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.