And the Night Continues

We have another player out. It s the German Andreas Robert Peschel, “Anrope” who pushes all in under the gun with 77 and gets called by Wing Kwok holding AK and has him covered. The board gives Wing Kwok a nice KK3 leaving Andreas drawing very slim. The turn and the river are blank and Andreas is out.

Andreas Peschel

$25,000 - Mike vs. Mike

The German Mieczyslaw (Mike) Basara,"Matchpoint" went all in holding pocket 3s and the Dutch Michael goes all in holding A 7 offsuited, the flop was 994, Turn J and river A.

Mike Basara

Andreas vs. Andreas - 8th

It is 2:00am and the German Andreas Hofmann, “Sailfun” goes all in pre flop for 69,000 holding pocket sevens and his conational Andreas Robert Peschel “Anrope” went all in with 175,000 with AK. Flop K; Turn A; River K makes Anrope’s Full house. And sends Sailfun home with $17,000.

Sailfun, Andreas Hofmann

The avalanche Takes the Second Victim

Ii is mid night and the second player is out, Wing Kwok Tang from the Netherlands raises 20,000 and the French Fabian Couvet “Tapygris” goes all in betting 75,000. Wing calls and shows pocket 10s and Fabian his AK suited. The flop does not help and Fabian is out taking $12,500 from the prize pool.

Fabian Couvet

The Chip Leader Wears Prada

Our lovely German Monika Kees made a great move at 12:20 by raising 20,000 in middle position and gets called by the small blind Wing Kwok and the chip leader in the big blind Brice Cousin. The flop is Qh 10h 6d and Monika bets 20,000, Wing folds and Brice calls. The turn was a Kh. Monika bets 40,000, Brice re raises to 220,000 and Mónica calls with most of her chips. The river is a 4h, Monika goes all in adding 5,000 and Brice calls. Brice shows K 10 and gets a pair but Monika beats him with a A K but the A of hearts giving her the nut flush. Monika is now our new chip leader.

Monika

The first elimination

It is now 11:30 and the first player is out, the Swedish Stefan Anders Hägg, “Simbastra”, went all in with A Q versus the Dutch Jelmer Attema “Jattema” holding pocket 7s. The flop came 8 6 J, then the turn came with a K and the river with a 9. No help for Stefan and that leaves our first player out of the final table of Avalanche. He goes home with that gave Jelmer Attema the victory on this hand.

Stefan Anders

And the Avalanche starts!

Avalanche is just about to start, it is 7:30 now and the tournament just started. All the players are excited and enthusiastic.

All their guests are enjoying and getting as nervous as their friends on the table.

Here is a picture of the Avalanche final table

Avalanche final, 30th of June 2008

This year the Avalanche final is taking place at the beautiful cruise ship 'Navigator of the Seas'. This cruise started in Barcelona and will sail to Nice, play poker on a panoramic room and and the party island Ibiza!

The 10 European finalists + guests can enjoy the hospitality of Spain and France during this exclusive trip.

Today (Friday)the 10 finalists will play the final table of Avalanche 2008 with a prize pool of 1 million dollars.

The list with players in order of chip count.

1: Name Brice Cousin (French)
Screen name BricelnParis
Chip Count: 300200

2: Name Ismael Arribas Muñoz (Spanish)
Screen name Ismaelpsx
Chip Count: 278500

3: Name Wing Kwok Tang (Dutch) - Mike
Screen name Mofox_IP
Chip count: 177000

4: Name Monika Kees (German)
Screen name Doha2006
Chip count: 164500

5: Name Andreas Robert Peschel (German)
Screen name Anrope
Chip count: 151800

6: Name Jelmer Attema (Dutch)
Screen name Jattema
Chip count: 144600

7: Name Mieczyslaw Basara (German) - Mike
Screen name Matchpoint
Chip count: 117900

8: Name Stefan Anders Hägg (Swedish)
Screen name Simbastra
Chip count: 111900

9: Name Fabian Couvet (french)
Screen nameTapygris
Chip count: 68300

10: Name Andreas Hofmann (German)
Screen name: Sailfun
Chip count: 65800

Tournament structure:

Level SB BB Ante
1 500 1000 100
2 700 1400 100
3 1000 2000 200
B Break
4 1200 2400 300
5 1500 3000 300
6 2000 4000 400
B Break 100 chips out
7 2500 5000 500
8 3000 6000 500
9 4000 8000 500
B break 500 chips out
10 5000 10000 1000
11 7000 14000 1000
12 10000 20000 2000
B break
13 12000 24000 3000
14 15000 30000 3000
15 20000 40000 4000
B break 1.000 chips out
16 25000 50000 5000
17 30000 60000 5000
18 40000 80000 5000

The players arriving to the Navigator of the Seas

The Avalanche 10 players