btw i think this is awesome:

kinda sucks to be on a monday (we grind online yo), but I like the idea of a turbo early in a day, then a 5pm/6pm option as quoted to let us play a full day of live donkaments without the sadness of having only one shot in a day.

and hey if it all goes kaput we get to turbo turbo a 330e

Schedule looks good imo. dont forgett u pretty much promised SR will have ante from start tournaments tho


not a huge fan of having the 25k at start. Id rather play main, 2k, 5k, 10k, 25k etc but maybe thats just me

Problem is having it at the end of the series, a lot of people/fish usually leave once they bust the main. Having it in the middle of the main hurts since everyone came to play the main regardless. So you have to have it post-main or pre-main and tbh pre is prob best in terms of field size/softness.

I think it is because it is a televised event and they also need the TV table for the main event.

I expected to see some mixed games tourneys in the schedule (altough I never play those) so I'm very pleased with it

Greets. K.

my experience is that all the good regs are still in the main and the fish w money play the highroller

Hi All,

Just back from holiday with announcements and answers!

First, the announcements! As reported by Kevmath, the European Poker Tour is wrapping up Season 7 with a televised invitational to the many fantastic players who have an EPT title on their resume!

At the conclusion of this season, the European Poker Tour will have crowned 70! different Champions from 70! different tournaments! There are 4 chances left for our first double winner, but it hasn't happened in the first 66 tournaments, so I'm betting the under

We have included PCA champions from Season 4 forward as this is when the PCA officially became part of of the European Poker Tour. So Poorya, Harrison, ELKY and Galen can join our 66 European winners in Madrid for the EPT Champion of Champions!

This event will be filmed for two hours of broadcast throughout the world and on PokerStars.tv.

Which player will survive to the end to claim the title of EPT Champion of Champion? You guys decide! The prop bets / drafts / auctions are open

Event Champion Season Name

EPT Madrid 7 TBC
EPT San Remo 7 TBC
EPT Berlin 7 TBC
EPT SnowFest 7 TBC
EPT Copenhagen 7 Michael Tureniec
EPT Deauville 7 Lucien Cohen
2011 PCA 7 Galen Hall
EPT Prague 7 Roberto Romanello
EPT Barcelona 7 Kent Lundmark
EPT Vienna 7 Michael Eiler
EPT London 7 David Vamplew
EPT Vilamoura 7 Toby Lewis
EPT Tallinn 7 Kevin Stani

EPT Monte Carlo 6 Nicolas Chouity
EPT San Remo 6 Liv Boeree
EPT Snowfest 6 Allan Baekke
EPT Berlin 6 Kevin MacPhee
EPT Copenhagen 6 Anton Wigg
EPT Deauville 6 Jake Cody
2010 PCA 6 Harrison Gimbel
EPT Prague 6 Jan Skampa
EPT Vilamoura 6 Antonio Matias
EPT Warsaw 6 Christophe Benzimra
EPT London 6 Aaron Gustavson
EPT Barcelona 6 Carter Phillips
EPT Kyiv 6 Maxim Lykov

EPT Monte Carlo 5 Pieter de Korver
EPT San Remo 5 Constant Rijkenberg
EPT Dortmund 5 Sandra Naujoks
EPT Copenhagen 5 Jens Kyllönen
EPT Deauville 5 Moritz Kranich
2009 PCA 5 Poorya Nazari
EPT Prague 5 Salvatore Bonavena
EPT Warsaw 5 João Barbosa
EPT Hungarian Open 5 Will Fry
EPT London 5 Michael Martin
EPT Barcelona Open 5 Sebastian Ruthenberg

EPT Monte Carlo 4 Glen Chorny
EPT San Remo 4 Jason Mercier
EPT Warsaw 4 Michael Schulze
EPT Copenhagen 4 Tim Vance
EPT German Open 4 Mike McDonald
2008 PCA 4 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
EPT Prague 4 Arnaud Mattern
EPT Dublin 4 Reuben Peters
EPT Baden Classic 4 Julian Thew
EPT London 4 Joseph Mouawad
EPT Barcelona Open 4 Sander Lylloff

EPT Monte Carlo 3 Gavin Griffin
EPT Warsaw Open 3 Peter Jepsen
EPT German Open 3 Andreas Hoivold
EPT Copenhagen 3 Magnus Petersson
EPT Dublin 3 Roland de Wolfe
EPT Baden 3 Thang Duc Nguyen
EPT London 3 Vicky Coren
EPT Barcelona 3 Bjorn-Erik Glenne

EPT Monte Carlo 2 Jeff Williams
EPT French Open 2 Mats Iremark
EPT Scandinavian Open 2 Mads Andersen
EPT Dublin 2 Mats Gavatin
EPT Baden Classic 2 Patrik Antonius
EPT London 2 Mark Teltscher
EPT Barcelona Open 2 Jan Boubli

EPT Monte Carlo 1 Rob Hollink
EPT Vienna 1 Pascal Perrault
EPT French Open 1 Brandon Schaefer
EPT Copenhagen 1 Noah Boeken
EPT Dublin 1 Ram Vaswani
EPT London 1 John Shipley
EPT Barcelona Open 1 Alexander Stevic

The winners of this event will receive one of the following amazing prizes;

•1st – EPT8 Passport worth €50,000
•2nd – EPT8 Passport worth €25,000
•3rd – EPT8 Passport worth €15,000
•4th – EPT8 Passport worth €10,000

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Answers -

San Remo Schedule - Should be going up on Friday. One signature and we're done.

EPT Awards - Remaining qualifying events - Two Heads Up tourneys (Berlin, Madrid), three PLO tourneys (1 Berlin, 2 Madrid), two Mix Game tourneys (San Remo, Madrid). All three Awards still up for grabs!

Tufat - 226 - I agree 100% (sorry about the Monday). This is what happens when they give me 100 plus tables to play with!

9's - 227 - Season 8 for your Ante tourney. It is awkward sometimes to push new stuff through Gaming Commisions. For Madrid, if the 25K was at the end, you are forcing players into a tough spot with the 25K on the 14th in Vegas. I try and be as helpful as I can when I can

Spacey - 229 - Again, some of my mixed stuff isn't legal yet in Spain. It is really hard to explain to Gaming Commisions what "Fiple Draw" and "Binglaha" are

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

P.S. 6 people already qualified for PCA 2012!!!


Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Sure baby, I'll leave my wife... soon...

FML

Will Tallinn 100% be back this year for an EPT?

Hi Veerob,

Can't comment on Season 8 destinations yet. Only tease I have is there are a couple new ones and a couple old ones disappear...

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

That's a pretty good tease. Any idea on a time frame for a Season 8 schedule to be released?

My fingers are crossed for EPT Madrid for the announcement. But I'm not holding my breath either

One of the new destinations everyone will definitely love! I think everyone will like the others, but one I am very excited about!

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Thanks for the quick response, Neil. I will be holding my breath for a month or so. Hope to see you out on the EPT circuit next season.

such a tease lol


london confirmed for next year:


some speculation..
imo:

13 stops

absolute lock:
london
pca

v v likely:
san remo
deauville
snowfest

also v likely:
barcelona
copenhagen

prob in:
prague
berlin
vilamoura

in danger:
vienna
tallinn
madrid

I hope Tallinn is not in danger. I know it was a new event, but at 420 players, I figured it was a success. Not to mention the fact that Pokerstars is actually licensed in Estonia. I had a chance to visit Tallinn after WSOPE and fell in love with the town, and hope to plan a long trip to Europe around EPT Tallinn.

Yeah I'd like Tallinn to stay too.

Hi All,

I forgot, two that can be confirmed for Season 8 (since they are on these links already )...

London - http://www.ukipt.com/tournaments/ September 30 - October 5

Barcelona - http://www.estrellaspokertour.com/en...nts/index.html August 27 - September 1

As promised to many of you, Barcelona is back in August/September where it belongs!

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Hi All,

As promised, EPT San Remo Schedule...so FDS has to leave his wife now...although I'm uncomfortable with him calling me baby

TIME # EVENT BUY IN

April 26 - Tuesday
14:00 1 NL - One Re Buy Super Satellite to Main Event €500 + €50
18:00 2 NL - Unlimited Rebuys Super Satellite to Main Event €200 + €20
21:00 3 NL - Turbo €300 + €30

April 27 - Wednesday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 1A €5,000 + €300
20:00 5 NL - One Re Buy Super Satellite to Main Event €500 + €50

April 28 - Thursday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 1B €5,000 + €300
20:00 6 NL - Turbo - Bounty €1,000 + €1,000 + €100

April 29 - Friday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 2 €5,000 + €300
20:00 7 NL - Super Satellite to €2,000 NL (Event #8) €230 + €20

April 30 - Saturday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 3 €5,000 + €300
14:00 8 NL - Holdem - Day 1 €2,000 + €200
20:00 9 NL - Turbo €300 + €30

May 1 - Sunday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 4 - play down to 24 players €5,000 + €300
14:00 8 NL - Holdem - Day 2 €2,000 + €200
15:00 10 NL - Holdem - Women's Event €300 + €30
16:00 11 NL - Holdem - IPT PRO League - Day 1 €3,200 + €300
20:00 12 NLH / PLO - Single Rebuy - Day 1 €1,000 + €100

May 2 - Monday
12:00 4 Main Event Day 5 - play down to 8 players €5,000 + €300
13:00 13 NL - Holdem - Day 1 €10,000 + €300
14:00 8 NL - Holdem - Final Day €2,000 + €200
14:30 11 NL - Holdem - IPT PRO League - Day 2 €3,200 + €300
15:00 12 NLH / PLO - Final Day €1,000 + €100
15:00 14 NL - Holdem - Day 1 €1,000 + €100
20:00 15 NL - Turbo €300 + €30

May 3 - Tuesday
12:00 4 Main Event - Final Table €5,000 + €300
13:00 13 NL - Holdem - Final Day €10,000 + €300
14:00 16 NL - Turbo - "6 Max" €4,000 + €250
14:30 11 NL - Holdem - IPT PRO League - Day 3 €3,200 + €300
15:00 14 NL - Holdem - Final Day €1,000 + €100
15:00 17 NL - Turbo - EPT Main Event - 15 Minute Levels €300 + €30

May 4 - Wednesday
14:30 11 NL - Holdem - IPT PRO League - Final Table - TV €3,200 + €300

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Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

NeilJ I have a question about the random bounty tournaments. I'd like to know, how exactly does Stars prevent cheating happening in these? When I was in Deauville, there was a 60 yo casino regular who was friends with the floor staff, and he got 3/3 1k bounties. Me and my group of friends (about 10 people) probably got about 30 bounties total but none of our bounties were bigger than the minimum. I never saw anyone but the french casino regs win the big bounties despite making it pretty deep and playing in a bunch of tables. Of course this can be coincidental but it's a pretty big coincidence, and especially in France it's definitely fishy.

What was bugging me was that I asked the floormen how this system works and how they decide who gets 1k and who gets 200, and they said "I can't tell you". When the live reg got his 3rd consecutive 1k bounty and the floor staff congratulated him, I asked to see the list the floor guy was holding, which I assume had some kind of info about whose bounty is 1k and whose is 200. He refused to show it to me. I said that I'm not trying to find out whose bounty is worth what, can you just show me any kind of printed confirmation that the bounty this guy again got was worth indeed 1k, can you just show me that one line of text please? They said no and hastily ran away with the paper.

At the time I didn't think much of it, because I figured Pokerstars would be pretty careful about who they choose as their staff. But since I have recently learned that Pokerstars doesn't actually have anything to do with the people who run their tournaments, I've come to think that there could easily be some bad apples in the local floormen who favour the local players. This is probably not an issue in the main with Thomas Kremser and all, but the side events are often run by random local floormen who I first thought were still somehow working for Stars but apparently not then!

With EPT San Remo happening soon and the Italians along with the French being notorious for cheating in every possible way I'd really like to hear how you're preventing any cheating from happening. If I suspect something fishy is going on, who should I talk to, since every time I'm being screwed over in a Pokerstars tournament your staff a) denies any responsibility and b) doesn't even communicate with me?

I witnessed dealers screwing people over pretty hard in a Unibet Open Italy a couple of years back, they didn't have anything to do with Unibet either, just local casino staff who rigged the decks when people were on break and dealt crazy setups in the favour of the locals, not shuffling the deck after the break in front of people. You probably don't want this happening in your tournaments.


(To those who don't know how random bounties work, they work like this: in for example a 1100€ random bounty tournament, it's 800 (prize pool) +200 (bounty pool) +100 (rake). The bounty pool is randomized in a way that some people's bounties are worth 1000 and the most people's are worth 200. You never know whose bounty is worth what, when you bust out someone you get a receipt, and when you show that receipt to a floor man he will just tell you how much your bounty is worth)

Hi Chuck,

One correction to your explanation. The 200 Bounty is chopped 100 on everyone and 100 into the pool to make the 1K's.

I was at EPT Deauville and participated in the draw for the Random Bounty Tournaments. The way it works is once registration closes (2 levels in - 30 min) we look at total number of runners.

For this example, 76 players. This would create seven 1K bounties and a single €600 bounty. All players were given a bounty card as they sat down numbered 1-X for total number of players. We then draw from a duplicate number of cards 1-X for the random bounty numbers. First seven drawn are the 1K's, the eighth is the 600. These eight numbers are placed on a list carried by the floor person in charge of the event. In addition to this, the eight numbers are placed individually into envelopes numbered 1-8 (for this example). If player #17 was 1K bounty number 4 and you busted player #17, we would say congratulations and hand you the envelope marked number four and ask you to open it. You would then open the envelope to find the #17 written on the inside. This is done to protect the players and the integrity of the event. I know that was done in Deauville because I am the one who wrote up the envelopes and I was the one who wrote down the numbers as they were drawn. I also helped a floor guy by handing two envelopes out to players.

If you witness anything "fishy" as you say, in Italy, you can always speak to Thomas Kremser and if you feel really concerned, I am at every EPT in a suit and tie and easy to find. We take any kinds of collusion, soft play, etc... seriously and are always willing to listen to players who have those types of concerns. If you are concerned about dealing with local casino staff, you can always go right to the top at our tours with Thomas in EPT, Danny in APPT, Mike at PCA/LAPT/NAPT, etc...

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On a side note - I am aware of your ANZPT thread and forwarded it on. I have nothing to do with the ANZPT and can't comment on anything that took place there.

All of the PS reps that comment on 2+2 do everything they can to help out the 2+2 Community to the best of their ability. We all have specific areas we work in and can't comment outside those areas. There are at times issues we miss or can't fix, or, quite frankly, there are issues that can only be sorted by emailing support@ or security@ or registrations@, etc... so we don't even bother commenting on them. Our posts and work on 2+2 are never intended and should never be construed to replace the actual PokerStars channels of communication.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Thanks NeilJ, that's a good answer and I'd like to encourage you to use the envelopes in the future. That was not the case in Deauville though, at least I didn't witness a single envelope being used, they just told the people who's got a 1k bounty and who doesn't and I witnessed quite a lot of bustouts. This was the 1100 turbo bounty on the night of day 1B.

i need wire information for Berlin plz

To late I guess

Greets. K.

Hi McMatto,

Spacey beat me to it. Deadline has passed.

http://www.europeanpokertour.com/tou.../how_to_enter/

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

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