Main Event Day 2 | 2017 PokerStars Festival Hamburg

11-25-2017 19:05 UTC+1

Player	Chips	Progress
Frank Debus	Busted
Matthias Rauscher	Busted

Baktasch Safi	Busted
Patrick Lorenz	Busted
Jules Ayoub	Busted
Yannick Brauer	Busted
Francois Mittertreiner	Busted
Christian Glissmann	Busted
Rainer Ziermann	Busted
Maximilian Hornung	Busted

Sigel Doubles Haran

Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Shachar Haran raised from early position and called once Jan Sigel pushed all in from the cutoff, having everyone easily covered. Haran called for 115,000 and both players turned over pocket pairs.

Shachar Haran:
Jan Sigel:

Haran stood up from his chair, afraid of the run good of Sigel who had climbed to more than 1.2 million already. However, the board came and Haran doubled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jan Sigel	1,050,000 260,000	260,000
Shachar Haran	240,000 20,000	20,000

Tags: Shachar Haran Jan Sigel

11-25-2017 18:53 UTC+1

Set-Under-Set Debacle for Hornung

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Raffael Targowski raised to 16,000 and Maximilian Hornung called on the button, as did Alaettin Keles in the small blind and De Han Kim in the big blind.

The flop fell and the action was checked to Hornung who bet 44,000. Keles check-raised to 125,000 and Kim as well as Targowski folded. Hornung moved all in for what appeared to be 390,000 in total, and Keles snap-called.

Maximilian Hornung:
Alaettin Keles:

Neither the turn nor the river brought a miracle for Hornung and he was sent to the rail.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alaettin Keles	1,050,000 480,000	480,000
De Han Kim	400,000 274,300	274,300
Maximilian Hornung	Busted

Tags: Alaettin Keles De Han Kim Maximilian Hornung Raffael Targowski

11-25-2017 18:45 UTC+1

Sachse Scrapes Into Next Payout Step

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Patrick Sachse scraped into the money with 5,000 after receiving a two-hand penalty for folding out of turn. He spun that up to 30,000 before busting within two hands.

Sachse shoved from under the gun with the and two other players called, one had and Daniel Niemitz showed the to triple up on a board of .

The next hand it was Sami Jacobs that raised from under the gun and forced out everyone else, while Sachse was forced all in for 3,000 in the big blind.

Patrick Sachse:
Sami Jacobs:

The board came and that was it for Sachse.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sami Jacobs	90,000 6,900	6,900
Daniel Niemitz	60,000 31,900	31,900
Patrick Sachse	Busted

Tags: Daniel Niemitz Patrick Sachse Sami Jacobs

11-25-2017 18:36 UTC+1

Zazai Busts Two; Flurry of Bust Outs

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Shirley Ang

Level 18 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

After the bubble had burst the "seat open" calls could be heard all over the tournament floor.

Hamis Zazai raised to 12,000 from mid-position. Joachim Karstens shoved all in from the hijack for 38,000. Vladimir Zaplava also shoved from the cutoff but he had less with 22,000. The rest folded and action was back on Zazai. Zazai asked for a count of Karstens stack and the dealer confirmed the amount. Zazai folded.

Joachim Karstens:
Vladimir Zaplava:

The board ran out - no help for Zaplava as he was eliminated. Karstens was eliminated a few hands later but the details of that hand are unknown.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hamid Zazai	250,000 189,000	189,000
Einar Thorolofson	Busted
Morvarid Hartmann	Busted
Vladimir Zaplava	Busted
Kaslan Kolodziej	Busted
Giuseppe Cimelli	Busted
Sahin Elci	Busted
Levan Rcheulishvili	Busted
Christos Makariou	Busted
Joachim Karstens	Busted

Tags: Hamid Zazai Joachim Karstens Vladimir Zaplava

Level: 18

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

11-25-2017 18:24 UTC+1

Fabian Fleischmann Bubbles the Main Event

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Fabian Fleischmann Bubbles the Main Event

Johannes Schulze raised to 275,000 from the cutoff, having everyone behind including PokerStars Team Pro Marcin Horecki in the small blind easily covered. Fabian Fleischmann was in the big blind and had stalled the last ten hands. That reduced his stack to a mere 10,000 in total and if he would have folded, he'd be forced all in from the small blind the next hand.

He called with the words "I guess you gotta experience everything once, even the bubble boy atmosphere" and the table waited until everyone was done with their current hand. Once that was the case, the cards were tabled.

Fabian Fleischmann:
Johannes Schulze:

The board ran out and Fleischmann briefly sat back down after the river before realising that he was indeed the bubble boy.

Player	Chips	Progress
Johannes Schulze	760,000 10,000	10,000
Marcin Horecki	54,000 26,000	26,000

Fabian Fleischmann	Busted

Tags: Fabian Fleischmann Johannes Schulze Marcin Horecki

11-25-2017 18:19 UTC+1

Hysaj Takes on Safi

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Baktasch Safi raised to 12,000 from the hijack and Eljano Hysaj three-bet to 24,000 from the cutoff, which Safi called. The flop fell and Safi checked before folding to a bet worth 22,000 by Hysaj.

Player	Chips	Progress
Eljano Hysaj	165,000 40,000	40,000
Baktasch Safi	100,000 7,900	7,900

Tags: Baktasch Safi Eljano Hysaj

11-25-2017 18:12 UTC+1

Köhler Eliminates Carstensen; Hand-for-Hand Starts Now

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Shirley Ang

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Kevin Köhler raised to 15,000 from the hijack and Björn Carstensen called with his whole stack worth that exact amount from the cutoff. The rest folded.

Kevin Köhler:
Björn Carstensen:

The board ran out - Köhler hit a king on the flop to eliminate Carstensen.

That means that there are now 80 players left in the tournament. Hand-for-hand play starts now as 79 players will be in the money.

Player	Chips	Progress
Björn Carstensen	Busted

Tags: Björn Carstensen Kevin Köhler

11-25-2017 18:02 UTC+1

Big Pot for Domarkas

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 17 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Peter Jaksland got two streets of value when defending his big blind and spiking a set of treys, though his sole opponent checked behind the river to avoid further damage.

Karolis Domarkas and Anders Bisgard also got into a bigger pot and the board lay completed, showing . Domarkas bet 44,000 from under the gun and Bisgard eventually called. "I have a king," Domarkas announced and rolled over the .