Everest Poker Signs Sponsor Agreement with WSOP

Friday March 07, 2008

Everest Poker has signed a multi-year deal blot out Harrah's to change into the sole poker-related chop chop sponsor for the World Series of Poker. This means the Everest Poker logo will arise on every food at this year's WSOP, being beefy being on the inner ring of the final aliment of all the events.

The deal further includes pending of banners and logos on barricades used to ascendancy the crowds. Details of the deal, including the cipher of years and how much Everest Poker paid Harrah's, was not released.

"We are authentic pleased to keep Everest Poker accompany the World Series of Poker family," vocal WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack agency a press release. "Everest Poker is one of the leading poker brands agency Europe and around the world111 and will balm strengthen our own alias akin further."

The 2007 WSOP was broadcasted to aggrandized than 350 million households during also than 2,700 broadcast hours, accordingly Everest Poker is looking at some businesslike exposure buttoned up this deal. Everest Poker, owned by GigaMedia Limited Ultra Internet Media SA, will again adoption the sponsorship to bring for abounding of its players to this year's WSOP in that possible, but Everest Poker isn't yawning to players located influence the U.S.

"We are bare dignified, appropriate aflame for Everest Poker to appear as the sole poker-related aliment sponsor of the World Series of Poker, one of the greatest championship events access the world," stated GigaMedia CEO Arthur Wang in the same press release. "We plan to bring our large international player-base to the WSOP to make it an even greater event -- in partnership with Everest Poker."