A Magnificent 7th

Brubru34 leaves EPT Deauville after nearly four days of non-stop poker in 7th place and 107,000 Euros richer!

He went all-in with A-7 and was called by A-K a further K on the board confirmed the almost inevitable.

Well done Bruno, not a bad first live tournament!!!

First blood to Brubru34

Our final table hero has made the perfect start to the last day of EPT Deauville by doubling up early ad also kicking out the other player;

With A-K and was called by A-10 - with no help for either party on the board Thomas Delattre leaves the tournament ad leaves our man wit over 800,000 n chips.

Go Bru!

The Final Table - Live on TV

We are finally there - the Eight Wonders of the Poker World - will gather tomorrow shown on NRJ12. They are:

Moritz Kranich – Germany - 1,510,000
Tristan Clemencon - France - 1,400,000
Andrea Benelli – Italy - 983,000
Jorn Walthaus – Holland - 573,000
Bruno Launais – France - 525,000
Arnaud Esquevin – France - 295,000
Thomas Delattre – France - 270,000
Jonathan Azoulay – France - 229,000

Brubru - we salute you & are backing you all the way - good luck, bonne chance & bon soir - until tomorrow.

Rafael09 out in 10th!

Rafeal09 is out - he had JQ against AK but takes 46,000 Euros home with him.

Well done David - that leaves Brubru34 in the final 9 BUT they play down to 8 tonight so we still have a nail-biting few moments until we have just 8 on the final table tomorrow.

FINGERS CROSSED (legs too, please)

Final Ten - TWO Everest Poker Players

We are now down to the final 10 at EPT Deauville & we have two of our qualifiers there. Well done guys & good luck!

The final ten:

Moritz Kranich – Germany - 1,510,000
Tristan Clemencon - France - 1,400,000
Andrea Benelli – Italy - 983,000
Jorn Walthaus – Holland - 573,000
Bruno Launais – France - 525,000
Jan Meinberg – Germany - 326,000
Arnaud Esquevin – France - 295,000
Thomas Delattre – France - 270,000
Jonathan Azoulay – France - 229,000
David Daraux - France - 162,000

power_player is out in 12th place

Our Dutch hero went out of EPT Deauville with 10-10!

After a series of raises and re-raises we were left with 'power_player's 10s against his opponents pair of Aces.

No help on the board for either player leaves our Dutchie out but taking home 31,000 Euros!

That's leaves our two Frenchmen to battle it out for a place on the final table:

brubru34: 450,000
rafael09: 220,000

Level 22, the blinds are at 8,000-16,000, ante 2,000
Average is 645,000

11 left & we stop when there are 10!

Good luck - no pressure!

EPT Deauville Update

Our three are still standing with David 'Rafael09' Daraux getting short stacked.

But Bruno 'brubru34' Launais is now 2nd in the chip count with 16 players left:

2nd Bruno Launais - France - 690,000
6th Tomas de Hoog - Holland - 500,000
15th David Daraux - France - 80,000

16 Left, Level 21.

To the summit of (Final) Table Mountain.

Simone Out But 3 Still Stand!

Team Everest player Simone 'Babbolone' Coppari has left EPT Deauville in 22nd place, collecting 15,500 euors - well done Simone!

However, 3 Everest Poker qualifiers are still in the tournament with just 19 in total - surely a final table is possible now!?

power_player: 650,000
Rafael09: 100,000
Brubru34: 453,000

Level 20, average 339 500
Blinds: 5 000- 10 000, ante 1 000
19 players left

26 Players left: All 4 Everest boys still climbing!

Everest Poker qualifiers at EPT Deauville:

Tomas De Hoog - Holland - 310,000
Bruno Launais - France - 226,000
David Daraux - France - 206,000
Simone Coppari - Italy - 77,000

To the top boys!

EPT Deauville Day 2: 4 in the money & still going

Another day another Everest record is shattered - 4 Everest Poker players are in the money at EPT Deauville & they are not finished yet!

Let’s hope they reach the final table

The chip average is 100 000 chips:

Congrats to the Dutch player power_player, Tomas de Hoog: 182 000 chips

The Italian Everest Poker team player Babbolone, Simone Coppari: 73 000 chips

The French player Rafael09, David Daraux: 204 000 chips

The French player brubru34, Bruno Launais: 117 500 chips

Chip count - Geraldou is out

Average is at 36,900

Blinds 500-1000

6 Everest Poker players remain in the tournament:

Brubru34 27,000 Chips
Machou.g 19,000 Chips
2kewl4school 70,000 Chips
power_player 54,000 Chips
Babbolone 35,000 Chips
Raphael09 32,000 Chips

Dfm5 and Rougier out

Dfm5 and Rougier have just been eliminated from the EPT Deauville.

Great job to get as far as you did guys.

Start of day 2 of the EPT Deauville – 2 Everest Poker players out.

248 poker players entered the arena of champions today to unleash their battling fury in order to reach first place worth 851,000 euro. At the coffee reunion Everest Poker organized for its players this morning, the Everest Poker players showed they were eager to meet the show down with equal eagerness.

Seated with 8 at a table, the 31 tables will face 8 levels of top level poker play. Top 64 will end up earning some cash. The others will for sure go home with a great story to tell and the pride of competing.

The tournament has just kicked into 2nd gear when Everest Poker player Daan 'krul' Slutter fell on the battle field of the brave. His pocket ‘66’ faced a pocket ‘AA’. The flop delivered a ‘6’, but joy showed too soon when the river showed an ‘A’.

Blinds are 400-800, Ante 100.

Krul’s starting stack was 7,100 chips. The average was at 26,000 chips. All considering a wonderful achievement from Krul to reach day 2. Great job. You defended the Everest Poker colors fantasticly and can return home head held high.

Not long after Krul’s departure martinlemot lost his 22,000 chips and had to leave the tournament too. Martinlemot did not hesitate to praise the organization and the warm welcome he received from Everest Poker. Proud he returned home with pockets full of experience and a mind overflowing with great memories of the past 2 days.

9 Everest Poker players remain in the tournament:

Brubru34 32,200 Chips
Machou.g 12,000 Chips
Dfm5 10,600 Chips
2kewl4school 62,000 Chips
power_player 15,200 Chips
Babbolone 12,000 Chips
Geraldou 6,500 Chips
Rougier 21,100 Chips
Raphael09 26,000 Chips

Everest Poker wishes all the players a gigantic bit of luck and especially a fantastic time around the poker table.

11 Everest Poker Players in Day 2!

EPT Deauville has brought out the best in our team as we have an unprecedented number of players throught to Day 2. Our four heroes from today are:

Machou.g 12,000 chips
Dfm5 10,600
Brubru34 30,000
2kewl4school 62,000

Average 25,500 chips

Team Everest player Otto '2kewl4school' Richard is looking particularly well & will head into Day 2 with supreme confidence - a quality that young Otto doesn't excatly lack anyway!

Tomorrow represents another big step for Everest men & a giant step for our poker kind.

Bon soir, a demain et bonne chance a tous.

Les Quatre Fantastique

Day 1B - Level 5

Team Everest player Otto '2kewl4school' Richard is above average (14,100) with 24,000 chips and he is closely marked by Brubru34 whose sitting pretty on 21,000.

Of the others we have:

Ilpintore 9,000
Machou.g 10,000
JolieCoeur 6,000
Godpok 8,125
Dfm5 15,000
Pepette51 5,000
Ciam 4,500
Linessa79 4,300

We want to have at least 10 players in Day 2 & we are well on course to achieve that - keep going boys!

Chipcount – 1 down but 9 still going strong

blindmaster was the first Everest Poker player to leave the competition today.

Average stack is 11500 chips. Blinds 75-150.

6 players are currently below average stack...

Ciam 6750 chips
Godpok 7000 chips
ilpintore 5500 chips
joliecoeur 9000 chips
Linessa79 6500 chips
2kewl4school 11000 chips

...but 4 of the 10 Everest Poker players that started today are above the average chip stack:

Pepette51 heeft 12500 chips
Brubru34 27000 chips
dfm5 15000 chips
Machou.g. 19000 chips

Apart doing great on the chip front, Brubru34 kicked out Andy Black from the tournament!

Hat's off Brubru34.

EPT Deauville Day 1B is go

After a couple of no shows we have 10 players starting day 1B after our amazing Day 1A which saw 7 Everest Poker players through to Day 2.

The runners for today are: Ciam, Godpok, Pepette51, Brubru34, dfm5, ilpintore, joliecoeur, 2kewl4school, blindmaster and Machou.g

You may remember JolieCoeur from thw World Series of Poler where he came 140th from over 6,400 starters netting $41,000 in the process.

Also ilpintore was the $20,000 winner of King of the Mountains held in the ski resort of Tignes last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGCZ8SS2TpE&feature=related

Blindmaster

Brubru34

Ciam

Godpok

Ilpintore

JolieCoeur

Linessa79

Machou.g

Pepette51

The Magnificent Seven!

We have broken another record with 7 players going through to Day 2 of EPT Deauville...and we have another 12 starting tomorrow...could this be the one!?

Chip count at the end of Day 1A (French unless stated):

Martinlemot 22000 chips.
Rougier 22000 chips.
power_player (NL) 16000 chips.
Krul (NL) 6500 chips.
Babbolone (IT) 13000 chips.
Geraldou heeft 6800 chips.
Raphael09 25000 chips.

Vive L'Everest

EPT Deauville - 1 hour to go!

Day 1A will come to an end at 9pm French time and we still have SEVEN Everest Poker players in the tourney with 12 more starting tomorrow!

...however with the average at 20,700 we have a few players who are vulnerable for the chop at the last moment - stay tight guys, stay tight!

Martinlemot (FR) 15,000 chips
Rougier (FR) 15,500
power_player (NL) 18,000
Krul (NL) 14,000
Babbolone (IT) 12,000
Geraldou (FR) 6,725
Raphael09 (FR) 7,000

Bon chance, as they say over here.

Chip count

We’re in the 6th level of the EPT Deauville. Average stack is 17,100 chips.

Of the 7 remaining Everest poker players only Martinlemot is with his 20,600 chips above the average of 17,500 chips. A great comeback concidering his last chip count of 7,000 chips.

Rougier is at 16,500 followed by power_player with 13,250 chips.

krul has 6,500 chips.
Babbolone 8,000 chips.
Geraldou has 4,550 chips.
Raphael09 10,000 chips.

Come on guys. Everest poker is counting on you to defend our colors.

EPT Deauville - 2nd Break

At the second break we stil have 220 players left in including 7 of the 8 Everest Poker players - well done team! Another 12 Everest poker players will start tomorrow.

The chipcount at the 2nd break:

Rougier - 14,000
martinlemot - 7,000
krul - 7,000
power_player - 5,500
Babbolone - 10,000
Geraldou - 3,175
Raphael09 - 7,000

The average is 13,800

EPT

EPT Deauville - 1st Break

We still have 8 players still going in Day 1A - only Cristiano has left us and we have another 12 Everset Poker players starting tomorrow.

Chip counts are:

Rougier - 12,000
Babbolone - 10,000
Krul - 10,000
Steven - 5,000
power_player - 4,000
Geraldou - 3,100

The average is 11,700

Unlucky Italian Stallion: Cristiano is out in Deauville

Everest Poker Team member Cristiano Blanco is out of EPT Deauville.

He managed to crack his opponent's Aces with Q8 after a Q83 flop. All the money went in, but a deadly three on the turn gave his opponent a higher two-pair.

The in-form Cristiano sadly left the room.

EPT Deauville has lift off!

A record 20 Everest Poker players are ready to start EPT Deauville today and tomorrow.

Day 1A is just about to begin with nine of our twenty players hitting the felts today.

Those fisrt into battle are (FR unless stated): Jeremy 'Rougier' Redon, Gerald 'Geraldou' Hernandez, Romain 'martinlemot' Lopes, Tomas 'koendb' de Hoog (NL) & David Daraux.

We also have six members of Team Evevest playing at EPT Deauville with four kicking off today, namely: Cristiano 'lalanco' Blanco (IT), Otto '2kewl4school' Richard, Simone 'babbolone' Coppari (IT) and Daan 'krul' Slutter.

Cristiano Blanco heads into the event in great form too - he ended 2008 with THREE final tables in as many months!

Good luck too all.

Final table IP Cup, Hinterglemm 2009

Interview with Ramon:

Ramon from the Netherlands wins de first IP Cup!

Final hand:
Gaël goes all in preflop with 80,000, holding J-2. Ramon called with Q-9
Flop: 8-5-3 Turn Q River 9

Ramon wins $ 40,465

Gaël became second and wins: $ 26,976

Congratulations Ramon and Gaël

Ramon

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Heads up time!!

Ramon (NL) versus Gaël Dauphinais (CA)

Ramon has 356.100 chips
Gaël has 91.700 chips

Level 16
Blinds 2500-5000, ante 500

Ramon

Gaël
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3rd place: Aaron Aalto (FI)
Level 16
Blinds 2500-5000, ante 500

Aaron raises preflop to 14,000 and Ramon (NL) calls the raise.
Flop: 4-3-K. Aaron bets 18,000. Ramon goes all in. Instand call from Aaron.
Ramon shows 4-3. Turn: 3 (full house for Ramon). River 10.

Aaron won: $ 16,860

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4th place: Adrian Ciszek, PL
Level 16
Blinds 2500-5000, ante 500
Adrian goes all in preflop with A7. Aaron (FI) calls with A6 off.
Flop: K-J-9- Turn: 8 River: 6

Adrian won $ 12,139

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5th place: Remco (NL) is out
Level 15
Blinds: 2000-4000, ante 300
The hand: Remco was short stack and went all in with K-6. Gaël(CA) calls with pocket 9.
Flop: 7-3-10 Turn: 5 River: 10

Remco won: $ 10.790

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6th place: László, HU
Level 15
Blinds: 2000-4000, ante 300
The hand: Ramon (NL) raised from the button to 8,000. László was short stack (5,600)and went all in preflop with 8-3. Aaron Aalto called from the big blind with 5-10
Flop: 7-6-8 Turn: J River: 4. Aaron wins with a straight.

László won $ 8.767

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First break: Day 2

Chipcount

Level 15
Blinds: 2000-4000, ante 300
Averige: 75,000

Ramon, NL, 223.700
Gaél, CA, 79.600
Aaron, FI, 70.600
Adrian, PL, 27.700
Remco, NL, 27.400
László, HU, 23.800

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The final table of the IP Cup in Hinterglemm started at 21.15 on Saturday the 17th of January.

Level 13:
Blinds: 1200-2400, ante 200
7th Place: Bernd Gleissner (DE)
Bernd raised preflop to 8,000 with J-7. Ramon (NL)reraised to 22,000.
Bernd calls the raise. Flop: 9-2-J. Bernd goes all in. Instand call from Ramon. Turn: 10 River: K.

Bernd won: $ 6,744

Level 13:
Blinds: 1200-2400, ante 200
8th place: Thomas Kohl (DE)
Thomas goes all in preflop for 7.600 with A-10. Ramon (NL) calls the raise from the small blind with 4-7. Flop: 3-8-Q. Turn: 4 River: 7.

Thomas won: $ 5,395

Level 13:
Blinds: 1200-2400, ante 200
9th place: Adolfo Pereira de Souza (BR)
The hand:
Bernd Gleissner (SB) called with 1500, Adolfo (BB) raised to 9500 with pocket A. Bernd calls with 9-2.
Flop: 9-Q-9. Bernd goes all in, Adolfo calls. Trips for Bernd, no help for Adolfo.

Adolfo wins: $ 4,046

Level 12,
Blinds: 1000-2000, ante 200
Averige: 45,000
10th place: Kevin Conway (UK)
The hand:
Ramon (NL) raised to 7,000 preflop with J-10. Kevin went all in with pocket 6 (6,300)
Flop: 9-8-7 (straight for Ramon), no help for Kevin.

Kevin takes home: $ 2,697

Everest Poker IP Cup experience

Update: IP Cup final 2009

Tomorrow the final table will start at 20.45h.

But there is no need to be bored at an Everest Poker event!
We have planned a whole schedule with entertainment for our Everest Poker players & Guests.
The schedule includes skiing, sleigh experience, après ski, Gala dinner and an extra side event for the players who are out of the IP Cup final!!

Visit our Everest Poker blog tomorrow and stay up to date about the IP Cup final 2009

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Final table IP Cup, Hinterglemm 2009

Chipcount final table:

NL, Ramon, 96600
CA, Gaël Dauphinais,65800
DE, Bernd Gleißner, 63400
PL, Adrian Ciszek, 60000
BR, Adolfo Pereira de Souza,55100
HU, László Kovács, 34200
NL, Remco, 30100
FI, Aaron Aalto, 20000
DE, Thomas Kohl, 15700
UK, Kevin Conway, 11900

Adolfo de Souza, BR

Adrian Ciszek, PL

Kevin Conway, UK

Remco, NL

Ramon, NL

Gael Dauphinais, CA

Bernd Gleibner, DE

Laszlo Kovacs, HU

Thomas Kohl, DE

Aaron Aalto, FI

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Prize pool for the final table

Place 1: $ 40,465
Place 2: $ 26,976
Place 3: $ 16,860
Place 4: $ 12,139
Place 5: $ 10,790
Place 6: $ 8,767
Place 7: $ 6,744
Place 8: $ 5,395
Place 9: $ 4,046
Place 10:$ 2,697

Final table at 00.00 for the IP Cup final.

Bubble: Mikael Rasmussen from DK goes all in with A8 preflop versus Ramon from NL.
Ramon calls the all in with Q4.

Flop comes: 9-J-10 turn 7.
Ramon has the highest straight and kicks out Mikael!

Mikael Rasmussen, DK
Official bubble of the IP Cup final, Hinterglemm 2009

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Update: 23.30 Bubble time!

Manuel Santos Benavides, ES finished 14
Marco portolani, IT finished 13
Jose Verissimo, PT finished 12

We still have 11 players in the tournament.
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Update: 22.45

Chipcount last 14 players at the IP Cup final

NL Ramon- 68500
UK Kevin Conway- 61500
DK Mikael Rasmussen-59600
DE Bernd Gleißner- 38800
HU László Kovács- 31100
FI Aaron Aalto- 29400
BR Adolfo Pereira de Souza-28800
DE Thomas Kohl- 25600
PT Jose Verissimo- 23600
NL Remco- 20700
PL Adrian Ciszek- 20500
IT Marco Portolani-18700
CA Gaël Dauphinais-18400
ES Manuel Santos Benavides-7600

Chipleader Ramon from the Netherlands

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Update: 22.30

Prince Avanu, DK finished 27
Francois Fournier, FR finished 26
Alex Toft Sorensen, DK finished 25
Miquel Alonso Fernandez, ES finished 24
Mathias Gaucher, BE finished 23
Stephane Latour, FR finished 22
Antonio Mainolfi, IT finished 21
Thomas Gardin, FR finished 20
Pieter Druif, NL finished 19
Achim Scheible, DE finished 18
Martin Ochner, DE finished 17
Marco Martini, IT finished 16
Nick Geesing, NL finished 15

We still have 14 players left in the tournament.

Today we will play till the last 10 players.

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Dinner break

The chipcounts:

DE- Bernd Gleißner- 77400 Chipleader
BR- Adolfo Pereira de Souza-38700
FI- Aaron Aalto- 31400
NL- Pieter Druif- 27800
NL- Niek Geesing- 25400
NL- Ramon- 24800
CA- Gaël Dauphinais- 23800
DK- Mikael Rasmussen- 23300
DE- Achim Scheible- 17500
IT- Marco Portolani- 13500
IT- Marco Marini- 12900
DE- Thomas Kohl- 12600
PL- Adrian Ciszek- 11300
HU- László Kovács- 11200
IT- Antonio Mainolfi- 11100
ES- Miguel Alonso Fernández-10900
BE- Mathias Gaucher- 10600
ES- Manuel Santos Benavides-10400
FR- Stéphane Latour- 9900
DE- Martin Ochner- 8800
UK- Kevin Conway- 8800
PT- José Verissimo- 8100
DK- Alex Toft Sørensen- 8100
NL- Remco- 7200
FR- Thomas Gardin- 6300

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Update: 18.00

Level 7
Blinds: 300-600, ante 50

We still have 27 players in the tournament

Markus Knoll, DE finished 35
Thierry Navarro, FR finished 34
Gavino Virdis, IT finished 33
Aydin Unsal, SE finished 32
Emilie Deleuil, FR finished 31
Tom Hering, NL finished 30
Stanislas Chevallier, FR finished 29
Pierre Legrand, FR finished 28

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Second break: IP Cup, Hinterglemm

Bernd Gleißner from Germany is the Chip Leader after the second break.
He has 32,500 chips

Pieter Druif from the Netherlands is the second one in chips after the second break.
He has 22,975 chips

Averige chips is: 13,325

We still have 34 players in the tournament.

Bernd

Pieter

Update 17.00 IP Cup, Hinterglemm

Roger Fischer - CH finished 39
Rinaldo Aquino- GB finished 38. Rinaldo was short stack and pushed preflop all in with pocket 4. KQ called. K on the turn, no help for Rinaldo.
Thomas Demaria- FR finished 37
Kaye Cedric- BE finished 36

We are currently playing in level 6
Blinds 200-400, ante 50
We have 35 players left in the IP Cup

3 players out of the tournament

It's now 16.25 and we just lost 3 players in the fifth level.

Blinds: 150-300, ante 25
Players left: 39

First player: place 42

Monika Kees from Germany has pocket J with 4,000 chips.
She raises pre flop to 1,500. Adrian Ciszek from Poland reraises her all in with pocket K.
Monika calls and is out of the tournament.

Second player Airfro finished at place 41.

Third player: Tsutomu Nagashima from Japan, finished at place 40.
Tsutoma has A-10 and goes all in versus A-J preflop.
Flop comes: 8-10-J.

Tsutoma

IP Cup trophy

IP Cup trophy

Two French players out!

We just lost Christophe Teyssonneyre and Adrien Kerrien both from France.
Christophe is the second player out of the tournament and Adrien is the third player out of the tournament.

We still have 42 players in the IP Cup final, Hinterglemm

First break: IP Cup final, Hinterglemm

Day 1
First break after 3 levels.
Starting chips: 10,000
Blind levels: 45 minutes
Blinds in level 4: 100-200, ante 25

Our chipleader after the first break:

Alex Toft Sorensen from Denmark
21,275 in chips

First player out!

After more then 2 hours of poker play, we lost our first player at the IP Cup final in Hinterglem.

Hans Geertsma from the Netherlands.

The hand: Hans (NL) versus Markus (DE)

Hans had QK. A King on the flop and on the turn gives Hans trips. Hans raises on the turn and gets reraised by Markus. Hans goes all in and Markus Knoll calls the all in with AK (trips higher kicker).

We still have 44 players left in the IP Cup final.

Hans Geertsma

IP Cup final, start day 1

A warm welcome from our tournament director:
Thomas Lamatsch

See the video:

The qualifiers by country:

45 players in total

BE Mathias Gaucher
BE Kaye Cédric
BR Adolfo Pereira de Souza
CA Gaël Dauphinais
CH Roger Fischer
DE Markus Knoll
DE Monika Kees
DE Martin Ochner
DE Airfro
DE Bernd Gleißner
DE Achim Scheible
DE Thomas Kohl
DK Mikael Rasmussen
DK Alex Toft Sørensen
DK Prince Avanu
ES Manuel Santos Benavides
ES Miguel Alonso Fernández
FI Aaron Aalto
FR Adrien Kerrien
FR Christophe Teyssonneyre
FR Thomas Gardin
FR Stéphane Latour
FR Pierre Legrand
FR Stanislas Chevallier
FR Francois Fournier
FR Thierry Navarro
FR Thomas demaria
FR Emilie Deleuil
GB Rinaldo Aquino
HU László Kovács
IT Antonio Mainolfi
IT Marco Marini
IT Gavino Virdis
IT Marco Portlani
JP Tsutomu Nagashima
NL Hans Geertsma
NL Niek Geesing
NL Pieter Druif
NL Remco
NL Tom Hering
NL Ramon
PL Adrian Ciszek
PT José Verissimo
SE Aydin Ünsal
UK Kevin Conway

The International Poker Cup, starts Thursday

The 50 players for Everest Poker's International Poker Cup will gather on Thursday (Jan 15th-18th) in the fantastic Alpine Palace 5* resort in Hinterglem, Austria to fight out this unique Cup of Nations.

Represented are:

1 Austria, 2 Belgium, 1 Brazil, 1 Canada, 2 Swiss, 7 Germany, 3 Denmark, 3 Spain, 1 Finland, 11 France, 2 Great Britain, 1 Hungary, 4 Italy, 1 Japan, 6 Netherlands, 1 Poland, 1 Portugal, 2 Sweden.

The money:
1st $40,465. 2nd $26,976. 3rd $16,860. 4th $12,139. 5th $10,790. 6th $8,767. 7th $6,744. 8th $5,395. 9th $4,046. 10th $2,697.

...and the venue!

EPEC Finale in Sardinia

May 8th - 11th this year will see the Grand Finale of the third Everest Poker European Cup and for those that don't know what its all about check out our video from last year in Villamoura, Portugal; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqI7QDuWgu8 & Barcelona in 2006; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snXAE_6bcd0

This year 200 poker players from all over Europe will head to the stunning coast of Sardinia at the Chia Laguna Resort and you could be one of them.

For a list of online qualifiers visit www.everestpoker.com but in the meantime here's a picture of the beaches of the Chia Laguna Resort - see you there!

Cold? Not for Cristiano!

Team Everest player, Cristiano Blanco, who finished 2008 with three final tables in as many months qualified for the PCA Bahamas to make sure the cold snap in Europe does not affect him. The event is taking place now at the world famous Atlantis Hotel.

Sadly, he went out at the end of the first day:

He was above average when after a raise in middle position, he re-raised from the button with AK suited (clubs) & his opponent called. The Flop gave K 4 8 with two clubs.

His opponent bet, Cris pushed all-in & his opponent called showing AA.

Turn and river with no clubs, and our man is gone.

Better luck next time.

Happy New Year!

2009 looks set to be a great year for poker fans at Everest Poker:

i) There is still time to qualify for the International Poker Cup (Jan 15-18) in Austria - where you can represent your country against players from all over the world & stay in a 5-star hotel

ii) You can also still qualify for EPT Deauville (Jan 21-25)

iii) Our brand new VIP Summit Club is now also in full swing - where you can convert up to $5,000 CASH from your points and recieve bonuses of up to 750%!

Good luck & Happy New Year from everybody at Everest Poker.