Sam Trickett Signs with Everest Poker Sam Trickett Signs with Everest Poker
Key Takeaways
  • UK professional poker player, Sam Trickett has signed on to be the brand ambassador for Everest Poker.
  • Trickett will bring fans closer to the professional poker player experience by blogging and creating videos documenting his poker exploits.
  • Fans will also have a chance to win a piece of Tricket’s 2014 WSOP action. Ten percent of his winnings in the bracelet event he enters will be made available through Everest Poker. The One Drop event is excluded.

UK professional poker player, Sam Trickett has signed on to be the brand ambassador for Everest Poker.

“Trickett will work with the Everest Poker team in London to ensure the customer offer remains one of the strongest in the market,” according to a press release issued on Monday. “He will also attend Everest Poker Live events, where players will have the opportunity to receive personal coaching from him.”

Trickett will bring fans closer to the professional poker player experience by blogging and creating videos documenting his poker exploits.

Fans will also have a chance to win a piece of Tricket’s 2014 WSOP action. Ten percent of his winnings in the bracelet event he enters will be made available through Everest Poker. The One Drop event is excluded.

“We want to encourage players to get behind Sam’s quest for a first bracelet this summer,” Des Duffy of Everest Poker commented about the WSOP promotion. “With Sam’s consistent record of cashing at high profile tournaments there could be a huge amount of value on the table.”

“I’ve promised my mum a bracelet and will be doing my very best to score big for everyone who’ll own a share in me,” Trickett added.

Trickett has nearly $20 million in live tournament earnings with his biggest score of over $10 million coming as a result of his second place finish in the WSOP’s Big One for One Drop in 2012 Trickett only trails Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Antonio Esfandiari on the all-time money list.

Everest Poker opened in 2004 and moved from its independent poker room to a top tier skin on the iPoker network in November of 2013. Everest also moved its regulated French site to iPoker.FR where it helped propel the network into 4th place in the French market.

“Everest is a great poker brand and I will be doing everything I can to make it one of the most recognised in the world,” Trickett said.