扑克锦标赛大企业，成为世界上电路大牌游戏世界中的摇滚明星。当我开始打牌后成为一个成功的赌徒，通常不会在电视或杂志封面出现，因为这样会更容易被抛出的赌场，或因此削减了赌技！国际锦标赛扑克改变了这一切。
扑克之星是一个惊人的大事件对于现场锦标赛扑克的支持者来说。他们赞助12扑克之旅成为世界各地的节日。这些活动包括，一年有100万美元以上有巨额资金投资的现场扑克锦标赛。谁能够更好地做到这一点，其实他们的网上棋牌室已经超过36万（一个数字，使得它的人口几乎是澳大利亚的两倍大小）的成员，他们有一个新的扑克比赛，每天24小时可以随时在线开始。
欧洲扑克巡回赛
EPT主席约翰庄莎妮，现在已经是一个成功的电视导演和高赌注扑克选手，电视直播看出他在2000人中赢得了扑克奖金，获得英镑1万元，并实现了在英国普及扑克的壮举。
WGM公司：约翰，告诉我们一个关于EPT创造。
法学博士：这一个想法，是我在2004年初与原广播公司、英国5频道的支持参与以及所有欧洲赌场的帮助。通过PokerStars.com赞助，我们能够让它在六个月内运行。
WGM公司：是什么单一的东西使EPT实现一个扑克之旅。
JD：种类繁多，可以融合不同的文化和语言。
庄莎妮已经看到他的心血结晶蓬勃发展成最富有和最负盛名的的扑克电路。现在每个赛季的EPT的时间从8月至5月牢固确立。 EPT在世界各地大约40个国家广播播放。
在它的前六年的EPT形成了57个独立扑克节日。荷兰彼得 – 科沃尔赛季5EPT总决赛在蒙特卡洛展开，在一个单一的EPT比赛赢得的最高金额为€2.3亿美元。
2009年10月赛季是一个比以往任何时候许多活动都享有更大的领域，并取得圆满成功。在蒙特卡洛，EPT总决赛€10,000 是EPT的展示品比赛，在第六季中，€8.48亿奖池吸引了848的玩家。 2010年明星扑克加勒比海冒险（PCA），成为EPT的一部分，是拉斯维加斯最富有的扑克节以外的举行了近1500万美元的奖金池的比赛。意大利圣雷莫，是EPT蒙特卡洛总决赛的最后一站，因其广阔的领域而闻名。第6节没有什么不同，看到了破纪录的1240玩家领域。为EPT赛季6的总奖金池€56672284是一个惊人的主赛事，参赛玩家超过9000。
EPT刚刚开始的第七个赛季，将十三日定为节日。八月在爱沙尼亚塔林推出。巡回赛还到了其他地方，包括了葡萄牙的维拉摩拉高尔夫天堂，惊人的萨尔巴赫“EPT Snowfest”，Hinterglemm，德国首都柏林，同时还包括奥地利滑雪胜地，和壮观的具有标志性的扑克节日在各地举行，如EPT伦敦，PCA和的EPT的大决赛。
EPT甚至有其自己的式。颁奖仪式中的那些奖项包括EPT玩家的最高成就，以及今年最好的在线限定符，奥马哈玩家，混合游戏玩家，磁头数最多的玩家和全面的玩家。
玩家可享受PokerStars.com EPT。那些在赛季的竞争，他们之间在6个主要活动赢得了数百万美元，在2000多名玩家中赢得了自己座位上扑克之星。该投资的最大回报是实现23，今年的EPT大决赛的主要赛事冠军是尼古拉“niccc”Chouity赢得$ 22，获得赛蒙特卡洛之行扑克之星，里贝鲁特赢得€1.7万。
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Asia: The Next Europe?
Poker tournaments are big business, and the big names on the world circuit are the rock stars of the gaming world. Back when I started playing cards being a successful gambler wouldn’t usually get your face on TV or the cover of a magazine, you’d be more likely to be thrown out of a casino or cut off by your bookie for being an expert on the punt! International tournament poker has changed all that.
PokerStars are an amazing supporter of big-event live tournament poker. They sponsor 12 poker tours and festivals around the world. These events comprise hundreds of big-money live poker tournaments giving away well over US$100 million a year. And who better to do it, given their online card room has over 36 million members （a number that makes its population almost twice the size of Australia）， and they have a new poker tournament starting online every second, 24 hours a day.
The European Poker Tour
John Duthie, now the Chairman of the EPT, was already a successful TV director and high stakes poker player when he won the 2000 Poker Million live on TV, a feat which earned him ?1 million and helped popularise poker in the UK.
WGM: John, tell us a little about the creation of the EPT.
JD: It was an idea I had in early 2004 and with the help of all the European casinos involved along with the backing of the original broadcaster, Channel 5 in the UK. With the sponsorship of PokerStars.com we were able to get it up and running within six months.
WGM: What single thing makes the EPT different to other poker tours.
JD: Probably the enormous variety of locations, the different cultures and languages spoken.
Duthie has seen his brainchild flourish into the planet’s richest and most prestigious poker circuit. Each season’s EPT schedule is now firmly established, running from August to May. The EPT show is broadcast to around 40 countries around the world.
Over its first six years the EPT completed 57 separate poker festivals. The highest amount ever won in a single EPT tournament was €2.3 million by Pieter de Korver from the Netherlands at the season 5 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo.
Season 6 in 2009/10 was a resounding success with many events enjoying bigger fields than ever before. The €10,000 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo is the EPT’s showpiece tournament, and in season 6 it attracted 848 players and a prize pool of €8.48 million. The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure （PCA）， which forms part of the EPT, was the richest poker festival ever held outside of Las Vegas with a prize pool of nearly US$15 million. Sanremo, Italy is home to the final stop on the EPT before the Monte Carlo grand final, and is renowned for its big fields. Season 6 was no different seeing a record-breaking field of 1,240 players. The total prize pool for EPT season 6 was a staggering €56,672,284 created by over 9,000 main event players.
The EPT has just begun its seventh season, which will feature 13 scheduled festivals. It debuted in August in Tallinn, Estonia. Stops on the tour will include the golf haven of Vilamoura in Portugal, ‘EPT Snowfest’ in the stunning Austrian ski resort of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Germany’s capital city of Berlin, and spectacular iconic festivals of poker such as EPT London, the PCA and the EPT Grand Final.
The EPT even has its own awards ceremony. These awards include the year’s top achievement as voted for by EPT players, and the year’s best online qualifier, Omaha player, mixed game player, heads-up player and all-round player.
Players can qualify for every EPT event on PokerStars.com. More than 2,000 of those who competed in season 6 main events won their seat on PokerStars, winning millions of dollars between them. The biggest return on investment was achieved by 23-year-old EPT Grand Final main event champion Nicolas “niccc” Chouity who won his trip to Monte Carlo in a $22 re-buy tournament on PokerStars and went home to Beirut €1.7 million richer.