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Yesterday the ETP Budapest started and this is the first time there is a EPT event in Hungary. There is 532 poker players in the event and they play for the prizepool of $2,128,000 and the first prize will be $595,839. The buy in is $4000+$350 and will last for four days, from October 28 til November 1st. The event takes place at Las Vegas Casino at Sofitel Hotel in Budapest.
The 1st day (Day 1a) there was 262 poker players starting and 88 players survived the first day and will be back at Day 2. Day 1b has just started today and here will many big names show up, especially from the Pokerstars Pro team. We can follow names like Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, and he has just come back from Las Vegas where he won the WPT Festa al Lago and a first prize for over $1,4 million. Other names on day 1b is William Thorson, Alex Kravchenko, Dario Minieri and a big star on the ETP scene, Sebastian Ruthenberg who won EPT Barcelona, the first EPT event this year.
We will come back to pronounce the winner of this event and a little highlights from the final table.

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The EPT London that starts today, October 1^st, is sold out. All the 500 seats has been taken, and about 130 of the seats is taken by players who have qualified through Pokerstars. For players who made the buy-in in cash, it was £5200+£200. Pokerstars also added £250,000 to make the first prize a guaranteed £1,000,000. EPT London will take place at Victoria Casino in central London from today, October 1 to Octbober 6. Note ever before has Pokerstars had a guaranteed prizepool in an EPT.
There will also be a High Roller event along with ETP London. Buy-in for this event is £20,000+£300, and this will be a No Limit Hold´em tournament that will be held from 5 october to 6 october. The final table of the High Roller event will be filmed for future brodcasting.
The best Pros from Pokerstars will play in EPT London, names like Daniel Negreanu, Chris Moneymaker and Joe Hachem.

Last time EPT London was held, 400 players showed up to play this popular event. The winner of the tournament was a Pokerstars qualifer, Joseph Mouawad. He won heads-up over Florian Langmann and won the first prize of £611,000. But this year the first place winner is guaranteed £1,000,000!
With a guaranteed first prize and this special High Roller event this looks like it´s going to be the best EPT event ever.

There is still time if you want to qualify for EPT London, and play against the best players in the world. Pokerstars Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Barry Greenstein and Chris Moneymaker will be there to play for £1,000,000. Many players think EPT London is one of the best stops on the European Poker Tour.
This event will take place at the Victoria Casino, in central London between 1-5 October. Buy-in is £5,200+£200 and there is a cap of 500 players.

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On Sunday it was time for Pokerstars World Championship Of Online Poker, main event. When registation closed there were 2,185 players signed up, which meake the prize pool as large as 10,925 million. This millions,324 players are gonna get their piece from. For the winner of this main event, there will be waiting $1,775,312,50 for him or her. This is the largest event ever in online poker. The buy-in for World Championship of Online Poker was $5,200.
After a couple of hours into the tournament big poker names got eliminated, this was pros like Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem and more.

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We´ll be back with the final results in Pokerstars WCOOP later.

Now finally Hockey Pro Mats Sundin played his first tournament as an ambassador for Pokerstars.

-We are very impressed with Mats play, says Johan Bondesson at Pokerstars. Mats Sundin, who signed up with Pokerstars a couple a weeks ago and played his first tournament (EPT in Barcelona), played for six and a half hours before it was time to leave the tables. Mats ended before Poker Pros like William Thorson, Daniel Negreanu and Scotty Nguyen and his sponsor was very impressed by that.
- I did not think I was gonna be disappointed, but I am, said a laughing Mats Sundin after he was eliminated.
On the question If there he will play more tournament He said; -Absolutely!
And then he walks away from his first, but not his last big tournament.

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EPT awards will take place on the 9th of September in the Opium Mar in Barcelona. This award will honer the best players in Season 4 of European Poker Tour, and the fifth season will start, also in Barcelona, the day after the awards, 10th of September.
The host for the evening is none less than Pokerstars Daniel Negreanu with sidekick Gloria Balding.
There will be seven categories, five will be decided by a judge and two will be decided by a vote, People´s choice Award by ETP.com and Poker Writers´ Award by the media.
The other five categories are: Best Newcomer, Best Performance, Best Overseas player, Best Pokerstars Qualifier and Player of the Year.
The ETP Barcelona open will be played from 9. September until 14 September at the Gran Casino Barcelona. Follow the game through EPT.com.
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