European Poker Tour: Let’s go Barcelona!
After the tour de force in Las Vegas, where the WSOP 2008 just took place, the next poker event of the year is The European Poker Tour.
A series of major live poker tournaments in Europe, the European Poker Tour kicks off in September 2008 in Barcelona, Spain with the first of nine events scheduled from September 10 to the 14, and it culminates in a Grand Final event hosted at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco in the beautiful French Riviera.
Texas Hold’ em poker players, poker fans and journalists from all over the world will all gather for season 5 of one of the biggest , hottest, and most televised European poker event. Launched in 2004 as the answer to a stunning increase in interest in poker games like Texas Holdem, The European Poker Tour was a huge success right since the beginning, immediately becoming the premier host for major European poker league.
With rising buys-in and lucrative pots, today the EPT is viewed as one of the world’s most prestigious poker tournaments alongside the World Poker Tour. It gathers the crme de la crme of the poker players, and it takes place in some of Europe’s most historic cities and casinos, including Barcelona, Prague, Copenhagen, London, Warsaw, San Remo and Monaco.
All EPT tournaments are No Limit Texas Hold’em, with a buy-in of $8000 for the vast majority and a buy-in of 10,000 for the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. So, as the Spaniards would say “Que vivan los juegos de cartas!
