European Poker Tour London
EPT London
The annual European Poker Tour’s London poker tournament is held in the Victoria Casino in London’s Edgware Road. This prestigious live UK poker event attracts the best live poker players from Europe, the US and beyond - including famous names such as Chris Moneymaker and Daniel Negranu.
The buy-in for this premier live poker event held in September of each year is £5000+£200 - more than $10000. Fortunately many online poker sites offer satellite qualifiers ranging from just a few dollars entry (details below). One of the main European Poker Tour sponsors is Poker Stars. In the 2007 event 4 of the final 5 players qualified online through this site – including the eventual winner.
EPT London features a great range of preliminary poker tournaments with buy-ins ranging from just £300. These include pot-Limit Holdem, 7-Card Stud and Omaha live poker tournaments. In addition there are live satellite qualifiers for the No-Limit Holdem main event from just £70.
With a field of almost 400 players the payouts for this poker tournament are large, as the list of previous winners below shows.
2007 EPT London Top 3 Finishers:
1st – Joseph Mouawad - £611,500
2nd – Florian Langman – £346,528
3rd – Marcel Baran – £293,840
2006 EPT London Top 3 Finishers
1st – Vicky Coren – £500,000
2nd – Emad Tahtouh – £285,900
3rd – Jan Sjavic – £168,000
2005 EPT London Top 3 Finishers
Mark Teltscher – £280,000
Jaonas Helness – £145,740
Noah Jefferson – £72,870
EPT London Online Satellites And Qualifiers
Poker Stars EPT London Satellites.
As the largest online poker site, and main sponsor of the EPT London tournament – Poker Stars offer a wide range of EPT satellite qualifiers. Direct entry can be won through the $215 ‘Double Shootout’ tournaments on PokerStars.net. Alternatively multi-table satellite tournaments to the EPT London start at just $16 – leading to ‘supersatellites’ with guaranteed seat allocation.
VC Poker EPT London Satellites
VC Poker offer a range of ways to qualify for their ‘supersatellite’ – a $400+$30 tournament which offers a huge $12,500 EPT London package. Satellites start at just $5+50 and are in both Multi-Table tournament (including re-buy tournaments) and sit and go format. What is more, players who win the EPT London after qualifying through VC poker will also win bonus entries into other European Poker Tour events!
Paddy Power Poker EPT London Satellites
Paddy Power Poker offer a range of satellites starting from just a few dollars. The EPT London qualification system at Paddy Power Poker involves a 3-stage satellite in both multi-table and single table format, winners going through to the EPT London Supersatellite Tournament