After losing a recent pot listed below, Chris Brammer was a bit bummed out. Luckily, his good friend Sam Grafton is at the table to cheer him up.
"Relax," Grafton piped up. "It's not the end of the world. We're in Berlin, you have your mate at the table."
Brammer remained silent.
"Griffin!" Grafton turned to shout at Griffin Benger, who was sitting at the table behind him. "How much would we have to pay you to take a full level off and massage Brammer? We'll pool money. I know Toby [Lewis] is in."
Benger laughed.
"Can I use my phone during it?" he asked Grafton.
"No," Grafton shot back instantly.
"Do we have to use lotion?"
Jason Lavallee walked in to the area just as Benger asked that second question.
"That's a really weird conversation to walk into," the French Canadian chuckled.
"How much would we have to pay you?" Grafton asked Benger. "I know it's probably a lot — 12K?"
"I'd probably do it for two," Benger said, making most of the room laugh. "Maybe 3K pounds."
The two continue to bargain back and forth, until Calvin Anderson jokingly offered to do it for €500. Grafton immediately pulled out a purple €500 note, but Anderson eventually declined.
Last year Davidi Kitai beat a field of 745 players to crown himself EPT Berlin and Triple Crown winner. The Belgian pro took home the €712,000 first-place prize after he defeated Andrew Chen heads up. Chen is playing as well today as is third place finisher [Removed:285].
We've also spotted EPT Madrid winner Frederik Jensen and former EPT Grand Final champion Nicolas Choity among the crowded EPT Berlin tournament floor. Team Pros Toni Judet and Martin Hruby have also sat down in the event.
We've spotted Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi here in Day 1b of the EPT Berlin Main Event. Mizrachi has over $14 million in career tournament earnings, including two $50,000 Poker Players Championship victories at the 2010 and 2012 World Series of Poker, a fifth-place finish in the 2010 WSOP Main Event, and 17 other scores of six-figures or more.
Ironically, Mizrachi has never cashed in a European Poker Tour event. His largest cash on European soil came in 2011, when he won a €10,000 Mixed Hold'em tournament at the World Series of Poker Europe in Cannes, France, banking €336,008.
Plenty of big names from Germany are playing the event today and at one table we've spotted two. Sebastian Ruthenberg, with just slightly less than $3.5 million in live tournament earnings, is matched up with Jan-Peter Jachtmann who eclipsed the million-dollar win mark when he won the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event at the WSOP last summer. Also at this table are Jeff Hakim and Ilya Gorodetskiy.
Maximos Pertsinidis opened with a raise to 525 from middle position. George Danzer called from the cutoff and Wilhelm Sascha stuck around from the small blind. The three players saw hit the felt and there were two checks over to Danzer. He fired 900 and both of his opponents called.
The board paired when the fell on fourth street and there were once again two checks to Danzer. He slid 3,200 into the middle and both of his opponents mucked their cards. Danzer picked up the pot and current has about 35,000 in chips.
Sam Grafton raised preflop to 300 and Simon Lofberg three-bet to 750 from the cutoff. Tauras Narmontas put in a four-bet to 2,000 and the action was back on Grafton. The dealer was not aware of this four-bet and Grafton was about to call the 750 when he figured out it was actually a lot more. The Brit folded and Lofberg made the call.
The flop brought out and Narmontas bet 3,000, Lofberg called. On the turn the hit and both players checked. The river was the and Narmontas bet 7,500. Lofberg made the call again and saw his opponent table . Lofberg showed his and raked in the pot.
Olaf de Zeeuw left more than 6,000 chips in the middle in hand against David Peters to drop back to his starting stack.
The two were heads up to a flop and Peters had 2,525 out in front of him and the Dutchman had 6,000. Around 1,800 had ventured into the flop pre flop so it looked as if Peters had called a three-bet and then check-raised the flop.
Peters wasn't finished and re-opened the betting by raising t 10,050 after several minutes thought. De Zeeuw then thought for an equal amount of time before folding.
We got to the table to see a completed board of and already about 8,500 in the middle. Victor Ramdin came out firing with a bet of 5,700 and Phillipe Barouk was in the tank. After a moment, Barouk dipped into his stack and came out with just a call.
Ramdin rolled over for the nut flush which caused Barouk to nod his head, tap the table, and fling away his cards. By scooping up that pot Ramdin has increased his stack to about 39,000 while Barouk has fallen to 44,500.
Franz Ditz led out for 525 on a flop of . Chris Moorman made the call, and the turn brought the .
Ditz led again - this time for 1,200 - and again, Moorman called.
The completed the board, and Ditz fired a third and final bullet worth 2,800. Moorman tanked for a half of a minute or so, then called. Ditz quickly showed for trip jacks.
Moorman took one look at Ditz's hand, then tossed his into the muck.
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hit the felt and there were two checks over to Danzer. He fired 900 and both of his opponents called.
fell on fourth street and there were once again two checks to Danzer. He slid 3,200 into the middle and both of his opponents mucked their cards. Danzer picked up the pot and current has about 35,000 in chips.
and Narmontas bet 3,000, Lofberg called. On the turn the 
hit and both players checked. The river was the 
and Narmontas bet 7,500. Lofberg made the call again and saw his opponent table 
. Lofberg showed his 
and raked in the pot.
flop and Peters had 2,525 out in front of him and the Dutchman had 6,000. Around 1,800 had ventured into the flop pre flop so it looked as if Peters had called a three-bet and then check-raised the flop.
for the nut flush which caused Barouk to nod his head, tap the table, and fling away his cards. By scooping up that pot Ramdin has increased his stack to about 39,000 while Barouk has fallen to 44,500.
. Chris Moorman made the call, and the turn brought the 
for trip jacks.
