2008 PokerStars.net EPT4 German Open - Dortmund

€7,700 + 300 German Open Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.net EPT4 German Open - Dortmund

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
ak
Prize
€933,600
Event Info
Buy-in
€7,700
Prize Pool
€3,164,700
Entries
411
Level Info
Level
24
Blinds
15,000 / 30,000
Ante
3,000

Negreanu is a Great Entertainer

In his usual fashion, PokerStar Pro Daniel Negreanu keeps talking to all his opponents on table 2. After losing almost half of his stack in the beginning, he is now in better shape with 18,000 in front of him. He has also changed his language into some odd mixture of English and German, and all his bets are announced as “Tausend” and “Hundert.” The spectators seems to enjoy it as much as Negreanu himself does. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the Canadian with a pretty big stack at the end of the night.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

ElkY Donates Some to Luske

ElkY and Luske
ElkY and Luske
The second half of the field is now on dinner break and the two PokerStars players, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Marcel Luske, are still sitting next to each other on table 14.

“I was up to 40,000, but had to help my friend Luske a little since he was so short-stacked. I am still on 31,000, but now I have to watch out since Marcel is closing on with 20,000 in his stack,” says the Frenchman with a big smile.

Tags: Bertrand "ElkY" GrospellierMarcel Luske

Flush Eliminates De Wolfe

Roland De Wolfe
Roland De Wolfe
Roland De Wolfe had only a few days of rest after the Aussie Millions before it was time for a new battle, this time in Germany. After five hours on Day 1b, he got all his money into the pot on a {K-Hearts}{3-Hearts}{2-Spades}{9-Diamonds} board, holding {A-Spades}{K-Spades}. One opponent called with {9-Hearts}{7-Hearts} for a flush draw, which would be enough, since the {A-Hearts} fell on the river.

Tags: Roland De Wolfe

411 Players in Total

53 out of the 213 players that entered the PokerStars EPT German Open today have been eliminated so far. When added to the 198 players from yesterday’s Day 1, we had a total of 411 players in this year’s tournament. The prize structure will be presented within the next couple of hours.

Tandler Wins Three-Way All-In

Experienced poker pro George Danzer from Germany was in good shape getting all the chips in the pot, holding {A-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds} against Marcus Tandler’s {4-Clubs}{4-Spades} and Maximilian Bracht’s {5-Spades}{6-Spades} on a {3-Clubs}{4-Hearts}{5-Diamonds} flop. Danzer’s straight didn’t hold up since Tandler hit another three on the turn to make a full house. There was no five on the river to save Bracht and Tandler raked the 24k pot. George Danzer has left the building and Bracht is down to a mere 3k.

Tags: George DanzerMarcus TandlerMaximilian Bracht

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Dinner Break #1

After four levels of play, half the field went on their one-hour dinner break. The rest of the field continues to play one more hour before it is their turn to get some food.