If there is the World Series of Poker or WSOP in the United States, its counter part in Europe is the European Poker Tour series. It is like the WSOP in Europe. The EPT is Europe's richest poker tour - with tournaments televised for broadcast throughout the world. Season 4 attracted nearly 6,000 entrants, with more than 1,600 seats won online. EPT is sponsored exclusively by PokerStars which is the biggest online poker site.
After having started in 2004, while seven Texas Hold’em No Limit poker competitions broadcast on TV all around Europe, European poker tour or EPT has become Europe’s largest, richest, and most popular poker competition series. The tour rivals the poker tournament series events in America and like WSOP, attracts the biggest and popular names all around the world.
The European Poker Tour has grown to its status right now alongside the also growing popularity of poker as a game. The first event, which happened in Barcelona Spain required one thousand Euros to be able to enter, it had two hundred eleven poker players and a total poker pool prize of just two hundred twenty nine thousand Euros. The European Poker Tour series season 3 Grand Finals acquired a buy in of ten thousand Euros and it attracted seven hundred six poker players, making a poker pool prize of six million six hundred thousand Euros making the said European Poker Tour series one of the richest poker tournament held aside from Las Vegas.
The European Poker Tour also made its events in London, Copenhagen, Dortmund, and Warsaw. The main event of the EPT is ten thousand Euros buy in tournament, held annually in Monte Carlo. The overall champion in the European Poker tournament series is crowned the European Poker Champion. People who have played in the European Poker Tour series will tell you that it is a very special event and will surely satisfy anyone who would want to join.
EPT started in 2004 and is another example of the rising worldwide popularity of the Texas hold’em. Just like the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour Series is being showed on television with a series of poker tournaments. One difference is that the European Poker Tour Series has buy ins half the amount in the World Poker tour, which in turn affects the poker pool prize. The finals tables in the EPT are 8 which makes it different from other popular poker tournaments. |
