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PokerStars Announces Season 7 of European Poker Tour

PokerStars Announces Season 7 of European Poker Tour

Season 6 of PokerStars’ European Poker Tour just ended, and players can already start planning for season 7.
The next edition of the EPT will begin in August, with an event in Estonia. The series will consist of 13 events, with the grand final at a date and location to be determined. This season, it was [...]

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Max Lykov wins EPT Player of the Year

Max Lykov wins EPT Player of the Year

Russian pro Max Lykov, 22, winner of the very first event of EPT Season 6 in Kyiv, has won Player of the Year at the EPT Awards in Monte Carlo.
Lykov was already leading the race to be Player of the Year before the Grand Final. As well as Kyiv, he made the money in two [...]

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Pokerstars Qualifier Wins €1.7 Million At EPT Grand Final

Pokerstars Qualifier Wins €1.7 Million At EPT Grand Final

PokerStars qualifier Nicolas “niccc” Chouity has won €1.7 million at the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo after winning his seat in a $22 rebuy tournament on PokerStars.
Chouity, 23, from Beirut, Lebanon, dominated the final and eliminated all but one of his opponents. He beat Austrian Josef Klinger heads-up to win the [...]

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PokerStars qualifier Nicolas Chouity is chip leader for the EPT Monte Carlo final

PokerStars qualifier Nicolas Chouity is chip leader for the EPT Monte Carlo final

Nicolas Chouity, a 23-year-old PokerStars qualifier from Lebanon, is chip leader as the €10,600 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo goes into its final day.
Chouity, who won his seat in a $22 re-buy event on PokerStars, has been playing EPTs for the last two seasons and came 50th at last year’s Grand Final for a [...]

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Final 24 take their seats for EPT Grand Final Day 4

Final 24 take their seats for EPT Grand Final Day 4

American online pro Kevin Eyster is the chip leader as the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo goes into its penultimate day. He has 2,768,000 in chips and whatever happens to him today it will lead to a significantly bigger cash than his 133rd place finish at EPT San Remo last week.
All those still in [...]

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Moneymaker among leaders as EPT Grand Final goes into Day 3

Moneymaker among leaders as EPT Grand Final goes into Day 3

Team PokerStars Pro and former world champion Chris Moneymaker is among the chip leaders as the EPT Grand Final goes into Day 3. More than 400 players started the day and just 116 remain, all guaranteed a minimum payout of €15,000.
Moneymaker’s victory at the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2003 is widely credited [...]

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Stars thrive as EPT Grand Final goes into Day 2

Stars thrive as EPT Grand Final goes into Day 2

A host of stars are through to Day 2 of the EPT Grand Final including NHL legend and Team PokerStars SportStar Mats Sundin and PokerStars-sponsored British football icon Teddy Sheringham.
A total of 848 players entered the EPT Grand Final including 161 who won their seats to the €10,600 Main Event on PokerStars. They came from [...]

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Liv Boeree wins EPT San Remo 2010

Liv Boeree wins EPT San Remo 2010

It was an enthusiastic Liv Boeree, who last Thursday wrote to her Twitter followers that she had escaped through the eye of the needle in a € 500 satellite for this years EPT San Remo – her second EPT tournament ever.
Already last Saturday, she secured a multiple of its investment, but that it should go [...]

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Voting Open Soon Now For EPT Awards

Voting Open Soon Now For EPT Awards

With just nine days to go before the European Poker Tour Awards ceremony in Monte Carlo, it’s still a super-tight finish in nearly all categories.
Two awards are still wide open however, with voting kicking off today for both the EPT People’s Choice Award and the EPT Achievement of the Year. All EPT Season 6 Main [...]

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