The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour is Europe's richest and most popular poker tour and shortly to embark on its seventh season.

Season 7 will again feature 13 scheduled events with a debut event to start the season in Tallinn, Estonia, welcome returns to the golf haven of Vilamoura in Portugal, ‘EPT Snowfest’ in the stunning Austrian ski resort of Saalbach-Hinterglemm and Germany’s capital city of Berlin as well as spectacular “Festivals of Poker” such as EPT London, the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the EPT Grand Final.

Season 6 was a resounding success with many events enjoying bigger fields than ever before. The season's show piece tournament - the €10,000 EPT Grand Final - attracted 848 players with a prize pool of €8.48 million. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, which forms part of the EPT, was the richest tournament ever held outside of Las Vegas with a prize pool of nearly $15 million and EPT San Remo event in Italy was also a record-breaker with an astonishing 1,240 players.The total prize pool for EPT Season 6 was €56,672,284 created by over 9,000 Main Event players.

The EPT is filmed for television and the show is broadcast throughout the world. The series has been created and put together by a skilled team that includes:

John Duthie - CEO
John Duthie was already a successful TV director and high stakes poker player when he won the 2000 Poker Million live on TV, a feat which earned him £1 milion and helped popularise poker in the UK. In association with PokerStars.com, he launched the televised European Poker Tour in 2004 and has seen his brainchild flourish into Europe's richest and most prestigious poker circuit. The EPT show is broadcast to some 40 countries around the world.

Thomas Kremser - EPT Tournament Director
A recognised and highly respected director of tournaments across Europe. Thomas, CEO of TK Poker Events International, has been responsible for establishing and running numerous festivals around the globe. He was tournament director of Channel 4's groundbreaking Late Night Poker and various other televised tournaments and is heavily involved with the promotion of poker as a recognized sport around the world.

PokerStars
PokerStars.com is the world’s largest poker site with more than 35 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players with more daily tournaments than anywhere else with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars.com than any other site, that’s over 42 billion hands dealt to date and more than 304 million tournaments played.

PokerStars.com operates worldwide under the license from the Isle of Man Government. A recent addition to the PokerStars family, PokerStars.IT, operates in Italy under the Italian Government license.

PokerStars.com is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room’.

PokerStars.com regularly stages some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:

• The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is the premier yearly online poker tournament series in the world
• The Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP)
• The World Blogger Championship of Online Poker (WBCOOP)
• The World Cup of Poker a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation

PokerStars.com is the official sponsor of some of the biggest live poker tournaments in the world;

• The European Poker Tour attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
• The North American Poker Tour a new and exciting tour held in North America
• The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure staged on the shores of Paradise Island in the Bahamas is where thousands of players compete for a share of millions in prize money
• The Latin American Poker Tour unites the best players in South America
• The Asia Pacific Poker Tour does the same across the Pacific
• As well as regional tours; The Italian Poker Tour, The Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour and The UK and Ireland Poker Tour

PokerStars.com is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known as Team PokerStars.com Pro – a group of established and up and coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments. For a list of Team PokerStars.com Pros, visit http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/.

EPT theme tune
The theme music for the European Poker Tour televison show was written by composer Simon Darlow. Download "EPT Theme" (.mp3 format, 2.79MB)

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