£1 million London EPT event

The new EPT season kicks off in Barcelona in September with a wealth of stars set to play in the glamorous Catalan capital. Barcelona is always a highly popular and fiercely-contested tournament, and the Season 5 launch event is likely to be no exception.
EPT London, which takes place from October 1-5, 2008, is set to be a spectacular tournament this season, thanks to PokerStars adding on £250,000 to create a cool £1 million guaranteed first prize. This is the first time that PokerStars has offered a guaranteed first prize at an EPT and it’s likely to attract a massive field of players from all over the world
London is regarded as a home away from home for many of the world’s top poker players, with growing popularity in the UK for the Online format, and a great Venue the first PokerStars EPT £1 Million Showdown looks certain to attract a plentiful and competitive field.
The EPT London is scheduled for Oct. 1-5 with a £5,400 buy-in main event. There are plenty of preliminary events on tap as well starting on Sept. 24, but the high-rollers may make the extra effort to come for the £20,300 £1 million Showdown taking place after the main event.
The schedule of other events is as follows:
• Sept. 24 at 8 p.m £220 No-Limit Hold'em w/rebuys (two-day tournament)
• Sept. 25 at 8 p.m £385 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout (two-day tournament)
• Sept. 26 at 8 p.m £550 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout (two-day tournament)
• Sept. 27 at 6 p.m £1,575 No-Limit Hold'em Double Chance Freezeout (two-day tournament)
• Sept. 28 at 6 p.m £1,060 Omaha Double Chance Freezeout (one-day tournament)
There will also be live super satellites for the main event and the Omaha Double Chance Freezeout scheduled over those days as well.
Satellites for this year’s £5,200 buy-in event started on PokerStars on August 4 but there are plenty set to run until late September, giving you dozens of opportunities to win a seat. A total of 60 qualifiers played in last year’s tournament – and four of those reached the top five, cashing well over a million pounds between them. Aside from Mouawad, there was rising German star Marcel Baran who won £203,840 for 3rd place, Josh Egan from New Zealand who took home £152,880 for 4th place and 19-year-old Swede Fredrik Haugen who came 5th for 124,342.
For your chance to hit the tables in London during the EPT events, visit PokerStars to take in some online qualifiers.
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