Fabien and Sigurd are out just before the Bubble, Maria is ITM

We are in Level 15, Blinds 2k/4k and with 81 players remaining we are getting close to the bubble. A total of 80 players will be payed at least 8.000 Euro. Unfortunately both Fabien and Sigurd busted a couple of minutes ago. Fabien was holding JTs in the Big Blind when the player in the Small Blind raised. After a call he reshoved the c-bet of his opponent on a J-high flop. His opponent was holding pocket Kings and knocked Fabien out. Sigurd was very unlucky when he pushed all-in with his remaining 10 Big Blinds and pocket Aces. He lost against a pair of 9's which hit another 9 on the board. Our last remaining Team Everest player is Maria Maceiras with about 50k chips after she lost half her stack on a flip with pocket 3's against A9o. Let's cross fingers for Maria!

Update: We are down to 80 players and Maria is in the money! She has 38.000 left and will come back tomorrow for Day3. Blinds will be 2.5k/5k and a running ante of 500.

2 players out, 3 players over 100k

Unfortunately Julien Claudepierre and Francesco de Vivo are out of the EPT by PokerStars in Vienna. On the other hand Sigurd Eskeland, Maria Maceiras and Fabien Perrot are above 100k in chips.

Notable hands:

Sigurd open-raised with pocket 10s and got called by one guy. On a Queen high flop with two spades Sigurd made a continuation bet and got check-raised by his opponent. After a call from Sigurd and kind of a blank on the turn his opponent moved all-in with more than pot-size. Sigurd taked a bit and finally catched the bluff of his opponent holding a flush draw and a gutshot. Sigurd won a pot of about 80k!

Maria open-raised with a pair of 8s and got 3 callers. The flop with Q85 made Maria a set and after her c-bet one guy moved all-in with two pair holding 85. Maria called and doubled up to more than 100k

Fabien was a bit lucky today. After the loss of a big pot he moved all in with 83s from the Small Blind with about 12 Big Blinds. The Big Blind called with AK but Fabien hit the 8 on the flop and doubled up. Later on he was all-in again with AQ vs. AK and could double up again. After a series of bad beats in the last couple of tournaments Fabien deserves to stay in the tournament with now 115k.