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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.
