Everest Poker Joins Facebook

If you're looking to connect with your fellow poker friends or pick up a few poker tips, be sure to check out Everest Poker's new Facebook group!

We wanted to give our poker community a place to chat with other players and join discussion boards, see photos and videos from past events, check out upcoming tournaments and see what's new with the Everest Poker Team.

The more people that join, the better the group will be, so make sure to tell your friends!

Everest Poker voted Poker Operator of the Year (again)

For the second year running Everest Poker captured the Poker Operator of the Year award at the eGaming Review Awards held at The Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on Friday, September 19th.

Now established as the premier online gaming event of the year, the eGaming Review Industry Awards are going from strength to strength and this year a gala dinner with over 750 representatives of the industry gathered on London’s prestigious Park Lane.

The judges of the Poker Operator of the Year Award were looking for the operator that made the most headway in the real-money poker sector during 2007/8. The judges awarded the prize for originality, growth and scale, usability, payment processing and marketing. Special consideration was given to operators looking to innovate in this competitive sector.

For the second year in a row this was deemed to be EverestPoker.com.

FINAL HEADS UP SPT CASTELLON

Update 18:15

And we have the 2 finalists, Javier elflacokanu Martinez and Everest Poker Qualifier Manuel Cuberos, the first one with 1.130.000 and Manuel with 130.000.

Update 20:00
And we have a winner! Javier Martinez took the trophy, after 1 hour of heads up with the Everest Poker qualifier Manuel Cuberos, is the champion of the fourth round of the Spanish Poker Tour played on the Gran Casino of Castellon!

It was a great weekend to all the participants and we can’t wait for the next round, this time in Portugal, you can try to qualify to Vilamoura Casino by playing the satellites on Everestpoker.com.
Good Luck and we hope to see you soon!

FINAL TABLE, SPT CASTELLON

D day for the 9 finalists of the Spanish Poker Tour played on the Gran Casino of Castellon
These are the stacks at the beginning:

David Anthony – 122.500
Javier Martinez – 243.000 (chip leader)
Diego Perez – 223.000
Jose Frandi – 129.000
Manuel Cuberos – 46.000 Everest Poker Qualifier
Robin Kazemieh – 220.000 Everest Poker Qualifier
Jose Luis Navarro – 113.000
Oscar Martinez – 89.000
Jorge Gonzalez – 65.000

Good luck to all!

Update at 16:30

30 minutes and we have the first man down! Jose Luis Navarro goes All in with A5 of Diamonds and Jose Frandi calls with 66 and the flop didn’t help Jose Luis Navarro.
8 guys now on the final table.

Update 17:15

It took only one hour and 15 minutes to have 4 players eliminated from the final table, one of them was the Everest Poker qualifier Robin Kazmieh.
We have now 5 players and Javier Martinez is the chip leader with 500.000 chips

SPANISH POKER TOUR, CASTELLON day 3

It's 04:00pm and the second day of the main event is starting, 51 players are going to try to get to the Sunday final table.
The secundary event will start in 2 hours.

Some photos of the qualifiers from Everest Poker

Anthony is from Luxemburg and he is the champion of the Everest poker qualifiers because he was on all the rounds, 4! Always a pleasure to see him

Lars Gottschu from the Netherlands

Update 00:00h

At this time the main event is on level 15 with the blinds 1500-3000, we still have 17 players struggling to have a place on the final table, today they will play until we find the final 9.

Meanwhile on the secondary event there are 14 players with the blinds 300-600, it ends today.
Regarding the Everest Poker qualifiers we still have 4 players and with a good number of chips!

“Tonymate” – 56k
“Kasy1” – 225k
“Maartz” – 59k
“Masteryowi” – 60k
“Ladi24” – 47k

TONYMATE

MASTERYOWI

LADI 24

KASY1

MAARTZ

Update 04:00h

We have a winner for the secondary event, Robert Huvin after 10 hours of intense playing Robert took the trophy and almost 4000 Euros, congratulations!

SPANISH POKER TOUR, CASTELLON

If you play Poker, Castellon it's the place to be! The fourth round of Spanish Poker Tour takes place on the new Casino of Castellon near Valencia.
We started yesterday with the Super Satellite, 81 players tried to get the entrance to the main event and only 12 got the ticket!
84 players start today the main event and everybody is playing the best they can pass to the next day. The best Spanish players attended to the SPT and the atmosphere it's incredible! During these 3 days we will be posting all the information regarding all the tournaments. You can also come to the casino and play the secondary event that starts tomorrow our the fun event on Sunday.

Maria Maceiras, from the Everest Poker Team


Update 00:30h

It’s time to present you some of the Everest Poker qualifiers

From Germany arrives Tanja Goller
Ignacio is from Spain
Cazalli come from France and is one of the regulars on the SPT
Tonino Montesanti from Rome
During this weekend we will post more photos from our players

Tanja

Tonino

Update 03:30

Level 7 is finishing and 52 players are remaining.
May and morpheo are still in the tournament and they were on the same table as other 4 EVP qualifiers.
Tanja is doing a very good tournament today getting many pots.

Exclusive access to biggest ever pot in Swiss Poker history

Everest Poker is happy to announce another exclusive live tournament entry opportunity and your chance to take a slice of the guaranteed 500,000SF prize pool.

EverestPoker.net’s poker school have an exclusive partnership with the prestigious Grand Casino Baden in Switzerland for the Everest Poker Jackpot Finale.

Scheduled for the November 15th and 16th, the finale will have the highest prize pool ever for a Swiss tournament and we have 10 seats in the Jackpot Finale exclusively reserved for Everest Poker players.

A further 50 players will qualify via live weekly tournaments and a point system at the Grand Casino Baden itself – so unless you go there we are your best bet.

How do you qualify for the Everest Poker Jackpot Finale?
Direct entries start on Tuesday, September 23rd but there are also satellites to qualify for one of the five direct entries right now. The top two players in each of these direct entries will receive a prize package worth $13,000, which includes both the Jackpot Finale buy-in and travel expenses.

Our Direct Entries take place on the following dates:
• Tuesday 9/23
• Tuesday 9/30
• Tuesday 10/7
• Tuesday 10/14
• Tuesday 10/21

About the Grand Casino Baden:
The Grand Casino Baden is located in the Swiss town Baden, only a short distance from downtown Zurich and the Zurich Airport. The Casino hosts over 300 poker tournaments a year.
Baden has also the highest maximum bet on Roulette in European Casinos — you can bet 4,000 Swiss Franken on one number.

EVP Barcelona Day 3

On the third day of the Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona Everest Poker Team member, Voitto-RandomEyes-Rintala finished 17th with prize money totaling 24,700 Euros.

Congratulations Voitto!

Maria Maceiras from Spain came in 40th , and finished as the top female competitor of the EPT Barcelona. She cashed 17,300 Euros. Congratulations to Maria as well.

EVP Barcelona Day 2

Update 02:12

Unfortunately Maria was eliminated in 39th position just 12 minutes before the second day finished.
Her opponents were very tough and had very big stacks.
In a pot 90.000 chips, Maria faced her opponent, Davidi Kitai with JJ. He went all in showing AA. On the board Q 3 6 4 4 . Kitai, winner of a bracelet in WSOP, took May out of the tournament. She gets 17.300 euros.
Congratulations to Maria!!!! She did a very good job in Barcelona!

Voitto has been working hard the entire day to get more and more chips. So far he's taken several big pots and is the only remaining player from our Everest Poker team left in the tournament.
He has finished the day with a big stack of 171.500. He is in the 12th position of the ranking to continue on the day 3.

GO VOITTO GO!!!!

Update 22:30

The bubble is broken and we have 2 players in the money!

Unfortunately Babbo was eliminated when he went all in with 88 against 99. He fished 68th.

Congratulations to Maria and Voitto!

May won a couple of pots and she has 180.000 and Voitto with 80.000

Update 22:00h

Level 14
Blinds: 1200/2400
Players: 75
Average:

.may. 150.000
RandomEyes 80.000
babbolone 40.000

May and Babbolone are on the same table; Babbolone was short stacked for 3 levels, but had just doubled up! Babbo had JJ and his Portuguese opponent with A9. Babbo went all in and 5 5 6 10 K on the board. Bravissssimo Babbo!!!

May has also had some very nice hands. She won a very nice pot when she went against a new player on the table: Maria Q8 and the other player 4 6.
On the board came Q 8 2 4 5. May wins!

RandomEyes has a very good stack, nearly 80.000 chips.

The bubble is approaching but we still have 3 players in the tournament.

Update 18.40h

Level 12
Blinds: 800/1600
Players: 109
Average: 56.782

.may. 120.000
RandomEyes 19.000
babbolone 30.000

May is the star this evening. She has 120.000 chips!!!

64 players will be in the prizes so we hope some of our players will be there.

Update 17.15

Level 10
Blinds: 500/1000
Players: 136
Average: 45.500

.may. 42.000
RandomEyes 38.000
babbolone 19.000

May started with 13.400 chips but in the first hands she doubled up and her stack is 42.000 chips right now.

We started Day 2 of the Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona with approximately 192. The blinds are now 400/800.4 EVP players. Prize Pool: 4.952.000 euro

Maria-may-Maceiras 13400
Pablo-morpheo-Ubierna 13000
Simone-babbolone-Coppari 25.700
Voitto-RandoEeyes-Rintala 71.800

Unfortunately, only one hour after the beginning, morpheo was kicked out.

Bounty tournaments with our Everest Poker team

The bounty tournaments with our Everest Poker team are back.
This time we have asked our team to pick the tournament of their choice, $100 will be put on each of their heads!

So play & chat with them - then bust them out!! You can find their tournaments under the special tab, the tournaments are under the screen name of each player.

Good luck to all

Here’s the calendar:

French members of the Everest Poker team:

Blindmaster:
Buy-in: $20+2
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table:
Date and time: 9/22/2008 @18 GMT

machou.G
Buy-in: $3+ .30 Single Rebuy
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, 6 seated table, speed:
Date and time: 9/18/2008 @18 GMT

2kewl4school
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack,6 seated table
Date and time: 9/21/2008 @18 GMT

Italian members of the Everest Poker team:

Lalanco1
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/21/2008 @18 GMT

babbolone
Buy-in: $30+3
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack
Date and time: 9/28/2008 @19 GMT

Portuguese member of the Everest Poker team:

N4nn0
Buy-in: $5 + .50
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, speed
Date and time: 9/23/2008 @18 GMT

German member of the Everest Poker team:

Sunni
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/23/2008 @18 GMT

Spanish members of the Everest Poker team:

May
Buy-in: $10+ 1
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/16/2008 @18 GMT

Morpheo
Buy-in: $11+ 1 Rebuys
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/23/2008 @18 GMT

Japanese member of the Everest Poker team:

--icebeer—
Buy-in: $5+ .50
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack
Date and time: 9/21/2008 @15 GMT

Dutch members of the Everest Poker team:

Viktor
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/16/2008 @18 GMT

Krul
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack, 6 seated table
Date and time: 9/17/2008 @18 GMT

Flash_Light
Buy-in: $50+ 5
Tournament type: Texas holdem, NL, deep stack,
Date and time: 9/20/2008 @22 GMT

2 Spaniards in the Second day

It seems fitting that the two Spaniards of the Everest Poker Team are still in the tournament representing their country, Pablo - morpheo- Ubierna and Maria -may- Maceiras.

Just after Pablo joined the Everest Poker Team, he went to EPT Finale in Monte Carlo and did an amazing job finishing in 28th place. Currently he is fighting to get a seat at the Final Table in Barcelona .
Podemos Pablo!

Last year, in the same city and in the same tournament, the press was waiting for the Maria's arrival as she had just won the Spanish Championship in Peralada. She became the first woman to win an important tournament in Spain. After that, in the CEP Finale, Maria won again. So, she became again in the first person (man or woman) wining 2 tournaments in the Spanish Championship!

We wish you the best for today Maria!!!

Team Everest's Voitto Strong for Day 2

Voitto Rintala from Finland is placed 14th of 203 in chip stack at the start of Day 2 of EPT Barcelona hosted by PokerStars.

Just 6 months ago Voitto was an online player at Everest Poker but since winning his place in Team Everest in our Live The Dream final, Vienna, he has gone from strength to strength.

At the WSOP in July he made the final table of a side event winning $57,000 and is now among the chip leaders at the opening tournament of the new EPT season.

Go Voitto!

He is joined in Day 2 by fellow Live The Dream winners Simone Coppari and Pablo Ubierna as well as the consistently excellent Spanish whiz kid Maria Maceiras.. Voitto (pictured, second left) in his rock band Random Eyes.

Maria and Voitto go to Day 2

1:31

We faced a difficult situation when we found Voitto, Cristiano and Maria all at the same table just before the end of Day 1B. We faced an even more difficult situation when Cristino and Voitto went all in against each other preflop, Cristiano with 10's and Voitto with A's. Cristiano was eliminated from the tournament leaving only Maria and Voitto.

Maria and Voitto will be going to Day 2 with 13,425 and 71,800 in chips respectively. Day 1B finished with 130 players averaging 28,000 in chips. The blinds are now 300 - 600.

We look forward to seeing Pablo, Simone, Maria and Voitto on Day 2.

EVP Barcelona Day 1B

Update 23:23
After the break Thibaut went all in with JJ and was called by K5 unfortunately K came on the flop and Thibaut is out of the tournament.

The table change after the break brought also a very poor situation to our remaining players of Day 1 B. Maria, Cristiano and Voitto are now sitting at one table.

There are 153 players left in the tournament. The current chip count of Everest Poker Players is

Voitto 20 000

Cristiano 20 000

Maria 12 500

We are at the 7th level of the tournament, the blinds are 200/400 with 50 ante. The average chip count right now is 21 000

Update 19:30

With the after dinner update we have both good and bad news. Good news is that Maria is still the Everest Poker chip leader with 30 000 in chips.

The sad news is that Stefanie is out. She had AQ and her opponent had AK, on the flop came with 10 2 and A. Stefanie checked as did the other player. With 10 on the river Stefanie went all-in, her opponent called and won with the K.

Leroy is looking to come back after getting down to 3 000.
Germain and Voitto have now 10 000 in chips, Roberto has
15 000 and Cristiano and Thibaut are going strong with 18 000.

Update 16:00

We started Day 1B of the Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona with approximately 328 players and we are up to the second level with 302 players remaining. The blinds are now 75 – 150 with an average chip count of 10 000.

Maria is leading our Everest Poker team with 26 000 in chips. She doubled up early in the tournament and hopes that her lead will get her through to Day 2.

Other players from the Everest Poker team include Voitto Rintala with 11 000, Leroy Soesman with 10 050, Cristiano Blanco with 10 000 and Stefanie Bergener with 11 000.

Our online qualifiers, Thibaut Durand from France with 9 000, Roberto Lelli from Italy with 15 000 and Germian Gillard with 12 500 in chips.

Our players
Leroy Soesman
Thibaut Durand
Maria Maceiras
Cristiano Blanco
Stefanie Bergener
Germian Gillard

EPT Barcelona officially started

Update 01:00

Pablo Ubierna, from Spain, finished Day 1 A with 23 000 chips
Simone Coppari, from Italy, finished today with 25 700 chips.

Sad news for two of our players both Peter Philström and Otto Richard left the tournament. Peter went all in pre flop with AA and he was called by QQ unfortunately a Queen came on the flop and Peter lost. Otto went all in with QQ pre flop and was called by KK, with no help on the board, regrettably he lost.

Update 22:30
We’re in the fifth level and we have four Everest Poker players left with 210 players remaining in the tournament. Simone is currently our Everest Poker “chip leader” with 22,000 in chips. Simone doubled up just before the dinner break. Simone had 10’s and his opponent, Chorny the winner of the EPT Monte Carlo got a straight draw with a J9. He bet and babbolone called. Chorny had the straight on the turn and he bet, babbolone went all in, on the river he made a full house. Chorny checked and babolone doubled with a full house against Chorny’s straight.
Sebastien, our online qualifier, unfortunately lost after he went all in with AJ and lost to an AK with only an Ace on the board.
Pablo and Otto, from the Everest Poker team, are still in with 18K in chips. Peter, our Swedish online qualifier is also still in.

Update 19:30

4 hours after the tournament begun 250 players are still in the game with 295 who started today.

Everest Poker team players are doing well and their chip count is:
Ola Brandborn
Simone Coppari 23 000
Sebastien Mangano 15 000
Peter Pihlström 14 000
Otto Richard 21 000
Pablo Ubierna 8 000

Unfortunately Ola Brandborn was out earlier in the afternoon

The Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona started with 660 players which means the winner will go home with an impressive 1.4 million Euro. Fingers crossed it will be one of our 14 players. Today on day 1 A six of Team Everest will compete to go forward in the tournament, “Day 2” will be held this Friday.

Today's players are:
Ola Brandborn
Simone Coppari
Sebastien Mangano
Peter Pihlström
Pablo Ubierna
Otto Richard

Steven van Zadelhoff not able to take part in EPT Barcelona

Steven van Zadelhoff announced yesterday that due to an injury he will not take part in The PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona. The discomfort, though not serious, may be very distracting especially during an important live event like EPT. We all wish Steven quick recovery and we hope to see him soon at the tables.

15 Everest Players head for EPT Barcelona hosted by PokerStars

Nine members of Team Everest and a further six online qualifiers will take their place at the opening event of the EPT season.

Cristiano Blanco, who achieved the best ever Italian placing in an EPT at Dortmund when coming 2nd in 2007, is fresh from taking $5,055 in a WSOP side event.

He is joined by fellow WSOP money winners, Otto Richard from France and Steven van Zadelhoff from The Netherlands as well as Voitto Rintala, from Finland, who made the final table of Event 52 to take home $57,000!

Our online qualifiers are headed by Thibaut Durand who qualified for EPT Dortmund last year with Everest Poker and made the final table at his first live event.

Alongside him are: Germain Gillard, Roberto Lelli, Ola Brandborn, Peter Philstrom and Sebastien Mangano.

Team Everest is completed by Pablo Ubierna, who cashed in Monte Carlo, "Loud" Leroy Soesman, Simone Coppari, Stefanie Bergener and multiple Spanish winner Maria Maceiras.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL & we will keep you updated on their progress.

Daan Slutter Returns to the Tournament Scene!

Daan Slutter took a brief break from live tournaments after his success this summer at the WSOP winning $8,855 in Event 48 and $23,160 at the Main Event.

But he was back in the hot seat last Friday (August 29th) at the Summer Classics in Amsterdam.

Inevitably, after playing the best of the best at the WSOP Daan was confident entering the tournament, a 200€ 6-handed rebuy.

However, fortune did not favour the confident and he was quickly busted out when Peter Dalhuijsen took a gamble against him and called pre-flop with only 8-5! Daan was sitting pretty with 77 but Lady Luck went against Daan and the odds.

Look for Daan next at the WPT Niagara Falls on the 10th of October.

Banish the miserable European Summer with ANOTHER exclusive Caribbean poker event

Shortly, after announcing their exclusive sponsorship of the St Maarten Open, Everest Poker, are pleased to announce they will also be the official sponsor of the FLAP-Cirsa Poker Tour in the Dominican Republic.

With rain continuing to ruin the European summer, Everest Poker, is offering more opportunities to grab a real slice of paradise by sending to players to the Main Event at the Majestic Casino Santo Domingo on October 09th - 12th.

Starting on Friday, August 22nd, enter any of the four Direct Entries by qualifying in our daily satellites or buying in directly for just $100+9.

Each Direct Entry will award one $5,000 prize package. The package includes cash for the event buy-in ($2,700) and travel expenses ($2,300).
Direct Entries will be held on:

• Friday, August 29th
• Friday, September 5th
• Friday, September 12th
• Friday, September 19th