Biggest European Poker Tournaments

European Poker Tour which is also known as the EPT is by far the most popular European poker tournament series. Having run already for over 5 years the tour has become hugely popular among poker players from all around the globe. These days it's not just the European poker players who participate in EPT, but also many poker players from America and Asia take the trip to Europe to play in these glamours poker events. We will bring you frequently updated news about the European Poker Tour, including the winners of the recent EPT events and lot more. European Poker Tour is sponsored by PokerStars.com

European Poker Tour buy-ins:

The EPT buyins currently range from 5,000 euros to 10,000 euros per main event. The biggest tournament of the season is always the EPT Monte Carlo which ends the season and has a 10,000 euro buyin. If those buy ins feel too big for your bankroll, but you still want to take part somehow in the EPT events they usually have multiple side-events in which you can usually play for 500-2000 euro per event.

European Poker Tour events:

The most popular EPT events are the Barcelona (which usually starts the EPT season around August-September), Copenhagen, London, Monte Carlo and also San Remo. Weirdly enough there is currently one event on the EPT calendar that is not even played inside Europe, the PCA event takes places at the Caribbean. For the 2009-2010 EPT season two new events were added: EPT Moscow and EPT Portugal.

Poker player with most EPT cashes:

Currently the poker player with most cash scores in the EPT tournaments is Italian Luca Pagano.

EPT Season 5 winners:

EPT Barcelona: Sebastian Ruthenberg  (Germany) 1,361,000€

EPT London: Michael Martin  (United States) £1,000,000

EPT Budabest: William Fry (England) 595,840€ 

EPT Poland: Joao Barbosa  (Portugal) 367,140€

EPT Prague: Salvatore Bonavena (Italy) 774,000€

EPT PCA:    Poorya Nazari (Canada) $3,000,000

EPT Deauville: Moritz Kranich (Germany) 851,400€

EPT Copenhagen: Jens Kyllönen  (Finland) DKr6,542,208  

EPT Germany:   Sandra Naujoks (Germany) 917,000€  

EPT San Remo:   Constant Rijkenberg (Netherlands) 1,508,000€

EPT Monte Carlo:   Pieter De-Korver (Netherlands) 2,300,000€

EPT Online satellites:

Most of the big online poker sites have satellites and other promotions for the EPT tournaments. The satellites to certain EPT tournament usually start running couple months before the event takes place.