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The 2011 EPT Berlin Main Event attracted a 773-player field (€5,500 buy-in) and 353 of them made it through the two starting days and will soon return to the tables and play Day 2 of the tournament. The total prize pool is €3,865,000 from which the top 120 will get a piece of. The first place pays €825,000, the runner-up will get €500,000, and third place finisher will get €300,000.

The average chip stack is 65,694 and the chip leader is Sander Berndsen from Netherlands with 242,900, then Oleg Elkin, from Russia, in second place with 210,000 and Christian Dragomir, the Day 1a chip leader, in third place with 205,500.

We will return with an update as soon as Day 2 comes to an end. Stay tuned!

Yesterday EPT Berlin began. 315 players, all full of hope to survive the day with a large stack, signed up for the first starting day of the Main Event. Martin Jacobson, Jeff Sarwer, Antonio Buonanno and Mathias Kuerschner were 4 of the players whose chip stacks took the center stage during the day. All of them had over 150,000 chips at different times of the day.

When Day 1a almost had come to an end it seemed like Martin Jacobson, from Sweden, would be the chip leader with a 177k stack. But 4 players passed Jacobson and instead it was Romanian Christian Dragomir (picture) who finished the day with the largest stack. Dragomir sent Benny Spindler to the rail in the last five hands and finished the day with 205,500 chips.