We picked up the action on the 
flop. Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis fired 500 and only Ilya Gorodetskiy made the call.
The turn was the 
and Veldhuis stayed in control with a bet of 1,200. Gorodetskiy called again. Then, both players checked the 
river card.
Veldhuis showed the 
for a pair of jacks and Gorodetskiy mucked his hand.
The player under the gun opened the pot with a limp which certainly didn't bother Jakob Karlsson because he raised to 450 next to act. This folded out the rest of the players right up to Fabrice Soulier in the small blind and he called and when Jonathan Duhamel folded his big blind the UTG player put in the extra chips to make the call.
The dealer put out thee 
flop, Soulier checked, the UTG player checked and Karlsson bet 1,100. This was a bet that only Soulier called. The turn brought the 
into the equation but neither player wanted to make a bet and they checked. The river was the 
and Soulier checked again. Karlsson bet 3,500 into the Frenchman and 10 seconds later Soulier folded and Karlsson won an early pot.
From middle position, Dominik Nitsche raised to 300. The player in the next spot three-bet to 800 and action folded back to Nitsche. He called and took a 
flop. Nitsche checked, then folded to his opponent's continuation bet of 1,200.
After an early-position player raised to 250, Yevgeniy Timoshenko reraised to 750. Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko and Athanasios Polychronopoulos called before action folded back to the original raiser. He four-bet to 4,250 and everyone folded.
Xuan Liu got mixed up in a pot with a lot of raises and there was some confusion over what constituted a raise.
She opened to 250 from the hijack before Paul Michaelis on the button three-bet to 600. Josh Prager was in the big blind and called before Lui put it a four-bet (I think to 1,800). Michaelis called but Prager was scared off.
The flop came down 
and Lui led for 1,300 and was raised to 3,125. Her response was to three-bet to 5,100. Michaelis wasn't to be muscled off the hand and put in a four-bet to 5,1000. Lui through in two 5k chips and the German made a quick call thinking it was a raise. Lui insisted it was a call and changed the 5k chip for a 100 value chip. A floor-man was in attendance and said it was a call as the two chips she through in were of the same value and one of them alone was not enough to call the last raise.
Michaelis asked Lui, "Fake raise?"
The turn came and Lui quickly check-folded to a 4,625 bet.
Michaelis said to Lui, "That was a good way of getting a free card as you were never going to call another raise."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,500
-9,500
|
-9,500 |
Some poker players say you should gamble it up early in a tournament in order to accumulate a big stack whilst other say tight is right. If you ask Robert Rohr then he will almost certainly go for the first option.
We joined the action on a 
flop where Nedzib Suman had checked from the small blind, Robert Rohr bet 500 from middle position and Walter Beckmann called from the hijack. With the action back on Suman he made it 1,850 to play then Rohr pulled back his original bet before replacing it with chips worth 4,100. Beckmann got out of the way but Suman asked how many chips his now sole opponent held.
"Around 12" came the response.
Shortly afterwards Suman had moved all in and was instantly called.
Suman: 
Rohr: 
The turn was the 
and the river was the 
completing an unnecessary flush for Rohr and he flies up the chi counts early doors.
From under the gun, Viktor Blom raised to 300. The player in the next spot called and then action folded to Ben Wilinofsky in the hijack seat. He called before Adam Levy was up in the cutoff seat. Levy reraised to 1,350 and everyone folded, but Wilinofsky. He called.
The flop came down 
and Wilinofsky checked. Levy bet 1,600 and Wilinofsky folded.
Also joining Levy, Wilinofsky and Blom at this table are David Sonelin and Chris Moorman. Let the fireworks begin.
Imagine you had paid €5,300 of cold hard cash to enter the EPT Berlin only for you to bust out 22 minutes later. Well that has happened to Jari-Pekka Juhola!
We discovered he had made a flush on the river with 
only to discover Alex Kell had made a full house! Oh well, there is always the Grand Final in a week or so!
Johannes Strassmann was in the big blind and looked down to find 
in the hole. But unfortunately for him everyone folded around to him and he received an unwanted walk.
The very next hand it folded around to him on the small blind and he opened to 300. Schahin Shad-Manfaat in the big blind made the call and the pair shared a flop reading 
. Strassmann checked, Shad-Manfaat bet 400 and Strassmann folded.
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
