Thomas Traboulsi has just doubled through Ilya Gorodetskiy - twice.
First he pushed all-in for about 65,000 against the Russian and won with 
against 
to double up to about 150,000 when the board came 
.
A couple of hands later and Gorodetskiy moved all-in for 250,000 and Traboulsi called all-in again with 
this time against the Russian's 
. This time the board came 
.
Traboulsi now up to 320,000 and Gorodetskiy dropped to 110,000.
Saar Wilf has become our latest casualty, his 
in the hijack no good against small blind Cuello Jorge Mariano's pocket 
. The 
board was not enough to save him, and Wilf was gone.
Mariano is up to 450,000.
Bolivar Palacios check-called a bet of 78,000 on the turn of a 
board against Maximilian Heinzelmann to see a 
river.
Palacios now checked again and Heinzelmann now moved all-in. Palacios exhaled deeply and thought for a minute before announcing "Call."
With a wry smile, Heinzelmann turned over 
for the backdoored nut straight and Palacios was forced to to show 
for second pair. (All-in showdowns must have all cards revealed).
We're breaking to four tables now and Heinzelmann is the chip leader with 1.9 million.
While Saar Wilf was busy busting out on the next table, a blind-on-blind raising war between Kristijonas Andrulis and Ilya Gorodetskiy culminated in the latter all in and dominated.
Gorodetskiy:
Andrulis: 
No tens were forthcoming and Gorodetskiy duly busted out. Gorodetskiy finished in 16th place here last year, and now picks up his second consecutive EPT Berlin cash. We suggested to him afterwards that next year he might win it. "Yes, probably," reflected the ever-sanguine Russian, "Although the trend is wrong."
Andrulis is at 790,000.
A short-stacked Konstantin Puchkov just outdrew his way back into the competition as he raised all but his card protecting 1k chip preflop under the gun. Martin Jacobson called right after him. The rest of the table quickly threw their hands in and they saw a flop, with the pot standing at 150000 times Puchkov's remaining stack. They joke-checked a 
flop but the extra thousand did get in.
| Puchkov: |
| Jacobson: |
Turn: 
for a gutshot straight
River: 
Puchkov doubles to 300,000 and tries to take Jacobson's ante for the next hand in with his mini chip lake. "Nice try," commented Wilinofsky.
Jens Weigel, who bears more than a passing resemblance to a young John Duthie, has just been knocked out a very cruel way.
All-in with against Robin Ylitalo's everything seemed to be looking good but the board came 
.
"Ouch..." said Weigel, "Well, good luck everyone."
And with that simple gesture, the German departed.
Konstantin Puchkov's recovery continued as he checked a 
flop from the small blind. Big blind Martin Jacobson checked as well and the action moved on to Vadzim Kursevich who bet 55,000. Puchkov now shoved, prompting a swift fold from Jacobson and a slower one from Kursevich. Puchkov asked them if he wanted to see his cards. Neither looked particularly bothered, but he showed them anyway - 
for top set, and he's at 480,000.
Personable chip leader Ben Wilinofsky now has Dutch favourite and online cash-gamer Joep van den Bijgaart on his right. They instantly struck up an amusing conversation which ended with van den Bijgaart turning a blankly puzzled expression to Wilinofsky when he made a reference to 'winning' and 'Charlie Sheen.'
"Who is Charlie Sheen?"
"Seriously? You don't know Charlie Sheen? You don't spend a lot of time on the internet," marveled Wilinofsky
"Oh I spend a lot. Too much. But who is he?"
"Maybe he's not such a phenomenon in Scandinavia," countered Wilinofsky.
"I am not from Scandinavia."
"Where are you from?"
"I am from Holland."
Wilinofsky turned to a fellow Dutchman asking, "Do you know Charlie Sheen?"
He was answered in the affirmative. He went on to attempt to explain the pop culture meme that Charlie Sheen is to people who spend most of their lives on the internet. Not one crack in van den Bijgaart to be seen. No wonder he's tough to play against.
Cuello Jorge Mariano won a 1.1 million chip pot after getting all-in preflop with against Anton Morgenstern after the Russian ended up 5-betting all-in preflop. The Spaniard snap-called and the board came 
to cap a major comeback for Mariano who was one of our shorter stacks earlier. Former chip monster Morgenstern drops to around 550,000.
The final few tables stretch their legs and talk to their rapidly expanding rail. Back in 15 minutes.
