Everest Poker Review

Summary:
This is our Everest Poker review summary. Everest Poker is newer than most poker sites, but they already have a big player base. They focus on providing an easy to use poker site to a variety of geographical regions. Fast, loose games and great promotions have encouraged a worldwide poker audience to start playing at Everest Poker.

Everest Poker Player Base

Everest Poker is a new poker site, but they already see 15,000 players at peak times. (Since Everest Poker has a large European player base, peak times for that site are in the evenings in Europe, not the USA.) Everest Poker only offers two poker games, Texas holdem and Omaha. The key to their success has been their ability to market poker to a global audience. The Everest Poker site is available in sixteen languages, including Japaness and Hungrian. This is all the more surprising as the game selection of this site is limited to Texas Holdem and Omaha.

The players at Everest Poker are loose and inexperienced. High stakes tables are available, but almost all of the action at Everest Poker can be found at the lower limit tables.

Everest Poker Software

The Everest Poker software downloads quickly, but it lacks the slick design and graphics of some of their competitors' software offerings. The software is easy to use though.

The Everest Poker lobby has four tabs:

Texas holdem
Omaha
Tournaments
Sit n Go's

Clicking a tab will bring up additional options to choose from, like betting structures and stakes. The list of tables displays the percentage of players who see the flop and the average pot size. You can click on the "spanner" sign in the lobby to build a custom list of preferred tables. These preferences are saved for future visits.

The graphics of the tables are plain, but the side to top view makes the table look more like a live poker table. Players' cards are smaller on Everest Poker than on most other sites, but the tables can be resized to make multitabling easier.

Everest Poker Cash Games

Texas holdem is available in limit, pot limit, and no limit versions. Omaha is available, but not Omaha 8, and it's available in limit and pot limit versions.

The blind structure for no limit games at Everest Poker is unusual. The small and big blinds for most games are identical, so instead of a $1/$2 table, you'll find a $1/$1 table or a $2/$2 table. Stakes are available from 2c/2c up to $50/$50. Most of the traffic can be found playing 50c/50c or $1/$1.

Full tables accommodate ten players, short handed tables accommodate six, and heads up tables are also available.

Fixed limit games at Everest Poker offer traditional blind structures, starting at 2c/4c and going up to $20/$40. Most of the limit players are found playing $2/$4 and below.

Pot limit Omaha cash games at Everest Poker have identical blinds, while the fixed limit games have traditional blinds. The Omaha tables see little traffic. Stakes start at 2c/2c and 2c/4c going up to $20/$20 and $30/$60.

Everest Poker Tournaments

Most tournament action at Everest Poker happens at lower buy-in Texas holdem events. Everest Poker offers fewer poker tournaments than most other online poker sites. The poker tournaments they do offer include guaranteed prize pools, rebuy tourneys, and satellites to live poker events like the EPT. Occasional Omaha tournaments are also available.

Everest Poker also offers a promotion called the "Everest Poker Live the Dream" contest. Ten winning players can win the chance to live like poker pros and represent Everest Poker at WPT and EPT events for a year. The "Everest Poker Live the Dream" package is estimated to be worth $100k. Satellites for this run daily starting with buyins as low as $3+ 30c.

Sit and go tournaments are available at Everest Poker starting with buyins as low as 4c and going up to $200+$15. The sit and go's are available for ten players, six players, or heads up. Texas holdem sit and go tournaments are available in limit and no limit versions, and Omaha sit and go tournaments are available in limit and pot limit versions.

Everest Poker Bonuses And Promotions

New players at Everest Poker receive a 100% matching bonus on their first deposit of up to $100. This bonus is cleared by earning "Summit Points". Each "Summit Point" is worth 7 cents toward clearing the bonus. Tournament (and sit and go) fees award 8 points per dollar – this is a 56% reduction in fees while clearing the bonus.

Everest Poker also runs freerolls which can be bought into with Summit Points. These include satellite qualifiers to both the larger buy-in internal tournaments and live events like EPT tournaments.

Everest Poker Customer Service

Service is only available via e-mail at Everest Poker. However this covers all of the 16 languages supported by their client and comes with a reputation for fast and knowledgeable responses.

Everest Poker Banking

Everest Poker use a 3^rd party payment processor ‘Internet Billing Services’ to handle transactions. Payment options include: Neteller, Click2Pay, Visa, Mastercard, Moneybookers and PaySafeCard. Local options for the Chinese market are also available. Deposits can be made in Dollars, Euros, British Pounds, Yen and more.

Finally

Don't let the ugly software run you off. Everest Poker is a great site at which to play if you like lower stakes Texas holdem games. If you're looking for higher limits or a bigger game selection, choose another site.