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Celebrities and Poker Pros to Battle for Expected GBP4 Million Prize Pool at PokerStars.com EPT London Poker Festival
LONDON, September 21, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
The PokerStars.com [http://www.pokerstars.com/uk ] European Poker Tour
(EPT), Europe's richest and most popular poker tour is coming to London this
month. In its' eight year history, almost 40,000 players have hit the felt,
and the EPT has paid out over GBP200 million in prize money. In August this
year, the EPT Barcelona event broke all previous records and became the
largest live poker event ever held in Spain with 811 players taking their
seats to play for share of the GBP3.5 million prize pool. The EPT London is
set to continue this record-breaking trend with the prize pool expected to
exceed GBP4 million.
Celebrities such as ex-tennis star and professional poker player Boris
Becker, model, presenter and previous EPT title winner Liv Boeree, and well
known broadcaster, journalist and 2006 EPT London winner Vicky Coren will
sit down alongside the biggest names in poker, all eager to pick up the
title and first prize, which is set to hit the GBP1 million mark for the
first time ever.
The 7-day long poker festival presented by PokerStars.com, will offer
players some of the best quality tournament poker action in the world. There
are 31 events on offer, including the European 8-Game Championship, the No
Limit Hold'em Women's Event, the two-day long GBP20,000 buy-in High Roller
tournament and of course, the coveted EPT London Main Event.
This year also marks the first ever EPT London Quest, an exciting
competition run through Twitter where one lucky player will win a seat in an
EPT London side-event tournament. Poker fans will need to follow the account
@PokerStars and hashtag #EPTQuest from 8.30am on Sunday 2nd October for
clues for a password and details of a secret central London location. Once
they crack the code and turn up to the location, they will need to correctly
say the password then play and win a 5-minute heads-up tournament. Win the
tournament, and they will receive one of nine golden chips to enter a live
game against the other eight winners. The champion of this table will take
their seat at the "No Limit Turbo - Win the Button!" tournament at 8.00pm
the same day.
Last year the record-breaking PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Main
Event was the biggest poker tournament ever held in the UK, attracting 848
players. It made David Vamplew the highest-earning Scottish poker player
ever with an amazing GBP900,000 first prize.
The PokerStars.com EPT runs from September 30 - October 6, 2011 at the
Hilton London Metropole Hotel in central London. A full schedule of the
events is available here: EPT Schedule
[http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/london ]
A hi-res photograph of Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree can be found at:
http://wtrns.fr/aLePPoGQbBe0Ic
Please credit all insertions with the following: (c) ZoeMcConnel /
JoshBaskin.com
About PokerStars:
PokerStars operates PokerStars.com [http://www.pokerstars.com ], the
world's most popular online poker site, and serves the world's largest poker
community, with more than 47 million registered members. It's the first
choice of the world's top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere
else, and with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on
PokerStars.com than any other site; that's over 67 billion hands and more
than 430 million tournaments played.
PokerStars.com operates worldwide under license from the Isle of Man
government. Recent additions to the PokerStars family include PokerStars.fr,
which operates in France under the French government license, as well as
PokerStars.it, which operates in Italy under the Italian government license,
and PokerStars.ee, which operates in Estonia under the Estonian government
license.
PokerStars.com stages some of the biggest online poker tournaments in
the world, including the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the
Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), and is the official sponsor of
some of the biggest live poker tournaments in the world, including the
European Poker Tour (EPT), the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and the
UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT).
PokerStars.com is also home to a team of sponsored players known as Team
PokerStars Pro. This elite group of players travel the world competing in
international tournaments.
More information can be found at: http://www.europeanpokertour.com/
[http://www.europeanpokertour.com ] or contact Charley Grafton-Chuck on
+44(0)2070 332 660 cgrafton-chuck@uk.peppercom.com
Source: PokerStars.com
.
Celebrities and Poker Pros to Battle for Expected GBP4 Million Prize Pool at PokerStars.com EPT London Poker Festival
LONDON, September 21, 2011/PRNewswire/ --
The PokerStars.com [http://www.pokerstars.com/uk ] European Poker Tour
(EPT), Europe's richest and most popular poker tour is coming to London this
month. In its' eight year history, almost 40,000 players have hit the felt,
and the EPT has paid out over GBP200 million in prize money. In August this
year, the EPT Barcelona event broke all previous records and became the
largest live poker event ever held in Spain with 811 players taking their
seats to play for share of the GBP3.5 million prize pool. The EPT London is
set to continue this record-breaking trend with the prize pool expected to
exceed GBP4 million.
Celebrities such as ex-tennis star and professional poker player Boris
Becker, model, presenter and previous EPT title winner Liv Boeree, and well
known broadcaster, journalist and 2006 EPT London winner Vicky Coren will
sit down alongside the biggest names in poker, all eager to pick up the
title and first prize, which is set to hit the GBP1 million mark for the
first time ever.
The 7-day long poker festival presented by PokerStars.com, will offer
players some of the best quality tournament poker action in the world. There
are 31 events on offer, including the European 8-Game Championship, the No
Limit Hold'em Women's Event, the two-day long GBP20,000 buy-in High Roller
tournament and of course, the coveted EPT London Main Event.
This year also marks the first ever EPT London Quest, an exciting
competition run through Twitter where one lucky player will win a seat in an
EPT London side-event tournament. Poker fans will need to follow the account
@PokerStars and hashtag #EPTQuest from 8.30am on Sunday 2nd October for
clues for a password and details of a secret central London location. Once
they crack the code and turn up to the location, they will need to correctly
say the password then play and win a 5-minute heads-up tournament. Win the
tournament, and they will receive one of nine golden chips to enter a live
game against the other eight winners. The champion of this table will take
their seat at the "No Limit Turbo - Win the Button!" tournament at 8.00pm
the same day.
Last year the record-breaking PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Main
Event was the biggest poker tournament ever held in the UK, attracting 848
players. It made David Vamplew the highest-earning Scottish poker player
ever with an amazing GBP900,000 first prize.
The PokerStars.com EPT runs from September 30 - October 6, 2011 at the
Hilton London Metropole Hotel in central London. A full schedule of the
events is available here: EPT Schedule
[http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tournaments/london ]
A hi-res photograph of Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree can be found at:
http://wtrns.fr/aLePPoGQbBe0Ic
Please credit all insertions with the following: (c) ZoeMcConnel /
JoshBaskin.com
About PokerStars:
PokerStars operates PokerStars.com [http://www.pokerstars.com ], the
world's most popular online poker site, and serves the world's largest poker
community, with more than 47 million registered members. It's the first
choice of the world's top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere
else, and with the best security online. More hands have been dealt on
PokerStars.com than any other site; that's over 67 billion hands and more
than 430 million tournaments played.
PokerStars.com operates worldwide under license from the Isle of Man
government. Recent additions to the PokerStars family include PokerStars.fr,
which operates in France under the French government license, as well as
PokerStars.it, which operates in Italy under the Italian government license,
and PokerStars.ee, which operates in Estonia under the Estonian government
license.
PokerStars.com stages some of the biggest online poker tournaments in
the world, including the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the
Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP), and is the official sponsor of
some of the biggest live poker tournaments in the world, including the
European Poker Tour (EPT), the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and the
UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT).
PokerStars.com is also home to a team of sponsored players known as Team
PokerStars Pro. This elite group of players travel the world competing in
international tournaments.
More information can be found at: http://www.europeanpokertour.com/
[http://www.europeanpokertour.com ] or contact Charley Grafton-Chuck on
+44(0)2070 332 660 cgrafton-chuck@uk.peppercom.com
Source: PokerStars.com
.