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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

Updates from the final table, level 30 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

At times it was fast, other times slow, but at the end of play on day four of EPT Prague few were left in any doubt that tomorrow's final was likely to get a few pulses racing, be they Czech, Italian or neutral. Jan Skampa, a student in Prague...more

Updates from day 4, level 25 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected 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 day 4, level 24 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected 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

Day three on the EPT means the race to 24. Although our opening flights are dictated only by the clock, furniture becomes the crucial concern in these later stages. There is only room on the penultimate day for three tables, around which there are only eight chairs apiece. The scrap...more

Updates from day 3, level 20 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected 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 day 3, level 19 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected 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

Day two at an EPT main event is always good for some action. The pace of eliminations is always frenetic with more players busting than anyone ever anticipates, with high- and low-profile casualties along the way. For them an immediate future of side events and hotel bills, for the rest,...more

Updates from day 2, levels 12 and 13 of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected chip counts are on the chip count page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. Full...more

Winning an EPT is without doubt impressive. Few players can win an event playing just on luck, and if they do they're quickly exposed when they try it for a second time. But there are some players who have superlative poker talent in every fibre of their unexercised, steak-powered, nicotine-ravaged...more

It's day two of EPT Prague, season six, and a spectacular 328 players are still involved in this one. Many of them, as well as weary spectators and press representatives, have now had the chance to sample all that majestic Prague has to offer, and in the wake of that...more

Like little twinkling lights strung around a Christmas tree in Prague's Old Town Square, the stars of European poker came out to play at the Hilton this afternoon. And if you can bear to read on after perhaps the most ghastly, twee, laboured and crow-barred lead into a PokerStars blog...more

Updates from day 1b, levels seven and eight of EPT Prague, brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Marc "The Conv" Convey, Howard Swains and Simon Young. Latest selected chip counts are on the chip count page. The EPT tournament structure can be found on the EPT tournament structure page. Full...more

We could spend a few hundred more words talking about Prague, but our introduction yesterday seemed to sum the place up perfectly and the 119 players who survived day 1a yesterday are now free to shake off a late night and head out exploring. It may be winter, with...more

It's good to be back. That was the main theme of day 1a in Prague, a welcomed return to one of the European Poker Tour's prestige destinations. The best players, a tournament room with space to breathe and surrounded by a town you can happily get lost in and...more

Arnaud Mattern stopped by our onstage media perch earlier today. He hadn't even opened his mouth before Lina Olofsson, the most Swedish of all our Swedish bloggers, was on to him: "My Swedish friend doesn't like you." We skip hellos. She was talking about Martin Jacobsson, who had five...more