56 players became 17 players during Day 4 of the European Poker Tour Berlin main event and, unfortunately, many notables were among the ones who didn't make it: Liv Boeree, Sandra Naujoks, Boris Becker, Day 1 chip leader Rony Voth and the Finnish Day 2 and Day 3 chip leader Aku Joenausta.
The biggest names left in the tournament are former EPT Champion Kevin Stani (832,000), Olivier Busquet (736,000) and Calvin Anderson (561,000). Roman Herold, of Germany, is the new chip leader with 4,485,000 chips. In one of the final hands of Day 4, he and his fellow countryman Alexander Helbig (chip leader at the time) played a massive pot...
Picking up with the action on the flop of 2
9A
, Helbig checked and Herold bet 84,000. Helbig raised to 180,000 and Herold called. The turn card was the 6
and Helbig bet 375,00 straight away. Herold decided to make the call after a few minutes of thinking.
A 7 completed the board and Helbig pushed half a million chips towards the middle of the table. "Wanted a spade," said Herold. "But the seven helped me." Herold made the call.
Helbig turned over a A
2 for a flopped 2 pair, and Herold rolled over A7 for a rivered two pair. Herold's supporters went nuts as he suddenly had the chip lead!
Day 5 chip counts:
Roman Herold Germany 4 485 000
Dashgyn Aliev Russia 3 931 000
Khiem Nguyen Germany 2 788 000
Alexander Helbig Germany 2 040 000
Robert Haigh Germany 1 659 000
Yasar Guden Germany 1 619 000
Julian Thomas Germany 1 400 000
Robert Auer Germany 1 380 000
Daniel-Gai Pidun Germany 1 191 000
Roman Korenev Russia 1 186 000
Pascal Vos Netherlands 1 130 000
Matias Kesanen Finland 1 082 000
Kevin Stani Norway 862 000
Olivier Busquet USA 736 000
Lasse Christiansen Denmark 678 000
Calvin Anderson USA 561 000
Philippe Barouk France 531 000
