Everest Poker in the Mountains

It was inevitable that we would do a tournament in the mountains & here's the proof:

Short picture montage:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=rRHF37Vy-0c

Longer, high quality, video show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU7_gOguFdk

Winner first Spanish Poker Tour

After three full days of playing poker we had a winner:

Sijbrand Maal (31) from the Netherlands won the first Spanish Poker Tour in Gran Casino Aranjuez.

Congratulations!

Next stop: Casino las Palmas!

Go to http://www.thespanishpokertour.com and see how you can qualify today

Spanish Poker Tour, Madrid: Day 1

The Spanish Poker Tour brought to you by Everest Poker and under the direction of Thomas Kremser, starts today at the beautiful Gran Casino de Aranjuez (Madrid, SPAIN).

Total players in the tournament: 134
Everest Poker qualifiers: 48
Buy in: €1,000+€100

Country, Screen name, Name
ES EMail, Emilio Lopez Campos
FR foukadir, Joel Parmentier-courreau
FR BluffNico, Nicolas Cullin
NL Charlotte83, Quint Feenstra
FR sytaddei, Sylvain Taddei
IT ParHil, Tatiana Voronina
ES Neofito, Raúl Alonso Fuentes
DE JohnnieQ, Carsten Mueller
BE injenowge, Dieter De Milde
NL Danimostik, Marcus de Vijlder
NL lardy, Max Kraanen
DE ulleulle, Ulf Krautwald
ES Tonnne, Laura Cantero
SE Sixteeninch, Anders Brandström
NL Rolo21, Roland Willems
FR 3615, Bruno Martin
DE cuco49, Valentin Pujol
ES Maragatoker, Jaime Mures Rodriguez
FR Foley23, Gregoire Walquemane
FR Cyer, Cyril Gras
IT McSup, Micol benazzato
ES madjoe27, Jose M. Andreu Guerra
NL donmilio, Camiel de Lange van Bergen
FR chapeaurouge, Sebastien Tedeschi
BE jaceyraisy, Alexander Lust
FR beffa78, Fabien Rouxel
ES yopoyopoy, Fernando Ruiz Vicente
PT Ze_Carica, Daniel Ferreira
IT Tabalaba85, Michael Tabarelli
FR grosdoux1, Jerome Arrignon
ES palmao, Norberto Rodriguez Latorre
NL nielis, Niels van Gent
NL D0nnie, Gilles Vullings Lenssen
DE Basler30, Matthias Krause
FR miki406, Jean Philippe Castra
FR petdemouton, Charles Boichard
ES porrass, Julio Diaz
FR enasteo, Jean-Mathieu Santoni
FR hd2605, Herve Decker
DE oli01, Andrea Krause
DE AJS1987, Andrej Sartison
NL Maartz, Maarten Zutt
FR Tonio292, Saout Antoine
NL whitecobra, Jarno Grasbeemd
FR kenol, Tristan Clemenco
IT MarioDaRoma, Mario Novelli
ES morpheo, Pablo Ubierna (Part of Live the Dream Team)
ES Puzo, Jesus Montes

The Spanish Poker Tour
This texas hold’em poker circuit will have a monthly Tournament with a €1,000+€100 buy-in held in the most important Casinos in Spain and a whole week Grand Finale with a €2,500 buy-in in December.

This circuit will be offering the best possible quality, endorsed by TK Poker Events, and directed, in its first stop, by Thomas Kremser, the most trusted and recognized poker tournament director in Europe. The rest of the circuit will be under the direction of Gerard Serra.

EPT Grand Final by Pokerstars - Day 4

Update 15.52 pm
Pablo is out in 28th place. He went all in on the flop after a reraise from Luca Pagano when the board showed J-J-10. As Luca called he was already in big pain as Pablo showed 7-2 and Luca Pagano called him in a bluff with 8-J. Drawing dead Pablo is leaving the table with 42,100 Euros in his first big event ever.

Congratulations for a big performance in 4 days

12.18 pm

The sun is shining in Monte Carlo and Pablo Ubierna Martinez from Spain is really living his dream now. Just chosen to be in the big tournaments for one year two weeks ago at the Everest Poker Live the Dream final in Vienna, he is now scaring the best. 39 players are left today with an average of 320,000 chips. Pablo has 316,000 in chips and will try to take his chance to win the over 2 million Euro prize money for first place.
The action will start at 1 pm local time here in Monte Carlo and today the tournament director Thomas Kremser plans on playing down to 8 players. So we will know later on if Pablo is making the first final table of his young career.

Good luck and we keep you updated.

Pablo is studying his table before the tournament

EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo by Pokerstars

Update 1.00 pm

DAY 3 is over!!!

39 players are going to day 4 and Morpheo will be part of it.

He's got now 320k, he's on the average and he feels pretty well!!!

Pablo is doing an interview for Pokernews after the tournament. Morpheo the last spanish player in the tournament.

Update 12.26 pm

Simon Faure has finished his first EPT in 33rd place and cashed 33,700 Euros. The nice Frenchman outted his last 65,000 chips in early position with Q-Q in the middle of table and got caught by K-K on the button.
Congratulations for this success in is first big event.

Now the hopes of the Everest supporters are on Pablo that had just doubled up with A-Q against A-K catching the Queen on the flop. Right after that he lost 80,000 in another pot and he is at 210,000 chips now.
We are in level 18 with 42 players left and an average stack of 300,000. The blinds are at 3000-6000 with ante 500 and today will be played down to 40 players.

Pablo Ubierna Martinez "Morpheo"

We will keep you updated.

Simon Faure "Team VTC", 44th in his first EPT, cashed 33k euros

Update 10.00 pm

SIMON at 175k!!!

Simon (Team VTC) and his girlfriend during the last break

During the last hand of the 16th level, Simon received KK at the button. Johnny Lodden raised to 4 big blinds and Simon decided at this time to slowplay his monster, the Big Blind called as well.

The flop is KJ6 rainbow and the three players checked around. the turn bring another 6 and the big blind bet half of the pot, Lodden folded and Simon flat called. The river is a blank and the Big Blind moved all in and Simon obviously called.

He's now up to 175k!!!

Pablo is in pretty good shape with 155k and he's very active on the same table as Freddy Deeb and Sorel Mizzi (Sorel is out since 30 minutes)

Pablo (morpheo) with his new fan club (Machou Ghaouti and Kim Wooka from the Everest Team)

Update 7.30 pm

The Bubble burst finally!!!

After one of the longest round in EPT history, the bubble finally burst. almost 3 hours playing on the same level and we are proud to have two players in the money.

Simon and Pablo are now sure to come back home with 17k euros minimum

Simon has 72k and Pablo 59k,

Congratulations!!!!!

Simon and Pablo

Update 7.11 pm
The bubble finally busted. After a long and intense bubble play the 80 winning players are found and our 2 Everest players Simon from France and Pablo from Spain are amongst them and have 17,000 Euros prize money for sure.
Game will continue after the dinner break with level 16 and blinds 2000-4000 and an ante of 400. The average is on 187,000 chips and Pablo is having 58,000 and Simon 74,000.

Congratulations

Update 4.30 pm

BUBBLE TIME!!!

Players are on break for 15 minutes just before the bubble play. 81 players are still in and 80 will be paid.

Pablo (Morpheo) has 85k and Simon (team VTC) has 93k.

They will play level 15, 1500/3000 antes 300 and the average is about 155k.

The first step of payement will pay 17k euros.

Update 3.30 pm

It is very intense poker that the 91 players left ath Grand Finale are playing right now. The bubble is getting close and Pablo and Simon are still in the field. Pablo has 110,000 chips and already faced some ups and downs winning J-J against A-Q, but loosing a big part of his stack a little later as his K-K was not good enough against A-A.
Simon is very constant at 105,000. The average right now is 130,000 in level 14 with blinds 1200-2400 and ante 300.

12.51 pm
The weather is beautiful in Monte Carlo and the temperature in the Casino is raising as well, as we will find the 80 lucky players that enter the money soon.
Oyvind Riisem from Norway, fourth-place finisher in the WSOP Europe Main Event, ended Day 2 of the EPT Grand Final as chip leader with 441,400 chips. Fellow Norwegian Johnny Lodden finished the day second in chips with 380,300. The third and fourth chip positions were occupied by Norwegians as well - Borge Dypvik and Andreas Hagen with 296,000 and 276,800 chips. Former WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem finally cracked the Norwegian stronghold, finishing the day in fifth position with 255,300 chips.
In this high class field two of our Everest Poker players are left. Spanish Life the dream winner Pablo Ubierna has 70,000 chips and French online qualifier Simon Faure has 81,000.

129 players are remaining and 80 will reach the payouts on "money day".

EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale brought to you by Pokerstars- Day 2

Update 11.35 pm

Congratulations - Day 2 is over and we still have 2 Everest Poker players in the tournament. Pablo has 70,000 chips and French online qualifier Simon is at 81,000.
129 players will come back tomorrow and fight for the prize money - 80 seats are paid.
11 levels were played today and 129 players are left in the competition.
We will be back tomorrow - good night from Monte Carlo.

Update 10.30 pm

After fighting for 2 hours, Kim is out. She went allin with K4 and was called by AK.

We have now 2 players left, Pablo and Simon.

You can see the Everest Poker team spirit already there with the Kim's supporters:

Viktor, N4nno, Krul, Morpheo and Olaf our Everest Poker Event coordinator from Germany

Update 8.10 pm

Pablo (morpheo) is playing great poker. He just won a big stack and is now with 150,000 chips in a very comfortable situation. 188 players of the huge field are left and 80 seats are paid out.

Pablo Martinez

Simon is in good shape as well with 94,000 chips, while Kim is fighting with 25,000 chips. The average in level 10 with blinds 500-1000 is at 65,000.

Update 6.10 pm
We lost Stefanie Bergener with a two pair against a flush on the river. Leroy is out and Simone as well.

Update 3.21 pm
We lost two Everest Poker players so far today. Steven went out with 10-10 raising from the button against A-K in the big blind that caught the Ace on the river.
Anthony is out as well on a coin flip. His Q-Q was between by another A-K.

Update 2.18pm

Is it a dream or a nightmare? Everest Poker online qualifier Anthony Gil already faced the honor to play with Gus Hansen yesterday, today he finds some more famous players at his table. Patrick Antonius and Tommy Dender on his left and Marcel Luske opposite, luckliy, Anthony does not find time to enjoy the view!

Day 2 starts in a hour and while some big names like Greg Ramer or Chris Moneymaker are already out of the tournament 8 Everest players are still in. The energetic Dutchman, Leroy Soesman, is at 16,000 chips.
French online qualifier Simon Faure (teamvtc) is in a very good position at 37,000 for day 2, as is Anthony Gil (TIDUS29) from Switzerland with 26,000. Live The Dream winner Wooka Kim (icebeer), from Japan, is also nicely placed with 35,000.

Stefanie Bergener from Germany comes back with 30,000, sunnyboy Pablo Martinez (morpheo)with 24,000, Simone Coppari (babbolone) with 27,000 and Steven van Zadelhoff (Viktor) with 24,000.

382 players left from 842 starters and we start today in the middle of level 7 with blinds 200-400 and ante 50.

The total prize pool is over 8 million Euros and the winner is going to take 2,020,000 Euros home.

We will keep you updated.

EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale brought to you by Pokerstars- Day 1B

Update 1.35 am

Day 1B is over and 4 Everest players made it to Day 2. The energetic Dutchman, Leroy Soesman, is at 16,000 chips after he lost a coin flip.

French online qualifier Simon is in a very good position at 37,000 for day 2, as is Anthony from Switzerland with 26,000. Live The Dream winner Wooka Kim, from Japan, is also nicely placed with 35,000.

We will see them again at 13.00h on Monday and we will keep you updated.
Good night from Monte Carlo.

Update 9.07 pm

The EPT Grand Finale is setting a new record with 842 participants.
We lost two of our Everest Poker qualifiers already. Cristiano Bruschi was eliminated with A-A against a set of 3. We lost Julien Sallin as well. The blinds are 100-200 in Level 3 right now and Kim Wooka is doing really well with 35,000 in chips, while the average is at 17,000. Simon is in good shape as well with 27,000, while Leroy is short stack with 12,500 chips.

Hello from Monte Carlo, the second day of the EPT is starting at 1 pm today

We have 6 players today. Simon (teamvtc - France), Anthony Gil (TIDUS29 - Switzerland), Cristiano Bruschi (Contoast - Italy) and Julien Sallin (julle - Switzerland), Kim from Japan (--icebeer--) and Leroy from Holland.
More news to come soon.

Kim

Leroy

Anthony

Julien

Simon

Cristiano

Meanwhile, here are the top ten from day 1a:

Stephen Kjaerstad Norway 111200
Chris Min Lee United States 96050
Johnny Lodden Norway 88425
Mostafa Belkhayate 88275
Driman Connor 87675
Shaun Deeb USA 84375
Thomas Boekhoff Germany 83350
Shane Reihill Ireland 82150
Nils Christian Paulsen Norway 80825
Beniamino Speroni Italy 80525

EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale brought to you by Pokerstars

Update 1.25 am level 7

Game stopped for today with 180 players left. 4 Everest players survived. The avergae chip stack is at 32,000. Stefanie is still in with 30,000, Pablo with 24,000, Simone with 27,000 and Steven with 24,000.
We will see them again on day 2 and we will be back tomorrow with Day 1B.

Update 10pm - level 5

Cristiano and Machou are out...
Cristiano had over 50k in chip and holding AA, after a raise and a raise on the flop, the other player move all in and show a flush draw and got lucky on the river

Machou loose with a full with KK vs. a full versus a AA...

Update 9pm

Krul - Daan - is out: KK vs. AA, Daan was holding the AA but the KK on the river shattered his very nice playing day... very GG Daan

Update 8pm, level 4

We have two more players out, Fernando and Otto.

Otto was running bad and his pockets 9 didn't stand versus the AA of his opponent finishing to take away hist last chips.

Fernando lost his chip versus an opponent who believed (with right)that his 3-7 was good enough (and was right), Fernando was chasing a flush and an open straight but the board didn't help him and the pocket 7 of his opponent was good enough to beat him.

Maria is still doing well - still having good conversation with Raymer.

Machou is holding strong, and his table got very difficult with 2 famous dutch players : Rob Hollink and Marcel Luske

Steven and Dann - who are at the same table than Annette15 are in dinner break.

Update 18-58h

While half of the field is on dinner break Cristiano Blanco eliminated German Katja Tharter. Cristiano flopped in the Big Blind a two pair with K-7 and it was good enough against the continuation bets of the German that showed a pair of Kings with A-K at the showdown. Well played Cristiano.

We already lost two players. Voitto Rintala had no chance with a set of aces against a straight. Shortly after that he lost his last 3,000 chips with 10-10 running into A-A.
Romain Despres is out as well. His flush with King high was not good enough against Johnny Lodden Flush with A high.

Start of day 1A:
The EPT Grand Finale brought to you by Pokerstars is starting today!! many famous faces are here to compete and indeed the Everest Poker Team is present: 10 of our Life the dream winners are starting today. Fernando Festas, Stefanie Bergener, Pablo Martinez, Voitto Rinatala, Otto Richard, Romain Despres, Machou Ghaouti, Simone Coppari, Steven van Zadelhoff and Daan Slutter (who are starting at the same table - 37) are hitting the tables today. Tomorrow Kim Wooka is following as well as the online qualifiers Simon Faure (teamvtc - France), Anthony Gil (TIDUS29 - Switzerland), Cristiano Bruschi (Contoast - Italy) and Julien Sallin (julle - Switzerland). The Everest Team is completed by Cristiano Blanco, Maria Maceiras who's sitting in front of Greg Raymer and Leroy Soesmann that are starting today as well. We will keep you updated.

Last preparations

Steven giving interviews to the Dutch TV

Waiting outside for the poker room to open

Otto and Voitto

Fernando winning a pot

Dann - "krul"

Romain (blindmaster)

Smiling and relax Maria who's been chatting with Greg Raymer:

Steven out in 52nd position

Steven van Zadelhoff cashes here at the EPT Sanremo, finishing in the 52nd position. We have no more Everest Poker players in the game, but all of them enjoyed the week here: a beautiful card room, great weather and excellent food offered by Casino Sanremo!

While Steven continues his fight...

... and of course he's in the money.

The bubble boy is happy, after all...

Evert Jan Dondergoor. EPT SanRemo

Evert is the bubble boy. Again...

The history repeats itself. In Warsaw it was Cristiano, in Sanremo is Evert Jan Dondergoor to bust exactly on the bubble, in 72nd position.
He pushes all-in on the turn with a King high flush draw, and he gets called by an opponent with a top pair. He has 2 overcards and the flush draw, but a blank hits on the river and Evert is out. The floor cheers, and Evert is interviewed by the Dutch television.
Nice job anyway for this calm and polite guy at his first EPT experience.

Steven and Evert on the stairway to money

Steven van Zadelhoff and Evert Jan Dondergoor are still in the game when the players head for the dinner break in this day2 of EPT Sanremo. There are 92 players left, and 70 will finish in the money.
Steven has 101.100, Evert is short stacked with 44.000. After his successful casting in Vienna, Steven is living another dream here in the Italian Riviera...
Evert, who qualified online on Everest Poker, is waiting for his moment to double up and sail safely through the bubble.

GO STEVEN, GO EVERT!!

3 Everest Poker players make it to SanRemo EPT Day2

Steven van Zadelhoff, Evert Jan Dondergoor and Heinz-Peter Bock are the Everest Poker survivors of the two combined Day1 here at the EPT Sanremo, the event presented by PokerStars.
Steven has a nice stack to play with, 54.600; Evert is in perfect average with 31.000, Heinz-Peter is short with just 8.000. But he had the nice satisfaction to win two nice pots from Todd Brunson.
208 players will return to the action today. The TV stage has made his appearance under the Casino Sanremo luxurious chandeliers, and we hope that our players will find their way to the spotlights.

Cristiano is out, but Leroy is still in

Cristiano Blanco was eliminated yesterday during the 7th level of play. He will talk about his fate on his blog. But just to recap, he was down to 5k and he managed to climb up to 20k before the 5th level. Then he lost most of his chip stack when he ran into Aces twice.
His last fatal hand, with 8k was a typical coin flip with 66 against AK of the italian player Giampiero Valentini. Board gave no help to our player, and he was sent to the rail.

Leroy Soresman was included in the day 1a list of players by mistake. We were worried for his no-show, but we're pleased to inform all his dutch supporters that he's playing right now in day 1b.

We also have the final figure of the attendance at this Sanremo EPT: 361 players today, plus 337 yesterday, for a staggering total of 698 players. The director, Thomas Kremser, announced: "We had to cap to 700 to keep the structure of a 4-day event. Without this limitation, this would have been a tournament with 800-900 players".

Big field in SanRemo, Everest Poker players still in the hunt

It's summer in the Italian Riviera. Blue skies, palm trees and the sea from the Sanremo Casino windows. This first Italian EPT brought to you by Pokerstars is already a favourite for most players. It's because of the city, the grand old-fashioned casino athmosphere, the excellent food and of course the huge field of over 700 players that flocked to this event. This will build one of the largest prizepool in the EPT history, and our Everest Poker players are still in the hunt.

We've lost many of them in the furious day1a action, but two players made it to day2.

It's Steven van Zadelhoff, one of the Live the Dream recent winners, with 54.600, and Evert Jan Dondergoor with 34.100, in perfect average.
97 of the 337 registered players of day1a passed to day2. And today we expect at least 350 more players. Exact figures, prizepool and prizes will be announced later by the tournament director Thomas Kremser.
We'll keep you posted, with some pictures of the venue and our players.

San Remo European Poker Tour by PokerStars has just begun!

The first EPT in Italy has just begun! The tournament, hosted by the Casino Sanremo and presented by PokerStars, will easily beat all the expectations: it's sold out with more than 700 players registered and a long waiting list that couldn't be cleared.
Everest Poker has 16 players qualified, including Cristiano Blanco and Voitto Rintala, one of the recent winners of Live the Dream!
This is the list:

Day 1A

Frank Bedrossian
Jean François Paoli
Miquel De Boer
Evert Jan Dondergoor
Salvatore Trevali
Cristiano Blanco
Leroy Soesman
Daniele Soldarelli
Tommaso Tambaro
Marcel Barten

Day 1B
Voitto Rintala
Nico Behling
Julien Pouchain
Constant Caiola
Alexandre Couleau
Heinz-Peter Bock

We will keep you posted on their results!

Live The Dream: The Whole Story

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