LIVE the DREAM : 1st direct entry!!

What a great way to start the week with the 1st direct entry of our new promotion LIVE THE DREAM, a lot of players tried to win their seats!! Over 600 players battled, the top 10 winners won their seat for the live casting in March but also grabbed their share of the prize pool. Congratulations!!

There are still 17 Direct Entries left and the Summit point’s competition will start on November 1st!

Here are the top 10 first players who secured their seat for the live casting and their winning:

Nettou, France: $13904.00
GunSlinqer, Denmark $7584.00
Fabymac, Italy $5688.00
Morpheo, Spain $4424.00
tofmoute76, France $3160.00
etirow, France $2528.00
Beseker, Germany $1896.00
pokerlee00, Netherlands $1106.00
bebar, France $948.00
achil07, France $790.00

Don’t miss your chance to play a like a pro in 2008!!

We have a winner!

Frank Stumpf from Germany beat his countryman Matthias Lotze to hit the jackpot of $233,200 in the Everest Poker Avalanche Finale 2007.

Frank, travelling with his son, Benjamin, scooped the prize with K6 against Matthias's Q4 with no other cards coming to the rescue.

The final table of tonight's 8 hour marathon reads:

1st Frank Stumpf $233,200
2nd Matthias Lotze $127,200
3rd Ferderic Pasquier $95,400
4th Stephan Gerin $74,200
5th Eric Liu $53,000
6th Hubert Koeman $42,400
7th Raoul Hristache $31,800
8th Ann Wijns $21,200
9th Didier Fabre $18,550
10th Marc Perucca $13,500

The Last Frenchman Falls

Frederick has left the building. We are left with two Germans at the end of Avalanche 2007 who will now fight it out for the $233,000 top prize.

Frederick called all-in with KQ but Matthias had AK and enjoyed another A on the flop.

MrGerin Leaves

Original chip leader MrGerin from France left in fourth place with $74,000. Frederick went all-in from the button and Stefan (MrGerin) called. Frederick had A10 and MrGerin AK - the river went in favour of Ferderick with a 10.

FINAL THREE: two from Germany & one from France.

Chip count latest

Frank (GER) 260,900
Ferderick (FR) 155,600
Matthias (GER) 118,700
Stefan (FR) 63,600

Eric Goes

Our Canadian has left the tournament with a very respectable $53,000. In a head-to-head with former chip leader Mr Gerin, Eric went all-in with A9 and Gerin had A10. The flop showed J22 but with a 10 on the turn Gerin was control. The river did unveil a 9 for Eric but the damage was done.

Just four to go as the boat sails on.

The Flying Dutchman Has Flown

Hubert (cowboy99) was our 5th casualty netting $42,400 in the process and leaving this fantastic final with 6 players. Both the French & the Germans have two players left and our longest traveller, Eric from Victoria, Canada remains too.

Norway Falls

Our Norwegian player, Raul, has left the Avalanche party leaving 6 players at the table. He was short stacked for sometime and enjoyed a couple of all-in wins before defeat crept up on him.

Nevertheless, he has over $30,000 dollars to his name as the competition rolls on.

2nd Break - 2nd Chip Count

The latest update on the chip count shows a slight turnaround - Mr Gerin is no longer the leader:

1 drooppy: 148300
2 MrGerin: 147200
3 Cowboy99: 128500
4 fsn1: 79700
5 flpro: 65900
6 neziard: 47000
7 intuitionNEW: 18600

We will update at the next elimination.

...and another one goes

Our only female player - Ann left us after going head to head with the chip leader Mr Gerin - but having survived this long takes with her over $20,000. Not bad for a first live tournament.

The show goes on and we are now into the very big money with seven players, plenty of time on a ship in the night.

More news very soon!

Two go

After a slow start we have two players leave the table in quick succession:

marcus105 moved all-in wih pocket 8s and was called by neziard with 99 and no help on the flop left the Frenchman (marcus105) out but still taking home $13,500!

Two hands later difab moved all-in with TT and was called by cowboy99 with AA and so was gone also with a cheque for $18,500.

With things now well in the way - we will be back with an update at the next big drama.

update after first break

All players are alive and well! Chip leader, Mr Gerin has increased his lead whereas Frank has halfed his stack and "drooppy" is now second stacked with 140,375.

The full chip list is now:

1 MrGerin: 185275
2 drooppy: 140375
3 IntuitionNew: 63550
4 fsn1 : 59300
5 cowboy99: 57,875
6 neziard: 50125
7 flpro: 44050
8 C@ERNESTO@G: 16575
9 difab: 15575
10 Marcus105: 10275

All still to play for and we will meet here again in 90 minutes.

Bon chance, good luck, viele gluck etc etc

The Avalanche Finale is about to start!!!

Tonight at 10pm (Athens time), the Avalanche finale will start with the 10 players who reached the top of Everest Poker over the last 6 months.

Aboard the Cristal cruise ship, they are having dinner now and they try to rest themselves before the "battle".

We will try to update the blog every 90 minutes if the internet connection will allow us! But rest assured we will keep you all up to date with every elimination and all the juicy details whenever we can. Stay tuned.

LIVE THE DREAM!!!! A POKER DREAM!!!

Spend a whole year like a poker pro and play in the world's biggest Tournaments.

We're looking for ten players to represent Everest Poker throughout the next year. T
hese players will win free entries into the world's biggest Tournaments, enough travel money to live the life of a poker pro, and act as spokespeople for the Everest Poker brand.
IT COULD BE YOU!!!

The Live the Dream Prize Package

• European Poker Tour Season 4 Grand Final ($13,000 buy-in)
• World Series Of Poker Main Event ($10,000 buy-in)
• Two World Series Of Poker Side Events (2 x $2,500 buy-in)
• Two World Poker Tour Season 7 events (2 x $15,000 buy-in)
• Two European Poker Tour Season 5 events (2 x $10,500 buy-in)
• Plus $21,000 in cash for expenses

Total prize package value: $100,000!

HOW TO QUALIFY?

There are 2 ways for you to qualifiy:

1. The Online Direct Entry Tournaments run every Monday from October 29 to March 10 (except December 24 and December 31).

You can buy in directly for $100+9 or qualify through daily online satellites ($3+.3 Rebuy or $11+1).
The top ten finishers in each Direct Entry will qualify for our Casting Call in March.
Important: The top finishers will also win cash from the prize pool, distributed using our normal payout schedule.

2. Summit Points Leaderboard: the top five players who earn the most Summit Points in each of November, December, January and February will qualify for the Casting Call. Each month's Summit Points leaderboard will be updated weekly.

If you want to know more about this promotion, click here:

http://www.EverestPoker.com/en/livethedream/

EPEC Final: videos and live news

If you always wondered what it is like to participate to the EPEC final, Everest Poker made it possible by broadcasting the EPEC final 2007.

You will be able to follow the event from the EPEC blog available on this page:

www.everestpokerblog.com/epec

Las Vegas vacation, 18 players won their ticket to their poker vacations

11 new players won their tickets on Tuesday, October 9th and 16th. Congrats to them!

skidou35, France
zwartbont1, Netherlands
titou38 , France
kasskara, France
WildItaly, Italy
IntuitionNEW, Norway (also won his seat for the Avalanche finale!!)

Kannni, France
Kocoliso, Spain
Breizman, France
armenka2, France
LOLOGUIL, France

You still be part of them!!
The Las Vegas Vacation Direct Entries are every Tuesday and you can qualify all week via our satellites, just click on the Vegas Tab

Good luck to all!!

EPT BADEN CLASSIC 2007

A total of 282 players entered the €8,000 No Limit Texas Hold'em tournament from 32 countries, creating a prize pool of €2,143,200 (top prize of €670,800).

4 Everest Poker Players were in course but none of them made day 3: the 2 Germans player Cayannes and MrWS, the French memorax and our Italian player Cristiano.

Here’s a quick summary of their adventures:

Day 1:

MrWS is out in position 265 at level 2 with blinds 50-100. He lost a big hand at the beginning and never came back into the tournament being small stack all the time.

Cristiano stayed over average for a while then lost some pots. With 4500 chips left, he’s on the big blind; a player on early position raise, Cristiano goes all in get call by the player:
Cristiano had 6-6 and the other player has 9-9. No help on the board. Cristiano is out in place 168.

Early in the tournament, Cayannes lost pocket As against a set jacks and is small stack with 3000 but she succeeded to maintain a 3200 chips stack to finish day 1

Memorax had a very steady day and maintained his chips stack above average. He finished day 1 with 14 000.

Cayannes and Memorax ,

MrWS,

Day 2:

We are now at level 7 with 200-400 blinds and antes 50. Cayannes is very short stack; she decided to go all in with As-Q suited. A player called her with 6-6. Queen on the flop gave hope but another 6 on the river was the end for her first live tournament. She is out in 148 position.

Memorax finished the tournament in 89 position. He was short stack and pushed with AS-7 and got called from As-Q.

$100 000 guarantee : 09/29

Congratulations to our top 10 winners :

kl236 $20,000.00 Denmark
macqueen $12,000.00 France
sedialunga $9,000.00 Italy
Kristiban $7,000.00 Sweden
lopitecus $5,000.00 Spain
kuruwa $3,750.00 Japan
BILOU258 $2,750.00 France
pu001 $1,750.00 Netherlands
I_NEED_IT $1,500.00 Netherlands
Bendavid2 $1,250.00 Netherlands