Eureka Poker Tour

Eureka Poker Tour

Sport	Texas Hold 'em
Founded	2011
Ceased	2024
Replaced by	PokerStars Open
Country	Czech Republic   Slovenia   Bulgaria   Croatia   Latvia   Austria   Germany   Romania   Cyprus
Last champion(s)	Martin Tsvetanov (2024)
Sponsor(s)	PokerStars
Official website	pokerstarslive.com

The Eureka Poker Tour (EKA) started in March 2011, is a major regional poker tour in the central and eastern Europe. The tour is sponsored by PokerStars.com, like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour (2004), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (2007), Latin American Poker Tour (2008) and North American Poker Tour (2010). ^[1]

History

After a run across Central and Eastern Europe for Season 1, PokerStars.com launched the Season 2 of the Poker Tour adding a venue in Latvia for this season. ^[2]

From 2013 to 2016, PokerStars.com organized more than 15 stops of EKA events across central and eastern Europe.

In 2017, the EKA series was discontinued and rebranded as the PokerStars Festival. In 2022, pokerstars.com announced the return of regional tours as EKA (Eureka Poker Tour), UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour), FPS (France Poker Series) and ESPT (Estrellas Poker Tour). ^[3]

Discontinued: In 2024, PokerStars announced the new PokerStars Open that replaces the following tours: EKA (Eureka Poker Tour), UKIPT (UK and Ireland Poker Tour), FPS (France Poker Series) and ESPT (Estrellas Poker Tour), starting in March 2025. ^[4]

Season 1

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
17–20 March 2011	EKA Prague €800	329	€243,460	Keith Johnson [5]	€58,400
12–15 May 2011	EKA Nova Gorica €800	211	€149,410	Antonio Dieguez Rodriguez [6]	€40,010
23–26 June 2011	EKA Varna €800	308	€224,840	Idan Greenberg [7]	€55,145
24–27 August 2011	EKA Zagreb €800	259	€183,400	Richard Bodis [8]	€47,298
4–10 December 2011	EPT/EKA Prague €330 Deepstack	203	€59,073	Geir Engholm	€13,100

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 1 - Leaderboard Champion: Antonio Dieguez Rodriguez, he won entries to all Sunday Million tournaments on PokerStars.com in calendar year 2012 ^[9]

Season 2

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
9–14 April 2012	EKA Croatia €1,100	178	€172,660	Alija Filipovic [10]	€42,700
4–10 June 2012	EKA Bulgaria €1,100	246	€238,590	Petar Zografov [11]	€48,745
1–7 October 2012	EKA Latvia €1,100	278	€269,660	Lauri Merikallio [12]	€68,800
5–15 December 2012	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	652	€632,440	Menikos Panayiotou [13]	€137,100

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 2 - Leaderboard Champion: Alija Filipovic, he won one EPT Season 9 Main Event Entry of his choice (€5,300) ^{[14] [15]}

Season 3

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
18–24 March 2013	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 €500,000 Guaranteed	500	€500,000	Bart Lybaert [16]	€115,000
24–30 May 2013	EKA Croatia €1,100	283	€274,510	Achilles Bozso [17]	€59,100
22–28 July 2013	EKA Bulgaria €1,100	417	€404,490	Liran Machluf [18]	€93,000
8–18 December 2013	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	1,315	€1,275,550	Dimitri Holdeew [19]	€226,400

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 3 - Leaderboard Champion: Sergei Popov, ^[20] he won one EPT Season 10 Main Event Entry of his choice (€5,300)

Season 4

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
19–29 March 2014	EPT/EKA Vienna €1,100	1,432	€1,389,040	Zoltan Gal [21]	€208,655
26 May-3 June 2014	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 €500,000 Guaranteed	493	€500,000	Martin Meciar [22]	€87,600
6–9 November 2014	EKA Rozvadov €550 PokerStars King's Cup €200,000 Guaranteed	551	€267,235	Philipp Hartmann [23]	€45,000
7–17 December 2014	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	1,738	€1,685,860	Balazs Botond [24]	€206,948

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 4 - Leaderboard Champion: Gennady Menshikov, ^[25] he won one EPT Season 11 Main Event Entry of his choice (€5,300)

Season 5

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
21 February-1 March 2015	EKA Rozvadov €1,100	664	€644,080	Raphael Wimmer [26]	€99,685
22–31 May 2015	EKA Hamburg €1,100	581	€563,570	Tom Holke [27]	€107,920
5–16 December 2015	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	1,893	€1,836,210	Javier Rojas Mederos [28]	€311,000

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 5 - Leaderboard GOLD Champion: Vladimir Velikov ^[29]
• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 5 - Leaderboard SILVER Champion: Yohann Nataf ^[30]

How it works? Player of the Year: the Silver tier will award points for all events with a buy-in of $600 and lower; and the Gold tier will count all other events across the EUREKA Festivals, no matter the buy-in.

Season 6

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
2–8 March 2016	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 €500,000 Guaranteed	682	€661,540	Ivan Luca [31]	€106,186
16–22 May 2016	EKA Bucharest €1,100	579	€561,630	Avishai Shitrit [32]	€107,350
23 September-3 October 2016	EKA Hamburg €1,100	367	€355,990	Dinesh Alt [33]	€69,120
8–19 December 2016	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	2,031	€1,970,070	Hubert Matuszewski [34]	€193,298

• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 6 - Leaderboard GOLD Champion: Tobias Peters ^[35]
• Eureka Poker Tour - Season 6 - Leaderboard SILVER Champion: Michal Mrakeš ^[36]

How it works? Player of the Year: the Silver tier will award points for all events with a buy-in of $600 and lower; and the Gold tier will count all other events across the EUREKA Festivals, no matter the buy-in.

Season 2022

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
5–16 March 2022	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	3,155	€3,028,800	Alejandro Lococo [37]	€417,820
20–29 May 2022	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 €1,000,000 Guaranteed	1,096	€1,041,200	Giorgio Montebelli [38]	€146,126
25–31 July 2022	EKA Bucharest €1,100	407	€390,720	Adrian Gusti Sas [39]	€77,430
7–18 December 2022	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	4,017	€3,856,320	Pieter Theelen [40]	€496,760

Season 2023

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Results
13–20 March 2023	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 €1,000,000 Guaranteed	1,866	€1,772,700	Jörg Schneegass [41]	€187,335
26 September-3 October 2023	EKA Hamburg €1,100	703	€667,850	Amir Mozaffarian [42]	€123,780
11–22 October 2023	EPT/EKA Cyprus S1,100	2,659	$2,552,640	Ankit Ahuja [43]	$362,365
6–17 December 2023	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100	4,403	€4,226,880	Alexander Tkatschew [44]	€511,710

Season 2024

Date	Event / City	Players	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize	Schedule
8–18 March 2024	EKA Rozvadov €1,100 Guaranteed Prize Pool €1,000,000 King's Casino, Rozvadov, Czech Republic	1,526	€1,449,700	Robert Röhlich [45]	€243,500
1–7 July 2024	EKA Hamburg €1,100 Casino Schenefeld, Hamburg, Germany	645	€584,250	Khossein Kokhestani [46]	€110,070
9–20 October 2024	EPT/EKA Cyprus $1,100 Merit Royal Hotel & Casino, Kyrenia, Cyprus	1,038	$2,662,850	Leo Worthington-Leese [47]	$314,030*
4–15 December 2024	EPT/EKA Prague €1,100 King's Casino, Prague, Czech Republic	4,732	€4,542,720	Martin Tsvetanov [48]	€449,034*

* denote deal

Winners by country

Place	Country	Times
1st	Germany	4
	Hungary	4
3rd	Austria	3
	Israel	3
5th	Argentina	2
	Bulgary	2
	England	2
	Spain	2
9th	Belgium	1
	Croatia	1
	Cyprus	1
	Czech Republic	1
	Finland	1
	India	1
	Italy	1
	Netherlands	1
	Norway	1
	Poland	1
	Romenia	1
	Slovakia	1
	Switzerland	1
	Ukraine	1
Total		36

Up to Season 2024 EUREKA Prague / In case of a tie, it will be sorted alphabetically

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External links

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