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The 2023 European Poker Tour schedule options two new stops: Paris and Cyprus. [Image: PokerStars.com]
Brief schedule, as at all times
Because the 2022 winds to an in depth, it’s not simply time to look again on the 12 months that was, but additionally to look forward at what’s to return. To that finish, PokerStars has introduced the schedule for the upcoming 2023 European Poker Tour (EPT) season.
options a number of the hottest occasions on the poker calendar
Of the key poker excursions, the EPT has by far the shortest schedule, however it additionally options a number of the hottest occasions on the poker calendar. The 2023 schedule has simply 5 stops, unfold from February to December. The largest hole is between the second and third tour stops, about three and a half months, proper in the midst of the 12 months. It is sensible, although, as late Might to mid-July is successfully reserved for the World Sequence of Poker, so there is no such thing as a motive to attempt to compete with the granddaddy of all poker festivals.
And if the WSOP Europe is late October to mid-November prefer it was this 12 months, the fourth EPT occasion serves as a pleasant lead-in.
“The schedule consists of our gamers’ agency favorites, the primary time within the glamorous French capital and one other thrilling new addition to the tour,” mentioned PokerStars head of worldwide dwell occasion operations Cedric Billot. “Cyprus is the proper location so as to add to our schedule and we sit up for bringing all that an EPT has to supply to this new location. We’ll proceed to enhance participant expertise each for on-line {qualifications} and at our dwell occasions.”
Paris, Cyprus welcomed to the occasion
The 2023 EPT season begins off with considered one of two new stops, as Billot talked about above: Paris. Working February 15-26 on the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile in partnership with Le Membership Barrière Paris, EPT Paris could have 39 complete occasions, together with France Poker Sequence tournaments. The €5,300 ($5,580) EPT Paris Primary Occasion could have two beginning days and run February 20-26.
The spring tour cease, the one earlier than the break for the WSOP, is EPT Monte-Carlo, April 26 – Might 6. The total schedule has not been launched, however the €5,300 Primary Occasion has been confirmed for April 30 – Might 6. In late summer time, it’s time for one of the vital widespread stops on any tour, EPT Barcelona, slated for August 21 – September 3. The EPT Barcelona Primary Occasion begins August 27.
EPT Cyprus is the opposite new location on the European Poker Tour in 2023. Hosted by the Advantage Royal Diamond Lodge & On line casino & Spa, EPT Cyprus is scheduled for October 11-22, with the Primary Occasion starting October 16.
The ultimate cease on the 2023 European Poker Tour is the tried and true EPT Prague, December 4-15. Like the opposite non-Paris stops, the total schedule remains to be underneath development, however PokerStars has mentioned the Primary Occasion is December 9-15.
EPT Prague nonetheless to return subsequent week
Although we’re waiting for 2023, there may be nonetheless enterprise left to maintain on the European Poker Tour in 2022. Identical to subsequent 12 months’s schedule ends with EPT Prague, this 12 months’s EPT season additionally concludes within the Czech Republic capital. Hosted by King’s On line casino Prague, EPT Prague begins December 7 and runs via December 18.
There are 53 occasions on the EPT Prague schedule, a few of that are a part of the Eureka Poker Tour, or just “Eureka,” as PokerStars now calls it. Eureka is a tour that focuses on Central and Jap Europe.
The EPT Prague Primary Occasion, which has a €5,300 buy-in like all of the others, might be December 12-18. It permits for a single re-entry, two entries most throughout each beginning flights.