Carlos `Charlii1` Miranda is out!!

Everest Poker had only 1 player remaining in the tournament, that is Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda, an EVP Qualifier.

He had 8300 in chips, but with 400/800 and 200 ante it was always going to be tough.

Unfortunately he was sent to the rail in an unbelievable hand, when he held AA and Sorel Mizzi, the player before him raised to 5000 preflop. Carlos called. Irt all went down like this:

Carlos: AA

Mizzi: 9 10

Flop:
A Q K

Turn:
7

River:
J

So Charlii1`s set of aces was beaten by the straight of Mizzi. Thats what most call a bad beat. He was out on the 150th place.

Carlos on Day2, before his initial table was broken up

Pokerstars.com EPT Budapest: Day2

182 players have started playing an hour ago on Day2 of EPT Budapest.

Day 2 Starting Chip Counts:
Mauro Corsetti 136,200
Annette Obrestad 101,300
Arnaud Mattern 90,600
Christophe Haller 86,100
Pierre Husson 76,100
Sorel Mizzi 74,900
Johnny Lodden 70,000
Paul Testud 66,500
Ionel Anton 64,800
Nicolo Calia 62,900
Jari Pekka Juhola 61,700
Praz Bansi 60,800
Zoltan Toth 59,600
Dwayne Stacey 58,600
Robin Keston 57,300
Tristan Clemengon 54,700
Hans Ritburg 54,000
Milan Andrejkovics 53,600
Lukas Benkovic 53,000
Aditya Agarwal 52,800
Robert Andersson 52,600
Benjamin Lebor 51,800
Brooke Hoerr 51,600
William Fry 50,900
Lajos Laszlo 50,700
Marcellino Terracciano 50,100
Thomas Krommer 49,800
Ivo Donev 49,300
Mikael Norinder 48,100
Micha Hoedemaker 47,900
Fintan Gavin 47,100
Dave Hardy 46,000
Casey Castle 45,600
Pantelis Pavlis 45,100
Janek Schleicher 45,000
Oliver Bosch 44,100
Frederic Magen 42,100
Frederik Brink Jensen 41,900
Severin Walser 41,500
Christoffer Sonesson 41,200
Jean Philippe Rohr 41,100
Laurence Houghton 41,000
Ofer Golko 40,500
Marino Serenelli 40,400
Alexander Kravchenko 39,100
Joseph Rutkai 38,000
Alexander Soderlund 37,900
Mikhail Lakhitov 36,900
Danny Ryan 36,400
Christophe Benzimara 36,200
William Haughey 35,800
Brice Cournut 35,100
Markus Kolb 35,000
Ludovic Lacay 34,700
Peter Zamiska 34,300
Alp Okumus 34,200
Claudio Cecchi 34,200
Sebastian Saffari 34,100
Allan Baekke 32,900
Symeon Pyrakis 32,600
David Hovath 31,800
Albert Kirk Iversen 31,300
Christophe Wemelbeke 30,900
Stefano Fiore 30,700
Antonio Karman 30,600
Simeon Tsonev 29,700
Rikard Englund 29,600
Andreas Krause 29,500
Tommi Etelapera 29,400
Martin Jacobson 29,300
Philipp Roch 29,300
Geoffrey Balme 28,900
Pasquale Braco 28,800
Jeppe Nielsen 28,600
Artur Wasek 28,600
Patrick Guintrand 28,400
Tibor Toth 28,400
Szabolcs Attila Saskoy 28,300
Ciprian Hrisca 27,700
Ricardo Pinto De Sousa 27,600
Johannes Olsson 26,700
David Jaoui 26,300
Ilkka Koskinen 26,200
Danny Rasmussen 26,200
Mario Puccini 26,000
Cerpedes Raphael 25,900
Alexandar Emilov 25,700
Christopher Moorman 25,600
Robert Altman 25,500
Ramzi Jelassi 25,300
Dan Murariu 25,000
Fabrice Leclerq 24,600
Thomas Ronnie Bihl 24,500
Christian Oman 24,000
Alessandro Longobardi 23,900
Tamas Karikas 23,800
Hans Fest 23,800
Christopher Bush 23,700
Gesie Bason 23,600
Massimiliano Patroncini 23,600
Luca Pagano 23,500
Daniel Sandu 23,500
Denis Volkov 23,300
Pier Luigi Scatola 23,100
Andreas Altmeyer 23,000
Christian Fredrik Bonde 22,900
Tibor Tolnai 22,300
Andrea Benelli 22,300
Mads Wissing 21,600
Nicholas Maieritsch 21,100
Balazs Csermely 21,000
Kara Scott 20,500
Tibor Benko 20,400
Domenico Iannonne 20,300
Jesper Hoog 20,300
Daniele Mazzia 19,600
Michael Tureniec 19,500
Peter Gelencser 19,400
Peter Kamaras 19,300
Claudio Pagano 18,500
Darren Hope 18,200
Manutschehr Parsian 17,900
Wandel Gerd 17,800
Guido Meacci 17,600
Korotkov Oleg 17,300
Oscar Blanco Carrasco 17,300
Francesco Cirianni 17,200
Andrey Daniluk 17,200
Robert Schatz 16,600
Beniamino Speroni 16,500
Michele Puzzoni 16,500
Krisztian Obal 16,100
Mohamed Azam Razab Sekh 16,000
Denes Kalo 15,800
Martijn Gerrits 15,800
Timo Ojala 15,700
Anders Johansson 15,500
Menno Antonius Bussinik 15,400
Viktoria Szilasi 15,400
Gino Alacqua 15,300
Annio De Muro 15,300
Martin Smyth 14,800
Tom Sigmond 14,800
Kerry Taylor 14,700
Eric Rabl 14,300
Ofir Abramovivi 14,300
Salvatore Soricaro 14,000
Thomas Vestergaard 12,800
Maurizio Carra 12,700
Claudio Rinaldi 12,700
Max Conrad 12,700
Johannes Strassmann 12,600
Peter Majoros 11,800
George Mckeever 11,700
Daniel Stern 11,600
Loris Brunelli 10,800
Robert Firestone 10,600
Jecek Ladny 10,600
Massimiliano Rosa 10,100
Tiago Lopes 9,900
Niclas Dymling 9,300
Ronnie Gustafsson 9,300
Geir Berge Torsvik 9,100
Claus Uhrskov 9,100
Mathieu Albano 8,500
Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda 8,300 EVP Qualifier
Alan Smurfit 8,200
Mads Hoybye Madsen 8,100
Derek Morris 8,000
Pawel Cmiel 7,900
Istvan Schreiber 7,900
David Nordh Paananem 7,900
Andrew Barta 7,000
Mickael Sebban 6,400
Sergio Di Gaetanoi 6,200
Peter Zakhar 6,100
Imre Styevlik 5,600
Giuseppe Festa 4,400
Miroslaw Klys 3,700
William Thorson 3,400
Simone Dambrosi 3,200
Imre Alfoldi 2,800

Day1B is over

With Day1B, in association with PokerStars, is over, 95 players advanced to Day 2, which starts tomorrow 1PM CET.

I am happy to report that Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda will be here as well! :) He has around 9,000 in chips around 1/3 of the average.

A couple of familiar faces also advanced to Day 2 such as Alex Kravchenko, Kara Scott, Antony Lellouche.

Chipcounts of some familiar faces:
Mauro Corsetti 100000
Christoph Haller 80000
Pierre Husson 70000
Praz Bansi 65000
Milan Andrejkovics 55000
Ivo Donev 40000
Thomas Kroemmer 40000
Claudio Cecchi 26000
Johnny Lodden 25000
William Thorson 23000
Denes Kalo 22000
Tibor Tolnai 20000
Claudio Pagano 18000
Alex Kravchenko 17000
Antony Lellouche 17000
Ricardo Sousa 16500
Kara Scott 14500
Joseph Serock 13000
Alan Smurfit 10500
Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda 9000 - EVP Qualifier
Chris Moorman 9000
Johannes Wijlaars 9000
Philipp Roch 6500
Imre'Firesnake' Alfoldi 3000

Karim 'LAFORCE' Lehoussine busts out

Karim was unfortunately eliminated with two pair. The player across the table raised him 5000 (basically for all his chips) on the river. After thinking long and hard, Karim decided his 2 pair would cut it, but it wasn`t enough against the opponent`s straight.

Karim:
Q10

Player:
J10

Flop
K 7 Q

Turn
10

River
A

Karim and his opponent shook hands and Karim left with a smile on his face:
Thats poker baby!

...and the advice pays off!

Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda has just doubled up through a local player, when his raise was reraised, he moved all in.

Carlos`s AK was against AQ and nothing came to the board, so Carlos is up to 23 000 with 75 minutes remaining on the clock from Day1.

The "Be patient!" advice of Karim in the break has finally paid off!

Pokerfaces

With 140 players still in the tourney today, I am happy to report that both of our remaining players are in the competition. We have cca 1,5 hrs to go until the end of day1.

Karim:

Carlos:

Current chip counts

Current chip counts of some better known players:

Christoph Haller 52000
Ivo Donev 40000
Claudio Cecchi 35000
Thomas Kroemmer 33000
Ricardo Sousa 25000
Praz Bansi 23000
William Thorson 18000
Sebastian Ruthenberg 17500
Antony Lellouche 17000
Tibor Tolnai 16000
Pierre Husson 15500
Johnny Lodden 15000
Kara Scott 14500
Chris Moorman 13000
Claudio Pagano 13000
Priyan De Mel 13000
Karim 'LAFORCE' Lehoussine 11000 - EVP Qualifier
Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda 10000 - EVP Qualifier
Soren Kongsgaard 10000
Philipp Roch 8500
Alan Smurfit 8000
Alex Kravchenko 8000
Irme 'Firesnake' Alfoldi 8000
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier 6000
Denes Kalo 5150
Mike "Timex" McDonald 4000
Dario Minieri 0
Michael Martin 0
Vicky Coren 0
Fabrice Soulier 0
Pascal Perrault 0
Max Pescatori 0
Noah Boeken 0
Richard Toth 0
Julian Thew 0
Jan Heitmann 0
Thomas Fougeron 0
Davidi Kitai 0
Alexia Portal 0
Ben Grundy 0

Everest Players are still upbeat despite being card dead

Karim is still playing very catiously he is around 11K in chips. He is encouraging his fellow French mate during the break, Carlos, who is complaining about the cards. Carlos is down to 10 000.

Karim is motivating Carlos: "Listen, you can grow really quickly in two hands to 40K. Be patient!"

Thats the spirit Karim! Come on guys!!

Pocket Aces are not always winning

Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda lost with pocket aces when the player next to him held 44.

The race unfolded with 10K in the pot with 4 X X on the flop.

Charlii1 lost to a set of 4s as a result he is down to cca 15 000 in chips.

Chip counts

Current chip counts of some better known players:

Christoph Haller 45000
Anthony Lellouche 26700
Ricardo Sousa 25000
Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier 22000
Pierre Husson 22000
Carlos 'charlii1' Miranda 19000 - EVP Qualifier
Ivo Donev 18000
Sebastian Ruthenberg 17500
Denes Kalo 16000
Johnny Lodden 15000
Claudio Pagano 14000
Praz Bansi 14000
Chris Moorman 13000
Philipp Roch 13000
Dario Minieri 12000
Tibor Tolnai 12000
Priyan De Mel 11000
Soren Kongsgaard 10000
William Thorson 10000
Karim 'LAFORCE' Lehoussine 9000 - EVP Qualifier

EPT Budapest: We are on break

We are on a 15 minute break players will carry on with 150/300 blinds.
Carlos charlii1 Miranda has round 19000 in chips.

Karim LAFORCE Lehoussine is very cautious, he is down to cca 9000.

Status Report

The tournament is on a 15 minute break.

Carlos "charlii1" Miranda is chipleader on his table with 20,000 chips.

Karim "LAFORCE...." Lehoussine currently has 13,500 chips, a bit over the chip average.

Machou is out!

Team Everest player, Machou G has gone all in with 1500 chips reamining from BB position preflop with pocket 3s

One player calls, the rest folds, he shows K6 of diamonds.

Flop:

J-5-10 rainbow

turn:
J

river:
5

Bad luck!!!!!!!!!
That's it Machou is out of EPT Budapest!

Jan is out!

Jan Boye hit the rail 90 minutes into the tournament.

He had a series of bad hands and was forced to move all in when shrt stacked.

Not a great start! :(

All Everest Poker players have lost some of their initial 10 000 chips.
No panic, they are still fighting on!

Come on guys!!

Pokerstars.com EPT Budapest: Day1B

Day 1B is officially on the way!

270 players started on Day1B where we have 4 Everest Poker players playing.

Team Everest player Machou Ghaouti

Karim Lehoussine a French national, Everest Poker qualifier

Carlos Miranda a French national, Everest Poker qualifier

Jan Boye a German national, Everest Poker qualifier

Stay tuned for updates!

End of Day1A in Budapest

After 8 levels played, the 270 who started the day shrunk to 96. The chip average is up to over 28 000 with Norwegian 20 year old wonder Anette Obrestad leading with 101 300.

The top5 in chips are the following:
Annette Obrestad Norway 101,300
Arnaud Mattern France 90,600
Sorel Mizzi Canada 74,950
Paul Testud France 66,500
Ionel Anton Rumania 64,800

Many professional players are out of the competition, Marcel Luske, Katja Thater, Theo Jörgensen all bust out on day1.

Some of the best and well-known local players are also out of the tournament on Day1A, Peter Gelencser is the biggest name advancing.

Day1B will start at 1PM local time, where Everest Poker players will compete on the famous beige felts.

EPT Budapest: Full house in Budapest

Hungary welcomes the poker players from around the world!

The first ever PokerStars.com EPT has just started in Budapest, 540 players are playing in the first two days of the tournament, which is actually 40 more than the previously advertised cap.

Players begin with 10,000 chips on 27 tables in a freezout system in the Las Vegas Casino of the Sofitel Budapest. On the Day1s the game is on for eight one-hour levels, with a short break after every other level.

Everest Poker has 4 players in the tournament, they are all playing on Day1B, tomorrow.
machou.G a member of the Team Everest is the most experienced player, although LAFORCE, charlii1 also both from France and Jan-41 from Germany have demonstrated great skills in qualifying online at Everest Poker for the tourney.

We will follow their play, stay tuned!

Blanco: The Unstoppable Cash Machine

Cristiano Blanco is on one of those streaks that everybody dreams of - even when things go wrong it turns out great.

Cristiano was caught out by the time changes in Ireland after cashing in at the Irish Masters and missed his flight to EPT Budapest which starts today.

Slightly dejected but with cash in his pocket Cristiano enetered a 500 Euro side event in Ireland. He made the final table - eventually finishing 5th - and taking home another 6,300 Euro.

His current form book reads: 3 tournaments, 2 final tables & 3 cash wins.

Awesome Cristiano, well done.

Cris Cashes in Again

Cristiano Blanco cashed in for the 2nd successive tournament. After making the final table of the Italian Championships he took another bite out of the prize fund during the Irish Masters this weekend.

Cris's next major tournament action will be at the EPT Prague (December 9-13).

...and he will be going to the tournament in dangerously good form.

Cristiano heads to the Emerald Isle

Team Everest player, Cristiano Blanco, who recently made the final table of the Italian Championships, heads to Ireland for the main event of the Irish Winter Festival.

The €1500 + €150 Freezeout Irish Masters kicks off tomorrow - Good Luck Cris!

SPT ARANJUEZ II: DREAMS COME TRUE

Sometimes dreams really do come true!

The winner of the SPT in Aranjuez was Thomas Gerardy, from France, who arrived in Madrid as an Everest Poker qualifier.

He started playing in an online satellite and won a $2,500 package to come and play in Spain.

When asked about his expectations in the first day he said “Everybody comes to these tournaments with the illusion that is possible to win, of course I knew that would be very, very difficult”, when we started the final table we asked the same question to the Parisian Engineer and he said; “I’m the player with least chips, only 15% of the table total, so I will probably be the first one to leave…”. Well Thomas, you were wrong!

After some good moves and some amazing all-ins he turned the table upside down and he was chip leader after 2 hours!

But the story won’t be complete if we don’t mention that another Everest Poker Qualifier, Marcus Eckhardt from Germany was on the final table too.

Marcus came in second after the heads up with Thomas and was also an online qualifier with Everest Poker.

At the end they both had a great weekend and a very profitable one too.
Congratulations to Thomas and Marcus!

See you in Marbella for the next SPT, go check our satellites on www.everestpoker.com

Everest Poker's brand new rewards program

Everest Poker today announces the launch of the Everest Poker VIP Summit Club, which will be the new reward program standard in the online poker world.

The VIP Summit Club prides itself on being easy to understand and use, very rewarding, and open to all players. Many reward programs are run either by 3rd parties or are difficult to understand, with the actual benefits far from obvious. The Everest Poker VIP Summit Club has addressed the complaints, opinions and frustrations of poker players across the globe by providing a rewards program that is both easy to understand and rewarding to all players.

The Everest Poker VIP Summit Club will offer:
• Benefits to ALL players both new and existing
• Continuous rewards all month long
• Priority Customer Service
• Multiple benefit tiers
• Up to $200 for referring a friend
• Live Tournament Registration
• Direct Summit Point to Cash Conversion, up to $5,000 per month

Ken Berman, Everest Poker Brand Manager, commented: “We strongly believe the VIP Summit Club is the most transparent and beneficial poker loyalty program available online. We have listened to players from all poker rooms, all over the world and have tailored our product to address all the issues, both positive and negative, of existing loyalty programs.”

Europe's Biggest Freeroll in Budapest

Here's some video footage of the FHM Freeroll currently running in Budapest sponsored by Pepsi Max, Jack Daniels, Dreher & Everest Poker. We had 4,400 start the event!

It's the End of the WPT Niagara Falls for the Everest Poker Team

Steven fell out of the tournament early when he moved all in with A5 suited against Eric Seidel with QT suited. Steven was going for the flush but came up short on the board. Seidel took the hand with 10's.

Good job Steven. We'll be looking for you at the Master's Classics in Amsterdam!

End of Day 2 and We have 1 Player Standing

At the end of Day 2 of the WPT Nigara Falls we have one player out and one looking for that final table.

Daan went out early in the day. He went all in with 4's vs AT. There was a T on the turn and that was the end for Daan. He finished 230th. Look for Daan next at the Master's Classics in Amsterdam.

Steven is one of the 99 out of 454 players left in the tournament. He is going into Day 3 below the 137,576 chip average with 69,600. Blinds are currently 1500/3000 with the Ante at 400. We wish Steven the best of luck!

End of Day 1B and the Dutchies are still in the Game

As Day 1B comes to a close at the beautiful Fallsview Casino, we say goodbye to Kim and good luck to Steven and Daan.

Kim fell out of the tournament about 15 minutes before the end of the final round. She went all in with AK and ended up losing to her opponents quad 10's. It was a day of tough luck for Kim, but we wish her all the best at WPT Foxwoods in November.

Steven and Daan are still in the tourney with 34,000 and 18,000 in chips respectively; slightly below the 46,571 average.

Things were heating up with 300/600 blinds and 75 ante, but Steven had an momentous moment at the table when he went all in with a set of fives against a set of aces. Steven caught quads on the board and took the hand. The room exploded when the hand was revealed as the odds of catching quads is 1 in 407!

Last Round of the Night for Day 1B

It's round 5 of the WPT Niagara Falls and there are 118 players left including Steven, Daan and Kim. With blinds raised to 300/600 and the average chip count 41,000, Daan and Kim are looking to go big or go home this round as they have 18,000 and 11,000 in chips receptively.

Steven is still going strong with 54,000 in chips; 13,000 chip average.

End of Round 2 at the WPT Niagara Falls

We've come to the end of Round 2 of the WPT Niagara Falls and the Everest Poker Team is still in the game. With the chip count averaging 32,600 our players are holding on strong; Kim with 25,000, Daan with 17,500 and Steven with 37,000.

There are some familiar faces at the tables today Gus Hansen and the Robin Hood of Poker, Barry Greenstein are among the 150 players (out of 163) still in the tournament.

Day 1B of WPT Niagara Falls

Everest Poker is here at the beautiful Fallsview Resort & Casino in Niagara Falls, Canada for the 2008 North American Poker Championships brought to us by the World Poker Tour.

Three of the Everest Poker Team's finest are here to play and win. They are competing against over 400 other players for the 5 million dollar prize pool. Representing Everest Poker we have our two Dutchies; Daan "krul" Slutter and Steven "viktor" van Zadelhoff...

...and our Japanese player, Wooka "-icebeer-" Kim also looking to get a piece of the pot.

4400 Flock to FHM Freeroll in Budapest

Yesterday saw the start of the biggest poker tournament in Europe where over 4,000 players will take their seat over the next 11 days in FHM's annual freeroll in Budapest.

The event, sponsored by Pepsi Max, Dreher, Jack Daniels & Everest Poker is nearly as big as the World Series of Poker itself (also sponsored by Everest Poker!)

We will keep you up to date with the progress of the players and of the celebrity tournament held on October 12th but in the meantime this is a taste of things to come at the start of 6 'Day 1s'.

Stef & May make the podium with silver & bronze

Our two Everest Poker Ladies took second and third place in the Women's World Open.

Stefanie Bergener from Germany won $22,000 in 2nd place and lost a heads-up for the title against her best friend Soraya Homam. Maria Marceiras our staggeringly consistent Spanish star took third place and $14,000.

With Cristiano making the final table of the Italian Championships on Sunday our 'home grown' poker stars now have 3 final table appreances in 2 days!

All our Team Everest players are sourced from our own players - we do not buy in famous names that's why we say we're 'passionate about YOUR game.'

Stef & May make the final table

Stefanie 'Sunni' Bergener & the poker winning machine that is Everest Poker's May Maceiras have made the final table of the $108,000 Women's World Open in London.

The girls - both members of Team Everest - will start the final ascent at 2pm today (Monday 6th October) and they follow Cristiano's final table heroics in the Italian Championships yesterday.

We develop our poker teams only from real Everest Poker players rather than simply buying famous names - and look at the results!

Stay with us for regular updates.

Blanco, Blanco, Blanco

Cristiano Blanco - the first member of Team Everest - decided to play in the Italian Championships in San Remo last week rather than EPT London.

Being a famours figure in Italy this was a risky decision as many players want to be the one to bust him out but he was spot on and made the final table yesterday.

Cristiano was eventually 5th in the 220,000 euro tournament taking home 22,000 himself.

Also on the final table was Giuseppe Caciolo the Everest Poker qualifier for 'Play Live in Italy'. In total three Everest Poker players were at the Italian Championships with two on the final table and Simone 'Babbolone' Coppari a very respectable 38th.

Well done lads.

If you want to become the best play with us - we believe good poker teams are developed - not bought!

SPT Vilamoura is Canceled: Change of Venue to Gran Casino de Aranjuez in Madrid, Spain

MADRID (10.03.08).

The SPANISH POKER TOUR presented by Everest Poker, announces the Portuguese General Inspection of Games has canceled the 5th stage of SPT in Vilamoura, only 2 weeks before the event was set to begin.

The refusal for permission for the tournament stems from previous, unresolved problems the Casino of Vilamoura had with the Gaming Commission.

The SPT organizers and Everest Poker did everything they could to come to an agreement with the Casino of Vilamoura, but were unable to resolve the issue.

The dates of the tournament will remain October 16th to October 19th. The new tournament location will be in Madrid at the Gran Casino of Aranjuez.

You can find the updated venue information on the SPT website (www.thespanishpokertour.com) as well as hotel recommendations and scheduling information.

We are deeply sorry to all the players who had planned to attend this stage in Portugal for inconvenience this unexpected change may have caused.

Further information, please contact:
info@thespanishpokertour.com

TOURNAMENT: STOP 5, SPANISH POKER TOUR

VENUE: Gran Casino de Aranjuez. Plaza de la UNESCO, 1
28300 Aranjuez (Madrid)
DATES: October 17th, 18th&19th (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).

RESERVATIONS: Juan de Diego: juan@rekoppoker.com Tel. 00 34 607 382 883
Everest Poker: Paloma Benito: pbenito@affiliatedweb.com Tel. 00 34 659 468 159

That's all folks

Ginafranco made it to the last session of EPT London in association with PokerStars but is now out.

That's all nine Everest Poker players now out.

Gianfranco went All In and was followed with AQ and the Q on the board handed his opponent the stack.

Think you can do better? We have many satelites and direct entry tourneys to all the major tournaments across the globe.

Bernd & J-P Exit EPT London, Gianfranco stays

We have two more casulaties & one man standing as day 1B enters the final phase of the PokerStars event.

Germany's Bernd 'Nheo' Gleissner went out fighting and was unlucky to lose with a Full House: 88866 against another Full House 888QQ. bad luck indeed.

Jean-Baptise is also out holding 7-7 and raise after a re-raise he went All-In.

His opponent held QQ and there was nothing on the board.

The last Everest Poker player left his Gianfranco Di Gregorio from France. The man who missed his train & was moved to Day 1B has proved resilient and carries an average stack into the last session.

Gianfranco - our last man standing - we salute you.

Romain Conquered

Team Everest player Romain 'blindmaster' Despres is out of EPT London, in association with PokerStars.

Frenchman, Romain, went All-In with AQ and was followed by a player with KK.

Nothing on the board left our man out in the cold of London's Edgware Road.

However, our three qualifiers are going great guns with Gianfranco 'GPF57' Di Gregorio, Bernd 'Nheo' Gleissner & Jean-Baptiste 'Letcheck' Boni leading the Everest Poker charge.

Come on boys, Everest Poker needs you...Day 2 for all of you (please).

Diamonds are NOT a girls best friend

Our Japanese heroine gets bitten by what, until now, had been thought of as a girl's best friend: diamonds.

Wooka Kim has 9-10 diamonds. The flop comes; A-3-4 ALL DIAMONDS!

Obviously, she raises and is re-raised!

Both the River and Turn are diamonds too and both players are All-In. Wooka's opponent had the K of diamonds with an unsuited deuce!

Wooka is off to Leicester Square to watch her friend in the final table at WSOPE.

EPT London, in association with PokerStars.

EPT London, Day 1B

Five more players carrying the Everest Poker colours take their seats for EPT London, in association with Pokerstars.

Two members of the 6-month-old Team Everest take part, Wooka Kim, the Japanese ace fresh from cashing & being last women standing at the APT Korea and alongside her, the Frenchwhizz kid Romain Despres.

Three online qualifiers also take their chance - Bernd Gleissner from Germany, Gianfranco Di Gregorio,from France and compatriot Jean-Baptiste Boni.

Good luck to all & we'll keep you posted.

Morpheo bites the dust

The last of our intrepid Day 1A players at EPT London, in association with PokerStars, has left the building.

Spain's Morhpeo could not continue his country's amazing run of sporting brilliance and take the title in London;

Our man went All In with pocket 10s and was followed with A-J and the extra A came on the baord to see our man depart.

Five more Everest Poker pioneers start tomorrow, namely:

From Team Everest: Romain 'blindmaster' Despres and Japanese genius Wooka 'icebeer' Kim.

They are joined by online qualifiers Gianfranco Di Gergorio, Bernd Gleissner & Jean-Baptiste Boni.

Good luck guys & girls.

Frenchman falls foul of fives

'Ciam' our hopeful from France playing in his first big live tournament has gone out after having a great run and a great day;

He had 5-5 against A-A and nothing helped on the flop, turn or river.

Morpheo is our last man standing on Day 1A with five starting tomorrow.

Morpheo, cashed in his first tournament as a Team Everest Player - the Grand Finale of the EPT in Monte Carlo.

Go Morpheo.

Voitto Goes

Voitto, Finland's base playing rock God, is out of EPT London, in association with PokerStars.

He made the final table of a WSOP side event taking home $57,000 and then came 17th at EPT Barcelona but the run is at an end.

He went All-In with J-10 Spades and was called by 4-5 unsuited!!

Two spades on the flop...would you believe the only card to follow was a 4, he lost against the odds.

Ciam & Morpheo continue and 5 more start tomorrow...

Everest Poker players are above average: Official

EPT London Day 1A, in association with PokerStars, continues to go well for our three remaining players.

At the 2nd break the average is 13,500 and ALL of our guys are (of course) above that:

'Ciam' is on 15,000

'Morpheo' 17,000

and Voitto 'RandomEyes' Rintala rock solid on 21,500.

Congraulations guys & remember 5 more Everest Poker representatives will start in tomorrow's Day 1B.

More to come today, though...

First break: Andreas is unlucky, other 3 going well

EPT London, in association with PokerStars, Day 1A is well underway and Andreas was our only, and unlucky, casulaty;

With 77 he raised, pre-flop and re-raised when the flop came down 9-7-6. When he was called, Andreas went All-In.

His opponent, a fellow Swede, was only holding 9-8 but he lucked out with a 10 on the River to get his Straight.

Bad beat, Andreas. There will be other days.

The others - with the average at 10,600 - stand as follows:

Pablo 'morpheo' is on 11,700
Emeric 'Ciam' has 16,050
...and Voitto 'RandomEyes' who has cashed at EPT Bareclona & the WSOP is sitting pretty with 21,000

EPT London is GO

Nine Everest Poker players will take to the table for a "sold out" EPT London, in association with Pokerstars.com, taking on the other 551 for the title.

On Day 1A we have 4 players starting. Live The Dream winner & Team Everest player Pablo 'morpheo' Ubierna and Finland's Voitto 'RandomEyes' Rintala who recently cashed at EPT Barcelona.

We also have two online qualifiers in Andreas Tegner from Sweden and Emeric Marcia from France (all pictured below).

Pablo 'morpheo' Ubierna

Voitto 'RandomEyes' Rintala

Andreas 'SnowmanT' Tegner

Emeric "Ciam' Marcia

Good luck to all & we'll keep yoou posted.