Sunday, May 27, 2012

MAD MAN: RETTENMAIER CONTINUES TO ROLL, WINS WPT CHAMPIONSHIP

PHOTO: WORLD POKER TOUR

It has certainly been a good 18 months of so "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier. Five tournament wins, 21 Top 10 finishes, over 2M in earnings ... Rettenmaier is the final winner of the World Poker Tour's 2011-12 season, winning the WPT World Championship - and just under 1.2M in the process.

Oh, and Mad Marvin signed on with PartyPoker last week to join their team of pro players ... let's just say that Mad Marvin in enjoying life at the moment.

It was a classic final table (a front-runner for PTPR Tournament of the Year for sure) as Rettenmaier had to dispose of Philippe Ktorza, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, Nick "The Takeover" Schulman, Steve O'Dwyer and Trevor Pope in order to secure the World Championship.

Rettenmaier's win catapults him to second overall on the QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard presented by PTPRpoker, surpassing former #1 Jonathan Duhamel - right on time for the WSOP.

Mad Marvin wasn't the only one taking a stab at the player of the year race ... WPT Bay 101 Champ Moon Kim moves into 5th overall, WPT Lucky Hearts winner Matt Juttelstad is now 12th, WPT Venice Grand Prix Champ Rinat Bogdanov 15th, the aforementioned O'Dwyer not sits 28th while recently named WPT Player of the Year - Joseph Serock - is 29th overall.

Congratulations also go out to Thomas Marchese, who won the 100K Super High Rollers Event.



FT PAYOUTS (USD)
Marvin Rettenmaier $1,196,858
Philippe Ktorza $805,310
Michael Mizrachi $424,618
Nick Schulman $256,235
Steve O'Dwyer $192,176
Trevor Pope $155,571

DEFENDING CHAMPION
Scott Seiver

NEXT TOUR STOP
WPT Merit Cyprus
August 4-9, 2012
Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino
Cyprus

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PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT
World Poker Tour World Championship
WPT World Championship NLH Main Event
May 19-26, 2012

Bellagio | Las Vegas
Buy-in: $25,500 | Prizepool: $3,660,500
Entries: 152

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
MARVIN RETTENMAIER 151
PHILIPPE KTORZA 91
MICHAEL MIZRACHI 76
NICK SCHULMAN 66
STEVE O'DWYER 61
TREVOR POPE 56
MOON KIM 51
WIL WILKINSON 46
HAFIZ KHAN 36
JOE SEROCK 26
RON COURY 21
JOHN ESPOSITO 19
MATT JUTTELSTAD 19
TOM MCCORMICK 19
BARRY SHULMAN 16
RINAT BOGDANOV 16
FARZAD BONYADI 16
GUILLAUME DARCOURT 13


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