Chipcounts and Updates

David Colin Elimination

Before this game David had 25K, he raised under the gun, he is called 2 times by the big blind and another player.

Flop: 4 6 J

The Big Blind checks, David bets 5K the 3rd fold and the big blind calls.

Turn: 5

The big blind checks and David goes all in. The big blind calls. David shows KK, and the big blind shows a 4 and 5. David is eliminated.

Yori Epskamp

We pick up the action when the board shows AhAcKh. Two players check and Yori bets 3200. The first player decides to fold and the second one makes the call. De turn is a 6s. Yori’s opponent checks and Yori bets 5700 and gets a call. The river is a 3h and after a check, Yori bets 9600. After a while, his opponent makes the call with KJ, Yori shows Q4…

Yori Epskamp is playing 12.5k now.

Chipcounts

First Name	Last Name	Chip Counts
Marco	Bilsing	OUT
Yori	Epskamp	OUT
Germain	Gillard	50,000
Patrick	lechner	OUT
Julien	Claudepierre	96,000
Nicky	van den Biggelaar	OUT
David	Colin	OUT
Koen	de Bakker	OUT
Francesco	de Vivo	OUT
Kenny	Hallaert	OUT
Jesper	Höög	OUT
Maria	Maceiras	OUT
Valentin	Messina	OUT
Voitto	Rintala	25,000
Fabrice	Soulier	128,000
Steven	van Zadelhoff	25,000
Kim	Wooka	31,000
Jochum	Weenink	66,000

ChipCount Update

Update: Chipcounts

First Name	Last Name	Chip Counts
Marco	Bilsing	OUT
Yori	Epskamp	36,000
Germain	Gillard	68,000
Patrick	lechner	OUT
Julien	Claudepierre	93,000
Nicky	van den Biggelaar	out
David	Colin	25,000
Koen	de Bakker	OUT
Francesco	de Vivo	OUT
Kenny	Hallaert	OUT
Jesper	Höög	OUT
Maria	Maceiras	OUT
Valentin	Messina	OUT
Voitto	Rintala	36000
Fabrice	Soulier	120,000
Steven	van Zadelhoff	30,000
Kim	Wooka	17,000
Herman Jochum	Weenink	70,000

Day 2A Updates

Update: 5:42 PM

Nicky van de Biggelaar (NL) is out with A4 vs AJ.

Update: 5:47 PM

Steven van Zadelhoff got a reseat. He’s now in the Amazon room and he isn’t that happy because he is sitting next to the famous Sammy Farha who’s playing more than 100k. Steven is down to 30k. “Two days of work for nothing…”, he wrote on his Twitter!

Jochum Weenink is trying to get a spot against the chip leader at his table. He isn’t a good player according our Jochum from Gouda. While waiting for that spot, he’s eating some M&M’s.

A well known Dutch player on Everest Poker, Jasper Wetemans, also busted.

Chipcount Update Day 2A

Here is a chipcount update for some of our Everest Poker players:

First Name	Last Name	Starting Chips
Marco	Bilsing	OUT
Yori	Epskamp	40000
Julien	Claudepierre	95000
Nicky	van den Biggelaar	OUT
Koen	de Bakker	OUT
Francesco	de Vivo	OUT
Kenny	Hallaert	OUT
Jesper	Höög	OUT
Maria	Maceiras	OUT
Valentin	Messina	OUT
Voitto	Rintala	26000
Fabrice	Soulier	63000
Steven	van Zadelhoff	43000
Jochum	Weenink	60000

Day 2A Second Break

Julien Claudepierre

Julien began the day with 39K, quickly lost two pots and he’s down to 31k. Later, he’s in the bottom position and all the players pass before him. He discovers AA and he raises to 1.1K. The small blind pass the big blind 3bet at 3.9K and Julien just called.

Flop: 8H 10H 3C

The big blind bets at 3.9K. Julien decides to shove and the other other guy calls with JJ.
We won the pot and he is now at 256K.

Valentin Messina

After having lost his first big pot with Francesco, Valentin was suffering from very bad timing: When he had big hands he was not paid, etc. In the last hand he was down to 15K and he had 77. One player limps at 500 (250-500). Val raises at 1.7K, the small blind calls. The limper reraise at 4.5K. Valentin was not worried and decided to push with 77. The guy shows AA, and there were no cards to save Val.

Julien Claudepierre

Julien was at 39K, the blinds were 250 and 500. Julien decides to raise with A9 in the middle position. Just one guys calls.

The flop: AAQ

Julien bets half pot and his opponent reraise to 4.5K and Julien calls. The turn is an A and the two players check. The river is a Q. Julien bets 2.5 in a 12K pot. His opponent 3bet at 9K. Julien 4bet at 20K. His opponent folds. After this pot he is at 62K.

Update: Julien is up to 95K!!

Fabrice Soulier

When Fabrice started the day he was at 16.5K. A very bad player bets 2.5K (blinds were 200-400) preflop. Fabrice, with 99, decides to pay from the big blind.

Flop: 4 5 7

Fabrice checks and his opponent bets again 2.5K, Fabrice calls. The turn is a 9. Fabrice checks again, his opponent bets again 2.5K, Fabrice does a lot of acting and then he pushes all in. The guy folds, so now Fabrice is up to 34K.

Update: Fabrice Soulier involved in a big pot!

We pick up the action when the flop is dealt; 3c 8s Ts

One player is all in and Fabrice is facing a bet from a third player. He stands up and thinks a while before he makes the fold. He shows QQ. There is a showdown and the all in player shows AK, the other one is showing KK. So Fabrice made a good fold there although he lost a bit. Turn and river: 8c and Tc.

David Colin

At the beginning of the day David started with 52K and he lost a very big pot with set over set.

Jesper Hoog

Jesper is out!

Jesper raises with AsQs
SB reraises with 5K, Jesper calls

Flop: 10s-Kc-8c
SB bets 5.7K, Jesper calls
Turn: 5s
SB checks, Jesper goes all in with 35K
SB calls with 10d-Kd

River no help.

Kenny Hallaert

Kenny from Belgium is out.
Right after the break he went all in with pocket 6
Call from pocket J

No help for our Belgium player.

Yori Epskamp

Aggressive Yori!

Yori Epskamp was down to 25k but is now back to 40k. “I’m driving him crazy!”, he said while pointing to the guy at seat 5. “I 3bet him all the time and he keeps on folding. The last hand I finally had a really good hand, KK and I 3bet him again. He was pissed and he almost made the call. Unfortunately he didn’t but soon he will start to pay me off!”

Update for the First Break

Francesco de Vivo is out of the tournament

Live the Dream Team member Francesco de Vivo started the day with 5850 chips. The blinds were at 200-400.

Here is the story on his last hand:
Someone at his table raised to 1,100. Francesco moved all in with A 10. Valentin Messina, also seated at the table with A-K, raised to 30K to put the initial raiser all in. The initial raiser had QQ and there was no help neither for Francesco or Valentin. Valentin is down to about 35K.

However despite his loss, Francesco has decided not to change his flight so he can stay in Vegas until the 14th. You can find him playing in cash games at the Bellagio and Caesar's Palace at the 5/10 tables.

Maria Maceiras

Team Everest's Maria Maceiras is also out.

She started the day with 21,125 chips. After raising for the 4th hand in a row, as her table was not very tough, Maria with KK 3 bets a guy holding AA and finally pushed all in on the 4 bet. With no help from the board Maria is now out of the tournament.

On a happier note for Everest, Maria is going to stay in Vegas until July 15th. She is a bit sick of tournaments so she will enjoy some shows with her boyfriend and might play the 1K event on Sunday at Caesar's Palace.

Jochum Weenink

Jochum Weenick is a 22 year old online qualifier from the Netherlands. He is playing in his second World Series tournament here in Las Vegas.

This year he has already played in 5 side events with one cash and is really anxious to cash big in the Main Event.

Jochum is staying with his friend Koen de Bracelet (formally known as Koen de Bakker), at Caesar's Palace.

Jochum is a well known face at the Spanish Poker Tour, playing since season 1 starting in 2008.

Besides poker, Jochum plays Korfball and likes to hang out with friends. Ladies, Jochum is still single :)

Jochum

Jesper Hoog

Jesper is from Sweden he's just 25 years old and playing in his third WSOP. In both prior years he has busted on the 2nd day of the Main Event, so it’s important to him to reach day 3 this year. Jesper is ‘up’ now to 20K, he started today at 18K. He is happy with his table, not too aggressive!

Besides playing here in Vegas, Jesper also enjoys playing cash games on www.everestpoker.com
. He got his driver’s license when he was 21, but never drove alone. So first thing he will do (after a good cash here) is practice his driving and then buy a car. No favorite, just a cool ride!

Jesper

Voitto Rintala

This will be Voitto's fifth time playing here in Vegas. He has yet to have made a cash at main event, but hopes it will happen soon! He is staying almost a month in the Rio to play side events and the main event.

For all our ladies reading this: Voitto is single. Voitto plays the base guitar in a famous Finish rock band. Voitto’s favorite food is italian cuisine, he likes to work out, read and his bad habit is collecting insignificant stuff like comic books (Larson, dilbert). You can recognize Voitto from his freaky contact lenses.

He started today with 37500 but is now up to 47500 (after the first hour of day 2A).

Voitto

Marco Bilsing

Marcoc Bilsing is Everest Poker's only online qualifier who is also a professional boxer! He trains two times a day (even in Vegas). He is here with his brother who also tried to qualify online, but had to settle for supporting his brother throughout the event.

At the moment he has 19000 chips. He just won a small pot with QQ.

He started playing poker 6 years ago and plays a bit on TV. His first live poker experience was with friends and he won. On his first online tournament he finished second. He was very pleased so played the next day and won the tournament! This is his first time in Vegas, go Marco!

Marco

Yori Epskamp

Yori is living in Hilversum, Netherlands. He’s 27 years old and has a degree in Sport Marketing. He qualified through Everest Poker for Event #54 and now he’s also playing the Main Event. He has been dreaming about playing the Main Event for years!

Although he is a cash game player, he really likes this tournament as the structure is very slow. For example: they started the first day with 30k and now in the second level of day 2, the blinds are only 250-500 with an ante of 50. Yori is a bit down because he floated one time but missed the turn and he got reraised while he was isolating the initial raiser on the cut off position. But with a 45k stack he is still in a good shape!

Yori Epskamp

Kenny Hallaert

Kenny is one of Everest Poker's biggest players in Belgium. Kenny is living in Hansbeke, a small village in the northern part of the country. Besides playing poker himself, he runs the site pokerinfo.be and he organizes a lot of tournaments in the Namur casino.

Kenny started the day with 24950 chips but lost a bit in the first level; he’s now playing 17k. Kenny said to us in the break that he’s hitting good when he’s not playing! He had to fold 44 pre flop because of the action and the flop showed….a 4! The same with pocket sevens, the flop showed two sevens!

Here in Vegas he’s sharing a villa with his good friends Steven van Zadelhoff and Marc Naalden.

Kenny

Starting Chips and Seats for Day 2A

Hi Everyone and welcome to Day 2A in Vegas! We have many Everest Poker players that have made it through Day 1A and 1C and are continuing on today. Here are their starting chipcounts:

First Name	Last Name	Starting Chips
Marco	Bilsing	16200
Yori	Epskamp	50950
Germain	Gillard	63225
Patrick	lechner	20775
Julien	Claudepierre	39225
Nicky	van den Biggelaar	29775
David	Colin	52200
Koen	de Bakker	64975
Francesco	de Vivo	5850
Kenny	Hallaert	24950
Jesper	Höög	18325
Maria	Maceiras	21124
Valentin	Messina	66550
Voitto	Rintala	37500
Fabrice	Soulier	23925
Steven	van Zadelhoff	45425
Kim	Wooka	29475
Herman Jochum	Weenink	42575

In this year's tournament there have been 7,319 entrants, the second largest number of participants ever in the history of the game. This year also features the 3rd ever largest prize pool. Let's hope we see our players winning some of the prize! Go Everest!