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Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,865,000
Total Entries
773
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 773
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Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
And with that ridiculously exciting triple bubble-all in, Day 2 at the PokerStars.net EPT Berlin ends abruptly with all 119 remaining players in the money. While we feel for the close-but-no-€7,500 Mr. Lobzhanidze, eyes are already on the Day 3 chip leaders.
First among these is Frenchman Fabrice Soulier, who won the biggest pot of the day and having reached 800,000 chips just kept on going until the final whistle. He ends the day with 1,079,400 - a tidy chip lead - while German qualifier Alessandro Laubinger lies in second with 742,400.
Team PokerStars lost over half of the remaining Pros in the field, including Arnaud Mattern, Jan Heitmann and Sandra Naujoks, but there are still two German Team members flying the Day 3 flag: Sebastian Ruthenberg (278,800) and George 'the Panzer' Danzer (310,500). Also still in the running, and now guaranteed at least €7,500 are EPT Snowfest winner Vladimir Geshkenbein, Team Pro Portugal Henrique Pinho, Nima Ahrary, Martin Jacobson and Peter Eastgate.
The march towards the final table and first prize of €825,000 will begin tomorrow at 12pm local time.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
The other two hands going on at the same time as the bubble saw an elimination and a split pot.
Karl Heinz Klose was all-in preflop for 74,200 against Christian Knese, the former having made a very bold move with 
only to run into the 
of the latter.
The board came 
and Klose was eliminated but busts out in 119th receving €7,500 by degree of having more chips than Andrey Alexandrovich Lobzhanidze.
In the third hand, Maxim Panyak was at risk with 
against 
surviving a mighty scare on the turn of a 
board.
Play is now done for the night, we'll restart tomorrow, eight-handed, with 119 players.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
Three all-in-and-call combos at once! This is the first time we've seen this in one hand-for-hand moment at an EPT. The tension was clearly great for Lobzhanidze, who had to wait while a) huge crowds grew around all three tables b) one of the camera guys fetched a spare battery and c) the TV table's hand (coming shortly) was played through because his was the largest at-risk stack.
Lobzhanidze stood on a chair, resplendent in red with 
at risk against Vladimir Geshkenbein's 
. Tense but patient and heckled and encouraged by the rail which seemed to have materialised out of thin air, Lobzhanidze watched sadly as the board brought 
and gave him no share of the prizepool.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
Robert Wagner is the unlucky 122nd placed finisher, all-in with against Martin Jacobson's 
when the board came 
.
We're now going hand for hand.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
Tough break for Nicholas Newport, who falls just short of the money in either 123rd or 122nd place (the screens briefly flicked between numbers as he stood with his tournament life at risk). He made the final bet (+49k) all in over Mario Adinolfi, who made the call with 
. Newport's dominated, but a 
flop changed all that.
On the turn, Newport gave the table a small frustrated slap, and was walking out the door on the 
river.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
By the by, it has come to our attention that the reason that Fabrice Soulier has all of those chips (almost a million, we reckon) and Jason Helder has almost none (80,000 or so) is the 
that Soulier turned over after getting his whole stack in on the river of an 
board. Helder mucked and Soulier looks to be our chip leader still.
Level 15
: 2,000/4,000, 400 ante
PokerStars qualifier Ben Wilinofsky found himself in a sticky spot against a short stack. Wilinofsky was holding against but somehow the poker gods granted him favour, the board came 
to cause a loud amount of groans from several players.
123 players remain.
