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Everest Poker WSOP 2008 Sponsorship Success

September 18, 2008

Everest Poker was hailed by poker pros for their World Series of Poker Sponsorship and was heralded a rousing success. As the World Series of Poker Main Event ended in Las Vegas in June, it was clear the alliance signed between Harrah’s Entertainment and Everest Poker was an immediate success.

Everest Poker is celebrating a record number of entrants during the first year of its sponsorship of the Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

This year’s World Series of Poker event saw a record breaking 58,720 people participate in the richest WSOP in history, with a prize pool reaching $180,676,248, making the Everest Poker sponsored WSOP the richest event in all of sports.

The deal between Everest Poker and Harrah’s helped the WSOP to attract a record number of non-American players by associating itself with a prominent European poker room. Players from 24 European countries attended this year’s event and Everest Poker provided its largely European player base with satellites to 28 side events and seats to the Main Event. There was a 36% increase year on year of the number of the number of countries participating and for the first time ever, four of the nine players in the Final Table of the WSOP are from outside the U.S.

A record 130 Everest Poker players attended the WSOP this year with four of them hitting the money. Voitto Rintalla, a rock star from Finland and Team Everest member, made the final table of Event 39 and took $57,000 back to Scandinavia. Daan Slutter, from Enchlade in Holland, managed to cash twice making the last 600 of the 6,800 entrants for the Main Event and taking home $31,000. Wooka Kim, Team Everest’s Japanese player also made the money at the Main Event coming 530th and winning $25,000.

The star of the Everest Poker players was Frenchman Sylvain Coeur who made it all the way to 140th in the Main Event, his first ever live tournament which he qualified for at the Everest and cashed in $41,816.

Everest Poker is now building-up to the Finale of the WSOP which takes place on November 9th, and will be broadcast on ESPN to reach an estimated global audience of 370 million worldwide. Everest Poker’s logo will appear on the inner rung of the WSOP feature table during all broadcasting, a first for a WSOP sponsor.

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Written by Rob · Filed Under Promotions & Tournaments 

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