Everest Poker Celebrating

July 26, 2008

Everest Poker is pleased to announce that they are celebrating their first year of sponsoring the World Series of Poker. Their parent company, GigaMedia Limited, announced that they have successfully completed the first portion of the main event and would start showing it this week on ESPN.

With this being the first year that Everest Poker has sponsored the event, this is an especially exciting time for the company. The WSOP is the largest and richest it has ever been – with more than 58,000 players worldwide being involved. They have seen players from more than 100 different countries, up from last year’s numbers overall.

Once the poker games starting airing, more than 300 million households will be able to tune in and see all of the action for themselves. With Everest Poker being one of the most popular poker sites around, and having been names Poker Operation of the Year last year, it is no wonder that they would take on the mantle of sponsoring the most popular poker game around.

Everest Poker and Harrah’s Entertainment signed a deal this past March giving Everest a multiyear agreement to sponsor the WSOP. This will also give them satellite tournament rights as well as strategic brand placement. Not only that, but their logo will appear on every table in the competition and the inner rung of the WSOP feature table at the finals – something never done before.