Dinner Time
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Level 6 has come to an end and that means only one thing. Dinner time!
See you in 75 minutes!
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,725,000
Entries
745
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
Back At It
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
The players have returned from dinner and the cards are back in the air.
Bustout Central
These players busted out just before the dinner break.
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Poker Players, Thousands of Them
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
It's hectic out on the tournament floor. A tight mass of poker players are fighting it out to make it through to Day 2 of EPT Berlin, ultimately looking to follow in the footsteps of previous champs Kevin MacPhee and Ben Wilinofsky.
Read the full article on the PokerStars Blog.
Markus Ristola Has Kings Cracked
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Markus Ristola has been left with just 4,500 after having his kings cracked by Griffin Benger. All the chips went in preflop with Ristola holding 
and Benger the 
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Benger was the player at risk and it looked life he was about to be busted out because by the turn the board read 
but the river was the 
which earned him a stay of execution and crippled Ristola.
Friends With Benefits
A lot of the young players who travel circuit off-set the loneliness of life on the road by forming little groups. They fly together, share hotels rooms, go to dinner, and talk through strategy. This offers a lot of unseen benefits to their profitability. Xuan Liu, David Vamplew and Mickey Petersen are all good friends of similar age who hang together and all three have restarted well after dinner.
Petersen raised from second position after Albert Bernardo limped from the under-the-gun seat. Bernardo called to see a 
flop where he check-called a 2,000 bet. Both players checked through the 
turn and Bernardo led for 3,000 on the river. Petersen called with 
and took the pot as his opponent only had 
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Vamplew is on the up after check-raising on a 
flop in a three-way pot. It did the trick as both opponents folded.
Meanwhile Liu tweeted: "Just knocked out two shorties, 69k just after dinner."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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69,000
32,500
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47,000
29,000
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14,500
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ElkY's UTG Range Wide? Never!
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Most poker books suggest that you only raise the most premium of hands from under the gun but it appears that ElkY has not taken heed of that because he just opened the action from that very position, making it 1,025 to play but when the player to his direct left, Andreas Setz, three-bet to 3,000 ElkY quickly folded.
Goodbye. Thanks For Coming.
These players have lost their stacks and are no longer competing in the EPT Berlin Main Event.
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Werner Check-Raise Does The Job
Level 7
: 250/500, 50 ante
Bernd Werner open-limped from the hijack seat and his fellow countryman in the next seat, Tony Stockhecke, raised it up to 1,700 and Werner called. The dealer fanned out the 
flop and Werner checked its arrival. Stockhecke made a continuation bet of 2,300 only to see Werner check-raise up to 6,900. Stockhecke checked his cards, then re-checked them before flicking them back to the dealer.