Over the last few years, PokerStars has been running a tournament series called PokerStars Women Live. As the name implies, it is a series of women-exclusive live tournament events, crowning 5 women over the last two years alone. The tournaments wish to play second fiddle to none, running the gambit of the biggest PokerStars-sponsored events [...]

John Duthie has announced his retirement from his position as Chief Executive Officer for the European Poker Tour (EPT).

It’s funny how “bold predictions” usually work.  You see sports analysts picking Super Bowl champions before the first week of games, and they’re usually wrong.  You see the weatherman guaranteeing rainfall or blue skies on a certain day, and he’s usually wrong.  In my case, I boldly predicted that Black Friday would take enough liquid [...]

The European Poker Tour features some of the most prestigious poker tournaments in the world, and Season 8 is officially underway! Season 7 set the bar high with memorable tournaments, including last year’s epic Grand Final in Madrid, which had a prize pool of €6,860,000! Plus last year’s PokerStars Carribean Adventure, held at Atlantis, was [...]

Global Poker Tours Limited (GPTL), the company behind the popular European Poker Tour, has announced a new sponsorship deal with Skrill Holdings.

PokerStars has always been great with coming up with special promotions. From bonuses to help pad bankrolls to promotions to help players win seats to major tournaments, PokerStars has it all. One of the new ones is called the EPT Tallinn Adventure. With the EPT coming back to Estonia, PokerStars is giving players a chance [...]

Amid much speculation of how Black Friday would affect the live poker scene, live tournaments are still doing extremely well and drawing great crowds. The poker action was heating up in Spain’s capital city of Madrid last week as the conclusion to this latest season of the EPT took place in the form of the [...]

Serving as a further testament to the strength of poker and that the game shall live on in whichever form necessary regardless of attempts to stop it, the European Poker Tour held their inaugural Champion of Champions event. Every single player who has won an EPT event in the history of the Tour was invited [...]

Although a substantial part of the poker world was turned upside down by the events of Black Friday and players both in and outside of the US are feeling at a loss, the live tournament scene is still going strong. The PokerStars EPT is among those tournaments keeping the game alive. It was visiting San [...]

FlopTurnRiver.com recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Wilinofsky just days after his EPT Berlin 2011 Main Event win. Last week 773 poker players battled it out in Berlin for a first prize of $1.19 Million. It was the 22 year old, Canadian, Ben Wilinofsky, with the Beatles-esque mop-top and stunner shades, who took the [...]