As the European QQWIN99 Tour heads for Copenhagen for its 8th tournament of the 11 event Season Four; this might be a good time to take another look at the seemingly successful EPT series.
More and more players are being accommodated at each tour stop. The smallest field is now 400 players with several stops now at 600 and the Grand Finale in Monte Carlo will have no player cap this coming April. Over 700 players entered last year’s Monte Carlo Grand Finale. Prize pools are climbing both because of the increased entries and the higher buy-ins now possible with the ever increasing player interest.
The EPT went from eight tournaments in Season 3 to eleven this year with the addition of EPT Prague, EPT Caribbean Adventure and EPT San Remo. With only one week between the end of EPT San Remo and the beginning of the EPT Final in Monte Carlo, we can expect some relaxed and tanned EPT players for the Grand Finale this year.
Austrian Spring Poker Festival
The PartyPoker European Challenge II is the highlight of the 14th annual Austrian Spring Poker Festival and will be held at the Concord Card Casino in Vienna. It takes place from 11th-14th March 2007, with an estimated prize pool of around $1.1 million. The Spring Poker Festival promises to be every card playing enthusiasts dream. Around 1000 people are expected to flock to the Austrian capital for the week long extravaganza, meaning side action will not be hard to find. The action will be filmed for worldwide television distribution and shown on ITV4 in the UK.
PartyPoker.com is pleased to announce that qualifiers are in full swing for the PartyPoker European Challenge II with a very special added poker bonus. All European based qualifiers get into a freeroll! Winners will take part in the special 60 player East versus West Team Cup on the 10th. In the Team Cup II, 30 representatives of Eastern Europe will lock horns with 30 from Western Europe. Those who thought the cold war was over may be wrong as Tony G and David “Devilfish” Ulliott are expected to be on opposing sides. Other pros expected to take part include Irish WSOP bracelet holder Ciaran O’Leary, Roland De Wolfe, Kirill Gerasimov and Alexander Kravchenko.
A PartyPoker spokesman said:
“The 60,000 Euro prize pool for the East versus West Team Cup is a great bonus for qualifiers for the European Challenge. The final table of 10 will share 37,500 while the winning team will get 22,500 split between them so even if you go out first hand in the freeroll you stand to profit from successful team mates.”
