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POKERSTARS ANNOUNCES NEW SPORTS AMBASSADOR ‘GIGI’ BUFFON

PokerStars is pleased to welcome a new member to its team of International Ambassadors – Italian
national goalkeeper Gianluigi ‘Gigi’ Buffon.
Buffon, the current Juventus FC goalkeeper and a member of the Italian World Cup winning team in 2006,
will head a new PokerStars.it advertising campaign aimed at Italian players.
Buffon is familiar with taking centre stage. He has been named ‘Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year’ a record
nine times and has captained the national team. He will also be part of the Italian squad at this year’s World
Cup in South Africa.
“It’s a union that combines the qualities often found in both sport and poker – those of skill, hard work and
mental concentration. It also highlights that the very best players relish the challenge, whether it’s on the
football pitch or at the poker table – a passionate pursuit of victory,” stated Barbara Beltrami, PokerStars’
Italian Country Manager.
Buffon can’t wait to get stuck in to his new role. “I love living life to the full,” he said. “I know there will be
many commitments, but I love playing poker and the opportunity to join Italy’s (and the worlds) largest
poker site is an honour and a great challenge. I can’t wait to play against Team PokerStars Pros and I’m
ready to have lots of fun playing against everyone who wants to take me on.”
“It is truly a pleasure for us to have Gigi Buffon as an Ambassador for PokerStars.it,” said Beltrami. “His
sporting and competitive spirit embodies the values of our brand and we feel very proud that the number
one goalkeeper in the world decided to represent the number one poker site in Italy.”
For photos from Buffon’s PokerStars launch, please click

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Please note that the link will only be active for 7 days or 100 downloads.
Players can find and play against Buffon on www.pokerstars.it under his user name ‘gigibuffon’

POKERSTARS CONFIRMS DATES FOR SEASON 7 OF THE EUROPEAN POKER TOUR

PokerStars.com, the world’s largest poker room, today confirmed most dates and destinations for
Season 7 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT).
The new season launches with a €4,250 debut event in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, from August 11-
16. Tallinn has already proved a hit with poker players; more than 300 took part in the first PokerStars
Baltic Festival last October. The advent of an EPT event at the luxurious Swissotel will delight players
across the Baltic and Nordic regions, as well as the rest of Europe and beyond. A summer-time visit to
this stunning city is likely to have widespread appeal.
As well as this new destination, Season 7 will also see the EPT make return visits to the golf haven of
Vilamoura in Portugal (August 28-September 2), ‘EPT Snowfest’ in the stunning ski resort of Saalbach-
Hinterglemm in Austria (March 20-25) and Germany’s capital city of Berlin (April 5-10). All these events
debuted in Season 6 and proved very popular.
The new season is set to include many events which are now considered ‘staples’ of the tour, such as
Barcelona, Prague, Deauville, San Remo and Copenhagen, not to mention the flagship ’Festival of
Poker’ events in London and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.
John Duthie, CEO and EPT Founder, said: “The EPT just gets bigger and better every season and it
shows the passion and enthusiasm players feel for our events. Season 6 had a thousand more players
than in Season 5 and we expect the numbers to keep on growing. The prize pool last season was well
over €56 million – a €4 million increase on the previous year. Side events also proved a major attraction
in Season 6 and we expect participation in these to increase even more next season.”
EPT, sponsored by PokerStars.com, is now the world’s richest poker tour in terms of both players and
prize pools. PokerStars.com is the world’s largest online poker site, with over 35 million registered
players worldwide.
Online satellites for EPT Tallinn, the first event of Season 7, are set to launch on PokerStars.com in
mid-June with buy-ins from just a few dollars.
The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Season 7 schedule is as follows, EPT Grand Final details
will be released shortly:

EVENT MAIN EVENT DATES VENUE BUY-IN CAP
EPT TALLINN AUG 11-16 2010 SWISSOTEL €4,000 + 250*** 600
EPT VILAMOURA AUG 28– SEP 2, 2010 SOLVERDE €5,000 + 300* 700
EPT LONDON SEP 29 – OCT 4, 2010 METROPOLE £5,000 + 250* 1000
EPT BARCELONA NOV 22-27, 2010 THE ARTS €5,000 + 300 1000
EPT PRAGUE DEC 13-18, 2010 HILTON €5,000 + 300* 700
PCA JAN 8- 14 2011 ATLANTIS $10,000 + 300* 1600
EPT DEAUVILLE JAN 26-31, 2011 CASINO BARRIERE €5,000 + 300** TBC
EPT COPENHAGEN FEB 17-22, 2011 CASINO COPENHAGEN
35,000 + 2,250
DKK**
600
EPT SNOWFEST MAR 20-25, 2011 ALPINE PALACE €3,500 + 250* 500
EPT BERLIN APR 5-10, 2011 GRAND HYATT €5,000+ 300 1000
EPT SAN REMO TBC TBC €5,000 + 300* TBC
TBC TBC TBC €10,000 + 600 TBC
* 3% of tournament prize-pool will be withheld to cover the costs of floor staff and dealers.
** 4% of tournament prize-pool withheld for government taxation
*** 5% of tournament prize-pool withheld for government taxation
Currency conversions used herein are approximate and may change. See www.ept.com for further details.

MAX LYKOV WINS EPT PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Monte Carlo, Monaco, May 1, 2010: Russian pro Max Lykov, 22, who won the very first
event of Season 6 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour in Kyiv, has won Player of
the Year at the EPT Awards in Monte Carlo.
The Awards ceremony was hosted by Team PokerStars Pro Vicky Coren and EPT founder
John Duthie and took place at the stylish Karement Club at the start of the EPT Grand Final
wrap party on April 30.
Lykov was already leading the race to be Player of the Year before the Grand Final started.
As well as Kyiv, he made the money in two side events and finishing 13th at EPT Snowfest.
However his cash in the very first event of the Grand Final – the €5,250 heads-up
tournament – gave him an extra 19 points and put him well ahead of his opponents.
He said: “This is awesome. I worked very hard to win this. I played almost all the EPT Main
Events, I played a lot of side events. I am very pleased. This is great for my profile as a
player.”
The EPT Achievement of the Year, voted for by Season 6 Main Event players, was won by
Danish pro Allan Baekke who took down EPT Snowfest in March and followed it up with a
12th place finish at San Remo a few weeks later.
The Players’ Choice Award was won by EPT Berlin champion Kevin MacPhee who said: “I
feel awesome about winning this because I’m American and this is the European Poker
Tour. I’ve made a lot of friends in every single place I’ve gone and I feel like I have friends in
every single country in the world now. To be voted by them is really special.”
Team PokerStars Pro William Thorson was thrilled to win the Omaha Award. He dominated
these events in Season 6, winning two of them.
Pierre Neuville, the 68-year-old retired businessman from Belgium won Online Qualifier of
the Year. Neuville qualified for ten of the 13 Season 6 events and had several cashes
including runner-up at EPT Vilamoura. He said: “I’m simply the happiest poker player in the
world. It couldn’t be better. It’s my best poker day in my life. With this award, I don’t mind if I
have a bad beat forever. “
The Mixed Game Player of the Year award was an eight-way tie which will be decided with
an online Deep Stack Sit and Go on PokerStars in May. They are: Matthias Kuerschner,
Team PokerStars Pro Katja Thater and Benjamin Kang from Germany, Americans Scott
Clements and Mike Gorodinsky, Team PokerStars Pro Joe Hachem from Australia, Ilari
Tahkokallio from Finland and Russian Team PokerStars Pro Alex Kravchenko.
Largely due to stunning performances from Jan Skampa, winner of EPT Prague, and Martin
Kabrhel who won three side events in Season 6, the Country of the Year award goes to the
Czech Republic. All Czech players who cashed this season are now invited to take part in a
special free roll during EPT Prague in December 2010 with a €10,000 prize pool.
All the individual award winners receive a prize package – hotel accommodation and Main
Event buy-in – for the first event of EPT Season 7 in Tallinn, Estonia from August 11-16. The
full Season 7 schedule will be published on www.ept.com shortly.

TOBIAS REINKEMEIER WINS EPT GRAND FINAL HIGH ROLLER EVENT

Le Sporting, Monte Carlo Bay Resort, May 1, 2010: German pro Tobias Reinkemeier has followed up
his sixth place finish at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January by winning the EPT Grand Final
High Roller in Monte Carlo for nearly €1 million.
The 22-year-old from Cuxhaven won €956,000 with a career-best victory against some of the best
players in the world. The €25,0000 event attracted a record 113 entrants including Team PokerStars
Pros Jason Mercier, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Barry Greenstein, Vanessa Rousso and Daniel
Negreanu.
Other stars who competed included Team PokerStars SportStar Boris Becker, Gus Hansen, Viktor
Blom, Tony G, Erik Seidel and John Juanda. The High Roller tournament was the last of 24 events played at the
EPT Grand Final, which ran from April 25 to May 1 in Le Sporting of the Monte Carlo Bay Resort and Hotel.
Reinkemeier, the only German to win an EPT title in Season 6, won the tournament after beating
American pro Olivier Busquet heads-up. He said: “It’s an overwhelming feeling. The field was definitely
tough but what do you expect for a €25,000 event? There were a lot of good players but I had a really
good run and everything went in my favour.”
As a supporter of the All4Kids charity started by Team PokerStars Pro Sandra Naujoks and Austrian pro
Markus Golser, Reinkemeier plans to donate two per cent of his winnings. He has had a great EPT
season cashing in four events, including 11th place at EPT London and 46th in the PCA Main Event. He
took home $108,000 for his sixth place finish at the PCA High Roller event but his win here in Monte
Carlo is more than double his total live tournament winnings to date.
A host of good players made the High Roller final including NAPT Venetian winner Tom Marchese who
came fourth for €263,000, Canadian pro Sorel Mizzi who finished sixth and American Allen Bari who
came seventh. Dutch pro Paul Berende, who late registered just minutes after finishing 24th in the Grand
Final Main Event came fifth for €191,200. A total of 11 players were paid.
The three day High Roller event was filmed for television and the final table was covered by the celebrated
EPTLive webcast. For blog reports, please see the PokerStars Blog and video blogs on PokerStars.tv.

Season 7 of the European Poker Tour kicks off at a brand new destination – Tallinn, Estonia from August
11-16, 2010. Full details will be published shortly http://www.ept.com.

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TEAM POKERSTARS.NET PRO JASON MERCIER WINS POKERSTARS.NET NAPT MOHEGAN SUN HIGH ROLLER BOUNTY SHOOTOUT

Donning the exact same shirt he wore two Aprils ago when he won the 2008 EPT San Remo
Main Event (€869,000), and armed with a little help from one of his favourite hands, Team
PokerStars.net Pro Jason Mercier won the 2010 PokerStars.net NAPT Mohegan Sun
$25,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout (HRBSO) taking home $475,000.
The win marks Mercier’s second high roller title in as many years. The 23-year-old pro from
Davie, Florida also won the 2008 EPT London High Roller Event (£516,000) and came close
to winning a third high roller title back in February at the L.A. Poker Classic (3rd – $141,780).
Mercier battled heads-up opponent Sam Stein for the better part of three and a half hours
before the most pivotal hand of the tournament took place.
Mercier moved all in over the top of a three-bet from Stein holding pocket threes and Stein
looked him up with the ace-jack of diamonds. When the money went in, Stein had Mercier
covered by just 13,000 in chips. Stein spiked a jack on the flop to take the lead, but the turn
and river gave Mercier a runner-runner six-high straight to win the pot. Stein was eliminated
from the tournament two hands later.
“Pocket threes were really lucky for me when I was 17 or 18 and that’s why I made my
(online) name “treysfull,” but I haven’t really won any enormous pots with threes until that
one,” Mercier said. His former online screen name was “treysfull21.”
Runner-up Sam Stein has had a successful year thus far in his own right. Stein finished
runner-up to Tom Marchese at the NAPT Venetian Main Event ($522,306) and posted
another second place finish in a $5,000 preliminary event at the PCA in January (168,390).
Stein earned $75,000 in prize money at the NAPT Mohegan Sun HRBSO; $60,000 for
winning his Round 1 table and $15,000 in bounties.
PokerStars.net sponsored player Faraz Jaka finished third, collecting $80,000 in prize
money for his efforts; $60,000 for winning his Round 1 table, and $20,000 for accumulating
four knockout bounties. Jaka is the only player to have final tabled both NAPT $25,000
HRBSO events. Jaka placed fifth at the NAPT Venetian HRBSO back in February
($95,000).

The NAPT Mohegan Sun HRBSO attracted 35 players including Team PokerStars.net Pros
Mercier, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer, Barry Greenstein, Greg DeBora, Marcello Del
Grosso, Pat Pezzin and Anh Van Nguyen.
A full selection of high resolution photos from the NAPT Mohegan Sun High Roller Bounty
Shoot Out can be downloaded from this link http://senduit.com/a80a83. Please credit
PokerStars.net NAPT photographer Joe Giron with their use. The file will remain available
for download until 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 21st.
The NAPT Mohegan Sun $25,000 HRBSO was streamed on a five-minute delay over the
Internet via NAPT Live at www.napt.com/tv.
ESPN2 broadcast dates for the NAPT Mohegan Sun $25,000 HRBSO are as follows:
Monday, May 3, 2010 – 9:00 PM
Monday, May 3, 2010 – 10:00 PM
Monday, May 10, 2010 – 9:00 PM
The next stop on the PokerStars.net North American Poker Tour will be announced soon.

Pokerstars News 15.03.2010

Here come the girls

They played a cracker through the night at EPT London, did the same at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure  enjoying a luxury Spa beforehand laughed with champagne at Deauville and even played on come hell or high water at the EPT in Berlin last week. Now the EPT ladies are heading to Monte Carlo where the EPT is hosting another premier ladies only tournament on the Riviera alongside the grand final starting 27 April. As youd expect theyll be the added bonuses as PokerStars sends ladies to Monte Carlo in style, with packages worth 3,500 including entry into the 1,100 ladies event as well as a place in Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Roussos ladies boot camp. Not only that, players winning their package on PokerStars will get spending money and accommodation at the Columbus Monaco Hotel. Time to get online and qualify. Check out the tournament lobby for more details. Ladies only need apply.

From Monte Carlo to Manila

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour is gearing up for its third season starting in May, but before that a special pre-tour event has been added to the Asian calendar, a $2,500  buy-in event set to take place in Manila next week.

The Pagcor Chairmans Cup kicks off on with a guaranteed US$1 million prize pool on Saturday 20 March in the Philippine capital, likely to attract the very best, and wannabe best, from around the region. The six day tournament will be played at the Manila Pavilion before shifting to the SMX Convention Centre across town for the final table. It should fill the gap between now and the tours official start and as usual you can follow the action on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com ).

Let it snow

Snowfest is now just days away, a test of uphill poker prowess and downhill balance as packages include tournament seat and passes onto the slopes of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, near Salzburg. Its another new addition to the European Poker Tours sixth season, taking place at the Alpine Palace Card Casino high up in the Austrian Alps. Already several hundred players have won their place on PokerStars, for what promises to be one of the most curious stops on the tour. The hills will be alive to the sound of poker chips and what odds at least one player reaches the final wearing a plaster cast? Regardless itll certainly be worth watching, either by getting to Austria yourself and playing or following the action on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com ), with day one on Sunday

21 March.

The new biggest game in town

Forget Al Alvarezs masterpiece The Biggest Game in Town, poker just got larger, literally. PokerStars provided the chips, more like large satellite dishes, for two England international rugby stars to play, well, the biggest poker game ever, with cards bigger than each of them and chip stacks big enough to tackle. Its one way to separate the men form the boys, or maybe the men from the childish. Looks like great fun though, as you can see for yourself in all its glory on the PokerStars YouTube site or on the PokerStars Blog (http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2010/the-biggest-

poker-game-ever-065634.html).

Set sail for the Americas Cup of Poker

Never short of ideas when it comes to pitting country against country across the poker tables PokerStars last year devised the Americas Cup, exclusive to players on the western side of the Atlantic, with preliminaries as baffling, but as rewarding as the World Cup of Poker. At its heart are teams of online qualifiers, captained by a Team PokerStars Pro, battling it out at a live $150,000 final table at Iguaza Falls in Argentina. Eight countries will be represented, each competing for a $50,000 first prize but before that qualifying events begin on 15 March on PokerStars. So if youre from anywhere between Canada and Chile, Brazil and Bolivia, it might be worth checking out the PokerStars promotions page

(http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/promotions/americas-cup/) for your chance to take part.

ANTON WIGG WINS POKERSTARS.COM EPT COPENHAGEN FOR €494,000

Anton Wigg from Sweden has won the PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen for a first prize of €494,000,
beating a field of 423 players that included the very best of Nordic poker.
22 year old Wigg beat Italian Francesco de Vivo after a four hour heads up battle. This is his first
ever cash on Europe’s premier tour, although he took down the European Masters in Barcelona for
€55,000 last July and made a final table of a PCA side event last month. Despite his tender years, he
has played poker for four years, three as a professional, and won his seat here in a €500 satellite on
PokerStars.
Anton Wigg, who also wins a seat to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April, said: “It just feels so
wonderful right now. I was in real trouble many times but I kept my cool and told myself never to give up
and I am so proud to have come through.”
Team PokerStars Pro players again featured among the top-placed finishers, with both Bertrand “ElkY”
Grospellier and former world champion Peter Eastgate making the money. ElkY won €8,700 for his 40th
place while Eastgate earned €10,750 for his 22nd place finish.
Also in the money was the Danish actor and musical theatre singer Stig Rossen, who hit all the right
notes in his first major live tournament, finishing in 19th place and earning €10,750. Rossen credited his
acting abilities with helping him to pull off a great performance at Casino Copenhagen.
Four Danish players made the final table, but were eliminated in ninth, eighth, seventh and fifth places.
Most notable among the locals was Morten Guldhammer, an unpredictable but entertaining player who
had won his seat to EPT Copenhagen for just $1 on PokerStars.com in a tournament organised with the
Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. He turned that investment into an a payday of €57,100 – a welcome
supplement to his main salary as a car mechanic.
The field comprised 423 players, generating a total prize pool of €1,909,000. More than 100 players
won their seats to the event on PokerStars. The event was held between 15-21 February at Casino
Copenhagen in the SAS Radisson Hotel.
EPT spokesperson Kirsty Thompson said: “EPT Copenhagen has seen so many personalities during
this week and the atmosphere has just been intense. Everyone from car mechanics to opera singers and
of course the world’s best poker players came together to create the upsets and fairy tales we’ve come
to expect from the Danish leg of the European Poker Tour.”
Final table/payouts:
Name Country PokerStars status Payout € Payout DKK
1 Anton Wigg Sweden PokerStars Qualifier € 494,000 DKK 3,675,000
2 Francesco de Vivo Italy € 305,000 DKK 2,275,000
3 Morten Klein Norway € 188,000 DKK 1,400,000
4 Yorane Kerignard France PokerStars Qualifier € 141,000 DKK 1,050,000
5 Richard Løth Denmark € 96,000 DKK 715,000
6 Roberto Romanello UK € 76,500 DKK 570,000
7 Morten Guldhammer Denmark PokerStars Qualifier € 57,100 DKK 425,000
8 Jesper Petersen Denmark PokerStars Player € 38,000 DKK 282,800
The next stop on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour is EPT Berlin – the EPT’s first ever visit to
the German capital. The €5,300 EPT Berlin Main Event is running March 2-7, 2010 in conjunction with
SPIELBANK BERLIN at the luxurious Grand Hyatt hotel in Potdamer Platz. For more information, please
visit http://www.ept.com.

JOERI ZANDVLIET WINS POKERSTARS.COM UKIPT MANCHESTER

Manchester, United Kingdom, February 14 2010 – Joeri Zandvliet has won the
inaugural UK event on the new PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour. Zandvliet takes
home the £63,200 first prize and receives an entry into the £5,250 EPT London event
which is the season finale to the UK & Ireland poker tour. In addition to that he will also
place first on the Season 1 UKIPT leader board which awards over £60,000 worth of
added prizes to the top 100 players over all of the events from Season 1 with the top
placed finisher receiving all of their buy-in and hotels for Season 2.
Zandvliet took just seven minutes to finish the heads up battle with Jack Ellwood. All the
chips went in pre flop with Zandvliet, who had a 2:1 chip lead, holding pocket nines and
Jack Ellwood holding Ace Queen. A queen arrived on the flop to give Ellwood the lead
but a nine on the river gave the title and the £63,200 first place prize to the Dutchman.
College student Zandvliet, 21, of Utrecht, Netherlands was understandably delighted to
win his biggest live tournament to date. Zandvliet came to the table third in chips and
faced stiff competition from the rest of the final nine with over eight hours of play at the
final table.
Zandvliet was gracious in victory saying “I feel very happy and lucky. There were five
relatively strong players at the final table. Whatever I did today didn’t really work too well
but I managed to get lucky a couple of times” he also went on to praise the organisation
“The tournament had a great structure and was very well organised.”

http://www.pokerstars.tv/movies/8FS/ukipt-manchester-s1-joeri-zandvlie-winnner.html

UKIPT host Nick Wealthall said “We were blown away by the reception we got in
Manchester. To have so many players for the first UK event, the second of the tour, was
an amazing experience for everyone. Not only that but the tournament and the final table
were played to an incredibly high standard. We have already discovered some names
for the future that will go onto great things in the world of poker. We are all looking
forward to setting more records at the future events on the tour.”
In all there were 518 players, including 279 PokerStars.com players, who entered the
inaugural £500+£50 buy-in UKIPT Manchester event creating a prize pool of £259,000
and Manchester’s largest ever tournament. There was great additional value for
PokerStars.com players at the event as they were able to attend a special poker
education seminar hosted by UKIPT host Nick Wealthall, EPT presenter Michelle Orpe
and new Team PokerStars PRO Julian Thew. The seminar focussed on what the online
qualifiers can expect at a big live tournament and the transition from online to live play.
The attendees clearly benefitted from the expert advice of Julian and Nick as several
went onto cash in the event including day 1 chip leader Mark Warnock.
Among those who competed in the tournament were former Manchester United legend
Teddy Sheringham and current Manchester United player Darren Fletcher. Also in
attendance were Team PokerStars Pros Vicky Coren – who finished 25th for £1,650 –
John Duthie and Julian Thew.
Final table/payouts:
Name Country PokerStars status £
1 Joeri Zandvliet Netherlands PokerStars Player 63,200
2 Jack Ellwood UK 37,500
3 Mike Hill UK PokerStars Qualifier 23,500
4 Tony Millan UK 15,100
5 Dean Lyall UK PokerStars Player 12,100
6 Chris Brammer UK 9,100
7 Dan Owston UK PokerStars Qualifier 6,500
8 Tim Brown UK 4,800
9 Julian Hasse Germany PokerStars Qualifier 3,650
The next stop on the PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour is the £550 buy-in
Coventry event from April 8-11 at the G Casino. As with the Manchester event
PokerStars.com is guaranteeing a £100,000 prize pool. The winner as well will receive a
£5,250 entry into EPT London, the season finale to the UK & Ireland Poker Tour. For
more information, please visit http://www.ukipt.com
You can follow all the action live from all of the UKIPT events with updates from the
following sources:
www.pokerstarsblog.com
www.pokerstars.tv

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/PokerStars-UKIPT/193656237301?ref=ts

http://twitter.com/ukipt

TEAM POKERSTARS PRO JULIAN THEW ANNOUNCED

PokerStars is pleased to announce news of the latest addition to Team PokerStars Pro, Julian Thew.
“I’m thrilled to have been offered a spot on Team PokerStars Pro and I look forward to promoting the
brand on my travels throughout the year,” said Thew.

Thew, from Nottingham, England, is among the most talented and well respected players in world poker
having cemented his reputation as a professional with success across Europe and the United States.
His most notable victory was at EPT Baden in season four, where he won €670,800. Since then Thew
has become the leading British player on the EPT tournament leader board, currently in 12th place. In
addition to his win in Baden Thew’s career highlights include wins in big buy-in events in the UK and Las
Vegas, with career tournament earnings totalling almost $2.5 million.

Thew joins four other members of Team PokerStars Pro UK: John Duthie, Vicky Coren, Jude Ainsworth
and JP Kelly.

A familiar face in the card rooms of the UK, Thew’s first event in PokerStars livery will be in Manchester,
at the UKIPT event, the second of the tour which starts tomorrow. It’s a perfect opportunity for him to
add more silverware to an impressive resume.

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