Glad to announce that the 5th edition of the EPT (European Poker Tour) has recently ended and the competition overview has been published.

The successful results of this tourney reflect the current trend in Europe and in the whole world to growth of number of enthusiasts who like live and online poker. Actually this comes to be a striking phenomenon. And if during the 1st season the statistics showed 4,780,972 Euro as a total money prize amount and 1,468 participants, then, recently in the 5th season we could count already 54,940,712 Euro as a total money prize amount, the number of participants grew up to 7901 and 12 tournaments have been held.
Surely, the numbers just speak for themselves, don’t they? This exceptional growth is absolutely explainable and not only due to the general popularity of online games and their availability to the audience at large, but also due to the possibility of organizing of special international tournaments and other events through the satellite by the top online poker rooms. During these satellite tourneys the players are provided with the chance to qualify the advanced poker events with the extremely attractive prizes.

Another important factor of growing success of European Poker Tour is increase of the number of events. The 6th season of this tournament is promising to be no less exciting and will boast with a new event which is going to take place in Moscow in August. This favorable circumstance will help the Russian poker professionals to train their excellent playing abilities and do it intra muros of the native land.