Welcome to Day 1b of the partypoker German Poker Championships at King’s Casino on the Czech Republic–Germany border in the charming town of Rozvadov nestled in the ancient Bohemian Forest.
Friday August 11th is set to be a big one with 170 players already registered to play having qualified through a series of online satellites and live phases.
They will all be vying for a slice of the €1,000,000 guarantee and ultimately the title of German Poker Champion 2017.
Day 1a on Thursday saw 64 entries with 36 players ultimately bagging up chips. Those who didn’t make it, or were unhappy with their final stack can register for subsequent Day 1s and bring their biggest stack through to Day 2.
Friedrich Raz from Switzerland finished on top yesterday with 3,180,000 but not far behind him was partypoker ambassador Boris Becker who bagged and impressive 2,839,000.
For those already entered they will bring their stack forward to Day 1b, for new entries €2,200 gets you a 1,000,000 starting stack.
Play is scheduled for eight one-hour levels with a 15-minute break every two level, and one re-buy per Day 1 is allowed.
The final Day 1c is at 12 p.m. on Saturday and is a Turbo with a 20-minute clock with Day 2 starting the same day at 3 p.m.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the action from the felt right up until the crowning of a new partypoker German Poker Champion so you don’t miss a thing.
Andy Wool is known as “Dawhiteninja” online and is fast gaining a reputation as an MTT grinder to watch out for. As in life, so in poker, you need to grab your opportunities where you can, as Wool tweeted a while back that he “Miss clicked regged an $11 @partypoker German Poker Championship sat.”
Wool won his seat, sold a little bit to investors and jetted out from the U.K. to take a shot in this €1,000,000 GTD tournament.
An uproar was heard from one of the side tables and Alain Riss gasped a "no no no", even banging with his hands at the wall. Rushing by to the table, the board showed and the stack of Rifat Gegic was counted. According to players at the table, Gegic had jammed preflop with after a raising war with the Frenchman, who quickly called with pocket kings and saw the nightmare ace appear on the river.
Gegic doubled for 647,500 and bumped his stack up to 1.3 million.
One hand later, there was a raise to 12,000 and Riss called. Gegic announced "I am all in" and the initial raiser folded. "Now you can call and get chips back," Gegic said to Riss, who folded and stormed off the table to take a break. While Gegic scored that big double, he is not the chip leader by any means - Viktor Langlitz brought in almost two million and has since bumped that up further.
After a raise by Roman Cieslik, Roman Lendi moved all in for 79,000 and Cheng-Wei Yin reshoved for 432,000 from one seat over. Jan Mach on the button was the third player to go all in and Cieslik folded face up, then tried to bet with players at the table that he would have won the hand.
Roman Lendi:
Cheng-Wei Yin:
Jan Mach:
The flop gave Mach top set and neither opponent had a spade, while Cieslik was in agony at missing a near quadruple up. Both the turn and river were blanks and Mach sent two opponents to the rail.
Anatoly Filatov opened with a raise to 15,000 from the cutoff, picking up the player on the button, Paul Michaelis in the small blind, and the player in the big blind. They took a flop four ways, with action checking round to Filatov who put out a continuation bet worth 50,000. It was only Michaelis who flopped nothing, with the remaining three players seeing an turn.
Filatov went for a second barrel, this time asking for 125,000. The player on the button was convinced and mucked his hand, while the big blind stuck around to see another card. The came on the river, with Filatov loading the clip and firing out 325,000 when checked to. The big blind made the call, showing for a flush, but was no good versus Filatov's for the absolute nuts.
It looks as if Filatov is starting where he left off: after winning the High Roller side event outright in the early hours of this morning, he's off to a great start in the Main Event.
Ngoc Bui Hai opened from early position for 35,000 and picked up three callers including Pierre Neuville.
The flop was and Hai continued for 61,000 with Neuville being the sole caller.
The turn card was the and Neuville checked it to Hai who fired 110,000. Neuville then check-raised him to 310,000. Hai looked serious and studied the board with an air of concern before calling.
The river was the Neuville had a count of his remaining stack before moving all in for around 700,000 and Hai wasted no time in calling the bet.
Neuville showed having hit his gut-shot on the turn for a straight.
Hai had a gut-shot on the flop too but his went one better than Neuville’s straight to bust him.
We didn't get to see how this hand played out, we only saw the aftermath.
Where Sander van Wesemael was previously sat, there lay only the on the felt, with his 2,200,000 chips being counted down by the dealer. Across from him sat Viktor Langlitz with , looking at runout.
Apparently all the chips went in pre-flop, but all that matters now is that Langlitz has an enormous chipstack with just over two levels left to play in Day 1B of the Main Event.
In a hand that lasted several minutes into the last break, Ondrej Mar scooped a massive pot. On a four-way flop of , the action checked to Mar in the cutoff and he bet 100,000, which picked up two callers including Rishi Ravi Bhasin. After the turn, Bhasin check-called a hefty bet of 375,000 by Mar with around 430,000 behind while the hijack folded.
The river completed the board and Mar moved all in. Bhasin tanked for two minutes and eventually called, then mucked when he was shown for two pair by Mar.
Viktor Langlitz put in a 3-bet pre-flop to 70,000 behind a 25,000 open, with Edgar Suleyman making the call, and the original raiser putting in the extra. They went three ways to a flop, where Langlitz just shoved the lot in for 2,800,000 effective.
Suleyman leapt out of his seat, putting his hands to his head, and knocking his chair over in the process. He dwelled for a good minute and a half, while Langlitz's huge overbet started to attract the attention of some railbirds before eventually making the call. He turned over and was almost an exact coinflip versus Langlitz's .
"When in doubt, just shove, right?" quipped Jack Sinclair, as onlookers eagerly awaited the runout.
The turn bricked the , and the river bricked the , with Suleyman's entire stack heading towards Langlitz, extending his chiplead and giving him a truly mammoth stack.
Hossein Ensan opened the action from under the gun for 25,000 and picked up three callers including Miroslav Lelek before it got to Vytautas Semaska in the small blind.
Semaska took his time before he raised to 135,000. Ensan gave him a hard stare and peeled off the calling chips from his stack. The next player in line rolled his eyes and folded, Lelek stuck in the calling chips and the player on the button folded.
It was three-ways to the flop of.
A minute ticked by before Semaska continued for 185,000. Another severe glare from Ensan before he called and Lelek left them to it.
“Heads up,” the dealer said andburned and turned the .
Some shuffling of chips from Semaska before he checked to Ensan who bet 220,000 and got a call from Semaska.
The river was the and a final check from Semaska saw Ensan move all in for 608,000.
Semaska sat for a while before slowly pushing his cards away and Ensan showed him the bluff for good measure.
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and the stack of Rifat Gegic was counted. According to players at the table, Gegic had jammed preflop with 
after a raising war with the Frenchman, who quickly called with pocket kings and saw the nightmare ace appear on the river.
face up, then tried to bet with players at the table that he would have won the hand.
flop gave Mach top set and neither opponent had a spade, while Cieslik was in agony at missing a near quadruple up. Both the 
turn and 
river were blanks and Mach sent two opponents to the rail.
flop four ways, with action checking round to Filatov who put out a continuation bet worth 50,000. It was only Michaelis who flopped nothing, with the remaining three players seeing an 
turn.
came on the river, with Filatov loading the clip and firing out 325,000 when checked to. The big blind made the call, showing 
for a flush, but was no good versus Filatov's 
and Neuville checked it to Hai who fired 110,000. Neuville then check-raised him to 310,000. Hai looked serious and studied the board with an air of concern before calling.
Neuville had a count of his remaining stack before moving all in for around 700,000 and Hai wasted no time in calling the bet.
having hit his gut-shot on the turn for a straight.
went one better than Neuville’s straight to bust him.
runout.
, the action checked to Mar in the cutoff and he bet 100,000, which picked up two callers including Rishi Ravi Bhasin. After the 
turn, Bhasin check-called a hefty bet of 375,000 by Mar with around 430,000 behind while the hijack folded.
river completed the board and Mar moved all in. Bhasin tanked for two minutes and eventually called, then mucked 
and was almost an exact coinflip versus Langlitz's 
bluff for good measure.
