EPT & UKIPT etc to be re-branded

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EPT & UKIPT etc to be re-branded

24-08-16, 20:37

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PokerStars Announces Rebranding Of Live Tournaments Starting In 2017 - Poker News

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/20757-pokerstars-announces-rebranding-of-live-tournaments-starting-in-2017

PokerStars has announced a rebranding of their major live tournament tours, renaming their European Poker Tour and other popular regional tours as PokerStars Championships and PokerStars Festivals. The changes will be fully enacted starting in 2017, with the exception of the PokerStars Festival debut in New Jersey in November of 2016. This means that the 2016 European Poker Tour Prague will be the last EPT event in the tour’s 13-year history. The rebranding will see PokerStars live events split into two categories, the aforementioned PokerStars Championship events and PokerStars Festival events. PokerStars Championship events will be the larger tournament series, take place at some of the world’s most prestigious casinos and will typically last 10-11 days. The series will feature huge schedules of up to 100 tournaments, including a €5,000 (or $5,000 as the case may be) main event and a variety of cash games. The first PokerStars Championship event will be the PokerStars Championship Bahamas (formerly known as the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure or PCA), which will run from Jan. 6-14 at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. The Bahamas ...

Not sure this is a good thing. Makes sense from a pokerstars point of view, but the EPT especially is known as one of the top 3/4 tournaments in the world. After this, will 'the pokerstars championship' be as highly regarded as 'the Aussie Millions' or 'WPT'?

Meh, time will tell.
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