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European Poker Tour Scheduled to Stop in Greece

The PokerStars.net European Poker Tour is currently in its eighth season and in the next couple week the EPT will be making a stop in Loutraki, Greece. Loutraki is one of the beautiful coastal towns in Greece and 100′s of poker players will be traveling to the city to participate in the EPT Event. The European Poker Tour has never made a stop in Greece before, but now is a better time than ever due to the fact that the Greece economy is struggling right now and the costs are down for tourists.

If you’ve never traveled to Greece before now is a great time. PokerStars always sets up plenty of deals with hotels in the cities that they’ll be stopping in and right now there are still great deals at hotels in Loutraki, Greece. The EPT will be in Loutraki from November 15th – November 20th 2011, so you don’t have much time to plan your trip. PokerStars is a great poker room to win seats to all of the EPT main events and plenty of online players have already won a prize package to Loutraki.

The EPT Loutraki main event will start on November 15th 2011 and the buy-in is €4000 +€400. Many of the world’s best players will be in attendance to compete in the EPT event and the prize pool is expected to be huge. If you’re eliminated from the EPT ME early there will be live cash games running 24/7 in the casino and various other smaller tournaments. The main event will start before any of the other tournaments start in Loutraki, so you’ll only be able to play in them if you’re eliminated from the ME.

The event will be hosted at the Club Hotel Casino, which happens to be one of the biggest casinos in Europe. If you’ve never been to the Club Hotel Casino in the past you’ll be amazed by the size considering it’s on a small Greek island. Keep in mind that you need to be at least 21 years old to be permitted into the casino and the EPT tournaments. Now is the perfect time to go to Greece and it won’t cost you that much to book your flight and hotel.

Make sure you use the EPT site to book your hotel because PokerStars has exclusive deals with various hotels in the city that will offer players competing in the main event a great deal on accommodations. You can stay in the Club Hotel Casino for €150/night although there are also hotels nearby that are about half the price if you don’t mind where you’re staying. Flights to Greece right now are also inexpensive if you live near a major airport.

Don’t forget that the champion of each EPT main event this season also wins an incredible bracelet. The bracelet is actually very fashionable and is valued at roughly €10,000. Only the winner of each main event during the eighth season will win a bracelet and I must say they look great this season.