The 9 levels is over, and 12 hours after the players sat down at the tables, they can now go home to sleep after a long day at work.

Toni Ojala makes another day 2, can’t keep count on how many he has done through his career. He’s got 49.200 to bring with him for tomorrow.

Ivo “The Chessmaster” Donev also had a good day and ends up with 59.000. The old chess moves is still working fine for Ivo.

David Wintersberger is the third Team RedKings member to make it through to day 2, with 60.000.

The winner will go home with a huge price check if €1.000.000! And the 489 players that is left and in the hunt for that money continues tomorrow at 12:00 CET. Another blog freeroll will be announced..

Ramzi Jelassi has had a cold deck all day, he was happy with his table but as he says himself “when the fishes gets Aces, straights or something else that you can’t beat it’s not easy to collect chips”. He was down to 13.000 when he was all-in with A♣ 2♥ vs K♦ J♥. The flop looked promising with A♥ 2♠ 8♣. Turn K♣. River K♥.

Wintersberger first lost a big pot with Q♥ Q♠ vs K♥ K♦, and was down to 30.000. He then managed to double up with A♠ K♠ vs J♥ J♣ and now got 60.000 again.

Toni Ojala, 53.000

Ivo Donev, 40.000

We are now playing the last 7 hands of the day.

Stephan Kjerstad who in some way always manages to get unlucky on the river, has again got his ribs broken, head shot, fingers cut and in the end killed by the queen. He raised to 1.600 with A♥ K♠, got 3-bet to 4.600, Stephan moved all-in for 21.000, and got called.

Stephan A♥ K♠
Opponent A♦ Q♥

Board 8♠ 5♦ 2♣ 4♥ Q♦

Rivered by the lady, it’s like a bad movie where the girl ends up with the wrong guy. Let’s hope Stephan goes better on home-soil in the Norweigan Championships where he will be playing next!

Toni Ojala has got some Austrian chess company on his right, Ivo Donev is now next to him. Toni who has been pretty stable for a while, and now got 55.000. Ivo is in the same region with 45.000 after winning a pot with J♠ J♥ vs 9♦ T♠ on the board 9♣ T♥ 7♦ A♠ A♦.

Ramzi Jelassi has been quiet from the start after winning one big hand, and losing another big hand. The Swede got about 38.000, but he is warning for action as the blinds are getting bigger.

David Wintersberger, 60.000

The avergae stack is 48.000, and we are going in to the last break and then we will play the last level for the day, level 9.

It’s time for dinner break, and as we mentioned earlier Toni Ojala has a special thing for fish and chips, so let’s see what he finds in the city of Berlin in this 90 minutes long break.

If we think more about the poker, we have finished 6 levels, and have three 1 hour long episodes left to follow.

Ramzi Jelassi, 36.000
Toni Ojala, 34.000 after losing a pre-flop all-in with J♠J♥ vs A♦ K♣
David Wintersberger, 60.000
Stephan Kjerstad, 20.000
Ivo Donev, 40.000

So make yourself some food or get some snacks as it will be a long night! And it is only 14 minutes left until the blog freeroll starts!

You have done it again, reached the goal of making 500 blog posts during the day to get the gold worth blog password.

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The army of 5 marches on, now in the second break after just finishing level 4. The unofficial count of entries is 541, making the total number of players participating to 930.

Ramzi Jelassi has lost a chump of chips, and is down to 40.000 after losing a pot with A♥ K♠ vs A♣ 2♦.

Toni Ojala likes fish and chips, and got 42.000.

David Wintersberger, who is playing on home-soil, is feeling comfortable with his table and also his chip stack that now is at 55.000.

Stephan Kjerstad is down to 23.000, after losing a bigger pot with A♦ Q♥ with A♠ on the board, but not enough.

Ivo “The Chessmaster” Donev, 44.000

Only 3 hours left until the Blog Freeroll starts, still need more comments before we release the password!

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Ramzi Jelassi, 58.000
Stephan Kjerstad, 36.000
Ivo Donev, 45.000
David Wintersberger, 50.000 “Made two tough river calls, and it worked out”
Toni Ojala, 26.500 “A bit unlucky so far”

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If Ramzis table would had been situated at a football stadium with 100.000 Spectators, this is what the crowd would have singed “Ramzi, Ramzi, Ramzi!”. The reason would not only be of his good looks, skills and that he is a Swede but also because he managed to make an early double up with a full house on the river. 60.000 for Ramzi!

Stephan got a bit unlucky first, but then managed to win a big pot with a set, and is now up to 35.000.

The other 3 is just circulating on the starting stack. Toni thinks his table is ok, as there is a few bad players to steal chips from..

Day 1b of EPT Berlin is one of the biggest starting days in EPTs history, with about 500 players sitting down at the tables and about another 40 in the waiting list. More official numbers will come later.

David Wintersberger and Ivo Donev..

Ramzi Jelassi - Superswede..

Stephan Kjerstad - Looking Dangerous..

Then we also have Toni Ojala. All starting with 30.000 in chips, and playing 9 full levels today, 60 minutes on each.

Go Team RedKings!

After a very successful EPT Season so far by Team RedKings, with a player in the money in every tournament they’ve participated in, they are now trying to break records at EPT Berlin. If there is any team that is able to take down the small parts that is left of the Berlin Wall, it will be Team RedKings.

The tournament started already yesterday with a huge field of 389 players, and believe it or not we had our first RedKings player in there already yesterday, Christian Heich. Christian was doing very well all day, up until there was only 6 hands left of the day. He got it all-in with Top Pair with Top Kicker vs a flush draw, in a pot worth 130.000. Unfortunately, the flush hit on the turn and Christian left the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Today we have a 5 man strong army, all professional trained. Ramzi Jelassi, David Wintersberger, Ivo “The Chessmaster” Donev, Stephan Kjerstad and Toni Ojala. Where will this end? Only way to find out is to follow the blog during this week, and also our twitter!

A blog freeroll is also to look forward to tonight…

The tournament starts at 12:00 CET.