Spanish Poker Festival Madrid 2019

Posted on 3/25/2022 admin

Although it's already a month into 2019, PokerStars has kept its planned live tournament schedule mostly under wraps. On Tuesday, the company released a big piece of that puzzle to the poker-playing public, revealing that European Poker Tour Barcelona will take place in its usual slot late in August into the early part of September.

The festival has a listed start date of Aug. 20 in a tweet sent on Tuesday, with an end date of Sept. 1. However, the schedule listed on the PokerStars Live website does go through Sept. 2.

More than 2,000 animals parade through the Spanish capital for a traditional festival. 20 October 2019. Image copyright AFP. 2019-12-13 December, - Casino Gran Via - madrid - Spain. 2019 Spanish Poker Festival will be held at the Casino Gran Via from 13th till 22nd of December.

The ultra-popular EPT stop, which has been a staple on the tour all the way back to 2004, will bring back its usual €5,300 Main Event, along with the €1,100 EPT National that seems to smash attendance records every year.

Additionally, the EPT festival itself will be preceded by prelims at Casino Barcelona under the Campeonato España de Poker banner.

Spain's 2019 EPT festival will begin in Spain's capital city of Madrid, returning for the first time since the EPT Grand Final Madrid in 2011. EPT Open Madrid will kick off on June 22 at Casino Gran Madrid and run for nine days. The second event of its kind after last year's EPT Open Sochi, The Open format brings the same PokerStars-sponsored EPT experience at lower buy-ins, with the Main Event priced at €1,100.

EPT Barcelona 2019

EPT Barcelona will be the third stop on the EPT schedule in 2019, after EPT Sochi in March and EPT Monte Carlo starting in late April.

The Main Event is scheduled for Aug. 26 through Sept. 1. EPT Barcelona Main Event has produced four seven-figure first-place prizes since 2012, plus two more north of €900,000 — counting the 2017 rebranding as PokerStars Championship Barcelona. Last year, Piotr Nurzynski walked away with €1,037,109 after a heads-up deal with Haoxiang Wang.

Here's a look at the history of the EPT Barcelona Main Event:

PokerStars EPT Barcelona Main Event Champions

#	Month	Year	Players	Buy-in	Winner	Country	Prize
1	September	2004	229	€1,000	Alexander Stevic	Sweden	€80,000
2	September	2005	327	€4,000	Jan Boubli	France	€416,000
3	September	2006	480	€5,000	Bjørn-Erik Glenne	Norway	€691,000
4	August	2007	543	€8,000	Sander Lyloff	Denmark	€1,170,700
5	September	2008	619	€8,000	Sebastian Ruthenberg	Germany	€1,361,000
6	September	2009	478	€8,000	Carter Phillips	United States	€850,000
7	November	2010	757	€5,000	Kent Lundmark	Sweden	€825,000
8	August	2011	811	€5,000	Martin Schleich	Germany	€850,000
9	August	2012	1,082	€5,000	Mikalai Pobal	Belarus	€1,007,550
10	September	2013	1,234	€5,000	Tom Middleton	United Kingdom	€942,000
11	August	2014	1,496	€5,000	Andre Lettau	Germany	€794,058
12	August	2015	1,694	€5,000	John Juanda	Indonesia	€1,022,593
13	August	2016	1,785	€5,300	Sebastian Malec	Poland	€1,122,800
PSC	August	2017	1,682	€5,300	Sebastian Sorensson	Sweden	€987,043
14	August	2018	1,474	€5,300	Piotr Nurzynski	Poland	€1,037,109

In addition to the Main Event, there will be several other marquee events on the schedule. The only one currently scheduled is the EPT National, from Aug. 21-25. The past few years, that tournament has drawn in excess of 4,000 runners, making it one of the biggest tournaments in Europe, one featuring first-place prizes north of €500,000.

High rollers will surely have a few tournaments catering to the deep-pocketed as well. Last year, both a €100K and a €50K were held, along with a €25K Single-Day High Roller.

Prelims

Popular local tour Campeonato España de Poker (CEP) will host prelims at Casino Barcelona for the EPT in 2019.

The CEP Barcelona will run from Aug. 12-20. It will feature a €500 Main Event and a €1,100 High Roller as the premier events on the schedule. The former is scheduled for Aug. 14-18, while the latter runs Aug. 19-20.

In 2018, CEP regular Ramon Colillas accumulated points on the tour to earn a Platinum Pass to the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold'em Championship, which he parlayed into a $5.1 million payday.

As usual, players can also enjoy a slew of satellites and cash games at the bustling Casino Barcelona, which is set to play host once again to one of the top poker tournaments in the world under the EPT banner.

“Spain has a vibrant poker community and we’re eager to continue to develop events, promotions and competitions that feed their poker passion,” said Eric Hollreiser, Director of Poker Marketing. “Ramon Colillas is inspiring a new generation of Spanish players who want to join the poker community and have opportunities to compete with him for potential big wins.'

For more details on the event as it draws closer, keep an eye on the PokerStars Live landing page.

_{Note: This article was updated with additional information released by PokerStars on Jan. 30.}
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Get your planning books out as 888poker LIVE has announced its 2020 schedule for its live poker tour.

The tour will be returning to many familiar locations including London, Bucharest, Sochi, and Tallinn along with a new stop in Madrid. In addition, 888poker LIVE will once again be partnering with the Battle of Malta and most importantly with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for the sixth straight year.

888poker LIVE 2020 Schedule Details

The 888poker LIVE tour kicks off with a new stop in the Spanish capital of Madrid at the Casino Gran Via on Jan. 23 to Feb. 3.

The festival guarantees €1 million including the lucrative 888poker LIVE Madrid €888 Main Event featuring a massive €800,000 guarantee. There are plenty of satellites and feeder tournaments already running at 888poker where players can win packages for as low as $0.01.

A couple of days later, the tour will head over to the British capital of London at the Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City for the 888poker LIVE London Weekend on Feb. 5-9. Expect many players from the gaming industry to play in this event as it coincides with one of the industry's biggest conventions the 2020 London Affiliate Conference (LAC).

The following month on March 23-29, the festival heads to the Romanian capital of Bucharest where you might not see Dracula but should instead witness a big poker festival. Last year, the €300,000 guarantee for the Main Event was smashed when 505 entrants generated a €387,638 with Darius Neagoe shipping the event for a cool €62,000 and a 2019 WSOP Main Event package valued at $12,600.

It's back to Spain, this time to one of the tour's most popular spots in sunny Barcelona for an action-packed festival on May 14-25 at the Casino Barcelona. The casino is located literally on the beach giving players a chance to enjoy some Mediterranean sunshine while not battling it out on the felts.

2020 WSOP Main Event & Crazy Eights Qualifiers Running at 888poker

Players from around the world will join plenty of 888poker qualifiers at the WSOP at the Rio Convention Center in Las Vegas. 888poker is not only sponsoring the popular Crazy Eights tournament at the end of June but also will once again be running plenty of qualifiers for the 2020 WSOP Main Event on July 1-14 as well.

The tour then heads back east to Casino Sochi on August 6-14 for another fantastic festival where players will be able to enjoy the delights of one of the most talked-about Russian resorts.

Not too much later, the festival returns to Olympic Park Casino in the Estonian capital of Tallinn on Sept. 1-7 for the first time since 2016. Tallinn has become a hotbed of poker activity and this festival is expected to not only draw in plenty of qualifiers but plenty of players from Scandinavian and Baltic countries as well.

Players are then in for a special treat as 888poker will once again be heading to the Battle of Malta at Casino Malta in October. The Battle of Malta Main Event more than doubled its €1,000,000 guarantee last year after attracting 4,657 entries to create a massive €2,258,645 prize pool.

As was the case in 2019, the festival will wrap up the year back at Aspers Casino in London on Nov. 16-29.

888poker LIVE Partnership with CNP Spain

This is not all as 888poker LIVE will be partnering with the CNP Spain tour in 2020 for five local stops in Spain including Valencia (Feb. 17-23), Malaga (April 20-26), Sevilla (June 15-21), Alicante (Sept 7-13), and Madrid (Nov. 13-23).