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Title: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 02, 2010, 10:38:40 AM Day1a begins today at noon
Updates on www.pokerstarsblog.com chip counts, news etc on here through the week Don't suppose we know of any blonde posters playing do we? Julian Thew presumably. Anyone else? Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: BulldozerD on March 02, 2010, 10:46:34 AM Bas is playing this
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TheChipPrince on March 02, 2010, 10:50:38 AM Bas is playing this Has he satted in to all these EPT's? Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 02, 2010, 12:37:11 PM VictoriaCoren- twitter
Just had a 3-way all in on Q 9 T flop: KQ v QT v flush draw. All in. Three of them. Level one. €5000 tournament. That kind of table. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: NigDawG on March 02, 2010, 01:08:35 PM gl bas and eames
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: BulldozerD on March 02, 2010, 01:16:52 PM Bas is playing this Has he satted in to all these EPT's? i know he satted into this one, don't think he did in Copenhagen though. Think he also just won a sat into the IPT event in Slovenia Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 03, 2010, 11:02:50 AM EPT Berlin: End of Day 1A chips
A smattering of Brits............ A total of 196 players are through to Day 2. The current chip leader is Kfir Yumin from Israel on 213,500 and in second place is PokerStars qualifier Rachid Ben Cherif from the Netherlands on 163,800. A total of 389 competed today. Among those who made it through the nine levels of play are several members of Team PokerStars Pro including George Danzer (132,400), Sebastian Ruthenberg, Benjamin Kang, Katja Thater, Michael Keiner and Johannes Steindl as well as Vicky Coren from the UK and Vlad Zguba from the Ukraine. All have their eyes on the guaranteed first prize of €1 million. The €5,300 five-day event – the first EPT to take place in the German capital – is being held in the luxurious Grand Hyatt Hotel on Marlene Dietrich Platz in partnership with Casino Spielbank Berlin. More than 450 players are expected for Day 1b, including tennis legend Boris Becker and field hockey pro Fatima de Melo – both members of PokerStars SportStar – as well as actress Charlotte Roche who is being sponsored by PokerStars. A slew of pros from Team PokerStars Pro will also be competing on Day 1b including Jude Ainsworth, William Thorson, Juan Maceiras, Thierry Van Den Berg, Lex Veldhuis, Johnny Lodden, Noah Boeken, Julian Thew, Luca Pagano, Marcel Luske and Vadim Markushevski. Kfir Yumin Israel 213500 Rachid Ben Cherif Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 163800 Carlos Oliveira Portugal 158500 Simon Boss Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 153200 Stefan Huber Switzerland 153000 Ruslan Prydryk Russia 150000 Grigory Torosyan Russia 142700 Michael Huber Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 142300 Albert Iversen Denmark 141400 Marko Neumann Germany PokerStars qualifier 137500 Andre Fiedler Germany PokerStars qualifier 137400 George Danzer Germany Team PokerStars Pro 132400 Uwe Mauerhoff Germany 132000 Tore Lukashaugen Norway 131900 Steffen Windfeld-Hansen Denmark PokerStars qualifier 130600 Thorsten Pauly Germany 126500 Bjorn Schepputat Germany PokerStars qualifier 126400 Torsten Brinkmann Germany 123700 Sebastian Panny Austria PokerStars qualifier 118400 Samize Beganovic Germany 115600 Stuart Fox UK PokerStars qualifier 114600 Julian Erhardt Germany PokerStars qualifier 111200 Erich Kollmann Austria 111100 Adam Von Chamier Germany 110000 Nasr El Nasr Germany 109900 Marko Mikovic Serbia 105500 Heinz Kamutzki Germany 103300 Paul Thomas Otto Germany 101900 Samuel Chartier Canada PokerStars qualifier 98700 Tino Hoene Germany PokerStars qualifier 97500 Anton Morgenstern Germany 95900 Dennis Waterman USA PokerStars qualifier 95800 Norman Kastner Germany 92000 Tatoiu Alin Ciprian Romania PokerStars qualifier 89800 Benjamin Kang Germany Team PokerStars Pro 89700 Asghar Kahvand Germany 89300 Sergiy Baranov Ukraine PokerStars qualifier 88300 Tomas Alenius Sweden 86600 Raphael Gall Germany PokerStars qualifier 85400 Ilya Gorodetskiy Russia PokerStars qualifier 84200 Braculj Marko Germany PokerStars qualifier 82400 Holger Kanisch Germany 82300 Dirk Jaspert Germany 81700 Lukasz Grabowski Poland PokerStars qualifier 80500 Juha Helppi Finland 80000 Dennis Frankenberger Germany PokerStars qualifier 79800 Miguel Angel Barajas Spain 79700 Oleh Okhotskyi Ukraine 78200 Joao Barbosa Portugal 78100 Jan Wiggo Oefelt Norway PokerStars qualifier 77900 Serge Didisheim Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 77900 Stian Lofstad Norway PokerStars qualifier 77300 Christian Klinzmann Germany PokerStars qualifier 76600 Tobias Lintzel Germany 76200 Lander Lijo Bereciartua Spain PokerStars qualifier 75500 Davin Georgi Germany 75100 Alex Varga Austria PokerStars qualifier 75000 Antonius Maria Hendrik Streng Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 75000 Slobodan Bjelobrk Slovenia PokerStars qualifier 73200 Luca Moschitta Italy 72300 Pawel Muza Poland PokerStars player 71500 Darinko Filipovic Croatia 71200 Roger Spets Sweden 70700 Tommi Etelapera Finland PokerStars qualifier 69500 Georgias Berkis Germany 68200 Robert Harcarik USA 68200 Jesus Ramos Vazquez Spain PokerStars qualifier 67600 Jose De La Guardia Panama PokerStars qualifier 67300 Baris Ergun Germany 67000 Dmitry Vitkind Russia PokerStars qualifier 65900 Oliver Rosenberg Germany 65900 Michael Keiner Germany Team PokerStars Pro 65000 Giuseppe Pantaleo Italy 63100 Kevin Van Ruiten Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 63100 Hichem Ben Halima Tunisia 61600 Artem Litvinov Russia 60900 Samuel Albeck Germany 60700 Erik Munchmeyer Germany 60400 Lars Bostrom Sweden PokerStars qualifier 59700 Luis De La Haza Ruano Spain PokerStars qualifier 59700 Artur Simonyan Russia 59000 Simon Muenz Germany 58700 David Bechtel Germany 58500 Huy Khiem Nguyen Germany 58200 Jeff Sarwer Canada 56900 Tiago Lopes Portugal 56800 Oliver Patzel Germany 56300 Michael Reinhardt Germany 55800 Gianni Giaroni Italy PokerStars player 54200 Stephen Jones UK PokerStars qualifier 54000 Rui Soares Milhomens Portugal 52900 Luca Falaschi Italy 52400 Martin Vallo Denmark 52300 Aleh Plauski Belarus PokerStars qualifier 50800 Walter Beckmann Germany PokerStars qualifier 50800 Vlad Zguba Ukraine Team PokerStars Pro 50600 Artur Wasek Poland 50400 Tim Kahlmeyer Germany 50400 Detlef Kurzhals Germany 49800 Brice Telbois Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 49700 Tony Cascarino Ireland 49600 Ljubomir Gruban Germany 48500 Julien Brecard France PokerStars sponsored player 48200 Andy Finke Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 48000 Matthew Bowron UK PokerStars qualifier 47100 Bezlepkin Dmitry Russia PokerStars qualifier 46900 Sven Leu Germany 46600 Andre Santos Portugal 46500 Olaf Sagorski Germany 46500 Alexey Yuzikov Russia 46400 Evgeniy Zaytsev Russia 46100 Leo Margets Spain 45500 Victor Ilyukhin UK 45200 Sebastian Homann Germany 44400 Andreas Doletzki Germany 44300 Lars Graf Germany PokerStars qualifier 44100 Marc Goodwin UK 43200 Mario Puccini Germany PokerStars qualifier 43000 Paul Szyszko USA PokerStars qualifier 42900 Toni Gomez Ribera Spain PokerStars qualifier 42300 Rene Friedrich Becker Germany 41200 Nikolai Senninger Germany PokerStars qualifier 40800 Wolfgang Werny Germany 40000 Ioannis Taramas Germany 39000 Alexander Smolin Russia 38600 Daniel Jehring Germany PokerStars qualifier 38600 Guillaume De La Gorce France 38600 Katja Thater Germany Team PokerStars Pro 38500 Manuel Bevand France 38100 Bruno Roque Portugal PokerStars qualifier 36000 Tarek Riester Germany 35800 Sandra Ambroz Germany PokerStars qualifier 35600 Mesbah Guerfi France 35400 Michael Bramson UK PokerStars qualifier 35400 Sascha Brombacher Germany 35400 David Reinfandt Germany PokerStars qualifier 34900 Dara O'Kearney Ireland PokerStars qualifier 34200 Anton Miskevych Ukraine PokerStars player 32900 Priyan De Mel UK PokerStars player 32700 Bart Wetssteijn Netherlands 31100 Dominik Nitsche Germany PokerStars qualifier 30800 Ricardo Sousa Portugal 30300 Lorenz Freitag Germany PokerStars qualifier 30200 Patryk Slusarek Poland PokerStars qualifier 30200 Sebastian Ruthenberg Germany Team PokerStars Pro 30200 Edzevit Zukorlic Germany PokerStars qualifier 29700 Matthias Kurtz Germany 29700 Mike Brandau Germany 29400 Victor Lemos Panama PokerStars qualifier 29400 Alek Samardzic Croatia PokerStars qualifier 28500 Jacob Reffeldt Rasmussen Denmark PokerStars player 27800 Victoria Coren UK Team PokerStars Pro 27800 Patrick Renkers Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 26900 Christoph Kohler Germany PokerStars player 26600 Steffen Lameli Germany PokerStars qualifier 26600 Konstantinos Nanos Germany PokerStars qualifier 26000 Ronald Grauer Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 25900 Herman Jochum Weenink Netherlands PokerStars player 25800 Nicolo Calia Portugal 25700 Barny Boatman UK 25200 Daniel Walbe Germany PokerStars qualifier 25100 Carmelo Vasta Italy 25000 Pentek Zsolt Hungary PokerStars qualifier 24600 Florian Dohnert Germany 24400 Magnus Cornmark Sweden PokerStars qualifier 24400 Lee Gaines USA PokerStars qualifier 24300 Daniel Peche Germany PokerStars qualifier 23900 Rui Salgadinho Portugal PokerStars qualifier 23800 David Tsyfanskiy Germany 23500 Miika Puumalainen Finland 23300 Paolo Compagno Italy 22400 Frank Schaefer Germany PokerStars qualifier 22000 Tijs Groffen Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 21500 Jyri Merivirta Finland 20800 Cristiano Blanco Italy 19900 Antonio Buonanno Italy 19700 Daniel Drescher Germany 19700 Ishak Noyan Sweden 19600 Vladislav Shuravin Russia PokerStars qualifier 19400 Luca Bueermann Germany PokerStars qualifier 18500 Tero Ensio Nieminen Finland PokerStars qualifier 18000 Rene Stargard Germany 17800 Marcel Roder Germany PokerStars qualifier 17400 Pierre Neuville Belgium PokerStars qualifier 17200 Steven Van Zadelhoff Netherlands 16800 Peter Zakrent Germany PokerStars qualifier 15200 Michael Greco UK 14900 Oleksandr Bichuch Ukraine 14100 Sebastian Geisler Germany PokerStars qualifier 13100 Hans Woocker Germany 11800 Gordon Scott UK PokerStars qualifier 9900 Michael Kroner Germany 8800 Clement Thumy France 8500 Bjorn Verbakel Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 6600 Thomas Pettersson Sweden 4000 Georgios Kapalas Germany 2700 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Karabiner on March 03, 2010, 12:12:40 PM Stuart Fox 114k, nice.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Micko on March 03, 2010, 04:21:32 PM Stuart Fox 114k, nice. He seemed to have a few impressive results a few years back then went quiet. Did he stop playing the bigger tourneys? Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: The Camel on March 03, 2010, 04:29:02 PM Stuart Fox 114k, nice. He seemed to have a few impressive results a few years back then went quiet. Did he stop playing the bigger tourneys? He became the proud father of a baby Fox. Great guy and superb player. gl stu. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Micko on March 03, 2010, 04:33:10 PM Stuart Fox 114k, nice. He seemed to have a few impressive results a few years back then went quiet. Did he stop playing the bigger tourneys? He became the proud father of a baby Fox. Great guy and superb player. gl stu. Aha Cheers Camel. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 04, 2010, 09:13:40 AM EPT Berlin: End of day 1B chips Player Country Status ChipCount Tu Tuan To Germany 212600 Marc Inizan France 177000 Lennart Holz Denmark 170800 Dimitri Hefter Germany PokerStars qualifier 161200 Christophe Gross Germany PokerStars player 140400 David Paredes USA PokerStars qualifier 140200 Thomas Laumer Germany 140000 Said Hossein Madani Germany 139700 Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 138100 Maksim Semisoshenko Russia 135800 Florian Langmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 134000 William Thorson Sweden Team PokerStars Pro 133100 Tobias Reinkemeier Germany 128900 Erik Friberg Sweden 124400 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars qualifier 121900 Nedine Musa Denmark 120600 Alexander Hering Germany 118500 Peter Bosen Germany 116900 Kevin Macphee USA PokerStars player 116100 Patrick Kubat Germany 115300 Amir Tassoudji Germany 113700 Michael Bohme Germany 113700 Alexander Holz Germany 113000 Derek Murray Ireland PokerStars qualifier 107500 Chris Dombrowski USA PokerStars qualifier 107200 Hendrik Durschlag Germany 106400 Joost Klein Poelhuis Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 106100 Hwang Yong Kim Canada PokerStars qualifier 106000 Rehne Pedersen Denmark 102500 Julian Hasse Germany 101200 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 100700 Besim Hot Czech Republic 100500 Christian Grundtvig Denmark 100300 Mathias Kuerschner Germany PokerStars qualifier 100200 Andrew Feldman UK 100100 Christian Kruel Brazil 97600 Antoine Saout French 96900 Roland Reckeweg Germany 96700 Jonas Gutteck Germany 96300 Tobias Peters Netherlands 96300 Fatima De Melo Netherlands PokerStars SportStar 95900 Juhha Ylitalo Finland 95900 Kenneth Paul Hicks Jr. USA PokerStars qualifier 95500 Ari Kolpanitzky Israel 95200 Leon Burkhard Switzerland 94800 Vadim Markushevski Belarus Team PokerStars Pro 93800 Raik Bernhardt Germany 92900 Dag Palovic Slovakia PokerStars player 92700 Phillip Huxley UK PokerStars player 91700 Robert Borzyszkowski Poland 91700 Mauro Piacentino Italy 90600 Marco Mattes Germany 88800 Friedrich Raz Germany 88400 Max Pescatori Italy 87900 Peter Mairhofer Austria 87500 Alfonso Amendola Italy 87200 Povilas Purtokas Lithuania PokerStars qualifier 86400 Abdreas Krystjanczuk Germany 85100 Rafa Fortea Spain PokerStars qualifier 84800 Mohamed Razab Netherlands 84300 Andre Einbrodt Germany 83600 Iikka Tahkokallio Austria 82800 Maria Maceiras Spain 82500 Claus Uhrskov Denmark 82300 Vikash Dhorasso France 82000 Oskar Lind Finland 80100 John Kabbaj UK 79500 Jannick Wrang Denmark PokerStars qualifier 78900 Hans-Jurgen Karbowsky Germany 78000 Alexander Strauss Germany 77900 Benjamin Pollak France 77800 Harald Poschl Austria 77000 Marcel Luske Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 75400 Stefan Wrenger Germany 75300 Nicolas Faure France 74900 Stephane Tayar France 74600 Konstantin Bucherl Germany 74500 Andre Vieira Andrade Portugal PokerStars qualifier 73900 Robert Trevor Akery UK 73600 Nicolas Chouity Lebanon PokerStars qualifier 73300 Frank Werder Austria 72600 Rasmus Vogt Denmark 72400 Zvi "Caci" Zim Israel 72400 Schulz Steffen Germany 72000 Julian Thew UK Team PokerStars Pro 71600 Zachary Fritz USA PokerStars qualifier 71400 Raphael Keller Germany PokerStars qualifier 71300 Sven Eichelbaum Germany 71300 Jurgen Einicher Austria 70900 Georgios Ziogas Germany PokerStars qualifier 70300 Armando Graziano Italy 70200 Dieter Albrecht Switzerland 68600 Gustav Ekerot Sweden 68600 Alem Shah Germany 68100 Flemming De Hoog Denmark 68100 Benjamin Mirsaidi Germany PokerStars qualifier 67700 Hanspeter Brutscher Austria 67300 Oleg Epp Germany 67200 Christian Andreas Martin Germany PokerStars qualifier 67100 Alioscia Oliva Italy 66700 Jan Collado Germany 66500 Sigurd Eskeland Norway 66100 Rad Zomorrodi Ardabili Iran 65700 Bruno Launais French 65200 Vadzim Kursevich Belarus 64200 Michael Rutzmoser Germany 63800 Andreas Van De Venne Netherlands 63700 George Claudiu Secara 62000 Slavisa Todorovic Austria 61400 Mihai Manole Romania PokerStars qualifier 61000 Aurelien Guiglini France 59900 Abou-Chaker Yasser Germany 59700 Andreas Siegfried Krause Germany 59700 David Thomas Wintersberger 59700 Vishal Pundjabi Germany 59600 Ivo Donev Austria 59000 Nico Behling Germany 59000 Tyler Dane Kenney USA PokerStars player 59000 Michael Sebban French 58500 Oliver Assmann Germany 58000 Ivano Medagli Italy 57900 Jeffrey Model USA PokerStars player 57800 Kristijonas Andrulis Lithuania PokerStars player 57800 Vincent Bigeon Spain PokerStars qualifier 57800 Andreas Krause Germany 57400 Andreas Mehrer Germany 57300 Vitaliy Volov Russia 57200 Ismael Colin Bojang Germany 56700 Kai Oliver Herold Germany 56400 Max Lemanski Germany 56000 Jamel Maistriaux Belgium 55800 Daniel Reijmer Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 55300 Ketul Nathwani UK PokerStars player 55200 Oliver Schulz Germany 55200 Gijs Verheijen Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 55100 Tim Eulenbach Germany 55000 Katharina Pechtrager Austria 54300 Noah Boeken Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 54100 Javier Dominguez Spain PokerStars qualifier 53700 Anton Bertilsson Sweden 53200 Marcel Koller Switzerland 52700 Francesco De Vivo Italy 52400 Theo Jorgensen Denmark 52000 Tomas Sayech Sweden 51900 Ahmad Ali Solh Germany 51700 Sergey Pomerantsev Russia 51500 Stefan Bormann Germany 51300 Thilo Meyer Germany 51300 Jason Lee Canada PokerStars qualifier 50800 Jesper Petersen Denmark 50300 Stephane Benadiba France 50300 Juha Lauttamus Finland 50100 Rudolf Zintel Germany 49900 Sebastian Deyle Germany PokerStars player 49700 Antonino Guida Italy 49400 Toni Ojala Finland 49200 Konstantin Puchkov Russia 49000 Max Kats Russia 49000 Heinrich Quadrizus Germany 48400 Salman Behbehani Kuwait 47800 Kris Pereira France 47400 Ismail Erkenov Russia 46900 Moritz Kranich Germany PokerStars qualifier 46600 Alexander Dovzhenko Ukarine 46500 Hossein Barati Dehaghi Germany 46500 Michel Abecassis French 46200 Jerome Evans Germany 45600 Chad Brown USA Team PokerStars Pro 45400 Ioannis Chaitas Germany PokerStars qualifier 45300 Thomas Scheld Germany 45100 Julien Labussiere French 44600 Christer Johansson Sweden 44500 Sabine Schmidt Germany PokerStars player 44300 Peter Hedlund Sweden 43700 Antonin Teisseire French 43300 Alexander Wagner Germany 41900 Gregor Waltermann Germany 41500 Stephan Gerin French 41200 Manfred Hammer Germany 41100 Fabien Perrot French 40900 Henryk Nowakowski Austria 40900 Matthias Koerber Germany PokerStars qualifier 40900 Lasell King Germany 40400 Christophe Benzimra France 40300 Shabtay Zurr Israel 40200 Frederik Brink Jensen Denmark PokerStars qualifier 40000 Jonathan Weekes UK 40000 Tobias Wagner Germany 40000 Fergal Nealon Ireland PokerStars qualifier 39800 Aaron Szerencses Germany 39600 Kaidar Viikman Estonia 39300 Thomas Fleck Austria 39000 Oliver Busquet USA 38800 Antonino Sanguedolce Italy 38300 Michael Friedrich Switzerland 38200 Alessandro Longobardi Italy 37600 Bruno Fitoussi France PokerStars player 37400 Gerhard Rabl Austria 36800 Sven Lorenz Germany 36600 Rikard Relander Finland 36200 Thierry van den Berg Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 36200 Jonas Becker Germany PokerStars qualifier 36100 Ernst Felix Geffe Germany 35900 Martin El-Kher Germany 35900 Salvatore Bonavena Italy 35900 Luca Cainelli Italy 35600 Sebastian Muller Germany PokerStars player 35600 Thomas Traboulsi Germany 35600 Matthias Neu Germany PokerStars player 35200 Mohamed Abou-Chaker Germany 35200 William Barr USA PokerStars qualifier 35200 Mark Bloem Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 34800 Andre Schneider Germany 34500 Tony Basile Canada PokerStars player 33700 Fabian Gentile Belgium 33500 Fabian Gehring Germany 33200 Philippe Secchi France PokerStars qualifier 33200 Fursov Vasily Russia PokerStars qualifier 32700 Giuseppe Vassallo Germany 32500 Maurizio Sepede Italy 32300 Soraya Homan Germany 32300 Andre Gross Germany 32200 Andreas Piesik Germany 32000 Laurent Sanglier France 31900 Vladimir Dmitriev Russia 31900 Guy Tomaselli France PokerStars qualifier 31800 Michael Lampel Germany 31000 Marc Gork Germany 29700 Michael Martin USA 29700 Heiko Schultz Germany 29000 Julio Martinez Spain 28900 Marc Winkelmann Germany 28900 Dominykas Karmazinas Lithuania PokerStars player 28800 Antonia Alomar French 28500 Markus Meusburger Austria 28400 Rudiger Brusch Germany 28000 Andras Kovacs Hungary 27200 Tobias Heinsdorf Germany 27200 Hans Vogl Germany 27000 Oliver Gehring Germany 27000 Jan Boubli France 26800 Imed Ben Mahmoud France 26300 Vanja Ovuka Czech Republic 26300 Ralf Schienitzki Germany 26200 Justin Tazelaar Netherlands 25300 Stephan Rach Germany 25200 Markus Feurle Austria 24800 Niklas Heinecker Germany 24500 Remko Vd Bogaard Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 24400 Daniel Pidun Germany 24300 Joel Benzinou Belgium 23900 Thomas Zurek Germany 23400 Anais Lerouge France 23100 Domenico Norfo Italy 22800 Anna Savenkova Russia 21900 Sven Ellrich Germany PokerStars qualifier 21900 Artem Khudaverdiev Germany PokerStars qualifier 21300 Kristoffer Edberg Sweden 20700 Boris Becker Germany PokerStars SportStar 20500 The Duc Ngo Germany 19900 Leon Gutman Germany 19700 Patrick Sacrispeyre France 19700 Eike Seidel Germany 19500 Alex Kuzmin Russia 19100 Fabrizio Baldassari France 18600 Charlotte Roche Germany PokerStars sponsored player 17700 Frank Schmidt Germany PokerStars player 17200 Kolman Malamud Germany 16700 Thomas Schippert Germany 16600 Norbert Krull Germany 14500 Robert Wagner Germany 14400 Conny Eriksson Finland PokerStars qualifier 14300 Mika Paasonen Finland 14000 Benjamin Gruschka Germany PokerStars qualifier 13100 Daniel Kelly USA 12500 Joris Jaspers Netherlands PokerStars player 12300 Vincenzo Di Santi UK PokerStars qualifier 12300 Alessandro Lusso Italy 12100 Joh Carsten Germany 12100 Achim Reiss Germany 11800 Alessio Isaia Italy 11200 Yves J Ste Marie Canada PokerStars qualifier 10900 Volker Dr. Laute Germany 10300 Bernd Rygol Germany 10000 Erik Siefert Germany 9600 Dirk Thiel Germany 7800 Jens Thorson Sweden 3400 Guillermo Montero Venezuela 0 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 04, 2010, 09:14:27 AM The list of all the other prizes is below. From a starting field of 945 players, 144 will be paid. 484 remain
Prizewinners will be listed here as and when they are known. Full payout structure for EPT Berlin: 1 - €1,000,000 2 - €600,000 3 - €350,000 4 - €280,000 5 - €210,000 6 - €165,000 7 - €120,000 8 - €72,000 9-10 - €50,000 11-12 - €40,000 13-14 - €30,000 15-16 - €25,000 17-24 - €23,500 25-32 - €21,000 33-40 - €19,000 41-48 - €17,500 49-56 - €16,000 57-64 - €15,000 65-72 - €14,000 73-80 - €13,000 81-88 - €12,000 89-96 - €11,000 97-104 - €10,000 105-112 - €9,000 113-128 - €8,000 129-144 - €7,000 Entrants: 945 Buy in: €5,000 Total prize pool: €4,725,000 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: mondatoo on March 04, 2010, 09:42:01 AM GLGL Julian,get the lot.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Leatherman on March 04, 2010, 10:12:56 AM Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Dewi_cool on March 05, 2010, 12:10:23 AM gl Julian 350k at end of day
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: 810ofclubs on March 05, 2010, 03:20:24 AM gl julian tid
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: titaniumbean on March 05, 2010, 03:46:05 AM Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: NigDawG on March 05, 2010, 05:17:31 AM gogogogoo yoyoyoyo
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Cottonbud on March 05, 2010, 08:49:26 AM Go Julian! Don't worry about the Shares if you ship this ;)
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 05, 2010, 09:42:51 AM Day 2 is over
Level 16, 2,500-5,000 (500 ante) Total entries 945, 124 remain One million euros first prize Player Country Status Chip Count Stefan Huber Switzerland 1087500 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 794500 Rehne Pedersen Denmark 769500 Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 720500 Jonas Gutteck Germany 622500 Nicolas Chouity Lebanon PokerStars qualifier 615000 Simon Boss Switzerland PokerStars qualifier 531000 Vlad Zguba Ukraine Team PokerStars Pro 496500 Marc Inizan France 496000 Olaf Sagorski Germany 478500 Dennis Frankenberger Germany PokerStars qualifier 443500 Sebastian Panny Austria PokerStars qualifier 442500 Roland Reckeweg Germany 441500 William Thorson Sweden Team PokerStars Pro 432500 Julian Thew UK Team PokerStars Pro 421000 Vikash Dhorasso France 394000 Ilya Gorodetskiy Russia PokerStars qualifier 389500 Marcel Luske Netherlands Team PokerStars Pro 387500 Nico Behling Germany 379500 Joao Barbosa Portugal 375500 Christophe Gross Germany PokerStars player 372000 Amir Tassoudji Germany 357000 Lennart Holz Germany 355000 Theo Jorgensen Denmark 343000 Peter Mairhofer Austria 342000 Dennis Waterman USA PokerStars qualifier 334500 Brent Wheeler USA PokerStars qualifier 320500 Kfir Yumin Israel 320000 Evgeniy Zaytsev Russia 315500 Kenneth Paul Hicks Jr. USA PokerStars qualifier 315000 Luis De La Haza Spain PokerStars qualifier 309000 Ketul Nathwani UK PokerStars player 309000 Dieter Albrecht Switzerland 304000 Alfonso Amendola Italy 298000 Besim Hot Switzerland 296500 Samuel Chartier Canada PokerStars qualifier 296500 Artur Wasek Poland 295000 Marcel Koller Switzerland 264500 Alexander Strauss Germany 263000 Michael Reinhardt Germany 260000 Jan Collado Germany 258500 Kevin Macphee USA PokerStars player 258000 Norman Kastner Germany 247000 Luca Cainelli Italy 244000 Mihai Manole Romania PokerStars qualifier 241500 Marko Neumann Germany PokerStars qualifier 237000 Christian Grundtvig Denmark 231000 Jesus Ramos Vazquez Spain PokerStars qualifier 229000 Paul Thomas Otto Germany 223500 Maria Maceiras Spain 223000 Samize Beganovic Bosnia 221500 Patrick Kubat Germany 220500 Iikka Tahkokallio Austria 220500 Maksim Semisoshenko Russia 216000 Mathias Kuerschner Germany PokerStars qualifier 212000 Jesper Petersen Denmark 210000 Robert Wagner Germany 210000 Stuart Fox UK PokerStars qualifier 207000 Carmelo Vasta Italy 206000 Marko Mikovic Serbia 205000 Tommi Etelepere Finland PokerStars qualifier 199500 Luca Falaschi Italy 196500 Julian Erhardt Germany PokerStars qualifier 187500 Dirk Jaspert Germany 185500 Chris Dombrowski USA PokerStars qualifier 182000 Thilo Meyer Germany 179500 Julian Hasse Germany 169000 Alexey Yuzikov Russia 168000 Edzevit Zukorlic Germany PokerStars qualifier 166500 Benjamin Kang Germany Team PokerStars Pro 166000 Eike Seidel Germany 163500 Andre Vieira Andrade Portugal PokerStars qualifier 161500 Stian Lofstad Norway PokerStars qualifier 161500 David Wintersberger Germany 161000 Miika Puumalainen Finland 157000 Grigory Torosyan Russia 155000 Sven Eichelbaum Germany 155000 Dag Palovic Slovakia PokerStars player 151000 Rasmus Vogt Denmark 142000 Maurizio Sepede Italy 140000 Uwe Mauerhoff Germany 139500 Hans-Jurgen Karbowsky Germany 137000 Derek Murray Ireland PokerStars qualifier 136000 Claudiu Secara Romania 135000 Frank Schaefer Germany PokerStars qualifier 133500 Torsten Brinkmann Germany 132000 Ruslan Prydryk Ukraine 130000 Leon Burkhard Switzerland 129500 Davin Georgi Germany 128000 Christer Johansson Sweden 127500 Thorsten Pauly Germany 127500 Salman Behbehani Kuwait 124000 Jan Wiggo Oefelt Norway PokerStars qualifier 123500 Dimitri Hefter Germany PokerStars qualifier 122500 Andrew Feldman UK 120000 Ismael Colin Bojang Germany 117000 Manuel Bevand France 110500 Vincent Bigeon Spain PokerStars qualifier 108000 The Duc Ngo Germany 107500 Carsten Joh Germany 107000 Kristijonas Andrulis Lithuania PokerStars player 104500 Tijs Groffen Netherlands PokerStars qualifier 101500 Steffen Hesseldal Windfeld-Hansen Denmark PokerStars qualifier 101500 Matthias Koerber Germany PokerStars qualifier 101000 Guillaume De La Gorce France 100500 Stefan Bormann Germany 100000 Armando Graziano Italy 98500 Clement Thumy France 98500 Sven Leu Germany 95500 Tyler Dane Kenney USA PokerStars player 95000 Carlos Oliveira Portugal 91500 Thomas Scheld Germany 85500 John Kabbaj UK 80000 Daniel Nitzche Germany 77000 Tu Tuan To Germany 71500 Slobodan Bjelobrk Slovenia PokerStars qualifier 70000 Adam Von Chamier Germany 65500 Bruno Fitoussi France PokerStars player 65500 Rad Zomorrodi Ardabili Iran 56000 Lars Graf Germany PokerStars qualifier 52000 Andre Einbrodt Germany 49000 Gianni Giaroni Italy PokerStars player 42500 Georgios Berkis Greece 36500 Victor Ilyukhin UK 26000 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: typhoon13 on March 05, 2010, 09:54:07 AM Nice one Julian. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Bas on March 05, 2010, 10:08:31 AM gogo Julian Thew and Julian Hasse!
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Micko on March 05, 2010, 04:24:58 PM Jude Ainsworth making another deep run in this EPT good to see and also GL Julian!!
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 06, 2010, 09:29:45 AM Day 3 is over
Level 23, 12,000-24,000 (2,000 ante) Total entries 945, 24 remain One million euros first prize Player Country Status Chip Count Kevin MacPhee USA PokerStars player 2526000 Theo Jorgensen Denmark 2408000 Marc Inizan France 2109000 Ketul Nathwani UK PokerStars player 2056000 Stefan Huber Switzerland 1850000 Iikka Tahkokallio Finland 1564000 Paul Thomas Otto Germany 1546000 Jonas Gutteck Germany 1486000 Marko Neumann Germany PokerStars qualifier 1448000 Artur Wasek Poland 1405000 Evgeniy Zaytsev Russia 1368000 Norman Kastner Germany 1270000 Ilya Gorodetskiy Russia PokerStars qualifier 989000 Marcel Koller Switzerland 865000 Joao Barbosa Portugal 794000 Alfonso Amendola Italy 640000 Carsten Joh Germany 609000 Lennart Holz Germany 600000 Luca Cainelli Italy 558000 Jude Ainsworth Ireland Team PokerStars Pro 539000 Mathias Kuerschner Germany PokerStars qualifier 516000 Johannes Strassmann Germany Team PokerStars Pro 515000 Nico Behling Germany 505000 The Duc Ngo Germany 144000 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 06, 2010, 09:31:08 AM Full payout structure for EPT Berlin:
1 - €1,000,000 2 - €600,000 3 - €350,000 4 - €280,000 5 - €210,000 6 - €165,000 7 - €120,000 8 - €72,000 9-10 - €50,000 11-12 - €40,000 13-14 - €30,000 15-16 - €25,000 17-24 - €23,500 25-32 - €21,000 25 - Jan Collado, Germany, €21,000 26 - Christophe Gross, Germany, PokerStars player, €21,000 27 - Vlad Zguba, Ukraine, Team PokerStars Pro, €21,000 28 - Eike Jan Seidel, Germany, €21,000 29 - Marko Mikovic, Serbia, €21,000 30 - Olaf Sagorski, Germany, €21,000 31 - Grigory Torosyan, Russia, €21,000 32 - Carlo Oliveira, Portugal, €21,000 33 - Luca Falaschi, Italy, €19,000 34 - Dennis Frankenburger, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €19,000 35 - Frank Schaefer, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €19,000 36 - Dieter Albrecht, Switzerland, €19,000 37 - Vikash Dhorasso, France, €19,000 38 - Andrew Einbrodt, Germany, €19,000 39 - Simon Boss, Switzerland, PokerStars qualifier, €19,000 40 - Roland Reckeweg, Germany, €19,000 41 - Patrick Kubat, Germany, €17,500 42 - Peter Mairhofer, Austria, €17,500 43 - Amir Tassoudji, Germany, €17,500 44 - Julian Thew, UK, Team PokerStars Pro, €17,500 45 - Jan Wiggo Oefelt, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, €17,500 46 - Leon Burkhard, Switzerland, €17,500 47 - Alexander Strauss, €17,500 48 - Marcel Luske, Netherlands, Team PokerStars Pro, €17,500 49 - Robert Wagner, Germany, €16,000 50 - Rehne Pedersen, Denmark, €16,000 51 - Samize Beganovic, Bosnia, €16,000 52 - Sven Eichelbaum, Germany, €16,000 53 - Thorsten Pauly, Germany, €16,000 54 - Michael Reinhardt, Germany, €16,000 55 - Dirk Jaspert, Germany, €16,000 56 - Jesus Ramos Vazquez, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, €16,000 57 - Edzevit Zukorlic, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000 58 - Salman Behbehani, Kuwait, €15,000 59 - Dennis Waterman, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000 60 - Sebastian Panny, Austria, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000 61 - Gianni Giaroni, Italy, PokerStars player, €15,000 62 - Daniel Nitzche, Germany, €15,000 63 - Hans-Jürgen Karbowsky, Germany, €15,000 64 - Christian Grundtvig, Denmark, €15,000 65 - Thomas Scheld, Germany, €14,000 66 - Matthias Koerber, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €14,000 67 - Besim Hot, Switzerland, €14,000 68 - Samuel Chartier, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €14,000 69 - Stian Lofstad, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, €14,000 70 - Andre Vieira Andrade, Portugal, PokerStars qualifier, €14,000 71 - Carmelo Vasta, Italy, €14,000 72 - Dag Palovic, Slovakia, PokerStars Player, €14,000 73 - Chris Dombrowski, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €13,000 74 - Jesper Petersen, Denmark, €13,000 75 - Maria Maceiras, Spain, €13,000 76 - David Wintersberger, Germany, €13,000 77 - Ismael Colin Bojang, Germany, €13,000 78 - Davin Georgi, Germany, €13,000 79 - Sven Leu, Germany, €13,000 80 - Uwe Mauerhoff, Germany, €13,000 81 - Tommi Eteläperä, Finland, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000 82 - Rad Kambiz, Iran, €12,000 83 - Maurizio Sepede, Italy, €12,000 84 - Luis De La Haza, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000 85 - Clement Thumy, France, €12,000 86 - Brent Wheeler, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €12,000 87 - Kfir Yamin, Israel, €12,000 88- Torsten Brinkmann, Germany, €12,000 89 - William Thorson, Sweden, Team PokerStars Pro, €11,000 90 - Derek Murray, Ireland, PokerStars qualifier, €11,000 91 - Ruslan Prydryk, Ukraine, €11,000 92 - Stefan Bormann, Germany, €11,000 93 - Manuel Bevand, France, €11,000 94 - Benjamin Kang, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €11,000 95 - Julian Hasse, Germany, €11,000 96 - Mihai Manole, Romania, PokerStars qualifier, €11,000 97 - Stuart Fox, UK, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000 98 - Tijs Groffen, Netherlands, €10,000 99 - Christer Johansson, Sweden, €10,000 100 - Tyler Kenney, USA, PokerStars player, €10,000 101 - Kristijonas Andrulis, Lithuania, PokerStars player, €10,000 102 - Miika Puumalainen, Finland, €10,000 103 - John Kabbaj - UK, €10,000 104 - Vincent Bigeon, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000 105 - Rasmus Vogt, Denmark, €9,000 106 - Alexey Yuzikov, Russia, €9,000 107 - Lars Graf, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €9,000 108 - Julian Erhardt, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €9,000 109 - Bruno Fitoussi, France, PokerStars player, €9,000 110 - Guillaume De La Gorce, France, €9,000 111 - Armando Graziano, Italy, €9,000 112 - Slobodan Bjelobrk, Slovenia, PokerStars qualifier, €9,000 113 - Adam Von Chamier, Germany, €8,000 114 - Dimitri Hefter, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 115 - George Claudiu Secara, Romania, €8,000 116 - Thilo Meyer, Germany, €8,000 117 - Steffen Hansen, Denmark, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 118 - Maksim Semisoshenko, Russia, €8,000 119 - Andrew Feldman, UK - €8,000 120 - Tu Tuan To, Germany, €8,000 121 - Georgios Berkis, Greece, €8,000 122 - Victor Ilyukhin, UK, €8,000 123 - Kenneth Hicks Jr, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 124 - Nicolas Chouity, Lebanon, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 125 - Rikard Relander, Finland, €8,000 126 - Jason Lee, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 127 - Marko Braculj, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €8,000 128 - Phillip Huxley, UK, PokerStars player, €8,000 129 - Oliver Assmann, Germany, €7,000 130 - Jannick Wrang, Denmark, PokerStars qualifier, €7,000 131 - Lorenz Freitag, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €7,000 132 - Max Pescatori, Italy, €7,000 133 - Bezlepkin Dmitry, Russia, PokerStars qualifier, €7,000 134 - Fabien Perrot, France, €7,000 135 - Povilas Purtokas, Lithuania, PokerStars qualifier, €7,000 136 - George Danzer, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €7,000 137 - Sebastian Deyle, Germany, PokerStars player, €7,000 138 - Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany, €7,000 139 - Jukka Ylitalo, Finland, €7,000 140 - Serge Didisheim, Switzerland, PokerStars qualifier, €7,000 141 - Andreas Doletzki, Germany, €7,000 142 - Giuseppe Pantaleo, Italy, €7,000 143 - Vadim Markushevski, Belarus, Team PokerStars Pro, €7,000 144 - Andreas Mehrer, Germany, €7,000 Entrants: 945 Buy in: €5,000 Total prize pool: €4,725,000 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Eck on March 06, 2010, 01:21:06 PM Dunno wtf just happened but all sort of shit just kicked off on the live feed
http://www.pokerstars.tv/channels/TPI/live.html Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Eck on March 06, 2010, 01:22:41 PM Not sure think set may have collapsed
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: GreekStein on March 06, 2010, 01:25:05 PM unlucky not to go further Julian but good start to career as a team stars pro.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Eck on March 06, 2010, 01:27:52 PM Sounds like the place has been raided/robbed.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/61/mtt-community/ept-berlin-march-2-7-2010-1-million-guaranteed-first-prize-702894/index23.html Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Eck on March 06, 2010, 01:50:15 PM the end of the live feed
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtfOf69-QPg Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: GreekStein on March 06, 2010, 01:51:51 PM wow pretty sick
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: AlexMartin on March 06, 2010, 01:55:06 PM wow
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: GreekStein on March 06, 2010, 02:03:55 PM from 2+2 thread it seems robery was made more tempting by the fact the casino security was so poor and there was 4.7milly to tempt robbers just sitting behind the counter with no real increase in security
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Numpty Dumpty on March 06, 2010, 02:16:44 PM stu is there - he texted to say something had happened - guys ran in with guns and all the players had legged it outside. don't know any more than that, will post when i speak to him
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: NigDawG on March 06, 2010, 02:18:14 PM (http://www.poker-actu.fr/var/docs/photo/divers/ept_brac.jpg)
but yeh wow Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: snoopy1239 on March 06, 2010, 03:36:35 PM Don't think anyone was seriously hurt, fortunately. Dana experienced a similar incident like this in Monte Carlo last year when some guy went nuts and stormed the cardroom and pressroom. They really have to start upping the security at these events, especially if they advertise cash only tables.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: MANTIS01 on March 06, 2010, 03:52:31 PM Wow. Those pictures are terrifying and shocking, the one showing an upturned table and a bottle of water on the floor especially so.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: action man on March 06, 2010, 03:57:01 PM sick, hope everyone is ok.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: ChipRich on March 06, 2010, 04:01:48 PM sick, hope everyone is ok. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: feedthegoat on March 06, 2010, 04:52:47 PM sick, hope everyone is ok. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: julian on March 06, 2010, 05:11:52 PM wow, it was really very scary, i was on a table in the middle of the room, there was a commotion outside in the lobby & we figured a fight had kicked off.
all of a sudden there was lots of screaming (there was a ladies event running as well...) & folks were just running towards our end of the ballroom, the feature table stage seemed to collapse & we dived under our table with no idea what the hell was going on, our dealer said 'earthquake' & apparenty someone had shouted in german that there was a bomb which no doubt caused the panic. after a few moments we all started to crawl quickly towards the fire escape & we were all pretty quickly outside. kudos to ept, 2 hours later we were back in the ballroom & barring one of the 3 main event tables which was just a sea of chips you'd never have guessed at what had happened earlier. the 1k was eventually cancelled (sigh) but i think all other events are continueing - would quite like to drink heavily now but i'm due a stint on the ept live feed soon, prob wouldn't be the best start.... Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: the rage on March 06, 2010, 07:46:53 PM Good Luck in the comp Julian-I'm assuming that you are still going strong.
ps-hope everyone's ok. Robberries are very distressing. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: treefella on March 06, 2010, 08:22:55 PM Another video YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfoTT_5bxWM Just a querie. Is this hand now dead ? !! lol Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: pleno1 on March 06, 2010, 10:12:46 PM http://www.hochgepokert.de/beta2/2010/03/06/panik-in-berlin/
EPIC! Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: easypickings on March 06, 2010, 10:36:29 PM I've Borrowed this from my blog......................
When I imagined all the ways my poker weekend in Berlin could go, there was one possibility I did not really think about. During the second hour of today’s play in the EPT and all its many side events, there was a loud commotion just outside the room. The nature of a poker player dictates that everybody stopped for half a second, thought little of it, and carried on, nothing more than a little perturbed to have had their game interrupted. However, half a minute later, that commotion repeated itself a whole lot more intensely, and it started to become apparent that it involved more than just a cruel bad beat. No one really knew what was going on at the time, but as soon as someone shouted “Waffen!” (guns), a worried atmosphere turned into a panicked one. Everybody scrambled, and started diving under tables. Chips flew all over the place; I whacked my head, and a few people came off pretty badly from the crush, though ultimately nobody was too badly hurt. For a while, most people cowered under the tables, with little idea what was going on, and absolutely no idea what they should do next. Most of my rational brain was telling me “this is fine, they have no reason to hurt anyone,” but in the kind of situation you never expect to be in, I don’t mind admitting I was pretty scared, and still feeling shaken up a little while after. After a minute, people started crawling for the exits, and I was massively relieved to stumble upon a fire exit, and get outside to safety. No one really knew for a long time what had happened, but the story is emerging that the robbers had initially made off with a bounty of 800,000 Euros, but were intercepted for most of that by a heroic (maybe over heroic?) hotel doorman. I really hope that this is a day that makes alot of people involved in poker have a really clear think. On a few occasions in the past, when I’ve been in a line of people all handing over big amounts of cash, which then just gets piled up on one side, I’ve had a little wonder. I’ve thought, “Is this not a massively vulnerable situation?” I know that I’m not alone in having thought this, and probably also not in being guilty of reasoning “it’s fine, the people in the know must have it under control.” Today made us realise that the situation was indeed just vulnerable as it had seemed. This is especially the case when a tournament is held in a hotel, which does not have the security level of a casino, and especially at the EPT, where it has always seemed ludicrously difficult to buy-in in any other way other than with cash at the venue. Berlin will have seemed even more tempting for the robbers, if they knew of a bizarre law, which meant that buy-ins were allowed only an hour before the start of the tournament. This meant that such a massive amount had come into the organisers’ hands within just a couple of hours. The fact that the robbers’ timing was pinpointed right at the end of the registraion period is worrying in suggesting that they knew this detail, and maybe a whole lot more. There cannot be another walk of life where these huge amounts of money are being held without a really tight security. It was maybe only because the non-poker public did not know about our bizarre little world until recently, that this kind of easy heist hasn’t happened until now. After a few years of gradually being accepted into the mainstream, it will remain to be seen whether this does any damage to poker’s credibility. It’s definitely a worry that the news of this event might alert other criminals to the fact that a poker tournament is an equally lucrative, but far easier, target than a bank or jeweller’s store. It is these latter levels of security that will now have to be matched, and I will be eager to hear something very strong from the EPT before feeling completely safe playing live poker any time soon. Unfortunately, every poker organiser will now have to see things in a different light. I would even feel uneasy about something like the Irish Open, simply as it is the next big tournament held in a similarly vulnerable location. However, it is the EPT who should feel obliged to become the flag-bearers for security. This must start from the bottom, and this must involve them confronting smaller issues, like their annual turning of a blind eye towards the numerous muggings outside Barcelona casino. I remember that at the first poker tournament I ever went to, on Italy’s Amalfi coast in 2006, there was a raiding by the police, and the tournament was swiftly cancelled. I naively thought that the new world I had just entered was a dark one after all. The last three and a bit years have definitely proved that wrong, but I feel that today has turned that wealth of feeling on its head. It’s not just a security worry that leaves me uneager to turn up at any more tournaments soon, but the feeling of the whole thing. Some people who know nothing of poker would quite happily bracket it in the same category as gambling, back-rooms, and maybe even guns. We of course know very differently, that poker is a worthy and hugely friendly environement, but today makes me feel that it would be difficult to argue against those people. Nobody wants to be involved in a job which could have them diving under tables in fear of guns. However, in a bank, something like this would be a slight fear of a worthy job, whereas it’s difficult to say the same for poker. If this kind of crime is about men’s greed for easy money, could you even draw an (admittedly very tenuous) link with poker? Poker players don’t often have an experience of all clubing together, but this rare occasion was definitely the only upside of a sad day. There was definitely a feeling that the game must go on, and it did so in a very sporting fashion in the Main Event. There, chip stacks had flown about even more in the panic, giving the most potenital for a poker disaster. However, there were a couple of incredibly sporting gestures, as players gave up chips they would have lost in the most confusing scenarios of a hand being in progess, and each table got a round of applause as they fairly sorted their chip stacks. So, the game must go on. Hopefully, EPT Berlin 2010 will go down in poker history both as a bizarre one-off, but also as a big warning signal. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 06, 2010, 11:16:25 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8553943.stm
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: treefella on March 06, 2010, 11:20:10 PM Scary read. Glad to hear no one was seriously hurt.
but sadly for the poker industry i feel it will only exacerbate the general publics low opinion of the game. However just maybe now the players can have a real say in to how these events are managed. A start will obviously be significantly beefed up security from now on and far simpler, safer ways to buy in rather than parading around with big wads of cash for entry fees. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Bas on March 06, 2010, 11:48:16 PM what an absolutely crazy day, just glad i was so fked from night before i didnt wake up in time to play the 1k!
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: NoflopsHomer on March 07, 2010, 12:07:51 AM EPT Berlin - Where everyone is UTG.
(Not mine) Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: byronkincaid on March 07, 2010, 12:48:26 AM http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/103/eptberlinohm1.jpg
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: action man on March 07, 2010, 12:50:13 AM niiiice
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: The Camel on March 07, 2010, 12:55:53 AM I've Borrowed this from my blog...................... When I imagined all the ways my poker weekend in Berlin could go, there was one possibility I did not really think about. During the second hour of today’s play in the EPT and all its many side events, there was a loud commotion just outside the room. The nature of a poker player dictates that everybody stopped for half a second, thought little of it, and carried on, nothing more than a little perturbed to have had their game interrupted. However, half a minute later, that commotion repeated itself a whole lot more intensely, and it started to become apparent that it involved more than just a cruel bad beat. No one really knew what was going on at the time, but as soon as someone shouted “Waffen!” (guns), a worried atmosphere turned into a panicked one. Everybody scrambled, and started diving under tables. Chips flew all over the place; I whacked my head, and a few people came off pretty badly from the crush, though ultimately nobody was too badly hurt. For a while, most people cowered under the tables, with little idea what was going on, and absolutely no idea what they should do next. Most of my rational brain was telling me “this is fine, they have no reason to hurt anyone,” but in the kind of situation you never expect to be in, I don’t mind admitting I was pretty scared, and still feeling shaken up a little while after. After a minute, people started crawling for the exits, and I was massively relieved to stumble upon a fire exit, and get outside to safety. No one really knew for a long time what had happened, but the story is emerging that the robbers had initially made off with a bounty of 800,000 Euros, but were intercepted for most of that by a heroic (maybe over heroic?) hotel doorman. I really hope that this is a day that makes alot of people involved in poker have a really clear think. On a few occasions in the past, when I’ve been in a line of people all handing over big amounts of cash, which then just gets piled up on one side, I’ve had a little wonder. I’ve thought, “Is this not a massively vulnerable situation?” I know that I’m not alone in having thought this, and probably also not in being guilty of reasoning “it’s fine, the people in the know must have it under control.” Today made us realise that the situation was indeed just vulnerable as it had seemed. This is especially the case when a tournament is held in a hotel, which does not have the security level of a casino, and especially at the EPT, where it has always seemed ludicrously difficult to buy-in in any other way other than with cash at the venue. Berlin will have seemed even more tempting for the robbers, if they knew of a bizarre law, which meant that buy-ins were allowed only an hour before the start of the tournament. This meant that such a massive amount had come into the organisers’ hands within just a couple of hours. The fact that the robbers’ timing was pinpointed right at the end of the registraion period is worrying in suggesting that they knew this detail, and maybe a whole lot more. There cannot be another walk of life where these huge amounts of money are being held without a really tight security. It was maybe only because the non-poker public did not know about our bizarre little world until recently, that this kind of easy heist hasn’t happened until now. After a few years of gradually being accepted into the mainstream, it will remain to be seen whether this does any damage to poker’s credibility. It’s definitely a worry that the news of this event might alert other criminals to the fact that a poker tournament is an equally lucrative, but far easier, target than a bank or jeweller’s store. It is these latter levels of security that will now have to be matched, and I will be eager to hear something very strong from the EPT before feeling completely safe playing live poker any time soon. Unfortunately, every poker organiser will now have to see things in a different light. I would even feel uneasy about something like the Irish Open, simply as it is the next big tournament held in a similarly vulnerable location. However, it is the EPT who should feel obliged to become the flag-bearers for security. This must start from the bottom, and this must involve them confronting smaller issues, like their annual turning of a blind eye towards the numerous muggings outside Barcelona casino. I remember that at the first poker tournament I ever went to, on Italy’s Amalfi coast in 2006, there was a raiding by the police, and the tournament was swiftly cancelled. I naively thought that the new world I had just entered was a dark one after all. The last three and a bit years have definitely proved that wrong, but I feel that today has turned that wealth of feeling on its head. It’s not just a security worry that leaves me uneager to turn up at any more tournaments soon, but the feeling of the whole thing. Some people who know nothing of poker would quite happily bracket it in the same category as gambling, back-rooms, and maybe even guns. We of course know very differently, that poker is a worthy and hugely friendly environement, but today makes me feel that it would be difficult to argue against those people. Nobody wants to be involved in a job which could have them diving under tables in fear of guns. However, in a bank, something like this would be a slight fear of a worthy job, whereas it’s difficult to say the same for poker. If this kind of crime is about men’s greed for easy money, could you even draw an (admittedly very tenuous) link with poker? Poker players don’t often have an experience of all clubing together, but this rare occasion was definitely the only upside of a sad day. There was definitely a feeling that the game must go on, and it did so in a very sporting fashion in the Main Event. There, chip stacks had flown about even more in the panic, giving the most potenital for a poker disaster. However, there were a couple of incredibly sporting gestures, as players gave up chips they would have lost in the most confusing scenarios of a hand being in progess, and each table got a round of applause as they fairly sorted their chip stacks. So, the game must go on. Hopefully, EPT Berlin 2010 will go down in poker history both as a bizarre one-off, but also as a big warning signal. It's not a one off. The Aviation in Paris was the subject of an armed robbery during a WPT tournament about 6 years ago. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: lucky_scrote on March 07, 2010, 04:47:39 AM Thanks for the read Stu. This felt I was reading a book from an Vegas old school poker player from the 60's. I am a little worried about playing big live tourneys in the future.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Ironside on March 07, 2010, 07:01:09 AM wow this video shows one of the guards grabing a robber then having to let go when his mate came back for him
http://www.hochgepokert.de/beta2/2010/03/06/panik-in-berlin/ Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: doubleup on March 07, 2010, 11:28:31 AM It's not a one off. The Aviation in Paris was the subject of an armed robbery during a WPT tournament about 6 years ago. Not sure what point you are trying to make, The Aviation is hardly a soft target and neither are any other casinos. Pokerstars have been negligent imo in creating a situation where huge amounts of money are effectively lying about in a hotel function suite. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 07, 2010, 12:45:09 PM Meanwhile right now we have a Brit in the final 6
Final table Level 27, 40,000-80,000 (5,000 ante) Total entries 945, 6 remain One million euros first prize Player Country Status Chip Count Kevin MacPhee USA PokerStars player 10310000 Marc Inizan France 5450000 Ilari Tahkokallio Finland 3940000 Artur Wasek Poland 3530000 Ketul Nathwani UK PokerStars player 2300000 Marcel Koller Switzerland 200000 Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: Colchester Kev on March 07, 2010, 01:04:32 PM Time for some headline punnage methinks ...
Ketul's boiling in Berlin Macphee is not the first American to storm Berlin Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: UpTheMariners on March 07, 2010, 01:13:44 PM anyone got the outcome of the side events? i'm interested in who won the shootout.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: LeedsRhodesy on March 07, 2010, 02:14:13 PM They need hulk hogan there imo that head lock looked weak also once in the head lock why did they not remove the mask?? Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: MANTIS01 on March 07, 2010, 02:59:24 PM The robbers should have worn famous poker player masks like the ex-presidents gang in Point Break. Ivey, Hellmuth, Brunson bursting in and robbing the casino would have been a nice touch.
Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: treefella on March 07, 2010, 03:03:43 PM The robbers should have worn famous poker player masks like the ex-presidents gang in Point Break. Ivey, Hellmuth, Brunson bursting in and robbing the casino would have been a nice touch. Ye. and helmuth cuda said something like " i can dodge bullets baby " ! Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: The Camel on March 07, 2010, 05:42:50 PM It's not a one off. The Aviation in Paris was the subject of an armed robbery during a WPT tournament about 6 years ago. Not sure what point you are trying to make, The Aviation is hardly a soft target and neither are any other casinos. Pokerstars have been negligent imo in creating a situation where huge amounts of money are effectively lying about in a hotel function suite. My point was that Stuart said he hoped this incident was a one off. I was just saying it wasn't. Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: TightEnd on March 07, 2010, 06:48:02 PM by Simon Young on March 7, 2010 9:44 AM
The European Poker Tour has released a new statement following yesterday's armed robbery at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here in Berlin. This statement corrects some of the misreporting of the incident in the media... "Yesterday at approximately 2.15pm, an armed robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. Four armed men were involved in the robbery which targeted the tournament registration desk outside the tournament area. No shots were fired and the suspects quickly fled after a security guard intervened. The police investigation so far has shown that the suspects had a handgun and a machete. Contrary to tabloid reports, no Kalashnikov assault rifles or hand grenades were used. The suspects did not enter the tournament area and the money taken was substantially less than what has been reported. The tournament resumed after a few hours and a police investigation is now under way. The tournament is taking place on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz and is being held by SPIELBANK Berlin Casino. The police are working closely with the EPT and SPIELBANK Berlin. Police are asking anyone who has information, video footage or photographs that might aid the investigation to contact them." Title: Re: EPT Berlin thread Post by: EvilPie on March 08, 2010, 01:41:55 PM Just a quicky for everyone who says that security needs to be beefed up to protect against this sort of thing.
Don't complain when your reg fees double. Great report Mr Rutter. |