Julian Kabitzke is the 2011 Everest Poker ONE Champion

Julian Kabitzke is the 2011 Everest Poker ONE Champion

Monaco, April 24, 2011. At the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monaco, 221 international poker players battled it out for a €1,071,850 prize pool at the first edition of the Everest Poker ONE Main Event.

Congratulations to Germany’s Julian Kabitzke and Alexander Debus, who finished first and second, respectively at the final table of the Everest Poker ONE Main Event. Julian will take home 300,000 EUR and Alexander 170,000 EUR. Joining the Germans at the final table were two Everest Poker qualifiers: Julien Pouchain from France (6th – 58,000 EUR) and all the way from Australia, Joel Dodds (3rd – 112,000 EUR).

Julian Kabitzke qualified for the Main Event at Expekt Poker and played ONE of his first live poker tournaments.

“Everest Poker organized a very nice tournament. It was comfortable to play; high quality dealers and obviously the good ‘card run’ helped a lot. I really enjoyed it. Thank you Everest Poker and Expekt Poker!”- Julian Kabitzke, The Everest Poker ONE champion 2011.

Top international poker pros at the Everest Poker ONE Main Event:
Markus Lehmann (DE), Kevin MacPhee (USA), Isabelle Mercier (CA), Raymond Domenech (FR) former coach of the national French football team, Tobias Reinkemeier (DE), Fabrice Soulier (FR) and his fellow Team Everest Pro’s and more!

Pay out of the final table of the Everest Poker ONE Main event 2011:

Place Name Nationality Prize €
1 Julien Kabitzke DE 300,000
2 Alexander Debus DE 170,000
3 Joel Dodds AUS 112,000
4 Alessio Isaia IT 90,000
5 Xavier Carruggi FR 75,000
6 Julien Pouchain FR 58,000
7 Adrian Aston UK 47,500
8 Marc Sander DE 37,000
9 Manuel Bevand FR 26,350

Besides the Main Event of the Everest Poker ONE, there were also exciting side events taking place in Salle des Palmiers.

Congratulations to Tristan Clémençon (FR) for winning the Pot Limit Omaha event (1000 EUR), taking home 13,000 EUR.
Jean-Laurent Dimitri Comparetto (FR) winning the No Limit Hold’em event (1000 EUR), taking home 30,000 EUR.
David Sonelin (SE) winning the Highroller event (10,000 EUR), taking home 75,000 EUR.
And last but not least, Jean Philippe Rohr from France winning the No limit Hold’em Turbo event (500 EUR), taking home 9,600 EUR.

About the Everest Poker ONE: The Everest Poker ONE is a brand new poker tournament combining the best of poker and the finest gaming experience in Europe: Monte-Carlo. With a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million, fantastic deep stack structure by TK Events and the renowned personal service in Monte-Carlo, everybody has a shot to become The ONE Monte-Carlo Champion 2011!
The Everest Poker ONE took place in the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monaco on April 21– 24, 2011.

Some words from the final table players at the ONE

Julian Kabitzke, Germany

Marc Sander, Germany

Adrian Aston, UK

Julian Kabitzke is the Everest Poker ONE Champion 2011

It's 20:30 in Monte Carlo and the blinds are 25,000 - 50,000 for our two last main event players who are both from Germany

Julian Kabitzke with QQ and Alexander Debus with T7 go all-in on the flop which is T-8-3
Turn is 4
River is 9

Julian is the Everest Poker ONE Champion 2011 and receives the Eur 300,000 cheque.
Runner-up Alexander wins Eur 170,000.

The Australian busts and the heads-up will be between the Germans

German Julian Kabitzke raises to 80K, Australian Joel Dodds goes all-in and and snap-call from Julian.

Julian shows AhQh and Joel turns over As8h

The board comes with 5c Qc Jc - Ks - 3h

Joel Dodds wins Eur 112,000 with the 3rd place. And we have two Germans left fighting for the title of the Monte Carlo Champion 2011.

Chipcounts before the heads-up

Julian Kabitzke: 2,376,000

Alexander Debus: 4,260,000

The ONE Video

Alexander Debus kicks out Alessio Isaia

Italian Alessio Isaia finishes 4th for Eur 90,000 at the Everest Poker ONE main event.

Alessio has 7T and Alexander A9, on the board Q92 8 7

Xavier Carruggi finishes 5th

Both go all-in on the 398 rainbow.
Chipleader Alexander Debus from Germany has A9 and Xavier has QQ.

The Turn is a 9
Der River is an Ace and gives a full house to Alexander.

Xavier receives Eur 75,000.

Julien Pouchain gets eliminated with a hit on the river card

It's Joel Dodds from Australia vs our Everest Poker online qualifier Julien Pouchain from France. They go all-in preflop, Julien has QQ, Joel holds AJclubs.

Flop 5h3h2d
Turn 6h
River Ah

The ace on the river marks the end for Julien. He finishes 6th with Eur 58,000.

Everest Poker ONE Final Table Presentation

Final Table Pictures

Adrian Aston out

Level 22
Ante 2,000
Blinds 12,000 - 24,000
Ave 1.1 Million

Adrian raises to 55K, 3bet from the small blind and then Adiran shoves all-in.
Adrian has 7d7s vs 9d9c of his opponent.
The board comes with 5s6c7d 9d2s

Adrian Aston finishes 7th for Eur 47,500.

Fabrice Soulier celebrates his birthday at the Everest Poker ONE!

Joel Dodds doubles

16:15

Alessio Isaia from Italy vs the Australian Joel Dodds

Alessio has AJ and even hits the Jack on the board but Joel holds the Aces.

Main Event Final Table: Two players out

First French Manuel Bevand and shortly after German Marc Sander gets eliminated from the main event.

Wins:
08. Marc Sander - Eur 37,000

09. Manuel Bevand - Eur 26,350

German - German Duel:
Julian Kabitzke with QQ faces Marc Sander with AK and they go all-in preflop.

Julian is in the lead and the flop doesn't change anything. The Ace on the River puts Marc in the lead but the the Queen on the river gives the pot to Julian.
Marc finishes 8th and receives 37,000 Eur.

Julian Kabitzke

David Sonelin wins the High Roller event

David Sonelin from Sweden won the Eur 10,000 high roller event at the Everest Poker ONE Monte Carlo.

Preflop he raises from the button with 73 and is called by Salman Behany with A5.

The flop comes with 733 with a flush draw for both players/

Salman check-raises and David shoves all-in.

Although there's a 5 on the turn, the river doesn't save Salman and David wins the tournament.

Steven van Zadelhoff, our Dutch Team Everest players finished third and German Tobias Reinkemeier made 4th place.

Happy Easter in Monte Carlo

The ONE Final Table - First Break

The players go into the first break of the day. All nine finalists are still in the game, and here are their current chipcounts:

Seat 1: Julian Kabitzke (DE) 1,376,000
Seat 2: Xavier Carruggi (FR) 563,000
Seat 3: Alessio Isaia (IT) 430,000
Seat 4: Marc Sander (DE) 364,000
Seat 5: Alexander Debus (DE) 3,000,000
Seat 6: Joel Dodds (AUS) 275,000
Seat 7: Adrian Aston (UK) 254,000
Seat 8: Manuel Bevand (FR) 953,000
Seat 9: Julien Pouchain (FR) 665,000

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Lindt Easter bunnies for everyone... Yummy!

Getting ready for the Everes Poker ONE final table to start

We will continue in level 19 for 37 min.
With an Ante of 1,000
Blinds 6,000 - 12,000

Chipcounts:
Alexander Debus (DE) : 1.607.000
Marc Sander (DE) : 1.414.000
Julien Kabitzke (DE) : 1.207.000
Xavier Carruggi (FR) : 661.000
Joel Dodds (Aus) : 580.000
Manuel Bevand (FR) : 372.000
Adrian Aston (UK) : 340.000
Julien Pouchain (FR) : 280.000
Alessio Isaia (IT) : 195.000

The Final Table of the Everest Poker ONE Main Event is set

We are down to nine players and the final table for tomorrow is set. These are the chipcounts for tomorrow:

Alexander Debus (DE) : 1.607.000
Marc Sanders (DE) : 1.414.000
Julien Kabitzke (DE) : 1.207.000
Xavier Carruggi (FR) : 661.000
Joel Dodds (Aus) : 580.000
Manuel Bevand (FR) : 372.000
Adrian Aston (UK) : 340.000
Julien Pouchain (FR) : 280.000
Alessio Isaia (IT) : 195.000

Payout

01. Eur 300,000
02. Eur 170,000
03. Eur 112,000
04. Eur 90,000
05. Eur 75,000
06. Eur 58,000
07. Eur 47,500
08. Eur 37,000
09. Eur 26,350
10. Germain Gillard (FR) - Eur 16,000
11. Rebecca Mordoff (FR)- Eur 16,000
12. Nicolas Poloniato (FR) - Eur 16,000
13. Marc Inizan (FR) - Eur 14,000
14. Brice Boudouin (FR) Eur 14,000
15. Maria Maceiras (ES) - Eur 14,00016.
16. Kenny Hallaert (BE) - Eur 12,000
17. Tomer Berda (Israel) - Eur 12,000
18. Henrik Gwinees (Denmark) - Eur 12,000
19. Imad Derwiche (FR) - Eur 10,000
20. Vojtech Ruzicka (CZ) - Eur 10,000
21. Jani Sointula (Finland) - Eur 10,000

High Roller Event Update

23:15

There are 13 players remaining in the high roller event with a buy-in of Eur 10,000.
The prize pool adds up to Eur 164,900.

Blinds are 300 - 600
Ante 75

The Average chip stack is 39K and here are some chipcounts:

Tobias Reinkemeier (DE) - 48K
Steven van Zadelhoff (NL), Team Everest - 40K
Benjamin Spindler (DE) - 40K
Fabrice Soulier (FR), Team Everest - 20K
Sammy Kelopouros - 107K
David Sonelin (SE) - 120K

Maria finishes the Everest Poker ONE main event at rank 15

Maria Maceiras first lost a big pot. She was holding AQ and her opponent A9 and he hit a 9 on the board.

Then she shoves all-in with 44 and is called by a player with Jacks.

Maria finishes 15th and receives Eur 14,000! Bravo Maria!

We will continue to play today until we have our 9-handed final table.

The Bubble just popped

The Bubble just and all remaining players ate ITM, and so is Maria Maceiras our spanish Team Everest pro.

And this is how it happened:
A short stach in seat 5 jams all-in pre-flop, seat 7 calls and the girl in seat 1 re-shoves. Fold from the caller - two players in the hand.

The girl in seat 1 shows KK ,the guy in seat 5 has 99.

Flop 772 | Turn 5 | River Q

The girl takes the chips and the guy the bubble position.

Steven doubles in the highroller event

Steven doubles in the high roller event (10K EUR buy-in) is now back to 30 K which was the starting stack.

Steven pushed preflop all in with JJ and Tobias Reinkemeier (Germany) called (after taking a long think) with A10.

Dinner break at the Everest Poker ONE Main Event

The 23 remaining players are having dinner right now before they get back to the tables to fight for the paid ranks.

We will go on in level 17 with an ante of 500, and blinds 4,000 - 8,000.

Two more players will have to leave Monaco without taking home a share of the prize pool which is in total 1,071,850

The average chip stack is currently ca. 285K.

Leo gets eliminated from the tournament

Our French Team Everest player is very unhappy with his last move. He is saying himself that he made a big mistake which ended the tournament for him.

Leo wanted to steal from Small Blind position and lets himself get involved in duel with the chipleader. In the end Leo shows KJ vs AK from the chipleader and that's it for our leoledingo.

19:30 Updates vom The ONE main event

Der deutsche Onlinequalifikant Lars Bollhagen fliegt.

Lars war schon short mit nur 10 BB. Die letzten zwei Minuten von Level 15 laufen und er bekommt AK auf die Hand - ein guter Moment, noch vor der naechsten Blinderhoehung in Aktion zu treten. Ein Spieler erhoeht prefloep, Lars re-raised all-in, der andere callt mit JJ.
Das Board bringt keine Veraenderung und Lars beendet the ONE auf Platz 33 - grossartige Leistung!

Marc Sander doppelt auf!
Der Deutsche Marc Sander hat 68suited. Mit T46 6 4 auf dem Board pusht er all-in und erhaellt einen Call. Nachdem Marc seine Karten umgedreht hat, muckt der andere.

Marc hatte schon vorher einen guten Stack von 221K, nun ist dieser doppelt so gross.

Updates 18:30

German online qualifier Lars Bollhagen gets kicked out.

Lars was short with 10 BB and we were in the last minutes of Level 15. With AK it was a good moment for him to act before the next blind level.
A player raises and Lars shoves, the other one calls with JJ.
The board does not change anything and Lars has to open his seat at 33th place - very well played Lars!

Marc Sander doubles up!
Marc from Germany has 68suited with T46 6 4 on the board he pushes all-in and receives a call. After turning his cards the other player mugs.

Marc already had a strong stack of 221K, which is now doubled.

Maria doubles up!

We are in Level 15
Blinds 2500-5000
Ante 500

37 players left
average stack is 137K

French Everest Poker online qualifier Julien Pouchain opens with 10.1K, 1 guy calls, Maria pushes all-in for 82.5K. Thorsten Schaefer from Germany reshoves with just a little more chips than Maria. The other players fold.

Maria shows 55
Thorsten shows AK

The board comes with 669 5 7

Full house for Maria and she's back in the game with 165K which is just a bit below average.

Thorsten Schaefer was so short that he busted in the next Hand.

We have also checked on Leo Truche and he lost a little but is still doing good with 200K.

Weitere Chipstaende:
• Nicolas Poloniato (FR): 292k
• Germain Gillard (FR): 60k
• Lars Bollhagen (DE): 75k
• Julien Pouchain (FR): 400k
• Kenny Hallaert (BE): 140k
• Thomas Dubois (FR): 151k

Leo and Maria - the last Team Everest in the ONE main event

Leo Truche from France and Maria Maceiras from Spain are the last remaining players from Team Everest that are still in the main event. While Leo is sitting on a pretty big stack, Maria is living on the edge. Let's keep our fingers crossed for both of them!!!

Pay-out Structure of the Everest Poker ONE Main Event

221 entering players add up to a total prize pool of Eur 1,071,850.
21 places are paid and this is the structure:

1.300,000
2. 170,000
3. 112,000
4. 90,000
5. 75,000
6. 58,000
7. 47,500
8. 37,000
9. 26,350
10. 16,000
11. 16,000
12. 16,000
13. 14,000
14. 14,000
15. 14,000
16. 12,000
17. 12,000
18. 12,000
19. 10,000
20. 10,000
21. 10,000

Updates from Monte Carlo 5pm

Split pot at Maria's table in the Main Event
One player raises, call, reraise, third player goes all-in with less chips than the reraise.
Initial raiser folds, the caller goes all-in too and the reraiser folds.
So we have two players all-in - Antonio Milao from Portugal and Thorsten Schaefer from Germany. They both have AK - split pot.

Koen de Bakker in the side event
Roller coaster Koen lost almost everything with AT vs AQ - with ATQ on the board.

Koen has 7 BB left UTG and pushes all-in with AKo. BB calls with J9.... Koen doubles.

Next hand, Koen is holding 62 in the BB. There's no action and he gets to see the flop for free. Small blind calls with 4J. The flop comes with 356. Koen goes all-in, Small Blind calls with open ended straight draw. Turn and river blank and now Koen is back up to 30K.

Pictures of the ONE Welcome Party

Level 13 is going to start after the next 15 min break

Level 13 will be with blinds 1500 - 3000 and an ante of 300
Currently (3 last minutes of level 12) there are still 56 players in the tournament.

Here are some chipcounts from the German remaining players
Thorsten Schaefer 112K
Alexander Debus 120K
Tim Kahlmeyer 60K
Marc Sander 170K

Leo Truche our French Team Everest player is doing very well and has gathered 250K chips while the average is ca. 118K right now.

Floor statistics

Level 12
Ante 200
Blinds 1200 - 1400

-> 57 players remaining in the tournament
-> 3 of them are women
-> 1.5 who dyed their hair blond

-> 10 with head phones
-> 13 with sunglasses

Maria lost half of her stack

Maria tried to pull a bluff which did not work out. She lost half of her stack and is now down to 70K.

Isabelle Mercier busto

...im ersten Level des Tages. Sie hatte AK vs 33 und keine Rettung vom Board.

Day 2 Seating for the Everest Poker ONE main event

It is almost 1pm in Monte Carlo and we are getting ready for day 2 the Everest Poker ONE main event in the Salle des Palmiers.

Yesterday was a exciting day. 221 players have entered the event 5,300 and many very good and experienced players did not survive day 1. Only two players from Team Everest made it to day 2 - our beautiful Maria Maceiras from Spain and Leo Truche from France.

You can find chipcounts and seat assignments just below. Stay tuned and follow the action live from Monte Carlo!

Some final words from Steven

Mara and Steven at the ONE in Monte Carlo

French Everest Pro Valentin Messina busted

In the last level of the day, Valentin has to open his seat.

Valentin was holding approx. 30K in chips when he decides to shove with QT. A player calls with KT. The flop comes with KJ7, no miracle on the river or the turn.
Val is out on place 81.

Some images from the poker floor - The Everest Poker ONE

Tobias Reinkemeier

Cristiano Blanco

Antoine Saout

Isabelle Mercier

Koen de iPad

Liv Boeree

Raymond Domenech

Leo riding the roller coaster

Update 23:30

A new player who is quite short comes to Leo's table. But he manages to rebuild his stack pretty well. Also Leo has to pay his share.

The player raises preflop, reraise from Leo and a re-reraise from the guy. Finally Leo calls.

On the Flop: AAX

Both players check. The Turn is blank, the player bets 12 K and Leo calls.

The river is a King.

The guy bets again and Leo decides to fold. The guy turns over his cards showing J8. This bluff costed Leo 25K in chips.

In the next hand Leo has AQh and faces a Spanish player who has KK.
Both go all-in on the flop whi is all hearts.
Another heart on the river gives Leo the flush and now 120K in chips.

Tobias Wagner got kicked-out of the tournament

In the first minutes of level 9 Tobi was very short with 10K and it was push or fold for him.

Level 9
Blinds 600 - 1,200
Ante 100
113 remaining players
Average 58.6K

Tobi reshoved with AJ, his opponent had 33.
Unfortunately there was no helo from the board and Tobi has to go.

Great game tobestar!

Latest updates from the floor

Update 22:45

Still in level 8
Blinds 500 - 1000
Ante 100
123 remaining players
Ave 53K

Julien Claudepierre from the LTD Team 2010 just doubled up with 88 vs 89s. So Julien has now 31K.

Germain Gillard also doubled up with KK vs TT and is now back with 45K.

Chipcount
Maria Maceiras 39K
Xavier Arnal 28K
Leo Truche 90K
Tobias Wagner hast lost further chips and is down to 10K
Liv Boeree 12K
Valentin Messina 46K
Lars Bollhagen 11K
Kenny Hallaert 70K

Liv Boeree at the Everest Poker ONE

Last pictures from Everest Poker Online Qualifiers

Frederic Van Opbrocke

Thomas Truphemus

Tang Wing Kwik

Jon Sonelin

David Sonelin

Szablocs Sizigeti

Eduardo Santa

Leo Truche, Team Everest player and online qualifier

Jack Salter

Jorge Ribeiro

Javier Jimenez

Julien Pouchain

Nicolas Poloniato

Herve Perret

Vincenco Nosso

Chipcounts in Level 8 of the ONE main event

Update 22:30
Level 8 just started
Blinds 500-1000
Ante 100

The average chip stack is 51K and here are some selected chipcounts:

Leonard Truche (Team Everest): 95K
Valentin Messina (Team Everest): 60K
Tim Kahlmeyer: 68K
Tobias Wagner (Team Everest): 13K
Heinz Kamutzki: 66K
Nicolas Poloniato (Everest online qualifier): 27K
Alexander Debus: 90K
Andre (Expekt) managed to come back to 50K from 9K
Maria Maceiras (Team Everest): 41K

Even more Everest Poker Online Qualifiers

Emeline Le Besne

Michael Linderoth

Henri Lourgouilloux

Guillaume Marechal

Mazur Mazibyk

Samuel Monigad

Nguyen Phu Si

Imre Zcucs

Chipcounts from before the dinner break

David Kitai: 90K
Koen de Bakker (Team Everest): 20K
Germain Gillard: 22K
Isabelle Mercier: 27K
Julien Claudepierre (LTD 2010): 44K
Leo Truche (Team Everest): 45K
Maria Maceiras: 26K

More Everest Poker Online Qualifiers

Pieter Druif

Sebastien Dupont

Oreste Faga

Kevin Gobin

Charly Grenet

Zoltan Hegyi

Ruben Jimenez

Julian Kabitzke

Baptiste Kosynski

Jerome Laluque

Sylvain Lanternier

We just lost Javier Martinez

Our Spanish Team Everest player was having a hard day.
Javi was already down to 9K. Everybody folds to the SB who pushes. Javi calls with AQ. And the SB hits the straight with KT.

Pictures of the Everest Poker Online Qualifiers

Paul Abihssira

Slobodan Bjelobri

Tony Blanchandin

Philippe Blondeau

Lars Bollhagen

Brice Boudouin

Gerrit Bouthoorn

Sylvain Coeur

Alain Cornec

Germain Dansker

Ahmed Debabeche

Julien Delauna

Jose-Luis Diaz

For those who speak French.... or want to learn it

Our Team Everest Pro Fabrice Soulier about the ONE:

Steven van Zadelhoff is out

Level 6
Ante 50
Blinds 300 - 600

162 players left in the tournament - but our Team Everest players Steven van Zadelhoff is not one of them.

A player opens, call, call, Steven pushes AKoff. One player calls, the rest fold. Steven loses against 77.

ONE doubles-up, the other ONE busts

We are in level 5 and have 188 players left in the tournament.
Ante 50
Blinds 200-400

Our two Everest players Fabrice Soulier and Tobias Wagner are both left with only 9,000.
They both get the Kings and now it's time to act.

One player raises to 900 preflop. Fabrice on the button with KK shoves all-in.
Insta call by the initial raiser. He shows AQs.
An ace on the turn marks the end for our fabulous Fabsoul!

Tobias' on the other hand succeeds with his pocket KK against the pocket JJ of his opponent.
Tobias now has 18K and is on his way back up.

Interview with Tarquin Henderson (Betclic Everest) and Thomas Kremser (TK Events)

The ONE pictures

Koen de Bakker - Team Everest

Javier Martinez - Team Everest

Maria Maceiras - Team Everest

Tobias Wagner - Team Everest

Julien Claudepierre - Live the Dream 2010

Some stories from the ONE floor

16:45 We have just entered level 4
Blinds 150 - 300
Ante 25

Bad news from May.
She tried to bluff a guy who unfortunately was completing a flush and May lost 5,000.

Spanish player busting opponent
A Spanish player with the Everest Poker screenname SEDVORY just busted an opponent with QQ vs QT and SEDVORY now has 36K.

Nice double-up for Javi
French Nicolas Poloniato bets 500 and is called by two players, one of them is our Spanish Team Everest pro Javi Martinez calls with 68s
The flop gives Javi a flush draw and he bets 1,000.
Polo folds and the other player calls. The Turn is blank but Javi completes his flush on the River. He goes all-in, the other player calls with a straight. Javi doubles up and now has 24K.

Steven's attempt to double up
He was down to 23 BB and went all-in with KK but nobody called.

Also, not so good news from Koen who is down to 12K and needs to act to get back in the game.

Some chipcounts:
Tristan Clemencon: 10K
Guillaume Darcourt: 42K
Cristiano Blanco: 26.8K
Anthony Lellouche: 22K
Roger Hairabedian: 42K
Tony Blanchandin: 37K (Everest online qualifier)
Marc Inisan: 26K
Isabelle Mercier: 30K
Julien Pouchain: 41K (Everest online qualifier)
Fabrice Soulier: 18K (Team Everest)
Pierre Neuville: 37K
Bruno Fitoussi: 29K
Nicolas Poloniato: 28K (Everest online qualifier)
Liv Boeree: 39K
Julien Claudepierre: 36K
Tobias Wagner: 19K (Team Everest)
Leo Truche: 39K (Team Everest)
Xavier Arbal: 40K (Everest online qualifier)
Antoine Saout: 25K

Estelle Denis is out

Update 15:15

With 16K after the break, Estelle's stack was already not the biggest one anymore but right after the break sh lost another huge pot and was down to 2,200.
Finally she faces a player with KQ vs JT and the player hits the T on the board.
This is it for our Estelle.

First Break of the day at the ONE

We are going into the first break of the day and will enter level 3 after the break.
With blinds 100 - 200

Just before the break Tobias Wagner, our German Everest Pro lost an expensive pot against Liv Boeree.

Tobias Wagner gets only one caller after his raise preflop with Q8 in the SB.
The Flop comes with Q76. After check-calling the flop and the turn, he Tobias finally decides to bet. His opponent calls with J7 in his hand and Tobestar wins a small pot almost at the end of level 2. But after this small succes Tobias decides to face Liv Boeree.

Tobias raises preflop and Liv calls.
The flop shows Q2J
Tobias bets again and Liv again pays his bet.
There's a King on the Turn and Tobias places another bet receive a raise from Liv this time. And our player calls.
Liv bets 4,725 on the river which is an 8. Tobias decides to give up the pot and folds. Liv takes many chips from Tobias.

Some chipcounts at the end of level 2:
Markus Lehmann is short already with 10,800
Tobias Reinkemeier: 35K
Rene Freymann 29K
French Everest regular Germain Guillot: 22K
Julien Claudepierre: 31K
Alexander Debus: 36K
Benjamin Spindler: 30K
Heinz Kamutzki: 29K
Jens Weigl: 19K
Tim Kahlmeyer: 63K

Our Team Everest players have:
Steven van Zadelhoff: 21K
Valentin Messina: 29K
Estelle Denis 16K
Leo Truche: 22K
Fabrice Soulier: 20K
Javi Martinez: 26K

We've reached level 2 of the ONE main event

14:30 The first level is over and we have not lost any players so far.

Passing Leo Truche - our French Everest player - we could see him taking home a nice pot.
Leo raises from middle position to 525, two callers.
The flop shows 5c3cQc
1 player checks, Leo bets 800 1 fold, 1 call
The Turn is a 4 of hearts.
Leo's opponent checks and Leo's answer is 1,800 chips. Fold and Leo takes the pot.

Some first images from throughout the tournament area.

The tournament area

Estelle Denis and Valentin Messina

Steven van Zadelhoff

Tobias Wagner

Fabrice Soulier and Maria Maceiras

Leo Truche

Estelle Denis

START OF THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVEREST POKER ONE!

We are very excited to welcome you for the start of the main event of the Everest Poker ONE in the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

Thomas Kremser has just opened the tournament and aprox. 205 players have entered so far. The registration will be open for the first two levels, so there is still the possibilitiy to take your seat at the tables of the 5,300 Eur event.

Besides the players of our Team Everest some familiar faces have been spotted in the field already like the poker pros Kevin MacPhee (US), Kenny Hallert (BE), Tim Kahlmeyer (DE), Markus Lehmann (CH), Thorsten Schaefer (DE), Tobias Reinkemeier (DE), .....

We are also very pleased to see some old friends of Everest Poker liker Cristiano Blanco, Julien Claudepierre and Antoine Saout.

Stay tuned for regular updates live from the poker floor here in Monte Carlo!

The Final countdown has begun for the Everest Poker ONE

“If you only play ONE live tournament this year, make it The Everest Poker ONE.”

Everest Poker is counting down for its first edition of the Everest Poker ONE, taking place in the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monaco on April 21 to 24, 2011. Besides beautiful weather and exciting poker action, Everest also expects to see many familiar faces to come and enjoy the ONE unforgettable Monte –Carlo experience!

Only ONE can become the ONE Monte Carlo champion of 2011, and there will be a challenging field in Monaco. Everest Poker has already confirmed a number of top poker pros and familiar Everest Poker faces, including:

Isabelle Mercier (CA), Kevin MacPhee (USA), Tobias Reinkemeier (DE) , Everest Poker regulars Germain Gillard (FR), Kenny Hallaert (BE), Spanish Champion Javier Martinez (ES) and his fellow Team Everest pros and more!

Team Everest’s Fabrice Soulier is thrilled about the addition of The ONE to his busy spring schedule: “Everest is known for its unique and fun events. I am both proud and excited to be part of the Everest Poker ONE!”

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The Everest Poker ONE is a brand new poker tournament combining the best of poker and the finest gaming experience in Europe: Monte-Carlo. With a guaranteed prize pool of €1 million, fantastic deep stack structure by TK Events and the renowned personal service in Monte-Carlo, everybody has a shot to become The ONE Monte-Carlo Champion 2011!
The €5,000+300 Everest Poker ONE Main Event will begin on April 22. The CAP of 300 players for the main event will ensure a small and intimate field.
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The Everest Poker ONE will take place in the prestigious Salle des Palmiers in Monaco on April 21– 24, 2011.

Fabrice finishes 11th at EPT Berlin for Eur 36,000

Level 26
Blinds 25k/50k, Ante 5k

It was just as Thomas Kremser announces the dinner break when it happened in the last hand of this level.Max Heinzelmann raises for 100K from the button, Vadzim Kursevich and Fabrice Soulier - both in the blinds - call.

Flop 2h3sKh

Vadzim and Fabrice check, Max bets 145K. Vadzim calls and Fabrice raises to 425K.
Call from Max and Vadzim shoves all-in after it took him some time to make the decision. Fabrice also decides to push, insta-fold by Max.

Fabrice shows 4h5h - straight, flush draw - however Vadzim is still in the lead with AcKs.

Turn Qd
River 3c

Nothing to hit for Fabrice who finishes 11th. Our French Team EVP players takes home € 36,000.

Fabrice Soulier plays day 4 of the main event of EPT Berlin

FABRICE DOUBLES UP!!!

Level 24
18 players in the tournament
Ante 3000
Blinds 15K/30

The player in the SB raises and is re-raised by Fabrice from BB position. Then the SB announces all-in and Fabrice instantly calls - all this preflop.

The Small Blind shows A8 and Fabrice turns over AQ.
On the Turn he hits the Q and the Ace on the River. Nice double up for Fabrice from 700K to now 1,4 Million chips.

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Berlin, day 4
Level 23: blinds 12,000-24,000, ante 2,000
Players: 22 of 773
Average chip stack: 1,054,090

After 1 minute the we changed in level 23. Fabrice is happy not to be seated at the feature table today. Let's get started, Fabrice is ready to roc the tournament!!!!

Day 3 at EPT Berlin

Update 00:30

Level 22: blinds 10,000-20,000, ante 2,000
Average chip stack: 927,600

Down to 24 players of 773 starters and our Team Everest player Fabrice Soulier from France has 890,000 in chips which is a bit below average but still enough to do some damage tomorrow.

Anyway, Fabrice will at least take home Eur 20,000.

Tomorrow we will start at 13:00 instead of noon and will play until the final table is set.

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Fabrice Soulier is the last remaining French player at EPT Berlin

Meanwhile Fabrice has managed to fight his way back above average and has now 992,000.
No other Frenchman has survived and Fabrice ist the last one to hold up the Tricolore.

Level 21: blinds 8,000-16,000, ante 2,000
Players: 32 of 773
Average chip stack: 682,058

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Update: 22:15

Blinds 8k/16k, Ante 2k
32 players left in the tournament and today we are going to play down to 24.

Poor Fabrice has been stuck at the feature table the whole day - which is over 10 hours by now. Not only are the lamps very hot and the air not exactly fresh, at the feature table you are not allowed to use your mobile phone, wear headphones and you can hardly move.

Fabrice has told us that this table is extremely aggressive and he could not find his game today. For the first time in three days is below average with currently 660,000 in chips.

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Even The Monte Carlo ONE has finally been banned from the feature table

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Update during the dinner break

There are 46 remaining in the tournament. We will continue with blinds of 6k/12k and an ante of 1k.

Fabrice has lost some important pots and has decreased his stack.
He is ranking 6th at the moment according to chip counts. Go Fabrice!!!!

1) Markus Grewe Germany 1.222.000
2) Anton Morgenstern Germany 1.170.000
3) Maximilian Heinzelmann Germany 1.165.000
4) Saar Wilf Israel 1.100.000
5) Alessandro Laubinger Germany 1.024.000
6) Fabrice Soulier France 974.000

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Update 16:30

No new news are good news. We are down to 65 players and Team Everest player Fabrice Soulier is still chipleader with 1,514,000.

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There are 86 players left in the tournament and Fabrice is still chipleader!

Meanwhile he has 1,259,000 in chips. The second place player at the moment is from Lithuania and has 780,000 chips.

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13:00 German Team Everest player Tobias Wagner just busted!

It was pretty clear for our Tobestar11 that he had to act soon today as he was only holding 105K in chips.

Sitting on the button he has AJ and wants to seize his moment and shoves all-in. However, he receives a call from Kevin Stani who has AK.

No reason to be sad. Tobi hit the money (Eur 7,500 at EPT Berlin) in 4 out of 5 tournaments this year!!! Go Tobi!!!

Tobi in a follow-up interview in the Absolut Vodka Lounge.

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It is 12:30 in Berlin an we have just started into day 3 of the main event with 119 remaining players. For the first 27 minutes the blinds will stay at 2k/4k with an ante of 400 until we move on to the next level.

Fabrice Soulier has finished last night as the massive chipleader and has now been seated on the feature table in casino Berlin.

Fabrice has ca. 1,080,000 in chips whereas the second in chips has less than 600,000.

Here you can see Fabrice taking his seat at the feature table. Again the players are not allowed to wear the patches of their sponsors.

Just like Tobi Fabrice was sneaking in in his the ONE shirt

Our German Team Everest Pro Tobi is also back in Spielbank Berlin to play day 3 of the 5,000 Eur main event. Tobi has 105,000 in chips - fingers crossed everyone, double up soon!!

Team Everest at EPT Berlin

22:00 The bubble has popped, all remaining players are in the money and....

EVEREST PLAYER FABRICE SOULIER IS THE CHIPLEADER AT THE END OF DAY 2!!!!

Fabsoul has 1,079,400, wanna see some proof?

Tobi is also in the money and will come back again tomorrow for day 3. It will be exciting how he will attack they day with his rather small stack of 127K.

Tobi being interviewed by German poker magazine legend Robert Werthan:

Tobi and Emu (from hochgepokert) in The ONE mood already!!!!

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Our Fabsoul just became chipleader of the main event at EPT Berlin!!!!

After the dinner break our two Everest players - Tobi and Fabrice - have been seated to new tables and Fabrice instantly marked his territory by winning a huge pot and becoming the new chipleader of the tournament.
He now has nearly 1,000,000 in chips while the blinds are 2K/4K with an ante of 400

131 players left in the tournament and 120 places will be paid.

Fab counting...

...still counting...

...1, 2, 3.... 995,000 chips!

Same perspective on Tobi's stack with 105,000 chips.

Come on Tobi - gooooo!!!

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Chipcounts after the dinner break:

Fabrice has a strong stack of 470,000 chips - go Fabsoul!
And Tobi is just below average with 120K - the upcoming level will be crucial. You can do it Tobi!

We are just about to continue in level 13.

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Logos have been banned from the casino in Berlin but THE ONE is onstopable!!!

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Fabrice is hot!

We are still in Level 13 and were just passing Fabrice's table.
His stack is constantly growing and he now has 360,000 in chips.

Tobi meanwhile is also doing pretty well. He has built up from 55K to 72K during the last level.

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Update Level 13

Blinds 1000/2000
Ante 200

Valentin is out!

Valvegas, our French Everest Pro, was card dead for two days and really having a hard time.
Finally, Val was already down to ca. 30K, tried to steal with A6 and was called by a player with pocket 88.
No help from the board and Val had to go - ranking 192.

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Update Level 12
Blinds 1000/2000
Ante 200

Fabrice is rolling fantastic and has gathered 220K in chips.
Valentin is fighting his way back and has now 39K.
Tobi is pretty stable counting 55K at the moment.

Keep your fingers crossed for Team Everest!

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THE ONE GIRLS IN BERLIN

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Update first break

At around 1:30 pm the players take their first break of the day. The Everest Poker Three are all still in whereas Valentin does not look very happy.

Tobi: 52,000
Valentin: 20,000
Fabrice: 75,000

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On Tuesday three of our Team Everest players have started in day 1A of EPT Berlin: Fabrice Soulier, Tobias Wagner and Valentin Messina .

Altogether more than 800 starters have entered the main event in Spielbank Berlin.
353 of them have made it to day 2 - among them our 3 players from Team Everest.

It was noon when Thomas Kremser announced shuffle up and deal. And these are the chipcounts:

Blinds 600/1200, Ante 100

Tobias Wagner: 47.100

Valentin Messina: 46.200

Fabrice Soulier: 114.800