Antoine Saout - Top 5 of WSOP Europe!

Big news for our November Nine, Antoine Saout is currently top 5 in the World Series of Poker Europe! With only twelve players remaining, Antonie is in the running for another World Series of Poker final table.

ALLEZ ANTOINE!!!

Antoine final 12 of WSOPE!

So its WSOPE, 12 left, you're ahead of Negreanu...Doyle just busted. You are also in the November Nine...a dream? No, you're Antoine Saout!

ALLEZ, ALLEZ!

WSOPE London Day4: aiming for history

Antoine Saout will come back today to claim a piece of poker history at WSOPE London.
Our November Niner is in the money. He found his way among the toughest field one can imagine, so he already proved not to be a one-hit wonder.
Today we will go down to 9 players.
Antoine's goal is to repeat what Ivan Demidov did last year: land at the Final Table at the Main Event in Vegas and do the same in London.
Last year Demidov finished 3rd in London and then runner-up in Vegas.
We can only just guess if Antoine would settle for this result, because we're sure that he's going for the bracelet both in London and in Vegas!

He seats at Table4 among several notable players: Ram Vaswani, Timoshenko and the chip leader of the table, Fung.

WSOPE Day3 Final Update: Antoine 202k

And we're done for the day! Antoine is in the money but with a diminished stack. 202k.
He lost a big pot against Matt Hawrilenko and he told us that he also lost a bit of his already legendary self control.
We'll be back tomorrow!!!

ANTOINE CHIPLEADER: 555K

Update: Antoine knocks out Amnon Filippi and climbs to the top!!!!!

Antoine updates: 380k

Dinner break and Antoine updates us. He has 380k. He's 4th in chips!!!!!!

WSOPE London: Antoine back to 315k!!!!!

Antoine is back to the top 10 chipcounts of the WSOPE London.
He found a quick double up to get back to 160k before the end of Level 13, gave a phone interview to the Italian "Men's Health" during the break and went back to Table 2...
He won a big pot against Liz Lieu, raising from the Small Blind. Liz, on the BB, called. The flop came rags, 932, but Antoine bet 12k. Liz raised to 28k. Antoine three-bet to 55k and Liz quickly folded.
Then he busted a player who pushed all in with 33. Antoine had QQ, called and scooped the pot.
Players are in dinner break now. 46 players left, -10 to the money!

WSOPE London: Antoine down to 80k

Antoine is down to 80k after the loss of a couple of big pots. He was down to 150k when the TV table was broken down, and he was moved to Table2.
On the blinds 1200-2400 ante 300, Antoine raised 7000 in middle position, called by the small blind. Flop came K45, with 4 and 5 of hearts. The SB checked, Antoine checked. Turn was 9 of hearts. SB checked, Antoine bet 11k and the SB after a long deliberation, pushes all in for 40k more. Antoine makes a very nice call with KT and the King of hearts, so top pair and flush draw. SB showed AQ, with the Ace flush draw. The SB was basically drawing for an ace or an heart. And the river was the 8 of hearts... Bad luck

WSOPE London: the TV table with Antoine

WSOPE London Update: Antoine 270k, Kim out

Antoine is back in good shape a much needed double up. He has 270k now and he's also back to the TV table!
He has position again on Steve Zolotow. Antoine played much of his tournament at the same table with the "Bald Eagle" or "Le Moustachois" as Antoine nicknamed him.

At the TV table Antoine faces the living legend Doyle Brunson.

Unfortunately we lost our very gracious Kim. She lost the most classic race holding AK versus Negreanu's Jacks. An Ace fell on the flop, but a terrible Jack on the turn sealed the pot for Kid Poker.

BOOM! Saout doubles up early in Day3

Antoine Saout, the November Niner & Team Everest player, is continuing his irresistable run at the WSOPE after his cash in the Main Event of the PPT in Cannes.

Antoine struck early on Day 3 of WSOPE to take his stack to 170K with the average at 120K. 80 players remain and 36 make the money.

ALLEZ ANTOINE!

WSOPE London Day3: Antoine and Kim for the money

It's another day at the Empire Casino in Leicester Square, London. Day3 of the WSOPE Main Event has just begun with 92 players left. Less then half of them will get in the money.
We still have Antoine and Kim in, but both players had a tough Day2 and they are below average now. Kim is at Table 1, with little more than 10 big blings and some guys like Daniel Negreanu, Man Nguyen and Arnaud Mattern sitting next to her.
Antoine, with 90k, has a little more room to breathe, but he's still the shortest stack at Table 11, led by Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
But we know they can make it, right?

WSOPE Day2 Final Update: Antoine and Kim on the slippery slope

Antoine and Kim suffered the last level of the tournament today. Antoine at the featured table lost a very big pot against Doherty and was down to 42k before doubling up and getting back into the game. He has 90k now. Below average but still enough to fight.

Kim Wooka, card dead, lingered around her stack of 40k for the whole day but she lost a 20k pot in the very last hand. She has 22k now.

We'll be back for Day3. After all, it's better to get lucky tomorrow than today.

WSOPE London Midnight Update: Antoine and Kim still in the hunt

Antoine is at the TV table! He lost a couple of big pots and he's down to 115k but he's under the spotlights again. He's battling at the featured table with Jason Mercier and Steve Zolotow.
Kim can't lift off his 45k stack. She's waiting for good opportunities but she also need some help from the cards.
We'll update as soon as we have (good) news.

WSOPE London Day2: Antoine draws Timoshenko, Kim sits with Devilfish and Kabbaj

Day2 of WSOPE Main Event is about to begin. Our two Team Everest survivors were redrawn and they managed to avoid the "death tables" where chipleaders and poker superstars are bound to clash. They do not fear any player in the field, obviously, but they probably do not mind to face a little softer competition.

Antoine Saout is massive chipleader at his table with 144k. Only Brandon Adams (72k) and Peter Gould (70k) can seriously pose a threat to his stack. But Russian pro Yevgeniy Timoshenko (30k) is also dangerous.

Kim Wooka, with 42k in chips, has a tough table with John Kabbaj on her left (104k), Erik Friberg and Dave Ulliott on the right with 49k.

WSOPE Final Update Day1B: Antoine 2nd chipleader of the day!

With a perfect Day1B Antoine reaches the 2nd place in today's chip count with 144k, and confirms one more time that his seat at the WSOP Final Table in November is well deserved.

Antoine leads just behind Steve Zolotow with 160k. A total of 107 reached Day2 from today's flight. He will start Day2 in the top 10 places. Day1A action apparently has been wilder as it produced 8 out of the 10 highest chipcounts.

Kim Wooka is doing ok, with 42k: slightly below average but still in good shape to fight.

Tomorrow the game will resume at 5.30 pm London time.

Wsope Update 19.00: Antoine 71k, Kim 40k

Antoine climbs to new heights after a big pot where his opponent has to fold on the river a flopped top straight on a flop T79! Turn T and river 7, with the Antoine's All In bet on the river are too scary for the opponent who shows 8J.

Antoine sits at the most chatty and funny table of the tournament. Antonio Esfandiari can't stop proposing new challenges, trading bets on virtually everything he can imagine. But Antoine is not one of his customers tonight. Our November Niner is very concentrated!

Kim was moved to a different table. Her stack is still healthy at 40k. Now she has to face some more very experienced players such as Andre Akkari and Howard Lederer.

WSOPE Update 17.30: Kim and Antoine cruising

At the end of the third level of play Kim and Antoine are still in the tournament. Antoine is doing well with around 50k. Kim has basically the original stack, 30k.

Antonio Esfaniari is entertaining players and massage girls with side bets and math games, but Antoine manages to keep his concentration.

Antoine tests another WSOP Main Event

While waiting for the Big Deal, the Final Table of the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, our Team Everest Member Antoine Saout is in London for the European version of the match.
172 players have registered so far for Day 1B. This, combined with yesterday's total of 156, gives a total of 328 hopeful souls running for a total prizepool of 3,28M pounds. John Juanda, reigning champion of WSOPE announced the "shuffle up and deal" today.

Antoine will not have the chance to meet Phil Ivey at the table during this event. Ivey busted yesterday during Day1A. He has a world-famous player at his table anyway: the "Magician" Antonio Esfandiari.
Learn some tricks, Antoine!!

Wsope: spotlights on Kim!

Glamorous Kim Wooka gets the spotlights in London where she's playing Day 1B of the WSOPE Main Event. Our Team Everest member sits at a tough table with a mix of young players and experts such as Steve Zolotow.
We'll update the blog as the game goes on.

November Niner Antoine Saout will also play today, but he hasn't took his seat yet. The tournament is very long and he probably decided to skip the first rounds of play.

No luck for Cris

Terrible tournament for Cristiano. He's already out after just 2 levels. He lost his stack against his fellow Dario Minieri. Cris hits top set on the turn with his pocket kings on a board 58TK. But Dario is hiding a straight draw with 67 and he hits with the river 4. Cris could not see it coming and he pays off Dario's all-in reraise.

Too bad, too bad...

WSOPE London: it's Blanco's day!

Ready, set, go! WSOPE London Main Event just started and we have our Italian Champion, Cristiano Blanco, playing today.
Cristiano is on a hot run, with 3 final tables on his last 3 tournaments he played last week here in London at the Grosvenor Victoria.
"But this (WSOPE Main Event) is the real thing and I aim for the 4th Final Table in a row. I'm very happy and optimist".

Doyle Brunson himself started the day with the "shuffle up and deal". 144 players today.

Tomorrow we'll have our lovely Kim Wooka and our new Team Everest Member, the November Niner Antoine Saout, playing Day1B.

GO Cris!

Everest Poker Experience: Skydiving!!

Today, 20 Dutch Everest VIP players had the experience of a Life Time: Skydiving!

It was hard to keep the pokerface 'straight' at 9,000Ft. But they did it!

Well done guys! Find below the pictures.

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Live The Dream is back!

September 21st sees Everest Poker launch the second installment of their most popular promotion ever, Live The Dream. Live The Dream offers 10 real poker players the chance to become sponsored professionals for a year with the chosen 10 travelling the world, playing in the biggest events and a $100,000 sponsorship deal to their name.

Everest Poker does not sponsor big name players but instead invests in their own players allowing them to develop and become professionals on the world stage in their own right. Last year saw three of the Live The Dream (Voitto Rintala, Steven van Zadelhoff, & Kim Wooka) become established members of the world poker circuit and as a result they were promoted to full members of Team Everest. If you want to be next on that list head to www.everestpokerdream.com

As with last year the best 200 players will come for a live final at the Palais Auersberg in Vienna in January for a weekend of poker and the unveiling of the final 10.

The 10 Live The Dream winners will represent Everest Poker at the best tournaments in the world including the World Series of Poker Main Event as well as over $30,000 in traveling expenses. The package totals $100,000 for each player offering potential winnings of over $1 billion!

This year players can qualify in three different ways: (i) Via tournament and Sit ‘n Go leader boards: (ii) Cash game leader boards, and: (iii) Direct entry. This way we are giving all types of players a fair shot at getting to the finale. Qualifications are running weekly from September 21st.

At the final itself players will be measured on a total of 100 points: 55 points for poker skills, 25 points will be given by the Everest Poker player community and the last 20 will be allocated by our jury based on live interviews in Vienna.

Spanish Poker Tour Vilamoura - The Winner Is

After three days of intensive poker in the Spanish Poker Tour of Vilamoura, we have now the name of the winner of this step: it's the french player Nicolas Poloniato who wins 27,475€.

Congratulations Nico!

SPT Vilamoura - Final Table

The players who will sit at the Final Table of the SPT Vilamoura are:

Xavier Robert Ros 173.000 (Spain)
Oleksandr Aronov 36.500 (Ucraine)
João Ferreira 145.000 (Portugal)
Jose Mendez 115.000 (Portugal)
Joroen Bowmann 71.500 (Netherlands)
Rene Gisbert 50.000 (Netherlands)
Nicolas Poloniato 518.000 (France): CHIPLEADER
Joao Silva 135.500 (Portugal)
Stephan Fajg 306.500 (France)

Morpheo was out on the 22nd position, just before the bubble... Winners of other SPTs, such as David Colin and Victor Mendicuti, were out only an hour away from the final table... whilst Antoine Saout made it through until the 13th position. Congratulations!

We are very proud of our Team Everest and qualified players :) Hope to see you in Valencia next October 15th!

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 3

We are very close to the beginning of the tournament. Here you have the chip count of the players.

Table 1:

1. Antoine Saout - 32.000
2. Acácio Rocha - 90.500
3. Jens Schmeig - 108.000
4. Nicolas Poloniato - 187.000
5. João Ferreira - 93.000
6. Xavier Robert - 60.500
7. Oleksandr Aronov - 41.000
8. Victor Mendicuti - 50.000
9. Stephan Fajg - 89.500

Table 2:

1. José Mendes - 95.000
2. João Silva - 113.000
3. René Gisbert - 55.000
4. Joaquim Marques - 69.000
5. António Palma - 129.500
6. Ulf Krautwald - 120.000
7. Nuno Gomes - 40.000
8. Jeroen Bouwmann - 116.000
9. David Collin - 62.000

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

We have our bubble boy! Now, all the remaining players are sure to be in the money. Since then, two short stack players have decided to take their chance, but they hadn't succeed to double up.

There's 18 remaining players who will continue fighting to try to win this first place.

See you sunday afternoon for the last part of this Spanish Poker Tour in Vilamoura.

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

The 8th level has just finished and the players are enjoying their 15 minutes break.

At the end of the break, the blinds will be 400-800 with 100 of ante. The average is 27,589 and Antoine Saout is still de chip leader of the tournament with 65k.

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

Here you have the payouts structure

1 €27.475
2 €16.985
3 €10.990
4 €8.592
5 €6.494
6 €5.095
7 €4.296
8 €3.497
9 €2,498
10 €1.998
11 €1.199
12 €1.199
13 €1.199
14 €1.199
15 €1.199
16 €1.199
17 €1.199
18 €1.199
19 €1.199
20 €1.199

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

After the official chip count, here you have the tables of today

Name Chips Table Seat
Jo Max Krautwald 15.250 5 1
Juan Ramon Acebron 15.450 5 2
Fernando Martin 34.225 5 3
Michael Wirken 11.225 5 4
Acácio Rocha 18.075 5 5
Renato António Almeida 17.400 5 6
Oleksandr Aronov 26.000 5 7
Paulo Jorge Nunes Mendes 9.325 5 8
Alexandre Canu 5.975 5 9
Alfredo Melo Girelli 9.375 6 1
Mark Streur 48.575 6 2
Maximilian Sansom 30.950 6 3
Cristiano Araujo 14.175 6 4
Jorge Carvalho 25.600 6 5
Stephan Fajg 16.450 6 6
Rui Veira 15.150 6 7
Niels van Gent 15.200 6 8
Cedric Girard 16.250 7 1
Jose Carlos Serralheiro 14.700 7 2
Artur Göhring 35.975 7 3
Sander van Gent 10.175 7 4
Daniel Ferreira 14.100 7 5
Pedro Demyere 25.575 7 6
Sergio Bessa 25.750 7 7
Pablo Ubierna 24.250 7 8
David Colin 5.025 7 9
Yves Neyner 11.125 12 1
Carlos Oliveira 8.700 12 2
Xavier Dumont 9.000 12 3
Nicolas Paloniato 27.450 12 4
Thibaut Michael Durand 13.950 12 5
David hagenbach 17.975 12 6
Jacob van Wijk 10.875 12 7
Jeroen Bouwmann 6.750 12 8
Tuomas Antero Röppänen 4.900 12 9
Tiago Lopes 47.350 13 1
Henrica van Wordragen 12.850 13 2
João Pedro Coutinho 35.850 13 3
Tobias Wagner 9.025 13 4
Frederic Annen 31.400 13 5
Doce Diaz Julio 33.600 13 6
Nuno Gomes 21.075 13 7
Jose Mendes 18.800 13 8
NO NAME 19.875 13 9
David Metelo 9.000 14 1
Ismael Arribas 16.200 14 2
André Dias 15.375 14 3
Jorge de Almeida 13.575 14 4
Javier Martinez Gil 22.000 14 5
Antoine Saout 57.050 14 6
João Profpanik Silva 35.025 14 7
Paul Esau 26.425 14 8
Nuno Capucho 20.425 16 1
Maria Maceiras 40.150 16 2
Albert Gras 22.050 16 3
Claus Tegtmeier 28.100 16 4
Joaquim Marques 9.125 16 5
Petter Cedric 21.275 16 6
Ulf Krautwald 26.975 16 7
Juan Ramón Rodríguez 18.325 16 8
Victor Mendicuti 23.375 18 1
Antonio Palma 37.000 18 2
René Gisbertz 18.050 18 3
Francisco Rivero 20.300 18 4
Franck Calomec 8.925 18 5
Luis Ubienna 22.850 18 6
Diego Perez 15.175 18 7
Pedro Poças 27.400 18 8
Aristides Couto 9.550 19 1
André Moreira 14.075 19 2
Jens Schmieg 35.050 19 3
Margarida Marques 22.150 19 4
Xavier Robert Ros 17.950 19 5
Gurvan LUCAS 18.600 19 6
Lukas Peter Hoffmann 13.550 19 7
Luuk Wouda 28.675 19 8

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

Après le chip count officiel, voici le tirage des tables d'aujourd'hui.

Noms Chips Table Siege
Jo Max Krautwald 15.250 5 1
Juan Ramon Acebron 15.450 5 2
Fernando Martin 34.225 5 3
Michael Wirken 11.225 5 4
Acácio Rocha 18.075 5 5
Renato António Almeida 17.400 5 6
Oleksandr Aronov 26.000 5 7
Paulo Jorge Nunes Mendes 9.325 5 8
Alexandre Canu 5.975 5 9
Alfredo Melo Girelli 9.375 6 1
Mark Streur 48.575 6 2
Maximilian Sansom 30.950 6 3
Cristiano Araujo 14.175 6 4
Jorge Carvalho 25.600 6 5
Stephan Fajg 16.450 6 6
Rui Veira 15.150 6 7
Niels van Gent 15.200 6 8
Cedric Girard 16.250 7 1
Jose Carlos Serralheiro 14.700 7 2
Artur Göhring 35.975 7 3
Sander van Gent 10.175 7 4
Daniel Ferreira 14.100 7 5
Pedro Demyere 25.575 7 6
Sergio Bessa 25.750 7 7
Pablo Ubierna 24.250 7 8
David Colin 5.025 7 9
Yves Neyner 11.125 12 1
Carlos Oliveira 8.700 12 2
Xavier Dumont 9.000 12 3
Nicolas Paloniato 27.450 12 4
Thibaut Michael Durand 13.950 12 5
David hagenbach 17.975 12 6
Jacob van Wijk 10.875 12 7
Jeroen Bouwmann 6.750 12 8
Tuomas Antero Röppänen 4.900 12 9
Tiago Lopes 47.350 13 1
Henrica van Wordragen 12.850 13 2
João Pedro Coutinho 35.850 13 3
Tobias Wagner 9.025 13 4
Frederic Annen 31.400 13 5
Doce Diaz Julio 33.600 13 6
Nuno Gomes 21.075 13 7
Jose Mendes 18.800 13 8
NO NAME 19.875 13 9
David Metelo 9.000 14 1
Ismael Arribas 16.200 14 2
André Dias 15.375 14 3
Jorge de Almeida 13.575 14 4
Javier Martinez Gil 22.000 14 5
Antoine Saout 57.050 14 6
João Profpanik Silva 35.025 14 7
Paul Esau 26.425 14 8
Nuno Capucho 20.425 16 1
Maria Maceiras 40.150 16 2
Albert Gras 22.050 16 3
Claus Tegtmeier 28.100 16 4
Joaquim Marques 9.125 16 5
Petter Cedric 21.275 16 6
Ulf Krautwald 26.975 16 7
Juan Ramón Rodríguez 18.325 16 8
Victor Mendicuti 23.375 18 1
Antonio Palma 37.000 18 2
René Gisbertz 18.050 18 3
Francisco Rivero 20.300 18 4
Franck Calomec 8.925 18 5
Luis Ubienna 22.850 18 6
Diego Perez 15.175 18 7
Pedro Poças 27.400 18 8
Aristides Couto 9.550 19 1
André Moreira 14.075 19 2
Jens Schmieg 35.050 19 3
Margarida Marques 22.150 19 4
Xavier Robert Ros 17.950 19 5
Gurvan LUCAS 18.600 19 6
Lukas Peter Hoffmann 13.550 19 7
Luuk Wouda 28.675 19 8

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura - Day 2

The Day 2 will start shortly and there's still 78 players in the tournament.

Here you have the chip count of the Spanish Poker Tour of Vilamoura. Like always, our November Nine, Antoine Saout, is chip leader of the tournament.

CHIP COUNT

Nr. Name Chips
1 Antoine Saout 57.050
2 Mark Streur 48.575
3 Tiago Lopes 47.350
4 Maria Maceiras 40.150
5 Antonio Palma 37.000
6 Artur Göhring 35.975
7 João Pedro Coutinho Ferreira 35.850
8 Jens Schmieg 35.050
9 João Profpanik Silva 35.025
10 Fernando Martin 34.225
11 Doce Diaz Julio 33.600
12 Frederic Annen 31.400
13 Maximilian Sansom 30.950
14 Luuk Wouda 28.675
15 Claus Tegtmeier 28.100
16 Nicolas Paloniato 27.450
17 Pedro Poças 27.400
18 Ulf Krautwald 26.975
19 Paul Esau 26.425
20 Oleksandr Aronov 26.000
21 Sergio Bessa 25.750
22 Jorge Carvalho 25.600
23 Pedro Demyere 25.575
24 Pablo Ubierna 24.250
25 Victor Mendicuti 23.375
26 Luis Ubienna 22.850
27 Margarida Marques 22.150
28 Albert Gras 22.050
29 Javier Martinez Gil 22.000
30 Petter Cedric 21.275
31 Nuno Gomes 21.075
32 Nuno Capucho 20.425
33 Francisco Rivero 20.300
34 Jose Mendes 18.800
35 Gurvan LUCAS 18.600
36 Juan Ramón Rodríguez 18.325
37 Acácio Rocha 18.075
38 René Gisbertz 18.050
39 David hagenbach 17.975
40 Xavier Robert Ros 17.950
41 Renato António Almeida 17.400
42 Stephan Fajg 16.450
43 Cedric Girard 16.250
44 Ismael Arribas 16.200
45 Juan Ramon Acebron 15.450
46 André Dias 15.375
47 Jo Max Krautwald 15.250
48 Niels van Gent 15.200
49 Diego Perez 15.175
50 Rui Veira 15.150
51 Jose Carlos Serralheiro 14.700
52 Cristiano Araujo 14.175
53 Daniel Ferreira 14.100
54 André Moreira 14.075
55 Thibaut Michael Durand 13.950
56 Jorge de Almeida 13.575
57 Lukas Peter Hoffmann 13.550
58 Henrica Johanna van Wordragen 12.850
59 Michael Wirken 11.225
60 Yves Neyner 11.125
61 Jacob van Wijk 10.875
62 Sander van Gent 10.175
63 Aristides Couto 9.550
64 Alfredo Melo Girelli 9.375
65 Paulo Jorge Nunes Mendes 9.325
66 Joaquim Marques 9.125
67 Tobias Wagner 9.025
68 David Metelo 9.000
69 Xavier Dumont 9.000
70 Franck Calonnec 8.925
71 Carlos Oliveira 8.700
72 Jeroen Bouwmann 6.750
73 Alexandre Canu 5.975
74 David Colin 5.025
75 Tuomas Antero Röppänen 4.900

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura

It's done for today!

78 players are still in for trying to win this step of the Spanish Poker Tour.

Antoine Saout is still the chip leader of the tournament with 57,050 chips because of two big battles with Pablo Ubierna.

We will be back tomorrow with brand news of the Everest Poker qualified players.

Spanish Poker Tour - Vilamoura

Good evening,

108 players are registered for the Spanish Poker Tour in Vilamoura, organised by Everest Poker.

The tournament director, Gerard Serra has just announced the traditional Shuffle Up and Deal. The players will play during three days with a very good structure: 15,000 chips and 1 hours levels.

Tonight, the first day will finish at 3:30 PM after 5 hours of intensive poker. Tomorrow, the tournament will continue at 3:00 PM and will finish when we will have the last 9 players of the final table.

Here you have the tournament structure;
* Begining stack: 15 000 chips
* Levels 60 minutes
* Buy-in €1000 + €100

Level Ante SB BB
1 25 50
2 50 100
3 75 150
4 100 200
5 150 300
6 25 150 300
7 50 200 400
8 75 300 600
9 100 400 800
10 100 500 1 000
11 100 600 1 200
12 200 800 1 600
13 200 1 000 2 000
14 300 1 200 2 400
15 300 1 500 3 000
16 400 2 000 4 000
17 500 2 500 5 000
18 500 3 000 6 000
19 1 000 4 000 8 000
20 1 000 5 000 10 000
21 1000 6 000 12 000
22 2 000 8 000 16 000
23 2 000 10 000 20 000
24 3 000 12 000 24 000
25 3 000 15 000 30 000
26 4 000 20 000 40 000
27 5 000 25 000 50 000

EPT Barcelona - Maria Maceiras OUT

Our two last Everest Poker Players, have been eliminated from the EPT of Barcelona.

This time it's Maria Maceiras to take her chance going all in with K-3 and she's called by 8-8 but there will be no miracle.

See you next week for the coverage of the Spanish Poker Tour of Vilamoura.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

Cristiano Blanco has just been eliminated of the EPT of Barcelona organized by PokerStars.com.

After a preflop raise, Cristiano decides to go allin in a Ad 2h 2s flop... his opponent doesn't think too much before paying with AQ. There will be no miracle and our italian champion bust in a 95th place.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

We are at the 13th level with 1,200-2,400 blinds and 200 of antes.

107 players are still in and our two Everest Poker players too. May continue trying to double up but she didn't succeed.

A short stack raises at 7,000 and Maria Maceiras goes all'in for 34,300 chips... everybody folds and the raiser too.

Our spanish poker player has now 45,000 chips and his teamate, Cristiano Blanco has 65,000.

Coverage Team Everest EPT de Barcelona - Day 2

We are back from the 15 minutes break. Our 2 Everest Poker players, Maria Maceiras and Cristiano Blanco continue fighting to survive in this EPT of Barcelona, organized by PokerStars.com.

With 1,000-2,000 blinds, 200 antes and an average at 105,661, our two players have 31,000 and 68,500 chips.

We hope that the support of Maria's brother will help her to double up quickly.

Coverage Team Everest EPT de Barcelona - Day 2

In 2 hours, almost 100 players have been eliminated of this EPT.

A player at the cut off decides to make a 4,200 raise. May decides to make all in with A7, dominated by the A10 of the opponent, who decides to call the 12,100 chips.

May touched a very good board (7 K K K 5) and doubles up at 32,600 chips.

Come on!

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team - Day 2

In this begining of the day, Maria Maceiras has decided to be very active to make grow quickly her short stack.

She's now in the same table than Surinder Sunar and she will be opposed to him few minutes later the begining of the day.

With 600-1200 blinds, 100 de ante, "May" decides to raise at 3,100 chips and Surinder Sunar calls from the button.

Flop: Ac Ts 9c
Both players check.

Turn: 4s
Maria Maceiras checks again, Surinder bets 3,300 et quickly, Maria goes all in at 16,600.
Surinder folds showing JJ face up.

Few minutes later, Maria raises again at 3,100 and everybody fold. The button thinks and decides to make a 8,000 reraise. After a long reflexion, Maria folds her hand.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

Wellcome everybody to the coverage of the Everest Poker Team at the EPT of Barcelona, organized by PokerStars.com.

Our two ambassadors, Maria Maceiras and Cristiano Blanco, will fight agains 240 other players who survived to this first day.

Stay tuned to have all the information about their tournament.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

This is the end of the Day 1B. Two Everest Poker Players are still in the tournament. They will come tomorrow to try to win the 850,000€ of the first place.

Cristiano Blanco has doubled up at the end of the day with a confrontation KK Vs AK. He's now at 79,700 chips.

Maria Maceiras, our spanish poker player has lost a lot of chips at the end of the day and has now 28,300 chips.

See you tomorrow for the coverage of the Everest Poker Team at the EPT of Barcelona organised by PokerStars.com.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

It's 10:14PM and we are at the level 8 of this EPT of Barcelona, organised by PokerStars.com.

The blinds are at 400-800 with 75 ante. Maria Maceiras (53,200)and Cristiano Blanco (22,000) are still in the tournament.

Here you have the payout structure. 3 832 000 € will be redistributed to 72 joueurs (12,5% payouts):

1er/ 850,000 €
2e/ 530,000 €
3e/ 300,000 €
4e/ 250,000 €
5e/ 200,000 €
6e/ 160,000 €
7e/ 120,000 €
8e/ 80,000 €
9e-10e/ 50,000 €
11e-12e / 40,000 €
13e-14e/ 35,000 €
15e-16e/ 30,000 €
17e-24e/ 26,000 €
25e-32e/ 23,000 €
33e-40e/ 20,000 €
41e-48e/ 18,000 €
49e-56e/ 16,000 €
57e-64e/ 14,000 €
65e-72e/ 12,000 €

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

After the elimination of Antoine Saout, now it's Thibaut Durand who just busted of the EPT Barcelona, organised by PokerStars.com.

He has just 10,000 chips, he's on the BB and everybody folded before the SB. This one decided to raise at 600 chips. Thibaut makes a 2,500 reraise and his opponent goes all in. Thibaut decides to pay with AQ and dominates his opponent who has AJ.

But he will hit his J and eliminates Thibaut Durand.

During this time, Maria Maceiras continues playing in the same table than Remy Biechel with 41,000 chips.

At this time Cristiano Blanco his still in with 20,000 chips. He's actually in the dinner break.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

We are back from the 15 minutes break with some news of our Everest Poker Players.

Antoine Saout 17,000 chips
Antoine is card dead since a lot of hours. He decides to try some mooves but he has lost some chips. He has now Patrick Bruel on his table.

Maria Maceiras 40,000 chips
Maria Maceiras has had the patience to wait for a good spot and has now 40,000 chips. She's on the same table than the french profesional player, Remy Biechel.

Cristiano Blanco 46,000 chips
After having been card pendant during two hours, Cristiano has now 46,000 chips with a bluff with Dario Minieri... he has won a 15,000 pot.

Thibaut Durand 19,000 chips
Like Antoine Saout, Thibaut decided to try some mooves but for the moment, he didn't find any flop and lost some chips.

Coverage Equipo Everest al EPT de Barcelona

The players have returned to the tournament zone after a 15 minutes break. Here you have some news of our Everest Poker Players.

Thibaut Durand 23,000 chips
With blinds at 75-150, there's a limper and a player raises at 600. He's paid by a player and Thibaut decides to pays from the BB.

Flop: K 6 6.
Thibaut checks, the opponent bets 1,500 and another opponent folds. Thibaut makes a check raise at 3,500. The opponent calls.

Turn: 8.
Thibaut bets 7,000 and after a long reflexion, his opponent decides to fold.

Thibaut shows his bluff J-9!

Maria Maceiras 25,000 chips
Our spanish player hasn't had a lot of hands in this begining of tournament.

Maria makes a 400 raise in UTG with pocket AA. Only the blinds decides to call.

Flop: 5s - 6h - 8h.
The SB bets 700, the BB fold and Maria pays in pot control.

Turn: 7s.
It is a bad turn because the straight and flush draw. The opponent bets 2,000 and Maria decides to fold her pocket AA.

Cristiano Blanco 33,000 chips
After this first pause, we have spoke with Cristiano and he told us that he hasn't had any hand. We will come back later.

Antoine Saout 56,000 chips
Our november nine hasn't had any bog confrontation after the hand explained before.

Coverage EPT Barcelona - Everest Poker Team

The tournament director, Thomas Kremser has just announced the famous Shuffle Up and deal.

The players start the tournament with 30,000 chips and the first level of blinds is 50/100.

Few minutes later of the begining of the tournament, Antoine is playing a very big pot.

The UTG player makes a limp and the UTG+1 too. Antoine Saout in position decides to bet 500 and the UTG player decides to reraise at 2000. The UTG+1 player folds and Antoine decides to pay.

Flop: Qd 10c 5d
The UTG player bets 1,500 and Antoine reraises him at 4,000.

The turn is a 2h that changes nothing.

The UTG player checks and Antoine decides to bet 8,000. His opponent pays.

The river is a Kc.
The UTG player checks again and Antoine that feels that his opponent has pocket aces, decides to make a 9,000 value bet.

After a short reflexion, the UTG player pays and Antoine shows 2 pairs Qs 10c and is very near to double up his stack!

His opponent has AA!

Welcome to the EPT Barcelona Coverage

Wellcome everybody to the live coverage of the EPT Barcelona, organised by PokerStars.com.

This time we will follow the tournament of our four Everest Poker Players: Antoine Saout, Maria Maceiras, Cristiano Blanco et Thibaut Durand.

Battle of the chip leaders – Antoine is out…

Antoine raises 26k preflop. Michael Tureniec call – he’s on the button
Flop: King (s), five (s), Jack (d)
Antoine checks,
Tureniec bet 44k
Antoine call
Turn: 10 (c )
Antoine checks,
Michael bet 75k,
Antoine raises 200k quickly paid by the Swedish player
River : 2 (s)
Antoine bet 335k and Michael goes all in (over 1 million)
Antoine thinks and thinks… then pays.
Tureniec shows J(s), 10 (s)
Antoine mucks (we still don’t know) what Antoine had and it might stay a mystery for all.
Tureniec is now the massive chip leader with over 2.8 millions in chips.

Antoine finishes at the 30th position and wons 17,400€

Antoine is now flying to Barcelona for his 1st EPT with the Everest Poker Color.
Very GG Antoine! GL in Barcelona

More details very soon

PPT Cannes - Day 4

We are now at level 17 as we close in on the 1 million euro first prize.

Blinds are at 3,000-6,000 with ante at 500. Average stack is at 306,470.

There are only 49 players left and our November Niner, Antoine Saout, continues to grow his chipstack by totally dominating his table.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 4 &, yes, Antoine leads

Welcome everybody for this fourth day of coverage of the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour. Bruno Launais (3rd) cashed in EPT Deauville after qualifying with Everest Poker.

However, Antoine Saout is one more time, the absolute chipleader of this tournament.

The 52 players that will play today are sure to win 9,600€.

Here you have the official chipcount:

1 SAOUT ANTOINE 1328000
2 TURENIEC MICHAEL 1199500
3 LAUNAIS BRUNO ALEXAND 1122500
4 RAGOT NICOLAS 717500
5 HELPPI JUHA 702000
6 LABUSSIERE JULIEN LAUREN 603500
7 KELOPURO SAMI KAROLUS 539500
8 PUUMALAINEN MIIKA TAPANI 525800
9 PANTLING WESLEY KENEYH ALAN 518500
10 ROSSI CEDRIC 461000

Antoine STILL chip leader & in the money at PPT Cannes

Team Everest's WSOP Final Table player, Antoine Saout, had an incredible 3rd day and is still the chip leader at the PPT Finale in Cannes now that the bubble is broken.

He has 1,328,000 chips with the average at 294,000 - the final 52 will start Day 4 later today (Friday 4th September).

Antoine has proved to the world that his final table at the WSOP Main Event was not a fluke as he is in the money in his first major tournament since & has been the chip leader throughout - already a huge a achievement!

Everest Poker salutes you!

Main Event PPT Day 3

We are still at level 16 with 55 players still in. Day 3 will only end when the 53rd player is eliminated.

The average is at 284,000 and Antoine is still at the top of the leaderboard with his 950,000 chips.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

We are at level 16 of the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event. 58 players are still in.

The blinds are at 2,500-5,000 and ante 500.

The average is at 256,229 and Antoine Saout is still at the top of the leaderboard with 860,000 chips.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

Davidi Kitai had no luck in the last part of his tournament. He first lose KK vs. AK... his opponent finding the only out at the river (because there is a color on the board).

So the Belgian player decides to go all in at 40,000 with QQ and Antoine calls with 55.

The board is:
Kc 10d As

The turn is a 5 which brings Antoine his set and the river will not help the Belgian player eliminated from the tournament.

64 players are still in and Antoine continues to be in the top spots of the leaderboard with more than 900,000 chips.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

We are at level 15 with blinds at 2,000-4,000 and antes at 500.

Antoine raises in UTG+1 position at 10,800 chips and one player pays.

Gabriel Nassif.

Flop: 8c As 7h
Antoine bets 12,000 and Gabriel Nassif call.

Turn: Ks
Antoine bets 28,000 and his opponent calls.

River: Kd
Both players check.

With this river, Antoine looses this hand with his double pair against his opponent's A10.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

The dinner break is over.

76 players are still in and Antoine Saout is therewith 715,000 chips. The average is at 205,657.

Stay tuned for more information.

Main Event PPT Day 3 - Voitto Rintala OUT but Antoine STILL leads

Voitto Rintala OUT
The button decides to raise at 7,000 and Voitto goes all in with 50,000 chips.

The opponent calls with AQ beating Voitto's A9 .

The board does not help our Team Everest Player who has now busted at the 82nd place - pay outs start at 52nd.

Teammate & WSOP November Niner, Antoine Saout, however, is now at 680K! Go Antoine!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

Antoine again wins a big pot. He raises UTG+2 and he's re-raised by the BB with 24,600. Antoine calls.

Flop: 6 5 8h.
Both players check.

Turn: Jh that opens a flush draw.
Check from the BB and Antoine goes all in. He's opponent calls with his set of jacks.
Antoine shows Qh9h.

River: 10d
Antoine hits the 10 that gives him the straight and 680,000 chips!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

After some small pots, Antoine is now at 550,000 chips... the same amount he had when we started day 3.

Voitto Rintala is in a difficult position. He is card dead and each time he tries to make a move, the opponents re-raise him.

He now has 60,000 chips.

We are in round 14, with blinds at 1,500-3,000 and 300 ante.

The average is now at 181,744 with 86 players are still in.

The star of the day is Michael Tureniec who started the day in third position with 479,100 chips, and has now more than a million with his incredible rush.

Check out his stack!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

Antoine Saout has just won a nice pot. He decides to pay a 6,000 raise since he is Big Blind.

Flop: 2d-8d-4s.
Both players check.

Turn: Js
Antoine check, and his opponent bets 8,000. Antoine re-raises at 19,000 and his opponent calls.

River: 6c
Antoine bets 45,000 chips and after a while, he decides to pay.

Antoine shows Jd-6d. With a straight draw, he finishes with double pair beating his opponent's hand.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

Here you have an updated chipcount of our Everest Poker Players, still in the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour.

96 players are still in and 52 will be paid.

Round 13.
Blinds 1,200 - 2,400
Ante 300
Average: 162,812 chips.

- Voitto Rintala: 90,000 chips.
- Antoine Saout: 420,000 chips.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3 - Voitto doubles up

In the first round of this day 3, Voitto Rintala, our Everest Poker Player doubles up!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

In this hand, Antoine Saout decides to raise in UTG+2 and a player calls.

Flop: Qd 4d 9c.
Both players check.

Turn: Kc.
Antoine check and his opponent bets 6,700. Antoine pays.

River: 2d
Antoine bets 14,500 and his opponent decides to call.

Antoine shows Ad-8d for a flush and his opponent mucks.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 3

The table of Antoine is composed by international players like David Kitai, David Williams and Jani Sointula.

The first hand is between Antoine, David Kitai and Jani Sointula.

Antoine pays a 6,000 raise and three players see the flop.

Flop: 7d 8s 7h.
Kitai bets 7,500, Tonio raises him at 18,500 and Jani Sointula folds. David Kitai pays.

Turn: 2d.
David Kitai checks and Antoine goes all'in. David Kitai insta call 75,200 chips with his set of 7 (6c-7c) and dominates de pair of 6 of Antoine who looses a big pot!

Main Event PPT - Day 3 - Antoine increases chip lead!

We are in the Day 3 of the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour. 125 players are still in and our November Niner, Antoine Saout, is still the chipleader of the tournament with 535,000 chips after 39 hours of playing!!!

Fellow Team Everest player, Voitto Rintala, is still there with 81,200 chips (75th place).

The average is 125,040 and the blinds will start at 1000-2000, with 200 antes.

Stay tuned for all the information of this day 3 of the Partouche Poker Tour.

Antoine at 340K: Average 100K at the end of Day 2 PPT Finale, Cannes

The newest member of Team Everest, Antoine Saout (FR), is tearing it up in Cannes with a stack over 3 times the average after the end of Day 2.

His calmness is astonishing but then again that's how he made it to the November Nine of this year's WSOP Main Event. Go Antoine!

We are in the level 11, with blinds at 800-1600, and antes at 200.

The average is 103,509.

Everest Poker Players chip count:

- Antoine Saout: 340,000 chips.
- Voitto: 103,000 chips.

The tournament director has just annouced that the day will finish at the end of the level, in 40 minutes.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 2

Here you have fresh news about our Everest Poker players, still in the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour.

Voitto Rintala
Our pro player decides to pay a 4,200 raise (blinds 600-1,200, ante 100).

Flop: Ah 9s 7h.
His opponent bets 5,600 and Voitto calls.

Turn: 10c.
The player bets again 13,500 and after a short reflexion, Voitto says "I'm all'in"!

The other player finish folding his hand and Voitto ups at 96,000 chips, with an average at 93,592.

GG Voitto!

Antoine Saout
Our french champion has now above 280,000 chips after having been reraised all'in (3 times) before a standard raise of him.

Thibaut Durand
We have spoke with Thibaut during his break of the short handed. He declares that he was running good.

The players have started the tournament with 8,000 and our frenchies has actually 12,000.

With blinds at 100-200, he decides to raise at 500 and he's paid by one player.

Flop: 2 Q 5 rainbow.
Both players check.

Turn: 7.
His opponent check call a 700 bet.

River: x.
His opponent check call again a 1,300 bet.

Thibaut Durand wins de pot with a set of 7 against the pair of 8 of his opponent.

Antoine Saout: Walking on Water

Antoine has just made another extraordinary play at the table.

The UTG player bet 3,200 and Antoine raised him 11,000 from the button. The UTG pays.

Flop: 6d Kd 10d. The UTG decides to open shove at 42,000.

After a moment, Antoine pays with Ac Ad! His opponent shows QJ off suited for an open handed straight draw.

The UTG is draw dead when the 5d comes on the turn. Antoine is now up to 290,000 in chips!

Chip leader, Antoine, interviewed at the PPT (in French): http://bit.ly/YRMZE

During this time, Voitto has 62,000... a little less than the 80,000 of average. Come on Voitto... double up!!!

Antoine Saout Making the Right Moves

Another great hand from Antoine. Our November Nine decided to pay a 3,600 raise from the butto position.

Flop: 9h Qs 8s

Both players check

Turn: 6s. The other player checks again and Antoine bets 2,500. The player calls.

River: 5h. The other player decides to bet 6,300 and Antoine decides to reraise at 25,000.

The opponent (who has 45,300 behind), decides to fold.

Antoine wins the pot showing an 8 of hearts!

GG Tonio!!

Team Everest Chip Count:

- Antoine Saout: 220,000 chips
- Voitto Rintala: 72,500 chips
Blinds: 500-1000, 100 ante.
Average: 73,037 chips.
214 players still in / 521 players.

Thibaut Durand is now participating in the 600 Short Handed. We will give you an update later on his progress.

Stay Tuned!

Antoine Saout Chip Leader as PPT Day 2 Starts

WSOP November Niner & Team Everest player, Antoine Saout leads the PPT in Cannes as day 2 begins. Bonne Chance Antoine!

Pay Out Structure for Main Event:

1) 1,000,000€
2) 606,700€
3) 357,200€
4) 262,400€
5) 211,800€
6) 155,800€
7) 133,600€
8) 118,700€
9) 102,300€
10) 78,540€
11 & 12) 52,500€
13 & 14) 39,000€
15 to 18) 31,400€
19 to 27) 23,200€
28 to 36) 17,400€
37 to 45) 13,500€
46 to 52) 9,600€

*Note: The final table of the Main Event will be played 21 November 2009.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 2

Here are the updated chip counts of our Team Everest players in the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour.

Blinds: 400-800, ante 75
Average: 62,500
250 players still in (from 521)

Antoine Saout: 220,000 chips.
Voitto Rintala: 47,500.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 2

After having lost some small pots from the beginning of the day, Antoine busts another opponent.

Our November Nine raised at 2,500 in UTG+2 position. His opponent decided to reraise at 6,000 and Antoine decided to pay.

Flop: 3c 2h 4c

Tonio bets at 6,000 and his opponent decides to pay.

Turn: 9h

Tonio bets again 14,000 and after a long reflection, his opponent goes all in for 12,000 more. Antoine decides to pays and shows double pair with 2s-3s. His opponent has pocket K and the river doesn't save him.

Antoine continues on fire.

GG Tonio!!!!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 2

The Day 2 has just started and Voitto Rintala has already busted an opponent!

With blinds at 400-800 and ante of 75, his opponent raised in middle position. After some thought, Voitto reraised and the other player went all in (19,075 chips).

Voitto shows A-A red and the other player As - Kc.

A scary flop of 10s 8s 7s gave a flush draw to his opponent!

But the turn (8c) and the river (4h) got Voitto the pot and brought him up to 82,000 chips!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 2

Day 2 of the Partouche Poker Tour is just about to begin. We will start today with 2 remaining Everest Poker Players, Voitto Rintala and Antoine Saout after Thibaut busted late at the end of Day 1.

Voitto Rintala is above average with 62,700 chips. He will start the day at table 30 seat 3 in 86th position.

Antoine Saout has finished the first day as the chip leader of the tournament. With his 224,850 chips, he will start the day at table 33 seat 3.

Stay tuned for an extended coverage of Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes.

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 1B

Thibaut Durand is involved in a blind battle.

A French player in SB decides to raise 900 chips. The BB decides to re-raise at 3,000 chips. Thibaut decides to re-raise again at 12,000 that allows him to win this pot with AK.

Thibaut has now 35,000 chips with an average of 34,473.

In the next hand, Thibaut decides to call a 800 raise from the cutoff player who is then called 3 more times.

Flop: 7d - 5d - 4c. All the players check.

Turn: 4d. After a check, the initial raiser decides to bet 2,500 chips. After a long reflection, the player decides to re-raise at 6,200 chips.

Thibaut folds A3d with a max flush. But, it was the right move because he's opponent has a pocket 4 giving him 4 of a kind! Good fold Thibaut!!!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 1B

Antoine Saout, at the cutoff, decided to raise 900 (level 150-300). The player at the button decide to re-raise at 2,400 chips. The blinds fold their hands and Antoine decides to pay.

Flop: 10c - Ad - 3h. Antoine checks, and his opponent bets 3,700. Antoine pays.

Turn: Qh. Both players check.

River: As. Antoine bets 7,000 and his opponent finally decides to pay. He mucks when Antoine shows a set of Aces.

Antoine has actually 63,000 chips with an average of 34,323!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 1B

Another big move for Antoine!

Our November Nine is in BB with blinds at 50-100. A player raises at 450 and 3 other players pay. Antoine decides to protect his hand raising at 2100! 2 players call.

Flop: K-8-5 rainbow. Antoine bets 5300 chips and one player pays.

Turn: x. Antoine moves all in and his opponent decides to fold.

This has brought Antoine to 57,000 chips!

Voitto has just lost some chips with a Full Vs Full and has 38,700 chips left. Finally, Thibaut has 33,000 chips.

May the force be with you guys!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 1B

The players have just returned from the break time and already Antoine has decided to make a big move.

With the blinds at 50-100, our November Nine decides to raise 250 chips from the button.

Flop: 2h - 2s - 4h, the player bets 700 and Antoine raises at 1500. After some thought, the player decides to reraise at 5,500 chips. Antoine calls.

Turn: Kh. The player decides to make a big bet at 11,000 and Antoine calls!

River: 10c. The player finally checks and Antoine moves all in for 11,400 chips.

The opponent finally folds and Antoine wins a big pot of 47,000 chips!

GO Tonio!!

Thibaut is now above 25,000 chips and Voitto Rintala is at 42,500!

Main Event PPT Cannes - Day 1B

We've started the tournament with some action. Thibaut Durand raised at 150 and is called by Liya Gerasimova and the French player Nicolas Levy. Another player decides to reraise at 600 chips and everybody calls.

Flop: 3-8-7 rainbow. Everybody checks.

Turn: 3 of clubs. Thibaut bets 750. Liya Gerasimova folds and Nicolas Levy reraise at 2000 chips. The last players folds and Thibaut decides to pay.

River: 7. Thibaut checks and Nicolas Levy decides to bet 5200. After a long reflection, Thibaut decides to pay and mucks when Nicolas Levy shows pocket 8 that gives him a full!

Thibaut continues to play and wins some pots that bring him back 24,000 chips.

At the same time Voitto has won a pot with a flush max on the river and Antoine continues with 30,000 chips.

Stay tuned!

Partouche Poker Tour - Cannes

Today we will be covering the debut of our newest Team Everest player Antoine Saout as he plays his first official tournament in Everest Poker colors. Saout, one of the November Nine heading to Las Vegas for the final table of the World Series of Poker, will be joined by Team Everest's resident rockstar Voitto Rintala and French sponsored player Thibaut Durand at the Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes.

Stay tuned for updates.

The players will start the tournament with 30,000 chips, with 90 minutes levels and blinds at 25-50.

Cristiano Cleans Up in Slovenia

Team Everest's Cristiano Blanco took Slovenia by storm last week by not only winning the shootout event but also making the final table in the pot limit and coming 13th in the Main Event at the Perla Casino...& he only played in those 3 tournaments!

Cris ranked in 2nd place over the week which saw over 1,000 players compete.