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.
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 to Kadler's . The flop, turn and river ran out and McDonald won the pot.
Martin Stausholm was seated in late position and he opened the betting with a raise to 850. One player folded but Simon Ravsnbaek liked the look of his hand and he three-bet to 2,100 from the hijack seat. The cutoff and button both stepped aside but Frederic Hebette, in the small blind, took back his blind and replaced it with chips worth 6,100.
Stausholm had seen enough and he mucked his had but Ravnsbaek took a little longer to consider what he thought was the best play before he decided that copying Stausholm and folding was best.
Peter Jepson has doubled up but he is still quite short and has plenty of work to do here in Berlin.
The action folded around to him in the small blind and he open-limped. Sören Vöhrs was the big blind and he looked at Jepson's stack, saw he only had 6,000 left and set him all in. Jepson looked to the sky whilst working something out in his head before calling.
Jepson:
Vöhrs:
The dealer fanned out the flop and Jepson stood from his seat. The turn was the and it was looking like an early bath for Jepson but his bacon was saved when the river was the .
After the cutoff seat limped followed by Team PokerStars Pro Victor Ramdin limping on the button, Michiel Brummelhuis raised to 2,700 from the small blind. In the big blind was Spencer "Tex" Hudson and he reraised to 7,900. Play folded back to Brummelhuis and he called.
The flop came down and Brummelhuis checked. Hudson fired 14,000. Brummelhuis thought, then called.
The turn brought the and Brummelhuis checked again. After a minute, Hudson fired all in for a little over 40,000. Brummelhuis tanked and tanked, but eventually gave it up and Hudson won the pot.
It's not a good day to be a PokerStars Team Pro over here in the casino. Liv Boeree and Ville Wahlbeck busted as we approach the dinner break.
Wahlbeck made a straight on the river of a paired board. The same card made his opponent a full house, and he over-bet the pot, setting the Finn in. He told me he felt he had to call.
Boeree's last 10,700 went in with pocket queens but she was very unfortunate to run into Azziz Abdelmalki who woke up with kings in the big blind.
During the dinner break, the whole of this room is being moved into the main ballroom in the Hyatt where the rest of day 1b's players are seated. The likes of Christophe and Matthias De Meulder will hope that this will break said suspected curse.
to pair Schulze's king.
. The flop, turn and river ran out 
and McDonald won the pot.
flop and Jepson stood from his seat. The turn was the 
and it was looking like an early bath for Jepson but his bacon was saved when the river was the 
.
and Brummelhuis checked. Hudson fired 14,000. Brummelhuis thought, then called.
and Brummelhuis checked again. After a minute, Hudson fired all in for a little over 40,000. Brummelhuis tanked and tanked, but eventually gave it up and Hudson won the pot.
