The European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague has broken its attendance record for the Main Event for the second year in a row. The live event from PokerStars continues to stave off the competition attract record breaking volumes of people.
Not only did the EPT Prague Eureka Main Event attract more players than ever before, so has the EPT Prague Main Event. The Main Event attracted 1,458 players, up from last years 1,285. The Main Event winner, Pedro Marques, took home €963,450 in prize winnings. This is slightly less than the prize pool created last year when Main Event winner Padraig O’Neill took down the event for €1,030,000.
The turnout for both the EPT Prague Main Event and Eureka Main Event remains the biggest to date, along with the total prize pool generated for both events. This year the Eureka Main Event increased by around €300K and the Main Event for EPT Prague gave away almost €1 million more than in last year’s edition.
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EPT Prague 2023 vs 2024
| Event | Buy-in | Players | Total Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPT Eureka Main Event 2023 | €1100 | 4403 | €4,226,880 |
| EPT Prague Main Event 2023 | €5300 | 1285 | €6,101,300 |
| EPT Eureka Main Event 2024 | €1100 | 4732 | €4,542,720 |
| EPT Prague Main Event 2024 | €5300 | 1458 | €7,071,300 |
This year’s festival also introduced several new events, including the first-ever Spin & Go Live Championship. which featured 81 players who competed for over €100,000 in prize money and the first- ever Mixed Game Main Event.
EPT Prague marks the end of the PokerStars EPT live stops for 2024. The tour took in Paris, Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Cyprus over the course of the year, wrapping up in Prague just in time for Christmas.
For 2025, we know there are going to be EPT stops in Monte Carlo in late April and Barcelona in August. Other stops are expected in Cyprus and Prague, but these are yet to be announced. There were plans for another EPT Paris, which would normally kick off the season in early February, but this year the stop has been pulled from the calendar.
“As you have probably read elsewhere, the EPT this week reluctantly announced the cancellation of its trip to Paris scheduled for February 2025,” it reads on the PokerStars Blog. “The political situation in France, and specifically the inability of legislators to agree to an extension of licenses for Paris gaming clubs (“Clubs de Jeux”), meant that PokerStars had no option but to put the festival on ice.”
Cédric Billot, PokerStars Associate Director of Live Events, has said that EPT Paris will “one hundred percent,” return, we just do not know when. The blog post continues: “PokerStars is optimistic, however, that this is merely a postponement rather than a permanent cancellation. As soon as the French legislature resolves its crises, there is every reason to hope that licensed and correctly organised poker can return.”
EPT Prague is not the only prestigious live event to run at this time. It overlapped with WSOP Paradise that took place in the Bahamas, and the WPT World Championships that is still underway in Las Vegas. Despite the lure of the Triton high roller in the Bahamas and the WPT Vegas stop, EPT Prague continues to deliver.
The EPT Prague started on December 4 and concluded on December 15, 2024. The WSOP Paradise finished December 16. And WPT World Championship continues to run until December 23.
