Heinz Kamutzki raised from the cutoff seat and made it 16,000 to go. Mario Puccini reraised to 44,000 from the big blind and Kamutzki fired a reraise right back at him for 78,000. Puccini shoved all in and Kamutzki snap-folded.
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst and EPT Berlin Season 6 champion Kevin MacPhee just had a big preflop clash on the feature table that saw MacPhee double to 870,000.
According to Anton Wigg, Selbst raised to 17,000 and then MacPhee made it 37,000 from the button. Selbst made it 86,000 and MacPhee five-bet to 131,000 with 294,000 behind. Selbst jammed all in and MacPhee went into the tank. He thought for about 10 minutes before finally making the call.
"Do you have ace-jack?" asked Selbst.
"No, ace-nine," responded MacPhee.
The look on Selbst's face was along the lines of "what the heck is going on here" as she turned over the . MacPhee's hand was the .
The flop, turn and river ran out and MacPhee's 425,000 turned into 870,000 with the double. Selbst dropped back to 525,000 or so and was left shaking her head a bit.
Martin Jacobson has been eliminated from the EPT Berlin main event at the hands of Vladimir Geshkenbein. At the last chip count Jacobson had 721,000 chips but something must have gone horribly wrong as we just saw him open-shove his last 70,000 from middle position and find a Geshkenbein shaped caller in the cutoff.
Jacobson:
Geshkenbein:
"Anyone fold a six?" asked Geshkenbein,
"Yeah," replied Florian Dohnert
"You're drawing to one out," informed Geshkenbein, "Good luck, you're going to need it!"
Jacobson half-joking stuck his middle finger up at his soon to be executioner, prompting a giggle from everyone seated at the table.
The board ran out and with that Jacobson's tournament has come to an end and we have less than 60 players remaining in the main event.
From under the gun plus one, William Thorson limped in. On the button, Bahadir Kilickeser limped and then Eric Vuissoz completed from the small blind.Søren Reffstrup was in the big blind and raised to 48,000. After a couple minutes of deep thought, Thorson called. The other two players folded.
The flop came down and both players checked to see the come out on the turn. Reffstrup checked and Thorson bet 42,000. Reffstrup check-raised all in for about 125,000 and Thorson called.
Both players tabled aces. Reffstrup held the and Thorson the . The river completed the board with the and the two of them chopped up the pot.
Zachary Korik opened from the hijack and saw Norbert Hölting three-bet all-in for 64,000 from the big blind. The American sat there for a minute or two before announcing call in a reluctant way.
He tabled and that prompted Sebastian Winkler to say, "What a slow-roller!"
"It's not, I don't know Math!" defended Korik.
By now Hölting had opened and was happy to see the flop come to make him a boat.
Heinz Kamutzki now piped in and said to Korik, "That's what you get for it".
The board ran out and as we left Korik was still talking about how he can't count.
Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst is approaching one million chips over on the secondary feature table and her cause was helped by Anton Wigg.
We joined the action on a board reading where Wigg had checked from the big blind. Selbst was to his immediate left and he had fired a bet of 18,000. The button, a Mr Tim Bettingen made the call then Wigg check-raised to 72,000. Selbst asked for confirmation of the amount before making the call and after seeing that action Bettingen was done with the hand.
The river was the and Wigg counted out his chips before making it 142,000 to play. Selbst snap-called and Wigg knew he was beaten, reluctantly showing . Selbst had hit a straight on th eriver with her and now has 835,000 chips.
Scott Baumstein's tournament has come to an abrupt end and he will have to wait until the Grand Final if he is to win an EPT this season.
William Thorson raised to 12,000 from the cutoff and Baumstein moved all in for a total of 82,000 from the small blind. He must have known he was not in very good shape when Bahadir Kilickeser called in the big blind and Thorson made the call too!
Kilickeser checked the arrival of the flop and Thorson follow suit and checked behind. The turn saw some aggression though because when Kilickeser checked Thorson bet 63,000. The bet was made up of blue, then red then purple chips and they leant to the left almost like the famous tower in Pisa. They were soon cut down though because Kilickeser asked for a count. He wasn't prepared to pay 63,000 and he folded.
"Am I drawing dead?" asked Baumstein to which Thorson simply shook his head and turned over . "I have three outs" declared Baumstein and revealed his .
Those three outs failed to materialise as the river was the and Thorson won the pot.