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You might have thought that this season's EPT was all about poker's kids running the schoolyard. But just as anyone older than about 22 might have considered packing up and going home, the French player Christophe Benzimra won the Main Event of EPT Warsaw, halting a run of three whipper-snapper...more

Live updates from day five, levels 25 and 26 of the EPT Warsaw Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click through to the chip count page for selected notable chip counts, updated regularly throughout...more

Live updates from day five, level 24 of the EPT Warsaw Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click through to the chip count page for selected notable chip counts, updated regularly throughout the day....more

There was a story waiting to be written in Vilamoura tonight, one of a child chess prodigy turned poker player winning an EPT event and rocking the poker world after he'd only narrowly missed out three weeks ago in Warsaw. But as anyone who has played this game will...more

Updates from level 28 of EPT Vilamoura, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Selected approximate chip counts, updated throughout the day, are available on the chip counts page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. The full...more

Updates from level 24 of EPT Vilamoura, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Selected approximate chip counts, updated throughout the day, are available on the chip counts page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. The full...more

Whenever you try anything new, even under the auspices of something so well-established as the European Poker Tour, there's always some element of risk. But rather like in poker itself, where the most skilled players reduce the influence of chance to its bare minimum, the wily operators of the EPT...more

1.30am: Allan Baekke is the EPT Snowfest champion! In the first hand after the break Allan Baekke called all-in with pocket sevens to beat Russell Carson's K♣J♠. It's a big flip for the Dane who wins €445,000 for the victory. Carson, a very worthy runner up, wins €296,000 for his...more

10.10pm: Has Strassman taken the chip lead? The board is 4♠J♦4♥4♦T♠ and Strassmann bets 1,600,000 on the river. What would you need to call here? Well, whatever it is that Allan Baekke would have called with he didn't have. The Dane had check-called on the flop and the turn but...more

We've become accustomed to seeing Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko cashing in the main events of the European Poker Tour, but now the Russian has added a big cash in a mixed event to his name. He got first in the €1,000 Mixed side event at Casino San Remo, netting...more

San Remo is a peaceful place, the 'city of flowers' on the Italian Riviera that comes to life in the summer sunshine then spends the fall and winter waiting for that sun to come back. But once a year it gets an early shot of adrenaline in the form...more

Liv Boeree wins EPT San Remo and €1,250,000 Jakob Carlsson second for €750,000 Liv Boeree becomes only the third woman to win an EPT, beating Jakob Carlsson from Sweden heads-up. The final hand saw Brit Boeree raising to 700,000, Carlsson raised all in for 6,350,000 and Boeree made the call:...more

In June this year, PokerStars launched the Czech and Slovak Poker Tour, a gentle four-event series costing about $750 a pop, with the intention of bringing affordable poker to a whole region of inexperienced players. The thing is, a young student from Prague named Jan Skampa has clearly been putting...more

Updates from the final table, level 32 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest chip counts are on the chip count page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. Full details of...more

Updates from the final table, level 31 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest chip counts are on the chip count page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. Full details of...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

6.40pm: Tobias Reinkemeier wins €25,000 High Roller at EPT Grand Final Olivier Busquet out in second, winning €956,000 That's that for season six. Tobias Reinkemeier is the champion. Here's how the last hand went. Reinkemeier raised to 100,000 and Busquet shoved all in for just less than a million chip....more

5.10pm: Heads up counts The chip counts going into heads-up play are as follows: Tobias Reinkemeier: 3,136,000 Olivier Busquet: 2,508,000 5.05pm: Dori Yacoub out in third, winning €358,500 Dori Yacoub has just bluffed himself out of this tournament - and Tobias Reinkemeier made a terrific call to pick him off....more

Aaron Gustavson had the credentials to be here. There was no doubting that. Just a few months back, he won the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $135,000. He'd done well in the World Championship of Online Poker. He'd won a tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City. He didn't doubt his...more

Live updates from day four, level 32 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more

Live updates from day four, level 31 of the EPT London Main Event event brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains, Brad Willis and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below. Click here for EPT London Chip Counts. Look back on the tournament so...more

Confidence in poker can go an awful long way, and the abundance of that commodity in Maxim Lykov has made him the first ever champion of EPT Kyiv. "I'm already thinking of my second title," said Lykov in the moment after his dominant display in the first EPT event of...more

Live updates from day 5, level 28 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more

Live updates from day 5, level 27 of EPT Kyiv Sports Poker Championship brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here. You can also...more

The European Poker Tour is no stranger to breaking new ground and welcomes players from across the globe. Last week it was in the Caribbean, soon it will be the ski-slopes of Austria, after it hits Berlin for the first time. Its 51 champions hail from 15 countries, and today...more

11.46pm: Jake Cody wins EPT Deauville for €847,000 Teodor Caraba runner up for €516,000 It's over! And after a final full of skill and flair, it was fitting that this ended when two monster hands collided. Teodor Caraba raised to 800,000 and Jake Cody re-raised to 1,760,000. Caraba then...more

8pm: Dinner time That's the end of the level as players take a one hour dinner break. They'll each be required to eat different meals from the buffet so that if one gets food poisoning the other two will be able to play to a finish. Teodor Caraba --...more

Copenhagen has never really conformed to the eight-handed, eight-hour thank-you-very-much final. An early hours finish in season two, the flip-flop heads-up of Grospellier-Petersson in season three, and the five-hour marathon in season four. Casino Copenhagen seemed to have shed its malingering reputation when Jens Kyllonen made easy work of...more

1.20am: Anton Wigg wins EPT Copenhagen, earning 3,675,000 DKK Francesco De Vivo runner up, earning 2,275,000 DKK After a titanic heads-up battle, Anton Wigg wins the EPT Copenhagen title and a monster pile of cash amounting to nearly half a million euros. Wigg, from Sweden, opened the pot with a...more

8pm: Dinner That's it, we're on a dinner break. Just the 45 minutes, so don't go far. 7.55pm: New chipleader! Monster hand alert.... Francesco De Vivo has doubled up through Anton Wigg to take the chip lead. De Vivo had opened with a raise to 160,000, Wigg re-raised to 425,000,...more

There are countless reasons why this week will live long in the memory of poker enthusiasts. This was the first EPT event to be hosted in Berlin and it was the first time there was a guaranteed €1m to the winner. And, of course, there was that incident. It happened,...more

10.42pm: Kevin MacPhee wins EPT Berlin and €1 million Most thought this would be the level in which EPT Berlin would be won but few suspected it would be quite so soon. Kevin MacPhee raised to 700,000 and Ilari Tahkokallio called for a 4♥5♣2♣ flop. The Finn led out for...more

The European Poker Tour has released a new statement following yesterday's armed robbery at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here in Berlin. This statement corrects some of the misreporting of the incident in the media... "Yesterday at approximately 2.15pm, an armed robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event...more

Catalonia may not have started the sixth season of the EPT, but it remains one of its most cherished stops. Hundreds of players take part in poker's Battle of Barcelona, injecting the tour with stocks of sunshine and energy to last through the winter and to the Grand Final...more

Live updates from day five, level 30 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Rick Dacey, Marc Convey and Howard Swains. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Follow the feature table action on EPT...more

Live updates from day five, level 29 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Rick Dacey, Marc Convey and Howard Swains. Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest chip counts can be found by clicking right here. Follow the feature table action on EPT...more