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Bring Your Poker Home Games Online.

Nothing like PokerStars Home Games has been offered before and it’s so easy to use. You have so many options when you open up your Poker Club and you can customize it any way you want, just like you would in a home game with friends.

Welcome to a new era in online poker. Home Games allows you and your friends to set up and enjoy private poker clubs at PokerStars.

Create your online Home Games poker club, run just a few games, and you could play for the Ultimate Home Game experience! Get a regular online home game up-and-running, run just 5 games, and on March 6 you’ll be competing in a $100,000 tournament for the poker trip of a lifetime! You and your friend could play with your choice of Team PokerStars Pro legends in one of four ultimate settings – Macau, Buenos Aires, Vancouver or EPT Snowfest at the Alpine Palace in Austria!

Create your own private poker club in just 3 easy steps:

1. Click on the ‘Home Games’ tab in your PokerStars lobby
2. Click on ‘Create a Poker Club’
3. Make a note of your Club ID and Invitation Code, and then start inviting your friends to join you!

Creating a club is easy – just pick a club name and invitation code. You’ll then be presented with your own exclusive poker lobby that you can customize with private Home Game tables and tournaments of your choosing.

Inviting friends is simple – just send them the club ID and invitation code, then accept them as members when they join.

Scheduling games and tournaments is moments away – just choose the game type and buy-in level, then set the date for your online Home Game. The system will automatically notify your club members of the scheduled game.

Your exclusive online Poker Club includes these key features:

• Club Management Tools – appoint administrators, accept/remove members, customize your club lobby, set length of club seasons, and more.
• Club Leaderboard – ranks players by points earned through tournament play
• Player Statistics – view points earned, top finishes, knockouts for each club member
• Game Management Tools – customize game parameters and schedule games
• Save Favorite Game Setups – easy to replay your favorite customized game configurations
• Game Schedule – list of scheduled tournaments and open ring game tables
• Game Results – view tournament results including finish order, points earned, knockouts
• Private Games – all games and tournaments are available only to members of your club
• Custom Tables – your club name appears on the felt of your customized game tables
• Full Range of Poker Games – Choose Hold’em, Omaha, Stud, mixed games like HORSE and others
• It’s Free – there is no charge for opening and running your own online Poker Club

Check out the rest of the Home Games section to learn more, and see how easy it is to manage or join an online Poker Club with PokerStars Home Games.

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EPT releases Season 7 schedule

With Season 6 of the EPT still just a recent memory, the European Poker Tour has released a fantastic and surprising schedule for Season 7.

The seventh year of the EPT will add brand new cities and a few unexpected stops along the way.

The new season launches with a €4,250 debut event in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, from August 11-16. Tallinn proved to be a big hit last year when more than 300 played the first PokerStars Baltic Festival.

Tallin, Estonia – by Ethan Lindsey

Season 7 will also see the EPT make return visits to Vilamoura, Portugal (August 28-September 2) and the ski destination tournament ‘EPT Snowfest’ in Austria (March 20-25). The EPT will also be going back to Germany’s capital city of Berlin (April 5-10).

As always, new season will include many events of the events you’ve come to expect like Barcelona, Prague, Deauville, San Remo and Copenhagen, not to mention the flagship ‘Festival of Poker’ events in London and the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Online satellites for EPT Tallinn will launch on in mid-June.

For a complete look at what’s to come, see the EPT Season 7 schedule page.

Max Lykov wins EPT Player of the Year

Young Russian Max Lykov, who won EPT Kyiv at the start of Season 6, has been named Player of the Year at the EPT Awards in Monte Carlo.

The 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 Friday.

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 finished 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.”

Max Lykov