Everest Poker is a UK poker room for players who prefer pounds. Texas holdem players from the United Kingdom never have to use anything but the Great Britain pound, although you’ll need to stipulate your cashout currency when it’s time for a withdrawal. If a player doesn’t, that person is likely to be paid in American dollars, which might include a special cheque cashing fee. As long as you make clear your preferences however, British poker players at Everest Poker never need to exchange another currency for the GBP. The gaming software used by Everest Poker is powered by the Grand Virtual Gaming Alliance.
Everest Poker is fully owned by GigaMedia Limited out of Taipei, Taiwan. Besides owning Everest Poker, Giga Media Ltd owns Funtown, a popular casual gaming site and social network in “Greater China”–that is, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Everest Poker was the sole sponsor of the 2008 and 2009 World Series of Poker, so any television viewers of the WSOP from those years are quite familiar with the Everest Poker logo.
Everest Poker Language Options
Everest Poker offers 14 different language options so players around the globe can enjoy Texas Holdem and other poker variations. The language options include English and Spanish, of course, but they also include Italian, Dutch, Magyar (Hungarian), Polish, Portuguese, Danish, German, French, Finnish, Swedish, Greek, and Japanese. This should give you a pretty good idea of the e-wallet and money transfer options, but I’ll discuss those in a minute. Anyone new to online poker should use the Everest Poker learning tools. These tutorial resources help you learn Texas holdem and Omaha quickly and flawlessly.
The Everest Poker Community
Everest Poker does a good job of encouraging a holdem community to build and participate on their website. Players are offered a poker community section where you learn about special events taking place on and off-site. Everest players also learn important poker news and interact with professional poker player from Team Everest. The “Flopping Nuts” section relates poker tips and strategy lessons from members of Team Everest, blogged by pro players like Steven van Zadelhoff, Thomas Froslev, Fabien Perrot, and Jilien Claudepierre.
Depositors $500 Freeroll
All first-time depositors receive enough Super eTickets to play the $500 freeroll which starts at 7pm GMT every day. Make sure you receive your 30 Super eTickets from signing up and making a deposit at Everest Poker. These tickets are your pass into the beginners freeroll. Super eTickets expire without 30 days, so don’t forget to utilize the freeroll pass.
$30,000 Daily Grand Freerolls
That’s only half of the $30,000 given away in freerolls every month. Everest Poker is dedicated to offering $1000 per day in freeroll prizes. The rest of the prize money is taken up by four $100 Texas hold’em freerolls held throughout the day. Two $50 Omaha tournaments are also played every single day. These are open to anyone, including the first deposit freeroll players. Continuing members have their own way of entering. Continuing players who play 5 days each week (beginning Monday and ending Sunday) receive 7 free Super eTickets.
Big Prime Freeroll – $75,000 Saturday Event
Those aren’t the biggest freeroll tournaments. Enter the Big Prime Freeroll satellite events and you can win your way into the $75,000 Big Prime event every Saturday at 3pm GMT. Collect 100 Summit points during a qualifying period or refer a friend to the Everest Poker website.
Big Prime
Every Saturday at 3pm GMT, you can use super tickets to enter the $75,000 Big Prime Tournament, where seventy-five thousand dollars are guaranteed to winners. You’ll need to buy-in with 1000 super points, though many players qualify through the satellite events.
Three x Three Tournaments
For those gamblers who never seem to have enough time on their hands (and who doesn’t), you can pay $30 to enter the three-by-three tournaments. You’re guaranteed 3 tournaments in 3 hours with a combined guaranteed $3,000 in prize money. These are quick-shot events akin to sit-and-go tournaments where you get a flurry of quick and dirty poker action.
Everest VIP Summit Club
The continuing player rewards program at Everest Poker is called the “VIP Summit Club”. This club offer comps and benefits to long-time players beyond the signup bonus. The Vip Summit Club offers cash rewards up to $5,000 a month, a weekly $3,500 Freeroll, priority customer service, and bonus summit points up to 900% a month. Your tier is set at the beginning of each calendar month. This tier is determined by how many points you earned last month. Players who ascend to the “Death Zone” or the “Summit tier” are guaranteed those positions for at least 3 months. Enroll at any time. It pays to earn points even for a few days at the end of a month, so don’t worry about which part of the month to join–simply join.
Everest Poker Bank Options
Everest Poker has a number of banking options. When making a deposit, you’ll need to use credit cards, NETELLER, Paysafecard, or other e-wallet payment methods. Bank transfers, cash, and cheques are not accepted for deposits. When you use credit cards or web wallets besides NETELLER and Paysafecard, the minimum deposit is $5.00. If you use Pay-Safe-Card, the minimum deposit stipulation is €10. If you use NETeller, the minimum payment is $10.
When making withdrawals, you’ll need to choose between an e-wallet or a cheque. Bank wire transfers, credit cards, and debit cards are not allowed for cashouts. Also, the minimum cashout is $50, so be sure not to leave less than $50 in your account when banking with Everest Poker. This brings me to an important tip for poker players from the UK.
UK Everest Poker Player Tip – Cashing Out
Everest Poker’s default currency for a withdrawal cashout is the US dollar. If you don’t stipulate which currency you want to be paid in, you’ll be issued American dollars. To minimize cheque cashing fees for US dollar cheques, Everest Poker does offer cashouts of the British pound and the Euro. Players in the United Kingdom (or elsewhere in Europe) will need to stipulate your currency when checking out.