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 RELATED POSTS > RETTENMAIER LEADS WPT CHAMPIONSHIP > MADNESS AT BELLAGIO > CUNIX WINS WPT JAX | 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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