WSOP Live on ESPN

For those that have access to ESPN (US) there is a weekly WSOP update every Tuesday.

Highlights from the greatest tournament in the world, TV schedule:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/wsop

Everest Poker - official felt sponsor of WSOP.

Heads Up Challenge: Think You're Hard Enough?

For those that like it head-on we have a brand new challenge for you:

The Everest Poker Heads-Up Challenge pits our top tournament players against one another in a series of heads-up tournaments...with a $20,000 prizepool.

Qualifying is simple. All you have to do is finish in the top 32 in at least one of our Tournament Leaderboards for the month of July, and you're automatically qualified for the Heads-Up Tournament Challenge. Our three Tournament Leaderboards (TLBs) are:

Sit & Go LowMulti-TableSit & Go High

We have created a bracket tournament (similar to a tennis tournament) for each of our Tournament Leaderboards. The top 32 finishers from each of July's Tournament Leaderboards will be entered into the respective bracket and seeded according to their finish. For instance, the #1 finisher in July's Sit & Go High TLB will be the #1 seed in the Sit & Go High Bracket.

Oldest card shark in town takes crown

After much research we are delighted to announce that Cayetano Garcia, at 75 years old, is the oldest person ever to win a major poker tournament in Europe. On Sunday (July 20) Cayetano made poker history at the final table by making the Spanish Poker Tour, presented by Everest Poker, in Valencia his own.

Cayetano brushed aside his more youthful rivals over a great weekend of poker and in a gesture of typical understatement the final trio made an agreement to share the second and third places (€19,500 each) with the winner taking €26,500 back to Alicante.

Everest Poker’s first WSOP sponsorship hailed a “massive success”

Everest Poker, the new felt sponsor of the WSOP, has many reasons to be cheerful as the main tournament closes and the build up to Novmeber’s final table begins.

The biggest European challenge ever at WSOP. Mission accomplished.

Everest Poker is famous for offering real online players the chance to taste live poker for the first time and this year's WSOP was no different. With its enormous European player base, Everest Poker wanted to mount the biggest and strongest European challenge ever at the WSOP. Recent figures from WSOP have shown that the increase in the number of players and the record prize pool is largely due to the increase of players from outside the USA. Last year 87 countries were represented at the WSOP, this year that figures rose to 118.

Everest Poker’s Team of everyday players a real match for the pros:

Everest Poker brought 59 players to Las Vegas. Five players, all their first visit to the WSOP, cashed, three of them hitting the money in the Main Event.

Voitto Rintala, our rock star from Finland &amp, and recent addition to Team Everest, made the final table of Event 39 and took $57,000 back to Scandinavia.

Daan Slutter, from Enschede in Holland, managed to cash TWICE making the last 600 of the 6,800 entrants for the Main Event and taking home $31,000.

Wooka Kim, from Japan, also made the money at the Main Event coming 530th and winning $25,000.

However, the star of the Everest Poker players was Sylvain Couer (which means ‘heart’ in French) who made it all the way to 140th in his first ever live tournament.

The Everest Poker Lounge: “This is about as sleek and classy as you can get” – Casino City Times

The ever popular Everest Poker Lounge, which was free to all European players, included Nintendo Wii’s, foosball, and free parties and poker lessons was called “as sleek and classy as it get’s” by international casino portal Casino City Times.

The Everest Poker Lounge saw over 2,000 European players and fans stop by over the two weeks of the WSOP. Rocio van Nierop, European PR Manager and host of the lounge commented: “The atmosphere was just brilliant – it become a real hub for players and fans to make new friends. We were very open and welcomed anybody who had made the trip over to join us and threw a free party for 500 guests on July 4th as well as a huge crowd for the final of Euro 2008 between Germany & Spain.”

The felt branding & final table delay: Great for brand awareness

The Everest Poker logo appeared on every single table at the WSOP and also on the inner rung of the TV table for all events. Furthermore the final table is now to be broadcast in November giving added leverage to the Everest brand at a very important time of year as Chief Marketing Officer, Jennifer Joyce, explains: “The final table delay will not only help create a great sense of anticipation but also enhance our profile in the final quarter of the year which is obviously a time when European players are much more active compared to the summer months.”

WSOP & Everest Poker Summary:

As a first year of a multi year deal the Everest Poker executive are delighted with the results but are always looking to improve the Everest Poker experience and are keen to hear the views of any players on how their WSOP experience could be bettered.

However, the performance of the Everest Poker players – all of whom are genuine online players not sponsored professionals – has been nothing short of amazing especially given their lack of experience in a live environment.

Equally, the visibility of the brand and the added bonus of the delayed final table make Everest Poker’s first year at WSOP a massive success.

Winners SPT Valencia

After about 30 minutes of playing heads up Cayetano Garcia and Lautaro Curi both went all-in before the flop. Cayetano Garcia showed A-7 and Lautaro Curi had 6-7. The board was 293-J-10 and because Cayetano covered Lautaro it was the last hand of the tournament. As previously mentioned due to a deal each of them won 19,500 EURO and Cayetano Garcia additionally qualified for the SPT final in Las Palmas (Canary Island).

French Online Qualifier is 3rd place taker at the SPT in Valencia

Alain Char also known as "lynoo" qualified in a satellite tournament for the Spanish Poker Tour on everestpoker.com for only 9$. He did a great job throughout the whole weekend and finished finally in the third place. The final three players arranged to split the pot, so he won a total prize of 19,500 EURO. Congratulations Alain!!

Tomeu Gomila is out of the tournament

Tomeu Gomila, "Amatos" who started as Chipleader on the Final Table of the Spanish Poker Tour in Valencia found A7 when he went all-in. Alain Char from France who qualified online on everestpoker.com called with AK. On the board came 663-J-10 so Tomeu lost all his chips and ended on the 4th place.

Irony at the Poker Tables

The Spanish player "Tule", Julio Doce, went all in with J9 of hearts and the French Everest Poker Qualifier, Alain Char calls with pocket fives. The flop came AQ3, turn 7, river Q and that gives Tule a very nice 6th place.

Funny enough, Alain had now the J9 suited and the Spanish player Cayetano had the pocket fives. He goes all in and Alain calls. And the flop came with JQ8, turn J and river A giving him now three Jacks and getting a very nice pot.

There are only four players left in the final table. The chip leader is still the Spanish player "Amatos" Tomeu Gomila that has 600,000 chips, then the Argentinean, Lautaro Curi has a stack of 350,000 and Cayetano and our French player Alain have 330,000

Tule

Alain

SPT Valencia: Final Table starts at 4 pm

It's day 3 at the Spanish Poker Tour in Valencia and the final table is ready to get started. Two of the 9 remaining players are Everest Poker Qualifiers: Alain Char from France with 110,000 Chips and Tomas Jonsson from Sweden with 150,000 Chips. Chipleader is Tomeu Gomila from Mallorca with 529,500 Chips. The blinds are now 2000/4000 and 500 Ante.

Players remaining in the tournament:

Tomeu Gomila (529500)
Oscar MArtínez (219000)
Francisco Carpio (153500)
Tomas Jonsson (150000)
Cayetano García (135000)
Lautaro Curi (132500)
Alain Char (117000)
Adria Rodrigue (81500)
Julio Doce (73000)
Julio César Melo (14400)

Maria finished in 13th

In Level 18 Maria was on the Button when she went all-in with Q-Q and 33,500 Chips. Tomas Jonsson from Sweden was Big Blind and called with A-K suited. The flop came 8-9-6 and Tomas had a flush draw. The turn was a 4 in a different suit but the river brought the flush. Maria was out of the tournament and finished 13th.

Pablo Ubierna "Morpheo" gets eliminated

Pablo Ubierna "Morpheo" gets eliminated by the French Everest Poker qualifier, Alain Char. Pablo was in the cut off holding AQ of clubs with a stack of 31K chips. Blinds 100 – 200 and ante of 200.

After all the players folding, Pablo raises to 5,500. The player in the button goes all in for 45,000 and the blinds fold.

Pablo calls and Alain shows AK of spades. The flop comes KH 4C 8H, then the turn 3H and river JH giving Alain the winning hand and leaving Pablo out of the race.

Branko is out

Branko Sprach is out now. He was holding K, 10 and Oscar Martinez K7, they went all in and the flop gaves two pairs to Oscar (K, J, 7). The turn and river didn't help and Branko is now out of the tournament.

Level 13 just finished and the dinner break just started.

Spanish Poker Tour - D 2

We are now at the beginning of day 2.
30 Players are still remaining.

At the 11th level, our Belgian qualifier, Dieter De Milde while having a stack of 35,000 chips, went all in pre flop against Fransisco Carpio from Spain. Dieter was holding A-8 and Fransisco showed pocket Jacks. The flop comes 2-A-6, Turn: 8, River: J giving Francisco three of a kind.

Now it's time for the first break.

The chips leader is Lautaro Curi with 130,000 chips.
Just behind him, Garcia Villaescusa with 120,000 chips.
And in third position, with 117,700 chips, Maria Maceiras, wearing proudly the Everest Poker Team gear!!!

Good luck Maria!

Chip count of the Everest Poker players after the first break:

SPT Valencia - End of day 1

At 4:00am 58 players, out of 106 are still left after the 8th level
Garcia Villaescusa is the chip leader with 124,000 chips.

Maria Maceiras, one of our Everest Poker Team member is ranking 3rd with a stack of 96,000 chips. Pablo is still in with 28,000 chips.

We saw many famous faces from the poker community in Spain. Oscar la Pua, Jotaele, Santi Terrazas, Raul Mestre, Amatos, amongst others.

Tomorrow they will all play until there are 9 left and the final table will be played on Sunday.

The prize pool has a total of 109,000 EUR and 18 players will be in the money.

This is the chip count:

WSOP Team Everest Results

Our players did great at the WSOP this year, well done to all

Everest Poker WSOP Roll of Honour:

i) Pascal Guerillot (FR);
Main Event. 652nd place. $21,230
ii) Steven van Zadelhoff (NL);
Event 29. 32nd place. $9,287 & Event 39. 133rd. $3,527
iii) Jakob Vedel Lauridsen (DA);
Event 39. 54Th place. $9,653
iv) Otto Richard (FR);
Event 41. 35th place. $4,687
v) Daan Slutter (NL);
Event 48. 66th place. $8,855 & Main Event. 603rd. $23,160
vi) Augusto Cavazzini (VE);
Event 49. 23rd place. $17,530
vii) Voitto Rintala (FI);
Event 52. 9th place. $57,000
viii) Cristiano Blanco.
Event 53. 29th place. $5,055
ix) Sylvain Coeur (FR);Main Event.
140th place. $41,816
x) Kim Wooka (JA)Main Event.
530th. $23,160

WSOP Main Event: Sylvain Couer wins 41,816 Dollars

French Online qualifier Sylvain Coeur reached the 140th place in his first live tournament appearance. At Day 5 of the Main Event of this years WSOP at the RIO Hotel in Las Vegas he went all in with A-K of hearts and a flush draw. His opponent was holding trips 9 and with no more heart on the river Sylvain was eliminated in 140th position. The frenchman takes home 41,816 Dollars in his first major tournament and suprised the poker world with five strong days of poker amongst the worlds best players.
Congratulations.

WSOP Day 3: Sylvain Coeur(de Lion) with 540.000 chips!!!

Amazing day for our french player from Grenoble in the main event of the WSOP in Las Vegas. He started the day with 300.000 and after being down to 135.000 is now behind a stack of 540.000 (the average is 480.000).

3 hands played were very important:

The first one when he called an all in bet from his right neighbor with QQ vs AK.

The traditional "All in and called table 33" announce the arrival of the ESPN crew but the dealer wants to go faster and reveals the 2 first card of the flop: a King and a Jack.

We had to wait for the minutes to see the last one (waiting for ESPN) and the third card is an ace, giving top two pairs for his opponent but drawing a gutshot for Sylvain... The turn is an AMAZING Ten for the nut straight. The river will not pair the board and Joliecoeur doubled up.

The second one:

Sylvain called an all-in from the same player with TT and his opponent held AA.
The flop came: J82 turn 7 and river 9 for another straight!!!

Finally he built his 540.000 chips stack with a pocket Kings vs AQ with a Queen on the flop, his opponent bet flop and turn and get called by Sylvain.

Check/check on the river because of the 2 Three and the 3 diamonds on the board.

GO Sylvain!!!

Sylvain 'Jolicoeur' down to last 474 of 6,800

The intrepid Frenchman in the Everest Poker colours is down to the final 474 players with a chip stack of 300,500. Sylvain qualified for the WSOP Main Event with Everest and it is his first live poker tournament.

His chip stack puts him at 183rd in the rankings - a placing that would have earned him $190,000 in last year's final but there is a long way still to go.

Good luck to Jolicoeur - for a first live tournament you have done so well already and we wish you well for the final push.

WSOP: Main Event, Day 3, In the Money

We have some good news and some bad news.

Let start with the good news:

Krul (Daan Slutter), Icebeer (Kim Wooka) and JoliCoeur (Sylvain Coeur) are in the Money

But now the bad news:

Krul and Kim are out at the 603rd place and 530th place for $23,160 and $25,090.

Jolicoeur is still in the race with 300,000 chips (it's his first tournament). INCREDIBLE!

Daan will go back to Enchede (The Netherlands) with more than $32.000 total in the WSOP month.

First cash in the WSOP for Kim for $25,090, Congratulations

Sylvain will go through the day4 for his first live tournament!!!

Daan and Kim cash in their first WSOP main event

Update 2.14 am Las Vegas:

Kim Wooka took 25,090 Dollars prize money in her first WSOP main event. The Live the Dream winner from Japan finished in 530st place. Congratulations.

Update 1.39 am Las Vegas:

Congratulations Daan, one of our Dutch Live The Dream winners just won $23,160 in his first Main Event at the WSOP. He finished in 603rd place after he pushed Allin with A-J in the small blind after a standart raise from the Button. The player to his left made the call and showed K-K. No help on the board and the WSOP was over for Daan "Krul" Slutter. Congratulations on a truly great performance.

Daan with a big star (Johnny Chan) on his left

WSOP Main Event: Daan is on the TV Table

Good moment for Everest Poker with the attendance of Daan Slutter on the TV Table.

He has 72,000 chips and he's the short stack of this table.

Daan for his first time on the TV table of the WSOP

Go Daan!!!

WSOP Main Event, Day 3: JOLICOEUR in the TOP5

Sylvain is up to 529,000 chips and he's sitting in the top5 of the 800 remaining players.

Daan has 225,000 and Kim 100,000

Come on!!!!

WSOP Main Event, Day 3

Voitto lost a coinflip with AQ vs 99, he hit an Ace on the flop but a 9 came on the river.

Romain is also out, he was really short stck and tried to steal the blinds and went all in with J2 but the Big blind had 88 and nothing came.

But some good news from the Amazone Room:

Daan Slutter (krul) is up to 200.000 chips and is above the average.

Kim Wooka has (Icebeer) 100.000 and is really in a good form.

Sylvain Coeur (jolicoeur) is UP to 480.000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gogogogogogogo

WSOP Main Event: 5 Through to Day 3...so far

Team Everest are holding their own and edge ever closer to the Holy Grail of Poker. So far into Day 3 we have:

Voitto Rintala from Helsinki, Finland, with 35.000 chips and already with $57,000 in his pocket after reaching the final table of a WSOP side event.

Sylvain Coeur from Grenoble, France, with a staggering 178.200 - the average is 70,000 chips.

Daan Slutter from Enschede, Netherlands, with 77.000 - Daan was another of our players to cash in at the side events earlier and has $8,800 to name alreday.

Peter Vitezy from Budapest, Hungary, is also still in at the 73.200 mark.

Our Live The Dream winner, Romain Dupres, from France at 53.000 chips.

Kim, our japanese sponsored player from Live The Dream, will also go to day 3 with 40,000 chips.

1300 players are still in the tournament and only 666 of them will be in the money. The average is 106.000 chips and the level will be 800/1600 antes 200.

The first place paid will worth $21,000 and $9M for the winner.

Go Everest!!!

WSOP: Main Event, Day 2A

Five players from Everest Poker were in the starting line up of the first 'day 2'.

After 2 levels, they are all still in and, amazingly, almost all of them have increased their stack.

Daan Slutter "krul" is now at 92.000 (he started the day with 78.000).

Voitto Rintala "RandomEyes" is up the 119.000 (37.000 at noon).

Romain Despres "Blindmaster" was at more than 100.000 just before the break but he lost a big pot of 100.000 with nut flush draw (and 2 overcards).

Sylvain Coeur "jolicoeur", who started the day with almost the half the average (25.000) was up to 150.000 and he's down now to 90.000.

And finally, Miquel De Boer from The Netherlands is at 19.775.

Team Everest Survivors of Day 1 (A-D)

After four days of 'Day 1s' Team Everest have enjoyed mixed fortunes but 6 remain to carry the flag through to Day 2 which kicks off tomorrow (Tue 8th July). We will also update the fortunes or our online qualifiers shortly, but our Live The Dream heroes are;

Live The Dream winner Simone 'Babollone' Coppari from Italy = 21,000 chips
Our Spanish pro, Maria Maceiras, with 24,000 chips
Wooka Kim, from Japan, with 25,000 chips
Dutchman, Daan Slutter with 78,000
Romain Despres from France with 37,000
Our first Hungarian poker player Peter Vitezy is at 16,000
...and recent $57,000 winner Voitto Rintalla, from Finland, with 35,000 chips.

Good Luck Team Everest, the summit is just days away.

Day 1C

Day 1b is now behind us and our players had very mixed days, here's a quick summury,

Kim played a lot of her day at the TV table with Mike "the mouth" Matusow who has changed so much since he had a bet to loose weight!

Allistair aka Utilagorila

Our sponsored Italian player Simone Coppari who finished the day with 21,050 chips

Nicolas Cullin, bluffnico

Jakob Vedel Lauridsen, very nice danish player

Cristiano was kicked out with AK clubs on a board K25 with two clubs but his opponent had AA and it held.

Maria is still alive with 26,000 chips

Massimo Golotta, OTELMA, from Italy

Fernando lost with KK against AA, the second time for him during this WSOP.

Steven has been kicked at the beginning of the tournament

WSOP - before Day 1B - our players celebrate!

In the Everest Poker tradition, we always want our players to have a good time beside the joy to play in the best poker tournaments. So on the 4th of July, we have hosted a VIP party at one of the hottest club in Las Vegas, Pure.

players loved it and we have heard great compliments, frm the location to the food but also the music 9the list is long!)

Here are some pictures to give you an idea:

some sweets,

We also had a live drummer,

The Everest Team was indeed there to enjoy and meet our qualified players,

It is around 8 pm and the party is getting pretty packed,

it waa overall a great party and we have to congratulate the qualified players who left early to be ready for their big day!

WSOP: The Main Event Survivors of Day1A

End of the first part of the marathon. 4 players from Everest Poker are still in and no one is in danger.

Sunni has been kicked out earlier in the day and she was pretty unlucky. On a flop Q27 she reraised all in holding AA, her opponent finally calls with KK and hit a King on the turn.

Otto, was the first player out, he was shorter than average and he check/raised all in on the turn with KT on a board T94 and the other player called with QQ.

Leroy fell with JJ vs QQ all in preflop. He was short stacked and re-raised all in and saw that he was hugely the underdog.

Romain Despres, Blindmaster, France has 43.000 chips

Daan Slutter, krul, The Netherlands, 78.000 chips

Voitto Rintala, RandomEyes, Finland, 37.000 chips

Sylvain Coeur, jolicoeur, France, 25.000 chips

WSOP: event #54, MAIN EVENT DAY 1A

Shuffle Up & Deal

The biggest tournament on earth has just begun with nearly 30 Everest Poker players among the 5,000 strong field:

Otto Richard (Everest Poker Team), 35th in the $1500 mixed hold'em

2kewl4school (http://www.ottopoker.fr/)

Romain Despres (Everest Poker team)

blindmaster (http://www.blindmaster.fr/)

Daan Slutter (Everest Poker Team) 66th in the $2000 Texas Hold'em No Limit

krul (http://www.daanslutter.nl/)

Voitto Rintala (Everest Poker Team) 9th in the last $1500 Texas Hold'em No Limit

RandomEyes

Stefanie Bergener (Everest Poker Team)

sunni (http://www.stefaniebergener.de/)

Leroy Soesman (Everest Poker Team)

flash_light

Sylvain Coeur (Everest Poker Qualifier)

Jolicoeur

Ante up for Africa

More than a dozen celebrities and athletes returned and joined poker's most notable players to raise public awareness and funds to support the victims of the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan, at the 2nd annual Ante Up For Africa tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Created by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke, the Ante Up for Africa tournament began at 2 p.m. July 2nd at the Rio® All-Suite Hotel & Casino, home of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Last year's Ante Up For Africa event featured more Hollywood celebrities and poker professionals than any other charity tournament ever and raised more than $700,000.

Here are two videos in the red carpet:

Ben Affleck

Matt Damon

And obviously our own staff couldnt resist taking a picture with the stars!

Voitto came 9th in the WSOP #52 Event

Unfortunatley Voitto "Randomeyes",our Everest Poker Team player is out!

After playing for three days straight in the WSOP $1500 No limit Hold'em event, Voitto is out.

Voitto went preflop all in with pocket 88. Pocket QQ calls him.
No help for Voitto.

This is the best Team Everest result at the WSOP so far.

Voitto won $ 57,000

Congratulations Voitto!!

Check Voitto's profile on: http://www.everestpoker.com/en/pokerteam/voitto.html

Venezuela in the Money!!!

Augusto Cavazzini "cabamuzic" from Venezuela just got in the money!

He got an amazing 23rd place out of 2,718 on the $1,500 49 WSOP event.

He qualified with Everest Poker investing only $3.3 and cashed out $17,530

By the 14th level he doubled his stack to 24,000 chips with pocket Aces against pocket Kings, the flop came J 7 8 Turn: 8 River: 10.

Then, while being the small blind holding a Q 7 suited, the 5th position calls the big blind, Augusto calls and the big blind checks. The flop came 9 Q 5. The fifth position goes all in, Augusto calls and the Big Blind folds. The fifth position shows 9, 10 and the flop doubled Augusto again giving him a pair of Queens. His stack was 70,000.

Then, while there were only 23 players left on the tournament around mid night, Augusto, while in the sixth position goes all in with A9. The small blind calls with pocket 8's and the flop came Q,Q,K Turn: J and River: 7

We are very proud of Augusto that is taking to South America a very nice prize!

Felicidades Augusto!

WSOP event 52 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em update

Update 3.30h:
Voitto reached the Finale Table
Everest Poker Team member Voitto Rintala could be the first finnish player to win a WSOP bracelet.
"Randomeyes" reached the finale table of event 52 and will play today for over 600,000 dollars prize money for the first place.

"Get a bracelet Voitto"

22.00h:
Voitto is running good!
He has 120,000 chips. Averige is 84,000.
We currently have 97 players in the tournament.

Good luck Voitto!

WSOP event 52 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em

Today Voitta Rintala (our Everest Poker Team player) is playing his second day in the WSOP event 52 No limit hold'em.

In total 2,693 players participated in this tournament.

Day 2 Seat Assignments Released

Seat 1: Voitto Rintala – 85,000
Seat 2: Todd Hanks – 54,000
Seat 3: Michael Chu – 19,800
Seat 4: Stefan Martin – 21,700
Seat 5: Mikey Stotz – 69,100
Seat 6: Casey Wentzell – 19,400
Seat 7: Pei Sheng – 35,000
Seat 8: Lars Fransson – 61,800
Seat 9: Joe Neiman – 98,800

It's now 4.30 PM local time and Voitto is still in the tournament!!
He has got 50,000 chips. Averige is 70,000.
There are still 117 players in the tournament.