No one knew what to expect of Ukraine. After five seasons on the EPT, we had a new starting location, a new country to visit, a new city to explore and a new poker experience to investigate. As has been well documented, we were supposed to have been in Moscow this week, which would also have filled all of those criteria. But circumstances conspired against the Russian capital, and they flung us to Kiev. That, however, has proved not to be a bad thing at all. Early impressions of the Ukrainian capital are good. After enjoying some terrific hospitality on
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PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 7 updates
Live updates from level 7 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. Blinds 50-300-600. 8.02pm: Two to...more
EPT Kyiv: Bække is bæck
The relatively small field here in Kyiv is good news for Allan Bække. Well, actually that's not completely true: Bække tends to like his fields even smaller, something in the region of two. Known online as Sifosis, Bække is one of the biggest winners of heads up sit and goes...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 6 updates
Live updates from level 6 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. Blinds 50-200-400. 7.10pm: Dallying Around...more
EPT Kyiv: Noises on the roof
There's a noise coming from the roof like someone is bowling on corrugated iron. It can't be that, based on the architecturally concave ceiling that would render the bowler and ball dangerously exposed, but it's getting louder. A bang, followed then by a rumble and a momentary flash of...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 5 updates
Live updates from level 5 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. Blinds 25-150-300. 6.04pm: Haven't we...more
EPT Kyiv: Sergil's start
If you'd have needed five guesses to find the PokerStars blog team on their first evening in Ukraine, you'd have wasted four of them. It was kind of obvious: we were in Fan Fest sports bar in the basement of the Premier Palace hotel, the only place amid the opulence...more
EPT Kyiv: The man in red
Finally, an EPT event a little closer to home for Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko, at least geographically, and one where unlike many, he'll be at an advantage when it comes to reading road signs and working out just where the hell he is on the hotel tourist map....more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 3/4 updates
Live updates from level 3/4 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. Blinds 150-300. 4.55pm: One in,...more
EPT Kyiv: Our surroundings
When the European Poker Tour first started, it wasn't quite the far-reaching operation its name suggested it to be. Although we did indeed stick in Europe, we were more concerned with the western fringes of the continent: the Mediterranean, the British Isles and Scandinavia, at a push. These days, things...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 2 updates
Live updates from level 2 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. Blinds 75-150. Chip building PokerStars...more
EPT Kyiv: The PokerStars Blog Feature Seat
After the drumming and the dancing and the spinning and the smiling of the shock and awe opening, it's back to the molten coal face of an EPT day 1a with all the trimmings of one hour levels and a new 30,000 starting stack designed to re-confirm the EPT...more
PokerStars EPT Kyiv: Level 1 updates
Live updates from level 1 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. Blinds 50-100. 1.50pm: Calling with...more
EPT Kyiv: The show is on the road
It's the start of something new and things are chaotic in Kyiv. The first European Poker Tour event to be held in these parts is imminent, and the players, press and spectators have found their way to the cavernous Sporting Palace in the heart of the city. It's a vast...more
EPT Kyiv: Welcome
Hello folks and welcome to the start of EPT season six. As ever, if the boarding pass says EPT, it means Barcelona. And here we are in Catalonia, on the sun-kissed beaches of the Costa Brava. Oh. Well. OK. It turns out we're in Ukraine. But I swear it took...more
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