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05 Mar 2025
After a fantastic EAPT Georgia in August 2024, there was no doubt that Europe's best mid-limit festival would return to the shores of the Black Sea. And six months later, the series has indeed announced its second coming to the Georgian resort, this time with an unprecedented guarantee for the region of over $1,000,000.
The EAPT Georgia really does look like the best option for those looking to try their hand at live poker. Most of the tournaments have buy-ins ranging from $100 to $300; there are knock-outs, quick evening events for a small number of players, and massive but budget-friendly tournaments with good guarantees such as the EAPT Cup ($350 buy-in, $100,000 guarantee) or the Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty ($300 buy-in, $80,000 guarantee).
And the best part - no rake! All EAPT Georgia tournaments are rake-free (0% rake, 0% handling fee) and 100% of each entry goes into the prize pool.
Rounding out the schedule is the $600 EAPT Georgia Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000. And it will be possible to secure your seat to this tournament in advance from the comfort of your own home with two options available to players: an online day one on the GGPoker network or live satellites on the ARTPOKER site.
The Online Day is a full-fledged Main Event start, only you can play it in the comfort of your own home. All online players will start with the same amount of chips (40,000) as those playing live at the Eclipse Casino. Levels run for 15 minutes each with an initial depth of 200 blinds.
Online play will continue until ITM, after which survivors are expected to arrive at the Eclipse Casino tournament room in Batumi by 12:00 noon on the 13th of April to continue with their stacks on Day 2 of the EAPT Georgia Main Event. Day 2 will be all about the prizes.
The buy-in for the EAPT Georgia Online Day is $600 and is scheduled to start on 30 March at 22:05 MSC (20:05 NET).
Every Sunday in March (9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th) GGPoker will host $60 phase satellites, each with a minimum of 5 $600 tickets. In turn, you can qualify for the $6.60 phase that will take place three times a day in the evening.
The total selection grid at GGPoker is as follows: Phase 1 $6.60 → Final Phase $66 → EAPT Georgia Online Day 1 $600.
UPD: More ways to qualify for the EAPT Georgia on the GGPoker Network!
Great news for players looking to secure their spot in the EAPT Georgia Main Event! The GGPoker Network has added an extra satellite to the Main Event Day 1A on the 5th of April with 5 guaranteed tickets.
If you don't want to play online, but still want to win a ticket to a tournament from the comfort of your own home, look no further than ARTPOKER. Until the end of March, ARTPOKER will be running direct satellites to Georgia, with a similar structure: daily step satellites and big final qualifiers on Sundays.
ARTPOKER is officially a "social poker" platform. To be clear, it is a mobile and desktop application for playing poker for "funk" - local conventional chips. You can get them for free or buy them in the shop. It is not possible to exchange chips for real money, playing in ARTPOKER is not for money.
However, there are ways to turn virtual chips into real prizes in the form of EAPT tickets.
The qualifier for the main EAPT Georgia tournament starts with 3,000 chips, so you can try your hand for free once a day (1,500 chips each day for logging into the client). In the first "step" for 3,000 you get 3 tickets for 33,000 chips for Step 2, the first "step" is daily.
Step 2 is also daily, the guarantee is already 700 000 chips, including 2 tickets for 300 000 chips - this is the cost of the final satellite. The finals, which will take place on Sundays throughout March, will award a minimum of 3 tickets to the EAPT Georgia Main Event. ARTPOKER players are free to try and qualify for the final "stack" at a lower price or to buy in for 300,000 chips. To put this in perspective, 300,000 local chips can be bought in the shop for around 2,000 roubles.
ARTPOKER's overall tournament schedule is as follows: Step 1 (daily at 20:00 Moscow time, buy-in 3,000 chips) → Step 2 (daily at 22:00 Moscow time, buy-in 30,000 chips) → Final Step (every Sunday at 17:00 Moscow time, buy-in 300,000 chips), 3 tickets for $600 guaranteed.
All 18 EAPT Georgia Cup tournaments, satellites and phases will be played in a "no rake" format. This literally means that the organiser's commission for all events of the festival in Batumi will be equal to 0. Accordingly, the prize pools of the tournaments will be formed according to the principle of the number of participants multiplied by the buy-in. Sounds great, but there's a bit of a catch.
Georgia has a mandatory 20% state tax on gambling. This means that players in the series will have to pay 20% of any winnings to the local treasury. Foreigners or local passport holders - it doesn't matter. The tax will be collected when the prize money is paid out, you do not have to fill in any declarations yourself. You will have to pay from the prize money for entering the ITM zone, as well as for knockouts, bounties and any other prize money you receive in tournaments.Check out the full EAPT Georgia schedule on the festival website