Final Table on the Spanish Poker Tour

Update 01:30

And we have a winner!!!

Alex Jung from Germany

Alex goes all-in with 99 and Pietro call with 44, the flop came 4 10 J, then a 9 and the river was a 5.
So, the trophy goes to Berlin with Alex and we have an interview with him

We also have some words from Johnny Lodden about is participation on this tournament

Update 23:00

Still 3 players with the blinds 3000/6000 Ante 500

Interview with BluffNico and Oracle from France

Update 21:00

We are now with 3 players on the Final Table, Christian Debeilour last Qualifier was elimenited on the fourth position, he made a great tournament with some very good movements recognized by the other 8 players

The Magnificent 9!

Alexander Jung - Germany- 235.300
Christian Debeil - France- 314.300 Everest Qualifier
Pierto Palomba - Italy - 395.100
Joan Company - Spain- 154.000
Manuel Bena - Spain- 98.900
Johnny Lodden - Norway- 248.500
Javier Domínguez - Spain- 94.700
Alex Longobardi - Italy - 61.400
Rolf Slotboom - Holland - 123.800

Day Three of the Spanish Poker Tour

Update 21:00

Level 14 with the blinds 1200/2400 and ante 300
14 Players remaining

Watch an interview with Sijbrand Maal from the Netherlands

Update 20:00

Chip count from our qualifiers, the average is 122.000

Tommy
111.000
Oracle
160.000
Nico
46.000
Safet
140.000

This is the day of the big decisions, only 9 players will past to the finale table.
We still have 4 Everest Poker Qualifiers

Tommy

Nicolas Cullin

Christian Debeil Oracle

Safet Ahmeti

Day two on the Spanish Poker Tour Grand Finale

Update 02:00

25 players remain on the main event, we told you before that Dan Slutter was out of the tournament, let's see what he have to say

Update 00:00

Dan Slutter is out, he have K 10 on the button pre-flop and he raise, the big blind calls, the flop came J 10 8, Dan bet's, the other guy goes all in and the Dutch player calls, the other player shows 9 Q!

Now an interview with David Howard from the UK, he was the winner of one of the side events in another SPT

The second day has began with 49 players and we still have 39 playing with one common objective... the final table!
Here is the status of the Everest qualifiers and the remaining players from the Everest Poker team

Leroy Soesman from Everest Team (The Netherlands)18.000

Gábor Szamosi from Hungary with 16.000

Dan Slutter from Everest Poker Team ( The Netherlands) 14.000

Safet Ahmeti from Sweden 50.000

Geert Hoeben from The Netherlands 25.000

Maria Maceiras from the Everest Poker Team (Spain) 26.000

Christian Debeil from France 76.000

Nicolas Cullin from France 20.000

Grand Finale Spanish Poker Tour

And the Grand Finale of the Spanish Poker Tour as began!
88 Players come from all over Europe to play this Tournament, the Buy in is 2500 Euros and the structure is fantastic, we will have 90 minutes levels with 20.000 chips.
The tournament director is Thomas Kremser and Gerard Serra from the prestigious TK Poker Events.

During these 4 days we will update the blog with everything that happens in Gran Casino Costa Meloneras in the Las Palmas Island.

Update 18:00

The action began and after 5 minutes something happen...

Yes, the first player eliminated from the SPT hit pocket sevens against Pocket Aces!

Update: 21:00

Some famous faces on the SPT

Nico Behling second place in EPT Warsaw 2008

Johnny Lodden

Cristiano Blanco from Everest Team

Pablo Ubierna from Everest Poker Team

Dan Slutter from Everest Poker Team

Update 00:00

62 players remaining with the blinds 100/200
These are some of our Everest Poker Qualifiers

Update 03:15

This is the end of the day and we have 49 players remaining, tomorrow there’s the second day of the main event and day 1 of the secondary event.
And now... Ladies and Gentleman our Tournament director Mr. Thomas Kremser!

Final day of the Everest Poker Open at the Grand Casino Baden (CH)

Update 1:15am

And the winner is:

UDO KALWEIT

Udo played heads up vs. Cemil. Udo was chipleader and pushed all in with K-3 and got called from Celim with A-4. The turn showed a 3 and Udo won. He got 171.072 CHF for his victory, the biggest win in a poker tournament in Swiss history.

2nd place: Cemil Doganyilmaz (126.720 CHF)
3rd place: Roland “Siggi” Siegritz (95.040 CHF)

Congratulations!

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Update 11:00pm

New chipcount!

Average stack 195.000

1. Roland Siegrist 240.000
2. Besim Hot 240.000
3. Matthias Kürschner 229.000
4. Udo Kalweit 193.000
5. Otavio Benelli 101.000
6. Cemil Doganyilmaz 96.000

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Update 9:00pm

Final table!

Average Stack: 99.000

Chipcount:

1. Siegrist 280.000
2. Kürschner 210.000
3. Kalweit 97.000
4. Doganyilmaz 87.000
5. Rössler 86.600
6. Benelli 80.600
7. Walser 40.000
8. Urzun 40.000
9. De Donno 39.400
10. Hot 37.000

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Update 6:00pm

Thiery is out!

Another player with A-6 went all in, Thiery decided to call with A-9. Flop 6-J-4. Turn A, river K.

18th place for Thiery. Unfortunately 1th to 10th place gets money. Well played anyway Thiery and congratulations!

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Today the last 32 player are playing the final of the Everest Poker Open. Currently we are in level 12 and 19 players are left.

Average stack: 52.100
Thiery our french online qualifier got 7.000 chips left!

Go Thiery Go!

Everest Poker Open at the Grand Casino Baden (CH) started!

Update 1:15pm

Frank is out!
Frank (short stack) raised from the small blind with a pair of 9s. The big blind reraised all in and got called. The big blind showed a pair of Queens. Unfortunately Frank got no help on flop, turn and river.

7:30 pm – Heat 2 of the Everest Poker Open started!

45 players met today at the Grand Casino Baden to play the second Heat of the Everest Poker Open. Frank Stumpf the german online qualifier will start playing today. Good Luck!

Update 4:15pm

Heat 1 has finished! Thiery could triple up!
Just before end of Day 1, Thiery (short stack) went all in and got called by two players. Thiery with J-10 offsuited hit the Jack on the flop, took the lead and kept it.
Now he got the average stack again and can start the final on Sunday quite relaxed.

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Update 4:00pm

Michael und Martin are out!
Both short stack. Michael went all in with a pair of 3s and got called by a pair of 10s.
Flop: 3rd 10. Turn an river no help anymore.
Martin at his table went with his last chips and K-7 all in and got called by A-5.
Flop: A-5-9 two pair. Turn and river no help.

Update 11pm

The 4th blind-level just finished. One level lasts 45 minutes. With this, the rebuy-phase of the double chance freezeout tournament ends. Players who did not rebuy so far can take the add-on of again 5.000 jetons. Martin Bruno und Thiery Navarro are a bit below average, Michael Bruno is exactly average with 10.000 of chips.

Today at 7:30pm - 55 poker players started in the first Heat of the Everest Poker Open at the Grand Casino Baden (CH). The Buy-In of 6.400 CHF, will create the biggest tournament price-pool in poker history of Switzerland. 4 players qualified at the Everst Poker platform:

Martin Bruno, Thiery Navarro und Michael Azria , from France, already started playing today. The German player Frank Stumpf who already won the Avalanche tournament last year, will start tomorrow in Heat 2. Each day 9 levels will be played. The best players of both Heats will battle on Sunday at the final.

Steven is out!

Steven is out of the EPT Prague.
He became 36th of 570 players in total.
He won: 9,700 EUR.

The crucial hand: AK versus AK

Players goes all in preflop and Steven calls with AK off.
The players has AK of diamonds.

On the flop two diamonds and on the river another diamond.

Bad Beat for Steven.

Steven was our last Everest Poker player in the EPT Prague.

Well done Steven and congratulations

Steven van Zadelhoff is in the money!!

Everest Poker Team Player Steven van Zadelhoff is still in play at EPT Prague. The bubble has bursted about 20 minutes, a huge ovation followed the exit of the 57th player.

There are 45 poker players remaining in the tournament right now, the chip average is around 126000. We have around 1 hour to go from Day2.

Steve has 85000 in chips, short stacked after losing a bigger hand just recently.

Scarsorocco is eliminated

Scarsorocco was doing great earlier, he had some serious bluffs and he was slowly increasing his stack.

Then came this hand, where he went all in preflop with pocket 10s and he gets called by AK off suit. (King is a diamond)

Flop
4d 9d Jx

Turn
5d

River:
2d

Scarsorocco was beaten by a flush of diamonds. What a pity, he was playing really well.

Scarsorocco after an intimidating bluff is congratulated by fellow player

weeeeeeeee is out on the 87th place

Short stack Swedish Everest Poker online qualifier weeeeeeeee has been eliminated after he has gone all in preflop holding AJ suited against a pocket JJ. EPT Prague is in association with PokerStars.

He was behind from the get go and nothing came on the board so weeeeeeeee`s tournament comes to end.

Update at 3PM local time

With about 3 hours in to Day 2, about 80 players busted today.

Blinds: 600/1200 ante: 100
96 players remaining
Average chip count: 60000

Chip count:
Team Everest Player
Steven: 60000

Everest Poker qualifiers
Scarsorocco: 42000
weeeeeeeee: 19200

Steven is working it!

Scarsorocco

weeeeeeeee in action

Current chip counts

Team Everest Player
Steven: 52000

Everest Poker qualifiers
Scarsorocco: 51000
weeeeeeeee: 29000

Machou and Voitto are out!!

The two Everest Poker Team Players are both out of the tournament.

Machou went allin preflop after several reraises holding QQ only to be beat by the opponent`s A10 after the flop read A x x. No help arrived on the turn or the river so Machou is out of the tournament.

Machou at the start of the Day2

Voitto was also preflop all-in holding AK, but he was busted by the player next to him holding pocket 10s. Unfortunately no help came on board and our player has finished the main event at EPT Prague.

Voitto on Day2

5 Strong for Day 2

With Day 1A & B out of the way Everest Poker have 5 players left and there are 177 in total. Our Italian hero Rocco 'Scarsorocco' Pandiscia leads the field with 54,900 - which leaves him in 23rd place in the chip count at the start of Day 2.

Team Everest
Voitto: 29,200
Steven: 31,000
Machou: 14,000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

Weeeeeeeee: 24,000
Scarsorocco: 54,900

COME ON BOYS!

Pokerstars.com EPT Prague: Day2

Day2 of EPT Prague is just about to start, players are eagerly waiting the moment when they can continue their play at the tables.

Everest Poker has five men standing in the tournament, including 3 Team Everest players and 2 online qualifiers.

Chip Counts of some familiar pokerfaces:
Christer Johansson 108000
Manuel Bevand 98000
Alessio Isaia 95000
Marcel Baran 66000
Charbel Salloum 62000
Scarsorocco 54900 EVEREST POKER ONLINE QUALIFIER
Joris Jaspers 54000
Fredrik Nygard 48000
Mats Iremark 44000
Erich Kollmann 39000
Antony Lellouche 38000
Dario Minieri 34000
Steven van Zadelhoff 31000 EVEREST POKER TEAM PLAYER
Voitto Rintala 29200 EVEREST POKER TEAM PLAYER
Juha Helppi 29000
Steven Devlin 29000
Adam Stoneham 28000
Vikash Dhorasoo 28000
Weeeeeeeee 24000 EVEREST POKER ONLINE QUALIFIER
Rob Sherwood 19100
Ian Nelson 19000
Laurence Houghton 18000
Michael Keiner 16500
Noah Boeken 16000
Nenad Medic 15250
Tomas Brolin 15000
Machou Ghaouti 14000 EVEREST POKER TEAM PLAYER
Javed Abrahams 13875
Thierry van den Berg 13875
Jan Boubli 13500
Eric van der Berg 13000
Florian Langmann 13000
William Thorson 12500
Chris Moorman 12000
Roberto Romanello 11775
David Shade Kruger 8875
Sander Lylloff 8775
Jonas Molander 8650
Cristian Grundtvig 6525
Lukas Dydek 6500
Mike McDonald 5700
Oscar Blanco 3325
Andreas Hagen 3225

Day 1B of PokerStars EPT Prague

End of day 1B:

Machou, 'Last man standing'

With 14,000 in chips Machou will play day 2 of the EPT Prague.
Averige is: 31,041 and still 96 players left.

Good luck tomorrow Machou!!

Machou

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Update: 20.00

Maria is out!

She was short stack and pushed all in with AJ preflop. A player with AK calls. No help for Maria.

Machou is the only Everest Poker player left in day 1B.
He has 20.000 chips. Averige is 28,653.
Blinds are 300-600 with an ante of 75.
104 players are still left in day 1B of the EPT Prague

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Fjutsie from The Netherlands is out of the tournament!

Fjutsie has QQ and goes all in preflop. JJ calls.
Flop: 8-10-7. Turn 2. River 9!
Pocket JJ has the straight and Fjutsie is out!

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Team Everst players: Pablo, Fernando, Machou, Simone, Stefanie and Maria

Update: 18.30

Simone is out!

Simone has AQ.
Flop comes: Q-J-8. Simone bets another players raises and Simone goes all in.
AJ calls the all in. Simone has top pair and the other player has second pair.
Turn: J. This gives the other players three of a kind and Simone in out of the EPT Prague.

Team Everest:

Machou Ghaouti: 15.000
Maria Maceiras: 12.500

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 8.000
fsn1: out

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Update 17.45
We still have 167 players in day 1B.
Blinds: 150-300

Team Everest:

Simone Coppari: 12.000
Machou Ghaouti: 8.000
Maria Maceiras: 15.000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 6.000
fsn1: 13.000

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Update 17.00: Two down!

Cristiano & Pablo are both out of the EPT Prague

Cristiano loses his straight against the nut flush
Cristiano has K-10.
Flop comes 6-8-9 (two spades). Turn 7 (this gives Cristiano a straight). River the third spade.
Player checks, Cristiano goes all in and the player with AK suited (spades) calls the all in with the flush.

Pablo has a bad beat!

Pablo has QQ and raises preflop.
Flop comes: 2-9-6. Pablo goes all in and a player with 9-8 calls.
Turn: 8, giving the other player two pair versus the one pair of Pablo.

Pablo

Cristiano
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Update: 16.30

Our Team Everest player Stefanie is out!

Crucial hand:
Stefanie pushed all in preflop with AK and she gets called by QQ.
A Queen on the flop left our own Everest Queen 'crippled' with just a view chips left.

Stefanie

But we still have 7 players in the tournament:

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco: 7.000
Simone Coppari: 13.000
Pablo Ubierna: 4.500
Machou Ghaouti: 19.000
Stefanie Bergener: out
Maria Maceiras: 14.000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 8.000
fsn1: 13.000

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Update: 15.30
Blinds: 100-200
We still have 258 players in the tournament.

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco: 12.000
Simone Coppari: 12.000
Pablo Ubierna: 6.000
Machou Ghaouti: 12.000
Stefanie Bergener: 8.000
Maria Maceiras: 10.000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 13.500
fsn1: 12.500

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Update: 14.30
Level: 75-150
We have 274 players left in day 1B.

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco: 6.000
Simone Coppari: 12.000
Pablo Ubierna: 8.000
Machou Ghaouti: 14.000
Stefanie Bergener: 13.500
Maria Maceiras: 6.000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 12.500
fsn1: 12.000

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Update: 13.20
Level 50-100
Averige: 11.000

Chipcount of our players:

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco: 5.000
Simone Coppari: 12.000
Pablo Ubierna: 11.000
Machou Ghaouti: 10.000
Stefanie Bergener: 13.000
Maria Maceiras: 5.000

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie: 12.000
fsn1: 12.500

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Today we start with day 1B of the EPT Prague.

We have 6 Team Everest players and 2 Everest Poker qualifiers playing.

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco (IT)
Simone Coppari (IT)
Pablo Ubierna (ES)
Machou Ghaouti (FR)
Stefanie Bergener (DE)
Maria Maceiras (ES)

Everest Poker qualifiers:

fjutsie (NL)
fsn1 (DE)

Familiar Everest Poker faces:

-Nico Behling, Everest Poker's online qualifier from Germany, came in second at EPT Warsaw

-Frank Stumpf (fsn1) Everest Poker Avalanche winner of 2007!

Good luck!

Cristiano

Simone

Machou

Maria

Pablo

Stefanie

fsn1

fjutsie

Nico, Everest Poker qualifier who came in second at EPT Warsaw

Day 1A of Pokerstars EPT Prague

Day 1A is finished!

We still have 4 players in the EPT Prague.

Chipcount:

Team Everest
Voitto: 29,200
Steven: 31.000

Everest Poker qualifiers

Weeeeeeeee: 24.000
Scarsorocco: 54.900

Scarsorocco is playing his first EPT, and what a good start!!

We will see our Everest Poker players on thursday the 11th for day 2 of the EPT Prague

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Otto is out!

At 20.15 Otto went all in preflop with pocket KK versus pocket AA.
Flop Q-9-9 Turn J- River-Q

There are still 94 players in Day 1A of the EPT Prague
Averige stack: 28,936

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Update 20.00

We have 102 players left in the tournament
Averige is: 26,666
Blinds 300-600, ante 75

Chip count:

Team Everest Players

Voitto: 24,000
Otto: 46,000
Steven: 34,500

Everest Poker qualifiers

Scarsorocco: 32,000
weeeeeeeee: 23,000

Otto, our Everest Team player is the chipleader from the Everest Poker players at the moment!

But weeeeeeeee from Sweden made a great come back! From being a short stack whole day (last update 7000 chips), he came back strong, and has currently 23,000 chips!!

Well done!

Weeeeeeeee, from Sweden

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Update 19.00

We still have 138 players in the tournament.
Blinds: 200-400, with ante of 50
Averige stack: 19,710

Chip count:

Team Everest Players

Voitto: 28,500
Otto: 23,000
Steven: 29,000

Everest Poker qualifiers

Prizonic: out
Scarsorocco: 41,000
JolieCoeur: out
weeeeeeeee: 7,000

What happened to Prizonic?

Prizonic goes all in preflop with pocket deuce.
QK calls. On the flop comes a Q, and on the turn a K. No help for Prizonic!

Scarsorocco, at this moment the chip leader of the Everest Poker Players

JolieCoeur which means in english: 'beautiful heart' is out!
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Update: 17.30

Blinds 150-300
Averige stack: 16,385
We still have 166 players in the tournament

Chip count:

Team Everest Players

Voitto: 25,500
Otto: 17,500
Steven: 27,000

Everest Poker qualifiers

Prizonic: 25,000
Scarsorocco: 23,000
JolieCoeur: 5,000
weeeeeeeee: 9,000

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Update 16:00

Blinds: 750-150
We still have 207 players left in the tournament.

Chip count:

Team Everest Players

Voitto: 14,500
Otto: 14,000
Steven: 13,000

Everest Poker qualifiers

Prizonic: 26,000
Scarsorocco: 18,000
JolieCoeur: 11,000
weeeeeeeee: 7,000

At te moment, Prizonic has the most chips of all the Everest Poker Players in the EPT Prague, day 1A

Prizonic
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Update: 15.30
Blinds 75-50
Averige stack: 11,877
229 people still left in the tournament

2 Team Everest players are out!

Fernando (PT)
Fernando raises under the gun with AK and the small blind calls.
Flop comes 8-9-3. Small blind checks, Fernando raises. The small blind goes all in and Fernando calls.
Small blind has 8-9.
Turn 8, which makes a full house for the small blind. Fernando is out!

Romain (FR)
Romain is holding KK and raises to 900. Two people call.
Flop comes: 3-8-Q (two spades).
Romain bets 1800, a player raises to 4000 and Romain goes all in. The player calls.
It's now: KK versus AQ.
Turn: A, which makes two pair for the player.
Romain is out of the tournament.

Chip count:

Team Everest Players

Voitto: 13,500
Otto: 10,000
Steven: 6,000

Everest Poker qualifiers

Prizonic: 10,000
Scarsorocco: 12,000
JolieCoeur: 12,000
weeeeeeeee: 8,000

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Update: 14.30

Set over set!

Bad luck for Leroy Soesman our Everest Team player.
He is holding pocket 10. Flop comes: 10-8-j.
Player bets, Leroy raises, player goes all in and Leroy calls.

Players shows pocket J!

Leroy is out of the EPT Prague.

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Update: 13.40
We have 272 players in total playing day 1A.
Level 2: Blinds 50-100

Bronski1202 is out of the EPT Prague. He had some bad beats and had to leave the tournament in level 2. It was his first EPT.

Bronski1202

Chipscount:

Team Everest:
Steven: 22.000
Voitto: 12.000
Otto: 15.000
Romain: 14.000
Leroy: 4.725
Fernando: 6.100

Everest Poker qualifiers:
Prizonic: 10.000
Jolie Coeur: 13.000
weeeeeeeee: 11.000
Scarsorocco: 11.000
Brosnki1202: out

Steven doubles up very quickly in the tournament.
He had QJ clubs. Flop comes: K-9-4 (2 clubs)
A player bets, another player raise and Steven goes all in.
Pocket KK calls the all in. Turn come: 8 of hearts and a beautiful A of clubs comes on the river, giving Steven a Flush!

Good luck guys!!

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Today the first day of EPT Prague has started.
Buy in: 5000 EUR + 250 EUR
First level blinds: 25-50

We have 13 Everest Poker players playing day 1A and 6 players in day 1B.

Day 1A:

From our Team Everest
- Otto Richards (FR)
- Romain Despres (FR)
- Fernando Festas (PT)
- Steven van Zadelhoff (NL)
- Voitto Rintala (FI)
- Leroy Soesman (NL)

Everest Poker qualifiers:

- Prizonic (SE)
- JolieCoeur (FR)
- weeeeeeeee (SE)
- bronski1202 (IT)
- Scarsorocco (IT)
- fjutsie (NL)
- fsn1 (DE)

Prizonic

weeeeeeeee

Scarsorocco

Bronski1202

JolieCoeur

Voitto (Team Everest)

Romain (Team Everest)

Otto (Team Everest)

Leroy (Team Everest)

Fernando (Team Everest)

Steven (Team Everest)

Grand National Winning Jockey Takes Prize

The Everest Poker-sponsored East Garston Championships held last Sunday (7th December) was hosted in the heart of horse racing country in the UK.

The tournament was won by Cheltenham Gold Cup, Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup & Grand National winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald.

Recently retired Mick may now have carved out a new career for himself in poker!

Mick with the cup.

Mick in more familiar surroundings winning the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup.

Cristiano is HOT!

Everest Poker's first ever sponsored player - Cristiano Blanco - is on fire at the moment and heads to EPT Prague later this week in the form of his life.

Cris reached the final table of the Dusk Til Dawn Anniversary Cup in Nottingham, England yesterday, coming 5th and taking home £11,000. 186 players started the tournament.

This is his THIRD final table in as many months as he was in similar positions in both the Irish Winter Festival & The Italian Championships.

Another tourney, another final table.

Cris also holds the rercord of being the highest placed Italian in an EPT tournament which, when you bear in mind that both EPT Barcelona & EPT Budapest had more Italians represented than any other nation is a mighty feet.

Cris goes to EPT Prague this week and there are few players in better form than our man. Good luck, Cris.

Cristiano interviewed at the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT6GHf9cpjY&eurl=

Fourth and last EPEC winner in Belgium

Thomas Hobin is the lucky last EPEC winner for Belgium.
He defeated almost 150 players to win his seat to the live EPEC final in Sardinia.

Nice job Thomas!

Thomas

Live qualifiers are happening all over Europe - check www.everestpoker.com for details of one near you. Online qualifiers will kick off early next year.

Rainer Staberhoffer wins first EPEC ticket for Austria

The first Everest Poker European Cup (EPEC) in Austria was held in the Bridge Club Vienna. Beside bridge players there also participated representatives of darts, tabletop soccer and miniature golf. After six hours of playing Rainer Staberhoffer and Hermann Frey were the last two participants in the tournament. Rainer was chipleader and called Hermann when he pushed all in with top pair. Rainer called with king high and caught a king on the turn. He won the ticket worth € 1.100,- for the final of the EPEC in Sardinia (Italy) in May next year. Congratulations!

St. Maarten Open, Day 2

24 players started today with an average of 33,000 chips. Hubert, Fari and Thorsten were in on the only three tables.

At the beginning of day 2, Fari was holding A10 being the big blind, all players fold and player on the cut off calls holding 89h. The flop came Ah, 4h, 5s, Turn 4c and River 5h giving the other player a flush, Fari checks, the other player bets 4,000 chips after the river and Fari calls. This hand left him quite short stacked.

During level 8, Fari had 10J of clubs and the flop came 4c, 9c, 4h, he had 3,000 chips and a player with KK in first position made a bet. Everybody folds but Fari calls all in and the next card was another 4 and the river a 7. The other player got a full house and that was the end of the tournament for our British player Fari.

Hubert was holding a pair of deuces with short stacked and in the button. He bets 2,000 preflop and gets called by the player in 5th position. He was holding a KJ and the flop brought another jack. The river and the turn didn't help and Hubert was out.

At the beginning of level 9 with blinds 400 - 800, Thorsten, our German player, got a full house of queens over nines while holding 88 and he gets called by a player with J9, the turn gave the other player another J giving him a full house Jacks over nines leaving our last Everest Poker player out of the tournament.

End of Day 1 of the St. Maarten Open

At the end of Day 1 we have 3 players still in the game. Thorsten and Fari are both a little bit below the average chip count of 28,928. Hubert is still in the game, but with very short stack.

Arie, Lex and Guillaume went out in the 5th and 6th rounds.

We're looking forward to starting up again Wednesday night.

Day 1, Level 4 of the St. Maarten Open

The Everest Poker qualifiers have just finished their dinner break and are back at the tables. The blinds are now 100 - 200, and chip average is at 18,837.

Hubert Lahaye and Thorsten Schwesig are at 21,000 and 20,000 respectively. Hubert doubled up at the end of round 3. He had AK and KK3 came on the flop, Hubert went all in on the turn and doubled his pot.

Arie Groen didn't have the same luck unfortunately. He lost 10,000 with Q's vs. A's and no help from the board.

Lex Ruben is still in the game with a strong 19,500 chips.

Guillaume Poupart lost a big pot with J's vs. A's and no help from the board.

Our Brit, Fari Badiemansour is our Everest Poker chip leader with 24,500.

Kick Off of the 2008 St. Maarten Open

We're here on the beautiful Caribbean Island, St. Maarten part of the Dutch Antilles, for the 2008 St. Maarten Open directed by TK Poker Events and sponsored by Everest Poker.

Literally 2 minutes from the airport, there's never a dull moment on beaches of the Sonesta Maho Hotel or at the tables of the Casino Royale.

Everest Poker sent 6 qualifiers to St. Maarten to play in the $3,000 No Limit Holdem Main Event.

From left to right, Guillaume Poupart from France, Hubert Lahaye and Lex Ruben from the Netherlands, Thorsten Schwesig from Germany, Arie Groen from the Netherlands and Fari Badiemansour (not shown) from Great Britain.

There are just 3 minutes left in level 1 and all 52 players are still in the tournament. Blinds are at 25 - 50. Initial chips were 15,000.

EPEC 2009 - Estavayer le Lac - Suisse

More than 60 French players were here and ready for this live event!

After more than 8 hours of bluffs, limps, raises, re-raises, the 2 winners are kaya13 and blacksconss.

kaya13's opponent was shortstacked and went all-in. She called and landed her pair on the flop.

On the other side, blacksconns and juls were almost stack egual, one go all in and the other follow... After the cards talked to blacksconss...

Congratulations to them both and see you in Sardinia.

EPEC Belgium, third winner

Yesterday, Monday 1st December, Bert de Brabandere won the third EPEC live qualifier in Belgium.
He had to compete against 170 other poker players. And after 8 hours of playing, Bert had won through.

Great achievement Bert! and good luck in Sardinia.

Final table

Bert

Live qualifiers are happening all over Europe - check www.everestpoker.com for details of one near you. Online qualifiers will kick off early next year.

EPEC Belgium

We have our first two winners from Belgium for the EPEC final!

On Thursday, 25th November, Xander won the first live EPEC in Belgium. He beat 123 players in Leuven.

Laurens won the second live EPEC qualifier in Leuven on Friday, 26th November. He beat 169 poker players.

We still have 2 seats available for Belgium for the live final!!

Xander & Laurens congratulations!

Xander Verbeke, screen name: dEUS52
Laurens Polus, scree name: Laaisels

Xander

Finale table with Laurens

EPEC Qualifier in Bologna: a local celebrity is the winner!

With qualifiers last week in Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy the EPEC Live Qualifier tour stopped in Bologna, in a lively night club right next door to the oldest University in the world.

After a generous Italian buffet, the tournament kicked off with knocked-out players able to join the dance party in the club, the hottest spot in Bologna.

The entertaining final table gave us two winners: Emanuele Cocchi, a young student, and a local TV celebrity, Jack Bonora. Jack is the host of several TV football shows on the regional channel and he's also the presenter of the Poker Sportivo Show, the first Italian talk show dedicated to Texas Hold'Em. Now he will join us in Sardinia for the EPEC Finale not only as a reporter but as a player too!

Jack Bonora and Emanuele Cocchi