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We're about to see a whole new European Poker Tour. Today the EPT announced its full schedule for Season 9, and veterans of the tour will notice some significant changes. Now, each stop will host a bigger festival with more events than ever before. When the ninth season of the...more

Season 8 on the European Poker Tour was one for the ages. Not only were 13 champions crowned and millions of dollars won, but also, numerous memories were made. We're here to talk about some of those memories, specifically the most memorable ones as we see them. It's important to...more

Monaco: The second smallest country in the world (behind Vatican City) and a hub for the rich and famous. It is glitzy, full of glamour and very apt for the 2012 PokerStars and Monte Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final. Season 8 was about to come to an end and we...more

The PokerStars European Poker Tour headed back to Monaco this year for the Season 8 Grand Final. Plenty of members of Team PokerStars Pros made their way to the principality for nine days of poker -- after all, the Super High Roller, Main Event, and High Roller had to be...more

Last night the European Poker Tour made history with a continent-wide broadcast of Europe's richest poker tournament. Tonight, it did something similar with Europe's best tournament, the Champion of Champions contest uniting seven seasons worth of the tour's best players. A short while ago Jason Mercier became this event's...more

2.52am: Jason Mercier is the EPT Champion of Champions Jason Mercier is the inaugural EPT Champion of Champions! Mercier had moved in with A♥2♦ and Galen Hall had made the call with K♠3♦ for his last 500,000. Mercier smashed the board with A♠Q♥7♠A♣7♦ to send Hall to the rail...more

8pm: Dinner break After 14 levels players are now on dinner break. Play resumes at 9pm local time. -- SB 7.50pm: De Korver on the rail Pieter de Korver is out, moving in with Q♠T♥ against Michael Martin's A♣J♠. The board ran 5♦A♠5♠T♣6♠ to send the former Grand Final...more

EPT selection for Mixed Game Player of the Year. As reported by Brad Willis a few days ago, such a selection was too difficult to obtain, so the eight finalist are joined here today for a Sit and Go to determine the award's rightful owner. What better way to test...more

It was if it was an eight-handed game that went on for 10 months and left everybody with the exact same number of chips. Now it's time to settle the score. At the end of the European Poker Tour's sixth season, there was a curious eight-way tie that included: Katja...more

Following yesterday's main event final table, the European Poker Tour's sixth season wound down with celebrations, big cheques and a few extra takes to get the winner's smile just right. Then, to finish off, there was a lavish EPT Awards ceremony at the Karement Club, a few minutes' walk...more

This week, the world is celebrating its women. While International Women's Day is relegated to one Monday in March, is really more of a year-long celebration around these parts. Nonetheless, it's a fine time to announce the Ladies Luxury Poker Club's next ladies-only poker vacation. The PokerStars Luxury Ladies Poker...more

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso already had more than $1.3 million in tournament winnings when she arrived in Monte Carlo. She hardly needed to prove her ability to the poker world, but if there's one thing that cements a place among the game's great and the good, then winning a...more

Live updates from level 23 of the EPT Monte Carlo €25,000 High Roller final table are brought to you by Chris Hall and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates here. The latest chip counts will be placed here as we get them, while you'll have to exercise...more

The mission as I devised it was to peek in on PokerStars Passport holder Dustin Mele. I didn't know what I was getting into. Immediately upon my arrival, I was accosted by two security guards. They spoke in rapid-fire French, using the words, "Non, non, non!" as often as they...more

There's exclusive and then there is really exclusive. Getting to Monte Carlo to play in the PokerStars EPT Grand Final is an accomplishment in itself. The buy-in alone is enough to make this tournament among the most exclusive in the world. Here, though, among the elite players in the field,...more

Back at the PokerStars.com EPT San Remo Johannes Strassmann scribbled his way through day one, day two and was the last player eliminated on day three in ninth place, a fly's wing distance from his second final table of season four. The notes, he told me, were because he wants...more

Carl OlsonEPT uber-qualifier Carl Olson is a man on the move. The PokerStars player, who has qualified for all three EPT events this season already, and who is also heading for Dublin, has more or less doubled through by knocking out Britain's Julian Thew.Thew raised from under the gun with...more

Vicky Coren is smiling againVicky Coren must be thinking someone above is looking after her right now. Weeks ago she won the EPT in London, and now she has used up a wedge of luck to not only survive here in Baden, but double up in the process.Surely this monster...more

The prize money has been announced. Players will be paid down to 36th place....1. €487,397.502. €251,5603. €125,7804. €110,057.505. €94,3356. €78,612.507. €62,8908. €47,670.509. €31,44510-12. €18,88713-15. €15,722.5016-18. €12,57819-27. €9,433.5028-36. €6,289...more

With all the talk about the World Series of Poker, an upcoming online poker festival has sneaked under the radar. Fortunately, the crack research staff at Team Blog managed to sniff this one out before it was too late.PokerStars is giving away seven packages to the European Poker Tour. Yep,...more

It wouldn't be fair to say Jeff Williams was ever a "nobody." He was a young man with friends and an active online poker hobby. You might have known him simply as "yellowsub86." Still, a week ago, Jeff Williams wasn't a "somebody" in the European Poker Tour Grand Final. He...more

Links to PokerStars Blog coverage of the 2006 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo:Monte Carlo PayoutsMonte Carlo Day 1A CoverageMonte Carlo Day 1B Coverage Monte Carlo Day 2 CoverageMonte Carlo Day 3 CoverageMonte Carlo Final Table Play by PlayFinal Table ReportMonte Carlo ResultsEPT Photo Gallery...more