Joris Springael wins the 2010 3LT Grand Final

261 players from across Europe traveled to Vienna, Austria for the 3LT Grand Final presented by Everest Poker.

Congratulations to our 2010 3LT Grand Final Champion, Joris Springael from Belgium. The 22 year old Joris cashed € 132,680. Joining Joris at the final table were Everest Poker qualifier Alexander Debus of Germany (3rd–€64,810), and Team Everest Valentin Messina from France, (5th – €34,940).

Many of Europe’s top poker champions battled it out for a total prize pool of €522,000, including 3LT Baden winner Tobias von Siebenthal, 3LT Warnemuende winner Pierluca Salassa, Everest Poker European Cup 2010 winner Mikael Johanssen, WSOP bracelet winners Michael Keiner and Sigurd Eskeland of the Live the Dream team, and recent Spanish Poker Tour champion Marvin Rettenmaier.

The Main Event’s top female finisher was our Everest Poker qualifier Michaela Lerch from Germany (18th–€4080)

The night before the final table, Everest organized a Players Party in the Scotch Club, welcoming all online qualifiers, sponsored players and journalists to the 3LT Grand Final.

This year, the 3 Länder Poker Tour (3LT) debuted as the first poker tour held in the three German-speaking countries. The 3LT is directed by Thomas Kremser, one of the world’s most respected tournament directors.

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Joris Springael Champion of the 3LT Grand Final

After 2 1/2 hours of Heads Up play we now have crowned Joris Springael of Belgium champion of the 2010 3LT Grand Final in Vienna. Joris went into the Heads Up with 1/3 of the chips of his opponent, Cristea Opria, but took the lead and control of the HU with one bad bluff from Cristea. One a board with 2sKcAc, Joris bet 200K and the Cristea called. The turn was 8c, Jorris bet 400K and Cristea raised to 1 million. After some time Joris went all in with nearly 1.6 million and Opria folds showing K3 off.

Heads Up

It's not even 20:00 and we have already reached Heads Up of the 3LT Grand Final. Alexander Debus of Germany is our 3rd place finisher tonight. Alex went out after going all in pre flop with AJ and was called by Cristea Opria holding AQ. The flop showed 793, the turn was a 5 and a 4 on the river could not save our German Everest Poker qualifier.

Three players left and these are the chipcounts

1. 1.455.000 Spingael
2. 2.301.000 Opria
3. 1.472.000 Debus (Everest Poker Online Qualifier from Germany)

Right in the next hand Holland loses a player

Rutgar de Boer shoves all-in with A8 and Joris Springael pays with AJ. Joris wins the hand by completing the straight. Rutgar ranks 4th at the 3LT Grand Finale and receives 47.600 €.

Bad luck for Team Everest player Valentin Messina

Joris goes all-in preflop and Valentin decides to call. Joris Springael has KJ off and Valentin shows AJ off. Val in the lead but the board is J2K K 9 - Full house for Joris and Val is left with just 65K while sitting in the Big Blind.
In the next hand Val goes all-in with 89 suited, Cristea Opria calls with KX. First Val hits the 8 on the Turn but the King on the river gives the pot to Cristea. Val is our 5th finisher with € 34.940.

Start of Level 25

We start level 25 of the 3LT Grand Final with 5 players fighting it out for our first place prize of 132,680 €. Blinds are now up to 20,000/4,000 with a 400 ante. Here are the chipcounts of our remaining players:

Joris Springael (BE)- 1.377.000

Valentin Messina (FR) - 693.000
*Team Everest

Cristea Opria (RO)-985.000

Alexander Debus (DE)- 1.593.000

Rutger De Boer (NL)- 592.000

Suicidal move by Pim Van Wieringen

The Dutch player Pim Van Wieringen goes all-in with 97off. Snap-call by Cristea Opria from Romania who has the Aces.
The Board brings another Ace and two Kings. In the interview Pim calls this "the biggest mistake in his poker life". Pim finishes 6th and receives 25.320 €.

Valentin Busts 7th Place Finisher

Valentin Messina, of Team Everest, busted our 7th place finisher Yildiray Cam of Germany. Yidiray, already short from losing J's vs. Q's, went all in pre flop holding AK. Valentin, holding 6's decided to call. No help from the board saved our Everest Poker pro and eliminated Yildiray who will be taking home 16.710 €.

First Hand, First Out

We have our first player out from the 3LT Grand Final. Stjepan Jokic, from Croatia, went all in the first hand of the day holding 9's. He was called by an opponent holding K's and with no help from the board, Stjepan finished 8th, taking home 11.650 €.

3LT Grand Final

Welcome to Day 4 of the 3LT Grand Final brought to you by Everest Poker. Over the past 4 days we have played down from 261 players and have now reached our final 8. The players are all now guaranteed to take home at least 11.650 €, but will fight to end for the 1st place prize of 132.680 € and coveted title of 3LT champion.

Our Final 8:

3LT Finale table:

Joris Springael 1 376 000
Pim Van Wieringen 661 000
Valentin Messina 528 000
Cristea Opria 766 000
Yildiray Cam 534 000
Alexander Debus 517 000
Jokic Stjepan 227 000
Rutger De Boer 631 000

We have a final table!!!!

It took a while, but we finallly have a FINAL TABLE for the 3LT Grand Final.

Tomorrow, we will start with 8 players at 14.00H and you can follow the action on our livestream.

Last hand: AQ versus AQ versus AK.
Flop: 449 Turn: A River: K

Update: 3LT Grand Final

Place 11: Pim strikes again!
Pim pushed allin with pocket 4. Marko Braculj calls with AQ.
The flop brings 478 making a set for Pim. To complete his 'run' he even hits quads on the turn. Marko wins 5,820 EUR

Place 12: Best hand doesn't always wins..
Waldemar Kopyl goes all in met 180K with AQ and Pim van Wieringen calls with A10.
The board is A10335. Waldemar takes home 5.820 EUR.

Place 13:
Our 3LT winner from Baden, Tobias von Siebenthal is kicked out by Team Everest Valentin Messina.
Valentin shows AK versus A5 of Tobias.
Tobias wins 5,820 EUR

Place 14:
Ludovit Fischer goes all in against Cristea with AT verus 33.
Ludovit wins 4,810 EUR

Place 15:
Kenny Hallaert from Belgium lost AQ versus JJ.
He wins 4,810 EUR

Place 16:
Tomaz Kogovsek pushed all in after a raise of Alexander Debus. Tomas A7 versus AJ.
Tomas takes home 4,810 EUR.

Place 17:
Milan lost a hugh pot with AK versus AA. With his last chips he pushed all in met 10-8 versus AK. No help for Milan. He wins 4,050 EUR

Place 18:
Last woman out!!
Our online Everest poker qualifier Michaela Lerch went all in preflop with pocket 9 against pocket 10. She took home 4,050 EUR.

Place 19:
Joachim Sanejstra was holding A-9 and pushed all in preflop. His opponent showed American Airlines (AA).

Place 20:
Alexander Hering was short stacked and pushed all in from the SB with 60K. BB calls.
BB A9 versus SB 64. The ace on the flop was the end of Alexander.

Michael Huber busted

Last Level before dinner break. The blinds are 5000/10,000 Ante 1000.

After he has lost a coinflip, Michael Huber pushes his last chips all-in with AQ and gets called by a player with KJ. He finishes the 3LT Grand Finale on place 21.

Peter Jensen out

Peter Jensen goes all-in with A10 and is called by Johannes van der Menlan with TdTh.
Peter hits the A on the flop but four hearts on the board make a flush for Johannes.

Michael Bielik is the the next on to go

Michael Bielik loses his stack to Waldemar Kopyl with pocket 44 vs pocket 77.

Rolf Slotboom is Out

Dutch poker pro Rolf Slotboom pushes his last chips all-in with AQ, Pim Van Wieringen pays with KJ and hits a K on the board. Rolf wins EUR 3,540.

The Bubble pops at 16:45

Blinds are 4.000/8.000 Ante 500

The bubble has just popped and the remaining 24 players are all in the money!
We had all-ins and calls at two tables.

At table 39 Peter Kamaras shoves all-in and Joris Springael pays.

At table 38 Yildiray Cam pushes his remaining 16,000 from the small blind all-in and Tobias von Siebenthal calls.

It was first played at table 39. Peter Kamaras had AcTh and Joris Springael shows AdKd.
The board showed 9h3dJc 4c 9c

Kamaras loses his chips and has to hope that now also Yildiray Cam will lose because then Kamaras would receive the prize money as he had more chips then Cam at the moment of the all-ins.
At table 38 Tobias von Siebenthal opens Qc2h. Yildiray shows Qs7s.
On the board: Kd8h10d Jh7d
This makes Peter Kamaras the unlucky bubble boy.

Chipcounts:

Dalcopean 470.000
Pim Van Wieringen 305.000
Rolf Slotboom 47.000
Alexander Debus 390.000
Ludovit Fischer 220.000
Milan Joksic 193.000
Michael Bielik 139.000
Waldemar Kopyl 320.000
Marko Braculj 158.000
Joachim Sanejstra 155.000
Tomaz Kogovsek 380.000
Johannes van der Menlan 83.500
Michaela Lerch 182.000
Peter Jensen 81.500
Yildray Cam 27.000
Tobias von Siebenthal 183.000
Valentin Messina 405.000
Rulter De Boer 224.000
Joris Springael 164.500
Alexander Hering 144.500
Michael Huber 228.000
Stjepan Jokic 155.000
Kenny Hallaert 133.500
Cristea Opria 364.500

Team Everest's Valentin Messina Starts Day 3 of the 3LT Grand Finale as Chipleader

15h30 - Start of Level 17

We are starting Level 17 of the 3LT final with 26 players left in the tournament. Blinds are currently at 3000 - 6000 with a 500 ante. Team Everest player, Valentin Messina has maintained his chip lead with 350,000 chips as we approach the bubble.

Other Chipcounts from the field:

Michaela Lerch - 160K
*Everest Poker Qualifier

Tobias von Siebenthal - 220K
*3LT Baden Winner

Peter Jensen - 95K
*Everest Poker Qualifier

Rolf Slotboom - 49K

Kenny Hallaert - 119K

Start of Day 3

At the end of day 2 there are only 37 players left in the tournament. Our Team Everest player Valentin Valvegas Messina is the chipleader with 377,000. Second is Waldemar Kopyl from Hamburg with 359,500 in chips. Our last woman standing is Everest Poker online qualifier Michaela Lerch aka "aleachim" from Germany, with 155,500 chips.

Yesterday, many well-known players were eliminated such as our Everest Poker players Cristiano Blanco, Tobias Wagner, Leo Truche and Steven van Zadelhoff. Unfortunately, also German soccer star Sergej Barbarez had to go. Shortly before the end of the day we also lost Christian Oswald, the 3LT Warnemuende runner-up.

Day 3 is about to start any minute and today we will play until we have the 9-handed final table for tomorrow's last day. The 3LT Grand Finale Champion will take home EUR 132,680.

Follow tomorrow's Final Table via live stream starting at 14:00 (CET) either here on our blog or on www.3LTour.com

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Sergej Barbarez busted

Ther soccer star from Germany showed great poker during the 3LT Final. Unfortunately is stack got smaller and smaller in the last level and he finally shoved his last chips with 33. He got called by a player who had pocket JJ and this was it.
Good Game Sergej!

Leo is out!

First Leo loses 80 % of his stack with AA vs 22.
He is left with 10 BB and shoves all-in his last 22K with 88. He receives one call and another guy reshoves for 50K.

Leo has 88, one guy holds KJ and the other KK. Nobody hits on the board.

Now all of our hopes are set on Valentin who now has 120K. Go Val!!!!

Pictures from day 2 at 3LT Vienna

Dinner Break Update at 3LT Vienna

It is 18:30 in Vienna and the 53 remaining players are going to have dinner now.
Our two French sponsored players Leo and Val are still in.

Both were seated at the feature table during the last levels.
Valentin has managed to come back to 66K and Leo has lost a little and is now on 77K.

Sergej Barbarez is constantly building up his stack. The German soccer star goes into the dinner break holding 145K in Chips. Keep going Sergej!

Chipcounts Updates after the break

Level 11
800 - 1600 / 200
76 players left in the tournament

Sergej Barbarez has 110K in chips and is doing fantastic in this tournament. He told us during the break that he is being very patient and focused - seems to be working out.

The last two Everest Poker players are French players Leo and Val.
Leo Truche has a strong stack of 90K in chips.

Valentin Messino needs to build-up his stack as he currently only has 39K.

3LT Baden Champion Tobias von Siebenthal is still in with 43K. And 3LT Warnemuende Runner-up Christian Oswald holds about 49K.

Update - first break 16:00

Level 11
800 - 1600 / 200
79 players left in the tournament

Half an hour ago our Team Everest player Steven van Zadelhoff got eliminated from the tournament.

Also Italian Stallion Cristiano busted just before the break. He had KsQs with 3s6s8x on the flop. His opponent showed AA, no spades on the river.

Tobestar busted

The 2010 Live the Dream Team's Tobi Wagner started pretty short stacked with 18,600 and got involved in a coin flip in his second hand. He had AK and faced JJ - no help from the board. This is it for tobestar.

Chipcounts after Day 1 at 3LT Grand Finale Vienna

Many very good players got eliminated got eliminated from the tournament during the first day of the 3LT Grand Finale. We are happy that there are still some of our Everest family in the game like France's Leo Truche and Valenin Messina, Tobias Wagner from Germany, and Italy's Cristiano Blanco.

We are also very happy that our good friend, German soccer celebrity Sergej Barbarez is running very well and currently in 10th position. The Hungarian Rapstar Peter Majoros is also starting in day two. 3LT Warnemuende Runner-up Christian Oswald and Warnemuende 4th ranked have both made it to Day 2.

These are the starting chipcounts of day 2:

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Update Tobias von Siebenthal

The 3LT Baden Champion holds 43K at the beginning of the last level of the day.
Blinds 400-800 / 75

Tobias is at a very tough table with for example Dutch Rolf Slotboom.

Tobias von Siebenthal

Rolf Slotbloom

Sigurd is out

At the end of Level 7 our Vegas champion gets eliminated from the tournament

Sigurd raises at 1.5 with K7s, call from the button, the blinds fold.
The flop is 552 (2 hearts)
Sigurd checks and the button checks.
Turn is Kh.
Sigurd bets 2500 to protect his hand, the button calls.
The river is 10c.
And the player on the button goes all-in.
Sigurd decides to call and the button actually has the flush and kicks out our LTD player.

Javi and Thomas busted

Level 7
Blinds 300-600 / Ante 50

Javi has 24K in chips. From middle position he raises 1,4K. A very aggressive player in the small blind 3bets with 4.3K. Javi shoves and loses the hand with AsJs vs. AK.

Thomas has 13K. There are 3 limpers for 600 each. Thomas decides to push all-in pocket 33 and receives a call from a player with 77.

Hungarian Rapstar at 3LT

Peter Majoros, a famous rapper and TV host at the 3LT Grand Finale.

In Level 6 with blinds 250-500 Peter gets the Aces and the following happened:

Peter has AA raises 3BB and receives 1 call.
The flop shows QxTdBd.
Peter's opponent checks, Peter goes for 5K, called by his opponent.
On the turn: 9d
Peter's opponent checks again, Peter throws in another 8K and gets called again.
2d on the River.
Again check by Peter's opponent checks and so does Peter.
Peters opponent shows JdJx and wins the hand.

Valentin kills German poker columnist Lasse Koenig

At dinner break German poker columnist Lasse Koenig was already telling us that he had basically one major problem at his table: Valentin Messina! Lasse couldn't handle the game of our Team Everest member and in the end Val finally set and end to Lasse's hopes for the tournament.

Lasse holds AQ and there are 5 players in the hand - one of them is Valentin.
At the end Lasse shoves his remaining 8K all-in.

The board shows AJ5 - A X

Val had pocket 55 and thus gathered Lasse's chips.

Valentin Messina

Lasse Koenig

Bye, bye Sijbrand and Julien

Belgium Poker Champion 2008, Sijbrand Maal, and our Live the Dream player Julien Claudepierre from France got eliminated from the tournament.

Sijbrand

Julien

Update 21:20

We are in Level 4
Blinds 150-300
There are 233 players left

261 players have entered the tournament. This means the best 24 will be in the money with at least EUR 3540. The 3LT Grand Finale winner will take home EUR 132,680.

These are the current chipcounts:

Soccer celebrety Sergej Barbarez is doing really good and has 55K in chips

3LT Warnemuende winner Pierluca Salassa with 13K

Cristiano: 25K
Leo: 25K
Tobi: 12,5K
Valentin: 30K
Thomas: 19K
Francesco: 15K
Sigurd: 27.5K
Javi: 31K

Steven van Zadelhoff: 23K

EPEC winner Mikael Johanssen: 18K
3LT Baden winner Tobias von Siebenthal: 23K
Martin Brinkmann fro Germany: 13K

Michael Keiner is out

Florian Langmann raises and receives 3 Calls, Michael Keiner shoves his last 2500 all-in. Keiner has A7 and Langmann raises again with AT, everybody else folds. Langmann even hits on the Board and the Doc has to leave his seat.

Michael "Doc" Keiner

Pictures from the floor

Leo having a blast

Fabien

Sergej Barbarez

3LT Baden winner Tobias von Siebenthal

poker columnist Lasse Koenig

Dinnerbreak Update 19:00

We are in Level 3
with Blinds 100-200

We have already lost Viktoria and Fabien from the LTD Team and also Maria and Fabrice from Team Everest were early victims in the 3LT battle.

We all keep our fingers crossed to the rest of our Everest players. Here are some chip counts:

Valentin: 29K
Leo: 22K
Julien: 20K
Francesco: 20K
Cristiano: 33K
Javi: 19K
Thomas: 17K
Tobias: 20K
Sigurd: 19K
Koen: 17K
Steven: 13K

Sergej Barbarez: 43K
Koen Reefman: 16K
Tim van der Zwet: 35K
Rolf Slotboom: 32K
Yori Epskamp: 20K
Mikael Johansen: 18K
Sijbrand Maal: 13K
Pierlucca Salassa: 12K
Tobias von Siebenthal: 28K

And this is what happened to MARIA MACEIRAS and VIKTORIA SZILASI
Maria was down to 10K when she decides to push all-in preflop. She shows AK and faces JJ of her opponent. Unfortunately, the board did not bring any help.

Viktoria has lost a couple of small pots in a row until she was also down to 10K. Just like Maria she wanted to seize her chance and pushes all-in preflop holding TT. And again the Jacks of an opponent brought the decision and Viktoria also was eliminated from the tournament.

And this is what happened to FABIEN PERROT and FABRICE SOULIER
Fabsoul had an unlucky start at the tournament and lost large hands right at the beginning. Unfortunately he could not recover and got eliminated shortly after.

Fabien startet at the feature table together with Leo Truche. He had lost a couple of small pots and with 11.2K he raises. Marvin Rettenmaier (winner of the SPT Grand Finale) calls from the Button. Fabien in the SB is holding AcQc and decides to 3bet with 1.7K, he receives a couple of calls and the pot grows to 7K. On the flop Tc 2c 5c, Fabien Cbets with 6k and is called once again. The K on the turn gives Fabien a gutshot and he also has a flush draw. But in the end Fabien was not lucky and it didn't work out.

3LT Grand Finale Vienna - shuffle up and deal!

They main event of the 3LT Grand Finale Vienna has just started with 261 entering players.
Everyone is hoping to get a share of the EUR 500,000 guaranteed prize pool.

There are many famous faces in the field.
The entire 2010 Live the Dream Team:
- Tobias Wagner from Germany
- Leo Truche from France
- Fabien Perrot from France
- Julien Claudepierre from France
- Thomas Froslev from Denmark
- Javier Martinez from Spain
- Viktoria Szilasi from Hungary
- Sigurd Eskeland from Norway
- Koen de Bakker from the Netherlands
- Francesco de Vivo from Italy

Playing from Team Everest:
- Steven van Zadelhoff from the Netherlands
- Maria Maceiras from Spain
- Fabrice Soulier from France
- Cristiano Blanco from Italy
- Valentin Messina from France

Not only Everest Poker players have gathered at the tables in the Montesino. We have spotted famous German soccer celebrity Sergej Barbarez who has already played the 3LT Warnemuende before. There is the Hungarian rapstar and TV host Peter Majoros. Famous Dr. Michael Keiner from Germany, Dragan Galic who has shipped his ticket in the super satellite. We are happy to see again Mikael Johanssen our EPEC 2010 winner, the two Dutch pros Sijbrand Maal and Rolf Slotboom. Jan-Peter Jachtmann from the German magazine Pokerblatt - unfortunately he had a very bad run and got kicked out during the first level already. There is German poker columnist Lasse Koenig from Spiegel Online who got stacked by family and friends, probably hoping for some extra Christmas presents.

Let the world know about your 3LT Vienna

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Good luck to everybody at the 3LT Grand Finale Vienna!

Super Satellite to the 3LT Grand Finale Vienna

197 players fighting for 27 tickets

Last night the super satellite to the 3LT Grand Finale was played at the Montesino in Vienna.
197 players entered the EUR 110 tournament. In total there were 260 re-buys and 154 add-ons (EUR 100 each).

The super satellite was already showing a highclass field of participants with the Dutch Pro Rolf Slotboom, 3LT Warnemuende Runner-up Christian Oswald and well-known Dragan Galic.

PLACE NAME PRIZE
1 Galic Dragan € 2.200
2 Karman Antonio € 2.200
3 Riedmann Robert € 2.200
4 Günenc Erol € 2.200
5 Orosz Janos € 2.200
6 Najafi Mehdi € 2.200
7 Herczakowski Horst € 2.200
8 Svocak Jan € 2.200
9 Kokovdrk Tomaz € 2.200
10 Kimmo Puusa € 2.200
11 Gänsdorfer Alex € 2.200
12 Ettenauer Günther € 2.200
13 Lin Liping € 2.200
14 Shan Liun € 2.200
15 Telek Laszlo € 2.200
16 Uandok solyom € 2.200
17 Fillenz David € 2.200
18 Burkhardt Dieter € 2.200
19 Kovecses Avpad € 2.200
20 Süyok Peter € 2.200
21 Felsing Moritz € 2.200
22 Wie Qiang Hu € 2.200
23 Holeczek Heinz € 2.200
24 Johannsen Mikael € 2.200
25 Jevric Goran € 2.200
26 Szikrai Istvan € 2.200
27 Bachelet Laurent € 2.200

3LT finale will start tomorrow!

And you can follow the action from the final table on our special livestream, starting the 11th of December at 14.00 CET.