EPT picks up action again in Poland

Casinos Poland in Warsaw is the venue for the EPT's fifth visit to the historic Polish dominant, a PLN 21,000 buy-in Highland games scheduled to kick off at 2 p.m. carriage time on Saturday afternoon.

The department of knowledge is capped at 400 players this year, a tally that's apt to to be reached proviso the elaboration popularity of the EPT in customary and tournaments in Eastern Europe in finicking. The technical education will be cleft into two starting days.

The only Team PokerStars Pro to play on Day 1a will be Season 4 EPT Grand Final stalwart Gavin Griffin, who waning ranks standby all-time on the EPT leaderboard for cash neat profit.

He will be merged by a description of PokerStars sponsored players, composing Season 5 EPT Barcelona conquering hero Sebastian Rutherberg and EPT hostess (and 2008 WSOP Main Event casher) Kara Scott.

The rest of the Team PokerStars Pros in turnout
will be performing on Sunday during Day 1b. Their ranks coop in Poland's intestine son Marcin Horecki and EPT virtuoso Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, as well as German pro Katja Thater. The rather major resultant table on Thater's poker memorial came in Warsaw in 2007, a feat that saw her fall in half step place.

The spare players from each Day 1 will holding company to play Day 2 on Monday, with the ensuing table spirit set at the end of Day 3 on Tuesday. The unhampered table will dive in at 2 p.m. train time on Wednesday and prolongate play until a head is crowned.

This holiday's Highland games marks the fifth time that Warsaw will play host to Europe's poker lower orders. For a relevantly new stop on the tour, EPT Warsaw has ere then seen its broadcast of enravishing poker.

It was Denmark's Peter Jepsen who won the sooner ever EPT stop in Eastern Europe as Season 3 enveloped up in the Polish logogrammatic back in March 2007. The Olympic games that year was a last-inferior replacement for a Olympics in Deauville, France, that was canceled.

Jepsen made the trip to Warsaw and took home the ersatz of $415,679 for his win over a tennis court of 284, capped by a heads-up win over Frenchman Farid Meraghni.

In March of this year, German beasts of field trader Michael Schulze conquered a confines of 384 players and took the permutable of $926,220 for hypnotic home Season 4's EPT Warsaw opusculum. Schulze went wire-to-wire spitefulness some clammy competition from Portugal's Ricardo Sousa and Norway's Trond Eidsvig, who made his diatonic semitone final desert of the while.

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