2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k7
Prize
€712,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,725,000
Entries
745
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000

Timex Busts Kadler

Mario Puccini raised from early-middle position to 900 and Olaf Kadler moved all in for 7,700 from a later position. In the hijack seat, Mike "Timex" McDonald reraised all in for around 30,000. Everyone folded and it was Kadler versus McDonald for this pot.

McDonald held the dominating position with the {A-Diamonds}{K-Clubs} to Kadler's {A-Clubs}{Q-Diamonds}. The flop, turn and river ran out {8-Clubs}{8-Spades}{4-Spades}{J-Clubs}{9-Spades} and McDonald won the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Mike "Timex" McDonald
Mike "Timex" McDonald
40,000 10,000

Tags: Olaf KadlerMario PucciniMike McDonald

These Players Have Gone For An Early Dinner

The following list shows players who have busted out so far during levels five and six.

Player Chips Progress
Thomas Graupner de
Thomas Graupner
Busted
Frank Sypplie
Frank Sypplie
Busted
[Removed:172]
[Removed:172]
Busted
Stefan Wrenger
Stefan Wrenger
Busted
Baris Ergün
Baris Ergün
Busted
Roland Bachmann ch
Roland Bachmann
Busted
Agentur Teichmann
Agentur Teichmann
Busted
Yazbeck Georges
Yazbeck Georges
Busted
Ramil Boyazitov
Ramil Boyazitov
Busted
Rino Mathis ch
Rino Mathis
Busted
Marcel Schreiner de
Marcel Schreiner
Busted
Ivan Todorovic
Ivan Todorovic
Busted
Adam Levy us
Adam Levy
Busted
Christian Jambor
Christian Jambor
Busted
Anton Kraus bg
Anton Kraus
Busted

Updated Chip Counts

Player Chips Progress
Andreas Vlachos gr
Andreas Vlachos
155,000
Salman Behbehani us
Salman Behbehani
110,000 65,000
David Sonelin se
David Sonelin
84,000
William Thorson se
William Thorson
74,000 44,000
Grayson Ramage us
Grayson Ramage
60,000 30,000
Nicolas Chouity lb
Nicolas Chouity
EPT 1X Winner
50,000 20,000
Viktor Blom se
Viktor Blom
49,000 10,300
Jeff Hakim lb
Jeff Hakim
48,000 18,000
Juha Helppi fi
Juha Helppi
39,000 9,000
Matt Jarvis ca
Matt Jarvis
37,500 7,500
Alex Kravchenko ru
Alex Kravchenko
37,000 7,000
Fatima Moreira de Melo nl
Fatima Moreira de Melo
35,500 5,500
Ana Marquez es
Ana Marquez
35,000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fr
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
33,400 3,400
Sorel Mizzi ca
Sorel Mizzi
32,700 3,700
Kenny Shih tw
Kenny Shih
31,000 1,000
Pius Heinz de
Pius Heinz
30,500 500
Dominik Nitsche de
Dominik Nitsche
29,000 -1,000
Yevgeniy Timoshenko ua
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
28,000 -2,000
Athanasios Polychronopoulos us
Athanasios Polychronopoulos
25,500 -4,500
Jonathan Karamalikis au
Jonathan Karamalikis
25,000 -5,000
Martin Finger de
Martin Finger
EPT 1X Winner
25,000 -5,000
Mickey Petersen dk
Mickey Petersen
EPT 1X Winner
21,500 100
Sandra Naujoks de
Sandra Naujoks
21,000 -9,000
David Vamplew gb
David Vamplew
EPT 1X Winner
18,000 -7,125

Rettenmaier Almost Back to Black

Marvin Rettenmaier's tournament is going in the right direction now after he doubled through WSOPE Champion Elio Fox.

The German Tweeted: "77>4s5s on 8s 7 3 ks k... Elio fires 3 barrels -> double up to 28k"

He filled us in that he called Fox's under the gun raise whilst sat on the button.

Player Chips Progress
Elio Fox us
Elio Fox
38,000 11,975
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
28,000 14,000

Tags: Marvin RettenmaierElio Fox

What Goes Up........

Faraz Jaka likes to play a high variance, high reward brand of poker. This causes his stack to fluctuate accordingly. He was dizzy with 67,000 not so long ago but the bad side of variance has kicked his stack down to 16,500.

We saw him shove on Felix Schulze earlier, and muck when the German called all in with ace-high. The two have tangled again in a spot where Jaka joked it was, "Standard".

We're not sure how the betting went but there were a multi-raises before the cards were on their backs.

Jaka: {a-Diamonds}{q-Clubs}
Schulze: {k-Clubs}{2-Hearts}

The board ran {k-Spades}{8-Spades}{4-Hearts}{9-Hearts}{j-Hearts} to pair Schulze's king.

Player Chips Progress
Faraz Jaka us
Faraz Jaka
16,500 -50,500

Tags: Faraz JakaFelix Schulze

Brombacher Bluffs The World Champion

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Pius Heinz may be the current World Series of Poker Main Event champion but he has been given little credit from Sascha Brombacher who just bluffed him off a hand.

Heinz opened with a raise to 800 from middle position and the player to his immediate left, Khalil Youssafi, made the call. Two players folded and Brombacher squeezed to 2,100. With the action back on Heinz he clicked it back and made it 3,825 putting the attention on Youssafi. He placed his "West Coast Choppers" cap back on, re-checked his cards before giving them back to the dealer.

Brombacher then moved all in for an additional 16,000 and Heinz insta-folded. As he did he was proudly shown the {Q-Spades}{9-Hearts}. Nice hand sir.

Tags: Khalil YoussafiPius HeinzSascha Brombacher

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

Chips From the Dark Side (Casino don't have many windows)

Player Chips Progress
Brahim Oubella
Brahim Oubella
104,000
Per Linde se
Per Linde
83,000 48,000
Jake Cody gb
Jake Cody
EPT 1X Winner
68,000 13,000
Kevin MacPhee us
Kevin MacPhee
58,000 15,000
Julian Herold de
Julian Herold
55,000 -5,000
Rupert Elder gb
Rupert Elder
EPT 1X Winner
51,000 22,100
Jason Wheeler us
Jason Wheeler
45,000 -2,000
Stefan Mattsson
Stefan Mattsson
40,000
Ville Wahlbeck fi
Ville Wahlbeck
37,000 8,800
Johan van Til nl
Johan van Til
35,000
Charlotte Van Brabander be
Charlotte Van Brabander
32,000 -10,000
Steven van Zadelhoff nl
Steven van Zadelhoff
21,500 -500
Michael Tureniec se
Michael Tureniec
EPT 1X Winner
21,500 -4,500
Jamie Rosen us
Jamie Rosen
21,000 -17,000
Christophe De Meulder be
Christophe De Meulder
19,000 -7,700
Marvin Rettenmaier de
Marvin Rettenmaier
14,000 -51,000
Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree
11,125 -19,375
Matthias De Meulder be
Matthias De Meulder
11,000 -24,500

Ramdin Kicked Back Some

Ivan Todorovic raised to 1,000 from under the gun and Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin called from the cutoff seat. The big blind also came along, to make for three-handed action to the flop.

The {9-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{5-Diamonds} rolled out and action checked over to Ramdin. He bet 2,000 and only the big blind called.

The {A-Clubs} was added on the turn and the big blind checked. Ramdin fired 4,000 and his opponent check-raised to 9,400. Ramdin gave it up and dropped back to 108,000 in chips.

Player Chips Progress
Victor Ramdin us
Victor Ramdin
108,000 -14,000

Tags: Victor RamdinIvan Todorovic