EPT Grand Final Set, GUKPT Season 8 Begins, Cheaters Sentenced to Prison

EPT Grand Final Announced

The schedule for the Grand Final of EPT Season 10 has just been announced and, thanks to some careful planning, the organisers have managed to squeeze 48 events into the 11 day festival.  With poker luminaries such as Daniel Negreanu, Jason Mercier and Bertrand Grospellier all set to descend upon the Monte-Carlo Casino in April, this year’s finale is expected to be one of the biggest ever.

Indeed, thanks to a partnership with the France Poker Series, the Grand Final will see 21 tournaments with buy-ins of €500 or less take place. Moreover, this joint effort between the two PokerStars tours is expected to attract a slew of satellites qualifiers and break a number of attendance records.

Aside from the FPS specific events, the EPT Grand Final will host a €25,000 High Roller as well as a €100,000 Super High Roller. Each of these is expected to attract the some of the richest grinders in the game and provide an exciting prelude to the €10,600 Main Event which kicks off on April 26.

The EPT Grand Final will run between April 23rd and May 3rd and qualifiers are currently running online and across live venues in France.

GUKPT London Underway

The first leg of the GUKPT‘s eighth season got underway yesterday with the first of 14 low to mid stakes tournaments. Indeed, although the £1,080 Main Event will be the biggest draw of the week, a number of more reasonably priced tournaments, from £30 to £300+£30, have also been added to the schedule.

Last season the GUKPT Grand Final, which also takes place at the Victoria Casino, attracted a record number of entrants and, although Leg 1 won’t have quite the same reverence of the finale, it’s still a staple destination for many of the UK’s top grinders.

Alongside the likes of Neil Channing and Barny Boatman, many of the community’s best young talent, including Sam Grafton, John Eames and Matt Perrins.

British Lords against Poker Scammers

British poker players who get caught cheating online could face up to 10 years in prison if a new proposal by the House of Lords gets the green light.

After coming together to discuss the problem of match-fixing and online gambling, the parliamentary peers decided to increase the level of punishment for those caught “cheating at gambling”.

The proposal was put forward by Lord Moynihan who wants to punish all forms of online cheating, include any which takes place in the poker world, are punishable by a lengthy prison sentence.

If such a law is passed then it could affect not only British colluders, but cheaters across the world if other countries decide to follow suit.