EPT Prague going big...way big

The European Poker Tour is expecting to host certainly one of its biggest-ever events when it heads to Prague a month from today.

Kicking off December 7, the Prague Poker Festival will combine the Eureka Poker Tour and EPT for 59 events. What does it take to make that happen? It starts with 140 poker tables and requires 228 members of the tournament staff, greater than every other PokerStars live event in history .

"The Prague Poker Festival always attracts a lot of players who play both tournaments and cash games. This year's festival has potential to be even bigger than last season where both the Eureka and EPT Main Events shattered records," said EPT President Edgar Stuchly.

Last year, EPT Prague drew nearly 9,000 entries and €13 million in prize money.

Yes, it is a big one

It's not only an issue of the way many of us are going to turn up (which, again, is predicted to be a large number). It's greater than that.

The EPT Prague Poker Festival goes to how the top buy-in poker event the Czech Republic has ever seen. December 9-11, the highest players from world wide will sit to play the €50,000 Super High Roller.

What else? Well, just everything else you may want in a poker festival.

The EPT--again, for the primary time--will start hosting Midnight Turbos for the night-owls within the crowd. With buy-ins starting from €300 to €1,000, anyone with a stiff cup of coffee can be in a position to compete for some decent money at the graveyard shift.

Those aren't the one unique events happening this year. Over the process the 11-day festival, the EPT will placed on three Omaha championships, a junior's event only for 18-21 year-olds, the Czech Republic's first senior's event, and a Finns only Finnish Championship event. Oh yes, and keep your eyes open for the introduction of Super Hold'em and Irish Hold'em events.

Need more info? Head on over to the EPT Prague page.

We'll see you there...if we will be able to find you within the crowd.

Brad Willis is the PokerStars Head of Blogging

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