Antoine's Party at the Obama Suite

We're with Antoine, the International press, 500k winners and few lucky Everest Poker guests in the Forum Tower Penthouse of the Ceasars Palace, also called the Obama Suite. The US President stayed here in May so this is arguably the best room in Vegas...
We have marble pillars, fountains, several bedrooms, a piano, a terrace and a supremely posh living room. The party will start soon and we'll toast good luck to Antoine before the Big Day.
And if Antoine leaves the party early.... well... we'll understand why.

The action tomorrow will start at 12am Vegas time. We will keep you updated through this blog so stay tuned!

Tomorrow: "rendez-vous" with poker history

Lights, camera, action! The Penn & Teller Theatre is almost ready to welcome the November Niners. Tomorrow is the big day for all of them, including our own Antoine Saout.

Thanks to Everest Poker over 100 people flew from France to Vegas to support and cheer Antoine. We're not going to be simply railbirds this time: our French corner in the Penn & Teller Theatre will display some colourful action. Special Everest Poker Final Table gear will be made available for all supporters. It's one of a kind of occasion: it's by far the best accomplishment in the WSOP Main Event by a French player in recent years. There's plenty of reasons to cheer. And we're ready to witness a turning page in the poker history.

SPT Valencia Final Table

2:45
And we've got the winner!
Flop showed: 7d Jh 10s
JL: bet 80 000
Morpheo: all in
Jl: call
Morpheo showed: Qh 9d JL: 10d 7c
turn: 4c
river: 5d
Jose Luis Navarro is the winner of Spanish Poker Tour Valencia winning 53 200 Euros

Pablo "Morpheo" Ubierna won today 27 400 Euros

23:55
It's HEADS UP! Diego Perez has lost after going, Jose called him
JL AK
Diego AQ
flop: 10 K 3
turn: 4
river: Q
Now it's just Morpheo and JL

23:30
Pablo eliminanted another player. He bet (UTG) 32 000 and Niels van Gent went all-in, Morpheo called.
Niels showed A 5, Pablo showed K J
flop A Q 10
turn 4
river 3

23:05
Only after few minutes later another player is out of the tournament
Diego Perez went all-in with 3d4d and was called by the chip leader Jose Luis "J.L" Navarro who had Ah8h
board showed 9 10 10 9 K
Diego as the 5th player in the tournament won 9 600 Euros

22:52
20 minutes into the level 20 (a 1000 6000-12000) Morpheo eliminated Bruno Ortuño from the tournament.
Bruno (UTG) raised to 32 000 Morpheo (BB) called
flop 9c 8h Qc
after the flop Pablo checked, Bruno went all-in, Pablo calls
Bruno Kc 10c
Pablo Ac 9d
turn 8s
river 5d

22:32
Just 2 minutes after the dinner break Victor Escudero went all in with AA and was called by K9
the board showed K on the flop then K on the river and Victor finished the tournament on the 7th position taking home 6 300 Euro

20:00
7 players left in the main event of the SPT Valencia Leonard Truche went all in with 9 10 and was called be AK the board was 6AJ A J.

19:08
After a short presentation of the players at the final table we restarted the game !

18:51
And we've got the final 9! Jose Bixquert went all in with JJ and was called by AQ
river brought Q and Jose lost almost all his chips. Next hand he went all in with A2 and was called by K10 both river and turn brought K.
Jose won today 2 600 Euro.

17:35
In about 5 minutes we will start the final day and the final table of the SPT Valencia. We've got 10 players left in the game.

Jose Luis "J.L" Navarro 509000
Pablo "Morpheo" Ubierna 434500
Bruno Ortuño 385000
Diego Perez 286000
Niels van Gent 196000
Manuel Cuberos 174500
Carlos Martin 150000
Leonard Truche 143000
Victor Escudero 69000
Jose Bixquert 50000

As you can see Morpheo is doing very well having the 2nd largest stack on the table.

SPT Valencia Day 2

4:45
And that's the end of Day 2. Tomorrow we will start at 17:30.

4:41
Just 2 minutes before the end of Day 2 Morpheo eliminated 12th player of the tournament.
Morpheo was small blind and after folds he raised 20 tousand, short stack on BB went all in.
Morpheo called with AJ and BB showed 8 4
Board showed an A giving Morpheo a sure win.

3:40
And then there were 18!
We've just started the 17th level with blinds 2500-5000 a 500 and we know the players who are in the money. Morpheo is one of them with more than 400 000 chips(av 139 000)

1:40
We are 40 min into the 15th level with blinds 2000-4000 a 500 we have 23 players left in the tournament.
Morpheo's stack grew to 270 000 av is now 108 000

1:00
Morpheos stack grew to 185 000.

0:20
Current stack of Morpheo is 115 000 chips.

0:05
We've just started level 14 with blinds 1500-3000 a 300, there are 29 players still in the game. Morpheo is doing well with 80 000 chips which is currently the average stack.

21:45
After the break we are back with level 12. Blinds are 1000-2000 a 200. There are 42 players in the game

19:35
At the and of the level 10 just before the 15 min break we have 53 players left in the tournament. Morpheo is doing well with 87 000 chips in his stack

19:10
Half way through level 10 we have 61 players left in the tournament

17:30
Exactly at 17:30 we have started Day 2 of SPT Valencia. With the 9 level (Blinds 400-800 a100) 81 players sat at the tables.
Good luck everyone!

SPT Valencia

Update 4:00
We have just finished Day 1 of SPT Valencia. 81 jugadores, as they call them in Spain, are left for the Day 2. As many as 5 players were out in the last 4 hands!

Update 1:00
Sadly one of the two representatives of Everest Poker Team members, Maria, was busted. She had pocket JJ
flop 922 one spade checked around, river brought 7s Maria checked her opponent bet 6 000 she called.
river showed another spade and Maria's opponent showed ks8s

Pablo - morpheo - remains in the tournament

20:30
We found some familiar faces at the tables today
Frank Stupf and Ismael Arribas - winners of Avalanche Tournaments edition 1 and 2


19:00

Today 166 players started the main event of Spanish Poker Tour in Valencia. Total prize pool has reached the highest so far 161 020 Euro. The winner will take home 53 200 Euro, 18 players will be in the money with the 18th place prize of 2 000 Euro.

VIP-Party at the Oktoberfest in Munich

Everest Poker invited 18 VIPs/player from Europe to spend a whole weekend (October 2nd-4th) in Munich to celebrate the Oktoberfest 2009!

“Just great!” – was the general feedback on that event our players gave us! Sunny weather - an amazing atmosphere - funny group of great guys - big party!
No wonder – since this is the biggest festival in the world!

And of course such an event fits perfectly to our players to give them the very best of an Everest Poker experience!

So what is this event and the Oktoberfest all about! Let me guide you a little bit through the weekend!

Friday (October 2nd – 8 pm)

At the famous “After Wies’n Schrannenclub - Nachstich” we started with a little poker tournament. Everyone had to play for his own traditional Oktoberfest-Kluft! (Kluft = cloth)

Our VIPs had to play for traditional shirts and the winner became an original Lederhos’n (leather pant)!

A perfect combination of both looks like that:

Girls have to wear “Dirndl’s - as u can see here:

10 pm – open end! Official party start!

Party and great fun! As u can see players and the Everest Crew enjoyed it a lot! As always such Everest Poker events are most welcome - players and EP crew get in personal contact, have some nice discussions, party together and that is how customer care and networking works right!?

That picture falls victim to the censors! (..guys..who made it??)..well of course some "short Dirnd'l versions" exist as well!

Saturday (October 3rd – 5 pm) – Wies’n time!

In the afternoon we met at the hotel lobby and prepared ourselves for the trip to the “Wies’n” (festival area)!

Short trip to history!

The historical background: the first Oktoberfest was held in the year 1810 in honor of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig's marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. The festivities began on October 12, 1810 and ended on October 17th with a horse race. In the following years, the celebrations were repeated and, later, the festival was prolonged and moved forward into September.

By moving the festivities up, it allowed for better weather conditions. Because the September nights were warmer, the visitors were able to enjoy the gardens outside the tents and the stroll over "die Wiesen" or the fields much longer without feeling chilly. Historically, the last Oktoberfest weekend was in October and this tradition continues into present times.

So..back to presence..

...we had a 2-table VIP reservation for our players in the biggest and most famous tent (Winzerer Fahnd’l /Hofbraeu-Zelt) And it should be said that such a reservation is hardly to get due to the great popularity!
But of course we made it possible! And as u can see – that’s how the party goes at the Oktoberfest!

Everest Poker VIP Oktoberfest group 2009!

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It's all about the beer...

Among the many attractions, the "liquid gold" is probably the most important thing at the Oktoberfest. As usual, over 6 million liters of beer will be drunk this year.

Some more impressions!

Important!! ..always check you blood alcohol level :)
Dont drink and drive..take a taxi! If u can find one..

That’s the Everest Poker experience!

Cheers and thanks to everyone who participated and helped to organize such a great weekend!

Kim is out (of the money)

Kim was just 5 away from making the money at EPT London! Better luck next time, Kim.