Everest French Player Update

After the first two levels, here you have a chipcount of the French players:

Léonard Truche: 30k (Team LTD)

Valentin Messina: 26k (Team France)

Julien Claudepierre: 12k (Team LTD)

Fabrice Soulier: 29,5k. (Team Pro EVP)

Fabien Perrot: 31k (Team LTD)

Léo Truche has won a lot of small pots and lost one big pot with Q-Q Vs K-K.

His opponent raises, Léo three-bet and his opponent calls.

The flop 4h-5h-Tx arrives and his opponent check calls the Léo bet.

At the turn, we have a second T and his opponent decides to call.

Finally, at the river, his opponents bets again and Léo just call. With this hand, Léo has lost a 5k pot but he’s only knocked back to his original stack of 30,000.

Léo Truche

Wooka Needs a Win

Everest Poker's Kim Wooka has caught a bad run of cards so far today.

Wooka's first run with trouble came when she lost with A-K vs. T-T.

Pre-flop someone raised, she three-bet, he four-bet, she decided to move it all-in. No help came to improve her A-K and she suffered a 10k loss in chips.

Then She lost with J-J vs. A-T.

The flop came Ten high, her opponent bets, she raises, he calls.

Turn goes check/check.

River comes an Ace. Opp. bets, she calls, and suffers a 6k loss.

She lost with A-Q vs. A-8. She raises pre-flop, guy calls,

Flop comes Q-8-3, he checks, she bets, he calls.

Turn is a 7. He checks, she bets, he calls.

River comes an 8. He bets, she calls, and loses another 8k.

Kim is now down to 7,800 in chips.

Smallball Not Working For Hallaert

Kenny lost half of his stack, "I am missing every combo draw and have been outdrawn twice", says Kenny.

He has become very frustrated with the way the cards have fallen, "but that is the way poker is", according to Kenny.

While the blinds are only 150-300, he has decided to play tight from now on instead of playing ‘smallball’ poker.

Zadelhoff Picks On The Elderly

Steven van Zadelhoff, the Dutch Team Everest Poker player three bets a ‘grandpa’ (his own words) with 8-7 both spades.

On a A-x-x flop Steven bets out and the older opponent mucks his K-K.

After this hand Steven called a raise with T-9s and he hits his double-belly-buster straight draw.

Good game Steven!

Blanco's bust out

Unfortunately Everest Poker's Cristiano Blanco lost his 30k chip stack in three hands and ten minutes…here's how:

First he had a set over set situation that costs 16k.

Second he had top two pair vs a set, that cost him 9.5k

Third he had top pair vs an overpair for the remainder of his 4.5k chip stack.

He is extremely disappointed in his performance, this is not his first early exit from the main event.

Main Event Second Break Chip Counts

Here are a few chip updates through the second break:

Steven Van Zadelhoff 25k

Fabien Perrot 35k

Yori Epskamp 28k

Voitto Rintala 22.5k

Jasper Wetemans 40k

Valentin Messina 32k

Kenny Hallaert 25k

Koen de Bakker 30k

Cristiano Blanco Busted

Johan Rensink Busted

Koen de Bakker Update

Koen has a seating issue


Everest Poker Live the Dream's Koen de Bakker caught up with us on the first break and let us know his thoughts of why he has a bad seat draw in today's heat of the Main Event.

"Behind me there’s a big screen where they broadcast the Spain vs Germany World Cup game and I'm a big soccer fan."

We can see how this could put him on lack-of-good-tv tilt today, so we hope he holds strong and overcomes the fact that his view of the screen could be better.

In related news, Koen wants to say hi to his girlfriend back home...“I miss you and I love you!”

Good poker player, soccer fan, and a truly decent guy...we are sorry that he's taken ladies :)

Rintala Playing Like A Rockstar!

Friend of Everest Poker and Finnish rockstar Voitto Rintala aka RandomEyes always wears his unique contact lenses but today they don’t fit right. "I might have to go without them today" he proclaimed.

He’s already up to 33,000 (from the starting stack of 30k) only two levels into the tournament.

Player Update: Kenny Halleart

Everest Poker Belgium Qualifier Kenny Hallaert gave his thoughts on his first break today of his table and his thoughts on how the tournament will progress. He even has a BOLD prediction on the Main Event outcome.

Kenny: I’ll save the big hands for the day after tomorrow.(Day 2 of the Main Event)

Everest: How tough is your table?

Kenny: I wanna make a side-bet that nobody from my table will win the tournament.

Everest: Wait...so you are saying that you’ll not win the tournament?

Kenny: I’ll settle for the third place!

We get the gist that Kenny is happy with his table and so far has just played a couple of small pots. He knows the WSOP Main Event is a marathon, not a sprint!

End of Level One Chip Stacks

Here is a look at both our Everest Qualifiers and Pros in the field through the end of level 1:

Koen de Bakker 33k

Cristiano Blanco 30k

Voitto Rintala 28.5k

Yori Epskamp 30.7k

Fransesco de Vivo 25k

Fabrice Soulier 29.5k

Leo Truche 30k

Johan Rensink 13k (*He lost 20k in the first hand with KK)

Marcia Maceiras 15k

Valentin Messina 26k

Fabien Perrot 31k

Kenny Hallaert 29k

Steven van Zadelhoff 26k