A name doesn't get you to the final table. Sure to earn the respectability of last names of Team PokerStars players like Negreanu, Boeken, and Thater on the European Poker Tour circuit are earned because of their multiple victories and cashes. But today they were on the list of those who failed to advance in the EPT Dortmund tourney as Day 2 came to a close with 32 survivors.

Among those is fellow blogger and past EPT champ Brandon Schaefer who was the giving end of a beat as told by Pokernews.com:

Brandon Schaefer made a late run on Day 2 to put himself into the money and finish with a healthy stack. First, he doubled through Anders Henriksson when he picked up aces on the button and Henriksson woke up in the big blind with pocket queens. Schaefer raised, Henriksson re-raised, Schaefer pushed all in, Henriksson called, and the board brought no queens as Schaefer doubled up. Then, on the bubble, Schaefer called a preflop raise from Stephan Wrenger with QdTd. The flop hit Schaefer hard when it came down QcTc5c, but it hit Wrenger even harder, who moved all in with his ThTs. Schaefer called with his two pair, and could only win with a queen. The Qs on the turn gave him the lead, and the river brought a blank as Schaefer's two-outer (actually a one-outer, since another player at the table reported folding a queen) sent Wrenger to the rail on the bubble.

As I scanned the names of those remaining, the Flying Dutchman, Marcel Luske will be will be returning to sing some top 40 hits for his fellow tablemates as they wind down another successful EPT tour stop.