PokerStars Sets April Return for EPT Monte-Carlo

The individual event calendar is still to come, leaving us with no confirmed dates for the Main Event or information about which Super High Roller and bounty tournaments will return for the 2027 poker season.

The most obvious difference is already settled and it is not one solely reserved for Monte-Carlo.

As of next season, European Poker Tour Main Events will have a buy-in of just €5,000, ending the long-running €5,300 price point.  

The PokerStars Open Main Event is also getting a price reduction at €1,250, including at EPT festivals such as Monte-Carlo. If you remeber the 2026 edition, you'd know this is a major change, as the Monte-Carlo Open Main Event cost €1,650 while the Open High Roller was set at a €2,700 buy-in.

Regardless of the buy-in price tag, players will still be playing for the Main Event title Roman Stoica took home in 2026. 

in doing so, he topped 1,011 entries to collect €825,000, with Austria’s Bernhard Binder taking €515,000 as runner-up. 

The same poker room will host the next title chase, with Sporting Monte-Carlo again serving as the festival venue.