EPT Announces Partial Season Six Schedule
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour today released the dates for the first seven stops on the upcoming EPT Season 6 schedule. The EPT has become the world��s largest traveling poker tour, in terms of both overall players and prize money, and is expected to include a record 13 different stops, including the new EPT Moscow, which kicks off the Season 6 schedule in August. PokerStars has also begun online qualifiers for the new EPT Kiev stop, beginning today. The complete EPT Season 6 schedule to be released in the near future.
The EPT��s rise to prominence over the past five years mirrors the climb of its sponsoring site, PokerStars, in regards to online poker. Last year��s fifth season of the EPT saw approximately US $77 million paid out to participants, with the EPT stops themselves drawing nearly 8,000 entrants. In Season 6, the EPT introduce extended ��Festival of Poker�� visits at many of its venues, including ��high rollers�� and other events.
According to EPT CEO John Duthie, ��This year��s EPT will be bigger and better than ever, kicking off in August in one of our new scheduled destinations �C magnificent Moscow in Russia. Overall, the tour will visit an unprecedented thirteen countries - an increase of four events on top of last season. As well as Russia, the tour will include new stops in Portugal this November and other destinations to be announced shortly.��
The first seven stops on the European Poker Tour��s Season 6 schedule (amounts shown are US$ buy-ins for championship event at stop):
*August 18-23, 2009:
EPT Kiev Open (Kiev, Ukraine) �5,000
September 4-9, 2009
EPT Barcelona Open (Barcelona, Spain) $11,590, 700-player cap
October 1-7, 2009
EPT London Open (London, England) $8,370, 800-player cap
October 20-25, 2009
EPT Warsaw Open (Warsaw, Poland) $6,460, 400-player cap
November 17-22, 2009
EPT Vilamoura (Vilamoura, Portugal) $7,400, 600-player cap
December 1-6, 2009
EPT Prague Open (Prague, Czech Republic) $7,400, 600-player cap
January 4-14, 2010
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (Nassau, Bahamas), $10,600, 1600-player cap
* �� schedule change announced July 24
