London Royals vs. Berlin Bears
Day 1 Completed
2016 Global Poker League Week 9
London Royals vs. Berlin Bears
Day: 1
An exciting day of Global Poker League heads-up matches has come to an end. We saw two clean sweeps today in the Eurasia conference mano-a-mano fights.
Timothy Adams was the first one to score three wins today. The Rome Emperors player had Hong Kong Stars' Weiyi Zhang on the ropes early on in the first match. With his king-five, he rivered a king to beat Zhang's pocket sevens to take a 1-0 lead.
In the second match, he quickly pulled away from his opponent. On a 
-board he got it all-in with king-three against the 
of Zhang. The river wasn't one of Zhang's out with the 
and Adams was already secured of the victory.
The last heat for the final three points was decided by two big hands in the end. In the first one, Adams flopped a flush against Zhang's two pairs. In the second hand, the king-queen from Zhang couldn't beat Adams' ace-six and the Canadian scored the clean sweep. Earning nine crucial points for the Emperors.
Next up was the battle between Anatoly Filatov and George Danzer. The first two heats were lengthy battles but in the end Filatov came out on top.
In the last hand of the first heat, Danzer's nine-eight was dominated by Filatov's ace-eight and it stayed that way. The next heat was decided by a coin flip. Filatov's pocket deuces were victorious against the ace-eight from Danzer.
Danzer struck back a little bit in the last heat. He took the lead early on in the fight and eventually finished it off by making a flush with his 
against Filatov's 
.
Filatov probably wasn't very disappointed about that last heat. He still won the match and gave the Moscow Wolverines a decent lead in the Eurasia conference. In the meantime, Filatov himself became the top scorer of the Global Poker League so far. Scoring 56 in his twelve matches, the same amount as Fedor Holz raked in for his team.
[George Danzer wins the last game and keeps his Aviators team in a playoff spot in the standings. #GPL pic.twitter.com/XHFi1pApnf
— Global Poker League (@gpl) 21 september 2016
The last match of the day was betweenJustin Bonomo and Dominik Nitsche. Bonomo went off to a flying start for his London Royals, winning the first heat in just four hands. Nitsche tried to bluff Bonomo on a 
-board, but Bonomo made the correct call with ace-ten.
Nitsche, looking for some costly points fo the Berlin Bears, couldn't get things going in the second heat. He was down early in the match and eventually lost his final chips with ace-ten against Bonomo's jacks.
In the final heat, Nitsche had the better start, but Bonomo fought back. He took over the chip lead and ended it in style with pocket aces.
Thanks to the six points Filatov scored, the Moscow Wolverines still have a big lead in the Eurasia conference. The London Royals are now solely in second after Bonomo's perfect nine points. The Hong Kong Stars are still in a good spot for the playoffs, but the Paris Aviators and Rome Emperors are on their heels. With only the top four reaching the playoffs in Las Vegas, the Berlin Bears need to score big in the next couple of weeks.
GPL Eurasia Conference Standings
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moscow Wolverines | 136 |
| 2 | London Royals | 122 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Stars | 113 |
| 4 | Paris Aviators | 111 |
| 5 | Rome Emperors | 110 |
| 6 | Berlin Bears | 100 |
Tomorrow the Global Poker League will be back with some more heads-up action. This time from the Americas conference. At 1pm EDT (7pm EST) the Montreal Nationals and LA Sunset will kick off. Marc-Andre Ladouceur will compete for the Nationals and has to take on Olivier Busquet.
Following this match, Sao Paulo Metropolitans' Byron Kaverman will play against New York Rounders' Tom Marchese. The final match of the day is between Jonathan Jaffe, representing the San Francisco Rush, andJake Cody for the Las Vegas Moneymakers.
Justin Bonomo trapped Dominik Nitsche in the final hand of this heads-up match. He limped in with 
and Nitsche pushed all-in for 32,660 chips with 
. Nitsche announced: "This could be the end of this", and it actually was.
The board ran out 
and Nitsche was drawing dead after the turn. A clean sweep for Bonomo who scores a perfect nine points for the London Royals.
[It's a clean sweep - 9 points for the London Royals. GG Justin & Dominik. GPL is back tomorrow with more HU matches pic.twitter.com/0iZv8bTpHJ
— Global Poker League (@gpl) 21 september 2016
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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100,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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Busted | |
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Justin Bonomo won a couple of pots after the breaks and he is clearly ahead now in this battle. With blinds at 1,400/2,800, Dominik Nitsche will be all-in soon.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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70,000
19,940
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19,940 |
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30,000
-19,940
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-19,940 |
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The stream is fixed and play is resumed.
While the stream was down, Justin Bonomo managed to come back to even stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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50,060
22,260
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22,260 |
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49,940
-22,260
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-22,260 |
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In just a few minutes the stream will be back online and we'll hope to get you the latest updates of this final heat.
Commentator Jonathan Little just announced in the Twitch-chat, that the game has been paused, so the match is not over yet.
Dominik Nitsche was still the chipleader in this last heads-up battle, but we can't provide you anymore updates at the moment.
There are some technical issues with the Global Poker League-stream. We keep you updated.
Justin Bonomo put Dominik Nitsche to the test with a big overbet bluff on the river.
On a 
-board, Bonomo fired a bet of 21,000 into a 14,000-pot.
Bonomo had 
for just king-high, but Nitsche had a tough call with his .
Nitsche took his time and decided he couldn't let it go. He raked in a huge pot, giving him a nice chiplead in this heat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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72,200
22,200
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22,200 |
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27,800
-22,200
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-22,200 |
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This second day of Week 9 of the Global Poker League almost comes to an end. The final heat of the day between Justin Bonomo and Dominik Nitsche just started.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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50,000
-50,000
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-50,000 |
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50,000
50,000
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50,000 |
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Dominik Nitsche was left very short after the earlier coin flip. He managed to double up once, with 
against Justin Bonomo . Shortly after that, he was down to only 18,000 chips.
Nitsche shoved all-in with and Bonomo immediately called, holding 
.
Nitsche was at risk and needed some help. The 
-flop gave him a flush draw. The -turn gave him some additional straight outs, but he wasn't able to hit one of them. The river was the 
and Bonomo could celebrate his second victory in this match.
[2-0 for Justin. Fast paced games, great strat-talk from both players. Don't miss game 3! https://t.co/9iVyrewZyq pic.twitter.com/zLeFJJ1Sxu
— Global Poker League (@gpl) 21 september 2016
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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100,000
16,000
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16,000 |
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Busted | |
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