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.