Anatoly Filatov just beat Bill Perkins to push the series to game seven. He then went back into the cube to play against Brian Rast, who is undefeated on the day.
Anatoly Filatov is now ahead of Brian Rast after doubling up with . Filatov now has the chip lead after a match where Rast seemed to be running away with the victory.
A hand earlier, Filatov bet the river when the hit. Rast had flopped a pair and Filatov missed a flush draw before taking one last stab at the pot. Rast called the 14,690 bet and one the hand.
After a great heads up match between Anatoly Filatov and Brian Rast. Both players played well and it was the river again that made the difference for Rast.
Filatov shoved ace-three and Rast called with queen-ten suited. Rast hit a queen on the river to come from behind and take the lead, eliminating the top-seeded Moscow Wolverines. Rast and his Berlin Bears will now move on to face the Montreal Nationals tomorrow in the first GPL Final.
Day 2 of the GPL Playoffs is in the books and the Berlin Bears have earned the chance to face the top overall seed, the Montreal Nationals in the first-ever GPL Championship.
The first match of the day saw the Moscow Wolverines beat the London Royals in five games, one of which only lasted four hands. The Wolverines were the top seed in the Eurasia conference this year.
The Hong Kong Stars were the number two seed and met the Berlin Bears in the second playoff match of the day. The Stars got out to a 2-1 lead, but the Bears won three matches in a row to send themselves through to face the Wolverines.
In the Eurasia Conference Championship, it was the Wolverines who won two of the first three games. The Bears came back to tie it up at 2-2 before Sorel Mizzi hit quads on the river to eliminate Igor Yaroshevsky and put his team up 3-2. That left Bill Perkins against Anatoly Filatov. Perkins was once again in position to close out a best of seven.
It took 20 hands for Filatov to beat Perkins and send the series to game seven. In game seven, both Rast and Filatov played great, but it was a river card that made the ultimate difference when Rast called a Filatov all in with queen-high and hit a queen on the river to win the match and send the Berlin Bears to the GPL Final.
The Berlin Bears will take on the Montreal Nationals in a best-of-eleven series with a $100,000 first prize on the line. The action starts tomorrow at 2 p.m.