a board of {q-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{6-Clubs}. Knese, a PokerStars online qualifier made the call to see a {2-Spades} turn where Lykov now fired 5,800 and again was quickly called.

The river was the {8-Hearts} and Lykov thought for about two minutes before throwing in 25,000 chips to cover Knese's remaining 16,000 stack.

The German player tanked for a little while while Lykov remained completely motionless, finally the qualifier folded.

Lykov over the 60,000 mark.

Tags: Max Lykov