WPT AMNEVILLE: RETTENMAIER, CHEONG MAKING WAVES IN FRANCE

PHOTO/SOURCE: WPT.com

Day 2 play in the books in Amnéville and a few big names have risen to the top of the leaderboard.

Marvin Rettenmaier has a lot riding on this event. Rettenmaier, currently third in chips after Day 2 play, sits 25th on the 2011 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard. A win (and yes, we're jumping way ahead of ourselves) and Mad Marvin would super-jump to 2nd overall. Rettenmaier has had a great 2011, looks like he's not done yet.

2011 PTPR LEADERBOARD LIVE LOOK-IN:
23. Aaron Steury, 210 PTPR Points
24. Mitch Schock, 203
25. Marvin Rettenmaier, 202
26. Shawn Buchanan, 196
27. Benjamin Spindler, 191

Joseph Cheong is also having a strong start to WPT Amnéville, the 2010 November Niner is sixth in chips heading into Day 3 play on Friday.

Nesrine Kourdourli - who finished 4th in this event last year and finished 10th at WPT Paris - sits fifth in chips after Thursday's play.

NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS:
KOHLER Urs 498,000 (Chip Leader)
RETTENMAIER Marvin 454,800
KOUROURLI Nesrine 431,500
CHEONG Joseph 380,100
ALLAIN Adrien 335,100
MATTERN Arnaud 258,400
VANZADELHOFF Steven 130,500
FITOUSSI Bruno 77,700

NOTABLE DAY 2 ELIMINATIONS:
Mathew Frankland, Liv Boeree, Kevin Vandermissen, Tobias Wagner, Roger Hairabedian, Tristan Clemencon, Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Caterhine Hong, Antony Lellouche, Antonin Teisseire, Jamie Rosen and Dominic Nitsche.

WPT AMNEVILLE PAYOUTS:
1st. €310,633 + $25,500 WPT Bellagio Package
2nd. €170,365 + €10,000 WPT Paris Package
3rd. €113,580
4th. €80,640
5th. €60,196
6th. €47,700
7th. €35,780
8th. €26,690
9th. €19,310
10th-12th. €13,061
13th-15th. €11,926
16th-18th. €10,790
19th-27th. €9,654
28th-36th. €8,518

We should be hitting the money on Friday!

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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Amnéville
WPT Amnéville NLH Main Event
November 1-6, 2011

Casino Municipal D'Amnéville | France
Buy-in: $4,815 | Prizepool : $1,602,293 | Entries: 379

PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 128
2nd position 78
3rd position 48
4th position 38
5th position 33
6-7th position 28
8-11th position 13
12-15th position 11
16-18th position 8