European Poker Tour

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of major offline poker tournaments taking place in major european cities and being televised throughout the major european TV channels. The EPT consists of events at some of the most beautiful casinos in some of Europe's most historic cities. The EPT events have been developed and put together by a skilled team that includes John Duthie as the CEO and Thomas Kremser as the EPT tournament director. The EPT is sponsored and brought to you by Pokerstars, licensed in the European jurisdiction of the Isle of Man.

Pokerstars is undoubtebly the biggest online poker room in the world and one of the fastest growing in Europe. Regular Pokerstars players will know that they can qualify for the European Poker Tour via hundereds of online satellites and tournaments taking place on their website. The European Poker Tour (EPT) is filmed for TV and is broadcast on most major European TV channels and throughout the world. Each EPT broadcast is approximately 60 minutes long. The EPT is currently in its 7th season so look at for entries at the various online poker sites.

EPT website maintains a centralised player database. This database contains details about each individual player in the various events. Via the EPT website, users can search for specific players by name to see how they are performing in the various events. Information and player profiles is also included in the EPT player database.

How to Qualify for the European Poker Tour

One of the main ways to qualify for these events is via Pokerstars. For just a small investment, you can win your seat to an EPT event by playing in the hundreds of online satellite events taking place on the Pokerstars website. Players can even qualify for a free seat using their frequent player points they earn on pokerstars. Please their website on exact point requirements.

Another way to qualify for the EPT is via other online poker sites that have pre-brought tickets for the EPT events and are offering them up as prizes for their own online satellite events. There are literally atleast 50 other well know poker sites that participate in the various EPT promotions and events.

The events take place over 12 legs, each leg happens in one of the major European cities. The EPT website holds a constantly updated leader board of all particpants in the various events. Make sure to visit the European Poker Tour website to see the latest standings. The full results of each event are also published on the EPT website.

The European Poker Tour also gives out annual awards to top performing players. The main award to win is no doubt the EPT player of the year award. This is a hottely contested award with some major big name players up for contention. To get an idea on the type of prize pool is at stake in most of the EPT events, well know Welsh pro player Roberto Romanello won the EPT Prague in 2010 event. For a first prize ofstaggering €640,000 after beating Italian Emiliano Bono in a final heads-up table. As you can see, there is some serious money on the table in these EPT events.

Some useless trivia about the EPT: All the cards, chips and poker tables are sponsored by Fournier. We are told that the total budget for all the cards used at all the EPT events is nearly $500,000. Bet you didnt know that useless bit of information.

EPT Hotels

The folks at Pokerstars also came up with European Poker Tour Hotels, which is a convienient website where players and fans can book and plan their travel itineries around the major EPT events taking place. There are a number of player and spectator discount packages on offer so be sure to check out their website to plan your next EPT travel tour.