Here are some chipcounts from the end of day 1B.

Danny Ryan - 56.000
Hans Eskilsson - 34.000
Paul Gaultier - 45.000
Ben Grundy - 22.000
Christer Johansson - 19.000
Jonas Molander - 38.000
Andreas Hoivold - 67.000

We are now in the 8th level of the day, with blinds of 300-600 and a running ante of 75.
113 of the 256 players that started the day are left, and the average stack is 22.654 chips.

Austrian pokerpro Marcus Golser is among the chipleaders here in EPT Dortmund. The Intertops player has about 44.000 chips now and the play have just reached the 150-300 level that also includes a 25 chip ante. 

Chipcounts:

We are now in the fifth level of today, with 206 of the 256 players left.
The blinds are 150-300, with an average stack of 12.487 chips.

Every pokerplayer has experienced periods with no playable hands. But it seemed like Roland De Wolfe had a really bad period a while ago. In the small blind he mucked his first card before the dealer had dealt any cards to the other players! He got it back, and the dealer compleated the deal. The other card must have been a nice one, since he limped in with two other players to see a flop. No help there, and Roland folded after a bet.

I don't know exactly what happened, but Marcel told me he had a set of sevens on a flop with all diamonds. He got all his chips in against a flush, but two blanks on both turn and river send the flying dutchman out of the tournament.

I didn't see the action until the river, where the board read 2c-6s-5h-Qh-10d, with a pot of around 9000 chips. The bigblind's bet on the river was 5000, with only a couple of thousand behind. Ramzi Jelassi in the cut off seat was in the tank and eventually folded A4. Bigblind flipped over 77, and Jelassi said "You know what? I though you were on a bluff, but I didn't want to call because I was afraid you could have pocket sevens."
After this pot Ramzi has 9750 left in his stack. "Why is it always me who gets into the sick pot's..." he murmured before going to dinnerbreak.

Day 1B is well under way here in Dortmund. The players have just finished the 75-150 level and the 100-200 level just started. In two levels the running ante will come in and then we can expect to see some bigger stacks. But already we have a few players with massice piles of chips infront of them. At top of the pile is Austrian player Marcus Golser. The loose and aggresive player has been actice as normal on the first levels and now has about 33.000 chips infront of him. Frenchman Fabrice Soullier also have a good chipstack with his 26.000 chips. He has been dominating hes table that also includes Ben Grundy and german player George Danzer.

Here is a list of selected counts:

In a huge pot of almost 15.000 chips a player moves all in for his last 4000 chips. The board is 5d-Qd-5h-10h-6d, and Ben Grundy is obviously to everyone around having a difficult decition to make. He has around 6000 in his stack, so this is a huge key pot in this stage of the tournament.
Everyone is quiet, giving Grundy the time he needs to make up his mind. But suddenly the dealer tells him he has to make a decition within one minute!
Ben Grundy doesen't understand what happens at first, and asks if anyone called the clock on him. When he understands that none of the players had said anything he was very upset and told the dealer that he couldn't call the clock. The dealer and Grundy startet to argue, and most of the players agreed with Grundy that the dealer was out of line here. Grundy eventually folded his hand, after loosing his concentration completely, and continued to argue with the dealer. "If you can bring someone over to tell me that you have the right to call the clock on me I'll give you a hundred euros" he said. The dealer just shook his head with a grin on his face and shuffled the deck for the next deal.

...takes his seat? No other than Noah Boeken. As i described earlier, Marcel Luske sat two seats to the left of Molina, and now he has position on Noah Boeken, a player Marcel has tought very much about poker. It will be interesting to see if the master or the apprentice wins the duel.

The players are now on a fifteen minute break

The hand begins with Marcel Luske limping in second position with 45 of hearts. A player in middle position limps, as well as the button and the small blind. Eric Molina in the big blind checks, and five players saw the flop Kc-Qh-5d. Check around to the button who bets 400. Marcel is the only caller. Turn: 3h. Now Marcel fires in front with 1200! He gets a call from the button, and they both check when the river is an ace of clubs. The button wins the hand holding KJ of spades.
After this pot Marcel Luske has 9000 chips left. The button builds his stack to 13.400, around one startstack more than Eric Molina, who is down to only 3200 chips. For those who watched the WSOP Main Event on TV this summer, Molina was the rude little kid who got knocked out by Jamie Gold in 31st place.

I don't think anyone would have put their money on Ram Vaswani going out in the two first levels here today, but he has! The leader of the overall EPT leaderboard had a short visit in Dortmund this year.

Day 1B of the EPT Dortmund has started with 257 players. Here is some of the known players at the tables today:

Table 1:
3 - Ramzi Jelassi
8 - Sargon Ruya
9 - Kristian Kjondal (known as Kris85 on Prima)

Table 4:
2 - Peter Ficher
4 - Andreas Krause

Table 5:
1 - Voitto Rintala
4 - Philip Yeh
10 - Christer Johansson

Table 6:
3 - Jonas Molander
8 - Ben Grundy
10 - Mickey Wernick

Table 7:
5 - Roland De Wolfe
8 - Noah Boeken
9 - Thomas Brolin

Table 8:
3 - Magnus Petersson
5 - Martin Wendt
10 - Tony Chessa

Table 9:
5 - Jani Vilmunen
8 - Peter Gould
10 - Juha Helppi

Table 10:
1 - Maximilianos Trigas
4 - Marcus Golser

Table 11:
7 - Ram Vaswani

Table 12:
1 - Eric Molina
3 - Marcel Luske
6 - Mark Bollinger

Table 13:
1 - Rhino Mathis
6 - David Gibbs

Table 14:
3 - William Thorson
10 - Tim Ryan

Table 15:
6 - Sverre Sunbo
10 - Mark Goodwin

Table 16:
6 - Sebastian Ruthenberg
8 - Birgitta Johansson

Table 17:
2 - Theo Jorgensen

Table 18:
7 - Katja Thater

Table 19:
1 - Paul Testud
2 - Rob Hollink
3 - Rehne Pedersen
4 - Andreas Hoivold

Table 20:
2 - Fabrice Soulier
3 - Barney Boatman
5 - Hans Eskilsson
9 - George Danzer
10 - John Kabbaj

Table 21:
6 - Sebastian Riviere
7 - Michael Greco

Table 23:
4 - Eduard Scharf
5 - Kevin Parkes
6 - Ross Boatman

Table 24:
4 - Jerome Douieb
5 - Andreas Krause
6 - Thang Duc Nguyen

Table 27:
5 - Benjamin Kang
7 - Sven Buchner
8 - Daniel Smits-Bertelsen
9 - Nick Slade