Merry Christmas from Everest Poker!

The entire staff of Everest Poker wishes you Merry Xmas and the best hands in 2010!

Alpine cash race: Apres ski!!

Everest Poker spent a great weekend in the snow with some of its best cash game players. Rake-free tables were provided every night at the luxurious, 5-star Alpine Palace in Hinterglemm in the Alps, as well as fun activities in the snow and Apres Ski in the legendary "Goasstall."

Hear gdbj from Sweden about his poker online experience in the Alps:

On Saturday evening Everest Poker went to the legendary Goasstall for the Apres Ski!

View from the Hotel

And the winner is..!

And the winner of the Montesino Grand Slam is:

Stefan Jedlicka - congratulations!

And congratulations to Dietmar Schmidt from Berlin - 3rd place and 50.000 Euro!

Well done :)

Stefan - our Montesino Grand Slam champion 2009!

Dietmar Schmidt - our freeroll qualifier from Berlin!

Montesino Grand Slam — LIVE

Kenny and Alexander out!

Unfortunately Kenny and Alexander got kicked!

Kenny had to push since he was short stack. His 88s mets Alexanders A3 suited - the Ace hit the turn. Alexander went All-In with his big stack and got called from Stefan Jedlicka. Stefan hit the nut flush already on the flop.

Congrats anyway - well played!

Current status:

Level: 25
Blinds: 12000/24000
Ante: 3000

Kenny Hallert up for an Interview!

Like Alexander!

Berbera - our Everest Poker employee from the Netherlands and commentating the live stream!

Dietmar Schmidt! Last man standing!

Montesino Grand Slam - Final table!

We have our final table!

Unfortunately Fabian got kicked - but hes really happy with his: €8000 earnings!

Fabian happy :)

Final table

Money money money!

Nice!

Alexander Harrer checks the time!

Dietmar Schmidt from Berlin counting his chips!

Close to the final table!

We reached level 23!

11 players remaining

Blinds: 8000/16000
Ante: 2000
Average: 430000

Alexander doubled up - which is great! 500.000 Chips

Everest Poker players seem to rule the Grand Slam! GO GO Go!

Alpine cash race: winter wonderland!

Herzlichen Wilkommen in Hinterglemm!

This weekend the beautiful 5 star hotel Alpine Palace transformed into a real Everest 'Poker Palace'.
Everest players from all over Europe including guests enjoyed the rake free cash games, good food and snow fun!

This literally 'cool' event started Friday the 11th of December and will continue until Sunday the 13th of December.

Everest not only organized rake free cash games but also set up a real sledge competition, skiing experiences and of course, the legendary Apres Ski!

Everest ski experience

Skiing

Prost!

Sledge competition with Gluhwein

Sledge

And tonight: Apres ski!!

Ask us!

Questions about the players?
Any questions about the Grand Slam or about Everest Poker?

Just write us an e-mail: livestream@pokertronic.de

We will give our best to answer your questions and to provide you with the information LIVE on STREAM!

Grand Slam - Day 4 - last 2 tables!

Day 4 of the Montesino Grand Slam just started!

Today we will find our Champion, until there it will take a while. We will keep you updated and provide you with latest news!

The very best of hands and luck to our qualifiers:

Fabian Kaufmann (Germany)
Kenny Hallaert (Belgium)
Dietmar Schmidt (Germany)
Alexander Harrer (Austria)

Feature table!

Grand Slam - Day 3 Chip Counts

Rank/Name/Surname/Chip Count/Table/Seat
1 Jedlicka Stefan 668.000 38/9
2 Spinnrock Karsten 611.000 FT/2
3 Bös Alexander 570.000 38/5
4 Kikovic Nebojsa 491.000 FT/6
5 Judet Antoanell 455.000 38/4
6 Chornyi Mykola 362.000 FT/1
7 Schmidt Dietmar 340.000 38/2
8 Maurizio Sepede 281.000 38/8
9 Woppel Robert 252.000 FT/3
10 Braculj Marko 205.000 FT/5
11 Hallaert Kenny 182.000 FT/4
12 Berg Tobias 176.000 38/7
13 Harrer Alexander 171.000 FT/9
14 Leanyfalvi Zoltan 160.000 38/1
15 Kaufmann Fabian 121.000 FT/8
16 Vikor Daniel 99.000 FT/7
17 Praschk Thomas 14.000 38/6

Thats it for today!

The tournament director just decided to stop the Montesino Grand Slam for today! 10 hours of playing should be enough. Time to recharge the players batteries!

Tomorrow we will continue at 2pm and go for the final table!

Remaining players: 17
Level: 19
Blinds: 5000/10000
Ante: 1000

Ofc you can follow us LIVE again on the Everest Poker Blog!

Cu tomorrow and have a good night

Everest Poker Team

Team Everest's Kim Wooka is out

Unfortunately Team Everest's Kim Wooka is out of the Montesino Grand Slam.

Kim called JJ with A-10. She was short stack and had to push. Congrats to Kim for a great tournament and for cashing €3000!

Money money money!

We found our bubble - that means Kim, Dietmar, Kenny, Fabian and Alexander are in the money! Well done guys :)

Time for another chipcount before we are going into a break and grab some food!

Current Level: 16
Blinds: 2500/5000
Ante: 500
Average Stack: 190.000

Kim could triple up: 110.000 chips
Kenny: 300.000 chips
Dietmar: 260.000 chips
Fabian Kaufmann: 250.000 chips
Alexander Harrer: 190.000 chips

Go Go Go!

Montesino Grand Slam - Day 3

Day 3 of the Montesino Grand Slam just started!
Today we will play down to the final table.

Level: 15
Blinds: 1500/3000
Remaining players: 47
Average Stack: 107.000

Remaining players: 47

Team Everest's Kim Wooka is actually short stack - 32.000 chips.

She soon needs to push! Go Kim Go!

Kenny Hallert (Belgium) our online qualifier is the current chipleader with 300.000 chips, which is great!

But not only Kenny is doing great - lets take a look at the other Everest Poker qualifiers. As usual Everest Poker is well represented till the end :)

We have at the feature table: Lukas Fronszyk(Germany)

Dietmar Schmidt (German7)- 90.000 Chips, and live freeroll qualifier from Berlin!

Fabian Kaufmann (Germany) - 63.000 chips, from the poker online portal poker.com and online qualifier!

Alexander Harrer (AUT) - 140.000 chips - live freeroll qualifier from Linz

The best of hands and luck to all of you :)

Montesino Grand Slam — Day 2 — Thats it for today!

The tournament will continue tomorrow at 2pm!

Good news: Team Everest's Kim Wooka doubled up - 54.000 chips now
Average stack - ca. 85.000

56 players remain - check the latest chipcount:

238100 Jedlicka Stefan
233100 Legath Philipp
195700 Berg Tobias
193700 Judet Antoanell
192200 Zack Daniel
154600 Naumann Marcel
153500 Hallaert Kenny
153500 Bös Alexander
150300 Toth Richard
146600 Hammerschmidt Peter
143600 Leanyfalvi Zoltan
141600 Harrer Alexander
135000 Blomie Mikal
132200 Casagrande Harald
125800 Praschk Thomas
125800 Schmidt Dietmar
125500 Fronczyk Lukas
125000 Parlafes Dany
121500 Hegedus Emil
120400 Kaufmann Fabian
118600 Suki Florian
113700 Krause Andreas
113600 Skrivan Markus
110500 Vikor Daniel
97400 Janda Ilse
94000 Calonnec Franck
85500 Kikovic Nebojsa
84900 Zhou Au Fa
79500 Braculf Marko
77700 Breitfuß David
76200 Dokovic Mihael
67000 Weiss Karl
63500 Cetindag Tezar
62500 Woppel Robert
62100 Kammerer Mario
60500 Bachelet Laurent
59800 Maurizio Sepede
58200 Carmelo Romeo
53800 Kim Wooka
52800 Racz Csaba
52000 Chen Banane
49600 Kollmann Erich
46400 Führer Martin
44800 Chornyi Mykola
41500 Paulsen Kai
41300 Al-Jaff Camaran
40000 De Vivo Francesco
39600 De Vries Richard
39000 Jefri Islam
37200 Fiore Lorenzo
26000 Grau Marcus
10470 Kim Lo

Cu tomorrow!

Team Everest's Steven van Zadelhoff is out!

Unfortunately SPT Grand Finale Champion Steven van Zadelhoff got kicked. Kim Wooka is the only remaining player from Team Everest left now. Shes doing fine - with 45.000 chips right now. Go Kim Go!

Lets take a look at 2 of our online qualifiers - they are actually playing a really good tournament!

Lukas Fronzyck (GER) - 75,000 chips
Alex Harrer (AUT) - 130,000 chips

Current level: 11
Blinds: 600/1200
100 Ante
Average stack: 53,000

Lukas

Alex & Kim

Now we are on a break! After 60 mins we will play the last 2 levels for today!

Maria and Machou out!

Unfortunately Maria and Machou got kicked out!

Maria squeezed with AK and got called from JJ. No Ace no King!

Machou had to push All-In since he was short stack. He got called from JJ as well. No Ace, No Queen.

Right now we are at:

Level: 9
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 75
Average: 43,000
Remaining players: 132

Meanwhile:

Kim Wooka: 52,000 chips
Steven van Zadelhoff: 18,000 chips

Kim & Steven stay focused!

Montesino Grand Slam - Day 2!

The Montesino Grand Slam - Day 2 is about to start.

Unfortunately Antoine and Voitto are out but good news as well: our Everest Poker freeroll qualifier Alexander Harrer from Germany is the current chipleader!

Lets take a look on the chipcount!

Chipcount

116800 Harrer Alexander
92650 Weiss Karl
91800 Prask Thomas
71850 Winterberger David
69175 Mühlbeck Peter
68475 Franzczyk Lukas
68375 Hammerschmidt Peter
67250 Caron Bruno
62675 Legath Philipp
60200 Schmidt Dietmar
59956 Fleichhacker Johannes
59775 Suki Florian
57000 Wooka Kim
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28225 Sun Yaodong
28125 Barbarez Sergej
27900 Kammerer Mario
27875 Nehmet Peter
27725 Retter-Haas
27675 Kikovic Nebo
27375 Grasu Alin
27225 Cetindag Tezer
26750 Manhertz Andreas
26600 van Zadelhoff Steven
26225 Carmelo Romeo
26225 Takals Roland
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14900 Kleinlerchner Christian
14900 Herold Julian
14275 Debus Frank
14250 Hartmann Sven
13650 Karl Gunther
13325 Calonnec Franck
12650 Maceiras Maria
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7225 Schneider Richard
7200 Kövelses
4225 Ugolini Michele
3475 Fuchs Markus
2950 Uwai Qiang
2250 Ghaouti Machou

Today we start at:

Level: 7
Blinds: 200/400
Remaining players: 167
Average stack: 30900

Go Go Go!

Antoine is out!

Our players need to charge their batteries and get going! Team Everest's Antoine Saout just busted a few minutes ago on the TV table with 5c6c vs KcQc on the flop… Flush vs flush. Sick hand that kicked the 3rd place finisher of the 2009 WSOP Main Event out of the tournament!

Meanwhile:

Kim Wooka: 46,000
Maria Maceiras: 18,000
Steven van Zadelhoff: 18,000
Machou: 7,000
Voitto Rintala: 6,000

Go EVP winners go! We still have level six to go tonight. Average stack is 26,735 and there are still 195 players in the tournament… Que sera sera?

Montesino Grand Slam prize structure!

Montesino Grand Slam
Prize structure:

1. 131.720 Euro
2. 75.080 Euro
3. 50.060 Euro
4. 40.040 Euro
5. 32.540 Euro
6. 27.520 Euro
7. 22.520 Euro
8. 17.520 Euro
9. 12.520 Euro
10. 9.000 Euro
11. 8.000 Euro
12. 7.000 Euro
13. 7.000 Euro
14. 6.000 Euro
15. 6.000 Euro
16. 5.000 Euro
17. 5.000 Euro
18. 5.000 Euro
19. 5.000 Euro
20. 4.000 Euro
21. 4.000 Euro
22. 4.000 Euro
23. 4.000 Euro
24. 3.000 Euro
25. 3.000 Euro
26. 3.000 Euro
27. 3.000 Euro

Montesino Grand Slam Day 1 —Short break!

Level: 3
Blinds: 75/150

Chipcounts:

Steven van Zadelhoff: 21.000
Maria Maceiras: 19.000
Machou: 14.700
Voitto Rintala: 20.000
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Sergej: 23.000

On break:
Kim Wooka & Antoine Saout

Montesino Grand Slam - Day 1!

The tournament director has just pronounced the magic words to start Day 1 of the Montesino Grand Slam. We have 260 players sitting at the Casino Montesino tables, with a 20,000 chips start stack.

Blinds 25/50 and 60 minute levels. Sitting at the TV table we have our Team Everest's Voitto Rintala. Don’t miss him and the other Everest team members/qualifiers(34)!

Good luck to all off u!

Tournament area

Antoine Saout

Voitto Rintala

Kim Wooka

Machou

Steven van Zadelhoff

Maria Maceiras

Sergej Barbarez (famous german soccer player and friend of Everest Poker team)

Thomas Kremser playing the Grand Slam

Jesus Montez

Montesino Grand Slam Finale - LIVE!

We are live streaming all the action from the Montesino Grand Slam!!!

Don’t miss the chance of following the Grand Slam live on the Everest Poker Blog from December 9th to 12th:

If you follow the live coverage of the Montesino Grand Slam, you may participate in the Grand Slam Freeroll that will take place next Sunday, December 13th at 18:00 GMT (19.00 CET), and play for your share of a $2,000 prize pool. The password for this freeroll will be published every half hour during the streaming!

Best of luck to all our Everest Poker players!!!