Everest Poker names tournament winner

MONTREAL, Quebec -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The world's fastest growing online poker room, Everest Poker, announced last Sunday's winners of their weekly $100,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament. As always, the event featured a direct buy-in of $100+9 and satellites for interested players that start at $11+1.

"977 participants competed last week for their portion of $100,000 and the competition was fierce as ever," said Jonathan May, Everest Poker property manager, "a real passionate poker player's game. This is what our online poker room does best and will continue to do each week, bringing in a diverse set of players from Europe, Asia, and South America to participate in this exciting online event."

Swedish player xRaySpex was the top winner this week, claiming $20,000. Players from Netherlands took home 2nd, 6th and 9th place: Daries $12,000; nielis $3,750; MrCabdriver $1,500. Players from France finished in 3rd, 5th, 8th and 10th place: rod23 $9,000; paulmurielle $5,000; peggyb $1,750; KKROJB $1,250. Italian player, parpa, finished in 4th with $7,000 in winnings, while Spanish player, morpheo, won $2,570 and 7th place.