From under the gun, Andrew Chen raised to 210,000 with the . [Removed:284] called with the from the big blind and the flop came down . [Removed:287] check-raised all in after Chen bet 235,000 and took down the pot.
From under the gun and holding Davidi Kitai opened to 235,000 and Mario Puccini decided to make the call with in the button. Andrew Chen looked down and found in the hole and tried his luck with squeeze to 760,000.
Kitai stared down Chen for a few moments before reaching for a couple of towers of yellow chips totalling 1,385,000, a rare four-bet. This folded out Puccini and Chen made the correct fold.
Since the players have returned from their break with few hands making it to the flop. We thought there would have been some action when the rank amateur [Removed:284] opened to 250,000 with but none of his opponents had anything to play back at him with.
At the moment the cards are just not matching up and causing battles, hopefully that will change shortly.
Just as we were posting the last update on the €10,000 High Roller, the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller champion and Team PokerStars Pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom from Sweden was eliminated in seventh place. He earned €29,700 and everyone received a pay jump to €33,000.
The EPT Berlin €10,000 High Roller just lost Martin Jacobson in eighth place for €26,400.
With just a few minutes left in the 2,000/4,000/500 level, Jacobson raised from under the gun to 8,000 and Tobias Reinkemeier reraised all in for 66,000 from the hijack seat. Action folded back to Jacobson and he made the call with the . Reinkemeier held the . The flop, turn and river ran out and the tens held for Reinkemeier to give him the double up.
With that loss, Jacobson was kicked back to just 46,000 in chips and in the big blind on the next hand when Viktor "Isildur1" Blom opened to 8,500 from under the gun. On the button, David Peters took his time and then flat-called. When it was up to Jacobson, he raised all in for 45,500. Blom folded and Peters made the call after thinking for a minute.
Peters held the for a flip against the for the at-risk Jacobson. The board gave Peters a full house and knocked out Jacobson in eighth place. The remaining seven players have now locked up €29,700.
Very shortly after the elimination, the level jumped up to 2,500/5,000/500. After this hour level, the players will take a one-hour dinner break. Below are the chip counts following Jacobson's bust.
Natalie Hof is the German presenter for the PokerStars European Poker Tour Berlin. As she waits around for the a new champion to interview, we got to know her a little better.