Sunday, October 23, 2011

PTS AT STAKE: CHEONG TAKES CHIP LEAD INTO DAY 3 AT SAN REMO

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SOURCE: POKERSTARSBLOG.com, POKERNEWS.com

You sort of get the feeling that Joseph Cheong wants to make sure we don't forget about him - especially around this time of year.

Almost a year after finishing third in the WOSP Main Event, Cheong - who was regarded by many as the best player at that final table - is back in the limelight at EPT San Remo.

The former November Niner is looking for his first PTPR Score of the 2011 season - he had finished 20th overall in 2010 after collecting 245 PTPR Points in three events.

Cheong is the only player over 600K in chips and he will be looking at adding to his chip stack early on Day 3 Monday.

WSOP Europe Main Event Champ Elio Fox is right in the hunt! Fox enters Day 3 play with 346K in chips.

An impressive 837 players signed up to play EPT San Remo; after two days of action, only 145 players will be coming back Monday to battle for the massive +3.7M Euros prizepool - over 1 million US going to the winner.

NOTABLE PLAYERS WITH ABOVE AVERAGE CHIP STACKS (Unofficial):
Joseph Cheong 632000
Daniel Neilson 584500
Mustapha Kanit 577000
William Thorson 508500
Sergey Tikhonov 504500
Vanessa Selbst 497000
Nick Yunis 435500
Christopher McClung 402000
Ondrej Vinklarek 396000
Jon Spinks 355000
Elio Fox 346000
Lex Veldhuis 341000
Barny Boatman 300000
Johnny Lodden 287500
Kevin MacPhee 283500
Kyle Johnson 279000
Vojtech Ruzicka 276500
Mike McDonald 265000
Govert Metaal 246000
Melanie Weisner 225500
Timothy Marsters 202000
Michael Benvenuti 177000

The last two EPT San Remo Champions won't be coming back on Monday as both Liv Boeree and Rupert Elder were eliminate during Sunday's Day 2 play.

OTHER NOTABLE ELIMINATIONS:
Shannon Shorr, Xuan Li, Carlos Mortensen, Peter Jetten, Mike Leah, James Dempsey, Dmitry Gromov, Per Linde, Mickey Petersen, Jeffrey Papola, Hugo Lemaire, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Matthias De Meulder, Sandra Naujkos, Brian Roberts, Chris Moorman, Dominik Nitsche, ElkY, Bryn Kenney, Brandon Cantu, 2011 PTPR #1 Ranked Player Eugene Katchalov, Sam Stein, Michael Tureniec, Robert Mizrachi, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Oleksii Kovalchuk, Jennifer Harman, Jonathan Duhamel, Theo Jorgensen, Erika Moutinho, Andrew Teng, Sorel Mizzi, Vanessa Rousso and a cast of others.

RELATED POSTS:
EPT LONDON: SPINDLER OUTLAST O'DWYER
EPT SAN REMO IS EDLER'S SHINING MOMENT (MAY 2011)

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour San Remo
EPT San Remo NLH Main Event
October 21-27, 2011

Casino San Remo | Italy
Buy-in: $6,750 | Prizepool : $5,144,540 | Entries: 837

Defending Champion: Rupert Elder

PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 133
2nd position 83
3rd position 53
4th position 43
5th position 38
6-7th position 33
8-11th position 18
12-14th position 16
15th position 16
16-18th position 13

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