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EPT Berlin Main Event – Day 2 Report
Posted by: Randy Williams - Wed, 2013-04-24 08:32
The second day of the
EPT’s Berlin Main Event saw some pretty fast paced and torrid action from the get-go. 168 players remained standing at the end of the day, with Finland’s Aku Joentausta leading the pack behind a stack of 751.3k chips. Unlike the two previous chip leaders of the first two day 1 flights, Joentausta didn’t reach the top of the pops through one well-placed punch. Instead, he chipped up steadily through the day, consistency his main weapon.
PokerStars’ Jake Cody was one of the players who fell victim to the Finn’s consistency: he got it all-in with a dominated A and the Finn flopped a two pair and took down the pot, sending Cody to the rail.
Joentausta then locked horns with fellow countryman Janne Nevalainen, in what turned out to be quite the perfect hand: Nevalainen had trips against Joentausta’s turned straight. Needless to say, the eventual chip leader ended up with another pile of chips added to his stack.
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi had finished the previous day with the largest stack and he played well on day 2 too. At one point, he got all his chips into the middle holding the nut flush, looking to double up against Khiem Nguyen. Nguyen then made a boat though and he took down the pot, sending Mizrachi to the rail. He then proceeded to preserve his big-stack status, finishing the day with 490.8k chips to his name.
Benny Spindler fell in a similarly frustrating hand later: he had flopped a bigger set against Davidi Kitai’s own flopped set, but then his opponent hit quads to send him packing.
Day 1A chip leader Ronny Woth finished with a healthy stack. Dominik Nitsche will return on day 3 too, together with Pascal Vos.
