Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg

11-25-2017 14:16 UTC+2

Streber Busts to Koehne

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

[Removed:65] arrived a few minutes late and proceeded to send Esad Omerbasic in the first hand after settling down.

A short-stacked Benjamin Streber was at risk with out of the big blind and Serafino Koehne had him covered by a few chips and turned over . The board came and Koehne rivered a straight to eliminate Streber.

Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:65]	145,000	54,900
Serafino Koehne	40,000	18,500
Esad Omerbasic	Busted
Jonas Wohlgemuth	Busted
Benjamin Streber	Busted

Tags: Benjamin Streber Esad Omerbasic Serafino Koehne

11-25-2017 14:10 UTC+2

Köhler Eliminates Plotnikov

Shirley Ang

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Pavel Plotnikov shoved all in from the cutoff and was called by Kevin Köhler on the button. The players on the blinds quickly got out of their way.

Kevin Köhler:
Pavel Plotnikov:

The board ran out - Köhler hit his ace on the river to eliminate Plotniov from the tournament.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Kohler	112,000	34,000
Frederico Renau	Busted
David Croucher	Busted
Pavel Plotnikov	Busted

Tags: Pavel Plotnikov Kevin Köhler

11-25-2017 14:10 UTC+2

Queens for Paeschke

Christian Zetzsche

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

Matthias Rauscher opened to 5,500 from early position and Mario Paeschke in the big blind three-bet to 12,200, which Rauscher called. Both players checked the flop and the turn. There was no betting action on the either and Paeschke turned over as winning hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthias Rauscher	228,000	-13,000
Mario Paeschke	105,000	15,000

Tags: Matthias Rauscher Mario Paeschke

11-25-2017 14:00 UTC+2

Shuffle Up and Deal

Shirley Ang

Level 13 : 1,200/2,400, 400 ante

The 213 remaining players have been welcomed back to the casino by the tournament staff. The dealers have been instructed to shuffle up and deal if there are three or more players at their table.

Level: 13

Blinds: 1,200/2,400

Ante: 400

11-25-2017 11:41 UTC+2

The Race to the Money on Day 2 of the 2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg Main Event Starts at 1pm

Christian Zetzsche

After a total of four starting days, the 2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg €1,100 Main Event has comfortably surpassed the initial guaranteed prize pool of €500,000 thanks to an additional 114 entries in the turbo re-entry Day 1d, creating a prize pool of €549,990 here at Casino Schenefeld.

Only 213 players remain in contention to become the new PokerStars Festival Main Event champion and more than half of them will leave the tables empty-handed, as just the top 79 spots are guaranteed to take home at least €1,870 for their efforts. Leading the field of survivors is Rudolf Köster with 258,000 followed by 1b chip leader Matthias Rauscher (241,000), [Removed:321] Qusim (232,700) and Michal Lubas (222,000) are close behind.

Other notables still in contention with a big stack upon restart include 1c chip leader Johann Kroon (214,200), 1d chip leader Behzad Zarnegar (191,600), Francois Mittertreiner (188,900), Roberto Manfredi (157,000), Ali Sameeian (145,500), WSOP bracelet winner Adrian Apmann (136,700), UKIPT5 Isle of Man champion Daniel Stacey (130,200) and Andrey Andreev (112,900).

The red spade will be represented by PokerStars Team Pro Marcin Horecki (26,800) and Team Online's Felix Schneiders (22,100), but both have a lot of work ahead for today after bagging up fewer than the starting stack on Day 1c.

The Main Event in Numbers

Day	Date	Further Info
Day 1a	November 22nd 2017 at 1 p.m.	37 of 118 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1b	November 23rd 2017 at 1 p.m.	63 of 201 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1c	November 24th 2017 at 1 p.m.	63 of 134 players advanced to Day 2
Day 1d	November 24th 2017 at 8 p.m.	50 of 114 players advanced to Day 2
Day 2	November 25th 2017 at 1 p.m.	213 of 657 return, 10 levels of 60 minutes each or down to the final table
Day 3	November 26th 2017 at 1 p.m.	play down to a winner

Action gets back underway at 1 p.m. local time with level 13 and blinds of 1,200/2,400 with a running ante of 400. A maximum of ten levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled for the penultimate tournament day, or until the official final table has been reached, whichever of the two comes first.

The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the tournament floor in Hamburg until a new PokerStars Festival Main Event champion is crowned on Sunday November 26th 2017.

Tags: Adrian Apmann Andrey Andreev Behzad Zarnegar Daniel Stacey Felix Schneiders Francois Mittertreiner Johann Kroon Marcin Horecki Matthias Rauscher Michal Lubas Roberto Manfredi Rudolf Koster

11-25-2017 11:00 UTC+2

Day 2 Seat Draw

Christian Zetzsche

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	1	Stefan Wolfschütz	Germany	56,000	23
1	2	Kyriakos Mitsopoulos	Greece	176,800	74
1	3	Robin Slottke	Germany	109,700	46
1	4	Francois Mittertreiner	Netherlands	188,900	79
1	5	Jens Rinke	Germany	111,200	46
1	6	Walid Abdi Ali	Germany	75,600	32
1	7	Sönke Hansen	Germany	40,100	17
1	8	Christoph Milbradt	Germany	59,100	25
1	9	Uwe Schrieber	Sweden	111,100	46

2	1	Sahin Elci	Turkey	107,000	45
2	2	Alexey Bratishchev	Russia	87,600	37
2	3	Levan Rcheulishvili	Germany	168,100	70
2	4	Daniel Belov	Estonia	56,800	24
2	5	Michael Murschall	Germany	90,300	38
2	6	Ittai Gluska	Israel	82,800	35
2	7	Jules Ayoub	Germany	79,900	33
2	8	Shachar Haran	Israel	123,500	51
2	9	Eazy Shabaz	Germany	33,800	14

3	1	Karolis Domarkas	Lithuania	42,400	18
3	2	Matthias Kahl	Germany	45,200	19
3	3	Lasse Frost	Denmark	63,500	26
3	4	Sam Browne	Ireland	39,700	17
3	5	Anders Bisgard	Germany	155,500	65
3	6	Nina Lehle	Germany	11,500	5
3	7	Christian Glissmann	Germany	41,700	17
3	8	Bennet Mix	Germany	46,400	19
3	9	Daniel Niemitz	Germany	28,100	12

4	1	Andrei Nodea	Romania	46,400	19
4	2	Jonas Wohlgemuth	Germany	59,700	25
4	3	Ulrich Pauls	Germany	138,400	58
4	4	Christian Teubner	Germany	39,000	16
4	5	Kayhan Molaci	Turkey	59,400	25
4	6	Claus Carstensen	Germany	111,700	47
4	7	Emre Nebipasagil	Turkey	67,200	28
4	8	Axel Howe	Germany	28,100	12
4	9	Andreas Giedt	Germany	64,600	27

5	1	Gordon Kühnel	Germany	25,300	11
5	2	Alexander Thran	Germany	91,100	38
5	3	Roberto Manfredi	Italy	157,000	65
5	4	Frederico Renau	Argentina	30,900	13
5	5	Eric Theissen	Belgium	88,800	37
5	6	Daniel Peche	Germany	72,500	30
5	7	Dieke Meyer	Germany	55,800	23
5	8	Adnan Dizdarevic	Denmark	60,500	25
5	9	Dustin Mangold	Germany	52,000	22

6	1	Johannes Hafemeister	Germany	70,000	29
6	2	Fabian Demand	Germany	90,400	38
6	3	Esad Omerbasic	Bosnia	55,200	23
6	4	Leonida Mewes	Poland	116,200	48
6	5	Johannes Schulze	Germany	90,300	38
6	6	Brian Pedersen	Denmark	38,000	16
6	7	Angelo Benedetto	Italy	104,800	44
6	8	[Removed:65]	Germany	90,100	38
6	9	Tim Van Loo	Germany	111,000	46

7	1	Maximilian Hornung	Germany	221,400	92
7	2	Servando Perez	Spain	93,100	39
7	3	Neil Rawnsley	United Kingdom	39,300	16
7	4	Mantas Urbonas	Lithuania	73,400	31
7	5	Carsten Heidemann	Germany	20,900	9
7	6	Yannick Bräuer	Germany	62,600	26
7	7	Michal Lubas	Poland	222,000	93
7	8	Alfred Tellenbach	Germany	49,300	21
7	9	Murat Tuelek	Germany	136,300	57

8	1	Patrick Lorenz	Germany	124,300	52
8	2	Klaus Hornschuch	Germany	73,600	31
8	4	Philipp Lütkemeier	Germany	62,500	26
8	5	Baktasch Safi	Germany	107,900	45
8	6	Mario Paeschke	Germany	90,000	38
8	7	Maksin Prokhrov	Russia	54,500	23
8	8	Mete Ustuay	Turkey	102,600	43
8	9	Matthias Rauscher	Germany	241,000	100

9	1	Benjamin Streber	Germany	18,300	8
9	2	Stephan Klam	Germany	57,700	24
9	3	[Removed:207]	Austria	40,400	17
9	4	Robert Zabel	Germany	117,600	49
9	5	Hamid Zazai	Germany	61,000	25
9	6	Serafino Koehne	Germany	21,500	9
9	7	Ji Zhang	Germany	24,900	10
9	8	Vladimir Zaplava	Estonia	31,400	13
9	9	Pawel Krol	Poland	17,400	7

10	1	Denis Krishtop	Russia	39,100	16
10	2	Pavel Plotnikov	Lithuania	34,100	14
10	3	Kevin Köhler	Germany	78,000	33
10	4	Björn Carstensen	Germany	59,400	25
10	5	Konstantin Färber	Germany	72,300	30
10	6	[Removed:321] Qasim	Germany	232,700	97
10	7	Kaslan Kolodziej	Poland	106,100	44
10	8	Patrick Sachse	Germany	61,800	26
10	9	Mads Borregaard	Denmark	29,400	12

11	1	Moussa Khanafer	Germany	62,700	26
11	2	Peter Jaksland	Denmark	82,400	34
11	3	Christos Makariou	Germany	61,700	26
11	4	Tobias Schmidt	Germany	132,500	55
11	5	Maximilian Bracht	Germany	65,700	27
11	6	Levi Mulders	Belgium	79,400	33
11	7	Davor Bendin	Germany	73,400	31
11	8	Daniel Stacey	United Kingdom	130,200	54
11	9	Rafal Adamkiewicz	Poland	101,400	42

12	1	Thomas [Removed:72]	Germany	46,600	19
12	2	Philipp Viebcke	Germany	113,200	47
12	3	Einar Thorolofson	Iceland	74,500	31
12	4	Nikolas Menke	Germany	39,900	17
12	5	Malte Junk	Germany	63,000	26
12	6	Carl Cole	Germany	67,200	28
12	7	Markus Masiak	Germany	110,300	46
12	8	Andrey Andreev	Russia	112,900	47
12	9	Serafim Kovalevskiy	France	45,800	19

13	1	Marc-Benjamin Tusch	Germany	68,300	28
13	2	Igor Rybak	Russia	130,700	54
13	3	Marcel Kirst	Germany	40,500	17
13	4	Martin Mulsow	Germany	62,000	26
13	5	Lewe Thiesen	Germany	98,700	41
13	6	Giuseppe Caridi	Italy	195,000	81
13	7	Giuseppe Cimelli	Italy	100,000	42
13	8	Mick Graydon	Ireland	43,600	18

14	1	Ivica Pezelj	Germany	90,000	38
14	2	Michael Ratkowski	Germany	189,400	79
14	3	[Removed:431]	Germany	111,700	47
14	4	Adrian Apmann	Germany	136,700	57
14	5	Oliver Niemann	Germany	185,500	77
14	6	Gediminas Januskevicius	Lithuania	17,100	7
14	7	Johann Kroon	Germany	214,200	89
14	8	Ali Kanaan	Germany	52,600	22
14	9	Rainer Ziermann	Germany	77,400	32

15	1	Phong Thanh Pham	Germany	49,100	20
15	2	Christian Vadillo-Bilda	Germany	29,000	12
15	3	Thanh Trung Tran	Germany	28,300	12
15	4	Tim Michels	Germany	40,200	17
15	5	Francesco Delfoco	Italy	55,000	23
15	6	Christoph Wagener	Germany	53,200	22
15	7	Frank Debus	Germany	76,200	32
15	8	Florian Bach	Germany	73,100	30
15	9	Jesper Hansen	Denmark	92,700	39

16	1	Srdjan Patkovic	Netherlands	126,200	53
16	2	Rizkallah Kocheiche	Germany	65,700	27
16	3	Robert Mcdowell	Ireland	24,500	10
16	4	Alaettin Keles	Germany	153,500	64
16	5	Said Nadjem	Germany	28,200	12
16	6	Norbert Seefeldt	Germany	101,800	42
16	7	Marcin Horecki	Poland	26,800	11
16	8	Alessandro Crevena	Italy	43,100	18
16	9	Jan Sigel	Germany	75,700	32

17	1	Andreas Van Zadelhof	Germany	13,700	6
17	2	Kai Münster	Germany	73,100	30
17	3	Grzegorz Derkowski	Poland	66,600	28
17	4	De Han Kim	Germany	125,700	52
17	5	Cirilo Ferreira	Portugal	81,200	34
17	6	Mick Heder	Denmark	76,600	32
17	7	Joseph Lalor	Ireland	99,100	41
17	8	Felix Schneiders	Germany	22,100	9
17	9	Hael Al-Labani	Germany	141,500	59

18	1	Enno Köster	Germany	85,100	35
18	2	Peyman Lueth	Germany	63,300	26
18	3	Juergen Boehm	Germany	128,100	53
18	4	Adriatik Agalliu	Germany	140,700	59
18	5	Phillip Buddenhagen	Germany	29,700	12
18	6	Wim Verhaegen	Belgium	21,700	9
18	7	Bo Rundström	Sweden	40,200	17
18	8	Yonger Wu	China	62,400	26
18	9	Lukas Kowalski	Germany	101,400	42

19	1	Niklas Ehrenholz	Germany	58,000	24
19	2	Karim Rebei	Algeria	82,800	35
19	3	Hans Joerg Meier	Germany	35,700	15
19	4	Vladimir Dmitriev	Russia	54,000	23
19	5	Joachim Karstens	Germany	67,800	28
19	6	Eljano Hysaj	Albania	90,900	38
19	7	Lars Möller	Denmark	123,600	52
19	8	Behzad Zarnegar	Germany	191,600	80
19	9	Miri Lavasani	Germany	30,000	13

20	1	Christian Viereck	Germany	59,000	25
20	2	Jesper Feddersen	Germany	71,900	30
20	3	Claudio Celenza	Germany	171,000	71
20	5	Markus Meekma	Netherlands	180,100	75
20	6	Jürgen Petelkau	Germany	44,600	19
20	7	Alexander Adam	Germany	35,200	15
20	8	Sami Jacobs	Germany	96,900	40
20	9	David Croucher	Australia	15,600	7

21	1	Erkan Yildirim	Germany	37,700	16
21	2	Valentin Pujol Such	Spain	62,000	26
21	3	Vedran Mandic	Germany	170,500	71
21	4	Marco Leopizzi	Germany	46,100	19
21	5	Rudolf Koster	Germany	258,000	108
21	6	Hamza Miri	Germany	37,000	15
21	7	Christopher Schneider	Germany	63,300	26
21	8	Johnny Hansen	Denmark	51,000	21
21	9	Andrey Faterkin	Russia	75,700	32

22	1	Armin Eckl	Austria	23,800	10
22	2	Raffael Targowski	Germany	84,800	35
22	3	Michael Langwald	Germany	31,000	13
22	4	Francesco Fama	Italy	19,400	8
22	5	Suksan Phusisot	Thailand	27,300	11
22	6	Maximilian Silz	Germany	127,500	53
22	7	Domenik Pawolka	Germany	21,000	9
22	8	[Removed:321] Bagher Vafa	Germany	63,900	27
22	9	Miroslav Malic	Croatia	155,400	65

23	1	Ali Sameeian	Germany	145,500	61
23	2	Salim El Boustani	Lebanon	30,000	13
23	3	Parwesh Kumar	Germany	77,800	32
23	4	Arni Gardasson	Iceland	87,700	37
23	5	Bennet Schmidt	Germany	72,100	30
23	6	Tim Becker	Germany	101,300	42
23	7	Fabian Fleischmann	Germany	89,800	37
23	8	[Removed:19]	Russia	97,600	41
23	9	Ilja Neuenschwander	Germany	33,700	14

24	1	Jan Bloch	Germany	43,500	18
24	2	Klas Krüger	Germany	94,800	40
24	3	Florian Hardtke	Germany	53,700	22
24	4	Johannes Wassmuth	Germany	180,300	75
24	5	Jamil Omar	Germany	93,200	39
24	6	Erik Scheidt	Germany	20,600	9
24	7	Kevin Bollerhei	Germany	81,000	34
24	8	Morvarid Hartmann	Germany	108,500	45
24	9	Do Tran	Germany	15,800	7

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