Monday, June 20, 2011

2011 WSOP: STEIN WINS A BRACELET, JUMPS INTO PTPR TOP 15


PHOTO/SOURCE: POKERNEWS.com

Sam Stein is having another fine poker season. After a good 2010 season - which including a PTPR NAPT Player of the Year Victory - Stein wins his first WSOP bracelet and, with this his third PTPR Score of the 2011 Season, enters the 2011 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard.

Stein now has 228 PTPR Points on the year and sits 6th in the rankings, six points behind PCA Main Event Champ Galen Hall.

Stein had some tough competition in trying to secure his first bracelet, other Top 18 notables included: Ben Lamb, Christian Harder, Adam Junglen, Brock Parker, Dilyan Kovachev, Tex Barch, Romik Vartzar, Jeremy Harkin, Andrew Chen and Rami Boukai.

In other news, James Hess won the Seniors event - over 3,700 seniors entered the event, an amazing crowd! Hess defeated Richard Harwood heads up.


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
2011 World Series of Poker
Event 30 NLH Seniors Event
June 17-19, 2011

Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $3,376,800
Entries: 3,752

FINAL RESULTS:
JAMES HESS 75
RICHARD HARWOOD 40
CRAIG KOCH 25
JOSEPH BOLNICK 15
GREGORY ALSTON 10
JAMES JEWELL 8
CHARLES COHEN 5
WALTER BROWNE 5
LEO WHITT 5

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2011 World Series of Poker
Event 31 Pot-Limit Omaha
June 17-19, 2011

Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Buy-in: $3,000
Prizepool: $1,870,050
Entries: 685

FINAL RESULTS:
SAM STEIN 131
BEN LAMB 81
WARREN FUND 51
CHRISTIAN HARDER 41
ADAM JUNGLEN 36
ZIMNAN ZIYARD 31
BROCK PARKER 31
AUSTIN SCOTT 16
DILYAN KOVACHEV 16
TEX BARCH 16
ROMIK VARTZAR 16
JEREMY HARKIN 14
ANDREW CHEN 14
DALLAS WOTTLIN 14
HENNING DETHLEFSEN 14
GABOR GYARMATI 11
RAMI BOUKAI 11
JONATHAN CUEVAS 11

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