PokerStars Confirms European Poker Tour Paris Returns in 2026

PokerStars has confirmed that European Poker Tour (EPT) will return to Paris as a part of the net poker big’s stay poker schedule in 2026. Following big attendances in 2023 and 2024, the 2025 version of EPT Paris was cancelled amid regularity challenges. Nevertheless, PokerStars has overcome these hurdles and the 2026 EPT Paris is scheduled to run from February 18 via March 1 on the Le Palais des Congres.

“We’re delighted to have Paris again on the EPT schedule in 2026 and to have the ability to collaborate as soon as once more with Membership Barriere,” mentioned Cedric Billot, Affiliate Director of Stay Occasions. “It is a participant favourite for a lot of causes: the distinctive ambiance, it is an amazing location accessible from throughout Europe, and in the case of having fun with your time away from the poker tables, nicely, Paris is a metropolis that takes some beating. We will not wait to be again within the French capital and welcome gamers to the Palais de Congres in February.”

PokerStars took its EPT to Paris for the primary time in 2023, and it was deemed a hit regardless of some teething issues. The €5,300 EPT Paris Foremost Occasion drew 1,606 entrants, making a €7,708,800 prize pool. Romanian Razvan Belea got here out on high and returned residence with €1,170,000.

A change of venue for the 2024 EPT Paris pageant was welcomed by all, and gamers voted with their ft, turning out in droves. A area of 1,747 fought it out for a slice of the €8,385,600 prize pool. British legend Barny Boatman emerged victoriously and with a career-best €1,287,800 prize in tow.

The 2025 EPT Paris was set to construct on that success between February 12 and 23. Nevertheless, a shift in licensing necessities within the French capital created an excessive amount of uncertainty, and PokerStars was left with little possibility however to tug the plug. That uncertainty should have waned as a result of the EPT is most positively returning to La Ville Lumiere (Metropolis of Lights) in February.

4 Extra 2026 Stops Introduced, Beginning With PSO Campione

PokerStars Open Campione kicks off the 2026 PokerStars LIVE season, and can accomplish that in model. In March 2025, the PokerStars Open Campione Foremost Occasion noticed a bumper crowd of two,423 entrants, together with re-entries, greater than double the €1 million assure. Romania’s Adrian State got here out on high and scooped €363,000 of the €2,326,080 prize pool.

Mark January 23 to February 1 in your calendars in case you plan to fly to picturesque Campione for the opening occasion on the 2026 schedule.

After Campione comes EPT Paris, which is adopted by Europe’s longest-running stay poker event, the PokerStars-sponsored Irish Open. The 2026 Irish Open might be held from March 26 to April 6. Anticipate one other gargantuan area on par with the 4,562 who turned out in 2025 and created a €4,447,950 prize pool when the assure was “solely” €2,500,000. Simon Wilson took residence €600,000 of that princely sum.

The enduring EPT Monte Carlo follows sizzling on the heels of the Irish Open in April 2026. It runs from April 30 to Could 10. This prestigious occasion on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by no means fails to shine. Russia’s Aleksandr Shevliakov triumphed in 2025, taking residence €1,000,000 of the €5,795,750 prize pool after leaving 1,194 opponents in his wake.

A few weeks after EPT Monte Carlo wraps up, PokerStars Open Namur springs into motion. This pageant might be Belgium’s greatest of the 12 months by a ways. It runs Could 27 to June 7, with the €1,100 buy-in Foremost Occasion being the crown jewel. The 2025 version attracted 1,572 gamers, who Jean Lehut outlasted to financial institution €238,000 of the €1,493,400 prize pool.

These 5 stops are solely the beginning of 2026’s choices. PokerStars will announce extra legs to its 2026 stay occasions calendar sooner or later; we will hardly include our pleasure.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he grew to become the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.