EPT Monte Carlo 2K Side Event - Fabrice Soulier Crowned Winner of the tourney

Fabrice Soulier has just been crowned winner of the € 2,000 Side Event at the EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo!

Fabsoul has demonstrated throughout these two days an outstanding knowledge of the game and much patience. These attributes have allowed him to win against his strong opponents.

After having eliminated the Spaniard Juan Maceiras -chip leader earlier in the final table - our Team Everest player went heads-up with the English player Jeffrey Duval.

After just half an hour, his opponent pushes all in with Ace High, Fabrice discovers KK and calls the all in of his opponent.

The board shows J 6 6 4 6.

Therefore, it's with a full house that Fabrice Soulier adds a new title to his outstanding track record!

Update: 00h00

Only 3 players remain at the Final Table.

Fabrice Soulier is still handling himself well at the final table of the € 2,000 Side Event Grand Final in Monaco.

There are only three players remaining and our Team Everest player has a stack of 630,000 chips against the 680,000 of the chipleader.

Update: 22H30

Fabrice Soulier is chipleader of the final table!

A quick update to let you know that Fabrice Soulier has managed to go from a below average stack to chipleader with a stack of 880,000 chips! He then lost 200,000 which made his stack decrease to 680,000 chips. But he's still the final table chip leader!

Update: 18h00

Only 6 players remaining at the Final Table.

Fabrice Soulier is short stacked with 120,000 chips. But he's still in and has a good image at the table.

Stay tuned to know if Fabrice will succeed in destablizing the chipleader at his table.

Update: 17h00

Fabrice Soulier has made it to the Final Table.

There are 9 players remaining in the tournament out of 153 entrants and the blinds are at 1,500/3,000 with and Ante of 300.

Fabsoul came back to a stack of 150,000 chips but he’s still below the average of 204,000.

Fabrice Soulier: 150,000 chips

Update: 16h00

Fabrice Soulier is In The Money!

It’s day 2 of the € 2,000 Side Event, we are at Level 15 with blinds at 1,200/2,400 and 300 Ante.

Of the 153 entrants of this tourney, there are only 12 players remaining!

Our excellent Team Everest player, Fabrice Soulier, has done a superb job today, as he’s already In The Money!!!

He has a stack of 44,000 chips with an average of 153,000. We’ll follow him on his way to the Final Table.

The prizepool is €300,700 for 16 seats paid:

1. 97,000
2. 54,000
3. 33,000
4. 24,000
5. 19,000
6. 15,000
7. 12,000
8. 9,000
9. 5,600
10. 5,600
11. 5,000
12. 5,000
13. 4,400
14. 4,400
15. 3,850
16. 3,850

Fabrice Soulier : 44,000 chips
(seat in front of the chipleader)

EPT Monte Carlo €2,000 Side Event

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the EPT Monte Carlo High Roller by PokerStars.

113 players have started the tournement with a buy in of €25,500. The starting stack is 50,000 chips with levels of one hour.

The field is extremely high rated as most of the greatest poker players in the world participate in this tournament, with its prize pool of €2,825,000.

Stay tuned to follow our Everest Poker Team players:
-Antoine Saout
-Steven Van Zadelhoff

Update 22H30

Antoine Saout is out of the tournament at the doors of the Final Table.

We are at Level 19, blinds are at 6,000/12,000 with the ante of 1,000 and there are only 11 players remaining.

Antoine Saout is short with a stack of 246,000.

Antoine bets 28,000 preflop with J T and the opponent just to his left calls.

Flop is: 9 8 9

Our November Nine opens at 34,000 and his opponent pushes all-in - paid by Antoine with a possibility of a straight draw in both ends. His opponent shows 8 7.

Neither the turn nor the river will help our Player of Team Everest who loses 190,000 chips.

Antoine Saout pushes all-in with his last 56,000 chips with a pair of 6's. The same player shows a pair of J's.

The board will not help our November Nine who will go out of the tournament just before the final table.

Congratulations to Antoine for his performance at the EPT Grand Finale Monte Carlo.

Update: 18H00

Dinner Break

Level 16 has just ended and there are only two tables and 15 players remaining in this event.

Players enjoy a 90 minute break for dinner and rest after six hours of play.

Our Team Everest player Antoine Saout is still racing with a stack of 388,000 chips.
The level of the raise is so high that our November Nine had lost 120,000 in chips by playing only 'little pots' against his opponents and by the levels of blinds.

We look forward to seeing you in 90 minutes for the rest of this tournament with a prize pool of €2,825,000.

Antoine Saout: 388,000 chips

Update: 16H30

Antoine Saout's chipcount is 455,000 chips.

We're at level 15 with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and an Ante of 500.

There are 21 players remaining with an average of 269,047 chips and still 30 minutes to play in level 15.

Antoine Saout is above the average with a stack of 455,000 chips.

Update: 14H30

15 min Break - Only 4 tables remaining

We are at the end of Level 13, the blinds are at 1,500/3,000 with an ante of 300. There are 31 players remaining with an average of 182,258 chips.

The atmosphere has completely changed, there are only four tables remaining, the field is tough and the players are ready to do everything to reach the final table on which €2,825,000 is at stake.

Each hand is a decisive blow, all players know they might have to play their tournaments before even seeing the flop. The game is aggressive and the few remaining players are all excellent. To summarize: at this stage of the tourney there are only sharks at the tables!

Antoine Saout lost a big game and 200,000 chips.

Our last representative of Team Everest is big blind. The player on the button opens at 7,200. Antoine does not let him take a lead and raises to 20,100. His opponent wants to throw off Antoine's game and moves all-in for 118,700 chips.

Antoine thinks, looks at his opponent, analysis, thinks back to the shots he played before... and finally pays!

His opponent shows 55 and Antoine shows 99s.

The board is:
7s 2s J 4s 5s

So a Flush for Antoine against a trips for his opponent!

Antoine Saout now has 320,000 chips!

Update: 13H30

We are at the end of level 12 when Antoine discovers Q T when he's in the cut off position.

The Big Blind is at 2,400 and Antoine decides to call. The Small Blind folds.

The Flop is T 9 2.

A player opens with 8,000 and Antoine raises to 20,000 - checked by his opponent.

The turn is a K and both players check.

The river is a T - which means a trips for Antoine - and both players check.

Antoine shows Q T and his opponent shows J T.

Antoine Saout has increased his stack to 300,000 chips and it's just the begining!

Update 12H20

Hello and welcome to the coverage of Day 2 of the High Roller Tournament of the EPT Monte Carlo. There are 41 players remaining of the 113 entrants in this €25,500 buy in tournament.

We're at Level 12 with blinds of 1,200/2,400 and an Ante of 300.

The average is 137,804 chips.

Antoine Saout is still in good position with a stack of 224,600 and has started to play a few rounds to try to stand again in the top 5.

Antoine Saout: 224,600 chips

Update: 2h32

End of the first day of the High Roller.

Antoine Saout, finished the day with a stack of 224,600 chips!

Our November Nine will be up tomorrow at 12H00 for the second day of the High Roller. There are 41 players remaining and only 8 seats on the Final Table. We therefore give you an appointment tomorrow for more coverage of the High Roller Final of the EPT Monte Carlo.

Update: 1H10

We are at the end of Level 10 and there is one more level left to play. Players enjoy a 10 minute break before the blinds go up to 1,000/2,000 with a 200 Ante.

There are 51 players remaining with an average of 110,784 chips.

Our November Nine is still above the average with a stack of 200,000 chips. Antoine Saout won and lost several pots during these last two levels but still remained on average at 200,000 in chips.

The next level looks exciting. We will keep you informed of the results of the High Roller Side Event.

Update: 11H30

Steven Van Zadelhoff is out of the High Roller.

Steven is utg + 6 when a player in a position Utg + 4 push all in for 19,000 with A 2. Our player from Team Everest discovers a pair of 9's and then decides to push all in for his last 14,000 chips.
Unfortunately, A's will came on the flop and Steven finds his way out of the High Roller tournament.

You will be able to follow our excellent Team Everest player at the WPT Paris beginning the 8th of May.

Update: 10H00

10 minute Break

This is the end of level 8, the blinds are at 500/1,000 with a 100 ante.
There are 68 players remaining and they enjoy a 10 minute break, just the time needed to create a new TV table.

Steven Van Zadelhoff just lost a 35,000 pot with As Ks against the 9s of his opponent.

Our Team Everest player found himself short stacked with 18,000 chips. No doubt that with only 18 BB Steven will do anything to come back.

Update: 8H20

After 8 hours of play in this high roller event, there are 70 players remaining and they take advantage of a 90 min dinner break.

The average stack is now 80,714 chips.

Antoine Saout continues to master the table and has a stack of 172,800 chips.

Our November Nine enjoys a clear advantage for the rest of the tournament with more than double the average in chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff continues to fight in this tournament, he has a stack of 45,500 chips and expects to do everything in order to take off and reach the final table of this high level tournament.

Update: 17H30

Players receive a 15-minute break after six hours of play.
There are 79 remaining players for an average of 71,518 chips.

The prize pool will be shared among the eight players who manage to reach the final table:
1. € 1,000,000
2. € 625,000
3. € 375,000
4. € 275,000
5. € 200,000
6. € 150,000
7. € 115,000
8. € 85,000

Here is an updated chipcount of the Team Everest players:

Antoine Saout: 160,000 chips
Steven Van Zadelhoff: 40,000 chips

Update: 17H00

This is the beginning of Level 5, the blinds are at 200/400 with a 50 Ante.

Of the 113 entrants to the High Roller, there are 95 players remaining and the average is 59,473 chips.

Antoine Saout has a stack of 150,000 chips and continues to play his game and win pots.

He has a very good image at the table and his opponents often fold their hands when Antoine starts to play with them.

Steven continues his career playing a tight game and has a stack of 64,000 chips.

Update: 15H46

We're at the beginning of level 4 with 150/300 blinds and a 25 ante.

Antoine Saout has now 132,000 chips.

Note, Antoine won 12,000 chips at the end of level 3. His opponent folded after an aggressive move by Antoine.

Steven Van Zadelhoff continues to play serious poker and has 59,000 chips.

Antoine Saout 132,000 chips.

Update: 15H00

Antoine Saout Doubles Up!

The High Roller tourney began yesterday and currently has 93 players with 50,000 chips average.

After two hours of play, we are at the end of level 2 and players are taking advantage of a 15 minute break.

Here is an updated chipcount of our Everest Poker players after two hours of play:

Antoine Saout: 100,000 chips
Steven Van Zadelhoff: 62,000 chips

Antoine is into the top rankings of the tournament!

This is the first level and Antoine is Big Blind with blinds at 50/100, He discovers As Ks.

A player bets 500 and two players call. Antoine bet 2,200 and he's re-raised to 5,000.

The other two players fold and Antoine checks.

The flop shows: Qs 10s 3

Both players check.

The turn is a 7.

Antoine bet 7,500. Checked by his opponent.

The river is the 6s - synonymous of Flush max for Antoine.
Antoine then bet 17,000 - his opponent mucked his hand immediately after seeing the flush.

Antoine Saout has had a very good start in the tournament and shows a stack of 80,000.

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 62,000 chips

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Day 1B of EPT Monte Carlo

Update: 6:48 GMT +2

End of level 6. Players now have a 90mn break.

Update: 6:40 GMT +2

Viktoria has just lost a significant pot against a successful bluff attempt from his opponent. She has now 47,700 chips. There are 368 players remaining for an average of 40,516.

Update: 6:06 GMT+2

While her partner was eliminated, Viktoria Szilasi has been moved to Joe Hachem and Bruno Benveniste’s table.

Update: 5:57 GMT +2

Francesco de Vivo is out after a good start, Francesco lost several hands and went back to his starting stack, and then fell to 19,000.

He raised holding a KK, the Small Blind folded and the Big Blind called.

Flop: 7d 4d 2h

BB checked and Francesco bet at 2,000. His opponent checked and raised to 5,500. After a short hesitation, Francesco paid.

Both players checked with an Ace on the turn.

Following the 6c of the river, BB decides to push all-in. Our Italian player hesitates and stares at his opponent looking for a tell. He finally paid and his opponent caught an Ace on the river which gave him a pair of Aces which kicked Francesco out with his KK.

Update: 5:47 GMT+2

Level 6: Blinds are now at 200/400 with a 50 ante.

497 players began day 1B and 403 are still in the running. The average stack is 37,000.

Update: 5:28 GMT +2

Following the break, blinds are now at 150/300 and we still have 2 players running in the EPT Monte Carlo event. Both players are from the Live the Dream Team. Viktoria Szilasi from Hungary, whose start was very successful with a stack of 59,000 and the Italian player Francesco de Vivo, whose stack is at 19,000.

Update: 4:35 GMT+2

After 4 hours, players now have a 15 mn break: well-deserved!

Update: 4:18 GMT+2

Maria Maceiras out.

Our young Spanish player had a tough day. With blinds at 150/300, a player raises to 800, another player calls. At this point, Maria pushed the remaining chunk of her stack on the table. His opponent called and showed A K against our Spanish player's A J. Maria did not get the cards she needed and is now out of the tournament.

Update: 3:42 GMT +2

Maria had difficulties trying to reverse the trend and just lost a hand.

With blinds at 150/300, our player bet 800 and the SB called.

The board showed 6h 7d 3d , Maria bet 1,200 and her opponent called.

With a Ts on the river, Maria bet 2,500 and her opponent pays again.

River shows Jh and both players check.

SB has Kd Jd and Maria mucks. Our player is now under 10,000, which accounts for one third of her starting stack.

Update: 3:00 GMT+2

Our 3 Everest Poker players are still running.

Viktoria won several hands and has 49,000 chips. Francesco de Vivo, our Italian player, has 29,000 chips whereas our Spanish player lost half of her stack.

With blinds at 100/200, the dealer raises at 600 and Maria decides to bet 1,700. The dealer calls.

On a Jc 5d 6c board, Maria raises to 2,500 and her opponent calls.

Maria checks with a Kc on the turn, her opponent best 4,000 and Maria pays.

Maria check fold with a Th on the river following the 15,000 bet of her opponent. After this move, Maria fell to 13,500.

Update: 2:15 GMT+2

After the first 2 blind levels, players have a 15 mn break.

Update: 1:15 GMT+2

Fabrice Soulier is out.

Fabrice Soulier is already out after only few hours. With blinds of 50/100, our French player raised to 300, a player called and another online qualified player bet at 1,300.

Fabrice 4bet at 3,300 and the first player folded.

The BB hesitates and seems he’s going to fold, but pushed an All-in with 30,000, his initial stack.

With AA, Fabrice calls and dominate his opponent’s KK. The young online qualified Asian player caught a K on the flop and left Fabrice with a ridiculous stack of 450.

Here is an updated chip count of his teammates:
Viktoria Szilasi: 28,050 chips
Maria Maceiras: 19,100 chips
Francesco de Vivo: 34,000 chips

Good morning and welcome to the live coverage of Day 1B of EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale!

The director of the tournament, Thomas Kremser just made the usual speech before the start of the tournament and announced the popular "Shuffle up and deal."

At first view, we should go over the number of participants of yesterday. As for the Everest Poker Team, today we can count on Fabrice Soulier, Maria Maceiras, Viktoria Szilasi and Francesco de Vivo.

We will keep you posted with the course of the event as well as players' performance as soon as we can.

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Terrible start for Cris and Francesco at EPT Sanremo (presented by Pokerstars.it)

No Luck for Cristiano Blanco and Francesco De Vivo at the EPT Sanremo. Cris is out after a series of bad hands. Most of his stack went in the middle holding QQ on a T high board. The opponent had a set.
Similar start for Francesco, who's still in the tourney but with 8k only. He had a full-overfull confrontation holding 33 on a 38AA9 board. His opponent had 88. Kudos to Francesco who checked the river and saved the remaining chunk of his stack.
Edit 18.00 Francesco is out
Francesco pushes for his remaining 5k with 66, gets a call from KQs who completes the flush draw on the turn.

SPT Aranjuez Final Day

Update - 3:00

Catarina Santos of Portugal is the first woman to ever win the Main Event of the Spanish Poker Tour!

Catarina went into the HU with a massive chip lead over our Team Everest pro and 2009 SPT Champion Steven van Zadelhoff. Steven went all in early on in the HU with A7 suited against Catarina's AK. With no help on the board for Steven, Catarina took first place in the first 2010 SPT stop and a nice 45,000 EUR prize.

Congratulations Catarina!

Update - 00:30

Heads up!

Catarina has been taking people down left and right. Making a flush with Q's twice and finally kicking out Jesus Montes with J's vs. T's, Catarina has successfully knocked out the last 3 players bringing herself to the heads up with a very large chip lead.

Update - 20:45

Valentin Messina from France busted in 9th place when he called Fran Garcia's KJ with JT. The board came 642JJ and our Frenchmen is out of the tournament.

Shortly after we had a tense moment when Team Everest's Steven van Zadelhoff went heads up again FFTTR player Jesus Montes who raised UTG. Steven called with T's in the BB. The board came AT6, both players checked. After Steven value bet on the turn and Jesus called, Steven fired another 100K on the river. After Jesus "Puzo" asked Steven, "Do you have a set?" the Spaniard decided to call and found Steven did have the set.

Update - 20:00

We have reached the final table!

Fran García - 325K
Javier Gómez - 366K
Jorge del Arco - 224K
Valentin Messina - 165K
Marco Mattes - 290K
Miguel Ángel Barajas - 106K
Caterina Santos - 301K
Steven van Zadelhoff - 205K
Jesús Montes - 441K

Update - 18:00

More action. The two Frenchies on the feature table, Valentin Messina went heads up against well known Everest Poker player Christian Debeil (-ORACLE-). Valentin with 7h7c was called by Debeil with A's. The flop came Ah,3h,6h, giving Debil trips and Vanentin a flush draw. With Qh on the river Valentin took the pot leaving Debeil short stacked.

Christian Debeil

Valentin Messina

Update - 17:30

Within the first few minutes of level 17 we already have two players out, Karim Keriovi finished 15th giving his chips to Everest Poker player Jesus Montes and Luis Uberina finishing 14th.

Blinds are now at 3000/6000 with a 600 ante.

Stay tuned for more updates.

Start of Day

Today we'll play the final table of the SPT Aranjuez, but first we need to get down to our final 9! Last night, after playing until 5am, we finished with 15 players still in the tournament. Our own Catarina Santos of the Everest Poker Portuguese team is starting today as chip leader with 280K.

Here are the rest of the chip counts:

1. Catarina Santos 279.900
2. Javier Gómez 224.000
3. Jesús Montes 215.800
4. Karim Keriovi 215.100
5. Marco Mattes 197.300
6. Juho Nuto 183.100
7. Valentin Messina 171.100
8. Fran García 148.300
9. Minaud Berenger 129.000
10. Miguel Ángel Barajas 128.100
11. Juan Ramón Rodríguez 121.900
12. Jorge del Arco 115.000
13. Steven Van Zadelhoff 112.700
14. Christian Debeil 104.600
15. Luis Ubierna 69.000

SPT Aranjuez Day 2

Update: Bubble

We're down to 19 players and have finally reached the bubble of SPT Aranjuez.

Our very own Catarina Santos was the first to move all in with Q's and was called by AJ. After a long and tense board Catarina took the hand down, doubling up. Catarina beat the bubble and is 1 of 2 Everest Poker pros still standing. Steven van Zadelhoff is still in with a big stack.

Shortly after Catarina doubled up Pablo Ubierna went out on a coin flip.

Update 2:30 :

Level 14
Blinds 1200/2400
Ante 200
Average 89,000

The Everest pros have been dropping like flies since the dinner break. Sigurd Eskeland, Tobi Wagner, Javier Martinez and Cristiano Blanco are among the Everest players out of the tournament.

Cristiano commented about his play, "I felt really good during day 1. I was very proud of the way I played. Unfortunately today I didn't catch any cards and was on a very tough table (with other Everest players Sigurd Eskeland and Pablo Ubierna)". After a long battle Cris went out in 25th place with Q's all in preflop against AK. There was a K on the flop and no luck for our Team Everest stallion.

Steven's Rise to the Top:

Our 2009 SPT Champion and favorite Team Everest Dutchie Steven van Zadelhoff has climbed his way to the top of the Main Event here in Aranjuez, taking chips from anyone in his path, including his Everest Poker teammates Javier Martinez and Catarina Santos.

With a couple of significant moves Steven ended play before the dinner break with 180,000 chips. His first big move was against our Portuguese pro Catarina Santos. Steven won a coin flip with a pair of J's again AK doubling him up from 45K to 90K. Don't worry about Catarina, she has managed to climb her way back to 40,000 chips and is still very much in the game.

Steven's second big pot was against Live the Dream Team member Javier Martinez. Steven flopped a set of 4's against Javi's 2 pair with A8. Javi is also still in the tournament with 20,000.

After the dinner break the 38 remaining players will start level 12 with blinds of 800/1600, ante of 200 and average chip count of 63,000.

Update - 20:30

We're up to level 10 of the Spanish Poker Tour Aranjuez. Blinds are 500/1000 with an ante of 100 and average chip stack of 38,000.

There are 6 remaining Everest Poker players contending for the 150,000 Euro prize pool. In particular, Steven van Zadelhoff, our Season 2 Champion is running hot and on the hunt for another SPT final table.

Steven van Zadelhoff - 160,000

Cristiano Blanco is happy with his stack saying, "It feels good to be above average. I will continue to play my game and hopefully make to the final table tomorrow."

Cristiano Blanco - 55,000

We have a strong Spanish representation at the TV table right now with ffttr players, Luis and Pablo Ubierna and Jesus Montes.

Other Everest Poker players:

Sigurd Eskeland - 46,000

Tobias Wagner - 30,000

Javier Martinez - 20,000

Catarina Santos - 5,0000

Francesco De Vivo went out of the tournament in level 9. Francesco is looking forward to the next Spanish Poker Tour in Ibiza the 14-16 of May.

Start of Day

Let's see what our Team Everest, Live the Dream Team and other Everest Poker players are up to as we come to the end of level 1.

Steven van Zadelhoff and Javier Martinez are sitting side by side on the TV table along with Catarina Santos from the Portuguese team.

After being knocked out of the tournament early in level 1, Koen de Bakker has joined Everest Poker's own Olaf Schimpf and Marco Trucco for commentary on the live stream.

Cristiano Blanco found himself next to our good friend Luis Ubierna. Luis started today in 4th place with 52,000 chips.

Let's go team!

SPT Aranjuez Day 2

We're back for Day 2 of Everest Poker's Spanish Poker Tour Aranjuez. After some sleep and sun the players are ready for to fight for their share of the 150,000 Euro guaranteed prize pool.

We're starting today at level 8 with blinds of 300/600 and 50 ante.

Here are the starting chips counts of the 96 players remaining in the tournament:

NAME CHIPS
CARLOS YERBES 86,700
FRAN GARCIA 80,425
KERIONI KARILY 70,825
LUIS UBIERNA 51,975
CATARINA SANTOS 50,650
MIGUEL A: BARAJAS 48,150
JAVIER MARTINEZ 47,675
JESUS MONTES 45,275
STEVEN V: ZADELHOFF 42,600
JORGE DEL ARCO 41,825
LAMRIT SOMIR 39,450
MARCELO CAMUS 38,650
OLIVER FERRER 38,125
SIGURD ESKELAND 37,800
FRANCISCO TORRES 37,300
DANIEL VENTURA 36,975
JUHO NUTO 35,975
ALVARO PICATOSTE 35,875
MINAUD BERENGER 35,800
JUAN R: RODRIGUEZ 35,725
BENJAMIN VERTESNTEIN 34,675
JAVIER GOMEZ 34,375
CRISTIANO BLANCO 33,575
ANDERS LAURBJERG 32,700
ANTONIO ALVAREZ 32,375
IAGO LOPEZ 31,475
MARCO MATTES 31,200
GRIZIVATZ 30,225
LEO LINARES 29,800
JORDAN TRIQUET 29,625
ALGEL GOMEZ 29,500
ANGEL D GALLEGO 29,100
MARCOS PALMA 28,675
JORGE GONZALEZ 28,350
SILVIO CRISARI 27,650
ALEJANDRO GALOLAGUNA 27,625
FREDRIKE LINDSTROM 27,250
GESSAT 26,850
IGNACIO CUESTA 26,250
FRANCESCO DE VIVO 26,200
MATHIEU LE MONTAGNER 26,025
JOSE MANUEL GOMEZ 25,675
RENE GISBERTZ 25,400
BRUNO POUCHAIN 24,525
SANTIAGO DIAZ 24,375
MARCO ROLLO 24,150
LAUREN BACHELET 24,100
SYLVAIN LOOSLI 23,275
MICHEL SERRAGGI 22,475
NIELS VAN GENS 22,450
ALBERTO CALLE 22,250
LUIS PEREZ 21,550
TOBIAS WAGNER 20,000
M: ROSA DE LA PAZ 19,950
FRANCISCO BUENO 19,700
DAVID TOVATI 19,675
UWE ZIMMERMANN 19,650
GREGER LARSSON 19,475
STEFAN DE BOONE 19,250
PAWEL BRZESKI 18,425
MANUEL RODRIGUEZ L 18,350
FRANCISCO PENALVA 17,850
PABLO UBIERNA 17,800
JULIEN POULHAIN 16,950
DAVIDE RUGI 16,800
DIEGO ARIAS 16,750
PHILIPPE LAVERDURE 16,550
CHRISTIAN DEBEIL 16,525
MAXIME LESSARD 16,450
LEON TAVERNIER 15,925
KOEN DE BAKKER 15,400
SANTOS CASTRO 15,325
LAURENT GUILON 15,250
THIERRY RAVASSARD 15,125
DANIELA ARON 15,050
CESAR GARRIDO 13,550
JOAQUIN PINAR 13,400
JOSCHA RUTERT 12,650
LIRONG HU YU 12,625
RAUL PAEZ 12,200
ADRIAN GIRALDO 12,125
DAVID MARTIN 11,925
JULIO DOCE 11,525
SORN DAHLSTROM 11,400
JONATAN MARTINEZ 11,125
VALENTINA MESINA 10,400
INOCENTE GOMEZ 9,100
JUMMY MONDEALERS 9,075
ALBERT GRAU 9,000
CEDRIL SUNSTES 8,675
MANUEL SANCHEZ 7,975
J: RAMON RODRIGUEZ 7,375
RUI MILHOMENS 6,550
FABIAN LOPEZ 5,925
BOICHE BENIONOL 3,300
MICHEL DATTAM 475

The Spanish Poker Tour is back for Season 3

Final update for Day 1:

Level 7
Blinds 200/400
Ante 50
Average 23,000

It's 4:30 am and we're ending Day 1 tired but strong. Most of the Everest Poker players are at average or above:

Team Everest:

Cristiano Blanco - 42,000
Steven van Zadelhoff - 36,000

Live the Dream Team:

Sigurd Eskeland - 35,000
Javi Martinez - 22,000
Tobi Wagner - 24,000
Koen de Bakker - 20,000
Francesco De Vivo - 28,000

Pablo Ubierna - 20,000
Luis Ubierna - 52,000
David Colin - 32,000

Both Viktoria and Thomas from the Live the Dream Team were out of the tournament in level 6. You can find them representing Everest Poker next in San Remo and at the WSOP in Las Vegas.

Update - 2:25
Level 5
Blinds 150-300
129 Players remaining

We lost Team Everest player Maria Maceiras in level 4. Maria was put in a tough spot when UTG raised 350 and Thomas Froslev from the 2010 Live the Dream Team reraised on the cut off to 1000. Maria called with 9's. The flop came Q45. UTG checked and Thomas bet 1500 to a pot of 3000. Maria, with 9500 chips, raised to 3500 and was then pot committed. UTG folded and Thomas moved all in implying he had a strong hand. Maria called anyway and Thomas showed A’s.

Team Everest Update:

Cristiano Blanco - 33,000

Steven van Zadelhoff - 25,000

Koen de Bakker - 20,000

Sigurd Eskeland - 46,000 - Doubled up A's vs K's.

Francesco De Vivo - 24,000

Javier Martinez - 21,000

Thomas Froslev - 30,000

Tobi Wagner - 23,000

Viktoria Szilasi- 5,000

Pablo Ubierna - 16,000

David Colin - 34,000

Luis Ubierna - 23,000
Christian Debil - 16,000
Romain Despres - 4,000

Start of Day

Tonight kicks off the 2010 season of Everest Poker's Spanish Poker Tour. We are proud to start our 3rd season in the Gran Casino Aranjuez with 161 players vying for their share of the 150,000 Euro guaranteed prize pool.

Players started level 1 tonight with 15,000 in chips and blinds of 25/50. Some our Team Everest pros are in the crowd including; Steven van Zadelhoff, Cristiano Blanco and SPT veteran Maria Maceiras.

We also have strong representation from the 2010 Live the Dream Team joining us here in Aranjuez, including:

Viktoria Szilasi (HU) on the table with our good friend Pablo Ubierna.

Koen de Bakker (NL)

Thomas Froslev (DA) on the feature table with Maria.

And Sigurd Eskeland (NO), Francesco De Vivo (IT), Javier Martinez (ES), Tobi Wagner (DE)

Click here to view our live streaming of the event.

Live Streaming the SPT Aranjuez

In only a few minutes, it will be time to shuffle up and deal at the SPT Aranjuez — the first stop on the 2010 Spanish Poker Tour.

Over 100 players — many you see regularly at Everest's online tables — are playing for their share of a €150,000 guaranteed prize pool in one of Spain's royal destinations.

Be there for all the action during the SPT Aranjuez Main Event all weekend long. This year, Everest Poker will be broadcasting live from ALL SPT stops. It's the next best thing to being there.

Watch the SPT Live Stream now on the official Spanish Poker Tour website.

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Good luck to all our Everest Poker players in Aranjuez! Check back to the Everest Poker Blog all weekend long for more updates from the Spanish Poker Tour.

Coverage Day 2 Open Palm Beach in Cannes

Hello and welcome to this second day of the Palm Beach Open in Cannes.

There is 78 players remaining.

The average is 24 615 and the blinds are at 200/400.

Our Everest players took their seats and are ready for the second day of this Poker weekend.

Team Everest's Antoine Saout capped at 34 300 in chips and enjoys a position a little more comfortable to pick the right spots.

Our 2010 Live the Dream Team's Leonard Truche is in a difficult position with 13 900 in chips and will therefore battle to achieve a return in the average and remain on the list.

Note that for the moment, two players stood out with a stack of 66K and the vast majority of other players are at the chip average.

Edit 15h43: Antoine Saout wins 8000 chips

Antoine Saout just won over 8K against his left hand neighbour with two pair — 8s and 2s. He's now at 45,500 chips!

Edit 15h50 Elimination of Leonard Truche

There are four players on the game for a board that displays:
6c 7c J

Leonard Truche has on his hands with a double possibility of a flush and a straight with 8c10c

He decides to bet 1200. An opponent raise to 3 000 and Leo decides to push his last 10 000 chips.

The opponent call with JT and unfortunately neither the turn nor the river will help our Live The Dream player who finds the way out prematurely.

Edit 4.20pm

Antoine Saout imposes his game to the table and multiply the strokes played against his opponents!

It now stands at 72 000!

The blinds are 300/600 and there are 62 players remaining in the tournament for an average of 30 967.

Edit 5.20pm

Players take advantage of 15min break

There is 55 players remaining with an average of 34 909 in chips.

Blinds will start again at 400/800

Antoine Saout is still in the race with a stack of 70 000.

The bubble is at 9 players with the following prize pool:

1. € 40 466
2. € 24 260
3. € 14 920
4. € 12 440
5. € 9 950
6. € 7 460
7. € 6 220
8. € 4 970
9. € 3 730

Antoine Saout: 70 000 chips

Edit 7.41pm - Dinner break

After 4h30 of play, players take advantage of one hour of dinner break.

There's only 41 players remaining for 9 seats in the money.

The average stack is 46 829 and the blinds will be coming to 600/1200 with a 100 Ante

Antoine Saout is still in the race but ended up short stack with 20 000 chips.
He has lost several confrontations against opponents with a lot of depth in chips and it's after a long period of variation that our November Nine find himself on this situation. But that's poker and if you are not dead, everything is possible ...

Edit 9:30pm : Elimination of Antoine Saout
After one hour of play, our November Nine came back on the average with 40 000 chips.

In preflop, 3 players call the big blind to 1 200 chips.
Antoine raise to 8 100 and he's re-raised to 25 000 by his left neighbour!

Everyone fold and Antoine pushes All in.

Insta-call from his neighbor who shows a pair JJ.

With a smile, Antoine shows KK!

The board announced:

4 3 J 5 5

So Antoine find the way out on this bad beat while there's only 34 players remaining on this second day of the Open Palm Beach in Cannes.

He played a very good game during this two days and he left the table with the cheers of the other players sat on his table.

Coverage of the Palm Beach Open in Cannes

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the Main Event of the Open Palm Beach in Cannes. The tournament has just started and 93 players have entered the tourney.

For a buy in of € 1,500, players start with 20,000 in chips and blinds at 25-50 with 50min levels.

Two players of the Team Everest participate to the Main Event, Antoine Saout and Leonard Truche, and we will keep you informed of their journey throughout the tourney today and tomorrow.

It's the tournament structure and the wonderful city of Cannes, which has attracted our Team Everest players for a Weekend 100% Poker!

Edit 23h48 Antoine Saut Double Up!

Just before the break, Antoine Saout has double up his stack!

Antoine is Big Blind and 3 players call. Antoine Saout bet 775 and then just one player remains in the game to see the flop:

J 7c 2

Antoine bets 1.4k, paid by his opponent.

The turn reveal Ac

Our Everest Team Pro player decides to bet 2.2K and his opponent re-raise for 7K! Antoine decides to push All in, paid by his opponent!

Antoine shows AK and his opponent reveals Jc10c

The river announces another 7 and allows Antoine Saout to double up and now presents a stack of 48 000!

Edit 23h50: First break of the day

After 2h30 of play, players take advantage of a first break of 15min.

Here is an updated chipcount of our Everest Poker players:

Antoine Saout, 48,900 chips

Leonard Truche, 19,500 chips

Edit 00h54
There is 25min remaining on the level 4 with blinds at 100/200
There is 87 players remaining and the average is at 22 068 chips.

Here is an updated chipcount of our Everest players.

Antoine Saout: 45 000
Leonard Truche: 15 000

Edit 02h15: End of the first day

It's the end of the first day of the Palm Beach tourney in Cannes.

Antoine Saout ended the day with a stack of 34 300 chips.
It is mainly trying to find good hands on the flop that Antoine falls from 48K to 34K. To note a loss of 5K with a trips of 3 for Antoine against a trip of 4!

Leonard Truche did not find good spots and he's down to 13 900.

Of the 96 registered players, 78 will come back tomorrow for this tourney.
The average is 24 615 and the blinds will start at 200/400 tomorrow.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 3pm for the second day of the Palm Beach Open in Cannes.

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