The PokerStars employees introduced two extra stops to the 2025 PokerStars European Poker Tour schedule. On Monday, they revealed Malta and Prague would run in the course of the last few months of the yr.
The additions make 4 stops for the 2025 iteration of the EPT, becoming a member of Monte-Carlo and Barcelona. Initially, there was a fifth competition scheduled this month for Paris. Nonetheless, PokerStars canceled that occasion as a consequence of “unexpected modifications in French authorities insurance policies.”
The 2025 EPT Malta competition is the sooner of the 2 additions, working from Oct. 1-12 on the InterContinental Malta. The cease was absent from the tour for practically a decade.
The final time Malta was on the tour was 2016, when Belarus’ Aliaksei Boika topped 486 entries within the €5,300 major occasion for €355,700.
Whereas the complete schedule for the 12-day sequence has not but been launched, PokerStars cemented dates for 2 key occasions. The EPT Malta €5,300 major occasion will run Oct. 6-12, and can be preceded by the PokerStars Open €1,100 major occasion from Oct. 1-6.
The PokerStars Open idea was introduced late in 2024, a transfer that can change a number of widespread current regional excursions whereas opening the door to internet hosting comparable occasions in new markets.
“Our PokerStars Open stops are going to offer gamers with unbelievable experiences, with every location having its personal distinctive really feel that can come collectively as a European sequence that each ladders as much as the EPT and arise in their very own proper. We all know that gamers take pleasure in touring to different nations for tournaments so we’ve determined to make the transfer to the PokerStars Open because it offers us much more flexibility to throw million-guaranteed occasions anyplace in Europe, not simply the place now we have established nationwide excursions,” mentioned Cédric Billot, Affiliate Director of Dwell Occasions Operations at PokerStars.
This yr’s EPT Prague sequence is slated for Dec. 3-14 on the Hilton Prague. Final yr, the €5,300 major occasion drew a record-setting subject of 1,458 entries. Portugal’s Pedro Marques captured the title and the highest prize of $1,021,257 USD.
The PokerStars Open in Prague is about for Dec. 3-8, with the primary occasion working Dec. 8-14.
Right here’s the 2025 EPT schedule:
Metropolis
Dates
Venue
Monte Carlo
4/30 – 5/10
Sporting Monte Carlo
Barcelona
8/18 – 8/31
On line casino Barcelona
Malta
10/1 – 10/12
InterContinental Malta
Prague
12/3 – 12/14
Hilton Resort Prague
Extra data could be discovered on the official PokerStars Dwell web site.
