It was only ten days ago when Dan Smith (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 2nd) was the only player to be over the 400-point mark and was leading the way in the 2012 QuadJacks Player of the Year race. Then Marvin Rettenmaier decided to win the WPT Merit Classic and takeover from Smith, who had led the Player of the Year race since his crazy run at the EPT Grand Final series in Monte Carlo at the start of the summer.
Well, Smith didn't take long to put himself in a position to regain the #1 spot. With only 8 players remaining in the 50K Super High Rollers event at EPT Barcelona, Smith holds the chip lead and, unless he loses all of his chips first, will regain the #1 overall ranking from Mad Marvin.
Smith is one of only three players with over 700K in chips, in fact, Smith, Mike "Timex" McDonald (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-425th) and J.C. Alvarado (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1695th) have an absurd advantage on the rest of the final table as all three hold at least 3M chips as final table play looms.
The remaining five players - which include Erik Seidel (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-760th), Zigmund a.k.a. Ilari Sahamies (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: NR) and Mike Watson (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1265th) - will have a huge mountain to climb in order to hope to win this thing on Sunday.
FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS / CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1 JC Alvarado 3,116,000
Seat 2 Mike McDonald 4,650,000
Seat 3 Erik Seidel 698,000
Seat 4 Mike Watson 604,000
Seat 5 Dan Smith 5,108,000
Seat 6 Jim McCrink 500,000
Seat 7 Ilari Sahamies 685,000
Seat 8 Talal Shakerchi 670,000
FT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1st 1,075,500 2nd 676,100 3rd 399,500 4th 291,900 5th 215,100 6th 153,600 7th 138,300 8th 122,960 RELATED POSTS > SMITH TOPS APRIL > KATCHALOV THIRD AT BARCELONA > LUNDMARK WINS BARCELONA NEXT EPT EVENT EPT San Remo Festival San Remo, Italy October 3-11, 2012 | PTPR TIER 3 EVENT EUROPEAN POKER TOUR EPT Barcelona 50K Super High Rollers August 17-19, 2012 Casino di Barcelona | Spain Buy-in: $61,605 | Prizepool: $3,786,190 Entries: 64 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 100 2nd position 60 3rd position 35 4th position 25 5th position 18 6th position 10 7th position 8 8th position 5 |
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