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2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
2010 EPT Berlin Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Berlin
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€4,725,000
Entries
945
Level
33
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Flop:
Inizan checked the rather juicy-looking flop, and MacPhee bet 235,000. Tahkokallio called again and the action moved back to Inizan, who now check-raised to 635,000. MacPhee passed - but Tahkokallio moved all in. Inizan swiftly passed, and Tahkokallio took the pot.
Incidentally our very own expert on Finnish, Gloria Balding, has just informed us that the "kallio" part of Tahkokallio means "rock" (she can't remember what "tahko" means). If he's true to his name, he will have had a real hand there, but we're just going to have to wait for the TV show to find out what he had though...
and following a flush-free board they chopped it up.The next hand Behling got it in again and this time it was Marcel Koller who made the call.
Behling:
Koller:
Board:
Ladies and gentlemen, we are down to seven.
With 52 minutes left of this level, shuffle up and deal!
Level: 27
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 5,000
The players are in the tournament area now, but they have to have their photo taken and the like before we can get underway. Shouldn't be too long now though...
Seat 1: Marko Neumann - 2,185,000
Seat 2: Marc Inizan - 3,655,000
Seat 3: Kevin MacPhee - 6,070,000
Seat 4: Artur Wasek -3,530,000
Seat 5: Marcel Koller - 3,590,000
Seat 6: Nico Behling - 960,000
Seat 7: Ketul Nathwani - 4,685,000
Seat 8: Ilari Tahkokallio - 3,940,000
Kevin MacPhee began the day atop the 24 players that returned for Day 4. At the end of the day, he was on top once again. He was the only player to bag up more than five million chips, and even went one higher to bag up over six million. Only two players are below the average chip stack of approximately 3.54 million, while four of them huddle right around it. Ketul Nathwani had a roller coaster of a day and finished in second place on the leaderboard.
To find out more about each player, you can check out the player bios courtesy of PokerStars below. MacPhee, Tahkokallio and Nathwani have shared a final table before, in the ￡1,000 PLH/PLO side event at last year's EPT London. It'll be interesting to see how the history between these three plays out at this final table.
If you'd like to watch the live feed of the final table, which will resume today, check out EPT Live.
Play will begin at noon local time and we'll see you then!
When the tournament was interrupted, Tahkokallio and Luca Cainelli were involved in a huge all-in pot. At the turn, Cainelli had
, Tahkokallio had 
and Cainelli looked good to double up. Then, the tournament was interrupted and all players and the dealer left the area. When they returned, tournament director Thomas Kremser said that, if they wanted, the players could consider the hand dead and take their chips back. Although he was losing, Tahkokallio said the river card should be dealt because he had already made the call -– a sporting gesture greeted by applause.The river was a blank and Cainelli doubled up. Later, Tahkokallio ended up busting Cainelli and now sits on nearly four million in chips.
Tahkokallio, who has been a professional poker player for two years, won the PLO/PLH ￡1,000 side event at EPT London after beating Kevin MacPhee heads up. Of today’s decision, he said, “I like to be fair and play in good spirit. It wasn’t even really a choice for me.”
Bios courtesy of PokerStars
Despite describing himself as an online cash-game specialist, Ketul Nathwani is no stranger to live poker and has put together a string of notable results during the four years he has played the game. He went deep in the 2007 World Series Main Event and then took down a ￡1,000 buy in tournament in his home city of London, outlasting 423 others to win ￡119,780. He is a former computing student at Imperial College but is now a professional poker player.
Bios courtesy of PokerStars