European Poker Tour – EPT

Hello dear poker friends!

Following our review to the European Poker Tour (EPT) 6 in Barcelona, I’ve decided to prepare a review about the next one – the EPT in London! This major poker event will last from the 2nd of October to the 7th of October. As you know, this is a season 6 of EPTs, so you can look forward very high standarts and richer mix of games and buy-ins to cater for more players.

You will be able to watch this event live at www.pokerstars.tv – and for non-stop coverage of the EPT action, you should also visit the PokerStars blog at www.pokerstarsblog.com – where you’ll find a lot of useful information and reviews of the action too.

How to qualify? Here is an easy answer. You just have to play EPT satellites available on Pokerstars and win seat to future events. You should have no problem finding Pokerstars satellites. Follow the Events tab in Pokerstars software, then go to EPT in the game lobby and register for the satellite of your choice. It’s so easy!

Here is the list of the next EPT satellites you can join:

EPT6 London: $800 Qualifier which starts on Sep 19 at 14.10 ET
EPT6 London: 10,000 FPP Qualifier which starts on Sep 27 at 15.00 ET

Those are just 2 examples of all the EPT satellites and qualifiers!

This will be the schedule for the main event in London:

Day 1A – Oct 02 12:00 PM
Day 1B – Oct 03 12:00 PM
Day 2 – Oct 04 12:00 PM
Day 3 – Oct 05 12:00 PM
Day 4 – Oct 06 12:00 PM
Final Day – Oct 07 12:00 PM

The whole tourney is taking place in Hilton London Metropole. You can see that this EPT is well prepared and now it’s up to you.
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Hello everyone! Today I have prepared another review on another great poker event which took place in Spain, Barcelona – the Europen Poker Tour (EPT) 6.

Every year there are more and more players registering and, of course, more and more name pros show up to take a chance at every time increasing prize-pool. Last year for example there were 619 contestants, who made the trip to Barcelona and the winner, Sebastian Ruthenberg, took home a prize of €1,361,000. The tournament counted also with many pros like Greg Raymer, Bertrand Grospellier (ElkY), Luca Pagano and Isabelle Mercier.

This year the tournament hosted by Pokerstars.com was a 6-Day event from September 4, 2009 to September 9, 2009 and had a buy-in of €8,300. A total of 479 players registered and were ready to collect a part of the total prize pool of €3,832,000.

Qualifying was possible live at the Casino Barcelona for €220 but for a lot of the players it’s always better to get your seat online, via the qualifiers offered by PokerStars.com – the biggest online poker site. Online satellites were running from as little as $2.22+111 FPPs. You could have also tried your luck through SnG tournaments. Through the special Pokerstars Steps promotion, players could earn their own EPT Barcelona package (which is much more comfortable and cheaper) for as little as $7.5 or 500 FPPs.

This year’s EPT Barcelona was full of action. It took 5 days for the Main Event to the final table and the last 8 players had the following amount of chips:

1 - Georgios Kapalas - 826,000
2 - Mihai Manole - 410,000
3 - Santiago Terrazas Ambite - 546,000
4 - Asa Smith - 1,380,000
5 - Carter Phillips - 4,421,000
6 - Matt Lapossie - 2,938,000
7 - Toni Ojala - 754,000
8 - Marc Goodwin - 3,100,000

Carter Phillips managed to maintain his chip leader position and with proper play he finally finished in HU (heads-up) against Marc Goodwin – also well-known poker player, who has finished 3rd in Monte Carlo Millions 2005. After tough battle, which took more than 2 hours, this was the final hand:

On board Kd 5c 4h Qs has invested Goodwin about 4 million chips into 3 million chips pot with Ac 10s . After some time, there Phillips has decided to call with Kc Js . River didn’t improve Goodwin’s bluff and Carter Phillips took 1^st place with EUR 850,000 and left Marc Goodwin on 2^nd place with EUR 530,000.

Here are the results of the final table in prizes:

1 — Carter Phillips, USA, PokerStars qualifier — €850,000
2 — Marc Goodwin, UK — €530,000
3 — Santiago Terrazas, Spain, PokerStars player — €300,000
4 — Mihai Manole, Romania — €250,000
5 — Asa Smith, UK — €200,000
6 — Toni Ojala, Finland — €160,000
7 — Matt Lapossie, Canada, PokerStars qualifier — €120,000
8 — Georgios Kapalas, Greece — €80,000

I hope you liked this small review. You can read more about the European Poker Tour at  www.europeanpokertour.com

What are you waiting for? Register today at Pokerstars.com and get your seat to 1 of the main poker events!