PokerStars are the most popular online poker site in the world, and many credit this success to their UIGEA resistance. Along with Full Tilt, they have reaped the rewards of continuing to accept U.S. players. However, what has helped keep PokerStars in such a prominent position is the commitment to poker in Europe. The cross-atlantic [...]

You Brits sure have an easy time with PokerStars. I can honestly say I’m jealous. Remember the promotion awhile back in which PokerStars would simply make anyone who made PlatinumStar for the month an instant SuperNova for a whole year? We, as in the guys from the rest of the world, were left out of [...]

Sandra “Black Mamba” Naujoks makes history by becoming the second ever woman to win an EPT live event. And she did not walk an easy path. The German beauty walked home with about €917,000 in her pockets, after defeating everybody in a very very tough final table full of big names, which also included Team [...]

EPT San Remo Italy, home of several of the most crazily aggressive poker pros like Dario Minieri, Luca Pagano and Jeff Lisandro, will once again be host to one of the most prestigious EPT stops – the EPT San Remo. This will be your chance to go to the land of Lamborghini and Ferrari cars, [...]

Top class online poker site RedKings Poker have announced that they are sending a team of 11 players to the European Poker Tour event in Dortmund, Germany. Team RK will include six German speaking players, emblematic of RedKings’ recent efforts to become the online poker destination of choice for Germany and Austria. The €5,000 main [...]

$70,000 in added MTT prize money Ladbrokes Poker, in celebration of its exciting recent upgrade, has added $70,000 in prize money to a tournament each day from the 10th – 16th February. These tournaments will run daily as per the schedule below: Day     Time    Buy-in Fee      Added 10-Feb Tue      19:00 GMT     $5.00   $0.50   $10,000 11-Feb [...]

The European Poker Tour Season 5 Deauville came to a close today as 28-year-old Moritz Kranich of Germany walked away with the €851,400 first place prize.  Kranich beat out a field of 644 other players, also looking for their slice of the €3,096,000 prize pool.  It was also a special treat for PokerStars.  Kranich qualified [...]

This year’s EPT tour came to a close at its final destination of 2008 in Prague.  Seeing the tour through its last final table of the year were two RedKings Swedish pros in the 2000Euro side event. That’s right, while Ramzi Jelassi was the eventual victor in this tournament, Jonas Molander, another RedKings pro, was [...]

Information on how to qualify for the following events can be found on the PokerStars website. It is possible to qualify for as little as $2,22 or 100 FPP. It is also possible, of course, to buy in direct. All you really need is hope, a dream, and some luck, and you can take home [...]

One of the many prestigious poker tournaments springing up across Europe, the EPT Season 5 Polish Open, concluded yesterday. Held in Warsaw at the Hyatt Regency, the event hosted a modest 217 player field crammed full of the continent’s finest players. No less than 10 former EPT champions were among the starting line up, along [...]