Monday, February 13, 2012

WPT LUCKY HEARTS: GAGNE LOOKING FOR VALENTINE GIFT

PHOTO CREDIT/SOURCE: WPT.com

Gigi Gagne is looking to collect one heck of a Valentine's gift on Tuesday. The chip leader coming into Final Table play at the WPT Lucky Hearts Open, Gagne (2011 PTPR Rank: NR), could become the first woman to win a World Poker Tour open event.

Gagne holds a million dollar chip lead over the man who held the chip lead the past two days, Matt Juttelstad. Juttelstad (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) has a few live tournament cashes in his career. He did earn a 82nd place finish at the 2010 PCA Main Event.

2009 Wynn Classic Champion and Las Vegas pro Keith Ferrera and Sharon Levin - who finished 9th at the Florida State Poker Championship last August - will hope that their previous final table experience will help them on Tuesday.

Although they were eliminated today, Harrison Gimbel (2011 PTPR Rank: 2090th), Ganesh Letchumanan (2011 PTPR Rank: 452nd), Christian Harder (2011 PTPR Rank: 88th), Gian Oliveri (2011 PTPR Rank: 607th) and Noah Schwartz (2011 PTPR Rank: 828th) all collected PTPR Points today.

Schwartz's seven points bring his total up to 107 PTPR Points for the year, he moves up to 11th overall on the 2012 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard.

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1: Matt Juttelstad - 1,651,000 (138 BBs)
Seat 2: Gigi Gagne - 2,708,000 (226 BBs)
Seat 3: Uri Kadosh - 1,470,000 (123 BBs)
Seat 4: Keith Ferrera - 1,094,000 (91 BBs)
Seat 5: Sharon Levin - 1,208,000 (101 BBs)
Seat 6: Todd Jacobson - 718,000 (60 BBs)

NOTABLE DAY 3 PLAYER ELIMINATIONS
Harrison Gimbel, Ganesh Letchumanan, Christian Harder, Noah Schwartz, Darryll Fish, Angelo Miel, Fred Goldberg and Jonathan Little.



FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS
1st: $268,444
2nd: $158,194
3rd: $105,463
4th: $73,344
5th: $54,649
6th: $42,185

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DEFENDING CHAMPION
Inaugural Event

NEXT TOUR STOP
WPT L.A. Poker Classic (LAPC)
February 24-29, 2012

FINAL TABLE LIVE STREAM
WPT LIVE STREAM

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open
WPT Lucky Hearts NLH Main Event
February 10-14, 2012

Seminole Hard Rock | Hollywood, FL
Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $958,750
Entries: 295

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
1st place 127
2nd place 77
3rd place 47
4th place 37
5th place 32
6th place 27
OMAR SIDER 27
HAL KLEIN 12
HARRISON GIMBEL 12
VICTOR HEFFESSE 12
ALEX IVANOV 12
GANESH LETCHUMANAN 10
CHRISTIAN HARDER 10
GIAN OLIVERI 10
RAJ VOHRA 10
STEVEN KARP 7
ANTONIO COLON 7
NOAH SCHWARTZ 7

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