DUHAMEL STARTS 2012 STRONG, PTPR PLAYER OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com

It certainly was a month to remember for 2010 WSOP World Champion Jonathan Duhamel. Right out of the gate, Duhamel started accumulating PTPR Points and made a killing at the PCA, picking up over one million dollars - a great January indeed.

# OF JANUARY TOURNAMENTS THAT QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS: 40
Grand Slams - 1
Premier - 3
Tier 3 - 11
Side - 9
Challenger - 16

JANUARY PLAYER OF THE MONTH STATS
Jonathan Duhamel, 180 PTPR Points, 3 PTPR Scores
>> 2012 PCA 5K NLH Turbo 8-Max - 18 PTPR Points
>> 2012 PCA 5K NLH 8-Max (Champion) - 101 PTPR Points
>> 2012 PCA 25K NLH High Rollers - 61 PTPR Points

For a list of the Top 10 PTPR Point Producers for January, see the end of this document.


MOST PTPR SCORES FOR JANUARY
A total of 315 different players scored PTPR Points in January - only one player earned (3) PTPR Scores during the month - yep, you guessed it - Mr. Duhamel. See below for a list of players who have scored 2 and 3 PTPR Scores during the last month.


AT THIS POINT LAST SEASON
At this point in January 2011, PCA Main Event Champion Galen Hall lead the way while our eventual Player of the Year, Will "The Thrill" Failla, was tied for 29th with 75 PTPR Points ... here is how the Top 5 looked like:

140 GALEN HALL
133 LUCIEN COHEN
132 DAVID GORR
127 ALEXANDER KUZMIN
120 CORY NISTLER


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

I'm honoured to mention that January was a record month for the site. The biggest number of visits in a single month, busted the record with about 10 days left in the month, I am truly touched and wish to thank everyone for their support.

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JANUARY TOP 10 180 - JONATHAN DUHAMEL 160 - JOHN DIBELLA 139 - OLIVER SPEIDEL 133 - VADZIM KURSEVICH 128 - DAVID SHALLOW 125 - FARAZ JAKA 120 - SEYED EDALAT 109 - ABRAHAM ARAYA 107 - JOSH MANCUSO 102 - JOHN DOLAN

MOST PTPR SCORES, JANUARY 3 - JONATHAN DUHAMEL 2 - OLIVER SPEIDEL 2 - FARAZ JAKA 2 - ANDREW CHEN 2 - ISAAC HAXTON 2 - YULIUS SEPMAN 2 - DANNY SHIFF 2 - BROCK PARKER 2 - PHILIPPE DAUTEUIL 2 - TAM TRUONG 2 - JUSTIN SCHWARTZ 2 - DANIEL CHEVALIER 2 - COREY BURBICK 2 - CHARLES HARVEY