Vegas June 27, 2010

Sigurd Wins!

After a long night, Everest Poker’s Live the Dream Team player Sigurd Eskeland, achieved the performance of a lifetime!

He won the gold Bracelet for Event #48 at the World Series of Poker in Vegas! One of the most prestigious tournaments in the world where talent and technique are the keys to succeed!

It was a truly amazing day that began at 3pm with 20 players still in the game. 14 hours later, Sigurd was the last man standing after he knocked out Steve Sung!

Of the 8 different games, it’s with No Limit Hold’em that Sigurd took the final advantage on his opponent winning with Ac9s and a flush on the river against pockets QQ.

Sigurd takes home $260,497 and Everest Poker’s first ever Gold Bracelet!

Congratulations Sigurd!!!

Update: Heads Up

Sigurd Eskeland from the Live the Dream Team is in the final Heads Up of Event #48 against Steve Sung.

After the elimination of Alexander Wice on a 2-7 triple draw, there are only two players remaining and Sigurd is the chipleader!

Here’s an updated chipcount for the two players:

Sigurd Eskeland: 2,263,000 chips

Steve Sung: 1,134,000 chips

Stay tuned to follow our LTD player on his final race for a Bracelet!

Update: Three Players Remain!

Three players have been eliminated so far:
Scott Seiver (6th)
Jared Jaffee (7th)
Kirill Rabtsov (8th)

Sigurd Eskeland takes the chip lead with a well played Hold’em no Limit game!

Nikolai Yakovenko called the Big Blind from the cut off and Sigurd raised from the button for 56,000 chips (blinds at 6,000/12,000 – 3,000 ante).
Alexander Wice re-raised to 170,000 from the blinds. Sigurd didn’t want him to take the lead so he shoved All In for 946,000 chips! Wice gave it a long thought, had a look at the structure and prize pool and finally made the call and both players went to a showdown.

Sigurd : KK
Wice: AsKs

Nothing will come on the board to save Wice who find himself short stacked and Sigurd becomes the chip leader of the Final Table with more than 1,959,000 chips!

Here we go Sigurd!

Above: Sigurd waiting for the call

Steven Su Eliminated in fifth place and Nikolai Yakovenko eliminated in fourth place.

There are only 3 players remaining on the final table:

Sigurd Eskeland is now down to 1,340,000 chips after losing a pot of 600K against Alexander Wice in Omaha-8.
Alexander Wice is now second with 1,220,000 chips.
Steve Sung is now 3rd with 790,000 chips.

Update: Final Table

Sigurd Eskeland, our exceptional player from the Live the Dream Team and native of Norway made it to the Final Table of Event #48: $2,500 Mixed Event!

This variation of 5 card stud changes every eight hands played. The 8 different games are: 2-7 triple draw, Hold’em, Omaha 8/b, Razz, Stud, Stud 8/b, No Limit hold’em, Pot limit Omaha. To play this variation of Poker, players need exceptional assets in strategy and techniques.

There are 8 players seated around the Final Table. Here are their starting chipcounts at the Final Table:

Steve Sung: 900,000 chips
Nikolai Yakovenko: 575,000 chips
Stephen Su: 544,000 chips
Alexander Wice: 360,000 chips
Sigurd Eskeland: 346,000 chips
Scott Seiver: 229,000 chips
Jared Jaffee: 210,000 chips
Kirill Rabtsov: 125,000 chips

Here is the prizepool breakdown:

1. $260,497 + a Bracelet
2. $160,952
3. $102,314
4. $ 73,776
5. $ 54,032
6. $ 40,175
7. $ 30,319
8. $ 23,223

Update: Sigurd is In the Money

Event #48: $2,500 mixed Event – Sigurd is In The Money!

Sigurd Eskeland, our Norwegian player from the Live The Dream Team is within the last 20 players standing to be crowned Champion for Side Event #48: $2,500 mixed event!

The game includes: 2-7 triple draw, Hold’em, Omaha 8/b, Razz, Stud, Stud 8/b, No Limit hold’em, Pot limit Omaha.

Of the 176 survivors of Day 1, only 20 made it to the final day (day 3). Sigurd is one of them and doing well with a stack of 167,200 chips in 12th position! The average is 169,000 chips and we have no doupt that are fearless player from Norway will do everything to reach the final table! Stay tuned for more updates about his performance.

Here’s the payout structure for the last 20 players:
1. $260,497 + a Bracelet
2. $160,952
3. $102,314
4. $ 73,776
5. $ 54,032
6. $ 40,175
7. $ 30,319
8. $ 23,223
9-10. $ 18,045
11-12. $ 14,232
13-14. $ 11,377
15-16. $ 9,220
17-20. $ 7,585

Vegas June 26, 2010

Update June 26, 2010

Side Event #46: $1,000 No Limit hold’em

1,759 players started Day 1A of Event #46: $1,000 No Limit hold’em with 3,000 chips and levels of one hour.

5 of our Everest Poker players have started the tournament; here is a recap of their performance during this Side Event:

Steven Van Zadelhoff
It looks like our excellent Dutch player from Team Everest had a good day. He’s the only survivor from the Team to come back to Day 2!
He’s going to come back on Day 2 with a stack of 30,000 chips and a great motivation to go far on this tourney!

Good Luck Steven!

Fabien Perrot
Fabien was up to 5,500 chips during the major part of the day. Unfortunately, our excellent Live The Dream player who has already cash two side events in Las Vegas, found the way out just after the Dinner Break of Day 1A.
Fabien was down to 2,300 chips just before the dinner break by losing a pot of 14,000 chips. Everything happened preflop when Fabien pushes All In with KK in hand. He’s paid by QQ and unfortunately another Q comes on the turn. Fabien was favorites on this hand but it was not enough and he’s then down to 2,300 chips! Our French player will then shove after the Dinner Break with 46 suited and he’s paid by K9 with a 9 on the flop…

Koen De Bakker
Koen made it to Level 4 (75/150) with double the starting stack: 6,000 chips.
During level 4, his teammate Fabien came on to seat on his right after his table broke. After half an hour the following happened:
Preflop, Fabien in UTG+4 open to 375 and Koen in position UTG+5 call.
The Big Bling mad a raise of 900 and our two LTD players called.
The Flop is 3cKc9h
The Big Blind open to 2,000 chips, Fabien fold is pockets 77 and Koen shoved All In with KQ.
His opponent call and shows pockets AA. Unfortunately nothing will save our excellent dutch player.

Thomas Froslev
Unfortunately Thomas was out after three levels on this very tough tournament. He was All In with pockets QQ and he’s paid by 2 opponents with pockets 99 and AJ. An Ace and a 9 will come on the flop and our Live The Dream Team player will find himself out of the tourney.

Update

Side Event #47: $2,500 Mixed Event

453 players entered this Side Event #47, $2,500 Mixed Event. The biggest names and best players in the world have started the tourney.

The game includes: 2-7 triple draw, Hold’em, Omaha 8/b, Razz, Stud, Stud 8/b, No Limit hold’em, Pot limit Omaha.

The level of technics required to play this event is very important and the field is very tough.

Two Everest Poker players can be found today:

Sigurd Eskeland
Sigurd started the side event with 7,500 chips. He’s down to 7,500 but he has a very good image on the table.
After 6.5 hours of play, Sigurd is up to 18,000 chips and he moved from his starting table. He’s at the same table as two strong players; Daniel Negreanu and Cindy Violet!
Our excellent Live The Dream Team player from Norway made it to day 2 with 32,000 chips for an average of 19,000 chips! There are 176 players left attempting to be one of the 48 players In The Money.

Fabrice Soulier
Unfortunately for our French player, Fabrice Soulier will not go further and he’s out on day 1.