EPT Berlin Day 3

Update: 21:00

Antoine is out of the 1500 Euro side event.

There are no more Everest Poker players at the EPT Berlin. We had a great time and everyone had an excellent run. Go Team Everest!

Update: 17:30

Steven is out of the side event. He went all in pre-flop, A K against Q J there was a 10 on the flop.

Antoine has entered the 1,000 Euro side event.

Update: 16:00

Side event 1500:

Blinds: 100-200
Ante: 25
Players remaining:106
Average chip count:16.8K chips
Steven: 10K chips

Update: 15:30

Bad news from EPT Berlin: Maria is out. She had Aces against a full house. She did a great job throughout the tournament, and was the last Everest Poker/female player standing. She came in 75th and won 13K. Way to go Maria!

Update: 15:00

We're up to level 18 with 84 players left in the tournament:

Blinds: 4000-8000
Ante: 500
Average Chip Count: 340K
Maria's Chip Count: 220K

Maria's table is tough but our Team Everest star is tougher. Go go Maria!

We'll be playing down to 24 players today with no dinner break.

Welcome to the Everest Poker coverage of EPT Berlin Day 3!

Maria Maceiras is our only Team Everest Poker Player left standing. There are only 111 players left today and the anticipation is building fast.

Level 17:

Blinds: 3000-6000
Ante: 500
Average chip count: 265K
Maria's chip count: 300K

We'll also be following Steven van Zadelhoff's progress through the 1500 side event today.

Stay tuned!

EPT Berlin Day 2

Update: End of Day 2

Maria Maceiras, the last woman standing, is our only Everest Poker player headed to day 3 of EPT Berlin. She's headed into day 3 with the average chip stack - 220K.

Fabien busted shortly after the bubble with K Qs vs. A Q. Fabien finished 134th and took home €7,000 after playing an amazing tournament.

22h40: EPT Berlin 2K Side Event

Update: 2K Side Event: 12:00

We're at level 5:
Blinds: 100-200
Ante: 25

There are 165 players with an average of 20K.

Here are the Everest Poker players' chip count:

Leonard: 61K chips
Steven: 20K chips
Antoine: out
Javier: out

Antoine is out of luck at the EPT Berlin, he's out of the side event with a flush Q high against a flush K high.

Javier is out with a pair of Aces against a straight.

Leonard is down to 35K, he lost 20K with a pair of K's against a straight on the flop.

Update: 2K Side Event

Buy in: €2,000.
Start Stack: 15K
Prize pool:
277 Entrants

We are at level 3 with blinds at 75/150.
The average is 15.4K chips and there are 215 players.

We have 4 Everest Poker Players participating. Here is an updated chipcount of our Everest Poker players:

Leonard: 20K chips
Antoine: 18K chips
Javier: 10K chips
Steven: 15K chips

Leonard Truche has just doubled up his stack with trip J's against an opponent that was chasing the flush. Our Live the Dream player has now increased his stack to 40K!

Update: 22:25

We have two players in the money: Fabien and Maria. We are in the last level of the day, 30 minutes to go.

Update: 21:40

The Big Viking is out.

He had just returned from the dinner break when he found himself in a 300K three way pot with Q's against A K, A K. An Ace came on the board and there was no help for Sigurd, he was now down to 13K. With a short stack, the Big Viking went all in with 10's, was called by Q's and again with no help, is now out of the tournament. Happy with his play overall the Big Viking is looking forward to future events such as the Spanish Poker Tour stops.

Update: 19:10

The Big Viking is up to 110K! He went all in and waited in anticipation until his opponent folded. He looks very happy with this victory hand.

Here are our side event players in action:

Update: 18:15

Level 14
Blinds: 2000-4000
Ante: 400
Players remaining: 205

Maria's chip count is at 215K. She's still holding strong.

Fabien is strong with 92K while Sigurd is currently rebuilding his stack and is at 52K.

Antoine, Steven and Leo are playing in the 2,150 side event that started at 18:00.

Stay tuned for further updates

Update: 17:50

Francesco is out in level 13. He was short stacked and card dead all day. When he finally caught A J he went all in but unfortunately met A Q from his opponent and is out.

Update: 16:42

Luckily, no Everest Poker players were eliminated during level 12. There are now 248 players left and the average chip count is around 114K.

Fabien: 120K chips. He doubled with Aces against Q's
Francesco: 40K chips
Sigurd: 44K chips
Maria: 230K chips

Maria, our leading Everest Poker player so far today, is on fire! She has been winning small pots and has built her chip count up significantly. Go Maria!

We're just about to start level 13:

Ante: 200
Blinds: 1200-2400

Update: 15:15

Tobi is out of the tournament. Short stacked, he went all in preflop with J T against 8s. With no help from the board Tobi is our first Live the Dream Team member out today.

Update: 15:00

We just finished level 11:

Blinds: 800-1600
Ante: 200
Players remaining: 316

Live the Dream Team Chip Counts
Fabien Perrot: 50,000
Francesco de Vivo: 40,000
Sigurd Eskeland: 100,000
Tobi Wagner: 15,000

Team Everest Chips Counts
Maria Maceiras: 190,000
Steven van Zadelhoff: Out

Steven went out of the tournament in the middle of level 11 with A K off suite. He pushed all in preflop and was called by his opponent with Qs. The board brought another Q and no help for Steven.

We're just about to start level 12:

Blinds: 1000/2000
Ante: 200

Update: 13:07

Steven just doubled up with Ace high. Hes now at 26,000!

Update: 13:00

Antoine is out. When we started to follow him at 12h05, he was in a good position at the table with 101.5K

He lost his first pot of 17.2k with a pair of Qs against Ks.

For the second pot, Antoine had 6 8
The flop shows 8c7c6s

One player goes all in and Antoine insta-calls with two pair.

His opponent shows 7 10. At this point Antoine has the hand with two pair but it's still a dangerous situation.

The turn shows a 4 and the river unfortunately shows a 7 giving trips to his opponent. Antoine loses 35K on this bad beat.

For the third and last pot, Antoine goes all in preflop and pushes his 42K remaining with 6h Qd and one player calls with Ad Kd.

The board will not save our November 9:
Ah Jc 4c 3c 3d

Update: 12:46

Great news! Maria just doubled up to 150K chips. Here's our happy star now.

We're back at the EPT Berlin for the start of day 2

Blinds: 600-1200
Ante: 100

Bad news for Team Everest's Cristiano Blanco. He started the day short stacked and lost in a coin flip.

On the bright side, we still have many Team Everest and Live the Dream players left. Go Everest Poker!

Sigurd sizes up the competition.

Steven returns for day 2.

EPT Berlin Day 1b

Update: 12:00

It's been a long day, but day 1b of the EPT Berlin has come to a close. The day started with 557 players and we are now down to 290.

The level 9 blinds were 500-1000 with an ante of 100.

The average chip count was 56K.

Here are our Everest Poker player's ending chip counts:

Maria: doubled up to 80K chips
Antoine: 95K chips
Francesco: 56K chips
Tobias: 40K chips
Fabien: 50K chips
Sigurd: 65K chips

The Everest Poker players that will be moving on to tomorrow are:

Cristiano Blanco
Steven van Zadelhoff
Maria Maceiras
Francesco de Vivo
Antoine Saout
Fabien Perrot
Sigurd Eskeland
Tobias Wagner

Go Team Everest and the Live the Dream Team!
See you back here tomorrow for the start of day 2.

Update: 22:38

Level 8 has just finished.

Chip Counts:

Tobias: 52K chips
Francesco: 64K chips
Sigurd: 40K chips
Maria: 38K chips
Antoine: 32k chips
Fabien: 64K chips

Only one level to go to complete day 1b. All of today's Everest Poker players are still in, let's hope for the best!

Update: 21:37

Great news for The Big Viking! Sigurd is up to 40K, he won a huge pot with two pair against J's.

Update: 21:00

The Everest Poker Team has made it half way through day 1b of the EPT Berlin. They now return after a 90 minute break for more play.

Level 6 Chip Count:

Antoine: 83K- he almost doubled in the last level!

Fabien: 56.5K chips

Sigurd: 18.5K chips

Maria: 20K chips

Francesco: 38K chips

Update 18:16

We have just completed level 5 with all of our Everest Poker players still in.

Blinds are 200-400 with an ante of 50 for the start of level 6.

Tobias: 44K chips
Fabien: 50K chips
Sigurd: 9.3K chips
Maria: 33K chips- she doubled in this last round!
Antoine: 44K chips
Francesco: 44K chips

After level 6 the players will have a much needed 90 minute break. Things are starting to heat up here at the EPT Berlin.

Update: 16:30

We just finished level 4:

Blinds were at 150-300.

Tobias: 43K chips

Sigurd: 8.5K chips

Fabien: 50K chips

Francesco: 44.7K chips

Antoine: 54K chips

Maria: 15K chips

Welcome to Pokerstar's EPT Berlin Day 2!

Starting today for Everest Poker are Team Everest's Maria Maceiras and Antoine Saout. Also, joining us from the Live The Dream Team are Francesco de Vivo, Sigurd Eskeland, Tobias Wagner, and Fabien Perrot. The exact number of today's players is unknown, but we do know that the event was sold out. Players start with 30K chips.

Level 2:
At the start of level 2 the blinds are at 75-100.

Here's an update on our players:

Maria: 30K

Fabien: 45K

Sigurd: 11K, Sigurd had AA (flop K/10/2) and bet and his opponent called with JJ and met a set on the turn

Tobi: 30K

Francesco: 33K

Antoine: yoyoing up and down, currently around 34K

We'll be back after the break with more updates!

Pokerstars' EPT Berlin: Day 1A begins

Update: midnight

Day 1A at EPT Berlin is over.

First the not so good news: Right before the end of the day Koen and Javier got kicked out of the tournament. Koen held AK and got beaten by 1010 - no ace, no king to save him.

Second the good news: Even though Steven lost a bit on his stack, he finished with a good amount of 17,000 chips - move up a gear!

Now the really good news: Our campione Cristiano trippled his short stack of 7,000 and is taking 21.000 chips to the next day. Bravo!

Tomorrow day 1B starts at noon.

Have good night and see you tomorrow!

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Update: 10:00 pm

Level: 8
Blinds: 400/800 Ante: 50
Avg. stack: 45,000
259 remaining players

Against all odds... Unfortunately Leo is out of the game: After a raise with pocket 55 he met his set on the flop. However, his opponent was chasing his flush draw and got lucky on the river. We give it up for Leo who played a very good tournament.

Cristiano is currently at very short stack with 7,000 chips - hang in buddy!

Koen holds 35,000 chips and Steven is also still around start stack.

Over the day we have lost sight of Javier and.... look at that: he was sneaking up being our Team Chipleader with currently 80,000 which is nearly double average. Great!

One more level to go before we will call it a day for today!

Javier keeping cool

Steven all relaxed having a coffee break at the table

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Update: 4:30 pm

Level: 4
Blinds: 150-300
Avg. chips: 32.333
Players total: 388 (day 1A)
Remaining players: 350

Leo: 45,000 chips (stealing lots of small pots)
Koen: 15,000 chips (KK against AA - a classic)
Steven: 28,000 chips (going up and down - defending his start stack)
Cristiano: 12,000 chips (also met the aces)

We still have until about 11pm to go - everything's possible, we keep our fingers crossed.

Go Team Everest Go!

Cristiano Blanco after having seen the aces...

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Start: 12:00

Day 1A of 2010 EPT Berlin has begun! A large number of international participants have come to beautiful Berlin to play this prestigious tournament. Also at the tables are our players from Team Everest and our 2010 Live the Dream Team:

Leonard Truche - Day 1A
Koen de Bakker - Day 1A
Tobias Wagner – Day 1B
Francesco de Vivo - Day 1B
Maria Maceiras - Day 1B
Cristiano Blanco - Day 1A
Javier Martinez - Day 1A
Steven van Zadelhoff - Day 1A
Antoine Saout – Day 1B
Fabien Perrot – Day 1B

Steven van Zadelhoff

Koen de Bakker

Leonard Truche

level: 1
start stack: 30.000 Chips
blinds: 60 minutes

Go Team Everest Go!

Welcome to Los Angeles for the World Poker Tour

Update - 18:40

That's it for Team Everest at the LA Poker Classic.

Kim went out short stacked 88 vs KQ. Her opponent caught a straight that knocked Kim out of the tournament in level 5.

Update - 19:80

Fabrice is out.

With a short stack he went all in 66 against AK. An Ace came on the board and there was no saving him from there. There are still over 500 players left in the tournament.

Update - 17:25

We're at level 4, blinds are at 100/200 and the average chip stack is 22000.

Everest Poker's Fabrice Soulier has seen some action this level.

Fabrice, with 4,5 suited, called his opponent's raise of 550. The flop comes J45. His opponent continuation bets 550 and Fabrice minimum raises 1100. The other player calls. The turn is a 10, his opponent checks and Fabrice bets 1200. The opponent raises to 3000 and Fabrice calls. The river shows a 4, the other player bets 4000, Fabrice with 5500 left, calls. His opponent shows a pair of jacks and Fabrice loses the pot.

A few hands later Fabrice, with only 1500, pushes with KQ and is called by Erica Schoneberg with AQ. There is a King on the flop and with no help for Erica, Fabrice wins the pot bringing himself back up to 4,000

Kim is doing slightly better with 10000.

We've got some work to do. Go go go Team Everest!

Update - 15:45

An interesting bet...off the table

The buzz around the tournament today is about a bet between well known players Joe Sebok, Gavin Smith and Jeff Madsen. The guys have agreed the first to bust out of the tournament today will get a tattoo of each of the other guys' faces somewhere on his body. The second guy to bust out will get a tattoo of the guy still in. The last guy in will get nothing but the pleasure of knowing his face will be permanently tattooed on the body of not one but two of his friends.

Level 2: 50-100,

Update - 14:30

We're up to level 2 and have seen more familiar faces!

The field has grown since level 1, we're up to 703 players. You'll find many pros scattered throughout the 70+ tables such as Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Tilly and Peter Eastgate. Everest Poker's own Kim Wooka has found herself up against Eric Seidel.

Right now, Fabrice and Kim are still in the running to get a piece of 6.75 million dollar prize pool. Fabrice is right around average with 22,000 and Kim is still with her starting stack of 20,000.

Start of day - 12:00

We're here in sunny Los Angeles, California for the World Poker Tour's LA Poker Classic.

We've traveled across the pond to play at the Commerce Casino, home to the world's largest poker room. The field of over 660 hopeful players is full of many familiar faces including Eric Seidel, Scotty Nguyen and Team Everest's very own Fabrice Soulier from France and Kim Wooka from Japan.

Players are starting level 1 today with 20,000 chips, 90 minute levels and blinds of 25/50.

Stay tuned for the action!

EPT Copenhagen, Francesco Heads Up!!!

It's been a great run. The Live the Dream Team's newest member, Francesco De Vivo, finished 2nd the EPT Copenhagen, taking home €303,000 ($411,000). After a three and a half hours of heads-up play, where Francesco reaches a chip lead of almost 9 to 1, he lost an incredible series of showdowns while his opponent caught many big starting hands and flops, and managed to get back into the game and finally seal the victory.

Francesco says he is not a heads-up specialist. "I won a lucky showdown, that's true, but my opponent got an incredible rush of good hands, so I think we were equal on the luck factor. Pity i did not win that showdown when he was so short-stacked! But this second place is a dream for any poker player and I don't want to recriminate anything."

"On top of that, it encourages me to do even better in the future. For me that's just the beginning. It was my first tournament as an Everest Poker sponsored player: I was very proud to wear the Everest Poker logo and I'm sure Everest Poker is now proud of me."

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EPT Copenhagen, we're heads up!! Francesco 6,6 million in chips, his opponent the Swede Anton Wigg 6,4 million in chips.
The winner will get the trophy and 3,675,000 DKK which are around 667,000 USD.

Go Francesco, stick that Everest Poker logo on the trophyyyyyyy!!!!
Update 23.00 Francesco slides to 4,5k
FINAL UPDATE 1.15 FRANCESCO DE VIVO IS THE RUNNER-UP AT THE EPT COPENHAGEN

EPT Copenhagen, Francesco aims for the victory

Francesco De Vivo, our Live The Dream Team player, has the chance to win EPT Copenhagen today. He is playing the final table with 8 players remaining.
He just lost a pot against Roberto Romanello and he's down to 1.5 million.
But he's there. And we root for him
Update 18.00 Five players left, Francesco 1.7M and suffering
Update 19.00 FRANCESCO DOUBLES UP AND KNOCKS ONE PLAYER OUT. 4 left, Francesco 2,9M
Update 19.30 3 PLAYERS LEFT! Francesco 2,5M
Update 20.00 FRANCESCO DOUBLES UP AGAIN TO 6,1M, CHIPLEADER AGAIN!!!!!