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