The European Poker Tour (EPT) and the United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) have joined forces once again, this time around in London.
One of the main European Poker Tour sponsors is Pokerstars. In the 2007 event 4 of the final 5 players qualified online through this site – including the eventual winner. EPT London features a great range of preliminary poker tournaments with buy-ins ranging from just £300. All you need to know about the first European Poker Tour (EPT) stop of 2019. The biggest news on day 1B at the 2010 PokerStars European Poker Tour London £5,250 no-limit hold’em main event was the release of the official size of the field and prize pool.
The UKIPT began its last stop in 2014 at the Hippodrome Casino on Oct. 7 with a huge £150+£15 super satellite to UKIPT London Main Event.
Both Day 1 starting flights of the UKIPT Main Event are now in the books with 200 players surviving from the initial 1,089 entrants that either ponied up the £700+£70 entry fee or qualified via one of the many satellites that ran on the UKIPT's online partner PokerStars.
United Kingdom's Eric Theissen has a slight chip lead heading into Day 2 action on Friday with 293,200 chips. Fellow countryman Hamid Toghyan wasn't too far behind to start the day in second place with 279,000 chips.
The UKIPT Main Event Day 3 will take place on Saturday, Oct. 11, with the final table coinciding with day 1a of the EPT Main Event on Sunday, Oct. 12.
Here is a look at all of the UKIPT and EPT action on tap for the combined London poker festivals.
2014 UKIPT / EPT London Festival Schedule
| Date | Time | Tournament | Buy-In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 8 Oct | 12:00 | UKIPT Main Event Day 1a* | £700+£70 |
| Wed 8 Oct | 21:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo Win the Button* | £200+£20 |
| Thu 9 Oct | 12:00 | UKIPT Main Event Day 1b* | £700+£70 |
| Thu 9 Oct | 19:00 | NL Hold’em UKIPT London Cup 1a* | £300+£30 |
| Fri 10 Oct | 12:00 | UKIPT Main Event Day 2 | |
| Fri 10 Oct | 12:00 | Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed | £5,000+£300 |
| Fri 10 Oct | 14:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo Deepstack* | £200+£20 |
| Fri 10 Oct | 18:00 | NL Hold’em UKIPT London Cup 1b* | £300+£30 |
| Sat 11 Oct | 12:00 | UKIPT Main Event Day 3 | |
| Sat 11 Oct | 12:00 | Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed Final Day | |
| Sat 11 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em London Cup Final Day | |
| Sat 11 Oct | 14:00 | NL Hold’em Deepstack* | £300+£30 |
| Sat 11 Oct | 19:00 | Pot Limit 7-Card Stud Deepstack Turbo | £300+£30 |
| Sun 12 Oct | 12:00 | EPT Main Event Day 1a | £4,000+£250 |
| Sun 12 Oct | 12:30 | UKIPT Main Event Final Table | |
| Sun 12 Oct | 12:30 | NL Hold’em Women’s Event | £200+£20 |
| Sun 12 Oct | 12:30 | NL Hold’em Senior’s Event (over 50s) | £200+£20 |
| Sun 12 Oct | 14:00 | Pot Limit Omaha Double Chance* | £300+£30 |
| Sun 12 Oct | 18:00 | NL Hold’em* | £300+£30 |
| Mon 13 Oct | 12:00 | EPT Main Event Day 1b | £4,000+£250 |
| Mon 13 Oct | 20:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo 8-Handed | £2,000+£150 |
| Tue 14 Oct | 12:00 | EPT Main Event Day 2 | |
| Tue 14 Oct | 16:00 | NL Hold’em Day 1 | £2,000+£200 |
| Tue 14 Oct | 21:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo Win the Button* | £200+£20 |
| Wed 15 Oct | EPT Main Event Day 3 | ||
| Wed 15 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Final Day | |
| Wed 15 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Single Re-Entry 1a | £1,000+£100 |
| Wed 15 Oct | 15:00 | EPT 8-Game Championships | £1,000+£100 |
| Wed 15 Oct | 19:00 | NL Hold’em Sngle Re-Entry 1b | £1,000+£100 |
| Wed 15 Oct | 20:00 | Pot Limit Omaha Turbo* | £200+£20 |
| Thu 16 Oct | 12:00 | EPT Main Event Day 4 | |
| Thu 16 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em High Roller Single Re-Entry | £10,000+£300 |
| Thu 16 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Single Re-Entry Final | |
| Thu 16 Oct | 13:00 | Pot Limit Omaha Day 1 | £1,000+£100 |
| Thu 16 Oct | 15:00 | EPT HORSE Championships | £1,000+£100 |
| Thu 16 Oct | 19:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo | £1,000+£100 |
| Thu 16 Oct | 21:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo Deepstack Deuces Wild* | £200+£20 |
| Fri 17 Oct | 12:00 | EPT Main Event Day 5 | |
| Fri 17 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em High Roller Day 2 | |
| Fri 17 Oct | 12:00 | Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed Final | |
| Fri 17 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em 30-Min Levels 8-Handed* | £500+£50 |
| Fri 17 Oct | 15:00 | EPT 10 Game Championships | £1,000+£100 |
| Fri 17 Oct | 17:00 | NL Hold’em Deepstack 8-Handed Day 1* | £1,500+£150 |
| Fri 17 Oct | 19:00 | NL Hold’em Grasel Sweets SuperStack Day 1* | £200+£20 |
| Fri 17 Oct | 21:00 | Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Low Turbo Deepstack* | £300+£30 |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em High Roller Final | |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em 30-Min levels Final | |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Deepstack Final | |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Grasel Sweets SuperStack Final | |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo 6-Handed | £5,000+£200 |
| Sat 18 Oct | 12:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo Super Deepstack* | £300+£30 |
| Sat 18 Oct | 13:00 | EPT Main Event Final Table | |
| Sat 18 Oct | 16:00 | NL Hold’em Turbo 6-Handed | £2,000+£150 |
| Sat 18 Oct | 17:00 | NL Hold’em Hyper Turbo* | £200+£20 |
*Denotes tournament is part of the UKIPT and therefore eligible for UKIPT leaderboard points.
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The biggest news on day 1B at the 2010 PokerStars European Poker Tour London £5,250 no-limit hold’em main event was the release of the official size of the field and prize pool. The field stands at 848 players, which smashes the record for the largest poker tournament ever held in England.
The previous record was 730 players for the 2009 EPT London main event. The year-over-year growth was an impressive 16 percent, making this one of the largest poker tournaments of the year.
Here is a look at the full prize payout information:
| Position | Prize |
| 1 | £900,000 |
| 2 | £545,000 |
| 3 | £300,000 |
| 4 | £240,000 |
| 5 | £190,000 |
| 6 | £145,000 |
| 7 | £100,000 |
| 8 | £66,800 |
| 9-10 | £45,000 |
| 11-12 | £35,000 |
| 13-14 | £30,000 |
| 15-16 | £25,000 |
| 17-24 | £21,000 |
| 25-32 | £19,000 |
| 33-40 | £17,000 |
| 41-48 | £15,000 |
| 49-64 | £13,000 |
| 65-80 | £11,000 |
| 81-104 | £9,000 |
| 105-128 | £7,500 |
The increase in numbers is thanks in large part to the host country of the United Kingdom and the sizeable contingent of professionals and qualifiers from the United States who decided to make the jump across the pond. France, Germany, and Italy rounded out the top five. Here is a look at the top 10 nationalities in number of players participating at EPT London:
| Country | Players |
| UK | 170 |
| USA | 167 |
| France | 63 |
| Germany | 53 |
| Italy | 48 |
| Canada | 40 |
| Sweden | 34 |
| Netherlands | 27 |
| Russia | 25 |
| Ireland | 18 |
| Norway | 18 |
Of the 509 players that entered the tournament today just 243 remained at the end of play tonight. They will join the 146 players that survived from day 1A tomorrow at noon local time (4 a.m. PST). You can catch all of the action in our live reporting and you can also catch videos from CardPlayer TV throughout the day. Here is a look at one of the videos from today with the newest member of Team PokerStars pro, Liv Boeree:
There was a large number of Team PokerStars pros and big-name professionals today, including Daniel Negreanu and Phil Ivey. Both of them have made it through to tomorrow. Some professionals that weren’t so lucky include Team PokerStars pros Sandra Naujoks, Fatima de Melo, Pieter de Korver, Johnny Lodden, and Dennis Phillips. The fallen also included Liz Lieu, Anthony Lellouche, Praz Bansi, Nenad Medic, Justin Smith, Kathy Liebert, and Viktor Blom, the players that has been tied to the screen name Isildur1.
Official chip counts have yet to be released, but here are the unofficial top 10 to tide you over:
| Claudio Cecchi | Italy | 237,500 | |
| David Vamplew | UK | 205,200 | |
| Tony Cascarino | Ireland | 181,400 | |
| Claire Renaut | France | 171,900 | |
| Max Steinberg | USA | 164,400 | |
| Jude Ainsworth | Ireland | Team PokerStars Pro | 163,500 |
| Mihai Manole | Romania | 161,900 | |
| Kenneth Hicks | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 153,300 |
| Jason Wheeler | USA | PokerStars player | 141,500 |
| Kyle Bowker | USA | 141,300 |
EPT London continues the march down to the final table and £900,000 tomorrow, during nine more levels of poker on London’s West End. Here are the full official chips counts from the day:
European Poker Tour 10 London England
| Name | Country | Status | Chips |
| Claudio Cecchi | Italy | 237,500 | |
| David Vamplew | UK | 205,200 | |
| Tony Cascarino | Ireland | 181,400 | |
| Claire Renaut | France | 171,900 | |
| Max Steinberg | USA | 164,400 | |
| Jude Ainsworth | Ireland | Team PokerStars Pro | 163,500 |
| Mihai Manole | Romania | 161,900 | |
| Kenneth Hicks | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 153,300 |
| Jason Wheeler | USA | PokerStars player | 141,500 |
| Kyle Bowker | USA | 141,300 | |
| Andrew Seden | UK | 141,100 | |
| Alain Roy | France | 137,500 | |
| Mustapha Kanit | Italy | 134,600 | |
| Gilbert Diaz | France | 129,200 | |
| Lukas Baumer | Germany | 128,100 | |
| Cheung Tai Law | UK | 127,900 | |
| Daniel Negreanu | Canada | Team PokerStars Pro | 122,200 |
| JP Kelly | UK | Team PokerStars Pro | 121,100 |
| Eduardo Santi | Argentina | 119,300 | |
| Phil Ivey | USA | 117,900 | |
| Kevin Eyster | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 117,400 |
| Paul Foltyn | UK | 115,600 | |
| Carlos Curi | Argentina | 115,300 | |
| Mario Silvestri | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 115,100 |
| Antonio Palma | Portugal | 115,000 | |
| Klaus Pautrot | France | 114,100 | |
| Vanessa Yiping Peng | USA | 113,100 | |
| Samuel Grafton | UK | 113,000 | |
| Alessandro Sciolti | Italy | PokerStars player | 110,800 |
| Harrison Kaczka | USA | 110,100 | |
| Jose Nadal | Mexico | 109,700 | |
| Christophe De Meulder | Belgium | Team PokerStars Pro | 109,400 |
| Quinn Do | USA | 109,300 | |
| Joe Hachem | Australia | Team PokerStars Pro | 108,400 |
| Salvatore Bonavena | Italy | Team PokerStars Pro | 107,100 |
| Martin Hansen | Denmark | 103,700 | |
| Allen Bari | USA | 103,100 | |
| Emanuele Rugini | Italy | 102,700 | |
| Julien Labussiere | France | 101,300 | |
| Marwan Zakhem | UK | 101,300 | |
| Michalis Michael | UK | 100,200 | |
| Michael Telker | USA | PokerStars player | 100,200 |
| Samuel Trickett | UK | 98,100 | |
| Geert Jan Potijk | Netherlands | 98,000 | |
| Joshua Tekesky | USA | 97,200 | |
| Theo Jorgenson | Denmark | 97,200 | |
| Boris Becker | Germany | Team PokerStars SportStar | 94,700 |
| Samuel Stein | USA | 94,500 | |
| George Abdallah | USA | 93,800 | |
| Thomas Hall | Hong Kong | 93,600 | |
| Faisal Belhoul | Dubai | 92,400 | |
| Fintan Gavin | Ireland | PokerStars player | 92,000 |
| Waseem Ahmed | UK | 91,100 | |
| Kamal Choraria | UK | 90,600 | |
| Giacomo Fundaro | Italy | 90,500 | |
| Matt Perrins | UK | 90,000 | |
| Magnus Persson | Sweden | 87,600 | |
| Brian Powell | USA | 87,400 | |
| Jamie Brown | United Kingdom | PokerStars player | 86,900 |
| Guillaume Rivet | Canada | PokerStars player | 85,100 |
| Andrew Walker | USA | 83,700 | |
| Joel Nordkvist | Sweden | 83,100 | |
| Manig Loeser | Germany | 82,800 | |
| Walid Bouhabib | Lebanon | 82,100 | |
| Christophe Benzimra | France | 81,100 | |
| Florian Kossler | Germany | 80,400 | |
| Massimiliano Pescatori | Italy | 80,100 | |
| Danny Toffel | UK | 79,100 | |
| Noah Boeken | Netherlands | Team PokerStars Pro | 78,200 |
| Andrew Feldman | UK | 77,900 | |
| Evan Parkes | Canada | 77,000 | |
| Konstantinos Nanos | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 76,700 |
| Liv Boeree | UK | Team PokerStars Pro | 76,500 |
| Henrik Tollefsen | Norway | 76,500 | |
| Michael Benvenuti | USA | 76,200 | |
| Roger Hairabedian | France | 76,000 | |
| John Magill | Ireland | 75,800 | |
| Annette Obrestad | Norway | 75,500 | |
| Daniel Cates | USA | 75,400 | |
| Christer Bjorin | Sweden | 75,200 | |
| Kevin Stani | Norway | 74,800 | |
| Gordon Huntley | UK | 74,400 | |
| Angelo Alberto Falcone | Italy | 74,000 | |
| Stephen Chidwick | UK | 73,900 | |
| Arto Loikkanen | Finland | 73,800 | |
| Erik Van Dijk | Netherlands | PokerStars qualifier | 73,600 |
| Ramin Henke | Germany | 73,500 | |
| Sunil Moti | UK | 73,100 | |
| Narendra Banwari | USA | 72,900 | |
| Charles Chua | Malaysia | 72,200 | |
| John Dolan | USA | 72,100 | |
| Jeffery Lisandro | Italy | 71,000 | |
| Scott Montgomery | Canada | 69,600 | |
| Guillaume Gignac | Canada | PokerStars player | 68,500 |
| Nikhil Persaud | UK | 68,300 | |
| Steve Jelinek | UK | 67,600 | |
| David Baker | United States | PokerStars player | 66,800 |
| Dennis Bejedal | Sweden | 66,800 | |
| Dmitry Bayramov | Russia | PokerStars qualifier | 66,100 |
| Leo Margets | Spain | 65,900 | |
| Ilya Gorodetskiy | Russia | 65,400 | |
| Luca Falaschi | Italy | 65,300 | |
| Fabrice Soulier | France | 64,800 | |
| Barkatul Mohammed | UK | 64,000 | |
| Antoine Amourette | France | PokerStars qualifier | 63,600 |
| Christopher Tighe | UK | PokerStars player | 63,000 |
| Bruno Launais | France | 62,300 | |
| Gijs Verheijen | Netherlands | 62,200 | |
| Juan Maceiras | Spain | Team PokerStars Pro | 62,000 |
| Hani Elassaad | Lebanon | 60,200 | |
| Adolfo Vaeza | Uruguay | 59,700 | |
| Daniel Rudd | UK | 59,500 | |
| Marius Maciukas | Lithuania | 59,500 | |
| Justin Tazelaar | Netherlands | 59,400 | |
| Toni Judet | Romania | Team PokerStars Pro | 58,600 |
| Nikolay Evdakov | Russia | 57,300 | |
| Keir Ratcliff | UK | 57,000 | |
| Eric Baldwin | USA | 56,800 | |
| Scott Palmer | USA | 56,500 | |
| Sandiep Ajab Singh Khosa | UK | 56,400 | |
| Bitar Ghassan | Monaco | 56,200 | |
| Sebastian Ruthenberg | Germany | Team PokerStars Pro | 55,800 |
| Daniel Lococo | Canada | PokerStars player | 55,300 |
| Zachary Korik | USA | PokerStars player | 54,900 |
| Ronny Johansen | Norway | PokerStars qualifier | 54,800 |
| Mathias Kuerschner | Germany | PokerStars qualifier | 54,700 |
| William Martin | UK | 54,400 | |
| Dave Ulliott | UK | 54,000 | |
| Dominik Nitsche | Germany | 53,600 | |
| Tim Finne | USA | 53,500 | |
| David Rheem | USA | 53,300 | |
| Terje Augdal | Norway | 52,700 | |
| Jack Ellwood | UK | 52,300 | |
| Kayvan Payman | Canada | 52,300 | |
| Jonas Klausen | Denmark | 51,900 | |
| Tomer Berda | Israel | 51,900 | |
| Boco Raphael | France | PokerStars qualifier | 51,600 |
| George Phiniotis | Cyprus | 50,000 | |
| John Cernuto | USA | 49,900 | |
| Miguel Proulx | Canada | PokerStars qualifier | 49,100 |
| Richard Toth | Hungary | Team PokerStars Pro | 48,900 |
| Gregory Merson | USA | 48,600 | |
| Moritz Kranich | Germany | 48,500 | |
| Nicholas Katz | UK | 47,600 | |
| Paul Kristoffersson | Sweden | 47,500 | |
| Gino Gabriel | UK | 45,700 | |
| Jonas Ovestad | UK | 45,600 | |
| Chad Brown | USA | Team PokerStars Pro | 45,600 |
| Wojciech Jankiewicz | Poland | 45,400 | |
| Dmitry Vitkind | Russia | 44,000 | |
| John Hall | United States | PokerStars player | 43,800 |
| Leo Fernandez | Argentina | Team PokerStars Pro | 43,800 |
| Ramzi Jelassi | Sweden | 43,500 | |
| Hans Varsi | Norway | 43,200 | |
| Luc Xu | France | 42,900 | |
| Josh Prager | USA | 42,400 | |
| Nichlas Mattsson | Sweden | 42,300 | |
| Robert Nulli | Italy | 41,800 | |
| Yuriten Bokkel | Netherlands | 41,600 | |
| Rudy Blondeau | Canada | PokerStars player | 41,400 |
| Kirill Rabtsov | Russia | 41,400 | |
| Patrick Uzan | France | 40,500 | |
| Matt Affleck | USA | 40,400 | |
| Jonathan Aguiar | USA | 40,400 | |
| Philip Patrick | UK | 39,600 | |
| Parlafes Dany | Romania | PokerStars qualifier | 39,300 |
| Felipe Ramos | Brazil | 39,200 | |
| Mark Andrew Southwood | UK | 38,300 | |
| Ross Boatman | UK | 38,200 | |
| Christopher Plimmer | UK | PokerStars player | 38,100 |
| Tim Ulrich | Germany | PokerStars player | 38,000 |
| Christoph Kohnen | Germany | 37,500 | |
| Peyman Luth | Germany | 36,500 | |
| Per Ummer | Cyprus | 36,200 | |
| Tomi Aalto | Finland | 35,400 | |
| Tom Berthan | UK | 35,400 | |
| Harrison Schoenau | USA | 35,400 | |
| Leo Antonius Cornelus | Netherlands | 35,100 | |
| Men Nguyen | USA | 35,100 | |
| Anthony Cousineau | United States | PokerStars player | 35,000 |
| Amnon Filippi | USA | 35,000 | |
| Amerigo Santoro | Italy | 35,000 | |
| Peter Robert Veale | UK | 35,000 | |
| Alexander Zayonts | Russia | 33,900 | |
| Marty Smyth | Ireland | 33,500 | |
| Tommie Janssen | Netherlands | PokerStars qualifier | 33,100 |
| Juan Rosa | Argentina | PokerStars qualifier | 33,100 |
| Jami Juutila | Finland | 33,000 | |
| Eric Qu | France | 32,300 | |
| Craig McCorkell | UK | 32,000 | |
| Byron Kaverman | USA | 31,100 | |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 31,000 |
| Andre Akkari | Brazil | Team PokerStars Pro | 29,800 |
| Jannick Wrang | Denmark | PokerStars qualifier | 29,700 |
| Max Lykov | Russia | Team PokerStars Pro | 29,300 |
| Meenakshi Subramaniam | India | 28,600 | |
| Jean Philippe Savary | France | 28,400 | |
| A Alterman | UK | 27,900 | |
| Eughan O’dea | Ireland | 27,700 | |
| John Norberg | USA | PokerStars qualifier | 27,300 |
| Allen Kessler | USA | 26,900 | |
| David Curtis | Ireland | PokerStars player | 26,700 |
| Jeffrey Hakim | Canada | PokerStars qualifier | 26,400 |
| Ignat Liviu | Romania | 26,100 | |
| Alexia Portal | France | 25,000 | |
| Andrea Benelli | Italy | 24,900 | |
| Anh Nguyen | Canada | Team PokerStars Pro | 24,700 |
| Petter Jetten | Canada | 24,400 | |
| Tom-Aksel Bedell | Norway | 24,300 | |
| Ronald Lee | USA | 24,200 | |
| Jerome Guermeur | France | 24,000 | |
| Cort Kibler | USA | 23,300 | |
| Patrick Sacrispeyre | France | 22,500 | |
| Mirza Nagji | USA | 22,300 | |
| Michael Binger | USA | 21,900 | |
| Alex Gomes | Brazil | Team PokerStars Pro | 21,500 |
| Daniel Perez | Spain | 19,100 | |
| Saltano Salvatore | Italy | 19,000 | |
| Oscar Blanco | Spain | 19,000 | |
| Charles Combes | UK | 18,900 | |
| Kevin Abecassis | Switzerland | 18,800 | |
| Anthony Roux | France | 18,800 | |
| Christian Harder | USA | 18,800 | |
| Phillippe Ktorza | France | 18,600 | |
| Justin Young | USA | 17,900 | |
| Benjamin Vinson | UK | 17,800 | |
| Yury Gulyy | Russia | 17,600 | |
| Paul Zimbler | UK | 16,400 | |
| James Mitchell | UK | 15,900 | |
| Laurent Carbonnel | France | 15,900 | |
| Cristiano Guerra | Italy | 14,800 | |
| Andrew Couldridge | UK | UKIPT winner | 14,000 |
| Fraid Alichanov | Netherlands | 13,400 | |
| Vincent Patrick Rubianes | USA | 9,900 | |
| Freddy Deeb | USA | 6,400 |