Il aura fallu attendre longtemps avant que ne soit désigné le vainqueur de ce deuxième EPT Berlin, même si le Canadien Ben Wilinofsky aura toujours navigué en tête de la compétition lors de cette finale. Même si le casting était des plus relevés —avec, notamment, Martin Jacobson, un jeune Suédois auteur de sa quatrième table finale EPT de la saison…—, l’intérêt s’était sévèrement amoindri avec l’élimination, samedi après-midi, de Fabrice Soulier.

Le champion français a finalement sauté en onzième place, pour « seulement » 36 000€ de gains. C’est une fois de plus l’occasion de se demander si la répartition des gains en tournois EPT est très intelligente car, à force de payer près de 20% du field, les joueurs vaillants qui finissent en demie finale ne gagnent que très peu, pour un tournoi à 5 000€ de buy-in. En effet, seules les 7 première places sont au dessus de 100 000€, avec des gaps énormes par rapport aux suivantes… Fabrice Soulier aura en tout cas mené un magnifique tournoi, achevé trop tôt au terme d’un Day 5 où aucun de ses coinflips ou 80/20 ne sera passé…

Au final, le contingent allemand a signé une semaine mitigée ici à Berlin, avec une deuxième (Maximilian Heinzelmann) et cinquième (Armin Mette) places, malgré le très bon niveau du poker allemand. Les Français n’auront guère brillé également, avec un deuxième placé en 38ème position seulement, Aurélie Guiglini, puis les places payées de Tristan Clémençon ou Thomas Bichon. En espérant que ces deuxièmes demies finales EPT d’affilée pour Fabrice Soulier (Deauville, puis Berlin) sont de bonne augure pour les WSOP à venir !

Résultats

1st Ben Wilinofsky, Canada, PokerStars qualifier – €825,000
2nd – Maximilian Heinzelmann, Germany, €500,000
3rd – Vadzim Kursevich, Belarus, €300,000
4th – Martin Jacobson, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, €230,000
5th – Armin Mette, Germany, €180,000
6th – Darren Kramer, South Africa, €140,000
7th – Joep van den Bijgaart, Holland, Team PokerStars Pro, €100,000
8th – Jonas Gutteck, Germany, €66,000
9th. Daniel Pidun, Germany, €45,000
10th. Cuello Jorge Mariano, Spain, €45,000
11th. Fabrice Soulier, France, €36,000
12th. Kristijonas Andrulis, Lithuania, €36,000
13th. Robin Ylitalo, Sweden, €28,000
14th. Thomas Traboulsi, Germany, €28,000
15th. Luis Jaikel, Costa Rica, PokerStars qualifier, €23,000
16th. Jeffrey Hakim, United States, €23,000
17th. Konstantin Puchkov, Russia, €20,000
18th. Mikhail Lakhitov, Russia, €20,000
19th. Alessandro Laubinger, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €20,000
20th. Henrique Pinho, Portugal, Team PokerStars Pro, €20,000
21st. Markus Grewe, Germany, €20,000
22nd. Mario Adinolfi, Italy, €20,000
23rd. Gerardo Muro, Italy, €20,000
24th. Alexander Smolin, Russia, €20,000
25th. Anton Thotatinsson, Iceland, €17,500
26th. George Danzer, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €17,500
27th. Anton Morgenstern, Germany, €17,500
28th. Thorsten Schafer, Germany, €17,500
29th. Antonio Del Valle Simon, Spain, PokerStars qualifier, €17,500
30th. Jens Weigel, Germany, PokerStars player, €17,500
31st. Ilya Gorodetskiy, Russia, €17,500
32nd. Saar Wilf, Israel, €17,500
33rd. Torsten Haase, Germany, €17,500
34th. Bolivar Palacios, Panama, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
35th. David Stogel, United States, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
36th. Maksim Kolosov, Russia, €15,000
37th. Giuseppe Pantaleo, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
38th. Aurelien Guiglini, France, €15,000
39th. Marco Morales, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
40th. Tomer Berda, Israel, €15,000
41st. Timo Pfutzenreuter, Germany, PokerStars player, €15,000
42nd. Cornel Cimpan, USA, €15,000
43rd. Jean-Philippe Raymond, Canada, €15,000
44th. Igor Ivashkiv, Kazakhstan, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
45th. Kevin Stani, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
46th. Hugo Lemaire, France, €15,000
47th. Kent Lundmark, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, €15,000
48th. Miltiadis Kyriakides, Greece, €15,000
49th. Nima Ahrary, Germany, €12,500
50th. Vergauwen Vincent, Belgium, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
51st. Robert Schulz, Germany, €12,500
52nd. Mathias Kuerschner, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
53rd. Anatoliy Anikev, Russia, €12,500
54th. Christian Knese, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
55th. Zoran Mitic, Sweden, €12,500
56th. Dara O’Kearney, Ireland, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
57th. Dirk Jaspert, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
58th. Rainer Emde, Germany, €12,500
59th. Maik de Rijk, Holland, €12,500
60th. Felix Schulze, Germany, €12,500
61st. Alexander Hering, Germany, €12,500
62nd. Andreas Doletzki, Germany, €12,500
63rd. Michal Kusak, Poland, €12,500
64th. Tristan Clemencon, France, €12,500
65th. Martin Genath, Germany, €12,500
66th. Per Linde, Sweden, €12,500
67th. Salman Behbehani, Kuwait, €12,500
68th. Philipp Uhrig, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €12,500
69th. Ruslan Prydryk, Ukraine, €12,500
70th. Andreas Lutz, Germany, €12,500
71st. Ben Roberts, United Kingdom, €12,500
72nd. Erich Kollmann, Austria, €12,500
73rd. Angel Pedemonte Garcia, Spain, €10,000
74th. Sascha Sirtl, Germany, €10,000
75th. Roberto Romanello, United Kingdom, €10,000
76th. Alexis Morlet, France, €10,000
77th. Patryk Slusarek, Poland, €10,000
78th. Joao Barbosa, Portugal, €10,000
79th. Dean Lyall, United Kingdom, €10,000
80th. Rupert Elder, United Kingdom, €10,000
81st. Mathew Frankland, United Kingdom, €10,000
82nd. Alek Samardzic, Croatia, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
83rd. Lucas Meyer, Germany, €10,000
84th. Andre Morath, Germany, €10,000
85th. Ralph Kalman, Switzerland, €10,000
86th. Mayu Roca Uribe, Colombia, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
87th. Kevin Vandersmissen, Belgium, €10,000
88th. Jose De La Guardia, Panama, €10,000
89th. Ciprian Hrisca, Romania, €10,000
90th. Thomas Bichon, France, €10,000
91st. Giovanni Cantonati, Italy, €10,000
92nd. Juan Manuel Pastor, Spain, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,000
93rd. Andreas Wiese, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
94th. Matthias Neu, Germany, PokerStars qualifier, €10,000
95th. Peter Eastgate, Denmark, PokerStars player, €10,000
96th. Sebastian Ruthenberg, Germany, Team PokerStars Pro, €10,000
97th. Sam Chartier, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, €7,500
98th. Vegard Haland Vestvik, Norway, €7,500
99th. Jack Ellwood, United Kingdom, €7,500
100th. Andreas Tollkuehn, Germany, €7,500
101st. Victoriya Taranova, Russia, €7,500
102nd. Paco Torres, Spain, €7,500
103rd. Jasper Wetemans, Holland, €7,500
104th. Stieven Razab-Sekh, Holland, €7,500
105th. Fatima Moreira de Melo, Holland, Team PokerStars SportStar, €7,500
106th. Tobias Wagner, Germany, €7,500
107th. Vladimir Geshkenbein, Russia, €7,500
108th. Lukasz Wasek, Poland, €7,500
109th. Johan van Til, Holland, PokerStars qualifier, €7,500
110th. Koen De Visscher, Belgium, €7,500
111th. Jason Helder, United States, PokerStars qualifier, €7,500
112th. Kamal Choraria, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, €7,500
113th. Maxim Panyak, Russia, €7,500
114th. Klaus Gradkowski, Germany, PokerStars player, €7,500
115th. Ankush Mandavia, USA, PokerStars qualifier, €7,500
116th. Hans Vogl, Germany, €7,500
117th. Alexander Jalali, Germany, €7,500
118th. Antonio Buonanno, Italy, €7,500
119th. Torsten Otto, Germany, €7,500
120th. Karl Heinz Klose, Germany, €7,500