Cristiano Bubble Boy in Warsaw

Cristiano Blanco has just been eliminated from the tournament by Kenny Hicks Jr. in a hand that Cristiano will not forget for some time.

Cristiano Blanco is the Bubble Boy of the EPT Polish Open in Warsaw. He got busted in 33 place with a real bad beat. He opened the pot with a 13,000 raise from under the gun and the action folded around the table to the small blind, who re-raised it to 40,000. Cristiano flat called, leaving himself 50,000 chips behind.

The dealer spread a jack-high flop and the small blind moved all in, putting Cristiano to a decision for all of his chips. Holding pocket queens, Blanco made the inevitable call and the small blind showed A-K. Cristiano's queens didn't survive the Turn, as the dealer opened an Ace.
The last card to fall off the deck was a six and Cristiano was out of the tournament in 33rd place.

Newest Enhancements.

Everest Poker is extremely excited to introduce some of newest enhancements. I know you have been waiting for a long time for them and here they are! This is a long post but it is worth to read it!

Tournament Leaderboard (TLB):

This is an exciting new feature which will create a competition among our best and most frequent tournament players and pay out significant prizes to the winners.
The TLB will rank our top tournament players based on TLB Points earned. TLB Points are calculated using the number of tournament entrants, finishing place, and tournament buy-in using the following equation:

Example: You participate in a $10+1 tournament with 150 players and take 3rd place:

We have created three separate Tournament Leaderboards :

1. Multi-Table (rewarded monthly): Includes all Scheduled Tournaments + Sit & Go tournaments with >= 30 players
2. Sit & Go High (rewarded weekly and monthly): Sit & Go Tournaments with pot contribution >= $10 and participation < 30 players
3. Sit & Go Low (rewarded weekly and monthly): Sit & Go Tournaments with pot contribution more than $0 but less than $10 and participation < 30 players
Freerolls, Private Tournaments, Free Chip Play, and tournaments with Summit Point prize pools don’t count towards the TLB include
We will award Summit Point Prizes to the top 10 finishers on each leaderboard. The monthly SNG High winner will be credited with 200,000 SP.

Each leaderboard will be displayed on our website and will be updated daily. You can also be able to view your TLB points from the “View TLB Points” button from the “My Account:” button in the EVP lobby.

More Sit and go !!

We have added a list of new Multi-Table SNG’s :
o 18 seats (6 seats * 3 tables)
o 30 seats (10 seats * 3 tables)
o 54 seats (6 seats * 9 tables)
o 90 seats (10 seats * 9 tables)
o 120 seats (6 seats * 20 tables)
o 150 seats (10 seats * 15 tables)

In addition to Multiple Tables, SNG’s can now be run with a variety of types. These include:

Rebuy
Rebuy + Add-on
6 Seat
Turbo (decreased blind intervals)
Speed (decreased decision time limit)
Deep Stack (2,500 starting chips)

To make it easy to distinguish between the different types of tournaments, we will have separate icons as well as a "Tournament Type" Legend to demonstrate to players what the different symbols mean.

Ring Game Enhancements:

We have also released some new features that ring game players will enjoy. There are 2 new ring game table types:

1. Speed tables. This is a table with shortened (15 second) decision timers.

All speed tables are also No-DBP tables. Speed tables will initially be offered in 6 seat tables at the following stakes: $.10/$.10, $.25/$.25, $.50/$.50, $1/$1, $2/$2, $4/$4.

2. No-DBP (tables without disconnect bet protection).
The Beginner Stakes No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha tables are becoming No-DBP tables. Also, No-DBP Tables are being created for all 2-seat and 6-seat No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha tables.

In addition, you can now play in up to 12 tables at the same time. Lots of players requested this increase, and so we upped the maximum. Check the poker free games that Everest offers to his and her players.

Dinner is served: Blanco 80K

Cristiano is enjoying the dinner break at The EPT Polish Open with 80,000 chips to his name - with the average at 72,000.

51 players remain and the payout is down to 32nd.

Oh Blanco, Blanco!

Amazing scenes in Warsaw as Everest Poker's Cristiano Blanco rides his luck.

Cristiano with AQ and his opponent with 10Q - the flop reveals 10QQ...

...but the turn give Blanco the A! Blanco remains.

Cristiano climbing

At the end of Level 10 of Day 2 at The EPT Polish Open, presented by PokerStars, Everest Poker's Cristiano Blanco has 58,000 chips with 83 players left in the tournament.

At the chip count he lay in 20th of the 83.

GO ON CRISTIANO!

Casualties galore in Poland

Some big names busted out of the EPT Polish Open, presented by PokerStars, yesterday and our Everest players were among them. Francis Lamothe, playing in his first major live event, now has the taste for the big tournaments and is determined to be back.

Our Finnish player Voitto Rintala pushed 66 in round five when short stacked and got called by JJ with no help on the board. Michael Schlesinger and Filipe Moreira were also out in a day of surprises.

Jan Stefan Smolarczyk, from France, is hanging in there but is short stacked with 2600 chips so he joins Cristiano in Day 2. Well done Jan Stefan.

Cristiano has 28,800 chips.

Those with a taste for the big time, remember: Everest Poker is the only site who can directly register players for the WSOP!