Schedule for London’s Largest Poker Festival Confirmed by European Poker Tour
This was published 07-02-2013Details have at last been announced for the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 9’sLondonpoker festival.
TheU.K.and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) and the European Poker Tour (EPT) will get together for the first time during this festival that is bound to create a substantial set of tournaments and opportunities for players at all levels.
EPT London will commence on Tuesday, 5th March and continue until Saturday, 16th March 2013 during which time it will feature 37 exciting events.
The festival will see the EPT returning to theU.K.capital after last holding aLondonevent in September 2011. That particular event attracted over 2,000 players from around the world who competed for prizes worth in excess of 7 million pounds. Benny Spindler, the German wunderkind, managed to take down the Main Event first prize of £750,000. The poker tour, which is one of the world’s riches poker tours, is greatly anticipated by the poker community all over the world.
The EPT London Main Event will be played at The Grosvenor Victoria Casino which is one ofLondon’s favorite poker rooms. The UKIPT event will be held at the same venue.
Due to the large number of players that are anticipated to attend the events, The Hippodrome Casino London, will serve as host for several of the side events during the period of the festival. Cash games in a selection of buy-in levels will be taking place at both venues.
Victoria Coren, the EPT Season 3 winner And Team PokerStars Pro, said that she is thrilled that EPT London is returning to the Vic, where it all began. Coren added that she thinks that the atmosphere there will be fantastic and that it is there that she won her own EPT title. She is hoping that it will be lucky for her.
The festival will commence with the £770 UKIPT Grand Final Main Event as well as several side events which include a £2,150 High Roller and nightly Turbos that start from £110.
