The Unpronounceables Take Over On Day 2 of EPT German Open
The best-dressed poker pro in the world, Marcel Luske, is still alive at the EPT German Open. (Image Courtesy of PokerBooks.de)
Kind of like Elliott Ness' "Untouchables", only different, the field for Day 2 of the EPT German Open consists of a bunch of names we don't recognize and can't really pronounce.
Tops on our list are Çyrille Chabot, Jiri Kulhanek, Ramzi Jelassi, Aniol Alcaraz, Peyman Mohammadzadeh, Andreas Gülünay and Daniel Ryan.
Unfortunately, players with seemingly hard to pronounce names but ones that we've learned 'cos they're good at what they do, like Daniel Negreanu, Annette "Annette_15" Obrestad, Noah Boeken and Katja Thater, have all busted out.
So, we're really rooting for Michael McDonald, Marcel Luske (hard name to figure out, but this one we know), Daniel Carter, Hugo Felix and Thibaut Durand to pull through and give us an easier time of writing up this poker tournament.
The current chip leader is Marco Liesy (definitely copied and pasted), sitting with about 230k in chips. Luske, McDonald and Thor Hansen are a little further down the leaderboard with about 50 players left. Payouts have been announced and the top 40 will be getting a little somethin' somethin' to go home with. The winner gets $1.38 million and the lowest tier is about $14,000.
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