Day 1 A of the German Poker Championship’s are over and started 49 of 15 players still remaining. Some Pro’s had paid the buy in of € 2200 but was only really successful Sandra Naujoks. There have been repeated criticism of the blind structure.

Against 17.15 clock casino poker Berlin was the 19th Chief Olcay Kacak German Poker Championship opened, looked at it but only five occupied tables.

49 players had paid a hefty buy-in for local conditions of € 2,200, including some professionals. For example, EPT Berlin Deep Runner Anton Morgenstern, Nasr El Nasr buddy, WSOP Main Event runner Deep 2009 Andreas Altmeyer, Alexander Young, Khiem Nguyen from Wiesbaden and not least, Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks.

Altogether, the organizers expected that a total of 160 players will be at the start. This means that after the 49 players from yesterday that today would have more than twice as many find their way to the casino.

Expected to be above all the qualifiers who have qualified in the satellite tournaments in Schwerin, Rostock, and Hamburg Schenefeld. Also in the Casino Berlin itself there had been numerous opportunities to secure a ticket for € 2200 DPM event.

It was in various forums at the beginning again given harsh criticism of the blind structure of the DPM. The blinds were not as usual with 25 / 50 started, but with 50 / 100 After Level 3 then were already more than a third of the players retired and it was rightly raised the question whether this is actually a very Turbo tournaments are expensive.

Sun also tumbled by one, all well-known faces from the tournament. Only Sandra Naujoks made it into the remaining 15 and now ranks fourth in the chip count. Leads to the predominant advance with a player named Jacen.

For today’s day 1B including William “Dr. Big “Breuer and Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann expected.

The final table is initially scheduled for Saturday, but could go with a high number of participants quite well until Sunday on the stage. Besides the Main Event there will be at the German Poker Championship 2011, a few side events. A year earlier, Florian Feldner could secure the German Poker Championship, which earned him € 66,000.
The chip counts after day 1A:

• Jacen,132.200
• Huxley, 77.300
• Uwe Hoff wall, 69.800
• Sandra Naujoks, 64.700
• Florian Fedrau, 64.300
• Murat Mutlu, 56.800
• Gunnar Klietsch, 53.900
• Kaveh Hodjatnejad, 51.100
• Sebastian Trisch, 45.400
• Michael Steinke, 43.100
• Joe Waffenschmidt, 34.200
• Alexander Spachmann, 31.600
• Marcel Destici, 26.900
• Thosten Witteborg, 26.800
• Wolfgang Kopp, 17.800