A round-up of PokerStars Live news including a return to Madrid for the European Poker Tour and 2019 Asia-Pacific Poker Tour stops in Korea and Manila.

PokerStars’ busy beavers have been constructing new live tournament experiences for customers new and old, and we begin with news of PokerStars Live events in Spain.

Madrid lovers are in for a surprise after the announcement to partner with Gran Casino Madrid for a PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Open Madrid.

The nine-day festival starts on June 22 and culminates with the €1,100 buy-in EPT Open Madrid Main Event. It’s the second EPT Open after Vyacheslav Bondartsev conquered a field of 649-entrants to take the $183,991 first prize at the EPT Open Sochi Main Event in September. The last time the EPT brand fell onto the Lillywhite Gran Casino Madrid was in 2011 when Ivan Freitez controversially won the €1.5m first prize in the EPT Grand Final.