Main Event
Day 6 Started
2013 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin
Main Event
Day: 6
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2013 PokerStars.com EPT Berlin
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,560,000
Entries
912
Level
34
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
30,000
EPT9 Berlin: It's Final Table Time
Last Sunday, the first of 912 players sat down with the hope of still being involved on this very day. After 30 levels of poker, eight have survived all the EPT Berlin has to offer. That also included a near six-hour final table bubble period.
It's hoped they still have some competitive spirit and the concentration left to perform to their highest capabilities. Concentration will be important as any mistake with the big blind average starting at 28.5 could be costly.
Here's a reminder of how the players line up:
| Seat | Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julian Thomas | 1,735,000 |
| 2 | Roman Korenev | 2,995,000 |
| 3 | Robert Haigh | 5,495,000 |
| 4 | Alexander Helbig | 3,315,000 |
| 5 | Lasse Frost | 3,700,000 |
| 6 | Pascal Vos | 1,750,000 |
| 7 | Daniel-Gai Pidun | 5,250,000 |
| 8 | Roman Herold | 3,050,000 |
Play is due to get underway at 12:00PM CET so join the blog back here then
Seat 8: Roman Herold, 26, Germany – 3,050,000
Herold has four cashes to his name, one of which came at Barcelona at the beginning of Season 9 when he finished 35th for €20,000. His best live result before EPT Berlin was as a runner-up for €22,785 in a tournament here in Berlin earlier this year.
Seat 7: Daniel-Gai Pidun, 36, Lippstadt, near Dortmund, Germany – 5,250,000
Pidun rarely plays tournaments but when he does, he tends to do well. He takes a week’s holiday every year to play EPT Berlin – and always goes deep. Two years ago he bubbled the final to finish ninth for €45,000 and last season he came 17th for €20,000, which are his two best live results to date. He also competes in tournaments at Casino Bad Oeynhausen near his home.
Most of the time though, Daniel-Gai is busy running a cell phone parts company with his brother Thomer, as well as spending time with his family. Thomer also plays poker and back in 2009 the pair found themselves on the same final table in a €200 Bad Oeynhausen tourney – Thomer finished second and Daniel-Gai fourth.
Seat 6: Pascal Vos, 25, Netherlands – 1,750,000
Vos says he hasn’t had much experience playing poker live but he is certainly thriving here at EPT Berlin, the third time he’s competed in an EPT. He’s been playing for a couple of years and is now a full-time professional. He made the final of the WCOOP this year.
Seat 5: Lasse Frost, 28, Arhus, Denmark - 3,700,000
Frost has been playing poker for seven years - but mainly just for fun. However last August, he decided to take a year off from his job in economics to play poker full time. However he says that even if he wins EPT Berlin, he will still go back to work after the summer. Even though Frost has been playing live poker for quite some time, this is his first ever EPT.
It’s an impressive run and is also his biggest live cash to date. Frost considers himself both a cash game and tournament player. He lives in his native Denmark with his girlfriend.
Seat 4: Alexander Helbig, 24, Marburg in Germany - 3,315,000
Helbig is playing his third EPT here in Berlin and it’s already proving an amazing week for the young Economics student. At the start of the Festival, Helbig took part in the inaugural €1,100 Berlin Cup and finished 11th for a €10,500 pay day. That was his best live result at the time but now he’s guaranteed at least €77,000 for making the EPT Berlin final table. Other results include winning a €250 NL turbo at the recent Masters Finale tourney in Dortmund, presented by the EPT.
Seat 3: Robert Haigh, 28, Germany - 5,495,000
Haight comes from Germany but lives in Brighton on the UK south coast. He’s an EPT regular whose biggest win to date was taking down a €1,100 NLHE side event at EPT Barcelona at the start of the season for €70,970. He was also runner-up in the Eureka Poker Tour High Roller at EPT Prague in December for €59,200 and won a €1k NL Bounty event at EPT Deauville in February. His total live tournament winnings already total more than $260,000.
Seat 2: Roman Korenev, 24, Krasnoyarsk, Russia - 2,995,000
Korenev hails from Krasnoyarsk in Russia. He’s been a professional player for the last three years playing multi-table tournaments. His best live result before making the EPT Berlin final was at EPT Deauville in February where he finished third in the €2,700 France Poker Series High Roller for €53,200. He also min-cashed the Main Events of both EPT Deauville (€8,000) and EPT Prague (€10,000).
Seat 1: Julian Thomas, 32, from Karlsruhe, Germany - 1,735,000
Thomas works as a poker coach and mainly competes in Sit & Go and multi-table tournaments. He’s currently writing a Sit & Go strategy book called “Advanced Concepts in SNG Play” to be published in May next year. He won a live satellite here in Berlin for his seat in the Main Event.