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 RELATED POSTS > SIX IS ENOUGH FOR SIRWATTS > GET YOUR POPCORN READY, HELLMUTH LEADS WSOPE > WSOPE MAIN EVENT HEATING UP > A CHIPPY AFFAIR IN CANNES > DA COSTA SANTOS WINS BRACELET > ROSADONI WINS FIRST BRACELET > BIG WIN FOR BIG ROG! > THE YEAR OF ANTONIO > WE'RE OFF IN CANNES > SMOKROKFLOCK WINS WSOPE MAIN |
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