Bella Italia: Pier Luca Salassa is the Champion of 3LT Warnemuende

Pier Luca Salassa on the button raises to 51,000, Christian calls.

Flop shows 3h9hQs and Christian checks. Pier Luca bets 70,000 and Christian Oswald raises. Pier Luca shoves all-in and Christian calls.

Pier Luca, a very good player of poker Italia, shows Js9d and Christian opens QdTs - still in the lead with Queens.

Turn brings Ad - which doesn't change anything, but Jc on the river completes Pier Luca's Two Pair and makes him the tournament champion!

Runner-up Christian Oswald wins 61,200 Eur. 3LT Warnemuende champion Pier Luca Salassa takes home EUR 85,800.

Heads-up between Pier Luca Salassa and Christian Oswald

The last hand of Robin Kazemieh from Germany is the following:

The flop shows AsAhQh
Christian checks and Robin checks behind.

Turn: 3h

Christian bets 75,000 and Robin pays.

River: 2d

Christian asks for a count and Robin has 300K in chips. So Christian announces to bet 300K.
Robin calls with KT, Christan has 43 - two pair.

Robin is out and wins 43,800 EUR

Chipcounts

Update: 21:00
We are in level 21. Blinds are 8,000/16,000 with an Ante of 2,000.

Pier Luca Salassa 635,000
Robin Kazemieh 400,000
Christian Oswald 1,665,000

Players busting.....

....one after the other

Tim van der Zwet from Holland is out
With KQ vs 88 he finishes 5th an gets 22,200 Eur

Ismael Bojang out
He loses with AT vs. Christian Oswald's Jacks

Everest Poker European Cup 2010 winner Mikael Johanssen busto

Mikael Johanssen pushes UTG his last 160.000 chips all-in and gets a call by Ismael Bojang.
Mikael shows AK and Ismael 99.

On the board there are 533 8 T and Mikael ranks 6th with 15,900 Euro.

Cedric Hiblot is out: Place 7 with 10,800 Eur

Cedric Hiblot shoves all-in with 150,000 Chips, Italian Pier Luca Salassa insta-calls.

Board: Jd8d2s - Kd - 9d
Cedric has Js7s, Pier Luca wins with AcKs.

Christian Oswald kicks out Guenther Bauer

Günther Bauer pushes all-in from small blind position with 47,000 and Christian Oswald calls from the BB.

Günther shows QJ and Christian has 45suited.

Christian hits 4 and 5 on the board and kicks out Günther with Two Pair. Er gets 7,800 Eur for reaching place 8.

Final Table video

Stephan Klam is the first one to leave the final table

Stephan Klam is very short and UTG shoves his last 12,500 chips all-in. Christian Oswald calls from SB position. Tim van der Zwet reraises from the BB to 45,000, Christian pays.

The flop shows 2T2 and Christian check-folds after a 55K bet by Tim.

In the showdown the Dutch player shows KT and is leading against Stephan's QT. No help from the board for Stephan. He finishes 9th and wins 6,000 Eur.

Final Table of the 3LT Warnemuende

Timo van der Zwet doubles up:
Raise from late position - 18,000, Robin Kazemieh in the BB position is the only caller.

On the flop kommt A83 rainbow, Robin checks. Timo bets 22,000, Robin calls.

The Turn is a 9 and Robin checks again. Timo bets 47,000. Robin shoves all-in with 183,000, insta-call by Timo.

Showdown: Timo has flopped a set with 33, Robin has 66

The River blanks and Timo gets the big pot.

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Warnemuende, 17:00h: The Final Table is just about to start

We start in level 18 with blinds 4,000-8,000 / Ante: 500
Average is 293,333.

Seat 6 Christian Oswald (DE) 685.500

Seat 1 Robin Kazemieh (DE) 495.500

Seat 2 Ismael Bojang (GM) 387.500

Seat 9 Stephan Klam (DE) 306.500

Seat 4 Pier Luca Salassa (IT) 225.500

Seat 7 Tim van der Zwet (NL) 184.500

Seat 8 Mikael Johanssen (SE) 137.500

Seat 3 Cedric Hiblot (FR) 118.000

Seat 5 Guenther Bauer (DE) 88.500

Jorrit van Wijk wins the Satellite to the 3LT Grand Finale Vienna

Jorrit van Wijk from Holland just shipped the EUR 3,000 package for the 3LT Grand Finale in Vienna. Today there was a 300+1 EUR Satellite for the 3LT Grand Finale Vienna played as side event at 3LT Warnemünde.

After an about 6 hours lasting tournament Jorrit van Wijk was playing heads-up against Michael Schiffner.

In the deciding hand Jorrit had AJ and Michael had A5.

Jorrit hit Two Pair on the board and left Michael Schiffer with almost nothing in chips. So it was pretty clear that he would run dead within the next hands.

Chipcounts after day 3 at 3LT Warnemuende

Seat 6 Christian Oswald (DE) 685.500

Seat 1 Robin Kazemieh (DE) 495.500

Seat 2 Ismael Bojang (GH) 387.500

Seat 9 Stephan Klam (DE) 306.500

Seat 4 Pier Luca Salassa (IT) 225.500

Seat 7 Tim van der Zwet (NL) 184.500

Seat 8 Mikael Johanssen (SE) 137.500

Seat 3 Cedric Hiblot (FR) 118.000

Seat 5 Guenther Bauer (DE) 88.500

10. place Dennis Bachmann (DE) 4.800 €

11. place Romain Cojean (FR): 3.900 €

12. place Holger Lindemann (DE): 3.900 €

13. place Pablo Ubierna (ES): 3.900 €

3LT Warnemunde Day 3- Interview with Koen de Bakker

Katie Doyle at 3LT Warnemuende

11th place: Romain Cojean from France

Romain only had 4BB left and shoved all-in with 89off all-in zu gehen. BB calls with TT. No help from the board, so Romain has to go.

The remaining 10 players are seated at one table. One has to go and then we have the final 9 for tomorrow. Current chipleader is Christian Oswald with 650,000.

Holger Lindemann just busted

Update 22:50

Lindemann busted with TT vs Guenther Bauer' JJ

Pablo finishes 13th

Pablo Morpheo Ubierna from Spain ranks 13th at 3LT Warnemuende and wins EUR 3.900

Blinds are 4k-8k and Pablo decides to push from the cut-off position with As4c. The button calls with AJ.

The board shows A63 8 X, this is it for Pablo.

The bubble popped

We are in level 17
Average: 203K

Blinds: 3,000 - 6,000 / Ante 500

13 players left in the tournament:
All-in situation between Stefan Rotach with Ad3h and Ismael Bojang 5s5c

Board: 5hQhQd QsTs

Stefan is out, which means that everybody else is in the money including FFTTR player Pablo Ubierna, EPEC Champion 2010 Mikael Johansson and Everest Poker VIP Pier Luca Salassa from Italy who is holding 210K in chips.

Pablo doubles up....

Update 21:15
Pablo shoves all-in with A7suited and is called by a player with QQ

Flop comes: 4-9-K Turn: A River: 2

With the Ace on the Turn Pablo doubled up and is still in the run for the paid places with about 100K.

Two more players out.... bubble is about to pop

Kai Rocholl is out: He loses with AT vs JJ and gets no help from the board.

Stefano Luchetti also got kicked out of the tournament.

We only have one more player to lose to reach the money. So, we are playing hand by hand now.

Anyway, all 14 players are winners already:
The Montesino Vienna has annouced to invite all players ITM plus the bubble to Vienna and pay for their hotel in case they will decide to play the 3LT Grand Finale in December.

Tobi finishes 17th

Level 16 has started after the dinner break
Blinds 2.500 - 5.000 / Ante: 500.

Our German Live the Dream player Tobias Wagner had lost some chips before the break already and was down 60K. He pushes all-in from the button with 97suited all-in and is called from player who has pocket TT. No help from the board and tobestar hast to go.

A picture from earlier today

Dinner Break

Level 15 is over, players are having a 45 min dinner break.
Here are some chipcounts

Tobias Wagner 60.400
Tim van der Zwet 170.000
Christian Oswald 430.000
Ismael Bojang 330.000
Stephan Klam 340.800

Average is 155,294 Chips.

Mark van den Voorden busted

The Dutch player was very short in chips, so he put shoved his last chips all-in with 37suited. He got called by EPEC 2010 winner Mikael Johanssen who had AK.
Another K on the Flop sealed it and Mark van den Voorden had to go.

Italy vs Italy: Francesco de Vivo is out

Update 18:00 in the last minutes of Level 14 Francesco pushes all-in with 27,1K his Italian friend Pier Luca Salassa calls.

Francesco has AsTs, Pier Luca has AdQs

The first card on the flop is a T - good for Francesco
The second card on the flop is Qh - good for Pier Luca

The rest of the board did not change anything and our Live the Dream player is out of the tournament. Francesco finished fourth at 3LT Baden and now ranks 19th at 3LT Warnemuende.
Bravo Francesco!

Jorrit van Wijk is out

Jorrit started with the shortest stack (40,200 chips) and could not survive very long.
After the first 25 minutes the Dutch player busted.

Now he can play the satellite for the 3LT Grand Finale in Vienna which will start in half an hour.

Day 3 at 3LT Warnemuende

The 20 remaining players have just taken their seats in the Spielbank Warnemuende.

We started today with Level 14
Average 132,000
Blinds: 1,500 - 3,000 / Ante: 300

Tim der Zwet 365,200

Christian Oswald 323,500

Stephan Klam 200,200

Pablo Ubierna 193,000

Mikael Johansson 171,700

Robin Kazemieh 165,800

Tobias Wagner 162,200

Dennis Bachmann 136,900

Kai Rocholl 111,600

Mark van den Voorden 110,300

Holger Lindemann 106,800

Stefan Rotach 81,100

Pier Luca Salassa 75,600

Guenther Bauer 75,200

Romain Cojean 71,300

Francesco de Vivo 66,400

Ismael Bojang 66,000

Cedric Hilot 53,700

Stefano Luchetti 52,600

Jorrit van Wijk 40,200

Koen shipped it!!!

Our Dutch Live the Dream player Koen de Bakker won the first Side Event at 3LT Warnemuende.

Right after his victory the Everest family went out celebrating with the Dutchies.
Koen rocked the tournament and we were rocking Warnemuende!!!

Everyone: Tonight SIDE EVENT II starts at 6 pm (check-in: 5 pm)
For EUR 300+1 you can play for your 3LT Grand Finale prize package worth EUR 3,000.
The Grand Finale of the 3LT will be played in the Montesino Pokertainment Center Vienna (DEC 08-11 2010) with EUR 500,000 guaranteed!

Pablo Ubierna at the 3LT Warnemuende

Watch the Interview with Pablo Ubierna:

Chipleader got put in second place by Francesco

Christian Oswald did not only lose a pot against Francesco, he also lost the chip lead right before the end of day 2.

These are the remaining 20 players:
Tim der Zwet 365,200

Christian Oswald 323,500

Stephan Klam 200,200

Pablo Ubierna 193,000

Mikael Johansson 171,700

Robin Kazemieh 165,800

Tobias Wagner 162,200

Dennis Bachmann 136,900

Kai Rocholl 111,600

Mark van den Voorden 110,300

Holger Lindemann 106,800

Stefan Rotach 81,100

Pier Luca Salassa 75,600

Guenther Bauer 75,200

Romain Cojean 71,300

Francesco de Vivo 66,400

Ismael Bojang 66,000

Cedric Hilot 53,700

Stefano Luchetti 52,600

Jorrit van Wijk 40,200

Chipcount update Main Event 3LT Warnemuende

We are in Level 13 with 24 remaining players.
The average chip stack is 110,000
Blinds: 1,200 - 2,400 / Ante: 200

Yesterday's chip leader Mikkael Johanssen from Sweden has currently 144K in chips and is in a quite comfortable position.
Even better doing are Pablo Ubierna from Spain with 150,000 and Germany's Live the Dream player Tobias Wagner who has 160,000.

Another Everest player still in the game is Francesco de Vivo from Italy whi has 64K in chips which is just a bit more than half the average stack. At the very first 3LT stop Francesco hit the final table and finished fourth. He has some work to do in order to gain such a result again.

Impressions from Level 12

Level 12 started

Level 12 just started at the 3 Länder Tour Warnemünde.

Blinds: 1000-2000
Ante: 200
30 players left

There will be a 15-minute break after Level 12.

Side Event continues

The dinner break is over, and the side event continues in level 6.

Blinds: 200-400
Ante: 50

3LT Warnemunde Day 2- Interview with Sigurd Eskeland EN

Cristiano out!

La vita è dura...

Level 11

We're now in level 11 after the dinner break.

Blinds: 800-1600
Ante: 200
Average: 67.692
39 players left

Expensive hand for Tobi

Our Live the Dream player Tobias tobestar11 Wagner raises from the middle position to 2,600. The round folds until the big blind who pushes all-in with 39,000.
Tobi asks his opponent “You have Ace King?” - no answer, Tobi makes the call.

The showdown reveals that Tobi was right, Ace King for the player in the player in the big blind, Toobi holds QQ.

Another Ace on the flop cuts Tobi's stack in half.

Chipcount Level 10

Update just before Dinner Break
Level: 10
Blinds: 600 - 1200 / Ante: 100
Average: 52,800

Matthias Kuerschner just busted

Level: 10
Blinds: 600 - 1200 / Ante:
Average: 52,800

Matthias Kuerschner who finished 3rd at 3LT Baden just got kicked out of the tournament.
Now we are playing with 50 remaining players.

Picture: Matthias Kuerschner together with Thomas Kremser at 3LT Baden

The Side Event is on!

The Side Event at the Casino Warnemünde is on, and we're currently in level 2 with 50-100 blinds. 55 players registered and, once again, there are some familiar faces among the participants.

Interview with Katie Doyle from Everest Poker

Sigurd busted!

Sigurd Eskeland is out. Pocket 77 vs. AK and K on the flop. That's it, Sigurd.

Day 2 in Warnemünde

Day 2 at the 3 Länder Poker Tour started today at 5:00 pm at the Casino Warnemünde. Right now we're in level 8. The blinds are 400-800, ante 75. 70 players are still in.

Today we'll go through 6 levels. At 6:00 pm, the Side Event will start and will be played until the very end. There will be a maximum of 70 players today.

3 LT Warnemünde - Chipcounts after Day 1

Interviews of the day @ 3LT Warnemuende

Thomas Froslev (ESP)

Steven van Zadelhoff (NED)

Sijbrand Maal (NED)

3 Everest players on top of the field

Kaspar Schmid from Team Everest Swiss just doubled up in the last hand before the break holding Aces and taking down the pot with a tricky play against Queens. He has about 72k in chips and is on top of the tournament field with Christiano Blanco (75k) and Pablo Ubierna (73k). We also have the current chip counts from Sebastian Taubner (34k), Marc Horisberger (28k) and Dennis Hotop (24k).

Kaspar Schmid (Everest Team Swiss)

Koen de Bakker out!

Preflop all-in with QQ against AA (last hand in level 6). Too bad, Koen!

Break - Level 7 about to start

And there are fewer and fewer players left... Leo Truche is out, as well as Thomas Froslev. Now we´re on break, and the last level for today is about to start.

Level 7
300-600 Blinds
Ante 50
87 Players to go

Bad news for France and the Netherlands

French Poker Champion and Team Everest player Valentin Messina has busted.

Also Dutch players Sijbrand Maal and Armeijn Meyer have lost all their chips and are out.

We are still in Level 5 with 15 minutes to go and 99 remaining players.

Tobestar11 at the 3LT Warnemünde

Sandra Naujoks has busted

The German poker pro went all-in with pocket TT. One player called with A6 and hit another A on the board.

Payout Structure at the 3LT Warnemünde

World Champion Swimmer still in the run for the 300K!

Update: 00:15
Level 5
Blinds 150 - 300 / Ante: 25
Average: 25,142

Thomas Rupprath

Interview with Katie Doyle at 3LT Warnemuende

3LT Warnemunde- Interview with Katie Doyle from Mara Everest on Vimeo.

Day 1 at 3LT Warnemuende

More pictures...

Armijn Meijer

Buelent Uzun

Jan Peter Jachtmann

Sigurd Eskeland - Live the Dream Team

Udo Kalweit

Koen de Bakker - Live the Dream Team

Rene Freyman

Valentin Messina - Team Everest

Steven is out!

Team Everest's Steven van Zadelhoff pushed all with his last 5K holding AQo versus JJ.
Board K-10-x but no help for our Team Everest player Steven van Zadelhoff (NL).

Day 1 3LT Warnemuende

Players' pictures...

Can Marc Dogan

Cedric Hiblot

Cemil Doganyilmaz

Cristiano Blanco - Team Everest

Francesco de Vivo - Live the Dream Team

Franz Gebhardt

Guenther Bauer

Gueven Inanc

Mikael Johanssen

Renard Thierry

Sijbrand Maal - Dutch Poker Pro

Christian Debeil

Jan Christophersen

Laurant Bachelet

Romain Cojean

S. Ciborek

Thomas Carstensen

Day 1 of the 3 Laender Poker Tour Warnemuende

Update 22:40

Grand Casino Baden chief Udo Herbst just got busted with AJ vs JJ.... no Ace on the board.

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Update after the dinner break 22:00
Level 2 / 124 players left Blinds 100/200

Sergej Barbarez is out, he ran top pair vs set

Chipcounts:
- Thomas Rupprath: 22.4K
- Thomas Froslev: 16k
- Naujoks Sandra: 15k
- Koen Reefman: 48k
- Pablo Ubierna: 19,5k
- Luis Ubierna: 13k
- Sigurd Eskeland: 19k
- Koen de Bakker: 21k
- Tobias Wagner: 32k
- Valentin Messina: 12,4k
- Steven van Zadelhoff: 26k
- Leonard Truche: 17k
- Cristiano Blanco: 25k
- Francesco de Vivo: 25k

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Day 1 of the main event at 3LT Warnemuende hast just started. We have 133 in the field with many well known faces such as Sergej Barbarez - a well-known soccer star, the former swimming world champion Thomas Rupprath, many players from Everest Poker's Live the Dream Team and Team Everest, poker pro Sandra Naujoks, Udo Kalweit from Switzerland, Seijbrand Maal and Rolf Slotboom from Holland, and many, many more.

Today we are going to play 7 levels (lasting 1 hour).
We start with 20,000 chips
Blinds: 50/100

This is the starting field:

Mark Albrecht
Jens Anskohl
Laurent Bachelet
Dennis Bachmann
Sergej Barbarez, Soocer Star
Guenther Bauer
Franco Berlingieri
Cristiano Blanco from Team Everest
Ismael Bojang
Stefan Bormann
Brice Boudouin
Uwe Brandt
Herman Campmans
Antonio Carnevale
Thomas Carstensen
Jan Christoffersen
Sebastien Ciborek
Romain Cojean
Koen de Bakker from the Live the Dream Team
Francesco De Vivo from the Live the Dream Team
Christian Debeil
Alexander Debus
Peer Deregowski
Gregor Derkowski
Can Marc Doganyilmaz
Cemil Doganyilmaz
Paul Drescher
Sven Eichelbaum
Hans-Jörg Erler
Sigurd Eskeland from the Live the Dream Team
Aschkan Fayaz
Florian Fedrau
Roberto Finotti
Willi Flemming
Rene Freymann
Thomas Froslev from the Live the Dream Team
Martin Führer
Luciano Gasparini
Franz Gebhardt who won a ticket at the Ostbayern Pokermasters
Alexander Gerdshikow
Renato Gerwien
Dieter Gomez
Otto Göschl
Patrick Heinsen
Udo Herbst, chief of the Grand Casino Baden
Alexander Hering
Hauke Heseding
Hilot
Thomas Hobbing
Thorsten Holst
Marc Horisberger
Dennis Hotop
Mario Hug
Gueven Inanc who won a ticket at the Ostbayern PokerMaster
Jan Peter Jachtmann from Pokerblatt
Rüdiger Jaworski, one of the Free Roll Beach Tour winners
Marten Jensen
Mikael Johanssen, winner of the Everest Poker European Cup 2010
Udo Kalweit, fromer Everest Poker Open Champion
Hans Karaacic
Joachim Karacic
Robin Kazemieh
Thomas Kazemieh
Richard Kieckhöfer
Stephan Klam
Frank Koopmann
Christoffer Kreiß, one of the three Free Roll Beach Tour winners
Eugen Kress
Matthias Kürschner who finished 3rd at 3LT Baden
Greger Larsson
Mathieu Le Montagner
Robert Lenz
Raymond Ligthart
Holger Lindemann
Frank Lohr, one of the three Free Roll Beach Tour winners
Markus Loidl
Stefano Luchetti
Mikael Lund
Sijbrand Maal, Belgium Poker Champion 2008
André Mayr
Armijn Meijer, Dutch poker pro
Valentin Messina from Team Everest
Aleksandr Mitronov
Sandra Naujoks, German poker pro
Havard Odegard
Christian Oswald
Andreas Pagel
Thomas Panek
Jochem Plat
Thomas Pohnke
Regina Prüter
Ivan Raich
Nicolas Rames
Koen Reefman
Sven Reichhardt
Thierry Renard
Johan Rensink
Marvin Rettenmaier
Kai Rocholl
Guenot Romain
Thomas Rupprath, former World Swimming Champion from Germany
Pier Luca Salassa
Matteo Sanfilippo
Michael Schiffner
Ronny Schimpf
Kaspar Schmid from Team Everes Switzerland
Alexander Schmidt
Tom Schmidt
Jens Schmieg
Bo Sehlstedt
Gael Seydoux
Rolf Slotboom, Dutch poker pro
David Sonelin
Jonnie Sonelin
Leo Spielmann
Rotach Stefan
Tannes TANASBOON
Sebastian Teubner
Rainer Tews
Thomas Trabouls
Leonard Truche from the Live the Dream Team
Luis Ubierna, Spanish FFTTR player and good friend of Everest poker
Pablo Ubierna, Spanish FFTTR player and good friend of Everest Poker
Bülent Uzun
Mark Van den Voorden
Timotheus van der Zwet
Jorrit Van Wijk
Steven Van Zadelhoff from Team Everest
Tobias Wagner, German Live the Dream player
Marco Witt
Siwash Zahmat
Behzad Zarnegar
Rein Roelof Zijda

Winners of the Super Satellite at 3LT Warnemuende

74 players started in today's 220 Euro Super Satellite for the Main Event of the 3 Laender Pokertour in Warnemuende. The top 7 players got awarded with a 2.200 Euro tournament ticket and the winners are: Sergej Barbarez, Nicolas Rames, Thomas Speck, Eugen Kress, Gordon Pohnke, Stefan Rotach, Tobias Schreiber.

Everest Poker wishes all the best for tomorrow's main event with a guaranteed price pool of 300.000 Euro!!

PS: Sergej is not on the picture as he run immediately to the players party to celebrate his success :)

3 LÄNDER POKER TOUR WARNEMÜNDE

Beach Tour Finale & Super Satellite - Today players fight for the last seats for the 3LT Warnemünde

75 players from Germany, Denmark and Poland started in the Beach Tour Finale this afternoon. The all qualified through different channels in order to play for a ticket to the 3LT main event. In total 3 tickets are distributed each worth 2,200 EUR..

And these are the lucky three:
(left to right)
Rüdiger Jaworski, Frank Lohr, Christoffer Kreiß

The other players on the final table were the follwoingÖ
4. Sven Steinmetz who lost Flush vs. Full House and finished as the unlucky bubble
5. Jonas Streich
6. Bettina Fabel
7. Jakob Hogard
8. Michael Wienand
9. Matthias Grube

At 7pm the super satellite started with 69 players trying to catch one of the 7 3LT tickets. There were some famous face in the field such as soccer star Sergej Barbarez, the former world champion in swimming Thomas Rupprath, poker pro Sandra Naujoks and many more.

VIP Sailing and players party

Everest Poker has invited VIP players to a special sailing experience. Players from all over Europe entered a Volvo Ocean Racer devided in two teams: Northern Europe vs the South of Europe.

After a great race on the Baltic Sea the North won the match!

Then, everybody went to the beach to celebrate and have a yummy BBQ. The perfect chance to warm up for the player's party where it was music and drinks and a lot of fun through the night.

We have a winner!

The SPT Castellon 2010 has a winner; Julien Pouchain!

He beats the runner up Julio Dolce HU with 78 vs 64 (straight vs two pair).

Julien won over 60k, a record in the SPT history! We thank the Gran Casino Castellon, the dealers, Gerard Serra and his team, Carron Design, Cenacle, Pandovani and all the players for this great stop in Castellon. We hope to see you all again in Valencia 1-3 October!

Heads up!

We are heads up! Guillome Valle will go home with 19,200 euro as third place finisher. This was his first live tournament, so congratulations with this great achievement Guillome!

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3 players left!

Norel Thibaut was short stacked and pushed all in with KQo, Julien found AA and made the obvious call. No help for Thibaut and he takes home 14,200 euro for his 4th place. Good game Thibaut!

The remaining 3 players are playing the 15000-30000 level with an ante of 3000. Two days ago the tournament started with 202 players.

4 players left!

Fabien Perrot was holding Q8 en decided to push all in after Julien Pouchain raised. With a Q on the flop, it was very difficult for Fabien to win this hand while Julien was holding AQ. Fabien did a good job with his 5th place, congratulations Fabien!

All the finalists and Gerard Serra.

We also lost Laura Cantero, she was all in preflop with 22 vs the JJ of Thibaut. No help for Cantero and she ended this tournament with a 6th place.

Thibaut Morel

Chipcount and pay outs:
Julio Dolce 1,000,000
Thibaut Morel 215,000
Julien Pouchain 1,027,000
Guillaume Valle 764,000

5. Fabien Perrot 11,500 euro
6. Laura Cantero 9,500 euro
7. John Lundquist 7,600 euro
8. Norbert Domcek 5,700 euro

Side Event Winner!

'SoSick_84' (Pavel) from Poland won the 330 euro side event! He won 6400 euro and of course a nice trophy. Congratulations!

Final Table!

1. Julio Dolce (Spain)446k
2. Thibaut Morel (France)115k
3. Julien Pouchain (France)666k
4. Fabien Perrot (France)211k
5. John Lundqvist (Finland) 268k
6. Norbert Domcsek (Hungary)222k
7. Laura Cantero (Spain) 553k
8. Guillaume Valle (France) 449k

Pay outs (euros):
1. 63000
2. 32500
3. 19200
4. 14200
5. 11500
6. 9500
7. 7600
8. 5700

Besides the money, the players also win a leather bracelet. PADOVANI is a leading Italian jewelry manufacturer which belongs to Daniele Padovani. PADOVANI, with broad experience in the jewelry industry in Italy, is well known for designing jewels and accessories based on innovation and experimentation, creating original masterpieces in fine and alternative materials, inspired in classical Italian styles.

Good luck all!

Laura Cantero, second in chips!

Almost the final table!

Philippe Paresa (France), Gourgand Gartam (France) and A.F.Haak (Netherlands) just busted. They'll take home 2700 euro. We hope to see them again in our next stop in Valencia!

Beat for A.F.Haak

Haak reraises Julio Doce and Doce goes all in. Haak makes the call with pocket tens, Doce shows A7o. The flop is KK7 turn a Q river a Q so Haaks two pair gets counterfeited and he's crippled. He loses his last two blinds with A2 vs A7.

Day 3 Castellon

A short introduction to day 3 of the SPT Castellon, enjoy!

SPT Castellon - Day 3 from Mara Everest on Vimeo.

Down to 15 players

We are playing level 18 with blinds 4000-8000 and an ante of 500. The levels last for an hour. We started the day with 18 players but we already lost 3 of them. Philippe Bernanose (France), Ricado Benzal (Spain) and Helge Warkow (Germany) will take home 2500 euro. Good game!

Fabien Perrot

He swims. He plays basketball and badminton. He is an avid chess player with an extraordinary collection of over 300 books about chess. He also claims the ability to solve Rubik’s Cube in under 60 seconds. And now our Live the Dream player from France, Fabien Perrot, is playing in Castellon, working on a final table. Bonne chance Fabien!

Seating and chipcounts!

The remaining 18 players will start the third day at 5 PM. Good luck to all of them and especially our Live the Dream player Fabien Perrot!

Fabien!!

Fabien Perrot is the only Everest Poker player left, come on Fabien! Laura Cantero has a huge stack, over 300k, and she's the chip leader at the moment. With 25 players left and blinds 15000-3000 with an ante of 300, we are almost in the money. The rail is getting crowded now, everybody wants to see who will make it to the final two tables.

Interview with Tobestar

The german Live the Dream member, Tobias Wagner, gave us an interview, before he got busted. GG Tobias!

SPT Castellon - Interview with Tobi Wagner from Mara Everest on Vimeo.

Maria and Javier: exit hands

Unfortunately we lost two Everest Poker players: Maria Maceiras and Javier Martinez.

Javier Martinez was the Spanish Poker Champion in 2008 and the also won the SPT Castellon that same year. A couple of weeks ago he became the first player to win two SPTs, when he was crowned champion at the SPT Ibiza. Another big success came when he was one of the 10 winners of the Live the Dream 2010 casting. Winning the casting involved a $100,000 sponsorship contract to play some of the World’s biggest tournaments.

Today we lost him in the 5th hand he was playing. Javier was short, he had only 12 big blinds when the button raised. Javier found K7s and decided to go all in. The button called and showed 55. No help for Javier! But he will be playing the SPT Valencia, so we meet him again soon!

María Maceiras (‘May’) started playing poker when she was only a girl and she, her brother and father are certainly one of the most respected families in the World of poker. This 29 year old Galician girl was a pioneer as she became the first woman to win a Spanish Championship. Today it wasn't her day. She went all in with AK and her opponent called with AQ, The flop and turn gave no sweat, but the river was deadly, a Q...

Maria will play the SPT Valencia and also the last two stops of the 3LT in Hamburg and Vienna. Good luck there Maria!

Intro SPT day 2

With a short delay, here the introduction to day 2 of the SPT Castellon!

SPT Castellon - Day 2 from Mara Everest on Vimeo.

Gerard Serra

Gerard Serra has worked with Thomas Kremser in the creation of some of Europe’s most memorable poker events. Apart from being Kremser’s right hand, Serra is his best friend and one of the most popular tournament directors in Spain. He is also proud of being a loyal FC Barcelona fan. Gerard is doing a great job here in Castellon with his team. Today he's wearing a green tie, place your bets for tomorrows color!

Javier Martinez also thinks Gerard is great!

Ladies rock the SPT!

Day 2 of the SPT Castellon is running for an hour now. The 84 remaining players are now playing the 9th level with blinds 500-1000 and an 100 ante. 18 players will be in the money and we try to play the field down to those 18 today.

Poker is a men sport, but we also see a lot of lovely ladies participating in the SPT's. Amongst them, Antoine Saouts girlfriend Anais.

We also see the Dutch Lieke van Wordragen, she already doubled up with QQ vs JJ so she is playing a healthy 33.k.

Laura Cantero began the day as the chipleader. Due to her aggressive way of playing, she lost some big pots but in the first hour but now she's back on the winning track.

The SPT Aranjuez had the first female winner, Catarina Santos from Portugal. Let's see if the ladies can do it again here in Castellon!

Interview Koen de Bakker (before he busted)

Chipcount Day 1

Laura Cantero is the Chipleader at the end of Day 1 of this SPT Castellon 2010, when we have 102 of the 202 overall players left.

Koen de Bakker out

The Dutch Live the Dream player Koen de Bakker, born in Leiden, just busted. He lost a big pot when he went all in after a limp and a raise with jacks, but the initial raiser called with AA. Koen will play the 330 euro side event tomorrow and he we will see him again during the 3LT Warnemuende.

Good game Koen!

Last level of today

The remaining 126 players are about to start with the last level of day 1. We started today with 202 players and had that means we had the biggest field ever in a SPT! Tomorrow the action will start at 5 PM local time in the Gran Casino Castellon.

If you want to play a SPT yourself, you can qualify online with Everest Poker! Click here for more information about the other stops this year in Valencia, Sevilla and Lloret de Mar!

5th level and payouts

152 players made it to the 5th level. Their average stack is 19.9k. We lost some big names like Luis and Pablo Ubierna, Antoine Saout and Niels van Gent. Amongst the chip leaders we see the lovely Laura Cantero. She again proved that she knows how to play poker in Las Vegas, making a good result in one of the side events of the world championship.

The payouts in euros:

1. 63000
2. 32500
3. 19200
4. 14200
5. 11500
6. 9500
7. 7600
8. 5700
9. 3800
10. 3100
11. 3100
12. 3100
13. 2700
14. 2700
15. 2700
16. 2500
17. 2500
18. 2500

Chipcounts!

Leonard Truche 13k

Fabien Perrot 11k (He is having fun at the table although he's losing; "I'm a good looser!".)

Koen de Bakker 39k

Laura Cantero 53k ("Now I'm wearing pink, tomorrow it will be blue!")

Javier Martinez 30k

Tobias Wagner 11k

David Colin 12k

Maria Maceiras 29k ("I've had better days!")

Pablo Ubierna was caught bluffing...and busted

Pablo Ubierna had some history with one of the other players at table 20. This Spanish participant, with the nickname 'Email', warned Pablo. "We know each other and online you always win, so now it's pay back time!". On a Js 8C 7s flop both players check. The turn is a 4c and Pablo decides to bet his flush draw, he holds Ac Qc. Email calls. The river is a 9s. This card complete a lot of draws, except Pablo's! The Spanish qualifier checks and Pablo moves all in. "Call!" and we have a showdown. A8 beats Pablo's bluff!

Pablo...still smiling!

Antoine Saout is out!

We lost Antoine Saout in the third level today. He was already short stacked and decided to move all in after a raise with AQo. It ended up that he was facing pocket tens and AK. The flop gave hope: AQ7. The turn was a blank but the river gave one of the opponents of Antoine Saout his third ten....

Antoine at the beginning of this SPT stop.

SPT Castellon day 1

Welcome to the Main Event SPT Castellon Day 1!

After a great success in Aranjuez and the white island of Ibiza, the Spanish Poker Tour is now being hosted in Castellon!

Once more the well known tour presents itself with the proven structure with a 15,000 starting stack and 60 minute blind levels. This allows players to have a smooth entry into the tournament and work their way to their share of the fantastic prize pool, this time over 150k!

Maria Maceiras in full concentration.

The main event started at 5 PM local time. 202 players (that's a record!!) registered for the third stop of the third season. The winner will take home more than 60k euro! Of course we can welcome some Team Everest and Live the Dream players; amongst them we see Maria Maceiras, Javier Martinez, Antoine Saout, Leonard Truche, Fabien Perrot, Tobias Wagner and Koen de Bakker.

Pablo Ubierna and Koen de Bakker sitting next to each other at table 20.

On this blog we will keep you updated about them and other Everest Poker players. Good luck all!

Kick off of SPT Castellon

Steven wins $63,000 in Tallinn!

Steven van Zadelhoff, the Dutch Everest Poker Pro who's living in Malta, became 6th during the EPT Tallinn. He won $63,000 and was the best Everest Poker player in the field.

His exit hand:

Everybody folded to Steven and Steven decided to go all in from the small blind with Qd 9h. Kevin Stani in the big blind woke up with Qs Qh and called instantly. The flop gave Steven some outs because he flopped a straight flush draw! 7h 6h 8h but the 4s turn and 6c river were no help for our Everest Poker Pro.

Steven, congratulations with this great achievement!

STEVEN IS READY!

Steven will play today the Final Table at EPT Tallinn.

Good luck Steven!!

What can we say, the guy looks good :-)

Team Everest player Steven reached final table at EPT Tallinn

Congratulations to our Team Everest player Steven van Zadelhoff who just reached the final table of EPT Tallinn with 8 players left.

He will win at least 32,000 EUR (8th place).

The final table will be played tomorrow, 16th of August 2010.
Steven is fifth in chips with 805.000. Averige is 1.575.000

Well done Steven, and good luck for tomorrow!!!

Update: Steven is one of the nine players left in EPT Tallinn

Right now, we have 9 players left at this unofficial final table of EPT Tallinn.
Team Everest player Steven van Zadelhoff has around 840K in chips, averige is 1400K.

Good luck Steven!!!

Team Everest player Steven still in EPT Tallinn, day 4!

Steven van Zadelhoff, our Team Everest player from the Netherlands, is playing day 4 at EPT Tallinn.

There are still 25 players remaining from the 420 entries, and they all win at least 8,000 EUR.

Today (day 4) they will start with 6,000/ 12,000 blinds and an ante of 1,000.
Steven has 372000 in chips.

Go Steven Go!