APRIL QUADJACKS/PTPRPOKER PLAYER OF THE MONTH: DANIEL SMITH

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2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Month for April | Powered by PTPRpoker

What does 3 major tournament victories in a week get you other than fame and fortune? Well QuadJacks Poker Player of the Month honours of course! I’m Eric Danis and this is the QuadJacks Poker Player of the Month report for April, powered by PTPR Poker.

APRIL PLAYER OF THE MONTH
American Daniel Smith destroyed the competition this month, earning the QuadJacks.com PTPR Poker Player of the Month nod for April

Smith won three 5K buy-in events at the EPT Grand Final, collecting over 530K EURO for his efforts.

Smith almost doubled the points accumulated by EPT Grand Final Main Event Winner Mohsin Charania, who was second for the month while ElkY – Bertrand Grospellier – was third in April, with his two High Roller scores in Berlin and in Monte Carlo.


APRIL TOURNAMENTS THAT QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS: 32
Grand Slams - 1 | Premier - 4 | Tier 3 - 10 | Side - 4 | Challenger - 13

APRIL PLAYER OF THE MONTH STATS
Daniel Smith, 302 PTPR Points, 3 PTPR Scores

>> EPT Grand Final 5K NLH Turbo - 101 PTPR Points
>> EPT Grand Final 5K NLH - 101 PTPR Points
>> EPT Grand Final 5K NLH Six-Max - 100 PTPR Points

APRIL TOP 10
302 DANIEL SMITH
156 MOHSIN CHARANIA
135 BERTRAND GROSPELLIER "ElkY"
132 DAVIDI KITAI
128 MORTEN CHRISTENSEN
128 SHAWN CUNIX
127 TOMMY VEDES
126 JUSTIN BONOMO
116 ROBERT BAGULEY
115 KEVIN VANDERSMISSEN


MOST PTPR SCORES FOR APRIL 2012
A total of 267 different players scored PTPR Points in April – Player of the Month Daniel Smith and Dmitry Grinenko both earned (3) three PTPR Scores for the month. Fifteen players had double scores in the month.

APRIL MOST PTPR SCORES
3 DANIEL SMITH
3 DMITRY GRINENKO
2 BERTRAND GROSPELLIER "ElkY"
2 JUSTIN BONOMO
2 KEVIN VANDERSMISSEN
2 MARVIN RETTENMAIER
2 ANDREW CHEN
2 TOBIAS REINKEMEIER
2 DANIEL NEGREANU
2 MAXIM LYKOV "MAX"
2 PRATYUSH BUDDIGA
2 J.P. KELLY
2 MATTHEW MARAFIOTI "MATT"
2 ANTON WIGG
2 CHARLES MOORE "WOODY"
2 FARID JATTIN
2 MARTIN JACOBSON


AT THIS POINT LAST SEASON (January to April 2011)
At this point in April 2011, Ali Eslami had taken over from Marvin Rettenmaier in the Player of the Year Race. Eslami had picked up a Top 10 finish at WPT Hollywood (Indiana) in order to take the lead. Alessio Isia was second and Rettenmaier had been relegated to the third spot.

2011 Player of the Year, Will Failla, was yet again stuck at 75 PTPR Points, falling to 75th position on the Player of the Year charts... Here is a look at our 2011 Top 5, up to April 2011:

210 - ALI ESLAMI
205 - ALESSIO ISAIA
195 - MARVIN RETTENMAIER
184 – TAYLOR VON KRIEGENBERGH
178 - RANDY DORFMAN