Everest Poker Blog - April 2008, 12

EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale brought to you by Pokerstars

2008-04-12 @ 06:20:57 by Olaf

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.