Final Table Chip Counts
RankPlayerCountryChips1Paul MichaelisGermany670,0002Rick AlvaradoUSA435,0003Stephen ChidwickUK354,0004Frederic SchwarzerGermany242,0005Makarios AvramidisGreece179,0006Marvin RettenmaierGermany90,000
Entering Day two of the event, the particular UK's Oliver price led the last 35 players. Simply the many notable 21 reached your money, and also in which happened when Benjamin Einert his the actual rail throughout 22nd place. According to event reviews through WSOP.com, Einert was eliminated simply by Italian Max Pescatori.
Day two of the 2015 world Series of Poker Europe festival took place on Friday in Berlin, Germany. two events had been in action, using Event #1: 2,200 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em reaching its official final table of 6 players, as well as the 1st a pair of starting flights regarding Event #2: 550 "Oktoberfest" No-Limit Hold'em playing out.
Michaelis Leads Final 6 in Opening Event
Germany's very first WSOP gold bracelet event reached the final 6 competitors about Friday with Paul Michaelis in the lead of Event #1: 2,200 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em. The Actual event had attracted 197 players along with 35 advancing to Day 2.
Also advancing coming from Day 1a had been Georgios Sotiropoulos (119,500), David "ODB" Baker (94,500), as well as Phil Hellmuth (43,500). Via Day 1b, Felix Bleiker (202,500), Alex Rocha (189,500), and Christian Krupp (50,500) almost all moved on.
On Saturday, the last two beginning flights will just take place in this event, together with Day 1c kicking off at 10 a.m. as well as Day 1d from 7 p.m. nearby time.
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With slightly under thirty minutes left inside level 19 (3,000/6,000/1,000), the players will come back again to action upon Saturday from 12 p.m. local time. Become certain to always be able to keep tuned in right here to PokerNews.com so as to see which wins the really first gold bracelet ever awarded on German soil.
First A Pair Of Flights of "Oktoberfest" within the Books
Day 1a along with 1b regarding Event #2: 550 "Oktoberfest" No-Limit Hold'em occurred on Friday, with fields of 375 and 473 generated, respectively, the particular total area size thus way transferred to 848 entries. In the conclusion of both flights, it was none apart from Shaun Deeb within the lead with his stack regarding 212,000 in chips. Deeb took the general chip lead throughout Day 1b.
After nailing down a pair of much more gold bracelets during the summer, Pescatori proceeded to finish throughout eighth place in this event along with collect 12,120. the man called "The Italian Pirate" can in addition be certainly 1 of the players more than throughout Europe for the series that could probably catch Mike Gorodinsky with regard to WSOP Player of the 12 Months honors. entering the event, Pescatori sat within 23rd location with 1,301.22 points. Via this finish, he should make 183.13 points to include in his total in order to provide him 1,484.35, and also Gorodinsky sits atop the leaderboard using 2,157.19 points. It'll become hard with regard to Pescatori to catch Gorodinsky, but each little bit counts in narrowing the gap, and also Pescatori earned the solid chunk within the opening event.
Joining Michaelis from the ultimate table had been Rick Alvarado, Stephen Chidwick, Frederic Schwarzer, Makarios Avramidis, as well as Marvin Rettenmaier. Alongside along with Michaelis, Schwarzer as well as Rettenmaier tend to be German looking to keep the gold in residence soil must certainly one of the actual trio emerge victorious.
Each of the ultimate six has locked up the absolute minimum associated with 16,740, but oahu can be the 105,000 best reward that they're all gunning for. Michaelis and his awesome stack associated with 670,000 get him within fantastic place to take the actual title, as he's 235,000 inside chips ahead of Alvarado's second-place stack. Rettenmaier had been the actual shortest stack remaining using 90,000 within chips.
Day 1a's chip leader had been Erik Scheidt, but his finishing stack regarding 129,000 has been nowhere close to that relating to Deeb.
To set your official final table of six, it was Jeff Lisandro going house in seventh place, furthermore for 12,120.
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