EPT Dortmund Live Updates Day 2

150 hopefuls have progressed to Day 2 of the prestigious EPT...

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End Of Play Chip Counts

32 remain.

Diego Perez Marco    361,600
Michael McDonald    335,700
Claudio Rinaldi    278,700
Marco Liesy    278,200
Johannes Strassmann    276,400
Aniol Alcaraz    216,200
Brandon Schaefer    202,300
Andreas Gülünay    201,100
Jan Heitmann    200,400
Manfred Hammer    135,300
Christopher Rossiter    129,500
Thibaut Durand    123,200
Marcel Luske    123,000
Peyman Mohammadzadeh    114,800
Manfred Bass    114,400
Daniel Ryan    110,400
Daniel Carter    105,900
Christian Harder    101,900
Alexandar Milanov    96,300
Tyler Friederich    91,600
Chabot Cyrille     74,700
Hugo Marialva Felix    63,000
Marcel Cesarz    59,300
Steve Jelinek    57,700
Jioí Kulhánek    53,600
Bernhard Damnik    44,000
Andreas Sarling    38,400
Torsten Haase    36,800
Syikrai Istafan    32,100
Mario Kühl    27,600
Raul Paez Corral    25,400
Sebastian Till    16,200

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00:22

The directors announced we would play down to 32, and finishing 33rd for €9500 is an unfortunate Thor Hansen - his

pre-flop shove being called by

and the flop coming down

high.

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00:09

They've brought out the brown 5,000 chips now - big boy stuff.

Huge action.

Richard Forembach raises to 9k UTG. Perez behind him re-raises to 29,000. Stefan Rotach moves in behind him for his last 64,000. Forembach then moves in for his last 78k. Not to be outdone, Perez kindly calls.

The hands:

Forembach:

Rotach:

Perez:

The bullets hold up and the Spaniard will need a forklift to collect all those chips up. But Forembach and Rotach both collect €9,500 for their troubles.

Arrive just in time to see Johannes Strassmann triple up after another three-way pot. His catches a third on the river to eliminate one opponent with and another with who had hit his set on the turn!

Bodies flying.

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00:07

Last level of the night, everyone still in is cashing.

Level 16
	2000/4000(400)
	36
	102,750

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23:44

SICK BUBBLE.

Stefan Wrenger gets his all in on a flop. He is called by Brandon Schaefer with . Battling my way through spectators to see the turn peeled, I FEEL the crowd's noise as the is peeled and Wrenger bubbles in horribly painful circumstances. An river means nothing and as I race to the press rooom to type this hand I pass a zombie like Wrenger dragging his feet through the casino lobby. I almost want to buy the chap a drink but work calls and I also think the conversation may be a little on the morbid side.

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23:15

Anders Henriksson shoves from cut off with and his chances of survival look slim as the button, Stefan Wrenger pushes over the top of him with . Anders does indeed exit the tournament with no shocking cards from the dealer coming to save him. Stefan wins 24,700.

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23:04

We may have a new chip leader in Canadian Mike McDonald. He raises in early position to 12k, and the aggressive Mats Iremark comes over the top with 29,100. McDonald makes a gutsy/suicidal all-in move with . Iremark, 150k stack on the line, decides he cant lay down but he wish he had moments later as first one then two hit and just like that the Swede is over to the cash tables. McDonald must have about 350k now, and needed help from the dealer for about ten minutes to stack his new pile. With the Spaniard Perez sitting pretty to his right the pair must have most of the field covered.

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22:52

They can smell the money now.

Level 15
	1.5k/3k (300)
	47
	87,446

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22:07

Diego Perez takes down an enourmous 100k pot in a tussle of the big stacks with Tyler Friederich.

Friederich bets 8k on a board of , which Perez flat calls. The turn is checked before a river prompts the American to fire out 16k on an exceptionally dangerous board. Perez reaches deep and raises to 38k. Tyler asks Diego "What's the Spanish for full house?" before calling with for a straight. Sure enough, the Spaniard tips over and his queens full helps him takes down what must be the biggest pot of the tournament so far.

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21:34

Level 14
	1.2k/2.4k
	50
	86,000

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21:18

Three Brits left in now: Daniel Carter on 22,600; PokerStars qualifier Christopher Rossiter on 80,000; and Steve Jelinek another qualifier from PokerStars, on 39,400. Chabot Cyrille of France continues to dominate the field and has increased his stack to 125,000.

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20:59

Katja Thacher won't be among those cashing in her homeland; pushing with and finding another low pair caller, this time big stack Chabot Cyrille with . Brief hope with an is doused with a turn. But she accepts it gracefully and goes over to try and sell her new book 'Poker Matrix' with the other pros who co-wrote it.

It's bullets galore as first Frank Werder makes an ill-timed button push with to run into Stefan Rotach's . Straight after Britain's Steve Jelinek pushes his last 30k with the rockets and gets Henrik Brockmann to look him up with , and the flop took care of itself.

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20:46

And here is the confirmed payout structure:

Total prize pool 3,164,700 euros

1 € 933,600
2 € 528,500
3 € 307,000
4 € 234,200
5 € 193,000
6 € 152,000
7 € 120,200
8 € 85,500
9 € 52,200
10 € 52,200
11 € 41,100
12 € 41,100
13 € 31,700
14 € 31,700
15 € 22,150
16 € 22,150
17 € 17,400
18 € 17,400
19 € 17,400
20 € 17,400
21 € 17,400
22 € 17,400
23 € 17,400
24 € 17,400
25 € 12,650
26 € 12,650
27 € 12,650
28 € 12,650
29 € 12,650
30 € 12,650
31 € 12,650
32 € 12,650
33 € 9,500
34 € 9,500
35 € 9,500
36 € 9,500
37 € 9,500
38 € 9,500
39 € 9,500
40 € 9,500

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20:45

Here are the stacks at the start of this level...

Name	start	end 10	end 12
Diego Perez Marco	47,400	110,100	179,600
Michael McDonald	27,200	82,800	175,000
Claudio Rinaldi	71,300	98,000	168,000
Tyler Friederich	70,900	78,000	153,000
Michael Kwiek	62,800	50,000	120,000
Marcel Luske	27,600	47,000	120,000
Jan Heitmann	23,300	50,000	114,000
Chabot Cyrille	111,100	125,000	112,000
Aniol Alcaraz	21,000	28,500	109,700
Daniel Ryan	23,900	66,600	97,000
Bernhard Damnik	36,500	56,000	96,800
Manfred Bass	46,900	68,500	95,000
Stefan Rotach	23,200	21,300	94,800
Alexandar Milanov	28,200	52,100	88,800
Mats Erik Iremark	47,700	?	82,000
Daniel Carter	33,900	22,600	76,000
Peyman Mohammadzadeh	60,900	64,400	74,400
Stefan Wrenger	48,600	47,000	74,200
Andreas Gülünay	24,900	23,000	74,200
Thibaut Durand	33,500	41,400	74,100
Thor Hansen	34,000	56,200	74,000
Torsten Haase	28,300	79,000	72,000
Raul Paez	9,700	34,000	72,000
Marciano Elie	35,200	43,300	69,200
Marco Liesy	18,900	?	68,000
Christopher Rossiter	49,200	80,000	63,100
Edwin Tournier	43,000	48,000	61,600
Daniele Mazzia	16,400	31,000	60,200
Anders Henriksson	18,300	40,000	57,000
Johannes Strassmann	6,100	26,500	55,800
Mario Kühl	49,800	55,700	53,400
Marcus Tandler	29,100	25,600	51,000
Richard Fohrenbach	34,000	38,000	50,100
Reijo Anttila	36,700	30,500	45,000
Jacques Zaicik	21,600	18,000	42,600
Hugo Marialva Felix	18,400	51,000	40,600
Katja Thater	19,000	23,200	40,400
Szikrai Istvàn	22,300	28,000	40,000
Manfred Hammer	20,800	25,500	39,400
Daniel Bolton	24,600	28,000	37,000
Ramzi Jelassi	16,500	24,000	36,900
Simone Gallitti	33,800	17,000	36,500
Frank Werder	24,600	32,000	34,400
Brandon Schaefer	37,500	19,000	34,000
Mika Turpeinen	10,400	32,300	33,700
Jiri Vacek	25,600	28,300	32,800
Christian Harder	21,900	80,000	32,100
Markus Golser	54,600	58,500	31,800
Steve Jelinek	23,800	39,400	31,400
Nikolas Behling	19,900	23,000	29,000
Thomas Petersen	17,500	15,400	28,600
Jordane Beraldin	24,000	56,800	27,100
Daniel Ruiter	33,400	36,000	27,000
Ville Mattila	57,300	43,000	25,800
Ralf Werner	22,900	32,600	25,300
Rolf Slotboom	13,600	26,000	23,800
Henrik Brockmann	42,400	52,900	22,500
Pascal Perrault	25,300	19,500	22,200
Gianvalerio Bindi	41,700	52,200	22,000
Sebastian Till	12,300	26,300	21,300
Jose Maria Puertas Nieto	13,100	27,800	21,200
Marc Dötsch	31,100	32,500	21,000
Russell Carson	70,400	23,000	21,000
Andreas Sarling	56,500	65,000	16,000

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20:36

Level 13
	1k/2k (200)
	66
	62,272

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19:34

One hour dinner break - back with you at 20:30 CET / 19:30 GMT. You may be interested to hear Annette_15's final exit hand, which is now known!

Strassman makes it 4k from middle position. The button calls, but Annette_15 shoves for 34k. She shows as Strassman calls with . The button folds. A useless board sends Annette_15 home.

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19:16

Katja Thater moves in from the cut-off for her last 21k with and is disgusted to find Martin Hruby calling with from the big blind. The flop and turn and blanks but the German catches an river to stay alive. But her berating of Hruby didnt stop there as she launches into him with a tirade of German spiel. "Dreis? Dreis?" (which means threes - I think) was all I could translate of it. But it was vicious.

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19:05

Both Annette_15 and Negreanu have been thorugh the press room. We all go to find out how this chip leaders had been eliminated within just 4 levels.

I ask Annette 'Oh no, what happened?' and she simply replies 'Oh I made a bad squeeze play. It was 60/40...'

Turns out (on the grapevine) after her double up through Levi, Annette had gone on to lose a good half of that stack doubling up British pro Jelinek in a standard pre-flop match which played itself. From there, it was downhill and as she said to me just now 'I've been having a bad day overall'.

Negreanu lost the majority of his stack on one hand before heading downhill also - apparantly being four flushed by to his .

In both cases, these top pros are reluctant to reveal full descriptions of their actual exit hands to the hungry press room. You can't blame them - once it's downhill, there's not a lot more to say.

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18:34

Level 12
	800/1600 (200)
	85
	48,362

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18:19

Jacques Zaicik is congraulated by French bloggers as he doubles up with a set of .

The language adventure continues for us. Word of the day: chocolate croissant = chocolate croissant.

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18:01

Patrick Bueno moves in for 20k with on a board of , and gets a caller in Daniel Ruiter with . Bueno musters a wry smile but was cursing 'Sacre Bleu' as turn and river cards and send him packing .

Negreanu update: The Canadian seems to be impressed with Mats Iremark to his right. Folded to him in the small blind, Mats limps. "Your a smart young man", he tells the Swede. "I was expecting the usual Scandi push in that situation". But as the field shrinks, so the media scrum increases around his table.

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17:30

Level 11
	600/1200 (100)
	96
	43,263

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16:55

Annette_15 vs Nicolas Levi Part 2 (also known as - lyk, OMG)

Just as before, the pre-flop pot has reached approaching 15k.

Flop showing this time, Annette_15 checks UTG, and Levi bets 5500 from the button. Annette makes a sort of 'struggle call' - leaving us wondering whether she is insanely weak or strong at this moment. In between probably isn't on the cards right now.

They check the turn. Annette_15 riffles before throwing in 5k on the river. Levi peeks at her stack before pushing all of his red 500 chips over the line. Annette_15 shoves her entire stack over the line and they showdown.

As Nicolas Levi flips my heart sinks as I believe I have witnessed the last hand of Annette_15 in Dortmund.

Annette_15, however, casually shows to show they have both flopped a set, and turned a full house, and that on every street, Annette_15 was ahead.

The count after Levi calling the 5000 river bet of Annette's remaining shove was 19k, meaning Annette_15 now sits on approx 70k.

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16:39

Sebastien Freundberg moves all-in for around 13k with only for Marcel Luske to re-raise all-in with . Marco Liesy thinks a long time before laying down and showing before a third hits on the flop which would have propelled him towards the chip lead. "Ai ai ai" he mutters.

KidPoker faces a 2500 river bet from Gianvalerio Vindi on a board of . "I have no clue what to do", mutters Daniel before reluctantly calling. The Italian turns over the for the nut flush. "I had 2 pair on the flop and a club", adds an animated Daniel. "Why do you guys slowroll so much over here? You been watching too much Casino Royale?"

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16:34

Level 10
	500/1000 (100)
	122
	33,688

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16:22

Annette_15 vs Nicolas Levi.

The pre-flop pot has amounted to around 12k on Annette's big blind. Levi is in cut off. The flop of is checked (though reluctantly by Levi, who thinks deeply), and Annette bets out 10k for an instacall on the river. Annette sense danger and checks the river and almost folds before Levi has announced all in. Neither players show.

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16:18

Cheeky blind play is always good. Sensing, on a flop, that his big blind special is good, Estonia's Marek Kolk re-raises small blind Diego Perez Marco's 1300 bet to 5000 to see an instafold and an instafrown when he exposes his monster.

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16:14

It's not pre-determined by the poker gods that a short stack should be knocked out in Level 9. In fact, one short stack, Jonas Soerensen, doubles up with his on a high board.

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16:09

Daniel Negreanu sprints thorugh the card room and a director points to his chair. Daniel runs to the table behind however, and realises he is in the wrong place when he sees a coat already on the chair he believes is his. 'Daniel! You're here!' shout the PokerStars crew and Daniel makes it for the next hand.

'Are you like Phil Hellmuth now?' asks an unimpressed Marcus Tandler. 'Soon, you will be whining too.'

Daniel returns his trademark grin and a couple of blinks before proceeding to limp. Two limpers follow and Marcus says 'Look what you've done now!'.

'There's nothing wrong with it, I don't care what the books say.'

'Nothing wrong with it if you want to see a lot of flops - you can outplay anyone on the flop' replies Marcus. Clearly not a fan, are we Marcus?

The hand does not reach showdown, as Daniel re-raises one of the limpers on a low rainbow flop who folds and accepts Daniel's wishes to win his first few pots...

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15:44

As the body count continues to pile up no sign of Daniel Negreanu yet; but he was an hour late yesterday and finished the day in 8th place so it's worked for him so far.

PokerStars Pro Noah Boeken has just come into the press room, after his found no help against Lakasz Wasek's . And Marcel Luske is active early-on: he re-raises Mats Iremark's UTG move; Iremark's response: "I don't think you have a good hand; I think your making a move."

"How sure are you?" replies Luske. Before Marco Liesy comes over the top with 9k to shut them both up. A good start for Liesy, who knocked out Yngne Anderberg when his caught a on the flop to take down Anderberg's . Sick.

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15:32

The short stacks begin all out warfare in the first level of Day 2, resulting in 5 eliminations in the first 15 minutes. Here are two of the notable exits we have spotted...

Yngne Anderberg groans as his pre-flop push with is called by Marco Liesy's , only for the flop to come high. Despite the natural desire to win there is even a grimace on Marco's face as he modestly accepts he got lucky on the short stack, who is now holding his head in his hands as he stands behind his seat.

Dutch television qualifier Leroy Soesman breaks the arm off his chair as he flips his called shove to see his opponent's . 'Well, that's it for me' he says, leaving the tournament area.

In poker, and especially in the first level of Day 2 of a big tournament, the take no prisoners policy is the only way you will progress.

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15:17

And they're off.

Level 9
	400/800 (100)
	100
	27,400

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14:39

Here's the player list for Day 2 (150 players):

Full Name Country Chips
Chabot Cyrille France 111100
Claudio Rinaldi Switzerland 71300
Tyler Friederich USA 70900
Russell Carson Canada 70400
Jioí Kulhánek Czech Republic 66300Full Name Country Chips
Chabot Cyrille France 111100
Claudio Rinaldi Switzerland 71300
Tyler Friederich USA 70900
Russell Carson Canada 70400
Jioí Kulhánek Czech Republic 66300
Michael Kwiek Unknown 62800
Peyman Mohammadzadeh Germany 60900
Daniel Negreanu Canada 59900
Ville Mattila Finland 57300
Andreas Sarling Finland 56500
Nicolas Levi France 56100
Markus Golser Austria 54600
Annette Obrestad Norway 50200
Mario Kühl Germany 49800
Christopher Rossiter UK 49200
Stefan Wrenger Germany 48600
Mats Erik Iremark Sweden 47700
Marcel Cesarz Germany 47600
Diego Perez Marco Spain 47400
Manfred Bass Germany 46900
Daniel Zink Germany 45400
Andreas Manganelli Italy 44600
Edwin Tournier Netherlands 43000
Jose Luis Valero Spain 42800
Henrik Brockmann Germany 42400
Christoffer Sonesson Sweden 41800
Gianvalerio Bindi Italy 41700
Dan Walley UK 41400
Mazhar Nawab UK 40800
Riccardo Mazzitelli Italy 40700
Maik Brandau Germany 40400
Jonas Soerensen Denmark 40300
Björn Enberg Sweden 40200
Carter Gill USA 39400
Marek Kolk Estonia 38900
Brandon Schaefer USA 37500
Benjamin Kang Germany 37300
Reijo Anttila Finland 36700
Bernhard Damnik Germany 36500
Phillip Marmorstein Germany 35500
Marciano Elie France 35200
Richard Fohrenbach USA 34000
Thor Hansen Norway 34000
Daniel Carter UK 33900
Marcel Baran Germany 33800
Simone Gallitti Italy 33800
Thibaut Durand France 33500
Daniel Ruiter Netherlands 33400
Tobias Reinkemeier Germany 31400
Marc Dötsch Germany 31100
Thomas Bihl Germany 30100
Marcus Tandler Germany 29100
Sevinc Neumann Germany 28800
Vikke Toumaala Unknown 28800
Pouya Pouya Majd Germany 28700
Sjoerd Bos Netherlands 28600
Carsten Joh Germany 28400
Torsten Haase Germany 28300
Marius Pospiech Germany 28300
Alexandar Milanov Russia 28200
Korosh Mollaie Germany 28200
Marcel Luske Netherlands 27600
Giorgio Salemi Italy 27500
Michael McDonald Canada 27200
André Santos Portugal 26900
Paul Testud France 25800
Ulrich Trautenberg Germany 25700
Jiri Vacek Czech Republic 25600
Pascal Perrault France 25300
Daruisz Paszkiewicz Poland 25100
Eugen Frey Germany 25000
Andreas Gülünay Germany 24900
Mazlum Acar Turkey 24625
Daniel Bolton Ireland 24600
Frank Werder Germany 24600
Jordane Beraldin France 24000
Daniel Ryan USA 23900
Steve Jelinek UK 23800
Redmond Lee UK 23400
Jan Heitmann Germany 23300
Stefan Rotach Switzerland 23200
Ralf Werner Germany 22900
Jameson Painter USA 22600
Szikrai Istvàn Hungary 22300
Sigi Stockinger Germany 22200
Christian Harder USA