LONDON, September 15 /PRNewswire/ -- September 21st sees Everest Poker launch the secondinstallment of their most popular promotion ever, Live The Dream. Live TheDream offers 10 real poker players the chance to become sponsoredprofessionals for a year with the chosen 10 travelling the world, playing inthe biggest events and a $100,000 sponsorship deal to their name.

Everest Poker does not sponsor big name players but insteadinvests in their own players, allowing them to develop and becomeprofessionals on the world stage in their own right. Last year saw three ofthe Live The Dream (Voitto Rintala, Steven van Zadelhoff, & Kim Wooka) becomeestablished members of the world poker circuit and as a result they werepromoted to full members of Team Everest. If you want to be next on that listhead to http://www.everestpoker.com/livethedream

As with last year the best 200 players will come for a livefinal at the Palais Auersberg in Vienna in January for a weekend of poker andthe unveiling of the final 10.

The 10 Live The Dream winners will represent Everest Poker atthe best tournaments in the world, including the World Series of Poker MainEvent as well as over $30,000 in traveling expenses. The package totals$100,000 for each player offering potential winnings of over $1 billion!

This year players can qualify in three different ways: (i) viatournament and Sit 'n Go leader boards: (ii) cash game leader boards, and:(iii) direct entry. This way we are giving all types of players a fair shotat getting to the finale. Qualifications are running weekly from September21st.

At the final itself players will be measured on a total of 100points: 55 points for poker skills, 25 points will be given by the EverestPoker player community and the last 20 will be allocated by our jury based onlive interviews in Vienna.

                          For further information please call:               Ed Pownall, Everest Poker Press Office (London), on                               +44-7825-064776