Give the man his due ... or his nubs, as he would prefer. Only 10 days after losing his lead atop the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard to Marvin Rettenmaier, Dan Smith (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 1st) has taken back what's his, the #1 spot.
With his win in the EPT Barcelona 50K Super High Rollers event, Smith has won his fifth major event this season, four of those wins counting for PTPR Points and Smith becomes the first player since the beginning of the PTPR Rankings back in 2010 to top the 500-point mark in a season ... and we still have four and a half months to go in 2012!
Smith started the season winning the 100K High Rollers Challenge at the Aussie Millions, he then proceeded to win THREE events in one week during the EPT Grand Final festivities in Monte Carlo. Smith also had a fine WSOP this past summer, earning three Top 20 finishes including a third place finish in the 5K NLH event a few days before the start of the Main Event.
Smith joins Jonathan Duhamel and Phil Ivey as the only three players with seven PTPR Scores for 2012.
JC Alvarado (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-273rd) was Smith's heads-up victim, nursing a very short stack for most of heads-up play. Alvarado earning his second PTPR Score of 2012.
Ilari Sahamies (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-932nd) - better known to the poker world as Zigumnd - and the Canadian duo of Mike Watson (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 401st) and Mike McDonald (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-281st) were the other members of the Top 5.
FT PAYOUTS (EURO) Dan Smith 1,075,500 JC Alvarado 676,100 Mike Watson 399,500 Ilari Sahamies 291,900 Mike McDonald 215,100 Erik Seidel 153,600 Talal Shakerchi 138,300 Jim McCrink 122,960 RELATED POSTS > SMITH TO TAKE WHAT'S HIS > SMITH TOPS APRIL > KATCHALOV THIRD AT BARCELONA > LUNDMARK WINS BARCELONA NEXT EPT EVENT EPT San Remo Festival Casino 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 DANIEL SMITH 100 JC ALVARADO 60 MICHAEL WATSON 35 ILARI SAHAMIES 25 MIKE MCDONALD 18 ERIK SEIDEL 10 TALAL SHAKERCHI 8 JIM MCCRINK 5 |
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