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 EPT SEASON 4
EUROPEAN POKER TOUR ANNOUNCES SEASON 4 DATES
Date: June 12, 2007
John Duthie, chief executive of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT), today announced the schedule for Season 4 of the EPT.
"The most exciting news for next season is that the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), to be held next January at the Atlantis Casino Resort in the Bahamas, has been added to the EPT schedule. The PCA, a hugely popular event, is now 'an official EPT tournament' and we are delighted to welcome it to our list of events.
Full information on this event will be available soon on the EPT.com website."
Season 4 of the EPT includes all the events which made Season 3 such a success, with record fields and sell-out tournaments across Europe. EPT Season 3 saw 3,483 players taking part, creating a total prize pool of nearly €27 million. Season 4 will starts in Barcelona in August, and new events are expecting to be added in due course.
Last season ended with the spectacular Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final, our biggest event to date, and the richest tournament ever held outside of Las Vegas. Gavin Griffin took the title of EPT champion, winning €1.8 million, after qualifying on PokerStars in a $240 Double Shoot-Out.
"We have raised the buy-ins across the board to €8,000. This decision is based on the limited number of people who can be accommodated at our EPT venues, and the fact that the €10,000 EPT Grand Final - our most expensive event - proved so popular," added John Duthie.
The schedule so far is as follows:
| VENUE |
CITY/
COUNTRY |
TOURNAMENT |
DATES |
BUY-IN |
CAP |
| Casino Barcelona |
Barcelona
SPAIN |
EPT BARCELONA OPEN |
August 28 -
Sept 1, 2007 |
€7,700 + 300 |
600 |
| Victoria Casino |
London
ENGLAND |
EPT LONDON |
September 25-29, 2007 |
£5,200 + 200 |
500 |
| Grand Casino Baden |
Baden
AUSTRIA |
EPT BADEN CLASSIC |
October 7-10, 2007 |
€7,600 + 400 |
400 |
| Royal Dublin Society |
Dublin
IRELAND |
EPT DUBLIN |
October 30 - November 3, 2007 |
€7,700 + 300 |
500+ |
| Atlantis Resort and Casino |
Paradise Island
BAHAMAS |
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure |
January 4-11, 2008 |
$7,800+200 |
No cap |
| Hilton Hotel |
Prague
CZECH REPUBLIC |
EPT PRAGUE |
tbc |
tbc |
500 |
| Casino Hohensyburg |
Dortmund
GERMANY |
EPT GERMAN OPEN |
February 5-9, 2008 |
€7,700 + 300 |
500 |
| Casino Copenhagen |
Copenhagen
DENMARK |
EPT SCANDINAVIAN OPEN |
February 19-23, 2008 |
57,750 + 2,250 DKR |
500 |
| Hyatt Regency, Warsaw |
Warsaw
POLAND |
EPT POLISH OPEN |
March 11-15, 2008 |
20,000 + 1,000 PLN |
TBC |
| Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort |
Monte Carlo
MONACO |
EPT GRAND FINAL |
April 12-17, 2008 |
€10,000 + €600 |
No cap |
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Online satellites for Barcelona EPT, the first event of Season 4, start on PokerStars on June 25, 2007. Players can also win EPT seats via the EPT Online festival currently running on PokerStars.
For further information, please contact Victoria Coxon at Jackie Cooper Public Relations, Victoria_Coxon@jcpr.com; / +44 20 7208 7216
PokerStars Facts:
PokerStars is the world's largest and most innovative online poker site with more than nine million players worldwide. PokerStars was the first site to introduce features that became the industry standard and offers the highest levels of security and customer support in the online poker world. To date, PokerStars has dealt out over ten billion hands and run more than 50 million poker tournaments, awarding well over $7 billion in prize money. PokerStars is the world's largest poker tournament room running over 50,000 tournaments every day. In February 2006, PokerStars.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the first poker website ever to reach the 100,000 simultaneous player mark. The PokerStars Sunday Million weekly event is the largest weekly tournament on the planet with a $1 million guaranteed tournament prize pool.
PokerStars is the title sponsor of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Each fall, PokerStars hosts the world's largest online tournament, the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), which last year featured a record prize pool of over $18 million. PokerStars also sponsors major events around the globe, such as the World Cup of Poker and other exciting tournaments. WSOP Champions Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem lead Team PokerStars and prove the PokerStars credo as the place "Where Poker Players Become World Champions.™ For more information, go to www.pokerstars.com.
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