After a two-month break, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is back in action. The Tour remains in Spain, this time at the Casino Barcelona. Monday featured the opening of the EPT Barcelona Main Event and of the 726 entrants for the first starting flight, just 259 remain. Benjamin Chalot is the chip leader, bagging up… Read more »
After battling through two Day Ones and 922 entries, the Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s stop at the Casino de Monte Carlo has ended. In what was a stirring battle after a three-way chop for the money, Germany’s Manig Loeser emerged as the champion in defeating China’s Wei Huang and Hungary’s Viktor Katzenberger… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is enjoying their time at the Casino de Monte Carlo in Monaco this week, battling their way through their €5000 Main Event. The field has now been whittled down to the final 30 players, with Timothy Adams holding a slim lead over former EPT champion Nicolas Chouity. Working to the Final… Read more »
The latest event on the European Poker Tour, their former “season ending” event at the Casino de Monte Carlo, is off and running in the principality of Monaco. Starting off the festivities has been the €100,000 Super High Roller Event, which has played out its first two days on Saturday and Sunday. By the end… Read more »
Perhaps because of the remoteness of the location, perhaps because of the time of year (winter), perhaps because of the plethora of tournament poker in the States of America right now, the European Poker Tour’s stop in Sochi, Russia, didn’t get that much attention. The EPT did crown two new champions, however, in a High… Read more »
There’s plenty that people can complain about PokerStars for – their rake increases, the way that they messed up the European Poker Tour (don’t get me started) and other things – but every once in awhile they do get a situation right. Such a time arose recently in a PokerStars promotion which saw a competition… Read more »
It was a busy Sunday around the Casino Barcelona in Spain as the European Poker Tour concluded its stop on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean. In the €5000 Main Event, an online qualifier from Poland, Piotr Nurzynski, captured the championship while, on another patch of baize in the tournament arena, high stakes player Max… Read more »
After a lengthy slumber, the European Poker Tour is back into action at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. Holding their first events since their stop in Monte Carlo back in May, the EPT has wasted little time in getting to business, holding the first of two High Roller tournaments. There is plenty left on the… Read more »
Battling through one of the most difficult final tables in recent memory, Nicolas Dumont was able to vanquish several top professionals on his way to winning the championship of the European Poker Tour Monte Carlo in Monaco on Friday. Dumont was at the helm of the ship at the start of action on Friday, sitting… Read more »
The European Poker Tour kicked back into action in a big way on Saturday. At the Monte Carlo casino in Monaco, the Main Event for the EPT Monte Carlo opened the first of its two-Day Ones with a sizeable field and a player who sent players out almost as quick as they arrived. Bright and… Read more »
Only a couple of months after announcing his much-ballyhooed departure from PokerStars, French poker professional Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier has revealed his new online home. Beginning immediately, Grospellier will now don the patch of partypoker, the main rival of his old online home. “It is with great honor and pleasure that I can announce I’m joining… Read more »
After coming to the final table with a monstrous chip lead, Arseniy Karmatskiy completed the deal in becoming the first champion of the reborn European Poker Tour and winning the 2018 EPT Sochi Main Event in Russia this afternoon (U. S. time). Karmatskiy was a force on the felt through Day 5, dominating his opposition… Read more »
For those of us old enough to remember the original Dallas television show, we remember one season in particular. That season revolved around Pamela Ewing (played by actress Victoria Principal) after the death of her beloved husband Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy). In real life, Duffy had refused to sign a new contract with the show… Read more »
The PokerStars-sponsored European Poker Tour (EPT) just wrapped up its event in Warsaw last night. There were 217 entrants into the 21,000 PLN (approximately €5,200) event and when the smoke cleared, João Barbosa received the best birthday present imaginable, emerging as the champion and pocketing a €367,140 first place prize. Read more »
There were 531 players who took the field in the European Poker Tour's Hungarian Open tournament, held in Las Vegas Casino Sofitel Hotel in the Budapest. In the end, UK native Will Fry captured victory in the tournament as well as its €595,839 first place prize. Read more »
For the first time ever in its five year history, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is entering into Budapest, Hungary, for a slate of tournaments starting on Tuesday. Read more »
Jason Mercier, who has a championship already this year on the European Poker Tour, took down his second event in 2008 with his win in the EPT's £1 Million Showdown Monday evening. Read more »
After nearly ten hours of battle in the Grosvenor Victoria Casino poker table in London, American Michael Martin emerged victorious over an international field to capture the European Poker Tour's London championship. Read more »
At the start of the day on Saturday in the confines of the Grosvenor Victoria Casino in London, 32 players still had dreams of a European Poker Tour championship in their heads. At the minimum, some of the runners on Day Three would walk away with a minimum payout of $23,137, which led to spirited action throughout the day's play. Read more »
The European Poker Tour London event kicked off on Wednesday from the Grosvenor Victoria Casino on Edgeware Road. The starting field was just under 300 players and, at the end of the day, 77 remained. Read more »
Poker players who head to Nassau in The Bahamas for the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will have even more to look forward to. On Wednesday, the online poker room announced that the 2009 PCA will also feature $1,000, $2,000, $5,000 and $25,000 buy-in events. Read more »
Over the weekend, Sebastian Ruthenberg, a PokerStars sponsored player, made his employers proud by taking down the European Poker Tour's Barcelona event. He navigated the 618 player field en route to a €1,360,100 payday. Read more »
The European Poker Tour's Barcelona tournament is currently in full swing. The event began on Wednesday from the Casino Barcelona and will crown a champion on Sunday. Read more »
The 5th season of the EPT kicks off with the EPT Barcelona Open, and will see the presentation of the inaugural EPT Awards. Read more »
