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!