EPT Berlin 2012 - Davidi Kitai Wins Main Event

Davidi Kitai sat down to the final table as chipleader with 5,695,000 chips. NAPT champion Andrew Chen was also there in third place with 3,600,000.

Chair 1: Cesar Garcia Domínguez - 1,485,000

Chair 2: Pratyush Buddiga - 1,280,000

Chair 3: Mario Puccini - 2,065,000

Chair 4: André Morath - 1,940,000

Chair 5: Andrew Chen - 3,600,000

Chair 6: Davidi Kitai - 5,695,000

Chair 7: Bahadir Kilickeser - 4,640,000

Chair 8: Marc Wright - 1,540,000

Pratyush Buddiga was first to leave. Interestingly enough, Buddiga is a former spelling champion: he won the 2002 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He went all-in at the 27th blind level with AQo, got called by Kilickeser (ATo), and unfortunately for Buddiga, a Ten came on the turn.

Marc Wright finished seventh, and was soon followed by César "CesarSPA" García. At the 29th level, Chen eliminated Kilickeser.

Andrew Chen - 7,075,000

Davidi Kitai - 6,765,000

Mario Puccini - 6,140,000

André Morath - 2,340,000

Shortstack André Morath managed to double up on Puccini, who thus got into a dangerous situation. With not too many chips left, Puccini went all-in with JTo to Ktiai's preflop raise, and the Belgian called with pocket Queens. With a neutral board, Puccini said goodbye in fourth place.

Davidi Kitai - 11,905,000

Andrew Chen - 6,415,000

André Morath - 4,000,000

Players got down to heads-up at the 31st blind level. Chen raised from the button to 240,000, to which Morath went all-in with 2,445,000. Chen called.

Chen:

Morath:

Board:

Kitai and Chen, the two favorites started heads-up.

Davidi Kitai - 12,035,000

Andrew Chen - 10,285,000

In the heads-up, Chen took hold of a serious lead and counted 17,135,000 in chips. Kitai had to climb back from here, and soon enough, he was leading again with one of his ingenious calls. Kitai raised to 350,000 with {#}