Julien Claudepierre of the Live The Dream Team, in the Final Table of the EPT Deauville!

Today the tournament has been mooved from the international conference center to the Salle des Ambassadeurs.

24 players started the day 5 with the desire to reach the goal to access to the final table of the EPT Deauville.

Amongst the last 8 players that will come back tomorrow, we have the Everest Poker Live The Dream player, Julien "garrincho54" Claudepierre.

Chipcounts of the 8 finalists that will come back tomorrow to the final table

1 Martin Jacobson 7,280,000
2 Alex Wice 6,248,000
3 Kenny Hallaert 3,599,000
4 Julien Claudepierre 3,244,000 (Team Everest Live The Dream)
5 Lucien Cohen 3,085,000
6 Anthony Hnatow 1,644,000
7 Ruslan Prydryk 1,154,000
8 Kaspars Renga 470,000

EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr Day - 4 summary

90 players participated to this day 3 of the EPT Deauville by PokerStars. Amongst them, we have 2 Everest Poker players: Fabrice Soulier and Julien Claudepierre.

They have played during 8 hours at the same table and we can proudly announce that they have reached their goal: come back tomorrow for the Day 5 of the EPT Deauville.

Here you have the chipcounts of the last 24 players:

1. Alex Wice 3,410,000
2. Laurent Polito 1,821,000
3. Anthony Hnatow 1,710,000
4. Kenny Hallaert 1,664,000
5. William Johnson 1,647,000
6. Martin Jacobson 1,540,000
7. Fried Meulders 1,485,000
8. Kevin Lambert 1,353,000
9. Andrzej Nowak-Rogozinski 1,339,000
10. Philip Jacobsen 1,070,000
11. Fabian Holling 1,061,000
12. Ruslan Prydryk 1,027,000
13. Franck Pepe 1,005,000
14. Lucien Cohen 760,000
15. Julien Claudepierre 754,000
16. Kaspars Renga 706,000
17. Emile Petit 705,000
18. Didier Mazairac 675,000
19. Sebastien Bidinger 657,000
20. Zimnan Ziyard 631,000
21. Kevin Keosomphet 568,000
22. Thomas Finneran 400,000
23. Fabrice Soulier 373,000
24. Riccardo Giacalone 358,000

EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr Day - 3 summary

6 members of the Team Everest participated in Day 3. From France we have Fabrice Soulier, Valentin Messina, Julien Claudepierre and Fabien Perrot (Team Live The Dream 2010). Steven van Zadelhoff from Holland and Tobias Wagner (DE) also started Day 3 today.

We have 2 EverestPoker.fr qualifiers playing as well: Germain Gillard and Kevin Giordani.

205 Day 2 survivors participated in Day 3 of the EPT Deauville by Pokerstars.fr, trying to finish among the 128 last players that are sure to reach at least 7,500€.

Fabien Perrot (Live The Dream Team 2010)was very short stack and has been the first EVP player eliminated today.

Then, our qualified player, Germain Gillard lost a crucial coin flip and has also been eliminated before the ITM positions:

Our dutch Everest Player, Steven van Zadelhoff had a though blind battle and has been eliminated in the first rounds of the day:

During this time, Fabrice continued to increase his stack taking again the first position of the chipleaders.

Our french champion, Valentin Messina has also been eliminated after a big setup flush agains full.

Then, finally we reached the ITM positions with 4 of our players.

The first eliminated player after the bubble is Tobias Wagner with a very short stack.

Then, the next one has been our last remaining qualified player: Hedi Salmi that also wins 7,500€ for his first big live tournament.

The last hands of the day have been very complicated for our French sponsored player Fabrice Soulier that lost 3 big pots and finishes the day with 328,000 chips.

Julien Claudepierre will also come back tomorrow to play the Day 4 of the EPT Deauville with 185,000 chips.

EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr Day - 2 summary

10 members of Team Everest participated in Day 2. From France we have Fabrice Soulier, Leo Truche, Estelle Denis, Valentin Messina, Julien Claudepierre and Fabien Perrot (Team Live The Dream 2010). Javier Martinez from Spain, Koen de Bakker and Steven van Zadelhoff from Holland and Tobias Wagner (DE) also started Day 2 today.

We have 4 EverestPoker.fr qualifiers playing as well: Jean Julien Stempfer, Germain Gillard, Julien Pouchain and Kevin Giordani.

501 Day 1 survivors participated in Day 2 of the EPT Deauville by Pokerstars.fr, trying to finish among the 128 last players that are sure to reach at least 7,500€.

Leo being eliminated in the begining of the day 2 by his team mate, Javier Martinez.

Estelle and Koen were eliminated in the first levels of the day.

We have lost 3 of our Everest Poker qualifiers in this Day2.

Our Spanish player, Javier Martinez has been eliminated with a huge bad beat!

But we also have some very good news from Deauville.

At the end of this day 2, Fabrice Soulier is leading the tournament second in chips.

Other Everest Poker players are will come back tomorrow to try to reach the paid places:

We also want to point out the deeprun of one of the Everest Poker qualified players: Hedi Salmi that finishes the day with 248,000 chips!

Here you have the final list of Everest players that will come back tomorrow to play day 3.

Fabrice Soulier: 390,000
Valentin Messina: 93,700
Julien Claudepierre: 128,000
Tobias Wagner: 149,000
Steven van Zadelhoff: 43,000
Fabien Perrot: 23,300
Germain Gillard: 80,000
Hedi Salmi: 248,300

EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr Day - 1B summary

7 members of Team Everest participated in Day 1B, the French Fabrice Soulier, Leo Truche, and Estelle Denis, Javier Martinez and Maria Maceiras from Spain as well as Tobias Wagner (DE), Cristiano Blanco (IT), and Sigurd Eskeland from Norway (Team Live the Dream 2010).

We also have 3 EverestPoker.fr qualified players Jean Julien Stempfer, Nicolas Vigne, and Vincent Buri.
In total 891 players (vs. 768 in 2010) participated at the main Event of the EPT Deauville by Pokerstars.fr with a €5.000 buy in. The total prizepool is €4,276,800. Also it has been confirmed that 128 players will be in the money starting at €7,500 and with €880,000 for the winner !

Maria Maceiras got eliminated after 5 hours of play and just a bad poker day overall...

The hopes of Cristiano Blanco and Sirgurd Eskeland also ended just before the end of Day 1B.

278 players from Day1B made it to Day 2, amongst them the following Everest Poker Team players:
• Fabrice Soulier (FR): 105k
• Estelle Denis (FR): 50k
• Tobias Wagner (DE): 47k
• Javier Martinez (ES): 11k
• Leo Truche (FR): 9k

EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr Day 1A summary

3 members of Team Everest participated at the Day 1A Valentin Messina, Steven van Zadelhoff, and Koen de Bakker. In addition, we also covered performances of Julien Claudepierre (Team Live The Dream 2010) and EverestPoker.fr qualified players Guillaume Carron, Antoine Hecquard, Jeremy Leroy, Germain Gillard, Julien Pouchain, Julien Rouxel, Nicolas Vigne, Hedi Salmi, and Kevin Giordani.
423 players started the first day1 of EPT Deauville by PokerStars.fr with an initial of 30,000 chips, and starting blinds of 50/100.
At the end of the day, after 8 levels of 1 hour each, we have 8 players, including our 3 Everest Team members, who qualified for Day 2.
Here are their respective chip count:
• Hedi Salmi France 111,400
• Julien Claudepierre France 104,200
• Valentin Messina France 88,500
• Germain Gillard France 82,400
• Steven Van Zadelhoff Netherlands 82,000
• Koen De Bakker Netherlands 72,600
• Julien Pouchain France 43,500
• Kevin Giordani Belgium 30,800