PokerStars have added an extra £250,000 to the EPT London prize pool with a guaranteed £1,000,000 for first prize, which makes this event one of the biggest EPT events ever. There is a special high rollers event named PokerStars £1M Showdown, which guarantees £1,000,000 prize pool! Satellites are available for this Showdown.
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The best European Poker Tour is ready for Season 5, with the next stop being London, taking place 1st – 6th October 2008, and then moving on to Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Deauville, Copenhagen, Dortmund and San Remo. With the Grand Final in Monte Carlo, between April 28 – May 3 2009.
This is the tour that creates instant millionaires as it travels on its path to to the Grand Final. The world’s best poker players will take their seats to compete for massive prize pools at the best locations in Europe. But the Grand Final in Monte Carlo boosts the largest prize pools of the tour.
Professional players such as four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein and Alex Kravchenko will be competing including female poker players Vanessa Rousso, Vicky Coren and Isabelle Mercier.
European Poker Tour – Season Five Update
PokerStars player Sebastian Ruthenberg won the first event in Season 5 which took place in Barcelona and Sebastian received €1,360,100 ($1,941,401) after knocking out 619 players. His stack was five times more that runner-up Fintan Gavin, who was taken down in minutes after Sebastian’s K-9 granted him the win in final hand. Also at final table was Season 4 EPT San Remo winner Jason Mercier – who almost won two EPT titles.
