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