EPEC: An additional two more Hungarian players qualify for the Grand Finale!

Csaba “Bodza76” Nagy-Mézes and Ákos “PokerEst” Heltai won the last two remaing seats that for live qualifiers in Hungary...but you can still win seats online.

Both of the players are well known in the Hungarian poker community, Bodza76 is a well-known offline player, who only started playing online poker recently and Akos is the editor of the distinguished magazine PokerEst.

Say Sardinia!

Thanks to Korda Poker Klub for the great venue!

EPEC Grand Finale: The first Hungarian qualifiers

We have two of the four Hungarian qualifiers for EPEC 2009.
Last night, Istvan "marosi3" Marosi and Krisztian "Krisztian78" Kollath have demonstrated strong poker skills, when winning their seat for the Finale against the 94 participants present at the well-known Korda Poker Klub in Budapest.

Marosi3 and Krisztian78

Congratulations!

More seats will be won tonight in Bologna, Italy, in Belgium and in Budapest again. Check www.everestpoker.com for your local live qualifier.

First Two Seats at EPEC 2009: Booked

The first of the 27 live qualifiers took place in Milan last week and Luca “Jotaro78” Morgese and Riccardo “Rikibaldo1” Baldoni from Milan, Italy, are the first two players to have booked their seats for EPEC 2009.

This week sees Belgium, Hungary and Italy stage more live qualifiers - good luck to all. Check the live tournament register to see where there is a tournament near you in the coming months!

Final Table of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw

Update 23:25
Nico Behling, Everest Poker's online qualifier from Germany, comes in second at EPT Warsaw!
He lost after a long and well played game of heads up against Joao Barbosa from Portugal.
Nico had bet 60k preflop and Barbosa raised to 200k. Nico went all-in and Joao called.
Nico J7 spades
Joao A10 hearts
Board: 7 A 3 66
Nico played a great tournament!

Update 20:40
Although 40 minutes late, the tournament has started up again after the dinner brake. Several hands into the game Dario Minnieri is OUT.
Dario went all-in with pocket 7s, Barbosa called with pocket 9s. The board showed 33Q 8 4
Nico is heads up with Joao Barbosa.

Update 18:40

Chip counts at the dinner break
Nico Behling: 707 000
Joao Barbosa: 1 140 000
Dario Minieri: 267 000

Update 18:12
Nico just doubled up! He was all-in on the river, Joao called:
Nico: A 9
Joao: J 8
Board: 8 A 22 6
Average Stack: 723 333, Nico 600 000

Update 18:02
3 players are left in the tournament, and Nico is still in the game!
Atanas went out when he went all in with AK and was called by KQ Joao Q came on the river.

Update 17:52
Amaud is out! All in with Joao
Amaud 10 10
Joao 8 8
board: 3 J 6 8 A

stacks:
Nico: 300 000
Atanas: 265 000
Dario: 495 000
Amaud: 1 100 000

Update 16:42
Sergey Shcherbatsky is out of the tournament. He went all-in with A5 and lost to Joao with QQ.

Update 16:22
Last hand before the break; Dario goes all-in and Nico calls:
Dario AA
Nico 10 10
Flop J Q 8
Turn 5
River 5
Dario doubled up (bet 119 000. Nico's stack is now about 800 000 chips.

Update 16:20
Nico's stack is growing very fast right now he's got more chips than all other players combined!

Update 15:50
Dario just eliminated his Italian opponent Andrea Benelli. Benelli went all in with JJ. Dario called with AQ (hearts) and the board showed a flush for Dario, a gain of over 100 000 chips.

Update 15:35
Nico is showing command at the table. Check it out:

Update 15:25
Nico just busted out Ludovic Lacay from Francji. Nico had 88 and after preflop raise, re-raise the flop was revealed. Nico's bet was enough to make Ludovic go all-in. Nico called. Ludovic had pocket AA. Nico won with 888.

Update 14:47
Joao Barbosa just doubled. He went all in and was called by Dario Minnieri.

Update 14:45
Swiss player Michael Muheim (shortstack) went all in pre flop with A9 and was called by Dario Minnieri with AA. With no help from the board, Michael is out. 8 players are left.

Nico has taken his seat at the final table of EPT Warsaw brought to you by Pokerstars. Good luck Nico!!

Blinds
A500 SB 3000 BB 6000

Day 3 of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw has started

Update 16:33
Only 1 minute with new blinds was enough to give us results. NICO IS IN THE FINAL TABLE! His stack is 343 000, average 217 000 chips

Update 16:29
Just 1 minute before the blinds going to A500 SB2500 BB5000 Another 2 players are out of the tournament. With 9 players left We are closer and closer to the final table.

Update 16:24
11 players still in the game, 6 minutes till break, Nico is doing great!

Update 16:55

In last 10 minutes the game sped up a lot. Only 12 players left in the game. Nico has the 2nd (out of 6) largest stack at his table.

Update: 16:43
There are 15 players in the game, the average stack is 145.000 chips. Nico is still doing very well. We are hoping to see him tomorrow with the final 8.

Day 3 started with 24 players. Today we will find out who will sit at the final table tomorrow.

Day 2 of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw has started

Update 23:15
Day 2 is over. Nico is in Day 3!.

Out of 217 players 24 remaining will share the prize pool. Average stack is right now 86 800 chips. Nico has 112 700!

Update 19:15
We're on the dinner brake. Nico is still playing with a stack of 22000 chips.

Update 16:25
Unfortunately Fabian is out. Nico is still in the game with stack of 29 000 chips.

With above average stacks both Fabian and Nico start the tournament today at 14:15. Good luck to both of them!

And the Spanish Poker Tour Winner is...

Maarten Zutt!

The Everest Poker Qualifier is the winner of the SPT Marbella, after the disappointment in Castellon where Marten was the bubble now he gets the first price, let see what Mr. Zutt have to say.

Also Philippe Pareja from Belgium, another Everest Poker qualifier speaking about this weekend.

See you in Las palmas for the Main Event of the Spanish Poker Tour, you can qualify online for this event on www.everestpoker.com

Peter Pihlstroem finished on rank 15 at the Everest Poker Jackpot Final in Baden

Peter Pihlstroem started with nearly 9.000 stack in day 2 of the Everest Poker Jackpot Final in the Grand Casino Baden (Switzerland). The average stack of the 21 remaining players was about 20.000 so he had to play agressive. After 5 players were already kicked out of the tournament Peter went all in on the button with A-5 suited. The big blind had Queens and called. Although Peter catched a 5 on the flop and a flush draw on the river he did not win. At the same time another small stack went all-in at the other table and lost as well. Peter had more chips and that´s why he finished on place number 15 and won the CHF 6.400,- buy-in for the Everest Poker Open in December in Baden. The final table finally finished at 00:30 am, Kristjan Dragicevic won and got CHF 110.000 in prizemoney for his victory.

Final day on the Spanish Poker Tour

Final day on the SPT Marbella and we have the 9 finalists, this his the chip count and positions:

1.Donna Fransz 99.000
2.Maarten Zutt 303.500*
3.Ricardo Bozicevich 344.500
4.Richard Dettbarn 331.500
5.José Fuentes 75.000
6.José Luis Cordero 36.000
7.Bruno Martin 156.000*
8.Antoine Saout 51.000*
9.François De Sandra 79.500

Once again we are very happy for everybody and specialy for the 3 Everest Poker Qualifiers we have on the final table!!!

Today we also have the Super Satellite to win seats to the final of the SPT in Las Palmas, the buy-in is 100 Euros with 50 Euros rebuy and 50 Euros ad on after level 3, this is a good opportunity to go to the grand finale of the Spanish Poker

Update 21:30

Heads-Up on the final table! Ricardo Bozicevich and the Everest Poker Qualifier Maarten Zutt are the two players remaining.
Mean wild we already have the winner of the secondary event:

Adriá "El Hormona" Bataller, congratulations

Day 1 B of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw has started

Update 23:05
Day 1B just finished. Fabian is still in the tournament with 31000 chips and average of 19666.
Good luck to him and Nico tomorrow. Day 2 starts officially at 14:00 CET.

Update 22:05
We are on the last level(7) of Day 1A. Fabian is still in the game with the stack of 22000 chips. Earlier he managed to double up on "Elky" reading his bluff.

Update 20:15
Unfortunately Otto is out. He was short stack to 3100. He went all in with AJ and Roland De Wolfe called with 55. With no help on the board Otto lost the hand.

Update 18:45
Dinner break just started. Fabian & Otto are both still in the game.
Stacks: Fabian 12350, Otto 3000

Everest Poker is represented today by Fabian Holling from Germany and Otto Richard from France. Today started really interesting as the first hand at Fabian's table brought "all-in" and an imediate: "call" so in less than 3 minutes one of the players was out. The board was AQ10 flop and A 7; players had AQ & KJ. Good luck and patience to Fabianowi & Otto. We'll keep you updated!

Peter Pihlstroem makes day 2 at the Everest Poker Jackpot Final

Update 04:00 am

Level 10 (500/1000/60): End of day 1 after 10 levels played and Peter Pihlstroem, our last online qualifier, is still in the tournament. After another big loss with A-K (this time against Aces) he was down to 4.500 chips. "I believe in magic" were his last words before he went all in with his favorite hand 9/10. His opponent called with A-Q and the flop showed 8-Q-4. After the ace on the turn there were only four "magic cards" left in the deck. Finally the jack on the river brought Peter the straight and took him back in the game. There are 21 players left, the average is about 17.000 and Peter is going for the final table tomorrow at 07:30 pm local time.

Update 02:30 am

Level 9 (400/800/60): Carlos Miranda is out and finished on rank 30. He was in the small blind and went all in with 8-6 suited and 4.000 chips left. His opponent had nearly the same amount of chips and called with A-9. Carlos lost against a pair of aces and was out. Peter Pihlstroem is still in, although he lost a big pot with A-K against 7-7. With about 16.000 he has still more than the average.

Update 01:30 am

Level 8 (Blinds 300/600/40): 40 players remaining in the tournament and unfortunately two more Everest Poker qualifiers are out: Hugo Maria had to push all-in with A-4 as he was shortstacked and had no luck when his opponent showed A-K. The same happend to our Dutch guy Ewoud Te Nijhus, when he pushed all-in from the button with 9-9 and got called from Peter Pihlstroem who had pocket kings. Peter is now in the top 3 with about 18.000 chips and Carlos Miranda is looking for a hand to double up with about 3.500 left.

Update 11:30 pm

Level 6 (Blinds 100/200/20): Level 6 just started and our first Everest Poker qualifier is out. Michael Guardia had Q-Q and went all-in when the flop showed three low cards. His opponent had K-K and won. Michael finished on place 53. After the add-ons the average chipstack is about 7.000. Peter from Sweden is one of the chipleaders with 15.000.

Update 10:00 pm

Level 4 (Blinds 50/100): All Everest players are still in but Hugo Maria did already re-buy because he lost all his chips with an overpair (Q-Q) against the set of his opponent. The average stack is about 3.000, Carlos and Peter have about 5.000 in Chips, Michael and Ewoud are about average. There will be a short break after Level 4.

Update 8:30 pm

Level 2 (Blinds 20/40): Each player has the possibility to re-buy within the first 4 levels. So far none of our players used that option which means that they might get an additional 3.000 chipstack after level 4.

The Everest Poker Jackpot Final in the Grand Casino Baden (CH) is in terms of prize money the biggest tournament ever held in a swiss casino. 60 participants play for CHF 600.000,- in total, five of them qualified online on www.everestpoker.com: Hugo Maria and Carlos Miranda, both from France, Peter Pihlstroem from Sweden, Michael Guardia from Switzerland and Ewoud Te Nijhus from the Netherlands. In the picture below you can see the prizemoney which will be given away to the top 10 players on Sunday night.

Update 23:03
Day 1A just ended! Nico went through to Day 2, last level he had Johnny Lodden on his left. Nico ended the day with 28 375 chips.

Update 21:45
Just before the last level (7) 63 players are still in the game. Nico is doing well with stack of 21 525 chips.

Update 20:00

We are on the 5th level of the tournament. 20 players are out, Nico is still in the game

Update 14:25
The tournament has officially started ! 99 players from all over the world will play on Day 1A to qualify to Day 2 in Hyatt Hotel Casinos Poland.

Update 13:55

In 5 minutes the tournament will start with Day 1A. Our online qualifier Nico Behling from Germany will represent Everest Poker. Good luck Nico!

Update 10:00

Fabian Holling due to issues with arrival will start tomorrow (day 1B)

9:00

Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw starts today. We will be watching closely how our players Fabian Holling, Nico Behling from Germany and Otto Richard from France will be doing representing Everest Poker. We wish all of them best of luck and we will update their progress in the tournament. Fabian & Nico will play today (DAY 1A) and Otto will start on Sunday (DAY 1B)

Spanish Poker Tour Day 2

Day 2 in Marbella and the atmosphere is great, we can see some regular faces in this tournament and also a picture of the TV Table

Cayetano

Tv Table

We also interview Jean Philippe Castra from France.

Update 20:00

34 remaining players on the main event and the average stack is 42.000 chips.
The tournament will stop when there are only 9 players for the final table.

Another video with a very nice couple from Germany.

Marbella SPT

Here we are at the Marbella Casino for the next round of the Spanish Poker Tour, 97 players made the inscription to the main event and we also have a lot of qualifiers from Everest Poker, they made it true the online satellites and right now they are enjoying the good weather in the south of Spain and the main event of the biggest tournament in the part of Europe.

We have Everest qualifiers from Italy, Spain, France, Holland, Germany, Portugal, Belgium and Poland.
In the next few days we will keep you updated about the main event and the side events also.

The Everest Poker qualifiers

You can check all the news about the SPT Marbella in our blog, we will keep you updated

Update 00:00

After dinner we still have 88 players, for this tournament 3 players from the Everest Poker team are here:

Maria Maceiras from Spain

Fernando Festas from Portugal

Pablo Ubierna from Spain

Update 01:00

Some of the Everest Poker Qualifiers

Saout Antoine

Jean Castra

Jean Severin

Maik Weinmann

Update 04:00

There are 65 players left the average stack is 22.000 chips. For tomorrow we have the second day of the main event and the first day of the Secondary event, the buy in is 440 Euros.

We spoke with Maarten Zutt, he is from The Nederlands and this is the fourth time he came to the SPT, last time it was in Castellon and it was very good, he made it to the final table, let's see what he as to say about this tournament.

EPEC Rides Again

Today we announce launch the 3rd Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC), the largest Pan-European freeroll offering a blend of live qualifiers with online tournaments.

Over 27 live events will take place in 11 European countries from November to February and online qualifiers will take place on www.everestpoker.com from February to April 2009 - all for free. Everest Poker’s flagship promotion will culminate in a three-day live final tournament in a secret location in May with a 100,000 Euro prize pool up for grabs.

The Everest Poker European Cup has been running for three years and is one of Europe’s most popular promotions for European poker enthusiasts. Thousands of Europeans have enjoyed Everest Poker’s exclusive events which allow players to try their hand at poker for free and experience the thrill of playing live during the final.

The last two EPEC’s were won by Swedish players – who will be crowned the European Cup Champion this time round?

Last year's final three:

MCOP Day 3: Krul is out of the tournament

Unfortunately Krul is out of the tournament.
He became 36th at the Master Classics of Poker 2008.
He took home 6000 EUR.

Last hand: Krul pushed all in with pocket three and pocket Queens called. No help for Krul.

Nevertheless, a great result for our Everest Poker player Krul!

Krul in the money at the MCOP

Day 2 ended with 37 players at 02.00 local time (GMT +1) in Amsterdam.
Krul has 52.700 chips, the average chip stack is 105.789
Krul won at least 6000 EUR and is still in the race for the first prize of: 623.100 EUR

Good luck Krul!!!

MCOP day 2: last hour

It's 01.00 local time in Amsterdam at the Master Classics of Poker.
We are currently playing the main event with 41 players.
Today the tournament stops at 02.00 or with 37 players.
Averige chip stack: 98,048
Blinds: 1000-2000 ante: 300

Everest Poker player 'Krul' is still in the main event with 35,000 chips (short stack).

MCOP day 2 update: 2 down

We are currently playing with 49 players in the main event of the Master classics of poker.
Averige stack: 82,000
blinds: 800-1600 ante: 200

Busta_soon and Cecco74 are both out of the tournament.

Cecco74 had 6,000 chips and pushed all in preflop with pocket deuce. 9-4 calls. Unfortunately 9-4 hits a flush on the turn.

Krul, our Everest Poker Team player is the 'last man standing' at the MCOP with 58,000 chips!

Go Krul!

MCOP Day 2 update; Bad Beat for Steven

it's now 18.30.
We still have 89 players in the tournament.
Blinds 400-800. Ante 100
Averige stack; 45.168

Chip Count

Krul, 48,000 chips
Viktor is out

Busta_soon, 100,000 chips
Cecco, 35,000 chips

Bad beat for Viktor; AA versus KK. Preflop all in. K on the flop.

MCOP update, day 2: Viktor at the TV table

It's now 17.20 at the Master Classics of Poker.
We still have 113 players left
Averige stack: 35,575
Blinds: 400-800, ante: 100

Chip count:

Everest Poker players
Viktor has 62,000 chips
Krul has 33,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers
Busta_soon has 92,000 chips
Cecco74 has 29,000 chips

Viktor, our dutch Everest Poker Team player is playing on the TV table.

Viktor on TV table

Viktor on TV table

MCOP Day 2 update: Randomeyes is out!

It's 16.16 local time (GMT +1) at the Master Classics of Poker.
We have 126 players left in the main event (335 players started yesterday).
Averige stack: 31.904
Blinds 300-600, ante: 50

Chip count for our Everest Poker Players

Krul has 32,000 chips
Viktor has 60,000 chips
Randomeyes is out

Everest Poker qualifiers:

Cecco_74 has 29,000
Busta_soon has 45,000

What happened with Randomeyes:

Our Finnish Everest Player calls an all in pre flop with AQ versus KJ.
Unfortunately for Randomeyes, a Jack on the flop and no more help!

Cecco74 doubles up twice!
Cecco has 8-9 versus 8-3. Flop comes: 8-5-6. All in on the flop. Doubles up!

Two hands later: Cecco74 has got 9-10 versus pocket 6. The flop comes: j-j-10. All in on the flop. Cecco74 doubles up again!

Krul doubles up!
Krul has 10-7 on the big blind.
Flop comes 8-7-4. Krul calls 1000
Turn: 8. Krul calls again
River: 10. Krul calls the all in and the other player mucks.
Krul doubles up, and has 32,000 chips!

MCOP day 2: update

It's now 15:00 local time in Amsterdam.
We still have 148 players in the main event of the Master Classics of Poker
Averige stack: 27,162
Blinds: 200-400, ante: 50

Chip count:

Everest Poker Team players

Viktor has 28,000 chips
Krul has 15,500 chips
Randomeyes has 14,500 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:

Cecco74 has 8,000 chips
*Busta_soon has 38,000 chips

* Nice start for our EVP qualifier Busta_soon from the Netherlands!
Busta calls a raise preflop on the big blind with A-2 versus Q-6
Flop comes: Q-6-2. Busta calles the bet.
Turn: A Busta check raises all in.
River: blank
Busta_soon doubles up and has 38,000 chips!!

Busta_soon

Cecco74

Krul

Randomeyes

Viktor

MCOP Day 2

Today we started day 2 of the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam.
In total we had 335 players participating. We now have 157 players left.
Averige stack: 25,605
Blinds: 200-400, Ante: 50

Our Everest Poker Team players: Viktor, Krul and Randomeyes (today without his scary lenses) will play day 2.

Our Everest Poker Qualifiers Cecco74 from Italy and Busta_soon from the Netherlands will play day 2 as well.

Good luck guys!!

MCOP: End of day 1

It's 2:00 and day 1 is almost finished.
There are still 168 players remaining in the tournament.
Averige stack: 23,928
First prize: 623.100 EUR

Chip count:

Everest Poker team players:
Voitto: 10,000 chips
Krul: 14,000 chips
Viktor: 45,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
cecco: 6,225 chips
*busta_soon: 19,000 chips

*busta_soon doubles up just before the end of day 1.
He went all in pre flop with pocket 8 versus AK.
Flop: 2,5,Q Turn: 6, River: 10.
19,000 chips!

Well done guys! Good luck in day 2 of the Master Classics of Poker 2008!

MCOP update: Fjutsie is out!

It is now 01:20 hour
There are still 185 players remaining in the tournament.
Averige stack: 21,729

Chip count:

Everest Poker team players:
Voitto: 10,375 chips
Krul: 26,000 chips
Viktor: 32,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Fjutsie: is out
cecco: 6,225 chips
busta_soon: 9,000 chips

Fjutsie lost more then 50% of his stack with pocket 9 versus pocket J. Preflop all in.

fjutsie

MCOP update: May is out!

It is now 24:00 hours
There are 212 players left in the main event
Average stack: 18,962

Chip count:

Everest Poker team players:
May: is out
Voitto: 8,000 chips
Krul: 17,000 chips
Viktor: 33,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Busto_soon: 12,000 chips
Fjutsie: 6,000 chips
cecco: 6,400 chips

May

MCOP update

It's now 23:00 hours
There are still 227 players in the main event
Average stack: 17,709

Chip count:

Everest Poker team Players:
May: 9,000 chips
Voitto: 6,000 chips
Krul: 13,500 chips
Flash_light: Out of the main event
Viktor: 28,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Busto_soon: 12,000 chips
Fjutsie: 15,500 chips
cecco: 10,000 chips

Leroy is out!

Leroy loses with 8/9 hearts. Leroy goes all in with a flush draw on the flop. But unfortunately no help for Leroy.

Voitto loses a big pot!

Voitto has 7/8 spades and loses from 8/6 off suit

The flop comes: 7-4-5. Voitto has top pair, flush draw and gutshot straight draw. He goes all in and 8/6 calls instantly (street). Voitto loses almost all his chips and has 6,000 left.

MCOP update

MCOP update:

It's now 22:00 hour.
There are still 243 players in the main event.
Average stack: 16.543

Chip count:

Everest Poker team players:
May: 20,000 chips
Voitto: 40,500 chips
Krul: 18,500 chips
Flash_light: 7,400 chips
Viktor: 22,000 chips

Everest Poker qualified players:
Busto_soon: 12,000 chips
Fjutsie: 15,700 chips
cecco: 11,000 chips

Fjutsie

Cecco74

busto_soon

Everest Poker Team player: Viktor

Everest Poker team player: Krul

Everest Poker team player: Flash_light

Everest Poker team player: May

Everest Poker team player: Randomeyes

MCOP update

After the dinnerbreak: 21.00 local time
Players still in play: 267
Blinds: 75-150
Averige chips stack: 15,000

Chipcount:

Everest Poker team players:
May: 10,200 chips
Voitto: 27,500 chips
Krul: 18,500 chips
Flash_light: 9,000 chips
Viktor: 21,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Busto_soon: 8,000 chips
Fjutsie: 11,000 chips
cecco: 12,400 chips
koendb: is out

MCOP update

MCOP Update:

It's 18.00 hour.
307 players are still playing in the main event after 2.5 hours playing.
Blinds: 50-100
start stack: 10,000

Everest Poker Team players:
May: 8,000 chips
Randomeyes: 9,150 chips
Krul: 12,500 chips
Flash_light: 6,150 chips
Viktor: 16,000 chips

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Busto_soon: 11,000 chips
Cicco: 13,000 chips
Fjutsie: 5,000 chips

Master Classics of Poker 2008

Master Classics of Poker: 7 till 15 november 2008 in Holland Casino Amsterdam.
www.masterclassicsofpoker.nl

The poker event of the year!

Today the main tournament of the MCOP has started.
Buy in: 6000 EUR + entree fee 30 EUR.
Number of players. 334 players
4 day tournament

The following Everest Poker team players are playing:

.May. Maria Maceidas
N4nn0 Fernando Festas
Krul Daan Slutter
randomeyes Voitto Rintala
Flashlight Leroy Soesman
Viktor Steven van Zadelhoff

Everest Poker qualifiers:

cecco74 from Italy
koendb from The Nederlands
fjutsie from The Nederlands
busto_soon from The Nederlands

Good news:
Maria kicked out the first player from the tournament

Maria Maceiras doubles within 15 minutes against Nicolas Levi.

Maria has KJ agains Nicolas with QQ.
Raise and reraise pre flop.
The flop comes: Q-10-3. Nicolas has a set, Maria an open ended straight draw.
Turn: 9. All in, Maria doubles up and kicks out the first player of the Master Classics of Poker.

busto_soon

cicco_74

fjutsie

koendb

EVP Team player Krul

EVP Team player May

EVP Team player: Randomeyes

EVP Team player: Viktor

EVP Team player: Flash_light

Luxury, Skiing & Poker, exclusive to Everest

Qualify online during November and December, and you could spend a weekend in the breathtaking Austrian Alps at the five-star Alpine Palace Hotel at the International Poker Cup.

Represent your country and compete against players from all over the world at Everest Poker’s exclusive live tournament featuring a prize pool of more than $100,000!

The more players who play, the bigger the prize pool! 40% from each Online Qualifier will be added to the $100,000 put up by Everest Poker, with the remaining 60% going towards that tournament’s prize pool.

The International Poker Cup takes place on January 15 – 18 in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria.

Players who qualify for the live two-day finale will receive prize packages worth $2850.* Each prize package includes $300 for travel expenses, $550 for hotel and food, and the $2,000 live IPC Final buy-in.

International Poker Cup qualifiers will receive first-class accommodations & amenities at this exquisite, five-star winter resort nestled in the heart of the Austrian Alps. Everest Poker will host a welcome cocktail party for players on Thursday evening, as well as late breakfasts and evening buffets during the event. A Gala Buffet will be held on Sunday evening to celebrate the conclusion of the tournament.

How do I qualify for the International Poker Cup?

Online Tournament Schedule

Online Satellites ($11+1 Freezout & $3+.30 rebuy) run several times a day until December 15 and are open to all countries.

Satellite winners will receive a Gold Token + $9 that can be used to register for your country-specific Online Qualifier Tournament or the Last Chance Online Qualifier Tournaments.

Country
Day
Time

All Countries
Sunday December 14 & Monday December 15
18:00 GMT

France
Sunday November 9, 16, 23, 30 & December 7
18:00 GMT

Germany
Sunday November 2, 9 16, 23, 30 & December 7
18:00 GMT

Netherlands
Sunday November 9, 16, 23, 30 & December 7
18:00 GMT

Italy
Sunday November 16, 23, 30 & December 7
18:00 GMT

Nordic Country**
Sunday November 9, 16, 23, 30 & December 7
18:00 GMT

Belgium
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The bad luck continues - Kim Wooka is out on Day 1A

On a day when her pocket J's kept running into bigger pairs and time ticking down on Day 1, Kim knew that it was time to set a trap for her opponents and try to double up. But, as all good poker players know, sometimes your opponent escapes from your trap at the last minute and the play works against you.

With 12K left in her stack, and with blinds at 300/600, Kim called a raise of 1800 with pocket 6's. She and her opponent saw the flop heads-up and it was a dream - A 10 6! Knowing full well that her opponent's range of hands most likely included an Ace, Kim set the trap.

First to act she checked, knowing that her opponent had hit his ace and will bet, and then most likely will pay her off on the re-raise. When she went all-in over the top of his bet, her opponent thought about it and then made the call with AJ of clubs. With only one club on the flop her opponent was drawing thin (to runner runner clubs, runner runner A A, or runner runner J J.) When another club hit the turn, things got scary. When yet another club hit the river Kim was out, losing to her opponent's Ace-high flush.

Sometimes you can make all the right moves and still come up empty. Today was just one of those days for Kim.

A trouble hand during Level 4

During Level 4 at the World Poker Finals, Kim found herself in another unfortunate position. With blinds at 200/400, she raised with JJ from early position. Kim got one caller and then the big blind raised to 3,500.

After making the call, she once again saw a flop with all under cards. The re-raiser immediately pushed all-in for 12K. Having an overpair, and because she still had around 25K, Kim made the call. Unfortunately, her opponent had QQ. With no help on the turn and river, Kim lost half her stack.

She is going into Level 5, the final level of the day, with 13K remaining.

World Poker Finals - Not much has changed after two levels.

After two full levels at the World Poker Finals event at Foxwoods, there has not been much action. 153 Players were registered for day 1A and only 4 players have been eliminated after 3 hours of play.

Kim is still remains at her starting chip stack of 30K. She had gained a little ground in the first level, winning a few small pots and increasing her stack to 31K by the first break. However, during the second level she run into an unfortunate situation. Holding pocket 9's and calling a raise from the Under the Gun player, Kim saw a board of all low cards (none higher than her 9's). After getting check-called after the flop and river, Kim sensed she might be beat and checked the river, even after no scare cards came. Fortunately her opponent checked as well and showed the winning hand, pocket Q's.

The hand put Kim's stack down to 23K, but in hindsight it could have cost her alot more. She's recovered nicely since then, building her stack back up to $30k by picking up several small pots.

Players have just finished their second break and are about to play Level 3. More to come...

Foxwoods World Poker Finals

The World Poker Finals at Foxwoods began today at 12:00 EST. Team Everest Poker member Kim Wooka is at table #19 and ready to make her run at the event. A notable poker pro, Bernard Lee, is sitting on her left so Kim will have her work cut out for her.

Check back soon for more information on this event and Kim's progress...