We have a winner!

Frank Stumpf from Germany beat his countryman Matthias Lotze to hit the jackpot of $233,200 in the Everest Poker Avalanche Finale 2007.

Frank, travelling with his son, Benjamin, scooped the prize with K6 against Matthias's Q4 with no other cards coming to the rescue.

The final table of tonight's 8 hour marathon reads:

1st Frank Stumpf $233,200
2nd Matthias Lotze $127,200
3rd Ferderic Pasquier $95,400
4th Stephan Gerin $74,200
5th Eric Liu $53,000
6th Hubert Koeman $42,400
7th Raoul Hristache $31,800
8th Ann Wijns $21,200
9th Didier Fabre $18,550
10th Marc Perucca $13,500

The Last Frenchman Falls

Frederick has left the building. We are left with two Germans at the end of Avalanche 2007 who will now fight it out for the $233,000 top prize.

Frederick called all-in with KQ but Matthias had AK and enjoyed another A on the flop.

MrGerin Leaves

Original chip leader MrGerin from France left in fourth place with $74,000. Frederick went all-in from the button and Stefan (MrGerin) called. Frederick had A10 and MrGerin AK - the river went in favour of Ferderick with a 10.

FINAL THREE: two from Germany & one from France.

Chip count latest

Frank (GER) 260,900
Ferderick (FR) 155,600
Matthias (GER) 118,700
Stefan (FR) 63,600

Eric Goes

Our Canadian has left the tournament with a very respectable $53,000. In a head-to-head with former chip leader Mr Gerin, Eric went all-in with A9 and Gerin had A10. The flop showed J22 but with a 10 on the turn Gerin was control. The river did unveil a 9 for Eric but the damage was done.

Just four to go as the boat sails on.

The Flying Dutchman Has Flown

Hubert (cowboy99) was our 5th casualty netting $42,400 in the process and leaving this fantastic final with 6 players. Both the French & the Germans have two players left and our longest traveller, Eric from Victoria, Canada remains too.

Norway Falls

Our Norwegian player, Raul, has left the Avalanche party leaving 6 players at the table. He was short stacked for sometime and enjoyed a couple of all-in wins before defeat crept up on him.

Nevertheless, he has over $30,000 dollars to his name as the competition rolls on.

2nd Break - 2nd Chip Count

The latest update on the chip count shows a slight turnaround - Mr Gerin is no longer the leader:

1 drooppy: 148300
2 MrGerin: 147200
3 Cowboy99: 128500
4 fsn1: 79700
5 flpro: 65900
6 neziard: 47000
7 intuitionNEW: 18600

We will update at the next elimination.

...and another one goes

Our only female player - Ann left us after going head to head with the chip leader Mr Gerin - but having survived this long takes with her over $20,000. Not bad for a first live tournament.

The show goes on and we are now into the very big money with seven players, plenty of time on a ship in the night.

More news very soon!

Two go

After a slow start we have two players leave the table in quick succession:

marcus105 moved all-in wih pocket 8s and was called by neziard with 99 and no help on the flop left the Frenchman (marcus105) out but still taking home $13,500!

Two hands later difab moved all-in with TT and was called by cowboy99 with AA and so was gone also with a cheque for $18,500.

With things now well in the way - we will be back with an update at the next big drama.

update after first break

All players are alive and well! Chip leader, Mr Gerin has increased his lead whereas Frank has halfed his stack and "drooppy" is now second stacked with 140,375.

The full chip list is now:

1 MrGerin: 185275
2 drooppy: 140375
3 IntuitionNew: 63550
4 fsn1 : 59300
5 cowboy99: 57,875
6 neziard: 50125
7 flpro: 44050
8 C@ERNESTO@G: 16575
9 difab: 15575
10 Marcus105: 10275

All still to play for and we will meet here again in 90 minutes.

Bon chance, good luck, viele gluck etc etc

The Avalanche Finale is about to start!!!

Tonight at 10pm (Athens time), the Avalanche finale will start with the 10 players who reached the top of Everest Poker over the last 6 months.

Aboard the Cristal cruise ship, they are having dinner now and they try to rest themselves before the "battle".

We will try to update the blog every 90 minutes if the internet connection will allow us! But rest assured we will keep you all up to date with every elimination and all the juicy details whenever we can. Stay tuned.