PokerStars Head of Live Poker Operations, Neil Johnson, has revealed a series of changing to the twelfth iteration of the European Poker Tour including changing the first card off the deck rule, introducing new chips and tables, and more.

The European Poker Tour is back (nearly) and Neil Johnson, Head of Live Poker Operations for PokerStars, has dipped his quill in ink and painted the Stars blog with some interesting changes.

John Duthie created the first snowball when he had a bath time Eureka moment back in 2004. People like Johnson are now rolling it down the Alps. It started small. It’s become huge. It’s about to get even bigger.

EPT11 broke all of the records: 7 festivals, 375 events, 66,000+ entrants and more than €139,000,000 in prize money doled out.