EPT BARCELONA CHAMP SCHLEICH AUGUST PLAYER OF THE MONTH

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EPT Barcelona Main Event Champion Martin Schleich tops the charts for August and is the PTPR Player of the Month.

Schleich collected 133 PTPR Points in Barcelona, good enough to pickup POM honours, finishing a single point ahead of second place Will "The Thrill" Failla - Failla won the WPT Legends of Poker just a day prior to Schleich's EPT victory.

Steve O'Dwyer leads a group of four players with multiple PTPR Scores this month. O'Dwyer scored 35 PTPR Points in his Epic Poker League Pro-Am victory early in August ... and recently added 18 PTPR Points in his EPT Bracelona Prelim score - in the 10K NLH w/Single Rebuy event.


27 TOTAL TOURNAMENTS QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS
Grand Slams - 0
Premier - 3
Tier 3 - 1
Prelim - 3
Challenger - 20


AUGUST TOP 10

August Player of the Month:
Martin Schleich, 133 PTPR Points, 1 PTPR Score

> EPT Barcelona (Champion) - 133 PTPR Points

133- MARTIN SCHLEICH
132- WILL "THE THRILL" FAILLA
127- RONNIE KAISER
100- PHILIPP GRUISSEM
83- DRAGAN KOSTIC
82- KEN ALDRIDGE
77- GRZEGORZ CICHOCKI
75- GOVERT METAAL
75- FRANCOIS FREJDLES
75- ALEXANDER VASERFIRER

A total of 184 different players scored PTPR Points in August. Only four different players earned two PTPR Scores during the month:.

2- SAMI KELOPURO
2- STEVE O'DWYER
2- NICOLAS YUNIS
2- KONSTANTIN TOLOKNO


AT THIS POINT LAST SEASON

At this point in August 2010, Frank Kassela was our PTPR Player of the Year leader ... here is how the Top 5 looked like in August of 2010:

316- FRANK KASSELA
312- SOREL MIZZI
292- CARLOS MORTENSEN
278- MICHAEL MIZRACHI "THE GRINDER"
269- TOMER BERDA


Finally, here is a look at the Top 10 countries who visited the PTPR site in August:
1. USA, 2. Canada, 3. Germany, 4. UK, 5. France, 6. Netherlands, 7. Russia, 8. Brazil, 9. Ukraine, 10. Australia

Thank you to all for your continued support!
Eric