For 8 long years, the people from the British the islands had to wait for the return of the prestigious EPT series to their territory, but as they say, patience is gold! The city of the rich, as it is often nicknamed, proved that people are not afraid to invest even in a good poker action, as demonstrated by the daily High Rollers with buy-ins beyond the means of ordinary mortals since the beginning of the festival.
However, thanks to the marathon of live streams, the attention of most viewers around the world was attracted by the Main Event, whose comeback produced a total of 749 entries. In money terms, these mean a prizepool worth 3,632,650, which has begun to be divided among the top 111 players. But the most exciting prizes are still up for grabs, with a valuable trophy and a nice amount of £664,400 awaiting the champion of this event.
We will know the name of the champion already tomorrow, but before that we still have the semi-final day. The last 16 players fought their way into it after quite a few difficult rounds, and this group promises a nice game. The Czech Republic (Roman Hrabec), Hungary (Marton Czuczor), home Britain (Harry Lodge) will be represented there, and among the names there are also names such as Jack Sinclair, or the legendary 9-time WSOP champion Erik Seidel. By participating in the semi-final day they all secured a minimum cashout of £29,800, who will make it to the final table and grab EPT title?
The day before yesterday, the entire event schedule included another tournament in the increasingly popular Mystery Bounty format, where the organizers additionally promised one envelope with a £30,000 Platinum Pass for a £3,000 buy-in. The tournament produced a total of 461 entries, which took care of £791,076 in prize money. Pavel Plesuv took home the biggest share (£154,426), for whom this is already the third EPT trophy. As for the aforementioned Platinum Pass, it was won by Hannes Jeschka at the beginning of the final day, who will thus play the massive PSPC in January for free!
Superhuman buy-in tournaments included another one-day £25k High Roller, which brought a friendly 12-hour competition of the world's elite players. A group of 19 daredevils jointly produced a prize pool of £456,190, from which Daniel Dvoress took home the trophy and a share of £193,170. Despite more than $21 million won in live tournaments, Dvoress has been waiting for an EPT title until now, and this victory feels even sweeter thanks to that!
