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Casino owner, antique dealer and recreational poker player Leon Tsoukernik of Czech Republic was crowned the winner of the EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller on Tuesday after having bested an extremely tough field consisting of many of the world's best tournament players, including poker prodigy Charlie Carrel heads-up. Carrel, 23, and Tsoukernik, 43, seem to have captivated all observers since they ended up at the same table for the first time on Sunday afternoon.

Read more » EPT Prague: Leon Tsoukernik Wins The €50,000 Super High Roller

Hossein Ensan, 51, was unknown to most people in the poker world before winning an EPT Seniors Event in Barcelona last year. He used some of his winnings to a live satellite that eventually took him to the EPT Barcelona Main Event in which he finished in third place. Then he finished 6th in the EPT Malta Main Event a few months later.

Read more » Hossein Ensan Wins EPT Prague Main Event

There are only six players left after 5 thrilling days of poker in Prague. Ilkin Amirov will lead the remaining players into today's final table with 9.9 million in chips. Amirov, who is the first person from the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan to make an EPT final table, slowly worked his was to the chip lead early on Day 5.

Read more » EPT Prague: Main Event Final Table Is Set

The plan for Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event was to play down from 67 to 16 players. Well, 23 players still remained when the tournament director called it a day after several thrilling levels of play on Day 4. Marc Macdonell, from Ireland, bagged up the chip lead with 3.6 million to his name - just about 70k more than Gleb Tremzin in 2nd and 400k more than Benjamin Lamprecht in 3rd.

Read more » EPT Prague: Marc Macdonell To Bring Small Lead Into Day 5 Of Main Event

Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event will see the return of 67 players (total entrants: 1,044 - prize pool: €5,063,400). The plan is to play down to 16 players and move one step closer to Wednesday's final table - where a trophy and €921,540 is awaiting the winner!

Read more » EPT Prague: Abbas Moradi Leads Final 67

Steve O'Dwyer became the first-ever player on the European Poker Tour to win a second Super High Roller title last night! Amazingly enough this was only the fifteenth time the EPT held an event with a Super High Roller attached. (Aside from two EPT Super High Roller titles, he also has a Super High Roller title victory from the 2014 APPT in Macau).

Read more » WPT Prague: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Yet Another Super High Roller!

Once registration for the EPT €50k Super High Roller closed on Wednesday, the total number of entrants had increased from 51 to 56 (46 players, 10 re-entries). This means that this year's Super High Roller in Prague enjoyed an increase of 5 entries over last year's 51 entries.

Read more » EPT Prague Super High Roller: Netherland's Luuk Gieles Leads Final 8

The European Poker Tour Prague kicked off with a bang yesterday, because 50 entries (42 players, 8 reentries) were made during the first day of the €50,000 Super High Roller! Re-entries and late registration is open until the start of Day 2, so for sure last year's field of 51 entries (42 players, 9 re-entries) will be beaten!

Read more » EPT Prague: Super High Roller Underway

On Wednesday, 23 players returned to the Hilton Prague hotel for the third and final day of the record breaking $10,300 High Roller (309 entries). Several hours after Stephen Garner won the Main Event, a handful of players were still battling it out on the High Roller final table.

Read more » EPT Prague: Andrey Zaichenko Wins The $10k High Roller

After finishing 6th and missing out on a million dollar payday in the WSOP Millionaire Maker tournament, Stephen Garner got his "revenge" yesterday when he won the EPT Prague Main Event for $1,207,620 (€969,000)!

Read more » EPT Prague: Stephen Graner Wins The Main Event!

In addition to the Main Event final table of 7 players, the remaining 23 players of the €10,300 High Roller will soon be returning to the Hilton in Prague for the final day of play. In other words, today marks the end of the EPT Prague festival.

Read more » EPT Prague High Roller: Ukraine's Oleksii Khoroshenin Leads Final 23

The 2014 European Poker Tour Prague Main Event is down to 7 players after 5 long days of poker. Stephen Graner from the U.S. will be bagging up the chip lead when today's final table kicks off around noon. 

Read more » EPT Prague Main Event: The Final Table Is Set

Another day of action-packed poker has come to an end at the Hilton Prague hotel and now there are now only 22 players left from a field of 1,107 entries. The chip leader is Fabio Sperling with 4.3 million in chips, and his closest opponent is Stephen Graner with 3.2 million.

Read more » EPT Prague Main Event: 22 Players Remain, Including Vanessa Selbst and Davidi Kitai

The European Poker Tour Prague Main Event has been running non-stop over the weekend. Today, after 3 intensive days of poker, the last 61 players of 1,107 entries will return to the poker tables and continue the battle for a seat at the final table, where €969,000 awaits the last man/women standing.

Read more » EPT Prague: Swede Leads The Final 61 Players To Day 4

The third and final day of the EPT Prague Super High Roller saw the return of seven player from a 41-player field (+10 re-entries). All players were guaranteed a minimum payday of €128,565 and Russia's Leonid Markin held the chip lead when the cards were in the air. Although he didn't maintain the chip lead, Markin battled his way to heads up against Paul Newey after several hours of play. 

Read more » EPT Prague: Leonid Markin Wins The Super High Roller (€771,360)

41 players (+ 10 re-entries) entered the 2014 EPT Prague Super High Roller for €50,000 a piece. 2014 WSOP Main Event winner Martin Jacobson were among the 35 players (32 from Day 1 + 3 new entries) who returned for Day 2, however, he ended up being eliminated on the final table bubble. Happies "bubble boy" in history? 

Read more » EPT Prague: €50,000 Super High Roller Final Table Is Set: Jacobson Bubbles

The 2014 European Poker Tour Prague €50,000 Super High Roller drew a field of 41 players when it kicked off yesterday - seven of them even made rebuys during the first day. 32 players had chips left when the tournament director called it a day. Ivan Soshnikov, who entered the super high roller while he was still in the €1k Eureka main event, will lead the way to Day 2 with 905k chips.  

Read more » EPT Prague Super High Roller: 36 Players Through To Day 2

The European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague will join forces with the Eureka Poker Tour yet again this year. In total, this year's festival will feature 59 separate events in a wide range of new tournament formats, including Midnight Turbo events, junior's event (for players aged 18-21) and senior's event (50 or older).

Read more » 2014 EPT Prague Is Set To Brake Records

The final table of the PokerStars Prague Main Event, which took place on Wednesday, ended up being a marathon. The fact is that it took 14 hours of play until Julian Track, who brought the biggest stack to the final table, was the last man standing and received the first prize of €725,700, plus an exclusive Slyde watch!

Read more » PokerStars Qualifier Julian Track Wins EPT Prague Main Event

It didn't take long for a field of 22 players to be narrowed down to a final table of 8 players in the 5th day of the EPT Prague Main Event. Julian Track from Germany will bring the largest stack to today's final table (7.2 million), and Day 4 chip leader Max Silver is his closest opponent with 5.9 million chips.

Read more » EPT Prague: The Final Table is Set!

It didn't take long for a field of 22 players to be narrowed down to a final table of 8 players in the 5th day of the EPT Prague Main Event. Julian Track from Germany will bring the largest stack to today's final table (7.2 million), and Day 4 chip leader Max Silver is his closest opponent with 5.9 million chips.

Read more » EPT Prague: The Final Table is Set!

22 of 61 players made it through Day 4 of the EPT Prague Main Event and unfortunately Ludovic Lacay, the 2012 EPT Sanremo winner, is no longer in the contest. The French poker star had a decent chip lead when Day 4 kicked off and he picked up where he'd left off in Day 3. However, things changed drastically when he called Max Silver's all-in with pocket kings. Silver showed the best starting hand in the game of Texas Hold'em and Lacay ended up losing a significant chunk of his stack. Eventually, Lacay bused in 33rd place by Ori Hansson.

Read more » EPT Prague: Max Silver Leads Last 22 in Main Event; Lacay Eliminated in 33rd Place

The fourth day of PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague Main Event kicks off in a few hours time. There are 61 players left (out of 1,007 entries) in the tournament and Frenchman Ludovic Lacay is the chip leader with 1.7 million chips - about half a million more than his closest opponent in the chip counts!

Besides having played several final tables at World Series of Poker and World Poker Tour, he has an EPT Main Event title (2012 EPT Sanremo) to his name. If he ends up taking down this tournament, then he will became the first player ever to win two EPT Main Event titles! Add to that, he would take home an incredible €889,000 first prize!

World number on tennis player Rafa Nadal will play his first live poker tournament this week! Nadal will be competing for a €100,000 charity prize pool (as part of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague poker festival) together with several well-known faces, including Ukrainian footballer Andriy Shevchenko, Italian skier Alberto Tomba, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, and Brazilian football legend Ronaldo! The latter is someone who the 27-year-old Spaniard seems especially eager to play against...

"Ronaldo has always been a hero of mine and I'm looking forward to taking him on at the poker table," Nadal said in statement last week. "The great thing about poker is that it's a common ground for us to compete on, and there are many similarities between sport and poker strategy, so it will be good to see how he translates his game from the football field to the poker felt."

Day 4 started with 3 players with more than a million chips each: Ramzi Jelassi, Chris Brammer and Sotorious Koutoupas. Brammer didn't make it, but both Jelassi (1,975,000 - 3rd place) and Koutoupas (1,450,000 - 8th) pressed on and made it through the day with healthy stacks.

Read more » EPT Prague: 21 Players Remain - Lodden and Jelassi are two of them!

There are now only 55 players left in the EPT Prague Main Event. All the remaining players are guaranteed to get away with a min-payday of €15,000 - with the chance of laying hands on the first place prize of €835,000!Read more » EPT Prague: Ramzi Jelassi Leads Last 55

Day 1 chip leader Iosef Beskrovnyy, from Russia, played amazing poker during the second day of PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague and turned his 239k stack into an impressive stack of 625,200 chips - about 140k more than his closest opponent. A total of 162 players made it through Day 2, and the biggest names among the top 10 players are Fabrice Soulier (over $3.2 million in live poker tournament winnings) with 396k and Todd Terry with (over $2 million in live tournament earnings) with 392k.

Only 34 players need to be eliminated during Day 3 before the money bubble will burst (min-cash of €8,000). A final table apperance is worth €75,000 - with the chance of taking home €835,000!

Both starting days at EPT Prague are in the books now. A total of 864 entrants make it the richest poker tournament in Czech history! Iosif Beskrovny will lead the remaining 318-players into Day 2 with 239,000 chips! Todd Terry is the most well-known player among the top 10 players (162,400 chips). Terry has over $2 million in live tournament earnings, including some great results at the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.

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128 of the remaining 318 players will be guaranteed a min-cash of €8,000. A final table appearance is worth €75,000, and the winner will take home an impressive €835,000! We will be back with a Day 2 recap tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!

Recently Martin Finger, 21, from Germany won the EPT Prague main event and received a huge prize of 720k euro. Finger became the third German poker player ever to win an EPT main event and received lots of positive feedback in the media.

However, it didn't take long before his big win became overshadowed by other headlines. During EPT London, according to a poker news site, Finger went out to party after the tournament, got drunk and behaved aggressively. After Finger left the exclusive club Kensington Roof Garden in central London, he broke into a restaurant to get himself some food. But the heavy night came to an end quickly as the British police arrived at the scene and arrested him. It remains unclear what charges Martin Finger will face. If he gets away with paying some fines, the EPT Prague winnings might come in handy.

The 2011 EPT Prague main event has come to an end (the largest EPT Prague ever). The winner, Martin Finger from Germany, received amazing €720,000 for his achievement, and the runner-up, David Boyaciyan from Netherlands, received €535,000.

When the heads-up begun, Finger had a 4-1 chip lead over Boyaciyan and everyone thought that it wouldn't take long before he had all the chips. But Boyaciyan fought really hard and well and after 3,5 hours of play he had overtaken the lead from Martin Finger, who was in shock and tried to figure out what he was doing wrong.

Read more » Martin Finger took home EPT Prague (€720,000)

The record field of 722 players has been narrowed down to 31 after 4 days of poker (Day 1a & 1b, Day 2, Day 3) The 3 first days ended with a Russian in the lead. But that tradition came to an end yesterday and now the chip leader is Partrik Renkers from Netherlands. Renkers had a fantastic winning streak during Day 3 and today a 2.4 million stack is waiting for him at the Hilton poker room. The player in second place, Martin Finger from Germany, has about half of that stack.

Read more » EPT Prague: Only 1 former champion through to Day 4

Day 3 of the EPT Prague main event is being played at the moment and there are 129 remaining players. The chip leader is Garri Tevosov, from Russia, with 764k, followed by Martin Finger, from Germany, with 612k and Mads Wissing, from Denmark, with a stack of 565k. There are a few big names with chips left, however, none of them can be found in the very top of the remaining field of players.

We will return with an update as soon as Day 3 comes to an end.

The second starting day of the EPT Prague main event attracted amazing 488 players! Add the 234 players from Day 1a to that and you'll get a new EPT main event record! Out of the 722 participants, 437 players will return to the table in a few hours time and continue the struggle. The chip leader, just like Day 1a, comes from Russia. Andrey Saenko, PokerStars player, played outstanding poker during Day 1b and has accumulated 200,800 - about 20k more than Mads Wissing, from Denmark, in second place.

Read more » EPT Prague becomes a part of history

The EPT Prague main event kicked off yesterday and saw a field of 234 players. After a long day of poker (8 one-hour levels), 133 players still had chips left and they will return tomorrow to the tournament room at the Hilton.

The one who managed to accumulate most chips during Day 1a is Vedzizhev Beslan from Russia. With 131,200 chips he has a small lead over Jesus Cortes, from Spain, with 131,200. And only 1 chip behind Cortes is Sergey Baburin with 131,100. These 3 players are closely followed by several players, so it's impossible to predict how things will go during Day 2.

Unfortunately not a lot big names in the poker world made it through Day 1a. Let's hope that Day 1b, which begins in a few hours, will generate a few more renowned players will plenty of chips.

The final table of the WPT Prague main even is just about to start and so is also the EPT Prague main event. In other words, today will be the most exciting Monday in a very long time. The WPT Prague main event attracted a field of 571 players and became the biggest-ever WPT event held on European ground. Now it will be very exciting to see whether the EPT Prague main event can break some records as well.

We will keep you updated with the most exiting news from start to finish, so you are guaranteed not to miss out on anything interesting.

Today it's time for the last stop on the EPT Tour for this year, EPT Prague. The first starting day of the EPT Prague Main Event is about to begin any minute now. The buy-in for the main event is €5000+€300 and EPT Barcelona winner Kent Lundmark is one of the most interesting pros that will take part. There will also be a high roller event with a buy-in of €1000+€300 that will be played over 2 days.

We will follow these 2 events and keep you updated with the most interesting news.

European Poker Tour in Prague saw a huge field of players this time. Not less than 584 (219 Day 1a and 365 Day 1b) players entered the tournament and created a total prize pool of €2,842,100. After that Day1 a & b, Day 2, 3 & 4 had been played, it was finally time for the final table. These were the 8 players who were about to battle for the EPT Trophy and the first prize of €682,000.

Seat 1: Anthony Roux (2,839,000)
Seat 2: Stefan Mattsson (3,553,000)
Seat 3: Laurence Ryan (1,338,000)
Seat 4: Gustav Ekerot (502,000)
Seat 5: Sven Eichelbaum (658,000)
Seat 6: Jan Skampa (3,985,000)
Seat 7: Eyal Avitan (2,627,000)
Seat 8: Luca Pagano (2,119,000)

Read more » EPT - Prague: Jan Skampa wins after an amazing comeback

EPT Prague attracted a huge starting field this time. Not less than 584 (219 Day 1a and 365 Day 1b) players entered the tournament and created a total prize pool of €2,842,100. 12 poker tables are now waiting for the remaining 95 players who have made it to Day 3 of the tournament. The one that will bring the most chips with him from Day 2 to Day 3 is the Frenchmen Yann Brosolo with 574,000 chips, closely followed by Rui Cao on second place with 522,500 chips and Team PokerStars PRO Pieter de Korver with 465,800 chips on third place.

Luca Pagano, the Italian Team PokerStars PRO, keeps on impressing as he's once again in the top of the field in an EPT event. Luca has accumulated 280,400 chips and is on 16th place at the moment, but he's definitely one of the hottest candidates to reach the final table.

The Swedes are doing well
Many Swedish players have been doing very well in EPT Prague. Kristoffer Edberg, Gustav Ekerot, and Stefan Mattsson are the top 3 Swedes who all are in the top of the field with a good chance of reaching the final table. Most notable of these 3 players is Stefan "Matadoren" Mattsson who has had some fantastic results in EPT, WSOP, Aussie Millions and WPT.

The final table of EPT in Prague had 3 italian players this year, Massimo Di Cicco, Francesco Cirianni and Salvatore Bonavena. And it was Salvatore who was going to be the last man standing after winning against his fellow Italian - PokerStars qualifier, Massimo Di Cicco in heads up.

Read more » Salvatore Bonavena wins EPT Prague

The chipleader in the EPT event in Prague, Fredrik Nygard, is a known hustler who currently lives in Sweden. A few months ago he went to a Swedish newspaper to tell the story about his life and he said he was doing this in order to warn other people about his scamming behaviour.

Fredrik Nygard has a long history of hustling people out of money and it started already at the age of 16 when he used to tell his parents that he needed money for school books when in fact he was gambling away all of his money. At the age of 16 he had already lost over €6000 on his gambling addiction.Read more » EPT Chipleader, Fredrik Nygard, a Swedish/Finish scammer

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A total of 570 players paid €5000+€250 buy-in and created a prize pool of amazing 2,7 million euro in this year's EPT Prague. Now there are only 27 players left who still have the chance of taking home the first prize of €774,000. One of them is the EPT Barcelona champion Sebastian Ruthenberg. Another one is the PokerStars-sponsored player Juan Maceiras from Valencia who was the chip leader for several hours today. Now the big question is if Sebastain Ruthenberg will make the amazing achievement of winning 2 EPT events this year?


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Two notable players that made it through from Day 1b to Day 2 are Noah Boeken and Dario Minieri from Team PokerStars. Dario came third in EPT Warsaw 2 weeks ago and now he brings more than 64,000 chips with him to Day 2.
Read more » EPT Prague: Noah and Dario through to Day 2

Day 1a of EPT Prague is now over and a few notable players made it through to Day 2........

Read more » EPT Prague update

Today the European Poker Tour makes a stop in the capital city of Czech republic, Prague. The tournament will be played between 9 - 13 December at the Hilton hotel in Prague and the max capacity of participants has been set to 600. The buy-in for this tournament will be €5000 and all players will start with 10,000 tournament chips each. The crew behind the tournament hope that the this years prize pool will beat last year's prize pool of around $3.5 million dollars.
Read more » EPT Prague starts today