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EPT Berlin Main Event – Day 5 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2013-04-27 09:51
With 17 players returning to the tables, Day 5 of the
EPT’s Berlin Main Event looked like it was going to be over in a flash. Indeed, 8 players were bounced from the
poker tournament in 6 hours, and given that the goal was to play down to the 8-handed final table, it looked like Day 5 would wrap up shortly. The remaining 9 players had other plans though: with none of them willing to become the final table bubble-boy, they battled on for another 6 hours before the makeup of the final table was finally decided. 9-handed action was extremely slow and cumbersome in places, often frustrating even the commentators.
When the home dash of the tournament was indeed reached, Germany’s own Robert Haigh had the largest stack in front of him: he finished with 5.49 million chips. Daniel-Gai Pidun had a good day too: he finished with 5.25 million.
The feature table yielded few eliminations and thus not much to watch for those who had tuned in to the live stream. Phillippe Barouk was one of the early victims of the day: he bit the dust in 16th place after his pocket rockets were blown to bits. He followed Kevin Stani to the rail and he was followed in turn by Olivier Busquet, a player every one of the survivors was happy to see go.
Matias Kesanen was one of the players who drew the ire of the public at the event: he apparently took way too much time to act in order to move up the payout ladder. Whether he stalled the action or not is a moot point now: he was eliminated in 14th place, when his A,10 ran into Roman Herold’s pocket Qs.
Dashygyn Aliev was the final table bubble-boy.
