Griffin Benger just explained how his good start had him up to 80,000 chips early on. A few minutes later he Tweeted even better news and Benger is currently one of the biggest stacks with 93,000 chips.
On the first hand Benger raised under the gun to 700 and the player to his left, Pavel Binar, three-bet to 1,700. The action was folded back to Benger who made the call. The flop rolled out and Benger lead out for 1,800, his opponent called.
The turn brought the and this time Benger check-called 2,600. The river brought the and now the man known as Flush_Entity lead out for 7,300. Binar made the call and mucked when Benger showed his for a rivered flush.
The second hand Benger told us went as following. The player to Benger's right limped under the gun and he decided to raise to 925. Both Taylor Paur and Sorel Mizzi called as did the limper. The flop brought out and the limper check-called the 1,700-chip bet from Benger. On the turn a hit and both players checked. The river brought a and Benger extracted 3,300 from his opponent. After this hand he was up to 80,000 and this Tweet followed a bit later on.
Alexander Isenberg and Imed Mahmoud have been battling it out since the start and Mahmoud just wone some chips back. The board read and Mahmoud checked from the big blind to Isenberg who fired out 2,600. Mahmoud raised to 6,300 and Isenberg made the call.
On the river the hit and Mahmoud bet 10,000. Isenberg gave it some thought before folding and Mahmoud won this round between the two.
Jeffrey Rossiter played jacks cautiously from the small blind and won a small pot as a result. Giuseppe Pantaleo opened from under the gun and Rossiter and Benny Spindler called out of the blinds. Pantaleo continued for 1,000 on the flop and only Rossiter check-called. Both players went on to check down the turn and river. Rossiter's beat out his German opponent's .
Michael Benvenuti forced Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier off a pot on the turn. He had called an ElkY raise and a c-bet before his 2,500 bet when the board read caused Elky to check-fold.
Max Lykov was one of the later entrants and he's already over 100,000 chips. He was heads-up to the turn of a board with fellow Team Pro Jan Heitmann. The Russian bet 4,200 and Heitmann tank folded.
Alex Mos has just been knocked out by the hands of Vladimir Troyanovskiy. Faraz Jaka raised to 900 and Gautam Sabharwal made the call to his direct left. Troyanovskiy three-bet to 2,800 after which Mos moved all in over the top for 14,000. Jaka and Sabharwal folded and Troyanovskiy made the call.
Chris Moorman just misses out on trophy in the €2k at EPT Berlin. German Daniel Otto took the 1st place prize of €131,000. Check the full results and cashes for Mohsin Charania, Griffin Benger and Matthias de Meulder here.
Paul Klann was the second player to bust his first bullet today. It is not known if he'll re-enter yet but if he does he has to buy back in across the road at the Speilbank Casino.
Alex Mos was at risk of having to find another bullet but he managed to race well and double up.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy opened from the hijack before Mos moved all in for 6,100 from the button. Timothy Adams was on the button and shoved for around 50,000 which was enough to force out Troyanovskiy.