EPT Paris Main Event Hits 1,474 Entries, €1.1M Up Top
Registration closed today on the EPT Paris Main Event, and once again this tournament at a relatively new destination shows the widespread appeal of the French capital among poker players.
In all, there were 1,474 entries of €5,300 apiece, creating a prize pool of €7,075,200. The top 215 players will be paid, with the winner set for a €1,148,600 first prize.
Although the field is slightly smaller than the previous two visits to Paris, this still ranks as the 15th biggest EPT Main Event in history, bigger than any other post-Covid Main Event outside of Barcelona.
KEY NUMBERS
1,474 total entries
1,023 unique players
451 re-entries
€7,075,200 prize pool
215 places paid
€1,148,600 top prize
€8,550 minimum cash
Top 15 EPT Main Events in history (in terms of entries):
EPT Barcelona 2022 — 2,294 entries, €11,125,900 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2023 — 2,120 entries, €10,282,000 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2025 — 2,045 entries, €9,918,250 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2019 — 1,988 entries, €9,641,800 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2024 — 1,975 entries, €9,578,750 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2018 — 1,931 entries, €9,365,350 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2016 — 1,785 entries, €8,657,250 prize pool
EPT Paris 2024 — 1,747 entries, €8,385,600 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2015 — 1,694 entries, €8,215,900 prize pool
PSC Barcelona 2017 — 1,682 entries, €8,157,700 prize pool
EPT Paris 2023 — 1,606 entries, €7,708,800 prize pool
PCA 2011 — 1,560 entries, $15,132,000 prize pool
PCA 2010 — 1,529 entries, $14,826,800 prize pool
EPT Barcelona 2014 — 1,496 entries, €7,255,600 prize pool
EPT Paris 2026 — 1,474 entries, €7,075,200 prize pool
FRENCH PLAYERS PROLIFERATE
As you might expect given our location, French players make up the largest portion of the field. There were 288 players representing the host nation, or 28 percent of the total. Italy (68 or 6.6%), the United Kingdom (57 or 5.6%), Spain (55 or 5.4%), and Germany (41 or 4.0%) round out the top five, as they did in 2024, at the last EPT Paris.
In all there were players from 66 nationalities, including representatives from so far afield as Taiwan, Cuba and Peru.
Here’s the ever-popular EPT Nationalities piechart:
With thanks to Jan Kores, EPT Media Co-ordinator
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