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EPT - Pokerstars European Poker Tour
The EPT is Europe's premier poker tour and it's currently sponsored by Pokerstars. The Pokerstars European Poker Tour takes place all across Europe visiting Barcelona, London, Prague, Warsaw and Copenhagen to name just a few places. It attracts the biggest names is poker and generates some of the biggest live poker tournament prize pools around. The final stop on the EPT tour is in Monte Carlo, land of the rich and famous, where the grand final of the Pokerstars European Poker Tour is played and the biggest prize pool of the year is on offer. During the last season of the EPT prize money amassed to over $60,000,000 so lets just say if you make the final table of an EPT event then you are quids in!
Qualify For The EPT Online
You will be pleased to know that you can qualify for the EPT online at Pokerstars. There are numerous different satellites running to all the different events which usually have buyin between 5,000 and 10,000 euros. You can qualify online at Pokerstars for as little as $2.22 or just 111 FPPs. There are both EPT steps satellites and MTT satellites running all the time for players trying to qualify for EPT live events. You can of corse buy straight into any EPT event but that's going to cost you. Why not try to qualify cheaply at Pokerstars today?
If you don't manage to qualify for your chosen event then do not fear because Pokerstars run free live stream coverage of all EPT events via their website. Guest commentators include all Pokerstars pro's such as Daniel 'Kid Poker' Negreanu and world series of poker champ Greg 'Fossilman' Raymer.
EPT Satellites
As mentioned above there are many different EPT satellites running at Pokerstars throughout the year. One of the most popular ways to qualify for any live event on Pokerstars is via their steps satellites. These run pretty much the same as a regular sit and go would but instead of paying out cash they payout entry to the next step or if you are in the final step they payout a live event package. Usually step 1 will start with a $7.50 buyin and step 6 will have the live event package on offer. You can buy into most steps using cash as well as FPP's.
EPT MTT Satellites are slightly different and run at more sporadic times throughout the year. Often there will be 3 stages of EPT MTT satellites with the first stage having the lowest buyin. You can always buyin to the final MTT satellite stage but this will set you back around $700 if the package on offer is worth $10,000.
Latest EPT 2009 Tour News
The EPT's first stop was in Kiev with 296 players fighting for a first prize €330k. The tournament was won by Maxim Lykov
Baercelona saw the 2nd tournament in the series with 428 participants battling for a share of over €3 million.
730 players were in London for the EPT event which was won by Aaron Gustavson, taking home the first prize of £850,000.
Warsaw saw the 4th event in the EPT with 203 poker players lining up for the tournament which was eventually won by Christophe Benzimra.....
...and event number 5 was held in Vilamoura, Portugal where 322 players fought for a prize pool of around one and a half million Euros. The Vilamoura event was won by Antonio Matias who collected a first prize of €404k.
