European Poker Tour Seasons

This is the fifth season of European Poker Tournament. EPT began at Gran Casino in Barcelona giving that era an exciting start to that period. The very first show that was hosted made a record of 619 players and prize pool of nearly €5 million.

The European Poker tour can boast phenomenal success during its short existence but it hasn't been exsisting for a long period so as to deliver any huge history or stories about it. This tour comprises a selection of televised top level poker tournaments held throughout Europe. The European Poker Tour focuses specifically on No Limit Texas Hold'em events and is Europe's answer to the World Poker Tour. First played in 2004, the European Poker Tour was designed to tap the success of major tournaments in the United States including the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.

Although the European Poker Tour started did not begin on that grand scale but it has emerged as a significant tournament in its own right, with the season three grand final awarding the winner over 6 million Euros in prize money, easily the biggest poker prize ever awarded outside of Las Vegas.

At present the European Poker Tour involves under a dozen major events held in cities throughout Europe. Each European Poker Tour season is played over a period of seven months. The winner of the European Poker Tour is decided in a No Limit Hold 'em tournament held as the season finale in Monte Carlo each year.