Everest Poker rewards its 10 best players with $100000 contract

EverestPoker.com has awarded ten of its most promising players with a $100,000 contract at the final of its Live the Dream event in Vienna, Austria. The players, most of whom learned to play poker or honed their skills with Everest and are active members of the EverestPoker community, competed against two-hundred other hopefuls in one of the most coveted poker events of the year to win a one-year sponsorship contract with the poker room.

More than 50,000 players took part in the Live the Dream qualifications running between September to December 2009. Qualified players were invited to talk about themselves and complete their profiles on a specially designed social media platform offered by Everest Poker.

Two-hundred players advanced to the final live event at the prestigious Palais Auersperg on January 9th and 10th, in where a judging panel comprised by players, press and poker professionals worked through a transparent scoring process to assess each player's qualities. Points were awarded for online poker skills, live poker ability, ambassador quality and a newly added criterion of popular voting. Players had access to the Live the Dream scoring breakdown throughout the two-day final event.

The ten finalists who won were Fabien "SchumyFab" Perrot, Leonard "leoledingo" Truche and Julien "Garrincho54" Claudepierre from France, Ronny "Spadesman" Pickard and Tobias "Tobestar11" Wagner from Germany, Koen "koendb" de Bakker from The Netherlands, Javier "elflacokanu" Martinez from Spain, Sigurd "TheBigViking" Eskeland from Norway, Thomas "DannyMcCoy" Froslev from Denmark and the only female winner Viktoria "SexyGirl" Szlasi from Hungary.

The 10 Live The Dream winners will represent Everest Poker at the best tournaments in the world for a full year including the World Series of Poker Main Event 2010, and will receive over $30,000 in travel expenses with packages totaling $100,000 for each player.