THE VERY FIRST 3LT CHAMPION IS CROWNED

TOBIAS VON SIEBENTHAL WINS 3LT BADEN!

Tobias von Siebenthal raises to 87K, Massimiliano reraises to 300K, Tobias goes all-in, so das Massimiliano with A2, Tobias has pocket 77. No help from the board for Massimo and Tobias wins the tournament.

RANKING

1. von Siebenthal Tobias CHF 160.600
2. Nestola Massimiliano CHF 113.900
3. Kürschner Matthias CHF 80.000
4. De Vivo Francesco CHF 58.200
5. Pouchain Julien CHF 43.000
6. Heinsdorf Tobias CHF 31.200
7. Ljubomir Josipovic CHF 21.200
8. Boschetti Yves CHF 15.100
9. Nesci Giuseppe CHF 11.800
10. Patrick Heinsen CHF 9.100
11. Brunner Reinhard CHF 7.300
12. Truche Leonard CHF 7.300
13. DiGiampietro Fabio CHF 7.300
14. Nguyen Duong “Jung” CHF 6.000
15. Caflisch Reto CHF 6.000
16. Maal Sybrand CHF 6.000
17. Rast Josef CHF 5.500
18. de Bakker Koen CHF 5.500
19. Penta Marco CHF 5.500
20. Lehmann Markus CHF 5.500

Update 23:15

Matthias Kuerschner is out: 3. place and CHF 80,000
Matthias goes all-in at the flop 3d6d7h after a bet of Tobias von Siebenthal (81K). Tobias calls with 4d7c, Matthias has 9hTs. Matthias hits the T on the turn but Tobias completes the 7set on the river.

Heads-up begins.

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Update after the last break 23:00
Level 25
Blinds: 20K - 40K / Ante: 4K

Current chip counts:
Kürschner, Matthias: 919,000
von Siebenthal, Tobias: 2.176.000
Nestola, Massimiliano: 995.000

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Update 21:45
Level 24
Blinds: 15K - 30K / Ante: 3K

Francesco finishes 4th taking home CHF 58,200
Francesco pushes all-in with K5 suited, Tobias von Siebenthal calls from the BB with A2 unsuited. With a 2 on the turn and an A on the river our Italian Live the Dream player got busted. Bravo Francesco!

Update 21:30 - Split Pot
Tobias von Siebenthal raises to 57K, Francesco pushes all-in and Tobias calls with A2, Francesco shows also A2. On the board appears nothing to change the situation and both get the
Update 21:20ir share of the pot.

5. French online qualifier Julien Pouchain: CHF 43.000
Julien raises all-in at the button for 346K, Tobias von Siebenthal takes a long time until he decides to call from BB position with 44, Julien shows A6 unsuited. On the board 537 Q 3.
Great game Julien who was the best online qualifier in the tournament.

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Chip counts after Dinner break

Pouchain Julien: 586.000
Kürschner Matthias: 876.000
von Siebenthal Tobias: 1.164.000
De Vivo Francesco: 307.000
Nestola Massimiliano: 1.157.000

Level: 23
Blinds: 12,000 - 24,000 / Ante 2,000
Average: 808K

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Update 19:45
Another one bites the dust in level 22 again.
6. Tobias Heinsdorf: 31,200 CHF
Tobias Heinsdorf pushes all-in on the small blind with A7, Tobias von Siebenthal calls with QQ. No help from the board and Tobias Heinsdorf has to go.

Update 19:30
still in Level 22

7. Ljubomir Josipovic: 21,200 CHF
On the flop Js3cTd and Ljubomir goes all-im, Massimiliano Nestola calls with AhJh, Ljubo shows QcJc. On the Turn 4d, River Ks, this is it for Ljubo.

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Update: 19:15
Level 22
Blinds: 10K - 20K / Ante: 2,000
Average: 505,000

Two players busted within 20 min.

8. Yves Boschetti: 15,100 CHF
Yves Boschetti pushes all-in with KJ unsuited, Julien also goes all-in with 66, all others fold. On the board 88T 4 4 - Yves is out.

9. Guiseppe Nesci: 11,800 CHF
Giuseppe was short, so he took his chance on the button and went all-in pre-flop with pocket 2s. He got called by big stacked Matthias Kuerschner with A8 suited. Two Aces on the board, so no chance for Giuseppe to make his way out of this one.

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Update 18:45, immer noch in Level 21

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Update: 17:45

Chip counts after Level 20:
1) Julien Pouchain (FR): 311K
2) Matthias Kuerschner (DE): 374K
3) Tobias Heinsdorf (DE): 322K
4) Ljubomir Josipovic (AT): 609K
5) Tobias von Siebenthal (CH): 785K
6) Francesco de Vivo (IT): 528K
7) Yves Manuel Boschetti (CH): 508K
8) Massimilliano Nestola (IT): 492K
9) Giuseppe Nesci (CH): 161K

Average still ca. 450K

Blinds after the break: 8K - 16K / Ante 2K

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Update 17:00 Finale Table
Level: 20 - 9 Players
Blinds: 6,000 - 12,000 / Ante: 1,000
Average: 448,888

Francesco!!!

Julien!!!

Massimo

Yves

Giuseppe

Ljubomir

Tobias v. S.

Matthias

Tobias H.

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16:00 Walk-in of the players to the Final Table

Seat 1: Julien Pouchain, our online qualifier from France. Go Julien!

Seat 2: Matthias Kuerschner from Germany

Seat 3: Tobias Heinsdorf from Germany

Seat 4: Ljubomir Josipovic from Austria

Seat 5: Tobias von Siebenthal from Switzerland

Seat 6: Italian Francesco de Vivo from the Live the Dream Team

Seat 7: Yves Boschetti from Switzerland

Seat 8: Massimiliano Nestola from Austria

Seat 9: Giuseppe Nesci from Switzerland

3LT Baden Day 3

Here are the chip counts for tomorrow, live streaming starts at 16:00 (CET):
1) Yves Manuel Boschetti (CH): 948,500 (seat 7)
2) Tobias von Siebenthal (CH): 617,500 (seat 5)
3) Massimilliano Nestola (IT): 561,000 (seat 8)
4) Francesco de Vivo (IT): 427,000 (seat 6)- Live the Dream
5) Tobias Heinsdorf (DE): 395,000 (seat 3)
6) Julien Pouchain (FR): 371,500 (seat 1) - Online Qualifier
7) Ljubomir Josipovic (AT): 303,000 (seat 4)
8) Giuseppe Nesci (CH): 267,000 (seat 9)
9) Matthias Kuerschner (DE): 199,000 (seat 2)

Update 00:45
Last one to go for today was online qualifier Patrick Heinsen. Unfortunately he did not make it do the final table.

Online qualifier Julien Pouchain will start tomorrow.

Update 00:30
Level 19, Blinds: 5,000 - 10,000 / Ante: 1,000
Average 404,000

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Update 00:30
Level 19, Blinds: 5,000 - 10,000 / Ante: 1,000
Average 404,000

Leo is out against Francesco
First Leo los a large pot of 122,500 with AQ vs 99 against an Italian player.
Then he went all-in pre-flop with KK and was called by Francesco with 66 who hit another 6 on the board.

There is nothing that can break uo real friendship

11. Reinhard Brunner
12. Leonard Truche
13. Fabio di Giampietro
14. Duong Nguyen
15. Reto Caflisch

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Koen shortly before being busted

Tobi and Martin in the live stream

Mariken and Fabien

Olaf interviewing a player

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16. Sijbrand Maal 6,000 CHF
He lost a great share of chips with KJ vs. AK. From that point he hardly had a chance to come back and was out of game pretty quickly.

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Update 23:30
Level 1816 players remaining
Blinds: 4,000 - 8,000 / Ante: 500
Average: 252,500

17. Josef Rast: 5,500 CHF
18. Koen de Bakker: 5,500 CHF
He had 44 vs. JJ and got kicked out by his team mate Leo Truche.

19. Marco Penta: 5,500 CHF
20. Markus Lehmann: 5,500 CHF

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Update 22:45

Markus Feuerle finishes at the bubble position.
He is all-in with 379K called by Yves Boschetti who has 380K. Both hit the flush but Markus has the King and Yves the Ace. Could it be any closer?
Hats off for Markus

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Update 22:15

Eric Friedmann got busted 22nd.
Now we have 21 players left in the tournament. Dealers are going to deal hand-by-hand because the bubble is about to pop any minute.

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Update 21:45
Level 17
Blinds: 3,000 - 6,000 / Ante: 500
Average 192, 380

We have lost to great players:

23. French Julien Claudpierre from the Live the Dream Team
He went all-in preflop UTG with 55,500 with 99. He got called by his French friend Julien Pouchain with AQ. The A on the board ended the tournament for Julien. Great play!

24. Rolf Slotboom from Holland

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Update 21:15
Level 16, 24 remaining players

2,500 - 5,000 / 500

players out:
25. Stefan Kiesendorfer
26. Dieter Aebi
27. Markus Zinniker

Chip counts after dinner break

Feurle Markus 441.000
Pouchain Julien: 335.000
von Siebenthal Tobias: 295.000
Heinsdorf Tobias: 260.000
Boschetti Yves: 235.500
Slotboom Rolf: 231.500
Nestola Massimiliano 214.000
Lehmann Markus 193.500
Friedmann Eric 180.000
Kürschner Matthias: 177.000
Heinsen Patrick: 151.000
De Vivo Francesco 146.000
Claudepierre Julien: 125.500
Josipovic Ljubomir 113.500
Maal Sijbrand: 110.500
de Bakker Koen 106.500
Caflisch Reto: 94.500
Nguyen Duong “Jung”: 94.000
Truche Leonard: 91.000
Penta Marco: 91.000
Rast Josef 81.000
Nesci Giuseppe 80.000
Kiesenhofer Stefan: 72.000
Aebi Dieter: 67.500
DiGiampetro Fabio 53.000
Brunner Reinhard: 48.500

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Update 20:00
still in Level 15

players out:
28. Martin Bloemker
29. Colin Braginsky
30. Tim Schumacher

The feature table

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Update 19:20
Level 15, Blinds 2,000 - 4,000 / Ante: 400
Average 130,322

More players had to go and there are 31 left in the game:

32. Stefan Rotach
33. Oezcan Culkaoglu
34. Ivo Pejakovic
35. Herman Campmans
36. Sven Polarski

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Day 3 at 3LT Baden
Blinds: 1,200 - 2,400 / Ante: 200
in a few minutes we'll be in the next blind level already: 1,500 - 3,000 / Ante 300.
36 players in the game. The goal for today is step 1 to make the top 20 to be in the money and then step 2 to get your seat at the final table for tomorrow.

Chip leader at the beginning of day 3 is Tobias von Siebenthal:

First one busted was Sven Polarski from Holland
He went all-in pre-flop with TT vs.KQ, the river showed the lethal Queen.

3LT Baden Chip Counts of Day 2

....and Seating for Day 3

3LT Baden: Day 2

Update: 3:00 still in Level 13
We are done for today and down to 36 players.
Unfortunately Cristiano got busted 38th with QT vs. KQ with no help from the board.

Here are the last players that had to go today:

37 Messina
38 Cristiano
39 Fernandez
40 van den Biggelaar
41 Sonelin, David

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Update 2:00
Level 13, 42 players remaining
Blinds: 1,200 - 2,400 / Ante: 200
Average: 98,536

Leo got lucky!
He just doubled up with 78 suited vs. KJ completing the flush on the river.

Cristiano on the other hand got a bad beat AK vs A7 with another 7 on the board and is now down to 20K.
42. Bonelin
43. Eiler
44. Sasky
45. Thomas T.
46. Kohler
47. Crescionini
48. Kolakovic
49. Koller
50. Suchorzewski
51. Guardia
52. Brandau

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Update: 00:00
Kim could not defend her short stack and is out at 60th.

53. Ramme, Lotti
54. Fetzer
55. Garrido
56. Unger
57. Michelacci
58. Lakinovski
59. Gross
60. Wooka Kim (Team Everest)

Update after Dinner Break 23:45

Level 11
Blinds: 800 - 1,000 / Ante: 200
Average: 66,229
61 players left in the tournament

All of our Everest players are still there. Let's see how they are doing:
Koen still way up there with 160K.
Julien is still doing good with 70K.
Cristiano: 38K
Francesco: 47K
Leo is coming back: 40K
Kim has some work to do, she is short with 16K

The two Dutch pros Sijbrand Maal with 150K and Sven Polarski holds 19K.

Here a new update of the players who are out of the first 3lt Baden:

more players out:
61. Schmidt, Markus
62. Reissi
63. Mayr
64. Brunner
65. Kung
66. Boesel
67. Todoronic
68. Simonelli
69. Berlinger
70. Klopfenstein
71. Altdorfer
72. Steimer
73. Obrist
74. Zutt
75. Inderbitzim
76. Bleiker
77. Narcisse
78. Schmid
79. Krebs
80. Stajic
81. Doganyilmaz
82. Ramme

Koen

Julien

Valentin Messina

Sven Polarski

Kim

Cristiano

Francesco

Sijbrand Maal

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Update: 21:15

We are in Level 9
Blinds: 500 - 1,000 / Ante: 100
83 remaining players
Average: 49,268

And this is how the players are doing:
Julien very good with 80K
Leo is quite short with 20K
Koen has a great run and is up to 120K
Kim is working her way back and has 30K
Francesco is all a bit below 10K below average with 37K
Cristiano has just lost 20K and is down to 31K

Koen happy and close to chip lead

Cristiano after having lost 20K

This is the ranking so far:

84 Bolliger
85 Gehri
86 Nieckisch
87 Birrer
88 Jaeggi
89 Arrignon
90 Ahmeti
91 Finotti
92 Velazquez
93 van Gent
94 Senal
95 Walser
96 Delay
97 Blättler
98 Wolfer
99 Vogel
100 Back
101 Steiner
102 Zumkehr
103 Kiener
104 Scholer
105 Tolone
106 Walker
107 Kocurek
108 Azzato
109 Azad
110 Fankhauser
111 Fluri
112 Nasic
113 Peisert

The French Connection

3LT Baden: Day 2

At 7:30 we will start day 2 of 3LT Baden in the Grand Casino.
Altogether we had 202 players entering the tournament to play for a fantastic prize pool of 606,000 CHF. Today we will play until we are down to 36 players. 20 players will make it to the money, so the bubble is about to pop tomorrow.

Here are the chip counts including the seating.

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3LT Baden: Day 1B

Update: 4:00

End of day 1B

Level 7
61 remaining players
Blinds: 300 - 600 / Ante: 50
Average: 35,081

Chip counts

Koen and Leo put on their happy faces

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Update: 3:00

Level 7
72 remaining players
Blinds: 300 - 600 / Ante: 50
Average: 30,140

Players dropping out.....

Team Everest Switzerland player Mirko is out: He had J7 vs. KK with JKK on the flop.

Steven is out: went all-in with AK called by QQ board 585 3 5.

Katja Thater is out: AK vs. 55, ace on the flop and 5 on the turn.

3LT Baden: Day 1B

The Hungarian online qualifier Attilla is out.
He went all-in preflop with A9 suited, got called with 44 and there was no help on the board.

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Katja kicks out our online qualifier Orlandi
Orlandi pushes all-in with KK, Katja snap-calls with TT, the board shows TJ9 A 4 - bad luck for Orlandi.

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Update 2:05

Tobi got busted with QQ vs. KK and another K on the board.

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Update 2:00

Double up for Leo
Jerome Arrignon on the cut-off raises to 1,200 with AK and Leo pushes all-in from the Button KJ and hits a J on the flop. Now Leo is up to 30K.

Leo seems as if he can hardly believe it.....

Update 1:40

Koen kicked-out Guillaume Darcourt (WPT Bucharest Winner):
Darcourt went all-in preflop for 8,000, Koen calls from the small blind position with AQ vs. J9 from Darcourt. On the board TTA Q 5 now Koen is up to 64K whereas the average is about 27K.

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Update: 1:30

Steven is at a very tough table together with WSOP bracelet winner Joerg Peisert and WPT winner Markus Lehmann.

Our lovely Kim Wooka is very short with 4,200 chips
while the average is 25,8K
Blinds: 150 - 300 / Ante: 25

3LT Baden: Winner will get more than 160K CHF

In total 202 players entered the first stop of the 3 Laender Poker Tour in Baden which raises the guaranteed 500K price pool to a total of 606,000 CHF. The winner will go home with 160,600 CHF and everyone who finishes in the top 20 will get at least 5,500 CHF. Here is the complete payout structure:

1. CHF 160.600
2. CHF 113.900
3. CHF 80.000
4. CHF 58.200
5. CHF 43.000
6. CHF 31.200
7. CHF 21.200
8. CHF 15.100
9. CHF 11.800
10. CHF 9.100
11. CHF 7.300
12. CHF 7.300
13. CHF 7.300
14. CHF 6.000
15. CHF 6.000
16. CHF 6.000
17. CHF 5.500
18. CHF 5.500
19. CHF 5.500
20. CHF 5.500

3 Laender Poker Tour Baden: Day 1B

Update 23:30
Level 4
96 remaining players
Blinds: 150 -300
Average chip stack: 22,291

Let's see how the chip counts are....

Team Everest
Kim: 14K
Steven: 17K

Live the Dream players
Tobi: 15,5K
Leo:
Koen: 42K
Julien: 20K
Francesco: 23K

Team Everest Switzerland
Mirko: 20:

Online qualifiers
v.d. Biggeler: 24,500
M. Schmid: 19K
Hadamitnzky: 20K
D. Sonelin: 49K
J. Sonelin: 24K
Orlandi: 6K
Hennig: 14,2K
van Gent: 17,3K
Parejo: 19K
Eiler: 21K
Simonelli: 9K
Koesevi: 36K
Zutt: 25K
Freymann: 28K
Heinsen: 8,5K
Pouchain: 25K
Gauter: 14K
Messina:24K
Fetzer: 55K
Schweger: 12,5K
Arrignon: 16K
Koller: 22K

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Yesterday was a great success with a wonderful kick-off of the 3 Laender Poker Tour in the Grand Casino Baden. Our Team Everest player Cristiano Blanco finished with 44K.
Today we have 106 entries and a lot of well-known faces can be seen at the tables.
Team Everest members Kim Wooka from Japan and Steven van Zadelhoff from Holland.
Live the Dream players Tobi Wagner from Germany, Leo Truche and Julien Claudepierre from France, Francisco de Vivo from Italy, Koen de Bakker from the Netherlands and we have Mirko Kratochvila from Team Everest Switzerland.

Furthermore we have famous Katja Thater from Germany and also in the field 25 online qualifiers!

We are going to play 7 levels. Right now we are in level 1 with blinds 50 - 100, Average 20,384

Team Everest member Kim Wooka

Team Everest Member Steven van Zadelhoff

Live the Dream member Tobi Wagner

Julien Claudepierre from the Live the Dream Team

Live the Dream players Leo Truche and Koen de Bakker

Live the Dream member Francesco de Vivo celebrating his birthday at the 3LT. Good chance to get himself a present!!!

Team Everest Switzerland member Mirko Kratochvila

Katja Thater

Henri Bosman (online qualifier)

Christian Lenz (Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

Online qualifier Konstantin Fetzer

Rene Freymann (online qualifier)

Online qualifier Laurent Gauter

Online qualifier Patrick Heinsen

Online qualifier Christoph Hennig

Online qualifier Marcel Koller

Online qualifier Valentin Messina

Online qualifier Marco Orlandi

Online qualifier Julien Pouchain

Online qualifier Julien Sallin

Online qualifier Markus Schmid

Online qualifier Johannes Schweger

Online qualifier Bruno Simonelli

Online qualifier David Sonelin

Jonnie Sonelin

Online qualifier Nicky van den Biggelar

Online qualifier Sander van Gent

Online qualifier Marten Zutt

Tanasonboom Tanas

Jerome Arringon
20,384.

3 Laender Poker Tour takes off in Baden Switzerland

Chip count after day 1A

Cristiano Blanco up to 44,000 chips!

Here is the resume of the action :

1. The chip leader of the table in position UTG raise to 800
A player in UTG+3 call
Cristiano call with 33 in hand.

2. The flop is: T 8 ... .3
UTG opens for 1500
UTG+3 shove for 7000 chips with K J
Cristiano call the 7K
UTG pushes all-in with Pocket AA
Cristiano call with his set 333

3. Nothing on the turn nor the river and our players is then up to 44 000 chips! Well Done Cristiano!!

Unfortunately Everest players Fabien Perrot and Kaspar H. Schmid did not survive the last level of today

Elimination of Fabien Perrot
Fabien was at a very active table with a lot of opponents to re-raise after him. He didn't find the good spots and he was always running against better hands on the few pots he played. On the last hand, Fabien was short stack and shove with KTsuited against KQ for his opponent, but nothing on the board helped him. To resume, a lot of frustration for our excellent Live The Dream player that we are going to follow soon at the World Series Of Poker!!

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Update 2:20
Level 6 with 62 remaining players
Blinds: 200 - 400 / Ante: 50
Average: 30,545

French online qualifier Emmanuel Lhez got busted. He went pre-flop all-in with A7, gets a call with KJ and his opponent hits another J on the board.

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Update: 1:20am
Level 5
Blinds 150 - 300 / Ante: 25
Average: 27,941
68 remaining players

Current chip counts:
Cristiano Blanco: 24K
Hermann Campmans (online qualifier): 31,800
Udo Kalweit: 39,900
Michael Keiner: 8,500
Romain Kowalczyk (online qualifier): 25,800
Emmanuel Lhez (online qualifier): 6,700
Sijbrand Maal: 33K
Claude Narcisse (online qualifier): 45K
Lutz Nieckisch (online qualifier): 34K
Fabien Perrot:14K
Sven Polarski: 31K
Kaspar Schmid: 28,200

Our newest Team Everest Switzerland member Xavier saw a straight against a flush and got kicked-out of the tournament. God game Xavier!

Online qualifier Mark Jerzina got busted.
He was very short with 1,800. The Button bet 900 with K8, he pushed all-in from the small blind with with A7. The board showed TK5KA - seat open for Mark. Hats off!!!

Update 00:00
75 players remaining in the tournament.
Level: 4
Blinds: 150 - 300
Average: 24,675

Francisco Velazquez from Switzerland is doing really good with 42,800

Fabien with 14K quite short and under pressure

Online qualifier Lutz Nieckisch can be quite relaxed with 34K chips

Almost 100 players started on day 1A of 3LT Baden. We are going to play 7 levels tonight.
In today's field we have the Everest players Cristiano Blanco and Fabien Perrot as well as Xavier Pillet and Kaspar Schmid. Furthermore there are Sijbrand Maal, Dr. Michael Keiner and Rolf Slotboom.

Udo Kalweit

Xavier Pillet from Team Everest Switzerland

Rolf Slotboom from Holland

Sijbrand Maal from Holland

Cristiano in the first move

Fabien getting some energy just before the start of the tournament

The Everest staff welcoming the players

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The international poker scene experiences a world premiere today: The brand new 3 Laender Poker Tour debuts in the fabulous Grand Casino Baden in Switzerland

Yesterday's super satellite was sold out with 130 players fighting for the last remaining tickets to 3LT Baden.

The first stop of 3LT attracts international headliners of poker. Starting today (day 1A) we will welcome Csaba Toth the well-known Hungarian pro. Furthermore the nouveau TEAM EVEREST SWITZERLAND will play their very first tournament as sponsored players. Kaspar Schmid and Xavier Pillet have been casted just yesterday by the Everest Poker jury.

Tomorrow on day 1B even more well-known poker faces will come to the Grand Casino Baden to play for the triumph of 3 nations:

TEAM EVEREST members: Cristiano Blanco from Italy, Kim Wooka from Japan and Steven van Zadelhoff, Dutch SPT Champion 2009.

LIVE THE DREAM TEAM: Tobias Wagner, runner up of SPT IBIZA 2010, Koen de Bakker from Holland, Francesco de Vivo from Italy who scored 2nd at EPT Copenhagen 2010 as well as Fabien Perrot, Leo Truche and Julien Claudepierre from France.

Further we are happy to welcome Sijbrand Maal from Holland the 2008 Belgium Poker Champion, Udo Kalweit winner of the Everest Poker Open 2008 as well as the WSOP bracelet winners Katja Thater and Dr. Michael Keiner and Swiss Vice European Champion Besim Hot.

TEAM EVEREST POKER SWITZERLAND HAS BEEN CROWNED

Tonight at the Grand Casino Baden the great Swiss Casting has been decided.

Everest Poker has chosen their Brand Ambassadors for the Swiss market. The lucky winners receive a sponsoring package and will soon represent Everest Poker on major tournaments in Switzerland.

The winners of the 5,000 EUR packages are Kaspar Schmid from Zurich and Xavier Pillet from Leytron in the French speaking part of Switzerland.

Mirko Kratochvila - also from Zurich - additional wins a ticket to a WSOP Side Event and will go to Las Vegas together with the Live the Dream players and Team Everest for the World Series.

left to right: Kaspar, Xavier, Mirko

The winners are labeled with the official Everest Poker badge by Live the Dream pro Fabien Perrot.

Beforehand they had to convince the Everest Poker jury in interviews: Udo Herbst (Grand Casino Baden), Olaf Schimpf (Everest Poker), Martin Sturc (Everest Poker) and Fabien Perrot (Live the Dream Member)

Furthermore, they had of course show their poker skills right at the table.

System-Wide Upgrade A Success!

Poker system-wide upgrade has been completed and totally operational to all our players. Thank you for your understanding.

See you at the tables!

System-Wide Upgrade Today

Due to a system-wide upgrade, in which we are fully upgrading our hardware to improve system reliability, Everest Poker will be down until Wednesday morning. As soon as this upgrade is finalized all players will be able to return to the EverestPoker.com tables.

We are sorry for any inconvenience and hope to see you at the tables then!

Winner Interview and Farewell

After an action packed weekend on Gran Canaria, we have now crowned the Everest Poker European Cup champion, Mikael Johansson from Sweden. Here you can see the last hand and the winner interview.

Interview with Pierre Canart

After a very short heads up, Belgian Pierre Canart finished second in EPEC and also led Belgium to the win in the Team Challenge.

Interview with Tamás Csibri

Tamás Csibri from Hungary finished 3rd in EPEC 2010 and is happy with his performance during the weekend.

Interview with Jesus Perez Tovar

Jesus Perez Tovar from Spain is a very happy 4th place finisher. Here he gives us his thoughts from the weekend and a greeting in Spanish.

Belgium Wins Team Challenge

Mikael Johansson Wins EPEC 2010

All the money went in pre flop in the first hand after the break where Johansson had King-Eight against the Ace-Nine of Canart from Belgium. The flop came 764 and Canart was in good shape to double up. A king on turn changed everything in Johansson's favour and the river nine ended it all. We have a winner and Canart is probably also pretty pleased with finishing 2nd. Interviews to come.

Johansson 1.4M, Canart 380K

We are on a very short break and the chip count is in the Swede Mikael Johansson's favour. He has 1,420,000 against Pierre Canart's 380,000, but anything can happen in poker.

Csibri out in 3rd place

Tamás Csibri from Hungary is eliminated in 3rd place as his King-Jack lost to Mikael Johansson's pocket eights. An interview with Tamás will be published soon here on the blog. We are now heads-up between Mikael Johansson in a nice lead against Pierre Canart from Belgium.

Perez out in 4th place

The blinds are really high right now and Perez went all-in from the button with Eight-Three and was called by Mikael Johansson on the big blind, holding Ace-Queen. The board came KQ8, T, 4 and Johansson eliminated Jesus Peres in 4th place earning €9,000.

Canart triples and doubles

We had a three-way all-in where Pierre Canart had Ace-Five against Jesus Perez with King-Nine and Mikael Johansson covering both players with Jack-Nine. The board came AK2, Q, 3 and Canart tripled to 230,000 and Perez won the 190,000 side pot. Johansson down to 650,000. In the hand after that, Canart was all-in again with pocket tens and was called by new chip leader Tamás Csibri with pocket Kings. Canart had the very dream flop, TT4 giving him four of a kind, and he doubled up again to 500,000.

Seydoux Eliminated in 5th place

Just after doubling Gael Seydoux up, Mikael Johansson got his revenge just one hand later. His King-Jack hit the flop J84 against Seydoux with Ace-Four. Turn and river didn't deliver the necessary ace for Seydoux and he goes home with €7,000 for his 5th place finish.

Perez and Seydoux doubles up

Mikael Johansson gets all-in with pocket Queens and is up against Ace-Nine of Gael Seydoux. No help for Gael on the flop, but an ace on turn gives him the lead an no queen on the river gives him the double up to 200,000. Johansson also doubled Perez up recently and has lost a lot of his chips, but still in the lead with 800,000.

Morten and Nuno after Elimination

Morten Kjaer Jensen finished 9th and Nuno Cardozo finished 7th here at EPEC 2010. Jensen wish he would have been more active, but Cardozo is overall super satisfied with the weekend.

Adriaans finishes 6th

Egi Adriaans went all-in with Ace-Four and was called by newly doubled up Jesus Perez. No help for Adriaans on the board and he finishes 6th earning €5,000.

Johansson in Huge Lead

We have come to a 15 minute break and Mikael Johansson now has around 1.1 million out of the total of 1.8 million in play. Still he is not over confident that he will take this tournament down.

Johansson losing some chips

In the latest two hands Mikael Johansson has doubled up both Tamás Csibri and Jesus Perez. Perez was way behind with Ace-Three against King-Nine with the board showing KQ38, but the river came another three and Perez is back in the match.

Aces again - Canart Doubles Up

For the second time in just a few minutes, we have seen pocket aces on the Final Table. this time it was Pierre Canart from Belgium that just raised, Egi Adriaans put him all-in with King-Jack and got an insta-call. The flop was a bit scary for the at risk Canart, QT4, giving Adriaans an open ended straight draw, but blank turn and river doubled Canart up to 110,000.

Johansson's Aces too much for Santos

Nuno Santos from Portugal moved all-in with Queen-Five of spades and got called by Mikael Johansson. As if he needed more luck with his cards, he found pocket aces which was enough to win the hand and eliminate Santos in 7th place earning €4,000.

Ariaans Doubles Up in ugly Fashion

Egi Ariaans from Belgium was extremely short stacked when he moved his last 40,000 over the line. He got called by Jesus Perez with pocket kings. The flop came Eight-Five-Five! Turn and river came Deuce-Deuce and Ariaans doubled up to 95,000.

Final Table Presentation at EPEC

We have reached the Final Table of EPEC 2010 and here are the nine finalists as they are introduced in front of the crowd.

Benjamin Rehm eliminated in 8th place

King-Jack for Benjamin Rehm who is all-in is up against Ace-Nine of Mikael Johansson. There are all low cards on the board and Rehm is eliminated in 8th place, earning €3,000. Johansson now has more than half of the chips in play.

Johansson Further Extends Lead

Swede Mikeal Johansson had 584,000 when the final table started. After dominating during the first hour, and eliminating Morten Kjaer Jensen, he is now up to 831,000 which is not to far from half of the chips in play.

Rehm Doubles up

Benjamin Rehm was shortstacked and got his money in with Ace-Ten against the pocket deuces of Egi Ariaans. The flop was blank, but an ace on the turn saved the night for Rehm, at least for now, and he doubled up to 140,000.

Jensen Eliminated in 9th Place

Dane Morten Kjaer Jensen moves all in from early position with Queen-Jack and gets called by the chip leader Mikael Johansson who holds King-Queen. No help for Jensen who gets eliminated in 9th place earning €2,000.

Seydoux doubles up

Short stacked Gael Seydoux calls all in pre flop with Ace-Queen and is up against Benjamin Rehm's Ace-Four. No help for Rehm and Seydoux is back in better shape on 140,000.

The Final Table has started

After the dinner break, all nine finalists are now back at the Final Table. All nine have the chance to win it, but there will be only one that takes down the first prize of €21,000.

Highlights from EPEC 2010

Here are some highlights from the EPEC weekend to show what a great event it was.

Dinner Break - Back at 22:00

Switzerland's Pascal Mathe was just eliminated by Mikael Johansson, earning €1,600, and that means we are down to nine players and the Final Table of EPEC 2010. We will have a long dinner break and will be back local time 22.00 (CET 23:00).

EPEC 2010 Final Table

Team Challenge just before Final Table

When only 9 players are left, here is the country team classification:

Johansson over a Half Million

Mikael Johansson from Sweden is now a HUGE chip leader with only ten players remaining. He is sitting with 525,000.

Tokle, Almeida, Sousa and Eriksen Eliminated

The chip leader at the start of the day, Morten Tokle from Norway, didn't get things going on Day 2 and was eliminated in 14th place earning €1,200. Three more players are also out and we are now very close to dinner break which will occur when we are down to the Final Table.

14 Norway Morten Tokle €1,200
13 Portugal Pedro Almeida €1,200
12 Portugal Rui Manuel Sousa €1,600
11 Norway Morten Eriksen €1,600

Closing in on the Final Table

Day 2 started with 36 players and quickly got down to 18 players. At this point, Tamás Csibri was leading the field, closely followed by Swede Mikael Johansson.

Opfer, Zarebski and Nordquist Out

We are down to 14 players as three were eliminated during the last 20 minutes.

Germany Michael Opfer €1,000
Poland Jerzy Zarebski €1,000
Sweden Bjorn Nordquist €1,200

Relaxation Time at EPEC 2010

Everest Poker always tries to make sure the players have some time to also enjoy the location when on tournaments like EPEC 2010. Katie Doyle tells us about the Sunday daytime activities at the beautiful player hotel Lopesan Baobab Resort on Gran Canaria.

Schmid Eliminated 18th

Samuel Schmid was recognized for wearing the best looking hat on Day 2. He will go him with a prize check of €1,000:

Two Tables Left - Gehrig Out

Former big stack Reto Gehrig from Switzerland, just got eliminated and we are now down to the final 18 players and we are on a short break to arrange the final two tables.

Horvath and van der Linden Out

The last standing female players, Petra Horvath and Elizabeth van der Linden, are now eliminated. There are only 19 players left in the tournament now. Here are the latest casualties:

27 Netherlands Remco €500
26 Italy Fabio Sani €500
25 Finland Jukka Saastamoinen €500
24 Spain Juan Francisco Fernandez €600
23 France Thierry Martinez €600
22 Finland Joel Tikka €600
21 Austria Petra Horvath €800
20 Netherlands Elizabeth van der Linden €800

Csibri taking over the Lead

Norway's Morten Tokle has dropped back a little, but is still on a very healthy 132,000. New chip leader is Hungary's Tamás Csibri on 173,000.

Quick Eliminations

Since this is a two-day tournament, at this point the structure is pretty steep. Alas, we had nine bust outs already and they will all get a prize check of €400. Now we will have a money jump and the next player to get eliminated will receive €600:

36 Austria Bernhard Weidinger
35 Denmark Alejandro Martinez
34 Germany Ronald Glaschke
33 Finland Esa Konttinen
32 Portugal Jorge Antunes
31 Denmark Dennis Lyhne
30 France Jerome Beaumont
29 Netherlands Rob Lupker
28 Austrian Andreas Szakal

The Prize Structure

The winner of EPEC 2010 will get €21,000 and the first players to bust will get €400. Here is the full pay-out structure:

1: €21.000
2: €16.000
3: €12.000
4: €9.000
5: €7.000
6: €5.000
7: €4.000
8: €3.000
9: €2.000
10-12: €1.600
13-15: €1.200
16-18: €1.000
19-21: €800
22-24: €600
25-27: €500
28-36: €400

Day 2 has Started

The cards are in the air! The 36 remaining players are seated at the four last tables. There are a lot of railers, and all players are chasing Morten Tokle who has a commanding lead at the start of the day. He is the only players on six figures with 165,500 with the second in chips, Pierre Canart from Belgium, with 95,500.

Chip Count at Start of Day 2

First Name Last Name Country Chipcount
Morten Tokle Norway 165000
Pierre Canart Belgium 95500
Miguel Santos Portugal 94000
Reto Gehrig Switzerland 92000
Michael Opfer Germany 90000
Tamas Csibri Hungary 83000
Björn Nordqvist Sweden 73000
Mikeal Johansson Sweden 70000
Benjamin Rehm Germany 67000
Morten Kjaer Jensen Denmark 58000
Jukka Saastamoinen Finland 57000
Andres Perez Spain 49000
Dennis Lyhne Denmark 48500
Fabio Sani Italy 47000
Gael Seydoux Switzerland 45000
Morten Eriksen Norway 45000
Ronald Glaschke Germany 44000
Andreas Szakal Austria 43000
Jerzy Zarebski Poland 42500
Pedro Almeida Portugal 41000
Remco Westra Holland 41000
Samuel Schmid Switzerland 41000
Jorge Macedo Portugal 40500
Juan Fernandez Spain 37000
Elizabeth van der Linden Holland 36500
Pascal Mathe Switzerland 36000
Alejandro Martinez Denmark 35500
Manuel Sousa Portugal 33500
Bernhard Weidinger Austria 33000
Joel Tikka Finland 29500
Thierry Martinez France 28500
Rob Lupker Holland 25500
Jerome Beaumont France 23000
Esa Konttinen Finland 21000
Egi Adriaans Belgium 19500
Petra Horvath Austria 15500

Tokle leads, Babic pleased with Day 1

After an long Day 1, the remaining players have left the tournament area and we got to talk to the chip leader of EPEC 2010 - Morten Tokle from Norway with 165,500. We also had a quick chat with tournament director Alen Babic who is very pleased with who things worked out in the best possible way throughout the Day 1.

Team Challenge (End of Day 1)

Adneram and Manetta Out - Day 1 is over

Oywind Adneram from Norway finished 38th in EPEC 2010, just two spots from the money. Just after that, Maurizio Manetta from Switzerland got eliminated in the dreaded 37th spot - the Bubble. As soon as it was clear that Day 1 was over, there was a lot of cheering among the players that made the money and will be back tomorrow.

Gehrig stays strong

Reto Gehrig from Switzerland has been strong throughout the day and closing in on the end, he sits with one of the biggest stacks in the room - 85,000:

Debutant van der Burg with mixed emotions

Only three weeks after playing poker for the very first time, Marika van der Burg from Holland managed to qualify to EPEC 2010. After some serious studying of the game before coming to EPEC, she enjoyed her very first live event despite a rough elimination.

Tokle from Norway in the lead

More and more players around the tables are beginning to feel tired after a long day of playing poker. One who stays sharp is Morten Tokle from Norway who is our current chip leader on 153,000.

Unlucky players with no Prize

To be eliminated just before, or on, the bubble in a tournament is usually very grim. With only three more bust outs to come today, these are the guys who finished in 39th to 44th place (numbers before the name is in which order they got eliminated):

140 Spain Alberto Garcia
141 Belgium Michel Hermanns
142 Sweden Fredrik Norstrom
143 Italy Alfonso Pipoli
144 Hungary Zoltan Karpati
145 Belgium Benoit Saintviteux

Two girls remaining - Horvath and van der Linden

We are now getting very close to the money as there are 39 players left, and 36 prizes. The best remaining girl is Elizabeth van der Linden on 47k. Petra Horvath from Austria, who just eliminated Fredrik Norström, is a bit shorter on 28k.

Norström Eliminated in 43rd spot

Fredrik Norström from Sweden was desperataly short stacked on 6,300 and found a spot to put his money in, holding Ace-Three. Unfortunately for him he was called by Austrian Petra Horvath with Ace-Ten, which was enough to win the hand and eliminate the Swede.

Eight Eliminations from The Money

Everyone remaining this deep into Day 1 is of course keen on making it to the money. Here are a few that fell shortly before the end of Day 1:

132 France Jean-Marc Lojacono
133 Netherlands Michael Floors
134 Italy Angelo Torrisi
135 Belgium Karel Baert
136 Hungary Roland Sagvari
137 Netherlands Renate Lugtig
138 France Karim Bendaoud
139 Belgium Patrick Aerts

Bendaoud, Nordqvist and Willemse at EPEC

After level 12, all the remaining players went on a 15 minute break. Here are two of them who are still in, Frenchman Karim Bendaoud and Swede Bjorn Nordqvist, followed by Live poker debutant Anita Willemse who unfortunately just got eliminated. The Dutch qualifier was happy anyway with the stay in Gran Canaria.

Pole Zarebski in the Lead

We have now entered level 14 and the only remaining Polish player in the tournament, Jerzy Zarebski, is in a comfortable lead on 130,000. He is the biggest favourite at this point to make it to the money.

Closing in on the Money

With only 52 players left in the field, we will have another 16 eliminations before the end of Day 1. The remaining 36 players will come back on Sunday's Day 2 and they will all be going home with a prize check. Here are the latest casualties:

116 Italy Stefano Orru'
117 Germany Matthias Rolenz
118 the Netherlands Wouter Nijland
119 Germany Nadja Rothbarth
120 Switzerland Julia Wurth
121 Belgium Christophe Decatoire
122 Portugal Natalio Santos
123 Austria Elmar Sillhengst
124 Poland Krzysztof Krzywinski
125 Finland Henri Koivisto
126 Portugal Alexandre Costa
127 Austria Martin Woldrich
128 Norway Johannes Rygh
129 France Damien-Felix Thevot
130 Denmark Carsten Gudso
131 Denmark Michael Hedefelt

69 Players Left

The elimination pace is ever increasing here at Gran Casino Costa Meloneras. Here are the latest bunch of railers:

89 Spain Pablo Cid Romero
90 Sweden Daniel Bencze
91 Finland Olli Hakkinen
92 Italy Fransesco Biffi
93 France Laurent Caillon
94 Italy Fabrizio Ferrera
95 Spain Jose Luis Escobar
96 Finland Herman Suovaara
97 France Renaud Baudenon
98 Poland Marcin Ligocki
99 Germany Alexandre Sokolov
100 Finland Mikko Jakonen
101 Spain Daniel Gonzalez
102 Sweden Peter Fange
103 Italy Andrea Gerola
104 France Fabien Boulange
105 Poland Damian Patyra
106 Germany Boris Karklins
107 Hungary Marta Ivan
108 Sweden Jan Appelquist
109 Hungary Amarilla Szalai
110 Germany Ralf Geibel
111 Netherlands Anita Willemse
112 Norway Serhat Tiryaki
113 Finland Jarno Luoma
114 Denmark Evan Kristensen
115 Portugal Antonio Quintela

EPEC 2010 Team Challenge

100 players are out, so we have another 83 to go before we have a champion. Meanwhile the Team Challenge ranking is the following:

Jensen, Johansson and van der Linden at Dinner

Three of the players that made it to the dinner break on Day 1 are Morten Kjaer Jensen, Denmark, Michael Johansson, Sweden and Elizabeth van der Linden. As we can see there it is a good mix of experienced and not so experienced players here at EPEC on Gran Canaria.

Johansson - King of Qualifying

Swede Mikael Johansson is probably the most succesful online qualifier in the whole of Europe, maybe also in the World. He has made qualifying to live events his speciality and it has brought him to something like 100 live events over the last three years...amazing.

Double Danish Drop-out

The last two players to leave the EPEC are both from Denmark, Christian Jacobsen and Marc Vendelbo. There are also Spaniards, Austrians, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Swiss, Belgian and Norwegian casualties since the last list of knock outs:
65 Spain Lazaro Fernandes
66 Austria Christian Angerer
67 Netherlands Daniel Jansen
68 Finland Juha Olsbo
69 Sweden Emanuel Karlen
70 Austria Alexander Muller
71 Poland Robert Owsiany
72 Portugal Hugo Ferro
73 Switzerland Daniel Hongler
74 Belgium Jonathan Claessens
75 Switzerland Brian Cuttaz
76 Poland Hanna Grudzinska
77 Hungary Laszlo Bukovszky
78 Netherlands Mariska van der Burg
79 Belgium Maxime Leblanc
80 Portugal Joao Quinteiro
81 Belgium Jonathan Koszulap
82 Austria Wolfgang Brommer
83 Switzerland Jimmy Cuttaz
84 Norway Olav Haugen
85 Spain Jorge Carlos Delgado
86 Denmark Michael Frausing Jensen
87 Denmark Christian Jacobsen
88 Denmark Marc Vendelbo

Lugtig on average with 100 left

Renate Lugtig from Holland is one of the most experienced players in the field and also, for sure, one of the best female players over all in her home country. Renate also finished second in Everest's $100,000 guarantee online a while ago. She is around average, 18,000, with 100 players left in the field.

17 more Eliminations

48 Switzerland Carole Wyss Guizouni
49 Netherlands Erik Dignum
50 Netherlands Luuk Mocking
51 Belgium Romeo Amirov
52 Switzerland Michael Steier
53 Finland Marko Laine
54 Norway Henrik Dahlgaard
55 Netherlands Marco
56 Switzerland Daniel Alvarez
57 Austria Wolfgang Eberhart
58 Hungary Peter Diamant
59 Portugal Carlos Coelho
60 Austria Ivelin Ivanov
61 France Sebastien Fayette
62 Belgium Kris Leppens
63 Austria Christoph Zeppetzauer
64 Belgium Stefan van de Wouwe

Adriaans in commanding position

Egi Adriaans with Dutch passport, but living in Belgium, is the outright chip leader when the tournament starts over after dinner. He sits with 81,000, but isn't pleased with that.
- I aim for another 19,000. Would be nice to pass six figures, he says.

Chip Leader Csibri and Doyle proud of EPEC

Katie Doyle is the Senior Global Events Coordinator at Everest Poker. So far, she couldn't be more pleased with the event as such. We also get a glimpse at the Hungarian chip leader just before the dinner brak, Tamás Csibri.

Dinner break

As always, Everest poker tries to make the most of a tournament. Tonight it is the Champions League final which most Europeans would hate to miss. Alas, they set the dinner break for two hours which enables all the football loving players to see the big match between Inter Milan and Bayern Münich. We'll be back at local time 22:00 (CET 23:00).

EPEC 2010 Team Challenge

Here is the Team Challenge classification at 19:45 GMT, when 53 of 184 are out:

Suovaara struggles

One of the Finnish players still in the tournament, Herman Suovaara, is struggling a little at the moment as he is down to 6,500.

Random chip counts

Jean-Marc Lojacono, France 34,000
Niels Aupperlee, Holland 23,000
Egi Adriaans Belgium 21,000
Alfonso Pipoli, Italy 19,000
David Munoz Sanz, Spain 18,000

Fast paced knock outs

Here are next bunch to hit the rail:

23 Switzerland Daniel Buhrer
24 Netherlands Johannes Franse
25 Spain Mikel Rollan Villacorta
26 Portugal Bruno Caldeira
27 Norway Jacob Lund
28 Poland Tomasz Szewczak
29 France David Denis
30 Spain Israel Vidal Lopez
31 the Netherlands Marcell Muller
32 Poland Pawel Jarzynski
33 Poland Pawel Kapalka
34 Poland Michal Zielinski
35 Belgium Ludovic Migeot
36 Spain David Munoz Sanz
37 Norway Knut Berntsen
38 Sweden Bobby Sjorgren
39 Italy Andrea Grella
40 Norway Bjorn Solheim
41 France Audrey Bernard
42 Hungary Gabor Budai
43 Portugal Renato Gomes
44 Spain Felix Gimenez
45 Norway Trond Sundby
46 Austria Hildegard Hruska
47 Sweden Daniel Roxbo

Bendaud doubles up

Karim Bendaud had a true dream flop when his QQ matched the Q-T-8 board. He bet out and his opponent, Zoltan Karpati from Hungary put him all-in. Bendaud insta-called of course and had to avoid a jack, since Karpati semi-bluffed with AK for a gut shot. The turn was a nine and river a four and Bendaud doubled up to 22,000. Karpati is down to 5,400.

EPEC 2010 Team Challenge

Here is the Team Challenge classification at 18:30 GMT, when we have 160 of 184 players playing:

Csibri in the lead

Hungarian player Tamás Csibri had a great start of Day 1 and is now up to 46,000. With that he is the chip leader so far here in Gran Canaria. Jean Marc Lojacano from France is also doing quite well, now on 36,000. Gael Seydoux from Switzerland is in the top ten on 23,000.

Ten more eliminations

As the blind levels increases, more and more players gets eliminated from the tournament. Here are the last ten casualties:

11 France Jerome Aufort
12 Sweden Hakan Skoglund
13 Austria Tobias Burtscher
14 Norway Stig Thomassen
15 Germany Jeffry Salaris
16 Finland Henri Pesola
17 Poland Szymon Bala
18 Finland Pauli Poikulainen
19 Poland Damian Baran
20 Denmark Morton Frandsen
21 Sweden Carl Johan Westerlund
22 Hungary Ferenc Meszaros

15 girls in the run

15 girls were among the starters today. Audrey Bernard from France is one of them and she is still just under starting stack for the day.

Rajaniemi eliminated

Petri Rajaniemi from Finland was the tenth player to be eliminated from EPEC 2010.

Renaud Baudenon

The French poker scene and Everest Poker is the favourite site of many Frenchmen. Renaud Baudenon is one of the 15 players from France that qualified to EPEC:

Renaud Baudenon

Rocio pleased with all at EPEC

Rocío van Nierop is Everest's Global Events Manager and she is very pleased with all the arrangements around EPEC 2010.

Nine players out

So far nine players have been eliminated.
David Näslund, Sweden
Matthias Schlegel, Germany
Emanuele Calcavecchia, Italy
Matthias Carlsson, Sweden
Adrian Krawczyk, Poland
Nicolas Degand, France
Marcus Recke, Germany
Fernando Joaquín Méndez, Spain
Andrzej Dziob, Poland

Alen Babic runs the Show

Alen Babic is a very experinenced tournament director. He is here in Gran Canaria to make sure everything runs smoothly.

All Seats are Taken

Player Out!

In one of the very first hands of the day, Swede David Näslund was eliminated from the tournament. Näslund had Ace-King against an opponents Ace-Ace. The AA player raises to 12 BB, 600, from cut-off, Näslund calls from button and big blind calls too. Flop came A, 8, 4 and there is a continuation overbet of 2,000, Näslund calls again. The turn is another eight, the AA player goes all-in for another 7,000 and Näslund feels a bit sick, but makes the call and is drawing dead. French player is of course chip leader on 20,000.

The EPEC Tournament has Started

With around 200 players seated, tournament director Alen Babic welcomed all to this amazing contest. Cards are in the air. Good luck to everyone!

EPEC about to Start

We are looking forward to a great weekend here at the Everest Poker European Championship Finale. Everest's PR manager Marco Trucco was deeply involved in choosing the location and he couldn't be more pleased.

EPEC Kick's it off with a Great Party

When Everest Poker arranges a weekend for their players, they make sure they will enjoy themselves. On Friday the EPEC weekend at Gran Canaria kicked off with a really nice party.

LITC Members Truche and Perrot at EPEC

In January ten Everest Poker players became the new members of the Live The Dream Team. Two of them were French, Leo Truche and Fabien Perrot. Now they are here in Gran Canaria to help other players by coaching them and giving them some advice on how to become a good, live player.

Yukatonis Welcomes all Everest Players in Gran Canaria

It is the day before the start of Day 1 of the Everest Poker European Championship Finale in Gran Canaria. Everest's Vice President of marketing, Bill Yukatonis, welcomes all the qualifiers to a great event and tells us a little bit about that special Everest atmosphere.

WPT Barcelona Day 2

Update: 23H50 End of Day 2

It's the end of Day 2 WPT Barcelona, there are 47 players remaining with an average of 104,400 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff ended the day with 147,200 chips.
He has indeed lost a big pot with A K against the Q Q and J J of his opponents ...

We therefore give you an appointment tomorrow at 3pm from the coverage of Day 3 of the WPT Barcelona. The day promises to be busy with the bursting of the bubble that is fast approaching.

Update: 23H20 Steven up to 211,000 chips!

There are 47 players remaining with an average of 104,042 chips and 20 minutes to play in level 16 (1,500/3,000-300).

After being up to 176,600 chips, Steven raised the Big Blind to 7,200.

A player on a UTG+3 shoved for 27,500 chips.

Everyone folded and Steven called with 2s 2d.

His opponent shows Ah Jh.

The board is: 8c Ks 5h .... 2c 6d

Steven sent his opponent out with a trips of 2 and won 27,500 with the blinds and ante totalling 6,900 more chips, so in total a win of 34,400 chips.

Our Team Everest player, Steven Van Zadelhoff, has therefore grown a stack of 211,000 chips and he's now ranked among the biggest stacks in the tournament!

Update: 22H25 Steven rises to 158,000 with a set of aces!

Steven was down to 110,000 chips after he lost a coin flip with 8 8 against the A K served on the flop for his opponent.

Then he discovered A A again and paid the All In of his opponent.
Nothing on the board. He's now up to 158,000 chips!

We're at level 14 with blinds at 1,200/2,400 and a 300 Ante. There are 57 players remaining and the average is 85,789 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff now has more than twice the average with 158,000 chips.

Update: 22H00 Steven Van Zadelhoff up to 134,000 chips!

After 1h30 of patience, during which Steven was card dead, he's now up to 134,000 chips in just two hands!

With the first hand Steven is up to 96,000 with a trips of 3 and two players to call his raise.

On the next move Steven is Big Blind for 2,400, the button raised to 5,100 and the small blind pushes all-in for 34,000 chips. Steven paid with A A, the button folded.

The small blind shows Kh Th.

The board (3 6 6 5 2) allowed our Team Everest player to reach the 134,000 chips!

Update: 19H40 Dinner Break

It's the dinner break and there are 69 remaining players enjoying an hour of free time.

The blinds will resume at 1,000/2,000 with a 200 Ante at Level 13.

The average is 70,869 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff changed from his table just before the break and he has an average of 70,000 chips.

Update: 18H40 Elimination of Maria by Steven

Our two players of Team Everest just went head to head.

Maria Maceiras pushed all-in for her last 10,000 chips with Qh 7h and Steven called with A 9.

Maria has a flush, but unfortunately for our Spanish player, Steven has a Full House with A A 9 9 9 ..

Maria Maceiras leaves the WPT Barcelona prematurely after 2 days play.

Steven Van Zadelhoff is the only player from Team Everest remaining on the list for the WPT Barcelona with a stack of 76,000 chips.

Update: 17H50 Steven Van Zadelhoff doubled up

We are at level 11 with blinds at 600/1,200 and a 100 Ante and there are only 87 players remaining at the second day of the WPT Barcelona.

After falling to 24,000 chips, Steven Van Zadelhoff just double up his stack after he pushed All In with A 3 offsuit against As Qs for his opponent. A pair of 3 hit the flop. He's now up to 46,000 chips.

Note that our two players of Team Everest are found side by side at the same table.

Steven Van Zadelhoff won 10,000 with an aggressive move with Q Q in hand against the same opponent.

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 56,000 chips
Maria Maceiras: 15,700 chips

Update: 16H30 End of Level 9

It's the end of Level 9, we are now at level 10 with blinds at 500/1,000 and a 100 Ante. There are 114 players remaining in the tournament with an average of 42,894 chips.

Here is an updated chip count of our Team Everest players.

Steven van Zadelhoff: 36,000 chips
Maria Maceiras: 14,000 chips

Update: 16H20pm Elimination of Antoine Saout

Our November Nine has just suffered three consecutive bad shots that pushed him toward the exit.

Antoine lost a first coin flip with A K against 7 7 for a pot of 36,000.

He has lost a second coin flip with 6 6 against A T for a pot of 25,000.

Then he's down to 23,000 chips at the end of Level 9.

So we are at the last hand before the end of Level 9 and here is the preflop action:

1. A short stacked player in a UTG position shoved for 4,900 chips with 2 T.
2. Antoine, at the cutoff, pushes all-in for his last 23,000 chips with Qs Js.
3. The big blind called the two players with J J.

Unfortunately the board will not save our November Nine who found the exit prematurely.

Update: 15H40

Steven lost more than the half his stack on a blow!

Here is the action:

1. UTG opens to 1,600 preflop.
2. One player called, then Steven called and the button shoved all-in for 16,000.
3. Everyone folded and Steven called with 9 9 against the A 8 of his opponent.
4. The player in UTG position said that he has folded an ace!
5. An ace came on the flop and Steven lost more than 17,600 chips.

Just 5 minutes later, Steven has pocket Aces in his hand and a player pushed All In with A Q off suit, Steven called and came back to 25,000 chips!

Day 2

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Barcelona 2010 at the Casino Barcelona.

138 of the 335 total entrants have started Day 2 with a buy in of 3,500€. Players start at Level 9 with blinds at 400/800 with a 100 Ante.
Levels last 60 minutes and today players will play until Level 16.

3 players of Team Everest have started today:

Antoine Saout: 62,900 chips
Steven van Zadelhoff: 29,900 chips
Maria Maceiras: 10,100 chips

Stay tuned for day 2 which looks to be very exciting, with 138 players who will compete for a prize pool of € 1,043,200 with 36 ITM and a WPT Bracelet for the Winner!

1. 315.000€ + WPT seat in Las Vegas final + Tiffany bracelet
2. 160.000€
3. 81.000€
4. 71.000€
5. 61.000€
6. 51.000€
7. 41.000€
8. 31.000€
9. 21.400€
10-12. 12.000€
13-15. 10.000€
16-18. 8.000€
19-27. 6.300€
28-36. 4.900€

WPT Barcelona Day 3

Steven Van Zadelhoff finished 13th of the WPT Barcelona

After being the tournament chip leader with 925,000 chips, Steven lost a big pot with AJ against 99 and he was down to 400,000 chips. He had then push down the rest of his chips against two pair for his opponent and find the way out at the doors of the final table.

It's a fantastic course for our Dutch player who reached the semi finals of the WPT Paris and now the WPT Barcelona. He finished thirteenth of the WPT Barcelona and won € 10,000.
We shall find Steven shortly for the 3LT Baden and in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker.

Update 5:35pm : Level 18

We're at level 18 for blinds at 3000 / 6000, 500 Ante, and there is only 25 players remaining for an average of 195,000 chips.

Steven is still in good position with 335K.

Update 5pm : Steven Van Zadelhoff among the chipleaders of the WPT Barcelona

Steven Van Zadelhoff from the Team Everest is now up to 334,000 chips!

On the first hand just after the bubble, Steven discovers TT and an aggressive player shove all-in for 150,000 chips with 88. Insta Call from Steven, who won the confrontation and he's now up to 334,000 chips!

Update 4.45pm : Steven Van Zadelhoff In The Money!

The bubble has just exploded here at the WPT Barcelona and Steven Van Zadelhoff has a comfortable stack of 184,000 chips. !

He has just changed to a new table and is now seated next to Tristan Clémençon.

Update 4:17 pm : Level 17 - no more than 40 players ...

We're at level 17 (2 500 / 5 000 - 500) and there is only 40 players remaining for an average of 122,250 chips.

Only four players to go before the bubble ..

Update 3.40pm: : Steven Van Zadelhoff: 175,200 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff fell to 132,000 chips at the beginning of the tournament with the blinds and aggressive raising of his opponents.

He's on the button when 2 players call the big blind to 4 000 and then Steven raise to 17,000 chips. Everyone fold except one player.

The flop is K K K: both players check
The turn is an 8: Opens his opponent to pay 15,000 and Steven.
The river is an 8: His opponent checks and Steven bet 40,000 chips - fold by the other player!

Steven Van Zadelhoff therefore takes 43,200 chips on this one and set up a stack of 175,200 chips.

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Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Barcelona 2010 at the Casino Barcelona.

47 players have started the Day 3 on the 335 entrants for an initial buy in of € 3,500. Players start at level 16 for blinds at 2,000 / 4,000 and 400 Ante.

The levels last 60min and the tourney will last until the level 26 and/or until there are no more than 8 players in the tournament.

1 player from Team Everest have started the day 3:

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 147 200 chips

The day promises to be busy with the bursting of the bubble that is fast approaching. There is 47 players for 36 ITM. Reminder of the prize pool of € 1,043,200:

1. 315.000€ + WPT seat in Las Vegas final + Tiffany bracelet
2. 160.000€
3. 81.000€
4. 71.000€
5. 61.000€
6. 51.000€
7. 41.000€
8. 31.000€
9. 21.400€
10-12. 12.000€
13-15. 10.000€
16-18. 8.000€
19-27. 6.300€
28-36. 4.900€

Stay connected to follow the players of Team Everest during the tournament.

WPT Barcelona Day 1 B

Update: 1H00 End of Day 1B

It's the end of Day 1B and Maria Maceiras just experienced three hours of nightmarish hands. Despite the fact that she was at a relatively easy table, she hasn't seen any good cards for nearly three hours and did not have enough chips to take any risks.

She has managed to win some small pots that have allowed her to stay alive but she has ended the day with a short stack of 10,100 chips.

The day ends after 8 hours of play, there are 88 players remaining of the 192 entrants with an average of 32,727 chips.

Join us again tomorrow at 3 pm for the coverage of the Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Barcelona. You'll be able to follow our three Everest Poker players:

Antoine Saout: 62,900 chips
Steven Van Zadelhoff: 29,900 chips
Maria Maceiras: 10,100 chips

See you tomorrow for Day 2 which looks to be very rich with action. 138 players will compete for a prize pool of € 1,043,200 with 36 ITM and a WPT Bracelet for the Winner!

Update: 21H40

Here is the prizepool for the WPT Barcelona :

1. 315.000€ + WPT seat in Las Vegas final + Tiffany bracelet
2. 160.000€
3. 81.000€
4. 71.000€
5. 61.000€
6. 51.000€
7. 41.000€
8. 31.000€
9. 21.400€
10-12. 12.000€
13-15. 10.000€
16-18. 8.000€
19-27. 6.300€
28-36. 4.900€

Update: 21H15 Elimination of Javier Martinez

The tournament recommenced at Level 5 with blinds at 150/300. Sortly after he came back from the dinner break, Javier found himself with a stack of 13,000 chips.

The action started after this flop: Ad 8h 7c.

Javier is big blind and he's in a heads up against Roger Hairabedian who opened to 725 and Javier paid.

The turn is: Qc

Roger bet 2,050 and our SPT Ibiza Winner raised to 6,300.

His opponent then shove all-in and Javier called for his last chips.

Javier showed Q 8 for two pair. Roger will show 7 7 -three of a kind ...

Unfortunately the river will not save Javier who is now out.

In the meantime, Maria Maceiras has almost doubled her stack and now has 15,500 chips.

Update: 19H30 Dinner Break

It's time for the dinner break. Our Everest Poker players are still in the race and will come back in an hour for 3 more hours of play.

Here is an updated chip count:

Maria Maceiras: 8,400 chips
Javier Martinez: 20,000 chips

Update: 19H00 Level 4

There are 30 minutes remaining to play in Level 4 with blinds at 100/200.
153 players are still competing for a average of 18,823 chips.

Here is an updated chip count of our Everest Poker players:

Maria Maceiras: 9,000 chips

After falling to 4,000 chips, Maria was patient and able to come back to 9,000 chips. She still needs to double up to be aggressive in the tournament.

Javier Martinez: 18,800 chips

Update: 18H00 Level 3

174 players remaining of the 192 entrants of Day 1B.

We are at Level 3 with blinds at 75/150 and 174 players remain out of 192 entrants today.

The average is 16,551 chips.

Update: 17H10 End of Level 2

It's the end of level 2 and players enjoy a 10 minute break.

Maria Maceiras just lost a huge pot of 20,000 chips and finds herself short stacked with her 4,000 remaining chips.

Maria had a straight max with 7 8 with a board of 5 6 A 6 4.

But unfortunately for our great Spanish player, her opponent shows a Full House with an A 6.

Javier Martinez is back to 15,300 chips by playing a game more aggressive and more suited to the players around him.

Update: 16H30 Level 2

Maria Maceiras is up to 24,000 chips!

Maria wins 2,100 chips on a first hit with a double pair Q T against the K K of her opponent.

Maria then wins 8,000 chips with a Full House 9 9 J J J against the straight 9 T J Q K A of her opponent with the board A 9 9 T J.

Javier Martinez was in a difficult period. Despite the fact that he had good hands, he's now down to 1, 000 chips. After two unfavorable flops (straight draw and then flush draw)and an aggressive raise from Roger Hairabedian.

Update: 15H40 Level 1

The players started the tournament 40 minutes ago with blinds at 25/50.

Javier Martinez is seated at the same table as Roger Hairabedian and Rui Cao.

Maria Maceiras begins the tournament with a smile.

Start of Day 1B

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Barcelona 2010 Day 1B at the Casino Barcelona.

140 players are expected for today's touranment with a buy in of € 3,500. Players start with 15,000 in chips with levels of 60 minutes.

Two Everest Poker players have started today:

Maria Maceiras - Team Everest - Spain
Javier Martinez Gil - Live The Dream Team - Spain

Stay connected to follow our players during the tournament.

WPT Barcelona Day 1A

Update: 01H00: End of Day 1A

It's the end of day 1A at the WPT Barcelona, there are 50 players remaining of the 134 entrants. The average chipcount is 40,200 chips.

After eight hours of play, our two Team Everest players are still in the race and will come back on Friday for Day 2!

Antoine Saout ends with 62,900 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff ended the day with 29,900 chips.

We look forward to seeing you tomorrow to attend Day 1B of the WPT Barcelona.

Update: 23H15: Level 7

67 players are still competing in Day 1A of the WPT Barcelona and the average is 30,000 chips.

There are 30 minutes remaining to play in Level 7 with blinds at 200/400 and a 50 Ante.

That leaves 1 hour and 30 minutes to play today and our Team Everest players are still going strong!

Here is their updated chip count:

Antoine Saout: 51,000 chips

Antoine gradually built his stack after playing a large number of hands.

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 20,000 chips

Steven is progressing slowly but surely and he's playing rather tight.

Update: 22H00: Level 6

Antoine Saout and Steven Van Zadelhoff are in good positions.

We are half way through level 6 with blinds at 150/300 and a 25 Ante, there are only 77 players remaining and the average is 26,103 chips.

Here is an updated chipcount of our players of Team Everest:

Antoine Saout: 30,000 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 18,300 chips

Our Team Everest players have had very good starts at their new tables.

Update: 20H30

It's the end of level 5 and there are 85 players remaining of the 134 entrants. They take advantage of an hour dinner break.

The average is 23,647 chips.

The players will return in an hour for Level 6 with blinds at 150/300 and a 25 Ante.

Update: 20H25: Final confrontation between our two players from Team Everest

Steven Van Zadelhoff raised the big blind up to 850 chips and is paid by Antoine Saout in the position of .... Big Blind!

The flop is 2s 6d Ad and both players check.

The turn is a 4c.

Antoine bet 1,350 and he's paid by Steven.

The river is 9c.

Antoine then raised up to 3,600 chips and Steven checked.

Antoine then shows Ah 6h for two pair and Steven mucked his hand after seeing an ace. This 2nd confrontation was really similar to the first one.

Antoine Saout now has more than 27,000 chips.

Steven has now decreased to 10,000 chips.

The table breaks just after this hand and both players are now located at two different tables.

Update: 20H20: Antoine Saout Doubles Up

Antoine Saout finds himself short stacked again after the flop several times without success.

With a stack of 10,800 chips he opens in a UTG+2 position to 725 and a player who always re-raises him raises to 2,200!

After all the other players fold their hands, Antoine pushes all-in for his last 10,000 chips. He has 6h 8h and he's paid by 7c 7h.

The board is: Th 8d Jd Jc 3h

So Antoine Saout doubles up his stack and he's now up to 21,000 chips!

Update: 19H30: End of Level 4

It's the end of level 4 and players enjoy a 10 minute break before Level 5 begins with blinds at 150/300.

Antoine Saout is down to 11,450 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff is at 15,000 chips.

Steven told us that he had to fold with J J and Q Q during this level after some aggressive raising by his opponents and the flop against him.

Note that the first confrontation between our two players of Team Everest for a 1,600 chip pot has taken place.

The flop wasn't favorable for either player: Steven won this confrontation with A 6 against...A 5 for Antoine Saout!

Update: 18H30 Antoine Saout Double Up

We are at Level 4 (100/200), there are 114 players remaining from the 134 entrants of Day 1A and the average is 17,631 chips.

Antoine Saout was able to come back to 9,500 chips, and then this happened:

The opponent to his right opened to 550 and Antoine, in a position UTG+3, raises to 1,350, called by the other player.

The flop is Js 6s 3d.

Antoine Saout put in 1,675 and his opponent raised to 6,000.

Our November Nine decided to push all-in and his opponent called after a slight hesitation.

Antoine then showed Ks Jh against Ts 9s for his opponent!

The turn is a 2c and the river is a 9.

Antoine Saout doubled up his stack to 19,000 chips! He's now above the average.

Steven is down to 13,000 chips.

Update: 18H15: End of Level 2

It's the end of level 2 and players enjoy a 15 minute break.

Antoine Saout just lost 9,700 chips after making an aggressive move with K Q while his opponent had Pocket Aces in hand. He then finds himself short stacked with 5,400 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff climbed to 19,000 chips and fell back to 16,000 chips just before the break.

Level 3 starts in 15 minutes with blinds at 75/150.

Update: 16H30: Antoine Saout and Steven Van Zadelhoff are seated at the same table

It is the beginning of level 2, the blinds are at 50/100 and our two players of Team Everest are playing at the same table!

Antoine Saout: 12,200 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 14,000 chips

Day 1 Begins!

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Barcelona 2010 at the Casino Barcelona.

130 players are expected today for the start of Day 1A for a buy in of € 3,500. Players start with 15,000 in chips with levels of 60 minutes.

Two of our Team Everest players have started today:

Antoine Saout AKA tonio292 from France
Steven Van Zadelhoff AKA Viktor_ from the Netherlands

Stay tuned to follow the evolution of our players of Team Everest during the tournament.

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Final Day- Spanish Poker Tour Ibiza 2010

Javier is keeping the Cup in Spain!

It's 4:30 am and after a four and a half hour heads-up the decision is finally made. Javier is the champion of the Spanish Poker Tour Ibiza 2010!

When Tobi started the final table as the chip leader with Javier following directly behind it was quite clear that this might climax to a Live the Dream Team players' heads-up. The heads-up began with Javier as chipleader (3x). However, after two hours Tobi had fought his way back to the top. Fans and other players were following the game on the live stream and via Facebook.

The atmosphere was really heating up until finally, Tobi with K Q and Q 9 8 on the board (giving him the top pair and a flush draw), pushed all-in. Javier called holding 9 8. The turn and river did not have an impact and Javier was crowned SPT Ibiza Champion 2010 winning 47,000 EUR!

Tobi still has a good readon to smile!

Update: Stay tuned and follow us on our live stream:

Update: Here is the ranking:

3) Leo Margets

4) Tim Dackombe

5) Yori Epskamp

6) Wouter Jongejan

7) Pieter Burgers

8) Thomas Kohl

9) Victor Mendecuti

10) Juan Segovia
11) Steven King
12) Laura Cantero
13) Leonard Truche (he lost against Tobi's Full House)
14) Antoine Borriello
15) Martin Brinkmann
16) Pepo Lanzoni
17) Oscar Valladolid
18) Rafael Canoira
19) Victor Gomila (the chip leader of day 1)

Update: 00H20

Javier kicked Leo Margets out of the tournament. So it's a Live the Dream Team players' heads-up between Javier and Tobi!

Chipcount:
Javier: 1,740,000 chips
Tobi: 440,000 chips

Blinds: 10,000-20,000/Ante 2,000

It's a great finale: Spain vs. Germany!

Update: 21H00

The Final Table of the SPT Ibiza:

Level 19
Average: 250,000 chips
Blinds: 5,000-10,000/Ante 1,000

1) Tobias Wagner: 579,000 chips
2) Javier Martinez Gil: 484,000 chips
3) Tim Dack: 347,000 chips
4) Leo Margets: 299,000 chips
5) Victor Mendi: 144,000 chips
6) Pieter Burgers: 107,000 chips
7) Wouter Jongejan: 79,000 chips
8) Yori Epskamp: 75,000 chips
9) Thomas Kohl: 69,000 chips

Two Live the Dream Team players are leading the tournament! Go guys!

Update: 21H00

Mark van der Loo, the Dutch top model, won the Side Event against Jo Max Krautwald. He takes home 40,000 EUR.

Udpate: 20H45

We have a final table. Juan Segovia got kicked out of the tournament, he was the last man standing from Ibiza.

Update: 20H40

German Live the Dream Team player, Tobias Wagner, kicks out two at once with A A K K!

Laura Cantero from Spain and Steven King from Liverpool hear the fatal words: "seat open".

Update: 19H45

We are at heads-up at the 300 EUR Side Event.

Dutch Top Model, Mark van der Loo, and Jo Max Krautwald from Germany go head to head.

Level 17
Blinds: 1,000-2,000/Ante: 300

Update: 19H30

We are in level 17 with 14 players left.

Blinds: 3,000-6,000/Ante: 500
Average: 160,714 chips

We are at the bubble!

Victor Gomila, the chip leader of day 1, takes it with a smile!

Update: Opening 17H30

In about half an our we are going to start day 3 of the Spanish Poker Tour at Casino de Ibiza.

Javier Martinez, our Spanish Live the Dream Team player finished as the chip leader yesterday! Also playing from the Live the Dream Team are Tobi Wagner from Germany and Leo Truche from France.

Chip counts:

Javier Martínez: 369,400 chips
Steven King: 214,500 chips
Leo Margets: 221,300 chips
Tobias Wagner: 158,000 chips
Yori Epskamp: 154,000 chips
Juan Segovia: 147,300 chips
Víctor Mendicuti: 133,000 chips
Antoine Borriello: 119,900 chips
Pieter Burger: 117,600 chips
Wouter Jongejan: 101,300 chips
Laura Cantero: 80,700 chips
Leo Truche: 77,200 chips
Óscar Valladolid: 59,200 chips
Tim Dackombe: 53,300 chips
Martin Brinkmann: 53,000 chips
Víctor Gomila: 52,100 chips
Rafael Canoira: 44,600 chips
Pepo Lanzoni: 30,100 chips
Thomas Kohl: 24,000 chips

Day 2 - Spanish Poker Tour Ibiza

Update: 4H44

End of day 2

We are down to 19 players and the first player out tomorrow will be the unlucky bubble. So, this is going to be an interesting start.

We have 3 Everest Poker players still in the tournament:

Javier Martínez: 369,400 chips
Steven King: 214,500 chips
Leo Margets: 221,300 chips
Tobias Wagner: 158,000 chips
Yori Epskamp: 154,000 chips
Juan Segovia: 147,300 chips
Víctor Mendicuti: 133,000 chips
Antoine Borriello: 119,900 chips
Pieter Burger: 117,600 chips
Wouter Jongejan: 101,300 chips
Laura Cantero: 80,700 chips
Leo Truche: 77,200 chips
Óscar Valladolid: 59,200 chips
Tim Dackombe: 53,300 chips
Martin Brinkmann: 53,000 chips
Víctor Gomila: 52,100 chips
Rafael Canoira: 44,600 chips
Pepo Lanzoni: 30,100 chips
Thomas Kohl: 24,000 chips

Day 3 will start tomorrow at 6pm.

Pix, pix, pix...

As we had questions on our the Spanish Poker Tour Facebook fanpage we are posting the pay-out structure of the SPT Ibiza:

1) 47,000 EURO
2) 24,000 EURO
3) 14,100 EURO
4) 10,600 EURO
5) 8,800 EURO
6) 7,200 EURO
7) 5,700 EURO
8) 4,200 EURO
9) 2,700 EURO
10-12) 2,300 EURO
13-15) 2,000 EURO
16-18) 1,700 EURO

If you too have anything you would like to receive information about, just make a post at our facebook wall.

Update: 20H30

Let's have a look at the current chip counts of our Everest Poker players:

At the Feature Table you can see Fabien with 7,400 chips and Javier with 15,000 chips.

Leo: 32,000 chips
Francesco: 20,000 chips
Koen: 14,000 chips
All at the same table at this time.

Tobi just went all-in with 8 8 against 5 5. Unfortunately, the turn showed another 5, so Tobi lost this pot. But he still holds 32,000 in chips! Great!

Raffle of the day:

Let us know what you think:

-Who is going to be the chip leader of today and estimate the chip stack?

Participating is very easy. Go to www.facebook.com/spanishpokertour, become a fan by pushing the "I like" button and post your guess on the wall.

The winner will get a goody bag filled with Everest Poker surprises!

Update: 19H00

Maria started the day quite short (9,725 chips) and could not rebuild her stack. She is out of the tournament. But there will be a Ladies event tomorrow- we'll see if she is going to join.

Update: 18H00

We started with 96 players at day 1 with an average chip count of about 23,000.

Tonight we will be playing until about 4:30 in the morning or until we have our Final Table.

The starting lineup of today's Everest Poker players are Tobias Wagner, Javier Martinez, Maria Maceiras, Koen de Bakker, Leo Truche and Fabien Perrot.

At the Feature Table of the first round of live streaming we have beautiful Leo Marget from Spain.

Day 1- Spanish Poker Tour Ibiza

LIVE STREAMING!

End of day 1

Players: 96
Average: 23,031

Update: 3H48

We are in the middle of level 7 with 107 remaining players.
The average chip count is 21,028.
Blinds: 200-400/Ante 50

Javier made it from 10,000 chips to 30,000 with K K against Q - woohooo! Keep going!

The others are defending their stacks:
Tobias: 26,000 chips
Francesco: 25,000 chips
Leo: 24,000 chips
Fabien: 18,000 chips
Koen: 10,000 chips
Maria: 7,000 chips

Dutch player, Jacob van Wijk, kicked Antoine from the table:
Jacob held 7 8 hearts, Antoine 9 10 hearts, with another 7 on the board. Antoine's fate was sealed.

Update

Aranjuez Champion Catarina Santos is out.
She got busted with a straight against a flush.
Give it up for Catarina!

Update: 1H00

We've reached Level 5 with 127 remaining players.
The average chip count is 17,716.

And here you see how our players are doing:

Francesco de Vivo: 33,000 chips
Tobi Wagner: 31,000 chips
Koen de Bakker: 17,000 chips
Fabien Perrot: 17,000 chips
Antoine Saout: 16,000 chips
Leo Truche: 15,000 chips
Javier Martinez: 10,000 chips
Maria Maceiras: 8,000 chips

Welcome to Day 1!

After a great success in Aranjuez the Spanish Poker Tour is now being hosted on the beautiful island of Ibiza!

Once more the well-known tour presents itself with the proven structure with 15,000 chips starting stack and 60 minute blind levels. This allows players to have a smooth entry into the tournament and work their way to their share of the fantastic 150,000 EUR prize pool.

The main event starts at 8pm local time - we have 148 players registered. We are welcoming our Team Everest and Live the Dream Team players: Maria Maceiras, Javier Martinez, Antoine Saout, Leo Truche, Fabien Perrot, Tobias Wagner, Koen de Bakker and Francesco de Vivo.

The floor

Javier

Tobi

Dutch male model Mark van der Loo

Koen

Francesco

Maria

Day 4 of WPT Paris

Steven Van Zadelhoff finished in 11th place at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris!

After four days of tournament, Steven Van Zadelhoff finished 11th at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris and won €46,955!

The best players in the world competed in Paris for the WPT and our Team Everest player has performed excellently!

It was against the tournament chip leader, Theo Jorgenssen, that our player ended his time at the final table.

In the small blind position, Steven pushed all-in after a raise of 25,000 from Theo. He was called by 9 9 against his K Q.

Unfortunately, the board does not, help our Team Everest player:
T A 3 8 7

No doubt that we will continue to see great things from our excellent Dutch player at other tournaments and we congratulate him for this very good performance!

Go Steven!

Update: 20H00

There are only 11 players remaining in the WPT Paris.

Patrick Bruel is out of the tourney and we are now at Level 19 with blinds at 5 000/10 000 and 1 000 Ante.

Steven has a surprise guest...Fabrice Soulier came down to support and congratulate his Team Everest teammate!

Update: 19h4

6 players remain at Steven's table.

Steven is still here and he has 185,000 chips.

Updated chipcount of the players present at his table:

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 185,000 chips
Fabrice Touil: 840,000 chips
Andrew Teng: out
Alex Kravchenko: out
Quinn Savage: 390,000 chips
Jimmy Ostensson: 980,000 chips - chipleader
Per Linde: 520,000 chips
Théo Jorgenssen: 900,000 chips

Update: 19H00

Elimination of Andrew Teng.

Only one hour remains until the end of level 18 (4,000/8,000-1,000) and only 13 players remain here at WPT Paris.

The 13 remaining players are now guaranteed to win €46,955!

Steven Van Zadelhoff has a stack of 185,000 chips.

Update: 18H30

This is the beginning of level 18, the blinds are at 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante.

After the elimination of Bruno Lopez aka "Kool Shen" and Christopher Benzimra, there are only 14 players remaining in the semi finals of the WPT Paris.

The average is 529,285 chips and our Dutch player has 200,000 chips...he's ready to fight to reach the final table!

Update: 17H37

Steven Van Zadelhoff has made it to the semifinals!

Two players are out, there are only 16 players remaining at the WPT Paris. The tables break to create two, each with 8 players.

Steven has 209,000 chips.

Update: 17H15

A new level has been reached with the subsequent elimination of Michael Kwiek and Eric Haik.

There is one hour left to play in level 17 (3,000/6,000-500) and the 18 remaining players are already guaranteed to win €35,213!

The average chipcount is 411,666 and Steven has 230,000 chips.

Update: 16H35

This is the end of level 16, 20 players remain with an average of 370,500 chips.

The chip leader is Jimmy Ostensson with over 800,000 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff has a stack of 210,000.

The tournament resumes at level 17 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 with a 500 Ante.

Update: 15H17

We have made it to level 16 (2,500/5,000–500) and after only 20 minutes there are 22 players remaining!

Everest Poker's Steven Van Zadelhoff started the tournament with 208,000 chips and has just won 57,000 against Nourredine Aittaleb!

Nourredine opened with 13,000 chips and Steven called.

The flop is: 3d 7d Ad

Nourredine bet 11,000 and Steven called.

Turn: 9d

Nourredine bet 11,000 and Steven called again.

River: 6h

Nourredine bet 11,000 followed by a raise of 60,000 from Steven...opponent folds!

A win of 57,000 chips that leaves our Team Everest player with a stack of 265,000 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff’s is at a high level table.

Chipcounts:

Antony Lellouche (out)
Christophe Benzimra: 278,000 chips
Antoine Amourette: 455,000 chips
Gabriel Nassif: 38,000 chips
Fabrice Touil : 555,000 chips
Nourredine Aitaleb : 234,000 chips
Andrew Tangi: 392,000 chips
Steven Van Zadelhoff: 265,000 chips

Day 4

Hello and Welcome to the coverage of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2010 at the Aviation Club de France.

247 players have started the tournament and there are only 25 players remaining for day 4 with an average of 296,400 chips. Each one of these players has one target: The Final Table!

Each level will last 90 minutes and there is a 15 minute break before each.

One player from Team Everest has made it to day 4 :

Steven Van Zadelhoff-Viktor

Stay tuned to follow the progress of our Dutch player during today's tournament.

Day 3 of WPT Paris

Update: End of Day 3

There are 25 players remaining in the WPT Paris and the directors have decided to give a well deserved rest to those continuing on to day 4.

Steven Van Zadelhoff of Team Everest ended the day with 188,000 chips.

Steven will be up tomorrow with one goal: to reach the final table of the WPT Paris 2010!

We wish him much success and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow at 15H00 for the rest of the tournament!

Update: 22H00

Steven Van Zadelhoff of Team Everest is In the Money at WPT Paris with a stack of 208,000 chips.

The 28th player is out and the remaining 27 players are now In The Money. The challenge is now to reach the final table of the WPT Paris.

Here is a reminder of the distribution of the prize pool of €2,347,795 for the 27 ITM:

1st - €633,902
2nd - €328,690
3rd - €234,780
4th - €187,825
5th - €140,870
6th - €93,910
7th - €82,175
8th - €70,435
9th - €58,695
10e/13e - €46,955
14e/18e - €35,215
19e/22e - €23,480
23e/27e - €11,740

Update: 21H15

28 players left and Steven Van Zadelhoff in a bad position.

We have 30 minutes remaining until the end of Level 15 (2,000/4,000-400) and Steven is bothered by the chip leader of the table. Steven has lost several hands and he's been raised on each one of his bets by the chip leader of the table.

He now has a stack of 209,000 and we have only one player to go before the bubble.

Update: 20H10

We are now at 28 players, thanks to Steven!

We're almost at the end of Level 14, the blinds are at 1,600/3,200 with a 400 Ante and Team Everest's Steven Van Zadelhoff just eliminated a player right before the bubble.

After a raise by Steven, the short stacked Jacob Julian shoved all in for his 50,000 remaining chips with A K.

Steven called with Jc 4c.

The board is: Tc 8 8 9c Qc

Steven won with a flush on the River.

He aquired his 50,000 chips and now has a stack of 360,000!

With no more than one player before the bubble, the tension is at the maximum...

Update: 18H30

It's the end of level 13, and there are 32 players remaining with an average of 261,532 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff is still solid and played a very tight aggressive game that allowed him to grow his stack step by step, and he's now up to 330,000 chips!

Only five players left before the bubble ...

Update: 17H40

The bubble is coming and Steven Van Zadelhoff is still deep.

There is only one hour to go in level 13, the blinds are at 1,600/3,200 with a 300 Ante.

There are 36 players remaining and the bubble begins at 27 players, the average is 205,833 chips.

Our Dutch player, Steven Van Zadelhoff is still deep with 314,000 chips.

The distribution of the prize pool of €2,347,795 for the 27 ITM is:

1er - 633.902 €
2e - 328.690 €
3e - 234.780 €
4e - 187.825 €
5e - 140.870 €
6e - 93.910 €
7e - 82.175 €
8e - 70.435 €
9e - 58.695 €
10e/13e - 46.955 €
14e/18e - 35.215 €
19e/22e - 23.480 €
23e/27e - 11.740 €
Update: 15H15

Steven Doubles Up!

The tournament has just started and Steven has a good stack with 188,500 chips.

He then discovers a hand of pocket Aces and decides to push ALL IN and he's paid by Mikhail Smirnov with J J. No cards on the board will prevent our Dutch player fom doubling his stack at the beginning of day 3. He picks up the 132,000 chips of his opponent and he's now up to 320,500 chips!

FYI: the chipleader of the tournament has a stack of 489,000 chips.

Steven is among the chipleads of this tournament at the beginning of today!

Stay tuned to follow his play throughout the tournament.

Start of Day

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2010 at the Aviation Club de France.

247 players have started the tourney and only 48 players return for day 3 with an average of 154,429 chips.

Each level will last 90 minutes and there is a 15 min break before each.

There is one player from Team Everest starting day 3 today:

Steven Van Zadelhoff-Viktor

The 48 remaining players will battle all day to finish in the bubble and get their piece of the €2,347,795 prize pool.

We'll be following Steven's progression throughout the tournament so please stay tuned.

Day 2 of WPT Paris

Update: End of Day 2

It's 0:25 and there are no more than 48 players remaining in the second day of the WPT Paris. Day 2 finished 20 minutes before the end of level 11 (1,000/2,000-300) with an average of 154,375 chips.

Steven Van Zadelhoff will be up tomorrow for Day 3 with a stack of 188,100 chips.

We'll kick off our coverage of Day 3 tomorrow at 15H00. See you there!

Update: 21H45

It's the end of level 10, there are 61 players remaining and the average is 121,475 chips. It's now time for the dinner break.

Team Everest's Steven Van Zadelhoff has acculminated 190,000 chips. He's very active at the table and has won a multitude of small pots. He's slightly bummed before the break because no players followed his moderate preflop bet with A A in hand.

We look forward to seeing you in 90 minutes for the rest of the tournament.

Update: 20H30

Steven Van Zadelhoff is still in the race!

We're at Level 10 with blinds at 600/1,200 and an Ante of 200. There are 66 players remaining with an average of 112,272 chips.

There is one hour to play before the dinner break and Steven Van Zadelhoff is going strong with a stack of 129,000 chips.

Francesco De Vivo and Antoine Saout are unfortunately out of the tournament.

Update: 19H40

Elimination of Antoine Saout!

Antoine Saout, after being down to 30,000, lost three major blows that led to his demise.

1. A loss of 6 300 chips against Eric Haik

Antoine opens with 2,500 on the button and he's paid by Eric.
Again with 3,800 on the flop.
Both players checked the turn and the river.
During the showdown Antoine shows A 8 and Eric return 7 9.
The board was as follows: Kd 9h 6s 5d 5h

2. An All In paid with K Q against 9 9

Antoine is in the cut off position and pays the All In of his opponent. Antoine has K Q, his opponent returns a pair of 9's and nothing will help our player on the board.

3. Pocket Tens but no success

Antoine UTG shoves with pocket Tens and he's paid by the big blind with A J.
The board will be: 4 J 8 7 K

Our November Nine is out just before the start of level 10.

Update: 18H30

We are at level 9 with blinds at 500/1000 and a 100 Ante. There are 93 players remaining with an average of 79,677 chips.

Antoine Saout is down to 37,000 chips because he folded with a big pot after his opponent shoved All In with A K.

Steven Van Zadelhoff has 120,000 chips and things are looking promising for the next level.

Francesco De Vivo is short stacked with 10,000 chips. With blinds at 500/1,000, this level looks very difficult for our EPT Copenhagen finalist.

Update: 17H00

Antoine Doubles Up!

Antoine Tri-bet preflop with blinds at 400/800, called by Gabriel Nassif.

The flop is Ks 4c 8c.

Antoine shoved All In with a flush draw 7c 3c.

Nassif pays with a trips of 4's.

On the turn a Tc made a flush for Antoine and a Ad on the river changed nothing.

Antoine Saout: 50,000 chips

Update: 16H00

Huge pot lost by Antoine Saout vs. Patrick Bruel.

Antoine Saout called the B B of Patrick Bruel in a UTG +3 poistion.

The flop is 9s 8h 2c

Bruel checks and Antoine has opened with 2,700. Bruel check raise for 7,700 and then Antoine Saout called quickly.

The turn is 2d.

After an initial check of Bruel, Antoine opens with 8,200 and is raised All In by Patrick Bruel.

Antoine Saout folds and finds himself in a difficult position after losing a pot of nearly 17,000 chips.

Update: 15H40

Elimination of Guylbert Drole.

Our Canadian player is out of the tournament, beginning with a short stack, Guylbert called the All In of his opponent on the river for a board: Q 3 J J A.

With an A 8 hand from the short stack position, Guylbert thought that it was the right thing to do but his opponent showed K T and our friendly Canadian player is out early. We expect to see Guylbert in more tournaments and we are delighted to have him on our site because of his good knowledge of the game.

Here is an updated chip count of our Everest Poker players :

Antoine Saout: 50,000 chips

Francesco De Vivo: 37,500 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 56,000 chips

Update: 12H17, Level 7

The tournament begins at Level 7 with blinds at 300/600 and 75 Ante.

The tournament began only 15 minutes ago and there are already six players out!

Antoine Saout's table : Cyril André, Rémy Biechel, Richard Ekert, Antoine Saout, Franck Kalfon, Valentin Messina, Gabriel Nassif.

This is a difficult table for our November Nine, who begins with a stack of 50,400 chips.

Update: Start Of Day

Hello and welcome to the coverage of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris 2010 at the Aviation Club de France.

247 players started the tourney and there are only 127 players remaining for Day 2 with an average of 58,383 chips.

Each level will last 90 minutes with a 15 minute break before each.

4 players of Team Everest and the Live The Dream Team have started today:

Antoine Saout tonio292 – Team Everest – France
Steven Van Zadelhoff Viktor – Team Everest – Netherlands

Francesco De Vivo raffa.de – Live The Dream Team - Italy
Guylbert Drolet gylbertFD – Everest Regular - Canada

Stay tune to follow the progression of our Everest Poker players during this tournament.

Day 1B of WPT Paris

Update: Level 5, Blinds 150-300

Double up for Steven van Zadelhoff! The cut off bets 900, both button and small blind make the call. Steven shoves all in. The players on the cut off and the button quickly fold but the small blind seems make a tough decision. After a while of thinking, he decides to make the call with Q J. Stevens shows Q Q. Board: 4J73K

A couple of hands later we pick up the action again when Steven moves all in, he gets a call from a player holding A K. No sweat for Steven while the board is 48874.

Go Steven!

Update: Level 4, Blinds 150-300

After he lost a big pot, Fabrice Soulier busted with 7 8 against K Q. With a K and a Q on the flop, it was pretty clear that Fabrice was going to lose this hand.

The 105 remaining players are now on dinner break. After this break, they will play 2 more levels.

Update: Level 3, Blinds 100-200

Chip count:
Fabrice Soulier 20,000 chips
Steven van Zadelhoff 24,000 chips
Fransesco de Vivo 25,000 chips

Update: Level 2, Blinds 75-150

Fabrice Soulier won a big (9k) pot! Not a big deal? Well it is! He won this pot with a straight flush against a Q high flush, nice hand Fabrice!

Where is Fransesco de Vivo? He lost a couple of small pots and decided to go on an early break to charge his battery. Let's hope that after this break Fransesco will find his flow.

Steven van Zadelhoff takes it easy. "I have all the time!", he said.

Day 1B

Day 1B begins today at the Aviation Club in Paris. We started the day with 137 players, playing level 1 with blinds at 50-100. With a startstack of 30,000 chips, we will see some real poker today.

Everest Poker players in action:
Fransesco de Vivo (Italy)
Fabrice Soulier (France)
Steven van Zadelhoff (the Netherlands)

Good luck to them!

Today's first chipcount:

Fabrice Soulier: 37,000 chips

Francesco De Vivo: 29,500 chips

Steven Van Zadelhoff: 23,500 chips

Day 1A of WPT Paris

Update: Level 6, Blinds 200-400

This will be the last level of the day. Tomorrow Fransesco de Vivo, Steven van Zadelhoff and Fabrice Soulier will play day 1B. Let's hope for now that Leonard and Cristiano will get a chance to double up!

Leonard pushes all in UTG + 1, the small blind calls and crushes Leo's 6 6 with T T. No help for our Everest Poker player and he's out. "What a bad day, I couldn't find a hand!" says Leo after.

Two minutes later, we see Cristiano go all in on the small blind. The big blind instantly calls. 7 7 vs A A, no help for our Italian Team Everest member and we lose two of our players in a couple of minutes!

Level 7 will begin the day after tomorrow. We will see Antoine Saout and Guylbert Drolet back in action. But first day 1B tomorrow. Bonsoir!

Update: Level 5, Blinds 150-300

The antes are introduced! We will play today until the end of level 6, so it's going to be a long long night. The average stack is around 42,000 chips so most of our Everest Poker players are playing below the average stack.

Cristiano Blanco is dealt a premium hand, Q Q, but the flop isn't good enough, A Kx. Two players are betting and raising and Cristiano wisely folds his hand. Both opponents went all in on the river and they both showed AKo.

A couple of hands later, we pick up on the action when the board is 6c Jd 3h 3c 2h. Cristiano checks the river and his opponent asks how much he's playing. "Eleven!", he quickly answers. Cris calls the 4,500 bet, but instantly mucks when the other player shows K J.

Antoine is still going strong!

Update: Level 4, Blinds 150-300

Cristiano Blanco wasn’t doing very well, he lost almost 15,000 chips the last three levels...until this hand occured:

Cristiano is the button and bets 700, the big blind makes the call. Flop is 8h 5s 3s. Big blind bets 2100, Cris calls. The turn is a 2h and the big blind moves all in. A set eights is enough for our Everest Poker player to call. He busted the K K of his opponent and almost doubled up!

We lost Maurice Hol. On a 10h Jd 8c As board, Maurice decides to move all in with AJ, his opponent quickly calls with KQ and only an ace or a jack can help our player. Unfortunately the river is a 5c. Good game Maurice!

Leonard Truche lost a big pot in the last hand before the break. He is playing with less than 10,000 chips at the moment.

The remaining 75 players will have a 1.5 hour dinner break. After the break they will play until there are 70 players left.

Chip count:
Antoine Saout: 53,650 chips
Christiano Blanco: 18,000 chips
Leonard Truche: 8,475 chips
Maurice Hol: out
Guylbert Drolet: 17,900 chips
David Colin: out

Update: Level 3, Blinds 100-200

We are down to 100 players. We found David Colin, a regular Everest Poker player, sitting at the same table as Maurice. Maurice lost a huge pot against the player next to him. We picked up the action when the board was complete: 5d 4h Js 10s 8s. Maurice calls the all in of his neighbor with K K. But that’s not enough, because his opponent is holding pocket aces. Our Dutch player has only 10,000 chips left.

Update: Level 2, Blinds 75-150

We lost one player in the first level. After a short break the 105 remaining players are ready to start with the second level.

Chipcount:
Leonard 28,000 chips

Maurice 33,000 chips

Cristiano 28,000 chips

Guylbert 34,000 chips

Antoine 26,500 chips

Day 1A

Update: Level 1, Blinds 50-100

The Aviation Club

The WPT Paris started today with day 1A. 106 players began the day with a stack of 30,000 chips. There will be 7 levels today (or down to 70 players), each lasting 90 minutes. Cristiano Blanco, the Everest Poker Team member from Italy, is always a bit scared to play the first level, but he couldn’t resist himself and played the last 20 minutes of the first level today.

Next to Cristiano's table we find the French Live the Dream Team player Leonard Truche. The optimistic guy isn’t very happy with his table: “Pfew, this is a hard table!” he says.

Another well known Dutch poker player on Everest Poker, Maurice Hol, is doing fine in the first level today. On a 8d 2s 7h 3d board, he raised an older man who instantly folded his hand. Go Maurice! (Afterwards he told us that he was holding pocket aces in that spot.)