Online Poker Room Recruiting 10 Poker Pros

The online poker room, Everest Poker, is seeking 10 new Poker Pros to represent their online poker room for 1 year in 8 major poker events. It seems Everest Poker doesn't just want skilled poker players - they're looking for that something extra!

The online poker room is currently holding qualifiers to narrow the list of potential Team Everest pros down to the top 20 competitors. Having proven their elite poker skills at that point, Everest Poker will then interview each of the top 20 poker players, cutting the field down to 10 exceptional players.

These 10 lucky poker pros will each receive a $100,000 contract with Everest Poker that will allow them entry to 8 major poker tournaments.

According to Everest Poker, while skills are definitely required, it is not enough. The online poker room is looking for players with integrity, personality and a true passion for the game.

Qualifiers have already begun as of this month, October 2007. Final auditions of the top 20 competitors are scheduled for March, 2008. The winners will receive the following poker event entries/prize package.

• European Poker Tour Season 4 Grand Final ($13,000 buy-in)
• World Series of Poker Main Event ($10,000 buy-in)
• Two World Series of Poker Side Events (2 x $2,500 buy-in)
• Two World Poker Tour Season 7 events (2 x $15,000 buy-in)
• Two European Poker Tour Season 5 events (2 x $10,500 buy-in)
• Plus $21,000 in cash for expenses

Total prize package value: $100,000!

Well Known Charities to Benefit from WSOP Win!

You might have guessed this years WSOP winner, Jerry Yang held it down at the final table, personally removing 8 of the 9 World Series of Poker final table contenders from the game.

Earlier I said perhaps it was skill, perhaps it was luck. Perhaps though, it was skill, mixed with a bit of good Karma ..

Jerry managed to fill in a gutshot straight draw in the last hand of the 2008 WSOP main event, a gutshot, meaning a six and only a six would win him the hand, and knock Tuan Lam out of the game.

Perhaps good deeds just do not go unrewarded, Jerry Yang previously pledged 10% of his WSOP winnings to three very worthwhile and well known charity organizations.

The Make a Wish foundation - Known for honoring wishes of dying children.
The Ronald McDonald House - Providing food and shelter to endless numbers of battered women and children.
Feed The Children - A Christian organization that provides food, medical care and educations to countless children world wide.

Jerry Yang, father of six, took home a prize of just over 8 million dollars ($8,250,000), knocking out Lam who won 2nd place in the tournament for a prize of nearly 5 million dollars ($4,840,981)

Raymond Rahme Busts out in 3rd, WSOP down to Heads Up Play!

The final four WSOP players played for eight hours before Alex Kravchenko finally busted out, swooping up a 4th place WSOP win, however, it took much less time to go from the final three, to heads up WSOP main event final table action!

Eight minutes in fact.

With an ace on the board, Raymond Rahme pushed all of his chips to the middle, Jerry Yang, who has been killing at this years WSOP final table, thought about the decision for a lot longer than many thought necessary, he held ace 5 and did eventually make the call. The turn and river cam blank and Raymond Rahme from South Africa ended his 2008 World Series of Poker adventure taking home just over 3 million dollars.

Be it luck, or be it skill, Jerry Yang has been burning up this years final table since taking his seat, of the 9 original final table contenders, only one of them was not removed by Yang.

The two remaining WSOP Bracelet contenders:

Jerry Yang in the lead with 104,450,000 chips and Tuan Lam with 23,025,000 remaining in WSOP tournament chips.

Alex Kravchenko eliminated from the WSOP in 4th

The final four players remaining at the World Series of Poker main event final table played for more then eight hours before one of them finally busted out. Alex Kravchenko was nothing if not patient, he got his chips in with a monster, big slick, and found himself up against, you'll never guess who, this years final table force, Jerry Yang.

To rub it in, fate layed down a third eight for Yang on the flop. The turn was no help, and left Kravchenko drawing dead at the river.

Alex won nearly 2 million dollars for his efforts, taking home a prize of $1,852,721.


Chip Counts after Kravchenko's departure:

Jerry Yang - 67,300,000
Raymond Rahme - 36,100,000
Tuan Lam - 24,075,000

John Kalmar Busts Out in 5th - WSOP 2007

Breaking News! Two WSOP final table players went all in, and Jerry Yang was not involved! The all in moment involved John Kalmar of the United Kingdom, and Raymond Rahme of South Africa.

Kalmar pushed his stack all in preflop, and was called by Rahme, who showed the same hand Yang took out Khan with, pocket jacks.

The fans went crazy, each shouting for their chosen player, the jacks held, and the Rahme fans raised the roof!

Kalmar didn't do to bad either though, being one of the final five at the World Series of Poker final table, he is the first to cash for more than one million dollars, taking home a total prize of $1,255,069. That win ought to make entry into the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) this September a pretty easy choice.

"It was so great," Childs said minutes after his elimination "The best day of my life is when I got married, and this is probably the second."

Childs was staked into the WSOP by his father, Bill who joined him from the rail at the event, not a bad investment at all.

Current Final Table Chip Counts:

Jerry Yang: $65,425,000
Raymond Rahme: $29,100,000
Alex Kravchenko: $17,950,000
Tuan Lam: $15,000,000

All soon to be millionaires.

Yang Still at it, Eliminates Hevad Rain Khan from the 2007 WSOP

Khan's exit from the World Series of Poker began when he pushed a $3 million chip bet into the pot from the small blind, Yang called. Rain Khan went all in .. in the dark, All in pre-flop, in the dark, at the World Series of Poker final table.

Khan pushed the remainder of his chips into the pot, before the flop even fell onto the table.

The Flop:

King of Clubs
2 Diamonds
4 Spades

Yang called the all in bet, and flipped over pocket jacks. Khan turned over his cards, showing the Ace of Spades and the Queen of Diamonds. Two overs it could have been worse.

The turn and river were both uneventful for the players, a 4 of clubs for the turn, a 3 of spades on the river, there was no screaming, piggy back rides for chairs, or invisible basketball games to follow this hand.

Remaining WSOP Final Table Chip Counts:


Jerry Yang: $73,040,000

Tuan Lam: $19,915,000

Raymond Rahme $15,955,000

Jon Kalmar $13,405,000

Alex Kravchenko $5,170,000

Second Lee Busts out of the WSOP

Lee Childs met the poker playing wrath of Jerry Yang. Jerry "The Juggernaut" Yang eliminated Childs in 7th place, this is the third player Yang has sent packing since the final table commenced, just 2 and a half hours ago.

Yang has played his large chip lead to the fullest, raising nearly every hand, calling nearly everything preflop.

In Child's last hand for the 2007 World Series of Poker, Childs bet out $720,000, moved was there, ready and waiting to move all in. Childs thought it over for some time, a little under 5 minutes in fact.

Holding the King of Hearts and the Jack of Clubs, Childs made the call, finding with relief I'm sure, that he had Yang dominated! Yang showed the Jack and Eight of spades. The flop came blank for both players, but brought Childs a runner runner flush option.

The Flop:

Six of Clubs
Four of Clubs
four of Diamonds

The turn, an 8 of clubs, bringing Yang a pair of eights, and Childs a flush draw with two over cards to Yang's pair. Any king, any jack, any club, would bring Childs a double up through Yang, any other card, brings him a cash prize of $705,229 and a spot on the rail.


The dealer turned over the 9 of diamonds, sending Childs on his way out of the 2007 Milwaukee's Best World Series of Poker.


Current Final Table Chip Counts:



Jerry Yang: $63 million
Tuan Lam: $20 million
Raymond Rahme: $17 million
Jon Kalmar: $16 million
Hevad Khan: $8 million
Alex Kravchenko: $4 million

WSOP Chipleader First to Bust Out of Final Table

Hilm, who began his poker play at the WSOP final table was the first to bust out of the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table. In less than two hours, Philip Hilm was eaten alive by the strong aggressive poker play of Jerry Yang.

The other WSOP final table players chose to stay tight, and let Yang do the work, and he did, pushing all in over and over again, taking down huge pots, and chipping away at the big stack brought to the table by Hilm.

Hilm decided to push back, can't have a monster every hand right? Only this time he did.

Yang bet out 1 million in WSOP tournament chips, Hilm and only Hilm called.

The flop:

King D
Jack D
Five C

Hilm checks, Yang bets 2 million. Hilm thinks his decision over for a minute, and then he calls.

The turn brought the 2 of hearts, Hilm checks again, Yang bets out 4 Million tournament chips, Hilm re-raises, all in.

With just a moments thought, Yang called, and turned over the ace of diamonds, and the king of spades. Hilm was definitely the dog, with just a pair of fives (8d/5d), and a flush draw. Hilm needed another 5, an eight for two pair, or any diamond to make a flush.

In the words of many poker players, "He had outs". The rail was quiet, the dealer paused a moment, and then flipped over both men's fate, the six of clubs, no help to Hilm, Yangs kings held up, and living proof, big slick can win. Hilm was eliminated from the WSOP in 9th place, with a total cash prize of $525,934. This hand left Yang with nearly a third of the remaining chips in play, a total of $45 million.

The next player to bust will take home $585,699.

World Series of Poker Bubble Playoff Winner Wins Seat, and a Year of BEER!

Franklin attorney, Lee Dryer will be a contender once again, in the 2008 World Series of Poker. Dryer was one of the nine players to finish just before cashing in the World Series of Poker 2007, as one of these near cashing players, Dryer became eligible to play in the WSOP "Bubble Playoff".

The last player to bust out of the tournament before payday, or before all players left become cash prize winners, is known as the "Bubble boy", the last player left in the game that will go home without a cash prize. Feeling their pain, the WSOP and WSOP Sponsor, Milwaukee's Best Light offer a second chance tournament, the winner of this tournament is able to drown his sorrows for the next year, in a years worth of free beer and then, will return to the next years WSOP tournament, with free entry.

Lee Dryer wasn't the bubble boy in this game, and hangovers preventing, he will be in attendance of the 2008 WSOP.

WSOP odds on Bodog!

Bodog.com offers 14 to 5 odds on Philip Hilm winning the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Of the nine poker players that will be seated at this years WSOP final table, Philip Hilm holds the most tournament chips, with a stack that totals more than 23 Million WSOP tournament chips. Philip and 8 other WSOP final table players together vie for a prize totalling $8,250,000, in adition to the famous, and highly coveted 2007 WSOP bracelet.

Bodogs odds makers are offering odds on all nine WSOP finalists, as follows:

Philip Hilm: 14/5
Tuan Lam: 17/2
Lee Watkinson: 17/2
Raymond Rahme: 7/1
Hevad "Rain" Khan: 7/1
Lee Childs: 8/1
Jerry Yan: 9/1
Alex Kravchenko: 9/1

The World Series of Poker Europe is going to London for the first time. September will bring the WSOP for the first time to the British Isle. This will be the first time the English players who are home bound will get the opportunity to play in the WSOP Europe.The excitement and planning are evident in the poker world and across Europe. Player anticipation builds as the summer overcomes the midway mark, and the WSOP main event in Las Vegas builds to the final table.

It is not the first time England is getting a major Poker Tournament. The World Poker Tour’s event “Poker in the Park”, at Leicester Square, drew many curious and poker fans. This gave the poker for entertainment players the opportunity join in mini tournaments, and to meet and greet the celebrity pros. This included WPT board members like Steve Lipscomb, and well-known professional Mimi Rogers. The city of London is often referred to as Europe’s premier poker destination.

QUICK! I need a hat, shirt.. tie.. sock.. Bodog Gear!

All Aboard the Bodog Bus!

Earlier this year Harrah's made an announcement that .net online gambling sites marketed towards American online gamblers would not be invited, or allowed to host player lounges at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Well we have to give Bodog props here, the online poker room definitely worked with their sour grapes, invented an awesome marketing strategy, and an experience poker players will remember. Mission accomplished, and without sharing any marketing dollars with Harrah's.

Bodog has introduced their new pimped out Bodog Players only bus! The sexy Bodog Players Lounge ... bus will be hosting the party in Vegas July 4th through July 17th, amongst the buses unique amenities are plasma televisions, drinks (what would a great big party bus be without liquor!), sexy Bodog poker mama's, PowerBooks (including net access).

If you played at Bodog poker, and earned your WSOP seat via one of their many satellite games, you'll automatically have an invite to visit the bus, as will your friends and family! For those of us not fortunate enough to actually be playing in the WSOP, sporting Bodog gear will get you in, which leads me back to the title of this Post, does anybody have some Bodog gear I can borrow!

WSOP Party #2 Sapphire Gentlemens Club!

The second party of the evening, a must attend, and we don't have tickets ... yet. I hear tickets are available at the bluff magazine booth, if we can snag 'em, we'll bring back all the memories and wsop party pics we can capture for 4flush readers!

Bluff magazine invited 175 players to what was last year the biggest party of the World Series of Poker! This years party is entitled "PlayersOnly Presents Bluff on the Strip".

Fitting title don't you think? A party held in one of the best gentlemen's clubs on the Vegas strip. Sapphire Gentlemen's club will be hosting PlayersOnly.com members along side of Bluff Magazine readers for the prestigious event.

Among those in attendance will be professional poker players, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Gordon, David Williams, Antonia Esfandari, Phil Gordon and Laak, Eric Lindgren, Gus Hansen, Mike Mizerachi and Mike Mizerachi, who was also in attendance last year.

During my online persual of gambling going's on (outside of the obvious world series of poker, and the Calvin Ayre show we are auditioning for) I read that there were still tickets left, just that they had to be obtained from the booth. It would be just to much fun to blog this event, so we deffintely plan to give it a shot! Wish us luck!

PlayersOnly.com presents
Bluff on the Strip
Thursday, July 5th
Open Bar 10 pm - Midnight
Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club, 3025 Industrial Road
(behind the old Stardust)
Shuttles from the Rio

PlayersOnly.com is owned by JASSY SPORTS EVENTS LTD, a Maltese company.

Viva Las Vegas!

Well we're off! Off to Las Vegas! We'll be there for opening day of the WSOP main event, as well as for the Calvin Ayre Auditions! We have plane tickets, we have a room, a cheap one, but a room none the less.

We're staying at a little hotel in Vegas called Arizona Charlies, there's three girls, and dad, had to bring someone along to keep us in line didn't we :P

Thanks so much to all of you that sponsored blog posts and bought links within the 4flush online poker network and sponsored our trip!

We plan to attend a couple of parties on the 5th, the night we're arriving, first up is the PSO (Poker Source Online) party at Hooters!



The info:


Poker Source Online is excited to announce our 2nd Annual WSOP Party in Las Vegas!!

We will have free Beer, Soda and Food for all to enjoy.

When: July 5, 2007 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm

Where: Hooters Casino, Las Vegas - The Iowa Room

If you have any trouble finding the Party, please ask one of the casino employees where the Iowa Room is located. Casino employees will not know the "PSO Party" specifically but they will know where the Iowa Room is in the Casino.

We've RSVP'd and so long as all goes right at the airport, we should be drinkin' free before by the time the sun goes down!

A big thank you to the guys at PSO for inviting us!

Katja Thater 2nd Woman Ever to win WSOP Non Exclusive Bracelet!

Katja Thater left the WSOP Razz Event with a new title - Second Woman ever to win a Non-Exclusive Bracelet Event. A woman is guaranteed to win at least one bracelet every year. Some one has to win the ladies event. This year Katja Thater has established another notch for women in the world of poker, by taking the bracelet in this non-exclusive event. The only woman to accomplish this before her was Annie Duke in 2004..

Players were in game until 4 a.m. on day one, and 3 a.m. on day two during one of the longest tournaments of the series. The final eight voted to return on day three to finish the tournament, originally scheduled as a two-day event.

The chip counts stood as follow when the final table opened:

1- O'Neil Longson with $385,500
2- St. Jean with $171,000
3- Denny Axel with $123,000
4- Katja Thater with $117,500
5- Paul "Eskimo" Clark with $88,500
6- Mark Vos with $84,500
7- Thomas Daubert with $54,500
8- Men "The Master" Nguyen with $35,000

The two short stacks, Daubert and Nguyen, traded places in the chip counts until Thater knocked both out on the same hand. Daubert finished in eighth place, and Nguyen moved up, based on starting chip count, to finish in seventh place. The next busted player was Vos, in sixth place, when his 9 low was undercut by Clark's 8 low. Nguyen and Vos were keeping the table light and laid back, so when they were both out, the game became more serious. Thater also knocked out the fifth place Axel when the sixth and seventh streets were paired against his hand.

Paul Clark overcame tremendous obstacles to make this final table. It was only days earlier that he had a stroke, and still entered the poker game with 340 other players to finish in the top 4. To see ‘Eskimo' return so quickly was a relief for the poker world as a whole.

Longson came in as the chip leader but could not capture another bracelet. After Longson was eliminated in third place, Thater and St. Jean were set up for heads-up play. After many hands back and forth Katja Thater finally overcame Larry St. Jean with 8-5-4-3-2. This made WSOP history, and ripples across the whole event.

Here are the final table results for the $1,500 razz event:

1- Katja Thater - $132,653
2- Larry St. Jean - $73,311
3- O'Neil Longson - $46,547
4- Paul "Eskimo" Clark - $31,186
5- Denny Axel - $24,204
6- Mark Vos - $18,386
7- Men "The Master" Nguyen - $14,197
8- Thomas Daubert - $10,473

Blair Rodman, Pro Gambler and Author Wins WSOP Bracelet!

Blair Rodman, professional gambler and author wins bracelet through a tough and varied sea of competitors.

In Las Vegas the winner of the $2,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em championship was Blair Rodman, professional gambler and author. This is his first WSOP win. The 53 year old has been playing in the tournament since 1982.

Rodman co-authored the popular book, "Kill Phil" which explains counterstrategies designed to beat the best poker players in the world. Rodman is also active on the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised "21" tournament.

Blair Rodman just about found himself out of WSOP. He was knocked out of the Omaha High Low from the previous date. He almost skipped the next day’s event because he was exhausted. "I got eliminated on late on the second day in Omaha," Rodman explained in a post-tournament interview. "I almost didn't play (in this tournament). If I would not have been knocked out of that Omaha High-Low event, I would not have been here. So, I guess getting busted in that event was a good thing!"

When the game came down to the final nine, Rodman was sixth in the chips stacks. With skill, he managed to survive and eventually took a decisive chip. The heads up play against Amato Galasso, a first time live event player, lasted for three hours. Through a series of see saw wins leaving Rodman to win the last pot of the night.

In his first poker tournament, Galasso won $448,808, a fantastic finish for a newbie to the world of live tournament poker.

A number of other notable events occurred in this game. Included in this Anna Wroblewski finished fourth, as the only the 6th women to make a final table appearance in an open event for the 2007 World Series. Katja Thater is still the only woman to win a gold bracelet this year in an open event.

In 9th place Mark McKibben, who entered the competition after winning a jackpot slots machine on this, his first visit to Las Vegas. The $2000 entry fee was posted with the winnings, and he continued deep into the game to finish with $42,655. That’s a vacation pay out many could enjoy.

T.J. Cloutier, a powerhouse in poker, finished in 17th place. He has won 54 WSOP cash payouts during his lifetime, including this match. This ranks him right behind Men Nguyen and Phil Hellmuth.

Even the entertainment industry did well in this match up. Jennifer Tilly, the oscar-nominated actress finished in 30th place. Rene Angelil, husband and manager of superstar entertainer Celine Dion, took 173rd place.

Many previous gold bracelet winners who finished in the top of this match up were – David Chiu (61), Rafe Furst (62), John Spadavecchia (107), Kirk Morrison (111), and James Mackey (138).

As the events approach their finish for the 2007 World Series, there have been new additions to the official ‘WSOP Millionaires Club”. Currently there are 88 players who have won each an excess of $1 million in lifetime earnings at the WSOP. The newest members to join this exceptional group of player include: Thor Hansen, Jeffrey Lisandro, Burt Boutin, Freddy Deeb, Bruno Fitoussi, Fred Goldberg, Hans Lund, Tony Ma, William Thorsen and David Singer. This is an accomplishment many will strive for in their tournament career ventures.