Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
A winner will be crowned today as the final day of the PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event is commencing again at 1 p.m local time. The winner will take home the trophy but also very important, an amazing amount of €105,850. A pretty wonderful return for their €1,100 buy-in.
Ulrich Pauls will start the day with a convincing chip lead but nothing is said and done yet as there are 14 other players that have their eyes set on the tournament win. Pauls won his chips by eliminating quite a few players yesterday and bluffing his way through some big hands. Karolis Domarkas, the friendly Lithuanian, won’t be that nice to just let Pauls continue the run he had yesterday. Even though Domarkas starts at the other table, he will try his best to stop Pauls if they get to the same table.
PokerStars Team Pro Marcin Horecki will be looking to take this win for the PokerStars team. He had a wonderful day yesterday by going from 26,000 chips to finishing with 1,825,000 in his bag. Those are 76 big blinds, so he has enough room to play around with those. Igor Rybak on the other hand has some less space to make big moves as he took 7 big blinds with him from yesterday.
All in all, today will be an action filled day as they play down to a winner. The PokerNews live reporting will be here to bring you all the updates until a new PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event Champion has been determined.
Day 3 Seat Draw
Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
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1 | 1 | Marcin Horecki | Poland | 1,825,000 | 76 |
1 | 2 | Rudolf Koster | Germany | 431,000 | 18 |
1 | 3 | Igor Rybak | Russia | 171,000 | 7 |
1 | 4 | Peter Jaksland | Denmark | 897,000 | 37 |
1 | 5 | Ulrich Pauls | Germany | 2,653,000 | 111 |
1 | 6 | Behzad Zarnegar | Germany | 1,425,000 | 59 |
1 | 7 | Bo Rundström | Sweden | 655,000 | 27 |
1 | 8 | Daniel Stacey | United Kingdom | 1,112,000 | 46 |
2 | 1 | Jan Sigel | Germany | 1,019,000 | 42 |
2 | 2 | [Removed:431] | Germany | 1,620,000 | 68 |
2 | 3 | Michal Lubas | Poland | 635,000 | 26 |
2 | 5 | Karolis Domarkas | Lithuania | 2,234,000 | 93 |
2 | 6 | De Han Kim | Germany | 284,000 | 12 |
2 | 7 | Alaettin Keles | Germany | 1,463,000 | 61 |
2 | 8 | Andrei Nodea | Romania | 543,000 | 23 |
Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000/24,000
Ante: 4,000
The tournament staff has welcomed the players back to the final day of the PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event. The button will start on seat 7. The dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal.
In a battle of the blinds, Daniel Stacey opened to 62,000 and Marcin Horecki called. The flop fell and Stacey continued for 70,000, Horecki called. Both players checked the on the turn and the river completed the board.
Stacey bet 75,000 and Horecki raised to 250,000 before Stacey reraised to 625,000. Horecki tossed in a single chip for the call and mucked when Stacey turned over the for a full house.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Daniel Stacey | 1,900,000 | 788,000 |
Marcin Horecki | 1,065,000 | -760,000 |
[Removed:431] raised to 75,000 from the under-the-gun position and was called by Alaettin Keles, on the button, and Jan Sigel, in the big blind.
The flop came , Sigel and Steinfeuer both checked. Keles bet 50,000, Sigel folded and Steinfeuer called.
The turn brought them the , now Steinfeuer check-called the 100,000 bet of Keles.
The river completed the board with the on which they both checked. Steinfeuer showed for trip aces and the pot as Keles mucked his cards.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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[Removed:431]
|
1,960,000 | 340,000 |
Alaettin Keles | 1,234,000 | -229,000 |
Jan Sigel | 940,000 | -79,000 |
A raise by Jan Sigel on the button was called by Michal Lubas in the big blind, who checked the flop. Sigel checked behind and Lubas checked the turn before calling a delayed continuation bet worth 75,000 by Sigel. The on the river went check, check, again and Lubas turned over as winning hand while Sigel just shook his head,
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Michal Lubas | 800,000 | 165,000 |
Jan Sigel | 770,000 | -170,000 |
Ulrich Pauls raised with and Igor Rybak defended his big blind with before getting it in after a flop of . Rybak was in dire shape, but the turn and river ensured a runner runner split pot.
Soon after, Daniel Stacey raised to 56,000 and Pauls defended the big blind. The start-of-the-day chip leader check-called a bet of 62,000 by Stacey on the flop and checked through the turn. Pauls bet the river for 160,000 and Stacey folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Ulrich Pauls
|
2,900,000 | 247,000 |
Daniel Stacey | 1,780,000 | -120,000 |
Igor Rybak | 160,000 | -11,000 |
Peter Jaksland raised to 56,000 in late position and Ulrich Pauls three-bet to 116,000 from one seat over in the hijack. Jaksland called and checked the flop, which prompted Pauls to bet 160,000. Jaksland called and the appeared on the turn.
The Dane checked and Pauls eyed his stack before betting 500,000. Jaksland had slightly more than that behind and took quite some time before folding. Pauls turned over the followed by the for yet another successful bluff and Jaksland tapped the table.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Ulrich Pauls
|
3,400,000 | 500,000 |
Peter Jaksland | 570,000 | -327,000 |
Michal Lubas raised to 55,000 from the under-the-gun position and Andrei Nodea raised to 500,000 from the button (keeping 78,000) behind. Nodea had shoved just the hand before when Karolis Domarkas had raised to 55,000 and then folded to the shove. [Removed:431] asked how much he actually had behind. Nodea showed and Steinfeuer decided to shove, having a much bigger stack. Lubas immediately folded and Nodea snap-called.
Andrei Nodea:
[Removed:431]:
"Lots of kings!" Steinfeuer said when he saw their hands.
The board ran out - even though Steinfeuer hit his king on the flop, he got no further help in winning the hand and Nodea doubled up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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[Removed:431]
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1,570,000 | -390,000 |
Andrei Nodea | 1,251,000 | 708,000 |