The success of the World Series of Poker on the television over the last five years has meant a huge boom in the popularity of poker worldwide hence the birth of the European Poker Tour. Not only television broadcasts of poker games but real life poker in casino poker rooms all over the world as well as online poker games have seen an incredible rise in popularity all over the world, from North America to Asia and to Europe.

History of the European Poker Tour. The European Poker Tour (EPT) was created in 2004 by John Duthie. John wanted to create a European poker series to compete with the World Poker Tour (WPT), which was primarily played in American casinos. John saw a unique opportunity to start up a competing tournament series, due to the hype and growth that was around the Texas Hold'em game all over the world. World Poker Tour is the premier name in internationally televised gaming and entertainment with brand presence in land-based tournaments, television, online, and mobile.

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Upcoming Events. Twitter; Facebook; Youtube; Instagram; Discord. The European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of Poker Tournaments sponsored and owned by PokerStars. The EPT began in 2004 and is also broadcasted on television across Europe by Tinopolis plc, an independent television broadcasting company. The EPT’s current television host is Michelle Orpe, a professional T.V presenter.

European innovation is often credited as being one of the main elements that led to the huge boom in the popularity of poker, and specifically in the Texas Hold ‘em variation of the game of poker. The World Poker Tour was the first televised poker event to make use of the innovative hole cam. This small camera allows viewers to see the players hole cards, making it possible to see the kind of strategy world class players use when they are involved in games. Texas Hold ‘em is especially conducive to this type of broadcast.

Any time there is a rise in popularity of an activity, there is bound to be competition, and that is what the World Poker Tour found after its great successes in Europe and indeed around the world. In response to the increased viewership and interest of players at casinos all over the world, the European Poker Tour was created.

In the beginning, the European Poker Tour was created so that the buy-in to the games was around half of that required to play in a World Poker Tour event. The success of the venture meant that within the first three seasons, the waiting list to play on any of the events on the circuit was so large that the number of players couldn’t actually fit into the number of casinos on the tour (the tour runs all over Europe, including Spain, Ireland, the UK, Denmark, and France as well as Austria). As a result, the buy-in was doubled for the 2007 season, which means it is on par with that required to play on the World Poker Tour circuit.

Another key difference between the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour is that in the European World Tour, eight players sit at the final table. The WPT has only six players sitting in on the final table.

The EPT quite naturally attracts players from all around Europe and is a multilingual event that is broadcast on the continent wide station Sunset + Vine. There is also a huge international audience for the EPT as well, with players from the United State, Asia, and Australia also ranking highly in several of the circuit’s main events. The show is hosted by Natalie Pinkham and Caroline Flack, and was created by Joe Duthie (winner of the original Poker Millions tour) who commentates with Colin Murray.

Series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT), created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament.Wikipedia

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• World Poker Tour

  Internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the final table of each tournament.Wikipedia

• World Series of Poker

  Series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2004, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment Corporation (known as Harrah's Entertainment until 2010). It dates its origins to 1970, when Benny Binion invited seven of the best-known poker players to the Horseshoe Casino for a single tournament, with a set start and stop time, and a winner determined by a secret ballot of the seven players.Wikipedia

• Crown Australian Poker Championship

  Series of poker tournaments held at the Crown Casino, in Melbourne, Australia. Southern Hemisphere's richest poker tournament with a prize pool in excess of A$7 million.Wikipedia

• Asia Pacific Poker Tour

  Major international series of poker tournaments established in 2007 and hosted in cities across the Asia Pacific. Sponsored by PokerStars.Wikipedia

• Global Poker Index

  Leaderboard index that ranks over 450,000 live tournament poker players in the world. The GPI poker rankings are updated on a weekly basis.Wikipedia

• Italian Poker Tour

  Series of poker tournaments sponsored by PokerStars. Created in 2009 and has held tournaments in Italy, Malta, Slovenia and San Marino.Wikipedia

• North American Poker Tour

  Series of international poker tournaments held in North America. Associated television series broadcasting the final table of some of the tournaments.Wikipedia

• The Poker Players Championship

  A $50,000 buy-in event at the World Series of Poker . Added in the 2010, it replaced the former $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship as the highest-stakes mixed-games event.Wikipedia

• Big One for One Drop

  A $1,000,000 buy-in No Limit Texas hold 'em tournament hosted at the World Series of Poker . Added in the 2012, it became the highest buy-in poker tournament in history as well as the largest single payout offered.Wikipedia

• Battle of Malta poker tournament

  Annual no-limit hold'em poker tournament in Malta. Founded by PokerListings.com in 2012 and is now run by Casino Malta by Olympic Casino, part of the Eden Leisure Group.Wikipedia

• Estrellas Poker Tour

  Major regional poker tour in the Spain. Sponsored by PokerStars.com.Wikipedia

• Latin American Poker Tour

  Major poker tour in Latin America, held from 2008 to 2016. Sponsored by PokerStars, like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour , Asia Pacific Poker Tour (2007), and North American Poker Tour (2010).Wikipedia

• UK and Ireland Poker Tour

  Major regional poker tour in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sponsored by PokerStars.com, like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour , Asia Pacific Poker Tour (2007), Latin American Poker Tour (2008) and North American Poker Tour (2010).Wikipedia

• Amateur Poker Association & Tour

  Organisation founded in 2006 and is Europe's largest organisation for recreational poker players, with a membership of over 20,000 players. Focused on consulting with gaming and industry bodies to enhance the player experience; with standardisation of rules, player friendly structures and event sponsorship at the top of its agenda.Wikipedia

• Asian Poker Tour

  Founded in 2008. To date, the APT has staged more than 80 major events and numerous smaller tournaments mainly in the Asia-Pacific Region.Wikipedia

• Super High Roller Bowl

  Recurring high stakes No Limit Hold'em poker tournament that takes place at venues across the world. Held in July 2015 and featured a $500,000 buy-in, drawing a field of 43 players.Wikipedia

• Call of Duty World League

  Series of Call of Duty eSports tournaments that began in January 2016. At it most recent form, tournaments were played on Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for PlayStation 4.Wikipedia

• Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic

  Eight team college basketball tournament held in November and December of the NCAA Division I men's basketball season, with the inaugural tournament beginning in 2017. Currently the only college tournament played across the Atlantic, and the first-ever NCAA basketball games played in Europe.Wikipedia

• European Cup (baseball)

  Annual baseball tournament, sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . The tournament features the top teams of the professional baseball leagues in Europe.Wikipedia

• CEB Cup

  Annual baseball tournament, sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . Second-tier tournament for baseball leagues across Europe.Wikipedia

• Champions Hockey League

  European ice hockey tournament. Launched in the 2014–15 season by 26 clubs, 6 leagues and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the tournament features top teams from the first-tier leagues of countries across Europe.Wikipedia

• PGA European Tour

  Organisation which operates the three leading men's professional golf tours in Europe: the elite European Tour, the European Senior Tour and the developmental Challenge Tour. Its headquarters are at Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England.Wikipedia

• Euro Hockey Tour

  Annual ice hockey tournament only open to the national men's teams of the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia and Sweden. Most of the teams use the competition as a preparation for the upcoming World Championships or Olympics, allowing less experienced players to collect valuable ice time in their national colours.Wikipedia

• European Under-21 Baseball Championship

  Bi-annual international baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . European Baseball ChampionshipWikipedia

• European Champion Cup Final Four

  Post-season baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB). The tournament features the four best teams in the two European Cups.Wikipedia

• European Junior Baseball Championship

  Biennial, under-18 international baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . Conducted in the year prior to the 18U Baseball World Cup , which is likewise held every other year.Wikipedia

• European Juveniles Baseball Championship

  Annual under-12 international baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . Since, the teams from Czech Republic dominated the tournament, but were defeated in by Russia.Wikipedia

• IAAF World Indoor Tour

  Annual series of indoor track and field meetings, held since 2016. Designed to create a IAAF Diamond League-style circuit for indoor track and field events, to raise the profile of indoor track and field, and replaced the IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings series.Wikipedia

• European Youth Baseball Championship

  International baseball tournament sanctioned and created by the Confederation of European Baseball . Lowered from 16 to 15 years old.Wikipedia

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• The largest and most well-known tournament in Europe is the European Poker Tour, which was founded in 2004 by John Duthie and is now the largest poker tour in the world by both total players and prize pool.Poker tournament-Wikipedia
• He made the final table in the €5,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event in the EPT Vilamoura, finishing 5th out of a field of 384 players, winning €93,121.Teddy Sheringham-Wikipedia
• Sanremo hosts an annual poker tournament as part of the European Poker Tour.Sanremo-Wikipedia
• Becker is a noted poker player and has appeared in the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour; by 2013 he had won more than €90,000 in career earnings from poker.Boris Becker-Wikipedia
• On April 17, 2008, Esfandiari made the final table at the 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo finishing in eighth place, winning €168,000 ($266,004).Antonio Esfandiari-Wikipedia
• In September 2006, Mike made his debut on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona; however, he was eliminated on the first day.Mike Matusow-Wikipedia

• In sports television, Murray has also presented coverage of late-night American Football and the European Poker Tour for Channel 5.Colin Murray-Wikipedia
• In May 2015, Seidel won the 2015 European Poker Tour Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller for €2,015,000.Erik Seidel-Wikipedia
• Hansen finished in the money of the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and also made the final table of a European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Barcelona.Gus Hansen-Wikipedia
• Coren Mitchell was the first woman to win an event on the European Poker Tour, the first player to win both a televised professional tournament (EPT London 2006) and a televised celebrity tournament (Celebrity Poker Club 2005), and the first player to win two European Poker Tour Main Events (EPT London 2006 and EPT Sanremo 2014).Victoria Coren Mitchell-Wikipedia
• Ivey made his debut on the European Poker Tour in Barcelona, September 2006.Phil Ivey-Wikipedia
• In January 2008, ElkY finished in 1st place winning $2,000,000 at the European Poker Tour's (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure.ElkY-Wikipedia
• A little over a week later, he finished runner-up to Jason Mercier at the European Poker Tour's London £1 Million Showdown, a non-title no limit holdem event also known as the £20,000 High Roller event, earning £327,000 ($598,770).John Juanda-Wikipedia
• In 2008, the event moved from the WPT to the European Poker Tour.PokerStars Caribbean Adventure-Wikipedia
• On Saturday, 20 January 2007, he finished second in the Copenhagen event on the European Poker Tour for 309,000 Euros.ElkY-Wikipedia
• He is the first (and to date only) person to reach 4 European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables.Ram Vaswani-Wikipedia
• Mortensen had a good run at the 2007 European Poker Tour Main Event in Monte Carlo finishing 11th, going out to Joshua Prager after making a straight on the turn, but defeated by a flush on the river.Carlos Mortensen-Wikipedia
• In January 2011, Duhamel won the High Roller Event at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville for €200,000 ($272,209).Jonathan Duhamel-Wikipedia
• It also hosts world championship boxing bouts, the European Poker Tour Grand Final and the World Backgammon Championship as well as the Monaco International Auto Show (Fr: Salon International de l'Automobile de Monaco ), fashion shows and other events.Monte Carlo-Wikipedia
• European Poker Tour CashesMichael Greco (actor)-Wikipedia
• He has won a World Poker Tour (WPT), a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a European Poker Tour (EPT) title, giving him the Triple Crown.ElkY-Wikipedia
• In 2008 Mercier made two final tables at the European Poker Tour (EPT).Jason Mercier-Wikipedia
• In October 2006, De Wolfe won the European Poker Tour (EPT) Dublin event, and the €554,300 first prize.Roland De Wolfe-Wikipedia
• In September 2005 he made the European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event final table, finishing 3rd in Barcelona.Patrik Antonius-Wikipedia
• He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and one European Poker Tour title.Jason Mercier-Wikipedia
• In addition to Late Night Poker, he has commentated for Poker Million, World Heads-Up Poker Championship, Celebrity Poker Club, European Poker Tour, Poker Nations Cup, and Victor Chandler Poker Cup.Barny Boatman-Wikipedia
• PokerStars sponsors various live poker tours such as the European Poker Tour (EPT), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT), Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT), Estrellas Poker Tour (ESPT), Eureka Poker Tour, Italian Poker Tour (IPT), Czech-Slovak Poker Tour (CSPT), Australia & New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT), France Poker Series (FPS), Belgian Poker Series (BPS), Russian Poker Series (RPS) and Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP).PokerStars-Wikipedia
• At the age of 19, Dwan cashed in his first live tournament, finishing 12th in the £3,000 no limit Texas Hold 'em Main Event of the European Poker Tour's second season held in London, earning £7,000 ($12,398).Tom Dwan-Wikipedia
• Antonius began making a name for himself on the poker tournament circuit with two finishes near the final table of a European Poker Tour (EPT) event and a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, 12th at the EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, then 15th at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars event two months later, in early 2005.Patrik Antonius-Wikipedia
• Obrestad came close to winning her second major live title in November 2007, finishing in second place earning €297,800 ($431,184) at the 2007 PokerStars.com European Poker TourDublin event to Reuben Peters, after holding the chip lead throughout most of the final table.Annette Obrestad-Wikipedia

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