European Poker Tour
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The European Poker Tour (EPT) began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold 'em popularity. It shows a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT).
The most significant difference between the competing poker tours is the buyin and its effect on the prize pool, with the EPT featuring buyins about half the size of the WPT. The resulting effect upon the EPT is that it has less "star power" and lower cash prizes. Nevertheless, winners of the first two EPT events took home prizes in the $100,000 range, lucrative enough to attract many top competitors.
Furthermore, the final table is made up of 8 players, as opposed to the 6 player final tables popularised by the WPT.
The EPT is sponsored by PokerStars.com and taped for television broadcast in the United Kingdom by Sunset + Vine and Channel 4 and the Netherlands by Veronica (television channel).
The tour was created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. Duthie commentates for the show, alongside Colin Murray. The show is hosted by Caroline Flack and Natalie Pinkham.
[edit] Notable players
Phil Ivey- Mike "The Mouth" Matusow
Mads Andersen
Patrik Antonius
Ingemar Backman
Andrew Black
David Benyamine
Tony "The Lizard" Bloom- "Barmy" Barny Boatman
- "Rocky" Ross Boatman
Noah Boeken- Jan "Le Grand" Boubli
- Patrick Bruel
- Garry "Whacker" Bush
- Neil "Bad Beat" Channing
Dave "El Blondie" Colclough- Victoria Coren
- Martin "The Knife" De Knijff
Ivo Donev- "Burnley" John Falconer
Tony G- John Gale
- Julian "The Kid" Gardner
Kirill Gerasimov
Michael Greco- Joe Hachem
- Gus "The Great Dane" Hansen
- Rob Hollink
- Paul "ActionJack" Jackson
- Christer Johansson
- John "Large" Kabbaj
- Yevgeny Kafelnikov
- Tony "tikay" Kendall
- Kathy Liebert
- "The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Lüske
Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier- Chris Moneymaker
"The Don" Donnacha O'Dea- Padraig Parkinson
- Pascal "Triple P" Perrault
Xuyen "Bad Girl" Pham- Greg "Fossilman" Raymer
- John Shipley
- Jani Sointula
Willie "The Dice Man" Tann- Mark Teltscher
- Julian "Yo-Yo" Thew
- Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott
- Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani
- Mickey "The Worm" Wernick
- Jeff Williams
Charalambos "Bambos" Xanthos- Wes Wyvill
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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