Thursday, October 4, 2012

2012 WSOPE: SIMPLY THE BEST - HELLMUTH WINS WSOPE, 13TH BRACELET


Make it lucky #13 for Phil Hellmuth. 23 years after becoming the World Champion winning the 1989 WSOP Main Event, Hellmuth has captured the WSOP Europe Main Event, becoming the first player ever to win both events ... can Hellmuth make it a triple at the inaugural WSOP Asia Pacific next April? We'll soon find out.

Hellmuth sky-rockets to #3 overall on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard - powered by PTPRpoker.

Hellmuth befriended his heads-up opponent, Sergii Baranov (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-255th), through playing together during the tournament ... and although they were buddy-buddy sharing fist pump after fist pump during today's final table play.

Popular pro Joseph Cheong (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 29th) was o-so close once again to his first major title but he just couldn't overtake the two big stacks (Hellmuth and Baranov) at the table, he will have to settle for a fourth place finish.

The man that many wanted to see make a comeback on Thursday, Jason Mercier (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 222nd), was the first player out at the final table. Mercier started the day low in chips and he simply couldn't get things started.

It's certainly not the finish they were looking for, but, both Kyle Julius (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 15th) and Timothy Adams (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 17th) entered the Top 20 Player of the Year race.

The tandem each scored points at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris last month at the Aviation Club de France.

Christopher Brammer (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 206th), Scott Seiver (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 272nd), Steve Dannenmann (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,132nd), Toby Lewis (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 210th), David Benyamine (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 639th), Max Silver (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,901st), Curt Kohlberg (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,901st) and Liv Boeree (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,901st) all collected POY points in the event.



TOP 32 PAYOUTS (EURO)
1st Phil Hellmuth 1,022,376
2nd Sergii Baranov 632,592
3rd Stephane Albertini 423,360
4th Joseph Cheong 292,320
5th Christopher Brammer 207,648
6th Paul Tedeschi 149,184
7th Stephane Girault 108,864
8th Jason Mercier 84,672
9th Timothy Adams 66,528
10th Scott Seiver 66,528
11th Nicolas Cardyn 52,416
12th Steve Dannenmann 52,416
13th Toby Lewis 40,320
14th Kyle Julius 40,320
15th David Benyamine 32,256
16th Max Silver 32,256
17th Curt Kohlberg 26,611
18th Liv Boeree 26,611
19th Joe McGowan 26,611
20th Sebastien Guinand 26,611
21st Vadzim Markushevski 26,611
22nd Andy Frankenberger 26,611
23rd Vladislav Varlashin 26,611
24th Joe Kuether 26,611
25th Bertrand Grospellier 22,982
26th Ben Roberts 22,982
27th Vladimir Troyanovskiy 22,982
28th Kitty Kuo 22,982
29th Philipp Gruissem 22,982
30th Steponas Venckus 22,982
31st Emil Patel 22,982
32nd Axel Pergolizzi 22,982

DEFENDING CHAMPION
Elio Fox


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WORLD SERIES OF POKER EUROPE
WSOP Europe NLH Main Event
September 29-4, 2012

Hotel Majestic Barriere | Cannes
Buy-in: $13,465 | Prizepool: $5,195,635
Entries: 420

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
PHIL HELLMUTH 129
SERGII BARANOV 79
STEPHANE ALBERTINI 49
JOSEPH CHEONG 39
CHRISTOPHER BRAMMER 34
PAUL TEDESCHI 29
STEPHANE GIRAULT 29
JASON MERCIER 14
TIMOTHY ADAMS 14
SCOTT SEIVER 14
NICOLAS CARDYN 14
STEVE DANNENMANN 12
TOBY LEWIS 12
KYLE JULIUS 12
DAVID BENYAMINE 12
MAX SILVER 9
CURT KOHLBERG 9
LIV BOEREE 9

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