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.