EPT Deauville will be back in January!

<img src="http://admins.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/4a5591856c7507754a83e65ef988f12f.jpg" align="right" style="border:1px solid black; margin:5px;">The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour has confirmed its next stop: the French Open in Deauville will be back! After 2 years of absence from the most popular European poker series, the French Open is looking to make a great comeback!

Last year last time the EPT tournament took place was in 2006, because in 2007, it was canceled just a few weeks before the tournament took place. Everything seemed to be ready, so the tournament directors were very disappointed back then. The press release stated that it was because of the French government:
The European Poker Tour (EPT) regrets to announce that the 2007 French Open poker tournament due to be held at Casino Barrière de Deauville from 20-24th February, 2007, has been cancelled. This is as a direct result of last-minute intervention by the French authorities making it impossible for the Lucien Barrière group to run a poker tournament on their premises in Deauville."

This season, the EPT Deauville will finally be back on the schedule and it will take place January 20-24 2009 at the luxury Casino Barrier de Deauville. Of course there will be a nice line-up of Team PokerStars-professionals like Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Vanessa Rousso, Vicky Coren, Isabelle Mercier, Katja Thater, Noah Boeken, Alex Kravchenko, Luca Pagano, Dario Minieri and Chad Brown.

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