French player wins Everest Poker Europe event

Everest Poker today announced the winner of the online poker room's first direct entry poker tournament for a seat at the upcoming World Series of Poker Europe main event, "jujumalo" from France. The WSOP Europe event is a six-day Ł10,000 No-Limit Texas Hold'Em Championship held on September 10th in London. The participating casinos are The Empire, The Sportsman and Fifty. The playing field will be consolidated beginning September 13 at The Empire.

"Getting to send our players to a historical event like the first World Series of Poker Europe event is fantastic," said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager. "We fully believe that the WSOP Europe is going to become a rival to its American counterpart very quickly."

We fully believe that the WSOP Europe is going to become a rival to its American counterpart very quickly.

France had the heaviest participation in this past weekend's tournament, with 107 players competing for the WSOP Europe seat. Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands also sent a significant number of players. The next WSOP Europe direct entry tournaments willl be held on Saturday, 4 August, 2007, and Saturday, 18 August, 2007. There is one guaranteed seat at the WSOP Europe main event per direct entry tournament and the prize package includes travel and hotel expenses, along with that famous Everest Poker hospitality.

"We look forward to seeing more players take a shot at winning a seat at the biggest European poker event so far," added May. "Our satellites for these tournaments start out low and give players with any size of bank roll the chance to win big!"

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