2010 EPT London Poker Festival raises excitement and expectation among UK poker community

With less than two weeks to go before the start of the 2010 European Poker Tour London Poker Festival, excitement is increasing over what is set to be the largest poker event ever held on British territory.

One of the highlights of this year's EPT London Poker Festival will be the PokerStars Party taking place at the beautiful Club Jalouse in the heart of London's exclusive Mayfair district on Saturday, October 2nd. A free bar will be available from 9:00 pm to 11.30pm. All EPT London Main Event players and accredited media are invited to attend the event. In addition to the Main event, the 2010 EPT London Festival will feature a European 8-Game Championship, three Ladies' events and the £20,000 High Roller.

Players still have a chance to secure a seat at the Main Event, with full prize package satellites running on PokerStars.com until Sunday, September 19th. Players who wish to buy full packages, including hotel accommodation, direct from their PokerStars accounts can now do so. Due to popular demand, Poker Stars has opened up the EPT London Seat+Hotel package online for ALL players.

A total of 125 players have already won their seats to EPT London, including EPT Season 6 Players' Choice Award winner Kevin MacPhee, last year's WCOOP Main Event winner Yevgeniy Timoshenko and EPT Berlin champion and Team PokerStars German Pro Sandra Naujoks.

Several Team PokerStars Pros will be competing in London, including former world champions Chris Moneymaker, Joe Hachem and Greg Raymer. Also there will be Jason Mercier, Barry Greenstein, Dennis Phillips, Vanessa Rousso and Daniel Negreanu, Team PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst and David Williams. Joining Team PokerStars' Pros will be World Series of Poker 'November Nine' finalists Jason Senti and Canadian chip leader Jonathan Duhamel, England soccer legend Teddy Sheringham, tennis star Boris Becker and popular field hockey Olympic gold medalist Fatima Moreira de Melo.