
The European Poker Tour is now in Poland for the first time. 300 of Europe`s top-players compete for money and glory at the Casions Polan at the Hyatt Hotel in Warszawa. You can follow the action over the next four days in our LIVE-section.

Thirteen players are left in the EPT-Tournament here in Dortmund, and the fight is on for a first prize of €672.000. The first hand has just been dealt, and we are only a few hours away from crowning a new EPT champ. Follow all the action on our live-pages!

There are thirteen players left in the tournament, and play will resume at 3 PM Sunday to decide the winner. We will update you live here on EuroPoker Magazine.

Day 1B has just ended here in Dortmund. 59 players managed to get through the first day of play. Coincidentally this is the same number as went through yesterday, making the total number of players remaining 118. Play will resume tomorrow at 15.00, and we will follow all the action. Click the live-button in the menu above to see some of the action from todays play.

The second half of the first day of play in EPT Dortmund is well underway. 257 players started the day, making the field an EPT-record of 494 players. Yesterday only 59 players survived, and today it is every player for himself as they search for EPT-glory. We follow all the action on our livepages.

The first half of the field has just finished playing day 1 of the EPT Dortmund. 59 players remain after 10 gruelling levels of poker at it`s highest level. We have followed the action all day, and will ofcourse be back tomorrow for day 1B. Click the "live" button on the menu to watch some of the hands from todays play.

The EPT here in Dortmund is just a couple of hours away. A lot of the players are downstairs in the registrastion area and waiting for the biggest pokertournament ever held on German soil. The EPT coming to Germany is a logical step for the growing poker tour and it is expected that about 200 of the 500 seats will be taken by German players. We caught up with one of the more sucsessful German players the last couple of years, Michael Keiner.
Robert Varkonyi might be an unfamiliar name to most poker players. Everybody knows Chris Moneymaker, the young lad that went from spending $39 on a satellite to winning the World Series of Poker. Why then, has so few heard of Varkonyi, who won the same tournament only one year earlier?

Few poker players don’t know the name Daniel Negreanu. The 32-year old poker player has done a lot for poker over the last few years, and is also the biggest winning tournament player of all time. He is greatly respected among both the older and the younger generation of players, and has to put up with writing numerous autographs and posing for thousands of photos every time he enters a tournament.

The recent poker boom has gone through several stages. First the World Series of Poker increased in popularity in the late 90s, and the media started to show an interest by covering the feature table. And not to forget, we also saw the movie Rounders with Matt Damon and Edward Norton. After this the WSOP 2003 got prime air time all of that fall, and people showed a massive interest when it became clear that «the guy next door», Chris Moneymaker, had a chance at $2.5 million just by playing cards.