Chipcount and pics

Koen de Bakker 113k
Antoine Saout 40k
Fabien Perrot 50k

194 players left with blinds 300-600 and an 50 ante. After this level they will play level 8 before they call it a day.

Double up for Antoine Saout

Antoine Saout had about 15k before this hand:

Saout makes it 1075 UTG+2, the cut off 3bets to 3.5k, Saout 4bets to 14.5k (leaving 800 behind(!!)) and the cut off calls. Saout moves all in on a KT9 flop and his opponent makes the easy call. With TT Saout beats QQ so he doubles up!

Voitto Rintala is out

Voitto Rintala just busted. He was already short and decided to push his last 6k to the middle with JT. Unfortunately another player found AK and made the easy call. No help for Voitto.

The average stack is 45k, we started day 1A with 330 players and the remaining 221 participants are playing level 6.

Koen is going strong

After the dinner break, Koen hits his second set this tournament! There's a lot of action pre flop, and both players check on the A high flop. The turn is a K and Koen raises the bet of his opponent. On a blank river, Koen goes all in and gets a call. Our Dutch Live the Dream player is now playing 86k!

Besides our Everest Poker Players, there are a lot of international names; Men N’Guyen, David Williams, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Eric Seidel, JJ Liu, Andrew Lichtenberg, Michael Tureniek.

Partouche Poker Tour Final!

Today the last stop of the third season of the Partouche Poker Tour started, a final! This tournament with a great, deep structure has a day 1a and 1b. We will follow our Everest Poker players on this blog. On the French blog you'll find more information about the French Everest Poker players.

Who is playing today?

Koen de Bakker (Live the Dream)
The young economics student from Leiden (the Netherlands), Koen de Bakker is as dedicated to his studies as he is to his poker game. Will he make it to the final table here in Cannes?

Fabien Perrot (Live the Dream)
He speaks French, German, English, Spanish and Italian fluently and is an avid chess player. Allez allez Fabien from France!

Antoine Saout (Everest Poker Pro)
Antoine Saout is a sponsored Team Everest player and one of poker’s rising superstars, finishing 3rd in the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Maybe he will win this 8.5k euro buy in tournament in his home country?

Chipcounts just before the dinnerbreak:

(They started the day with 30k.)

Koen de Bakker 47k
Fabien Perrot 23k
Antoine Saout 10k

We also spot our Everest Poker friend Voitto. He's very short and has to double his 7k stack in the remaining levels today. The players will play till 4PM (!!).