EPT- European Poker Tour

The Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour (ept) began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold ‘em popularity. It is a series of televised poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT).

In seasons 1-3, the most significant difference between the competing poker tours was the buy-in and its effect on the prize pool, with the ept featuring buy-ins about half the size of the WPT. This changed in season 4 when the buy-in for most ept events was increased to €8,000. (Due to increased popularity and lack of space in participating casinos).^[1] At 2007 exchange rates, this is approximately equal to the US$10,000 which is the buy-in for most WPT events.

Furthermore, the final table is made up of 8 players, as opposed to the 6 player final tables popularised by the WPT.

The EPT is sponsored by and part owned by PokerStars and taped by Sunset + Vine for television broadcast across Europe.

The tour was created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. Duthie commentates for the show, alongside Colin Murray and James Hartigan. The show was first hosted by Caroline Flack, then joined by Natalie Pinkham. Season 4 of the show is hosted by Kara Scott.

Robbery

On March 6, 2010 4 masked men, armed with knifes and at least one hand gun robbed the EPT event in Berlin. According to the police, the robbers got away with € 240.000. No one was seriously injured, only one guard got a minor cut while trying to detain one of the robbers. The panic which gripped the crowd was briefly captured on video before the camera cut away.

Winners table

	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5	Season 6
Barcelona	Alexander Stevic	Jan Boubli	Bjørn-Erik Glenne	Sander Lyloff	Sebastian Ruthenberg	Carter Phillips
London	John Shipley	Mark Teltscher	Victoria Coren	Joseph Mouawad	Michael Martin	Aaron Gustavson
Budapest					Will Fry
Baden		Patrik Antonius	Duc Thang Nguyen	Julian Thew
Dublin	Ram Vaswani	Mats Gavatin	Roland De Wolfe	Reuben Peters
Prague				Arnaud Mattern	Salvatore Bonavena	Jan Škampa
PCA				Bertrand Grospellier	Poorya Nazari	Harrison Gimbel
Copenhagen	Noah Boeken	Mads Andersen	Magnus Petersson	Tim Vance	Jens Kyllönen	Anton Wigg
Dortmund			Andreas Høivold	Michael McDonald	Sandra Naujoks
Deauville	Brandon Schaefer	Mats Iremark			Moritz Kranich	Jake Cody
Vienna	Pascal Perrault
Warsaw			Peter Willers Jepsen	Michael Schulze	João Barbosa	Christophe Benzimra
Sanremo				Jason Mercier	Constant Rijkenberg
Monte Carlo	Rob Hollink	Jeff Williams	Gavin Griffin	Glen Chorny	Pieter De Korver
Kiev						Maxim Lykov
Vilamoura						Antonio Matias
Saalbach-Hinterglemm

Winners by country

Place	Country	Times
1st	United States	10
2nd	England	8
3rd	Germany	5
	France	5
5th	Netherlands	4
	Sweden	4
7th	Denmark	3
	Canada	3
9th	Finland	2
	Norway	2
	Portugal	2
12th	Lebanon	1
	Italy	1
	Russia	1
	Czech Republic	1

Up to Deauville 2010

See also

• European Poker Tour season 1 results
• European Poker Tour season 2 results
• European Poker Tour season 3 results
• European Poker Tour season 4 results
• European Poker Tour season 5 results
• European Poker Tour season 6 results

References

1. ^ EPT4 launch press release

External links

• Official site
• Season 6 schedule