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POKERSTARS.COM EPT LONDON BECOMES THE BIGGEST POKER TOURNAMENT EVER HELD IN THE UK
POKERSTARS.COM EPT LONDON BECOMES THE BIGGEST POKER TOURNAMENT EVER HELD IN THE UK
LONDON, UK, 6 OCTOBER 2009 — The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event has smashed records for the biggest poker tournament ever held in the UK with a starting field of 730 players. The record numbers staggered players and media alike and exceed last season by over 100 players.
The attendance for the 2009 PokerStars EPT London is also more than the 608 players who took part in one of the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) tournaments in London last week.
The EPT London Main Event attracted a wealth of stars from around the globe including Team PokerStars PROs and former world champions Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and the current world champion Peter Eastgate as well as sponsored celebrities such as tennis legend Boris Becker, footballer Teddy Sheringham and Dutch Hockey Pro Fatima Moreira de Melo.
The total prize pool for the PokerStars EPT London Main Event is £3,540,500, with 104 players guaranteed to cash. The final champion will take home £850,000, with the second and third place finishers getting £530,000 and £285,000 respectively.
Full details on the 2009 PokerStars EPT London Main Event prize pool are below; for further information and updates please visit www.ept.com or www.pokerstarsblog.com:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | £850,000 |
| 2 | £530,000 |
| 3 | £285,000 |
| 4 | £227,000 |
| 5 | £173,000 |
| 6 | £124,000 |
| 7 | £87,000 |
| 8 | £50,100 |
| 9-10 | £38,000 |
| 11-12 | £28,000 |
| 13-14 | £23,000 |
| 15-16 | £19,000 |
| 17-24 | £17,000 |
| 25-32 | £15,600 |
| 33-40 | £14,200 |
| 41-48 | £12,800 |
| 49-56 | £11600 |
| 57-64 | £10,600 |
| 65-72 | £9,900 |
| 73-80 | £9,200 |
| 81-88 | £8,500 |
| 89-96 | £7,900 |
| 97-104 | £7,500 |
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PokerStars is the world’s largest poker site, with more than 27 million members around the world. It’s the first choice of the world’s top players, with more daily tournaments than anywhere else and the best security online. More hands have been dealt on PokerStars than any other site, over 33 billion hands dealt to date and more than 190 million tournaments played.
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PokerStars is in the record books, boasting the Guinness World Record for ’Largest Online Poker Tournament’ and ‘Most Players on an Internet Poker Room’.
PokerStars regularly sets the bar high, staging some of the biggest online and live poker tournaments in the world:
- The European Poker Tour (www.ept.com) attracts the best players and currently generates the biggest prize pool of any poker tour
- The Latin American Poker Tour (www.lapt.com) unites the best players in South America
- The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (www.appt.com) does the same across the Pacific
- The World Cup of Poker, a unique fixture on the poker calendar that combines the online and live poker worlds for a team challenge that pitches nation against nation
- PokerStars is also the official sponsor of the; Russian Poker Tour, The Italian Poker Tour, The Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, The Australia-New Zealand Poker Tour
PokerStars is also home to an elite team of sponsored players known as Team PokerStars Pro – a group of established and up and coming players that travel the world competing in international tournaments. For a full list of Team PokerStars Pros visit /team-pokerstars/.
