The EPO is held September 11th-14th, with a free invitation only welcome party on the 10th, and day 1a/1b starting the 11th/12th. Schedule:
http://www.englishpokeropen.com/event.html
The buy-in for this event is £3500 + £250, or $5815. The tournament has a guaranteed $1,000,000 US prize pool, and they're currently advertising a large overlay. Regardless, you'll have a significant overlay buying this seat for market rate. You can either play an extremely +EV tournament on your own money, or sell off shares and freeroll the thing if you want. Anybody with a decent graph shouldn't have too much problem selling action for a tournament like this, in fact, I might buy a little
. I'll be student teaching middle school algebra, so alas, can't play myself. If you're in/around London though and feel like playing a tournament, this one is pretty much a no-brainer because of how good of a deal you can get.
I qualified for this event via raketherake. It's fully transferable through them:
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Participants may transfer their packages to other players but those players will be subject to all of the terms of the promotion through which the package was won. The registration details of the person who will be attending and playing the event (i.e. the winner of the seat or the person to whom it was transferred) must be submitted to us no later than Midnight on Friday 3rd September 2010 otherwise the seat will be forfeited.
You can read the full conditions here:
http://www.raketherake.com/epo-team-rtr-2010.html#terms
You'd be wearing RakeTheRake and Full Tilt Poker patches as a requirement. This is mildly annoying, but you do also get a baller welcome party on the night of the 10th that's at least nice:
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This year we invite all our players to enjoy a classy night out at one of London's top private night clubs 'Movida'. Drinks and canapés will be served from 7.30pm. Movida is situated on Argyle Street in London and is in easy walking distance of The Palm Beach Casino. Look forward to seeing you there!
I'll take any offers $3500 or greater for this, but expect to sell it around $4000 or even more over the next week, as the market is pretty saturated right now and I think a lot of people will be jumping on these once they realize what a good deal it is. My FTP account is mersenneary with around 100k in profit, I'm also an instructor on a training site, so you don't have to hassle with 3rd party escrows and trust issues (all jokes that can be made aside), although I'm of course willing to ship to an escrow if you'd like.
PM is the best place to reach me to make me an offer, but I'll of course be checking this thread. If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask!