4 Strong in Event 54!

Four of our Everest players are left in Event 54 @ WSOP 2009 and comfortably in the money - make it a big haul guys!

Our team still playing with chip count:

ericxx1 150K (DE), Obelix260 (DE) 60K, HELIUMNL (NL) 53K, theBoney (NL) 33K. Average 45K

137 left & 2818 started.

GOOD LUCK!

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

More Everest Poker Qualifier Eliminations

Julien Lanne

Here are some recent Everest Poker Eliminations. It isn't all bad though, as these players did make the money:

Finishing in 268th place and taking home $2,769 is
Claude 'kaena13' Narcisse.

Finishing in 251st place and taking home $2,923 is
Julien 'skuff1818' Lanne

Finishing in 217th place and taking home $2,923 is
Antonio 'masteryowi' Maestro.

Finishing in 200th place and taking home $3,077 is
Julien 'Ace57' Andre

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Team Everest Pro Kim 'IceBeer' Wooka Eliminated from Event 54

Here is Kim Wooka's Bustout hand from the $1500 NL event #54:

Finding herself shortstacked with few big blinds to work with in her stack, Wooka pushed all in. Her opponent thought long and hard and clearly was concerned that his hand might be dominated, but nonetheless made the call, showing 77.

Wooka then flipped up AK offsuit, and a classic race was on. A suspenseful flop of 4-Q-J hit the felt, giving Wooka numerous outs, including any A, K, 10, or running cards. Unfortunately, an anticlimactic 7 hit the turn, giving her opponent a set of trips, and leaving Wooka drawing dead to a 10. The river was a 4, and Wooka was eliminated by a full house, sevens over fours.

But...she's $3,500 richer!

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Eric 'ericxx1' Knoedler Among Overall Chip Leaders!

Everest Poker German Qualifier Eric Knoedler has been making big moves all day, and has now not only overtaken the Everest Chip Leaderboard, but is 4th in chips overall!

This puts Eric in striking distance for the overall chip lead, and with only 235 players left, and the players all on the money bubble, we are excited to follow Eric as he narrows the gap between him and overall tournament chip leader Jon Christenson.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Current Everest Qualifiers Chip Stacks

Here is a quick snapshot from the Everest Qualifier Leaderboard:

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Frank Muller: Interesting hand ends in a chop

Frank Muller raised 3,800 pre-flop. The big-blind raised him back, and Muller called.

FLOP: 6d-Qc-10c

Muller calls, and his opponent checks.

TURN: Ah, and everyone checks.

RIVER: Jd. Big bet and a Call.

Muller shows the strong hand with Ks Jh, but it’s only good enough to tie when the big blind shows AcKc.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Julien Andre Hand Replay

Seat 6 raises to 3500. Julien Andre calls.

FLOP: 4c 7s 5c

Julien Checks. Original raiser bets 5500.

Julien mucks AJo angrily into the muck. Original raiser shows QQ.

He may have been upset at not connecting with the flop, but has to be happy to see that he made the right decision.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Remember to follow Everest_Poker on Twitter!

Be sure to follow Everest @Everest_Poker
on twitter!

Also, you can follow our qualifier progress from our chip updates leaderboard site at Everest Qualifier Leaderboard

There you will find the on-going progress of all our qualifiers left in the event. They are texting in their chip updates in real-time, so this is the main place to find updates on your Everest Poker family and friends.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Klaus Schwarz chipping up

Everest Poker German Qualifier Klaus 'Obelix260' Schwarz is among the first Everest players to start making lateral moves with his stack and positioning himself to have a big day.

While Obelix260 began the day sitting on $17,000, he has already more than doubled his stack within the first level of play.

Obelix260 is now sitting on $36,500, and seems to be enjoying his new found chips.

We will keep you updated on his progress as well as the rest of our qualifiers...

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

We are back in action!

Day 2 of Event 54 is underway, the cards are in the air, and we have a number of Everest Poker Qualifiers and Team Everest Pro Kim Wooka!

376 Runners began today, and we will keep you informed on the status of all our Everest Players.

Here is a look at some of the Everest Players still in the hunt:

Eric Knodler - $64,000
Marcel Magnante - $10,500
Bernard Van Dijk - $44,600
Antonio Maestro - $40,300
Kaj Emanuel - $39,700
Frank Philipp Muller - $25,200
Michael Tabarelli - $21,800

Everest Poker - WSOP Coverage Interview with Viktoria Szilasi

Interview with Viktoria Szilasi from HU

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Thibaut Durand Eliminated in 6th Place ($115,817)

Thibaut Durand is all in before the flop with Jh-7s and he is up against the Qd-7c of Steven Levy.

The board comes Ts-6s-3d-2s-Tc eliminating Durand from the tournament in 6th place.

Congrats Thibaut on a great run at the final table.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Team Everest Pro Kim Wooka doubles up

Kim Wooka's stack started to get a bit short, and she is not one to lay around and wait for the action to come to her, so she brought the action!

We picked up this hand preflop:

Kim Wooka moves all in short-stacked on the button over-the-top of a limper, and the limper calls after the blinds got out of the way.

Kim: K-T offsuit
Opponent: 5-5

Flop: 9-3-Q rainbow

Turn: Beautiful jack!!!

River: x

And Kim Doubles up and gets back into contention.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

6 remain and Thibaut still in the hunt for WSOP gold in event 51

Play has been somewhat conservative to kickoff the final table of event 51, yet they have still found a way to eliminate 3 people.

With 6 players left, Thibaut is sitting on 1,310,000, currently in 5th place.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Sergej Barbarez Eliminated

Unfortunately, not too long after our last post, Sergej was eliminated in what must have been a massive pot...we will try and get the details for you to come.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

German Soccer Legend Leading All Everest Qualifiers

Sergej Barbarez, known for his soccer skills moreso than his poker skills, has come to Event 54 to take on a leadership different from the green field he is used to playing on. Once captain of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team, Sergej is currently chipping up everytime our Everest Poker Reporting team passes by his table.

Sergej is currently stacked at 27,000 chips, which is good for 3rd in the Everest Poker runners, and nearthe top of the overall tournament leaderboard.

We will keep you updated on this exciting athletes table exploits while we leave you with a bit of background of his historic soccer career:

Before he retired from international football on October 13, 2005, Barbarez was the captain and leader of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.

On December 2, 2005, he announced his comeback to the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team and play in the EURO 2008 qualifiers. He became captain of the team once again.

On May 17, 2006, he signed a two-year deal with Bayer Leverkusen.

On October 12, 2006, Sergej Barbarez officially stepped down from playing for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Event 51 is Down to the Final Table!

Thibaut has made the final table of Event 51!

With the elimination of the 10th place finisher, players are now on a one-hour dinner break.

Thibaut is stacked at 1,420,000 which puts him comfortably in 3rd place.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Big Stack Kaj Emanuel chips up

Netherlands qualifier Kaj Emanuel has been involved in a majority of the pots over on table 41 of Event 54, here is a couple notable hands:

Kaj is seated in the SB. It is folded around to him, and he elects to raise the BB, who calls. Flop comes down Qh-Ac-2h, and Kaj his opponent both check. Turn is the Qd, and kaj bets out 3-quarters of the pot, and his opponent folds.

Very next hand, with Kaj on the button, seat 2 makes it 1200 with 150-300 blinds. Seat 3 calls, and Kaj calls on the button.

Flop: 4h-Qh-6d

Checked around.

Turn: 3d

Seat 2 bets out 1200, seat 3 calls, and Kaj also calls.

River: Ah

Seat 2 checks, Seat 3 fires 4100 into the pot, and Kaj and Seat 2 both fold. Seat 3 shows a bluff,pockets 5's and Kaj proceeds to raise and take down the next two pots.

Kaj has shown that he is not afraid to take control of this table, and we hope that his play will continue to yield positive results.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Notable Stacks from Event 54

Julien Andre holds big stack for Everest in Event 54

Event 54 is currently paying Level 6, with blinds at 150-300 with a 25 ante.

Here are some notable Everest Qualifier stacks through the first five levels of play:

Canada Qualifier Julien Andre - $19,800
Netherlands Qualifier Nicky Van den Biggelaar - $18,150
Netherlands Qualifier Kaj Emanuel - $16,600
Germany Qualifier Frank Philipp Müller - $12,900
France Qualifier Laurent D'ambrosio - $12,300

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Event 51 down to final 10!!

One more elimination and Thibaut Durrand will make the final table of Event 51...go...go...go!

Here is the Chip Counts and seats for the final ten players:

Final Ten Seating and Chip Counts

Seat 1: Owen Crowe - 1,150,000
Seat 2: Carsten Joh - 900,000
Seat 3: Steven Levy - 1,890,000
Seat 4: Jon Mazursky - 500,000
Seat 5: Jason Helder - 2,100,000
Seat 6: Thibaut Durand - 1,600,000
Seat 7: David Walasinski - 770,000
Seat 8: Georgios Kapalas - 1,680,000
Seat 9: Nathan Page - 246,000
Seat 10: Andrew Chen - 1,160,000

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 54

Event 54 is Underway!

One of the last remaining big field bracelets events before the WSOP Main event has begun! The event is playing host to a sold out ticket of 3000 runners, 130 of which were our own Everest Poker qualifiers.

Here are some pics of some of our qualifiers and their screennames you might better know them from:

Netherlands Qualifier Benjamin Rowzena "Mrjackdawson"

German Cladio Cambio "claududi"

Italian Qualifier Cristiano Gasparri "MezzaPaja"

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Viktoria Szilasi eliminated in 13th Place - $39,820

Viktoria Szilasi moves all in from the button and Steven Levy calls from the small blind. Szilasi shows As7c, however, Levy has her out-kicked with Ah8c .

The board comes Ad-Tc-2d-8d-2c giving Levy aces and eights to eliminate Viktoria Szilasi from the tournament in 13th place.

Steven Levy is now the chip leader with 2,050,000, with Thibau hot on his heels in 2nd with just over 1.8.

The players are currently playing at two six-handed tables.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Event #51 Update

We are losing players at a rapid rate and we are down to our final two tables!

With 17 players remaining, Thibaut is leading the pack stacked at 1,680,000.

Viktoria has increased her stack as well, and she sits 9th, right in the middle of the pack, with 490,000.

The players will be taking a short break at the end of this level before returning to action.

The average chip stack is 736,000.

Everest WSOP Coverage - Event 51

Event #51: $1500 No Limit Holdem Day 3 Update

Event 51 has just begun it's day 3 action in the Amazon room here at the Rio.

30 players began the day with blinds of 8,000-16,000 in the 21st level. The average chip stack is 417,000.

3 players have already been eliminated and Viktoria Szilasi and Thibaut Durand are still alive and healthy.

Viktoria is sitting on $339,000 and Thibaut is currently in the chip lead with over 1.6 million in chips. Stay tuned here as continue to bring you the updates on how our Everest players are faring.

Check out this exclusive interview with Thibaut we conducted earlier today:

WSOP Coverage by Everest Poker - Event #51

Update: 21:10

Tiago is out

Chip Count
98 players, blinds 2.000/4.000 ante 500

Steven - 140,000
Victoria - 240,000
Thibaut - 200,000

Victoria

Thibaut

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We have some great news!

Steven from the "Team Everest", Tiago Lopes from the Portuguese Everest Poker Team and Everest Qualifiers Thibau and Victoria from France and Hungary are in the Money!!!!

Congratulations guys!

Steven from "Team Everest" NL

Tiago Lopes from the Portuguese Everest Poker Team PT

Thibaut, Everest Poker Online Qualifier FR

Victoria Everest Oline Qualifier HU

WSOP Coverage by Everest Poker day 1

It's a special day for us, the Everest Poker Lounge open's today!
Also we have some players on the #51 event

Would you like to take a peek at the incredible Everest Lounge?

WSOP Coverage by Everest Poker

Welcome to the World Series of Poker!

Everest Poker is the official sponsor of the WSOP and starting tomorrow we will tell you everything about the "Team Everest" and all the Everest Poker Qualifiers.
This is the first video of many we will do from the Rio with our players.

You also can folow all the action on our Twitter page www.evpwsop.com

Stay tuned…

Cristiano Going Great at WSOP

Cristiano 'Lalanco' Blanco has followed his FOUR consecutive final tables appearances in Italy with two cashes at the WSOP!

57th of over 1,000 in Event 22 & 47th of over 600 in Event 26.

And the Winner is...

Vive La France!!!!

David Colin is the winner of the Spanish Poker Tour in Castellon!

It was an unbelievable tournament for David, he started the first day very well with a Straight Flush and he finished the tournament personally kicking out every single player on the final table!

For those that appreciate the the many skills involved in serious poker, watching David play was a genuine pleasure. We are delighted that he was wearing our colours and won his seat playing with us.

Congratulations, David, and see you at the next SPT in Vilamoura, Portugal!

Here's what he had to say:

The Winners of the Side Event and the Fun Event

Spanish Poker Tour - Castellon

The Spanish Poker Tour is back, this time we are in Castellon, the south part of Spain and right now all the players are back to the casino after a very nice morning in the beach, yes, in Castellon the temperature is 30 degrees!

Some of our Everest Poker Qualifiers

From Italy

France

The Netherlands

Spain

Italy

France

Everest Poker launches new player focused website

The official sponsor of the World Series of Poker(WSOP), Everest Poker, has redesigned their website to further incorporate their brand essence – Passionate About Your Game. Everest Poker is run by, and for, poker enthusiasts and therefore wants to place the player at the forefront of the website.

Players will find navigation simpler and be able to quickly see the latest offers and promotions available to them. The new site will also boast the addition of a stronger community section offering a greater transparency of the huge array of exclusive events and access to live action that only Everest Poker offer players all year round.

New EverestPoker.com:

• New look
• Better usability
• Easier access to promotions
• Improved ‘Help’

“We want our players to be able to choose & find their favourite games with ease as well as highlight the differences we offer; namely exclusive live tournaments, a genuine poker community or simply the additional financial gains available.” Sandrine Mangia-Park, Everest Poker Director.

Plus it’s your last chance to win a seat to the WSOP Main Event with a 5 seat guaranteed giveaway this Sunday (June 14th) at 18:00 GMT: www.everestpoker.com

Everest Poker Hungarian Freeroll Championship this weekend!

After 15 live and 60 online qualifiers, the $50,000 final of the Everest Poker Hungarian Freeroll Championship will be held this weekend at the Arena Poker Club in Budapest.

The 200 Hungarian poker enthusiasts will be divided up in to two groups of 100 to start playing on Day 1s on Friday and Saturday in this deep stack tournament. Day 2 will take place on Sunday, where at the end a new Hungarian Champion will be crowned!
Check out the live broadcast on the Everest Poker Hungarian Blog, that is, if you speak Hungarian!

Tv spot:

Free phone, free money, free friend, freaking everything!

We are now also offering all our WSOP Event 54 & Main Event Qualifiers their own mobile phone to update their stories, stacks and stats to their unique Twitter site.

The Everest Poker European Cup in Sardinia (May 8-10) saw, for the first time, a live tournament with every kick-out updated on Twitter so friends and family could follow the action. Now we’re taking it a step further allowing our qualifiers to Tweet their followers directly via their own phone on us.

Don’t forget Everest Poker Qualifiers also get to:

i) Share a $1,000,000 bonus. Any player who qualifies for the WSOP Main Event through WSOP Steps Sit & Gos and scheduled tournaments also qualifies for a share of up to $1,000,000! No catch, no strings just free money.

ii) Bring A Friend. Qualify to the Main Event with Everest Poker and invite a friend along for the ride - we’ll add $1,000 towards their airfare.

iii) Have The VIP Experience. Qualify with Everest and prepare to be treated like a poker superstar. Enjoy red carpet perks and backstage access, as well as entry into the Everest Poker Lounge, reduced room rates at quality hotels, limousine service to the poker room, our ultra-exclusive VIP party at PURE and our regular parties at the Everest Poker Penthouse in Caesar’s Palace.

Sandrine Mangia-Park, Everest’s Poker Director, commented: “It is unlike us to overhype promotions but it is hard to see anybody doing more for their players at this year’s WSOP. And as always - for those who didn’t qualify with us please come and join us in our lounge – we’re there for all poker fans.”

Full details on all Everest Poker’s WSOP promotions visit http://www.everestpoker.com/en/ or follow us at www.twitter.com/Everest_Poker. Players can also join the conversation by using the Twitter hashtag #EVPWSOP.

WSOP is here

You can't miss us if you're going & you can't miss us if you're following it!

Alec Torelli on the TV table with the 'Everest Poker Inner Rung'.