2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
43
Prize
€1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,725,000
Entries
945
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0

MacPhee Increases Lead

On the first hand of heads-up play, Ilari Tahkokallio had the button and Kevin MacPhee was in the big blind. The two saw a flop of {A-Clubs}{K-Hearts}{8-Hearts} and that's where we'll pick up the action.

MacPhee checked and Tahkokallio fired 320,000. MacPhee called. After the turn came the {10-Spades}, MacPhee checked again. Tahkokallio fired 625,000 and MacPhee called, bringing the pot to 2.4 million

The river completed the board with the {A-Spades} and MacPhee reached into his stack. He fired 1.33 million and Tahkokallio mucked. MacPhee showed {Q-?}{10-?} and increased his lead. Tahkokallio dropped below 10 million chips.

Tags: Ilari TahkokallioKevin MacPhee

Heads-up Deja Vu

Heads-up play begins
Heads-up play begins
This is not the first time that Messrs. MacPhee and Tahkokallio have been heads up. At EPT London they went heads up in the ��1,000 PLH/PLO and that time Tahkokallio came out on top. This time MacPhee goes into the HU with a significant chip lead, plus he's running like, well, a lucksack. Tahkokallio, though, has karma on his side after making perhaps the most gentlemanly decision of all time yesterday, allowing Luca Cainelli to double through him after the hand in question was interrupted for four hours by the armed robbery. To state the obvious, it could go either way.

MacPhee - 17,675,000
Tahkokallio - 11,035,000

Mattern Eliminated from High Roller

Arnaud Mattern in the High Roller event
Arnaud Mattern in the High Roller event
French Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern just busted from the High Roller event in eighth place. He finished short of cashing, and the remaining seven players are now on the money bubble.

Marc Inizan Eliminated in 3rd Place (�350,000)

Marc Inizan - 3rd Place
Marc Inizan - 3rd Place
On the flop of {J-Hearts}{8-Spades}{7-Hearts}, Marc Inizan checked to the preflop aggressor Kevin MacPhee. He fired 360,000 and then Inizan opted to check-raise to 890,000. There's been few check-raises since coming back from the dinner break so this seemed expected. MacPhee then reraised to 1.72 million before Inizan moved all in. MacPhee made the quick call.

It was an easy call for MacPhee as he tabled the nuts with the {10-Spades}{9-Clubs}. Inizan held the {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs} for a pair and a gutshot.

The turn was the {4-Hearts} and then the river the {A-Clubs} to give MacPhee the win and send Inizan to the rail in third place. He took home �350,000 for his finish and MacPhee was left to face Ilari Tahkokallio heads up with the chip led.

Tags: Kevin MacPheeMarc Inizan

Inizan Not Afraid

Cyberdyne Systems, Model MacPhee
Cyberdyne Systems, Model MacPhee
Marc Inizan (small blind) checked the {10-Hearts} {5-Spades} {2-Clubs} flop and Kevin MacPhee (big blind) bet 335,000. Inizan now check-raised to 915,000.

MacPhee looked him up and down in what to the casual observer seemed a most intimidating way - MacPhee, hidden behind baseball cap and super-reflective aviators, could be a bad guy in a Terminator movie. Inizan didn't look particularly bothered, though, and eventually MacPhee laid it down.

Tags: Kevin MacpheeMarc Inizan

Inizan Rivers Two Pair

Marc Inizan climbing out of the gutter with that one
Marc Inizan climbing out of the gutter with that one
Ilari Tahkokallio completed from the small blind and Marc Inizan checked in the big blind. The flop came down {Q-Diamonds}{7-Spades}{4-Clubs} and Tahkokallio fired 150,000. Inizan called.

The turn brought the {K-Hearts} to the party and Tahkokallio fired 320,000. Inizan made the call. The river completed the board with the {J-Diamonds} and Tahkokallio fired 760,000. Inizan made the call.

Tahkokallio tabled the {K-Spades}{6-Hearts} for a pair of kings, but Inizan tabled the {J-Hearts}{7-Clubs} for a rivered two pair and won the pot, giving him the first significant pot after the dinner break.

Tags: Ilari TahkokallioMarc Inizan

Back from Dinner

The remaining three players are back from dinner and the cards are in the air. Marc Inizan has some work to do being the shortest stack to return while Kevin MacPhee and Ilari Tahkokallio are almost even in chips at the top. One double up for Inizan though would surely change everything.

The average stack is 83 big blinds and the smallest stack has 47 big blinds, so we could be in for a long night. Grab the popcorn, sit back and enjoy the coverage.

Tags: Ilari TahkokallioKevin MacPheeMarc Inizan

High Roller Update

Kabrhel checks out the camera at High Roller final table.
Kabrhel checks out the camera at High Roller final table.
The �10,000 High Roller side event has reached the final table. No matter what the fate of the prize pool that may or may not have been absconded with yesterday, six players will be getting paid today, so they're three eliminations away from the money.

Amazingly, Martin Kabrhel has the chip lead at the moment. Kabrhel hasn't made much of an impact on EPT main events, but he's consistently crushing the side events this season. He won the �2,000 event at back-to-back stops in Vilamoura and Prague. And last month in Deauville, he took down the �25,000 High Roller tournament. A win here would put him in first place for EPT player of the year, a remarkable feat considering his only Main Event cash was a 60th place in Deauville.

Jeff Sarwer is currently third in chips, and just behind him is Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Mattern. Andrew Feldman just busted in 9th place. Here are the latest chip counts, courtesy of our friends at PokerNews.nl:

Martin Kabrhel - 240,000
Andreas Bauer - 200,000
Jeff Sarwer - 125,000
Arnaud Mattern - 110,000
Dominykas Karmazinas - 100,000
[Removed:39] - 60,000
Jyri Merivirta - 55,000
Bijan Zahmat - 52,000

And here's what the top six will be getting paid, armed robberies notwithstanding:

1. � 188,000
2. � 110,000
3. � 67,000
4. � 53,000
5. � 38,000
6. � 24,000