2012 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin

Main Event
Day: 2
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
Total Entries
745
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
30,000
Players Left 1 / 745
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Jones Takes On Beyne

The UK's Rhys Jones has shown that the glare of the cameras over on the secondary feature table do not faze him one iota if a recent battle with Vladimir Geshkenbein is anything to go by.

It was Geshkenbein, known to the masses simply as "Beyne," who opened the betting by raising first in from the hijack and Jones was next to act. He three-bet to 6,400 which forced the button and blinds out of the hand but Geshkenbein is not someone who reacts well to being pushed around and he four-bet to 15,000.

Jones went into the tank for around a minute before taking back his original raise and replacing it with chips worth 26,200. As soon as he had done this Beyne smiled to himself then craned his neck to get a full view of Jones' stack. He sat back in his chair again and adopted a pose not too dissimilar to the famous Auguste Rodin "The Thinker" sculpture before smiling to himself again. One last glance at Jones' stack was needed before he sent his cards back to the dealer.

Tags: Rhys JonesVladimir Geshkenbeyne

It's All About the Money, Money, Money

Cengiz Ulusu moved into the seat vacated by Matthias De Meulder and busted two players on the first hand he played!

Alexander Meidinger opened to 2,400 and was called by Ulusu before Selim Citak squeezed to 6,300. Meidinger responded by moving all-in and both his opponents followed suit.

Showdown:

Meidinger: {q-Clubs}{j-Clubs}
Ulusu: {9-Diamonds}{9-Spades}
Citak: {a-Spades}{a-Clubs}

The the board ran {8-Spades}{5-Spades}{7-Clubs}{6-Clubs}{10-Hearts}.

That's a straight for the Turk then to extend his already considerable lead at the top.

Tags: Cengiz UlusuAlexander MeidingerSelim Citak

Geshkenbein with Quads

We picked up the action on the {K-Clubs}{J-Hearts}{7-Diamonds}{7-Spades} board of the secondary feature table with action between European Poker Tour Snowfest Season 7 champion Vladimir Geshkenbein and Dmitry Vitkind. Geshkenbein checked the action to Vitkind on the turn and Vitkind bet 6,500. Geshkenbein put in a check-raise to 18,000 and Vitkind called. The river completed the board with the {5-Clubs} and both players checked.

"Ahh, no bet??!?" sighed Geshkenbein, showing the {7-Hearts}{7-Clubs} for quad sevens. Vitkind flashed the {K-Hearts} and then mucked his hand.

Tags: Dmitry VitkindVladimir Geshkenbein

Bill Chen Adds To Stack

The Mathematics of Poker author Bill Chen has added to his stack early on after taking on Samuel Albeck. The action folded to Chen in the cutoff and he raised to 3,000. Albeck was on the button and he made the call. Both blinds folded and it was heads up to the flop.

Flop: {3-Clubs}{6-Hearts}{5-Spades} - Chen made continuation bet of 7,000 and Albeck looked like he was thinking of at least calling but he got out of the way and folded his hand.

Tags: Bill ChenSamuel Albeck

More Team Pros a Go-Go

Nuno Coelho and Matthias De Meulder failed to spin up their short stacks.

Coelho busted when his pocket eights failed to hold up to an opponent's ace-queen.

De Meulder busted to Keven Stammen when his king-queen failed to win the sprint against pocket tens.

Tags: Matthias De MeulderNuno Coelho

Piccioli Shoves On His Fellow Countryman

There are no friends at the poker table and Bryan Piccoli just proved that. We missed the earlier action but it appeared Gregory Gokey had opened from UTG, Piccolu had three-bet on the button only to see Gokey put in a four-bet. Piccoli's response was to five-bet shove all in and after a brief pause Gokey let his hand go.

Tags: Bryan PiccoliGregory Gokey

It was Bound to Happen

We lost less players yesterday than expected for ten levels in to the structure. The structure always comes out on top in the end though and it helped spit a load of players out today. The below all departed in the first 30-minutes.

Cengiz Ulusu Uses Dice To Make Decisions?

When we discovered Cengiz Ulusu was the chip leader yesterday it sparked some interesting facts, one of which was that he based a major decision at the EPT Dortmund final table by tossing a coin. Now he has reverted to using dice!

Stephan Rach opened from late position to 2,600 and after Boris Becker folded the cutoff Ulusu checked his cards, rolled two dice, hit a 12 and then three-bet to 7,600. Rach sat for one minute before making the call.

The flop came down {k-Diamonds}{q-Diamonds}{3-Hearts} and Rach checked. Ulusu instantly checked behind. The turn was the {6-Spades} and Rach checked again but this time Ulusu didn't check behind, instead he fired a bet of 8,600 whch gave Rach something to think about. he thought for at least 90 seconds before folding his hand.

We do wonder if they hand would have played out any differently had Ulusu rolled a number other than 12.

Tags: Cengiz UlusuStephan Rach

Busquet Back to Starting Stack

Oliver Busquet was just knocked back to the starting stack amount of 30,000 after a little tangle with Italian Pietro Sibione. After Sibione raised to 2,500 from under the gun, Busquet reraised to 5,500 from middle position. Sibione called and took the {A-Diamonds}{4-Diamonds}{2-Hearts} flop out of position against Busquet.

Sibione check-raised the flop to 11,100 after Busquet bet 5,000 with a single blue chip. After some thought, Busquet called to see the {Q-Clubs} land on fourth street. Action here went check, check and that was followed by the dealer placing the {5-Spades} out on the river. Sibione fired 13,500 and Busquet gave it up.

Tags: Olivier BusquetPietro Sibione

Early News from Twitter

Quick and slight painful for ElkY. The Team PokerStars Pro Tweeted: "lol was quick some guy who doesn't even know stack sizes or anything tried to make move with 77 on QT8hh and my KhJ obv brick Allin lol #fml"

Better news from Steven van Zadelhoff: "Aaaannnndddd.... Double upppaaaa! 99 is better then AKo, something we already knew. Sick hold on JT8T ;p First time above 30k, 37k gogoooo."