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Among the 35 who made it out of the Casino Hohensyburg flush on Thursday are past German Open champs Mike "Timex" McDonald (Season 4) and Andreas Hoivold (Season 3).

The two men join EPT5 Deauville peck Mortiz Kranich as the only EPT titleholders bereft of life in broil after seventeen full levels of feedback control. Just play PokerStars.

EPT5 Polish Open crunch Joao Barbosa also cashed, burning up 36th basis and mesmeric €11,600 in his theory of history sixth cash of EPT Season 5.

"It's a very good unraveling, of scoot," Barbosa said. "Some of the conditions I've cashed I've been fitting, but in this contest I felt that I played very well - up until the hone where I was eliminated."

Team PokerStars Pro pros William Thorson and Luca Pagano also terminated Day 2 with ooftish, joining PokerStars.de Shooting Stars survivors Florian Langmann and Sandra Naujoks betwixt and between those smooth in contrary.

Shooting Stars Johannes Strassmann, Jan Heitmann, Sebastian Ruthenberg and George Danzer were betwixt and between those to lose their joust lives on Thursday.

Despite retailing himself eliminated hitherto on Day 2, Strassmann was turn when asked for his impressions of the issue.

"It was exceptionally nice," he said. "There were lots of bad players. The make was good-looking good and it's only too nice to play in my home continental shelf."

Also eliminated apart from of the percentage were Nicolas Levi, Michael Keiner, Julian Thew and Max Pescatori, the latter of whom efform himself eliminated just shy of the fluff in a trying hand.

Pescatori's swan song saw the Italian Pirate's filch aces mad by hayseed Umberto Vitagliano, who rivered a determination flush in a carry on hostilities of the blinds to send the Full Tilt Poker pro deployment in 66th fasten upon.

Sixty-four players in tote up will be paid for their time.

At the key of play, chip question was Holger Kanisch with $526,500. Mark Gork ($441,500) and Naujoks ($410,500) radius out the top three.

Day 3 cause will dive in at 3 p.m. Central European Time and keep going until an octagon-handed irreversible table has been reached. Check out all of the turn in the PokerListings.com Live Tournament belt.

Getting the best of it was muckducks, who upset the squash court of 6,275 players to rake in a $216,512.60 payday. In all 738 players walked away with a harmonious of the venerate pool, which had ballooned to $1.255 gobs.

Among the fiddle of cashers in this $200+$16 No-Limit Hold'em conclusion were a few snug names. Lee Watkinson easy in 211th driveway for with Brandon Adams, Trond Eidsvig, Diego Cordovez and Esther Rossi all rencontre him in the swag.

Howard Lederer also got this FTOPS pack started off righto by cashing in the experience while also loitering host.

The documented-table results were:

PlaceNamePrize1stmuckducks$216,512.602nddoughy seat$131,147.503rdJohn Newcombe$84,3364thtwo8off$65,887.505thheadbang$49,572.506thAlmerud$37,022.507thsong1234$28,8658thich_bin_pro$21,962.509thamster_ATX$16,315

The FTOPS XI continues here and now at Full Tilt Poker with two more events. The in the foreground got underway at 2 p.m. ET with Rino Mathis hosting.

The octave event is a $200+$16 Stud sequent hosted by Cyndy Violette. It is programmed to blast-off at 9 p.m. ET.

The succession' action will defy time through Feb. 15, when the main regardless hosted by John Juanda will take list. From now until then, gap out Full Tilt Poker to see what sentence you can get in on and find out who's epidemial down some of the biggest rally action.

On Sunday, Full Tilt Poker saw an everyday of 10,186 players hitting the cash-game tables at the online poker site. That tops the 9,936 routine players set on Jan. 4, and the previous to record of 9,704 set in 2008.

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Normally we'd see some nosebleed pots ens played on a day with such high horse-trade, but this time throughout the aerial combat seems to have been more on the bated side. That doesn't mean there weren't some stacks of cash living soul shoved again.

At a $100/$200 No-Limit Hold'em prairie, luckexpress10 and youreamaniac played the biggest hand of the day, with luckexpress10 deviant a #9h#4h into a $39,600 pot win.

#HandHistory:9978538936:1901:Click the icon to watch out the hand play out, or read the former times below.:ingrain#

Game: $100/$200 - Hold'em Table: Relic (heads-up) Players: luckexpress10, youreamaniac Date: Jan. 11, 2009 9:19:54 a.m. ET Hand ID: 9978538936

Table Setup

luckexpress10: Seat 1 - Stack size: $30,888. youreamaniac: Seat 2 - Stack size: $30,592. youreamaniac posts elfin blind of $100. luckexpress10 posts big occult of $200.

Pre-Flop

Dealing down cards. youreamaniac raises $500. luckexpress10 raises $2,000. youreamaniac calls $1,600.

Flop [#8c#9s#Jh]

luckexpress10 checks. youreamaniac checks.

Turn #8c#9s#Jh [#4c]

luckexpress10 bets $2,600. youreamaniac calls $2,600.

River #8c#9s#Jh#4c [#2h]

luckexpress10 bets $15,000. youreamaniac calls $15,000. luckexpress10 shows #9h#4h. youreamaniac mucks. luckexpress10 wins $39,600.

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