2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info
2011 PokerStars.net European Poker Tour Berlin
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,865,000
Entries
773
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 773
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Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Fabrice Soulier raised preflop to 52,000. It folded to small blind (and permanent ipad book-reader) Thomas Traboulsi in the big blind. So short his stack was hard to see (104,000 total, with 25,000 in the blind) he had a chat to himself before making a decision.
"Pocket two? If you have no pocket I will do it."
The rail assumed he meant get his last four big blinds in - but no, he flat called, moving all in on the 
. Soulier instacalled with 
and Traboulsi showed 
. He was just starting to launch into a, "How can you call" type lecture when he spiked the 
on the turn, slapped the table and held on the 
river.
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Two big hands reached a critical stage on the river simultaneously on the outer tables.
1st Big River:
Max Heinzelmann had raised preflop, picked up Cuello Jorge Mariano and seen a check-checked flop of 
. The turn had been moderately bet (60k) when Mariano checked, but the 
river was check-raised by the young Spaniard to 320,000 (Heinzelmann fired 113,000). Heinzelmann folded.
2nd Big River:
Martin Jacobson raised to 48,000 preflop, called by Mario Adinolfi in the big blind. Adinolfi led out for 65,000 on the 
flop, called by Jacobson. He led the 
river as well (130,000) but Jacobson calmly raised all in. Covered, Adinolfi finally laid down his hand leaving himself a stack of 320,000.
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Gerardo Muro has fallen, racing 
preflop vs. Ben Wilinofsky's pocket jacks. We were alerted to this as Wilinofsky stood up and said, "Good luck," sounding for all the world like he genuinely meant it. The jacks held and with such a rate of elimination on the feature table Daniel Pidun has had to be moved to fill in one of the gaps.
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
All press have been completely banned from going anywhere near the feature table, which is awkward as nobody is announcing the action and the TV crew aren't sharing any information with us.
Hence we can't really tell you the circumstances of his demise, but we can tell you that the first player to hit the rail today was the short-stacked Alexander Smolin. GG, Mr. Smolin. He picks up €20,000 for his efforts.
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 2,000 ante
Luis Jaikel opened to 47,000 from the cutoff and Alessandro Laubinger made the call from the big blind.
The flop came 
and Laubinger check-called a bet of 67,000 to see a 
turn.
Laubinger checked again and Jaikel moved all-in, the German tanked but eventually folded.
"Good fold!" said Jaikel showing the 
.
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 2,000
Level 22
: 10,000/20,000, 2,000 ante
With 1:09 left on the clock for the 20k/40k level, there will be one hand (two if everyone folds round and the dealer is speedy) before they ratchet the blinds up.
