EPEC: An additional two more Hungarian players qualify for the Grand Finale!

Csaba “Bodza76” Nagy-Mézes and Ákos “PokerEst” Heltai won the last two remaing seats that for live qualifiers in Hungary...but you can still win seats online.

Both of the players are well known in the Hungarian poker community, Bodza76 is a well-known offline player, who only started playing online poker recently and Akos is the editor of the distinguished magazine PokerEst.

Say Sardinia!

Thanks to Korda Poker Klub for the great venue!

EPEC Grand Finale: The first Hungarian qualifiers

We have two of the four Hungarian qualifiers for EPEC 2009.
Last night, Istvan "marosi3" Marosi and Krisztian "Krisztian78" Kollath have demonstrated strong poker skills, when winning their seat for the Finale against the 94 participants present at the well-known Korda Poker Klub in Budapest.

Marosi3 and Krisztian78

Congratulations!

More seats will be won tonight in Bologna, Italy, in Belgium and in Budapest again. Check www.everestpoker.com for your local live qualifier.

First Two Seats at EPEC 2009: Booked

The first of the 27 live qualifiers took place in Milan last week and Luca “Jotaro78” Morgese and Riccardo “Rikibaldo1” Baldoni from Milan, Italy, are the first two players to have booked their seats for EPEC 2009.

This week sees Belgium, Hungary and Italy stage more live qualifiers - good luck to all. Check the live tournament register to see where there is a tournament near you in the coming months!

Final Table of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw

Update 23:25
Nico Behling, Everest Poker's online qualifier from Germany, comes in second at EPT Warsaw!
He lost after a long and well played game of heads up against Joao Barbosa from Portugal.
Nico had bet 60k preflop and Barbosa raised to 200k. Nico went all-in and Joao called.
Nico J7 spades
Joao A10 hearts
Board: 7 A 3 66
Nico played a great tournament!

Update 20:40
Although 40 minutes late, the tournament has started up again after the dinner brake. Several hands into the game Dario Minnieri is OUT.
Dario went all-in with pocket 7s, Barbosa called with pocket 9s. The board showed 33Q 8 4
Nico is heads up with Joao Barbosa.

Update 18:40

Chip counts at the dinner break
Nico Behling: 707 000
Joao Barbosa: 1 140 000
Dario Minieri: 267 000

Update 18:12
Nico just doubled up! He was all-in on the river, Joao called:
Nico: A 9
Joao: J 8
Board: 8 A 22 6
Average Stack: 723 333, Nico 600 000

Update 18:02
3 players are left in the tournament, and Nico is still in the game!
Atanas went out when he went all in with AK and was called by KQ Joao Q came on the river.

Update 17:52
Amaud is out! All in with Joao
Amaud 10 10
Joao 8 8
board: 3 J 6 8 A

stacks:
Nico: 300 000
Atanas: 265 000
Dario: 495 000
Amaud: 1 100 000

Update 16:42
Sergey Shcherbatsky is out of the tournament. He went all-in with A5 and lost to Joao with QQ.

Update 16:22
Last hand before the break; Dario goes all-in and Nico calls:
Dario AA
Nico 10 10
Flop J Q 8
Turn 5
River 5
Dario doubled up (bet 119 000. Nico's stack is now about 800 000 chips.

Update 16:20
Nico's stack is growing very fast right now he's got more chips than all other players combined!

Update 15:50
Dario just eliminated his Italian opponent Andrea Benelli. Benelli went all in with JJ. Dario called with AQ (hearts) and the board showed a flush for Dario, a gain of over 100 000 chips.

Update 15:35
Nico is showing command at the table. Check it out:

Update 15:25
Nico just busted out Ludovic Lacay from Francji. Nico had 88 and after preflop raise, re-raise the flop was revealed. Nico's bet was enough to make Ludovic go all-in. Nico called. Ludovic had pocket AA. Nico won with 888.

Update 14:47
Joao Barbosa just doubled. He went all in and was called by Dario Minnieri.

Update 14:45
Swiss player Michael Muheim (shortstack) went all in pre flop with A9 and was called by Dario Minnieri with AA. With no help from the board, Michael is out. 8 players are left.

Nico has taken his seat at the final table of EPT Warsaw brought to you by Pokerstars. Good luck Nico!!

Blinds
A500 SB 3000 BB 6000

Day 3 of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw has started

Update 16:33
Only 1 minute with new blinds was enough to give us results. NICO IS IN THE FINAL TABLE! His stack is 343 000, average 217 000 chips

Update 16:29
Just 1 minute before the blinds going to A500 SB2500 BB5000 Another 2 players are out of the tournament. With 9 players left We are closer and closer to the final table.

Update 16:24
11 players still in the game, 6 minutes till break, Nico is doing great!

Update 16:55

In last 10 minutes the game sped up a lot. Only 12 players left in the game. Nico has the 2nd (out of 6) largest stack at his table.

Update: 16:43
There are 15 players in the game, the average stack is 145.000 chips. Nico is still doing very well. We are hoping to see him tomorrow with the final 8.

Day 3 started with 24 players. Today we will find out who will sit at the final table tomorrow.

Day 2 of Pokerstars EPT Warsaw has started

Update 23:15
Day 2 is over. Nico is in Day 3!.

Out of 217 players 24 remaining will share the prize pool. Average stack is right now 86 800 chips. Nico has 112 700!

Update 19:15
We're on the dinner brake. Nico is still playing with a stack of 22000 chips.

Update 16:25
Unfortunately Fabian is out. Nico is still in the game with stack of 29 000 chips.

With above average stacks both Fabian and Nico start the tournament today at 14:15. Good luck to both of them!

And the Spanish Poker Tour Winner is...

Maarten Zutt!

The Everest Poker Qualifier is the winner of the SPT Marbella, after the disappointment in Castellon where Marten was the bubble now he gets the first price, let see what Mr. Zutt have to say.

Also Philippe Pareja from Belgium, another Everest Poker qualifier speaking about this weekend.

See you in Las palmas for the Main Event of the Spanish Poker Tour, you can qualify online for this event on www.everestpoker.com