After ending Day 2 atop the leaderboard at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris, high roller tournament standout Philipp Gruissem (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-642nd) ended the day today with the chip lead once again, leading the final 24 players into Friday's Day 4 play.
Gruissem came into the poker spotlight in 2011 when he followed a Top 30 finish at the WSOP Main Event up by winning two straight EPT High Rollers titles, in Barcelona and in London.
The French hip hop artist turned poker pro known to most as "Kool Shen" has enjoyed a breaktout year in 2012. Bruno Lopes (as he's known to everyone else) (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 31st) has won two events on the poker circuit in 2012.
Lopes won the Euro Finals of Poker Diamond Championship at this very venue - the Aviation Club de France - in January (defeating 2012 bracelet winner Aubin Cazals heads-up) and picking up the win at WPT National Cannes in late May. Lopes currently sits in fourth position.
Rounding-out the Top 5 is reigning WPT Player of the Year Joe Serock (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-119th). Serock secured the WPT POY title with a string of three Top 10 WPT Main Event finishes in the final few months of the 2011-12 WPT Season.
Defending EPT Grand Final champ Mohsin Charania (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-32nd) holds a Top 10 stack heading into Friday's play.
FINAL 24 NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS:
Philipp Gruissem 1,060,000
Bruno Lopes 440,000
Joe Serock 411,000
Mohsin Charania 307,000
Fabian Quoss 279,000
Timothy Adams 208,000
Theo Jorgensen 201,000
Kyle Julius 122,000
Juha Helppi 114,000
Jean Philippe Rohr 101,000
Andrew Lichtenberger 54,000
WPT LAPC winner Sean Jazayeri (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-53rd) and superstar Jason Mercier (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 293rd) were two of the final three players eliminated. Lucky for them, they just squeezed into the money, they will be taking home a little over 17K EURO for their efforts.
FT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1st - €400,000 2nd - €264,600 3rd - €170,065 4th - €125,775 5th - €94,615 6th - €75,765 7th - €62,575 8th - €50,010 9th - €37,640 10th-12th - €27,445 13th-15th - €22,595 16th-18th - €19,240 19th-21st - €16,835 22nd-24th - €15,065 25th Giacomo Fundaro - €13,305 26th Sean Jazayeri - €13,305 27th Jason Mericer - €13,305 RELATED POSTS > WAXMAN WINS WPT PARIS > TWO IN A ROW FOR GRUISSEM DEFENDING CHAMPION Matthew Waxman 2012 PTPR Points: | PTPR PREMIER EVENT PARTOUCHE POKER TOUR NLH Main Event September 3-9, 2012 Palm Beach Casino | Cannes Buy-in: $10,875 | Prizepool: $6,398,500 Entries: 489 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 127 2nd position 77 3rd position 47 4th position 37 5th position 32 6-7th position 27 8-11th position 12 12-15th position 10 16-18th position 7 NEXT WPT EVENT: WPT Malta September 16-20, 2012 2011: Matt Giannetti |
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