ACF HOLD'EM SERIES: REARD WINS THE MAIN EVENT

Frenchman Alexandre Reard (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-491st) wrapped things up at the Paris ACF Hold'Em Series at the Aviation Club de France earlier this week, besting 78 opponents to win the 3K EURO buy-in Main Event, collecting €67,540 for the win.

Reard finished second at the Marrakech Poker Open in Morocco this past May and also won the Euro Finals of Poker Bronze Championship at the start of the season.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (EURO) ALEXANDRE REARD   €67,540 JEAN-JACQUES ZEITOUN   €45,030 YONI HOURI   €33,775 VICTOR CHOUPEAUX   €22,515 GILDAS LE PRAT   €15,760 Jean-Louis Perez   €13,510 Ali Mekhtoub   €11,260 William Hani   €9,005 Alban Juen   €6,755 2011 CHAMPION Julien Jolivet, €85,595 RELATED POSTS > JOLIVET WINS ACF HOLD'EM SERIES > MARQUES WINS AVIATION TOUR

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT PARIS ACF HOLD'EM SERIES NLH Main Event November 23-25, 2012 Aviation Club de France | Paris Buy-in: $3,875 | Prizepool: $287,145 Total Entries: 79 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ALEXANDRE REARD 35 JEAN-JACQUES ZEITOUN 18 YONI HOURI 10 VICTOR CHOUPEAUX 8 GILDAS LE PRAT 5 NEXT AVIATION CLUB DE FRANCE EVENT EURO FINALS OF POKER WPT NATIONAL SERIES Aviation Club de France, Paris January 8-23, 2013

WPT MONTREAL: ROY IS PLAYGROUND KING

Local hero Jonathan Roy is the king of WPT Montreal. Roy (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 19th) picks up the huge first-place, worth over 780K USD for his second victory of the season on the circuit ... Roy won a EPT Grand Final side event in Monte Carlo earlier this year ... the win allows Roy to make a late-season charge, moving to 19th overall on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard.

In an all-French Canadian final, Roy defeated his friend, 2010 WSOP bracelet winner Pascal Lefrancois (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-242nd), heads-up for the Montreal title.

American Jeff Gross (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 289th) certainly tried his best to play the role of spoiler but ran out of steam three-handed.

Lefrancois held a sizeable chip lead on his two opponents when three-handed play began but was hit hard in a few hands actually dropping to third for a while before battling back to face Roy during heads-up play.

One of Canada's most famous and recognizable players, Gavin Smith (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 568th), was back the limelight for the first time in a while, finishing fourth in the event.

Martin Raus, Ashton Griffin, Amanda Musumeci and Francois Billard, who cashed in the 1K Deepstack event earlier in the series at Playground, all earned POY points in this event.

Congratulations to the folks at Playground Poker Club near Montreal for hosting a great event, the third biggest in the history of the World Poker Tour.

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TOP 27 PAYOUTS (USD) Jonathan Roy $784,101 Pascal Lefrancois $473,572 Jeff Gross $319,238 Gavin Smith $212,937 Sylvain Siebert $147,184 Peter Kaemmerlen $113,792 Serge Cantin $86,539 Martin Raus $63,370 Gabriel Fernandes $45,313 Kuong Chhe Kuoch $32,366 Josue Sauvageau $32,366 Tommy Velliama $32,366 Ashton Griffin $25,211 Amanda Musumeci $25,211 Thanh Phong $25,211 Danny Thanh Nguyen $21,123 Paul Apotstols $21,123 Francois Billard $21,123 Bruce Buffer $17,714 Jean Roy $17,714 Todd Siislev $17,714 Jason Koon $17,714 Anesti Kocini $17,714 Amichai Barer $17,714 Timothy Adams $17,714 Hugo Dumoulin $17,714 Mike McDonald $17,714 RELATED POSTS WPT FT - MONTREAL CALLING > ROY WINS MONTE CARLO PRELIM > LEFRANCOIS WINS BRACELET > G-SMITH WINS BRACELET

PTPR SIDE EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR PLAYGROUND POKER CLASSIC WPT NLH Main Event November 23-27, 2012 Playground Poker Club | Quebec Buy-in: $3,325 | Prizepool: $3,387,930 Total Entries: 1,173 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JONATHAN ROY 136 PASCAL LEFRANCOIS 86 JEFF GROSS 56 GAVIN SMITH 46 SYLVAIN SIEBERT 41 PETER KAEMMERIEN 36 SERGE CANTIN 36 MARTIN RAUS 21 GABRIEL FERNANDES 21 KUONG CHHE 21 JOSUE SAUVAGEAU 21 TOMMY VELLIAMA 19 ASHTON GRIFFIN 19 AMANDA MUSUMECI 19 THANH PHONG 19 DANNY THANH NGUYEN 16 PAUL APOTSTOIS 16 FRANCOIS BILLARD 16 NEXT WPT TOUR STOP WORLD POKER TOUR WPT MAZAGAN Mazagan Beach Resort, Morocco Event Started (FT December 1st)

WPT REGIONAL: FIGUEROA THE ROCK 'N ROLL STAR

While the main tour is still in Montreal, the WPT Regional Series setup shop in Florida over the weekend at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood for the Rock 'N Roll Poker Open.

Victor Figueroa was the big winner, collecting 105K USD for his efforts. Amazingly, Figueroa was runner up in three different events at the WPT Regional Summer Splash right here at the Seminole back in August. This is Figueroa's first win on the poker circuit.

Anthony Ruberto was runner-up in the event. Ruberto won a prelim event at the Battle at the Beache in Pompano Park last March.

Falling short of the final table were Mukul Puhaja, Ronnie Bardah and Corey Burbick - all three men did, however, finish in the Top 20.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) Victor Figueroa   $105,000 Anthony Ruberto Jr   $85,000 Matthew Goldman   $74,018 Kerwin Ramsumair   $35,779 Michael Ortiz   $26,402 Matthew Leconche   $20,974 Yigal Hen   $16,039 David Forster   $11,597 Omar McFarlane   $8,390 Alain Rodriguez   $6,416 Michael Minetti   $6,416 Mohammad Siddiqui   $6,416 Adam Adler   $5,182 Mukul Pahuja   $5,182 Oleg Gaidouk   $5,182 Richard Zipes   $4,442 Cory Wood   $4,442 Ronnie Bardah   $4,442 Anthony Rutter   $3,701 Corey Burbick   $3,701 Cory Blum   $3,701 Sharon Bachar   $3,701 John Rhodes   $3,701 William Pilossoph   $3,701 Steve Karp   $3,701 Karim Vegas   $3,701 Joseph Couden   $3,701 Greg Rosen   $3,208 Brandon Navarrete   $3,208 Ariel Quintana   $3,208 John Pappas   $3,208 Aleksey Kashirin   $3,208 Evan Dollinger   $3,208 Jason George   $3,208 Rich Rice   $3,208 Maurice Costigan   $3,208

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR REGIONAL SERIES ROCK 'N ROLL POKER OPEN WPT NLH Main Event November 23-26, 2012 Seminole Hard Rock | Florida Buy-in: $1,650 | Prizepool: $493,500 Total Entries: 329 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION VICTOR FIGUEROA 35 ANTHONY RUBERTO JR 18 MATTHEW GOLDMAN 10 KERWIN RAMSUMAIR 8 MICHAEL ORTIZ 5 RELATED POSTS > VEDES VINDICATED > RUBERTO WINS JACKSONVILLE NEXT WPT REGIONAL TOUR STOP WPT Regional Series Florida WPT Winter Tampa Bay Open Seminole Hard Rock, Tampa Bay December 6-9, 2012

WPT MONTREAL: MONTREAL CALLING - BIG NAME CANUCKS LOOK FOR WPT GLORY

Two hometown heroes (Roy, Lefrancois) - one of the country's best (Smith) add in an American star (Gross) and you've got yourself the perfect mix for what should be an exciting final table later today at the Playground Poker Club minutes outside of Montreal.


They started off 1,173 strong - monster numbers in the third biggest WPT tournament in history - and now they're down to the final six, all looking for WPT glory.

Pascal Lefrancois helped but Quebec and French Canada on the poker map back in 2010 when he won his first WSOP bracelet - and went topless for the occasion! Later that year, Quebec's footprint on the poker landscape would be cemented when Lefrancois' good friend, Jonathan Duhamel, went on to win the Main Event.

You may be a little unfamiliar with Jonathan Roy - but you should not overlook the Boucherville native. Roy does have lots of experience on the tournament circuit, including a win in a 8-max side event at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo this year and a 9th place finish at WPT Malta just a few months ago.

This could be a big moment for Gavin Smith. In his native Canada, chasing that second WPT title. The former WSOP bracelet winner is one of Canada's biggest stars in poker and his four WPT final table performances combined with this two WSOP final tables will surely serve him well later today ... the only problem? He starts the day last in chips.

Jeff Gross will be looking to play the role of spoiler on Tuesday. Gross has tons on the line. He brings a big chip stack to the table today and is looking for his first major poker title.

Gross came oh so close to bracelet #1 at the 2011 WSOP when he finished second to Mark Radoja (a Canadian for what it's worth) in the 5K NLH Shootout event.

Both Lefrancois and Smith were former guests of mine on Poker Eh! on QuadJacks Radio - you can listen to their interviews here: Poker EH! on QuadJacks

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS / CHIP COUNTS
Seat 1: Jonathan Roy 7.48M
Seat 2: Pascal Lefrancois 6.06M
Seat 3: Jeff Gross 8.65M
Seat 4: Gavin Smith 1.60M
Seat 5: Peter Kaemmerien 2.40M
Seat 6: Sylvain Siebert 8.85M

Blinds are set at 60K - 120K with a 20K ante for the first 23 minutes of play.

The WPT will live stream the event over at www.WPT.com starting at 4:30pm ET (on a 30-minute delay) ... Mike "Timex" McDonald is expected to join live stream host Tony Dunst in the commentary booth.

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TOP 18 PAYOUTS (USD) 1st place $779,710 2nd place $470,920 3rd place $317,450 4th place $211,745 5th place $146,360 6th place $113,155 Serge Cantin $86,505 Martin Raus $63,015 Gabriel Fernandes $45,060 Kuong Chhe Kuoch $32,185 Josue Sauvageau $32,185 Tommy Velliama $32,185 Ashton Griffin $25,070 Amanda Musumeci $25,070 Thahn Phong $25,070 Danny Thahn Nguyen $21,005 Paul Apotstols $21,005 Francois Billard $21,005 RELATED POSTS > LEFRANCOIS WINS BRACELET > G-SMITH WINS BRACELET > ROY WINS MONTE CARLO PRELIM

PTPR SIDE EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR PLAYGROUND POKER CLASSIC WPT NLH Main Event November 23-27, 2012 Playground Poker Club | Quebec Buy-in: $3,325 | Prizepool: $3,387,930 Total Entries: 1,173 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 136 2nd place 86 3rd place 56 4th place 46 5th place 41 6th place 36 Serge Cantin 36 Martin Raus 21 Gabriel Fernandes 21 Kuong Chhe Kuoch 21 Josue Sauvageau 21 Tommy Velliama 19 Ashton Griffin 19 Amanda Musumeci 19 Thahn Phong 19 Danny Thahn Nguyen 16 Paul Apotstols 16 Francois Billard 16

ANZPT AUCKLAND: SMITH'S BREAKTHROUGH VICTORY IN NZ

After a few years of smallish but respectable scores, Geoff Smith has finally broken through, winning ANZPT Auckland.

The New Zealand native continues the trend of picking up scores in his native country (all buy one have been in NZ), this time winning a big one, over 80K NZD for this efforts.

Smith defeated Sebastian Martineau heads-up.

It was the first time that the ANZPT visited Auckland, and with over 200 participants, you can count on the tour coming back in Season 6.

A few months break for the ANZPT - next up, Perth starting in Valentine's Day.

Photo: PokerStars, ANZPT

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EVENT PAYOUTS (NZD) 1 GEOFF SMITH 80,502 2 SEBASTIAN MARTINEAU 55,000 3 PRAVIN HARJI 55,000 4 MONICA EASTICK 55,000 5 JAMIE MULLIGAN 25,875 6 Miroslav Sheynin 21,735 7 Xiaodong Xia 17,595 8 Graeme Putt 13,455 9 Patrick Healy 10,350 10 Andre Nunes-Carreira 7,245 11 Jason Lee 7,245 12 Cole Swannack 7,245 13 Brendan Ng 6,210 14 Jie Gao 6,210 15 Emile Gissaud 6,210 16 Angie Fitzgerald 5,175 17 Michael Guzzardi 5,175 18 Leang Kang 5,175 19 Jared Adams 4,140 20 Hoshy Patel 4,140 21 Kani Edwards 4,140 22 Jun Ho Hwang 3,726 23 Stefan Gruenewald 3,726 24 Emerson Rewi 3,726

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT AUSTRLIA NEW ZEALAND POKER TOUR ANZPT AUCKLAND NLH Main Event November 21-25, 2012 SKYCITY Casino | New Zealand Buy-in: $1,810 | Prizepool: $341,535 Total Entries: 207 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION GEOFF SMITH 35 SEBASTIAN MARTINEAU 18 PRAVIN HARJI 10 MONICA EASTICK 8 JAMIE MULLIGAN 5 RELATED POSTS HOCKIN WINS ANZPT MELBOURNE

WPT MONTREAL: 1K DEEPSTACK ENDS AS MAIN EVENT BEGINS

Yet another full house is expected for Day 1B at WPT Montreal at the Playground Poker Club in less than an hour.

Many of the biggest names of poker are in Montreal, and many of them had an early start playing the 1K Deepstack event presented on Wednesday and Thursday.

We were 13 players short of 400 for the Deepstack event with American (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-321st) Buck Ramsay collecting 84K CAD for the win, earning his first POY points of the 2012 season.

Homegrown talent Jason Duval (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-683rd) was third in the event. Duval finished 8th at EPT Madrid earlier this season - Bruno Lopes aka Kool Shen was fourth in that same event.

We only bring up Lopes into this conversation because he also has a connection with our other highlight player from this tournament, sixth place finisher Vladimir Faubert (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,650th), who finished in 8th position at the Euro Finals of Poker Diamond Championship event back in January ... Lopes won that event. 2012 WSOP bracelet winner Aubin Cazals was second at the EFOP Diamond event.

Samuel Chartier was 11th in the event, Francois Billard was 13th while Laurence Grondin finished in 19th position.

The #2 ranked player in the world, Marvin Rettenmaier, cashed, finishing in 27th position.

We're moments away from Day 1B play at WPT Montreal, best of luck to all players!

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EVENT PAYOUTS (CAD) Buck Ramsay $84,000 Joshua Abiscott $50,000 Jason Duval $38,000 Wesley St-Jean $30,000 Dean Murphy $22,000 Vladimir Faubert $18,000 Zlatko Acimovic $14,000 Said Nehme $12,000 G- Man $10,000 Nicola Lategano $8,000 Samuel Chartier $6,500 Stepan Dzhigarkhanyan $5,500 Francois Billard $5,000 Normand Gauthier $4,600 Oleg Boulchyi $1,874 Tim Duong $4,000 J.F. Bouchard $3,720 Jiachen Gong $3,600 Laurence Grondin $3,300 Unknown Player $3,300 Kim Kilroy $3,300 Louis Lam $3,000 Soren Turkewitsch $3,000 Lucas Drolet $3,000 Louis Karastamatis7.50 $2,700 Amichai Barer $2,700 Marvin Rettenmaier $2,700 Kevin Stani $2,400 Kevin Odell $2,400 Michael Korovine $2,400 Malachy Hagan $2,000 Ramzi Karam $2,000 Alexandre Sourdif $1,900 Terry Papadopolous $1,800 Glen Cymbalak $1,600 Joseph Gray $1,600 Kenneth David $1,600 Colin Padgett $1,500 Dave Brochu $1,500 Alexandre Hartung $1,500

PTPR SIDE EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR PLAYGROUND POKER CLASSIC NLH 1K Deepstack Event November 21-22, 2012 Playground Poker Club | Quebec Buy-in: $1,105 | Prizepool: $325,660 Total Entries: 387 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION BUCK RAMSAY 75 JOSHUA ABISCOTT 40 JASON DUVAL 25 WESLEY ST-JEAN 15 DEAN MURPHY 10 VLAD FAUBERT 8 ZLATKO ACIMOVIC 5 SAID NEHME 5 G-MAN 5 RELATED POSTS > OLSSON WINS WPT COPENHAGEN > SCHWARTZ WINS WPT JACKSONVILLE

BORGATA FALL: BROCK'S BORGATA THANKSGIVING BOUNTY

A few good men were still hard at work on U.S. Thanksgiving morning earlier today at the Borgata in Atlantic City as final table play went into overtime at the Borgata Fall Poker Open.

In the end, it's veteran poker pro Brock Parker (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 16th) who wins the Borgata Fall Poker Open ... defeating Scott Baumstein (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 96th) heads-up.

This is Parker's second win of the season - his first also coming at Borgata, at the Winter Poker Open, where he won a prelim event.

Parker's win helps him make a big late-season move on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard, moving him into the Top 20.

Recent WSOP October Nine participant Michael Esposito (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-254th) finished sixth in the event.

Meanwhile, Vinny Pahuja (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-432nd), Jeffrey Papola (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-241st), Matt Stout (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 215th), Ravi Raghavan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,247th) and Kambiz Behbahani (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,791st) are other notables who final tabled the event.

Photo: Borgata Fall Poker Open

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FT PAYOUTS (USD) Brock Parker $372,568 Scott Baumstein $209,480 Patrick Chan $131,895 Vinny Pahuja $107,067 Jeff Papola $85,344 Michael Esposito $70,602 Matt Stout $56,637 Ravi Raghavan $42,672 Kambiz 'Tony' Behbahani $29,482 Lou Crispino $20,172 DEFENDING CHAMPION Andrew Badecker, $388,657 RELATED POSTS > BADECKER WINS BORGATA FALL > PARKER WINS BORGATA WINTER PRELIM

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT BORGATA FALL POKER OPEN NLH Main Event November 18-21, 2012 Borgata Hotel Casino | Atlantic City Buy-in: $2,700 | Prizepool: $388,657 Total Entries: 644 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION BROCK PARKER 106 SCOTT BAUMSTEIN 66 PATRICK CHAN 41 VINNY PAHUJA 31 JEFF PAPOLA 24 MICHAEL ESPOSITO 16 MATT STOUT 14 RAVI RAGHAVAN 11 KAMBIZ BEHBAHANI "TONY" 11

VENETIAN DSE: HARO DEFEATS BIG CHEESE ET AL. AT DSE

It's a second score at Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza events this season for Alexander Haro (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-747th) ... but something tells us this one may be the one that Haro will remember most a few years down the road.


Haro defeated a 261-player field - including 2010 CardPlayer of the Year Thomas Marchese at the final table - on way to a huge 142K USD score - not a bad pay day for the latest winner of the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza Main Event.

As mentioned, Marchese finished fourth in the event. Shockingly, Marchese earns Player of the Year points for the first time this season.

CardPlayer guru Barry Shulman was sixth in the event while Eric Froehlich finished in 24th position.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) Alex Haro $142,503 Axel Werner $87,879 David Feldman $59,378 Thomas Marchese $42,158 Ryan Tosoc $32,658 Quentin Siffledeen $26,720 Barry Shulman $22,267 Franklin Chambers $18,704 Paul Lieu $15,438 Aaron Motoyama $12,172 Ken James $12,172 Michael Haag $12,172 Alberto Sabogali $9,500 Jeffrey Frerichs $9,500 Eshed Hadaya $9,500 Steven Goldberg $7,422 Zvi Zipor $7,422 Samantha Cohen $7,422 Elior Molcho $6,532 Frank Rusnak $6,532 Brandon Carswell $6,532 Jared Ingles $6,532 Michael Taylor $6,532 Eric Froehlich $6,532 Jason Garritty $6,532 Soren Blanner $6,532 Ann Mong $6,532

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT VENETIAN DEEP STACK EXTRAVAGANZA IV NLH Main Event November 17-20, 2012 The Venetian | Las Vegas Buy-in: $2,500 | Prizepool: $593,775 Total Entries: 261 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ALEX HARO 35 AXEL WERNER 18 DAVID FELDMAN 10 THOMAS MARCHESE 8 RYAN TOSOC 5 DEFENDING CHAMPION Timothy West, $444,165 NEXT VENETIAN DSE EVENT 2013 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza I The Venetian, Las Vegas January 31-February 27, 2012 RELATED POSTS > WEST WINS DSE MAIN EVENT

LA POKER OPEN: HOLLAND WINS AS LAPC LOOMS

Believe it or not, we are only months away from the 2013 Los Angeles Poker Classic ... but first, we had business to take care of at Commerce Casino yesterday as the Championship Event at the LA Poker Open needed to find a winner.

And that winner is live tournament veteran and former WSOP bracelet winner Randy Holland. Holland weeded through the 364-player field in order to collect $110,000 USD for the victory.

Holland's first live tournament cash of significance came way back in 1993 - where he finished eighth in a 1,500 NLH event at the WSOP, good for 11K.

Fifth place finisher Patrick Karschamroon earned (2) Top 15 finishes in NLH events at this past summer's WSOP.

Karschamroon won the Cal State Poker Championship back in 2010.

Aaron Kaiser, Bart Hanson, Greg Sessler and Chris Gregorian are a few other known players who cashed in the event.

Picture courtesy of LAPCNews.com, Commerce Casino

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (USD) 1 RANDY HOLLAND $110,000 2 MALIK ADAWI $95,250 3 KANE LAI $54,440 4 VADIM BARANOVSKY $40,290 5 PATRICK KARSCHAMROON $30,250 6 STEPHEN PLACHE $24,190 7 EDWARD FRISH $20,090 8 AARON KAISER $16,110 9 TOMMY SAN $12,070 10 SHANT MARASHLIAN $8,790 DEFENDING CHAMPION Huicun Qiao, $132,705 RELATED POSTS > QIAO WINS LA POKER OPEN > JAZAYERI WINS LAPC

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT LA POKER OPEN NLH Championship November 18-21, 2012 Commerce Casino | California Buy-in: $1,600 | Prizepool: $546,000 Total Entries: 364 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION RANDY HOLLAND 35 MALIK ADAWI 18 KANE LAI 10 VADIM BARANOVSKY 8 PATRICK KARSCHAMROON 5

IPT NOVA GORICA: D'ANTONI SURVIVES BONAVENA CHARGE

The task at hand was certainly not an easy one to complete. The mission? Beat a former IPT and EPT Champ with tons of live tournament poker experience heads-up in order to secure the first live tournament victory of your career.

For Riccardo D'Antoni, it's mission accomplished! The young Italian won ITP Nova Gorica earlier this week, defeating tournament 2008 EPT Prague Champ Salvatore Bonavena (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-362nd) heads-up.

For Bonavena, it's a fourth Top 5 placing at IPT events. Funny enough, he's collected a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and a 4th place finish ... fifth position next for Bonavena?

Bonavena also placed third at the WSOP Europe 1K event - event won by Antonio Esfandiari.

Third place finisher Sebastiano Giudice and fourth place finisher Fausto Cheli have a history of playing final tables together. They both had the opportunity to play in the WPT National Series St-Vincent event together - Cheli finished second and Giudice fourth in that event.

Picture courtesy of PokerStars, IPT

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (EURO) Riccardo D'Antoni €155,000 $196,998 Salvatore Bonavena €95,000 Sebastiano Giudice €55,000 Fausto Cheli €42,000 Paolo Casaburi €33,000 Massimiliano Bramati €25,000 Michele Di Lauro €18,000 Michele Limongi €12,000 Manilo Iemina €9,000 Antonio Massi €9,000 DEFENDING CHAMPION Anton Karasinsky, €140.000 RELATED POSTS > ESFANDIARI WINS WSOP EUROPE > KARASINSKY WINS IPT

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT ITALIAN POKER TOUR IPT Nova Gorica NLH Main Event November 15-19, 2012 Hit Casino Perla | Slovenia Buy-in: $2,815 | Prizepool: $740,340 Total Entries: 298 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION RICCARDO D'ANTONI 35 SALVATORE BONAVENA 18 SEBASTIANO GIUDICE 10 FAUSTO CHELI 8 PAOLO CASABURI 5 NEXT IPT TOUR EVENT IPT Campione Campione Casino, Italy January 10-14, 2013

HPT CHAMPIONS: FOUR THE RECORD BOOKS

Words can't even begin to describe what transpired about an hour ago at the Belterra Casino Resort in Florence, Indiana where 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Greg Raymer (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 89th) won his fourth - that's right, fourth - Heartland Poker Tour event since the end of July, winning four out of six events during that stretch.


There is no denying Raymer's skills. Going real deep the year following his Main Event victory proved that Fossilman was no fluke ... but four tournaments in a matter of months? No one could have predicted this. Raymer picks up over $106,000 USD for his Indiana victory.

Raymer defeated Jacob Bazeley (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 91st) heads-up. Bazeley has also had a solid 2012 campaign - his highlight coming right off the bat at the 2012 WSOP - finishing second to Brent Hanks in NLH Event #2 at the Rio.

Bazeley also earned (2) Top 5 finishes in side events at The River Poker Series this past August in Oklahoma.

Picture courtesy of Heartland Poker Tour

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (USD) 1 Greg Raymer $106,030 2 Jacob Bazeley $59,706 3 Bruce Ostrander $38,088 4 Iverson “Cotton” Snuffer $32,941 5 Jason Gwinn $25,324 6 Kenny Hicks $20,588 DEFENDING CHAMPION Inaugural Event RELATED POSTS > RAYMER WINS IN NEW MEXICO > RAYMER WINS ANOTHER! > FOSSILMAN THREE-PEATS

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT HEARTLAND POKER TOUR HPT Championship Open Indiana NLH Main Event November 16-19, 2012 Belterra Casino Resort | Indiana Buy-in: $1,650 | Prizepool: $411,765 Total Entries: 283 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION GREG RAYMER 35 JACOB BAZELEY 18 BRUCE OSTRANDER 10 IVERSON SNUFFER 8 JASON GWINN 5 NEXT HPT TOUR EVENT HPT On The High Seas Season 9 Kickoff Event Onboard MSC Poesia January 19-26, 2013

FPS PARIS: POLISH PRIDE - RYPULAK WINS PARIS

Mateusz Rypulak has won the France Poker Series Paris Main Event.

After eight days of tournament poker, the young man from Poland defeated 714 players including Frenchman Sofiane Tigride heads-up to collect the second live tournament score of his career of note - although we're sure that he is much more excited about his big pay day today compared to the 22,000 CZK cheque he cashed in July after finishing 11th at the Pardubice Poker Festival in the Czech Republic.

Top payout players included WPT World Championship runner-up Philippe Ktorza and Paul Tedeschi who recently collected three Top 10 finishes at WSOP Europe in Cannes, including a sixth place finish in the Main Event.

Picture courtesy of Poker52.fr

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TOP 24 PAYOUTS (EURO) 1- Mateusz Rypulak 150.000€ 2- Sofiane Tigride 100.000€ 3- Moritz Naber 63.238€ 4- Pascal Oren 45.000€ 5- Julien Sitbon 35.000€ 6- Matthieu Hervé 26.000€ 7- Flavien Guenan 21.000€ 8- Randar Sikk 16.000€ 9- Charles Berrebi 12.000€ 10- Jean-Louis Santoni 10.000€ 11- Yasmine Hanane 10.000€ 12- Timothée Marlin 10.000€ 13- Ahmed Abd El Fatah 8200€ 14- Karim Ouadah 8200€ 15- Abou Sy 8200€ 16- Philippe Ktorza 7000€ 17- Benjamin Souriau 7000€ 18- Michal Smola 7000€ 19- Christophe Dartagnan 5900€ 20- Stéphane Nadot 5900€ 21- Paul Tedeschi 5900€ 22- Rodolphe Dethiere 4800€ 23- Daniel Maciel 4800€ 24- Thomas Fonce 4800€

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT FRANCE POKER SERIES FPS Paris NLH Main Event November 12-19, 2012 Cercle Cadet | Paris Buy-in: $1,400 | Prizepool: $903,155 Total Entries: 715 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION MATEUSZ RYPULAK 35 SOFIANE TIGRIDE 18 MORITZ NABER 10 PASCAL OREN 8 JULIEN SITBON 5 NEXT FPS TOUR EVENT Finale FPS Casino Barriere, Deauville January 30-2, 2012 DEFENDING CHAMPION Marvin Rettenmaier, € 244,036 RELATED POSTS > EL RHARBAOUI WINS FPS MAZAGAN > RETTENMAIER WINS FPS PARIS

LAPT PERU: SCOTT WINS GRAND FINAL

Jordan Scott has won the Latin American Poker Tour Grand Final at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, Peru.

Scott survived a 376-player field on way to the first big score of his live tournament poker career.

Fifth place finisher Brent Sheirbon finished third at LAPT San Jose back in 2008.

You can bet that the final five players were relieved when PokerStars Team Pro Jose "Nacho" Barbero was eliminated in sixth position.

Picture courtesy of LAPT, PokerStars, Carlos Monti

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TOP 24 PAYOUTS (USD) Jordan Scott $187,300 Maxence Debar $119,120 Oscar Barriga $81,370 Jorge Gonzalez Pirela $60,400 Brent Sheirbon $46,140 Nacho Barbero $36,070 Aramis Salvadori $26,840 Roberto Vahlis $20,130 Sebastian Marcel Miranda $15,440 Cesar Holguin $13,200 Sergio do Canto Pereira $11,480 Rafael Fernandez $10,180 Jonathan Marcovits $9,130 Ruben Felix La Rosa $8,330 Juan Carlos Celi $7,650 Nicasio Sanchez Toranzo $7,040 Daniel Ospina $6,480 Alfredo Zegarra $6,480 Lucas Leonardo Vera Lopez $5,990 Espir Aguad $5,990 Jose Carlos Paz $5,550 Alejandro Martin Caridad $5,550 Brian England $5,180 Andres Eduardo Herrera Zepeda $5,180

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT LATIN AMERICAN POKER TOUR LAPT Peru Grand Final NLH Main Event November 14-18, 2012 Atlantic City Casino | Lima Buy-in: $2,500 | Prizepool: $838,860 Total Entries: 376 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JORDAN SCOTT 35 MAXENCE DEBAR 18 OSCAR BARRIGA 10 JORGE GONZALEZ PIRELA 8 BRENT SHEIRBON 5 NEXT LAPT TOUR EVENT End of Season 5 DEFENDING CHAMPION Kemal Ferri, $207,400 RELATED POSTS > FERRI WINS LAPT PERU > FERNANDEZ WINS LAPT PANAMA

WPT COPENHAGEN: OLSSON'S UP AND DOWN DAY ENDS IN A WIN!

Emil Olsson won the inaugural WPT Copenhagen earlier today in Denmark.

Although Olsson entered final table play as the chip leader, his final table opponents certainly didn't make things easy for him on Saturday.

For a while, it seemed as if Olsson simply couldn't do anything right - he wasn't able to win a race ... that is, until he was able to get things back on track, when his QJ got the best of Stanislav Barshak's J9 on a JT344 board, eliminating Barshak in fourth position.

Olsson defeated former EPT Copenahgen final table player Morten Klein heads-up.

Picture courtesy of WPT.com

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TOP 18 PAYOUTS (USD) Emil Olsson $229,938 Morten Klein $145,164 Philip Jacobsen $93,080 Stanislav Barshak $68,316 Robin Ylitalo $51,237 Jan Djerberg $40,989 Frei Dilling Kjaer $34,670 Jimmy Jonsson $27,325 Bircan Cakar $20,494 Martin Tonnesen $15,200 Thor Drexel $15,200 Niclas Martinsson $15,200 Christian Honore $12,295 Kenny Kousgaard $12,295 Jens Kerper $12,295 Claus Nielsen $10,587 Peter Jepsen $10,587 Steve O'Dwyer $10,587 Alexander Petersen $9,221 Yaron Zeev Malki $9,221 Rasmus Agerskov Larsen $9,221 Jan Sorensen $8,197 Jesper Mertz $8,197 Sergii Baranov $8,197 Tamas Meszaros $7,171 Erez Lilienthal $7,171 Dennis Rasmussen $7,171 RELATED POSTS > FT SET IN COPENHAGEN > SCHWARTZ AND SWEET AT WPT JAX > PETERSEN WINS EPT COPENHAGEN

PTPR PREMIER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR WPT Copenhagen NLH Main Event November 12-17, 2012 Casino Copenhagen | Denmark Buy-in: $4,480 | Prizepool: $899,226 Entries: 229 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION EMIL OLSSON 127 MORTEN KLEIN 77 PHILIP JACOBSEN 47 STANISLAV BARSHAK 37 ROBIN YLITALO 32 JAN DJERBERG 27 FREI DILLING KJAER 27 JIMMY JONSSON 12 BIRCAN CAKAR 12 MARTIN TONNESEN 12 THOR DREXEL 12 NICLAS MARTINSSON 10 CHRISTIAN HONORE 10 KENNY KOUSGAARD 10 JENS KERPER 10 CLAUS NIELSEN 7 PETER JEPSEN 7 STEVE O'DWYER 7 NEXT WPT TOUR EVENT WPT Montreal Playground Poker Club Kahnawake, Quebec November 23-27, 2012

WPT COPENHAGEN: FINAL TABLE SET IN DENMARK

The final table at the inaugural WPT Copenhagen Main Event is set for Saturday at Casino Copenhagen in Denmark.

The man sitting in seat #1, Emil Olsson of Sweden, is the chip leader heading into final table play.

Olsson doesn't have many scores in his career - his best moment came at the Malmo Open in 2011. Olsson finished third in that event.

Stanislav Barshak comes into Day 5 play second in chips. Barshak comes off a win at WSOP Hammond - he won the Six-Max prelim event.

Barshak also busted on the TV final table bubble at the WPT Hollywood Poker Open back in April of 2011.

The man with the biggest "big moment" experience is the short stack, Morten Klein. Klein, who finished third at EPT Copenhagen - good for over 250K USD - back in 2010,
will have to battle back in order to better that third place finish.

FINAL TABLE SEAT ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS:
Seat 1 | Emil Olsson  2,208,000
Seat 2 | Stanislav Barshak  1,597,000
Seat 3 | Robin Ylitalo  934,000
Seat 4 | Philip Jacobson  742,000
Seat 5 | Jan Djerberg  824,000
Seat 6 | Morten Klein  568,000

On the flipside, it was the end of the road for Steve O'Dwyer during Friday's play. O'Dwyer began the day with one of the smallest chip stacks and was unable to get anything started ... he was the first player out on Friday.

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TOP 18 PAYOUTS (USD) 1st $229,938 2nd $145,164 3rd $93,080 4th $68,316 5th $51,237 6th $40,989 Frei Dilling Kjaer $34,670 Jimmy Jonsson $27,325 Bircan Cakar $20,494 Martin Tonnesen $15,200 Thor Drexel $15,200 Niclas Martinsson $15,200 Christian Honore $12,295 Kenny Kousgaard $12,295 Jens Kerper $12,295 Claus Nielsen $10,587 Peter Jepsen $10,587 Steve O'Dwyer $10,587 RELATED POSTS > SCHWARTZ AND SWEET AT WPT JAX > PETERSEN WINS EPT COPENHAGEN NEXT WPT TOUR EVENT WPT Montreal Playground Poker Club Kahnawake, Quebec November 23-27, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR WPT Copenhagen NLH Main Event November 12-17, 2012 Casino Copenhagen | Denmark Buy-in: $4,480 | Prizepool: $899,226 Entries: 229 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 127 2nd position 77 3rd position 47 4th position 37 5th position 32 6th position 27 FREI DILLING KJAER 27 JIMMY JONSSON 12 BIRCAN CAKAR 12 MARTIN TONNESEN 12 THOR DREXEL 12 NICLAS MARTINSSON 10 CHRISTIAN HONORE 10 KENNY KOUSGAARD 10 JENS KERPER 10 CLAUS NIELSEN 7 PETER JEPSEN 7 STEVE O'DWYER 7

MERIT FALL OPEN: LAKHOV WINS IN CYPRUS

Alexandr Lakhov (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-740th) won the Merit Fall Poker Open earlier this week defeating Fouad Rabahie (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,341st) heads-up and collecting over 144K USD in the process.

All of the Russian's tournament cashes have come this year at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel-Casino in Cyprus.

Third place finisher Tolga Demirel (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,332nd) earned Player of the Year points earlier in 2012, also in Cyprus, at the WPT Merit Poker Classic.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) 1st Alexandr Lakhov $144,991 2nd Fouad Rabahie $92,569 3rd Tolga Demirel $63,929 4th Maxim Tyurin $43,472 5th Suleyman Ciftsuren $33,243 6th Phil Mokhavaic $25,572 7th Alexander Nelkin $19,690 8th Nikolay Blinov $15,087 9th Ozgur Arda $12,019 10th Anton Karasinskiy $9,461 11th Khalil Tawil $7,671 12th Konstantin Ramazanov $7,671 13th Igor Izmaylov $6,393 14th Maxim Zadoroznev $6,393 15th Dror Michaelo $6,393 16th Ronen Mozeson $5,626 17th Rinat Dinmukhametov $5,626 18th Sevket Yildiz $5,626

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT MERIT FALL POKER OPEN NLH Main Event November 10-12, 2012 Crystal Cove Hotel Casino | Cyprus Buy-in: $2,750 | Prizepool: $511,432 Entries: 169 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ALEXANDR LAKHOV 35 FOUAD RABAHIE 18 TOLGA DEMIREL 10 MAXIM TYURIN 8 SULEYMAN CIFTSUREN 5 RELATED POSTS > PAJAHSHRIA WINS MERIT FALL OPEN > MARVIN WINS WPT CYPRUS

WPT JAX FALL: SCHWARTZ AND SWEET - NOAH WASTES NO TIME ON WAY TO FIRST WPT WIN

Although we can't confirm this, it sure looks as if all WPT final table participants at WPT bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event had early plans for dinner today as they battled to become the next WPT Champions Club member.


It took less than five hours to determine a winner in Jacksonville.

Noah Schwartz (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 10th) was the overwhelming chip leader heading into today's final table. Schwartz had missed out on a WPT win earlier this season when he final tabled at the LAPC, but, he would not let that happen today.

Schwartz continued to accumulate chip at a rapid pace at the final table, and, despite losing the chip lead when we reached heads-up play, Schwartz wasted no time to regain control of this tournament and finally win his first WPT title, in his home state of Florida.

Schwartz defeated Byron Kaverman (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 80th) heads-up. Kaverman has enjoyed deep runs at the PCA, WPT Jacksonville and the WSOP Ante-Only prior to his runner-up finish here in Jacksonville.

Kaverman's previous WPT best was a fourth place finish at the Grand Prix de Paris last season - Matt Waxman won that event.

Hanz Winzerler (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 40th) finished fourth in the event. Winzerler also has Top 5 finishes in the PCA PLO Championship, the WSOP 5K PLO Six-Handed event as well as the Florida State Poker Championship this season.

EPT Grand Final Champ Mohsin Charania (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 19th) finished 11th, James Calderaro (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 243rd), runner-up at WPT Jacksonville, finished 12th, WPT Regional bestbet Summer Series winner Mark Stephens Edwards (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-544th) was 13th while WSOP Europe Mix-Max Champ Jonathan Aguiar (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-55th) was 16th.

Other notables in the Top 18 include: former November Niner John Racener (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 355th), Brian Senie (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 897th), Lee Markholt (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-734th), Justin Zaki (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 489th) and Darryll Fish (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,229th).

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) Noah Schwartz $402,970 Byron Kaverman $236,592 Ryan Hartmann $153,403 Hans Winzeler $106,848 Brian Senie $77,083 Lee Markholt $61,819 Shon Mekyten $47,318 Edward Gray $33,581 Justin Zaki $24,422 John Racener $18,317 Mohsin Charania $18,317 James Calderaro $18,317 Mark Stephen Edwards $14,501 Ludek Sisak $14,501 Darryll Fish $14,501 Jonathan Aguiar $12,211 Ray Weaver $12,211 Ed Blount $12,211 Todd Terry $10,685 Tom Nguyen $10,685 Blake Bohn $10,685 Hiren Patel $10,685 Joey Weissman $10,685 George Sinishtaj $10,685 Joseph Elpayaa $10,685 Jeremy Menard $10,685 Brian Walsingham $10,685 Laurent Baldeon $9,158 RELATED POSTS > SCHWARTZ ON BOARD AT PCA > NISTCHE RUTHLESS AT WPT SA

PTPR PREMIER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR WPT Fall Poker Scramble NLH Main Event November 9-13, 2012 bestbet Jacksonville | Florida Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $1,526,400 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION NOAH SCHWARTZ 129 BYRON KAVERMAN 79 RYAN HARTMANN 49 HANS WINZELER 39 BRIAN SENIE 34 LEE MARKHOLT 29 SHON MEKYTEN 29 EDWARD GRAY 14 JUSTIN ZAKI 14 JOHN RACENER 14 MOHSIN CHARANIA 14 JAMES CALDERARO 12 MARK STEPHENS EDWARDS 12 LUDEK SISAK 12 DARRYLL FISH 12 JONATHAN AGUIAR 9 RAY WEAVER 9 ED BLOUNT 9 NEXT WPT TOUR EVENT WPT Copenhagen Casino Copenhagen, Denmark November 12-17, 2012

HPT NEVADA: CARROLL WINS AT THE PALMS

James Carroll (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-736th) is the latest winner on the Heartland Poker Tour.

Live from the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, seconds away from the strip, the latest HPT event was held at the Palms Casino Resort.



Carroll defeated Michael Ryan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,332nd) heads-up. Ryan seemed to be very happy with his second place finish, he was happy to just be there!

Trevor Pope (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-392nd) finished fourth in the event. Pope earned a sixth place finish at this year's WPT World Championship in Bellagio, days before the start of the 2012 WSOP.

Speaking of the WSOP, fifth place finisher Randy Ohel (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 45th) earned a bracelet at this summer's Series.

David Williams had a monster chip lead at the start of Day 2 play on Sunday. Unfortunately, he was unable to maintain the momentum, finishing 24th.

Other notables to cash in Vegas include: Eric Froehlich, David "ODB" Baker, Stan Jablonski, Allyn Shulman and October Niner Jeremy Ausmus.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) 1. James Carroll $104,253 2. Michael Ryan $58,669 3. Vic Gupta $37,818 4. Trevor Pope $32,707 5. Randy Ohel $25,144 6. Dan Alspach $20,238 7. Jeff Reategui $12,287 8. Jeff Boehm $12,265 9. Scott Kacmarksiki $11,243 10. Terry Fleischer $10,221 11. Eric Froehlich $9,199 12. Yung Huang $7,972 13. Robert Mitchell $7,564 14. Ryan Zdvnick $6,950 15. Nicholas Augustino $6,337 16. Dan Dizenzo $5,519 17. David Baker $4,906 18. Stan Jablonski $4,456 19. Fraser Macintyre $3,884 20. Allyn Shulman $3,271 21. John Holdren $2,821 22. Lilly Newhouse $2,821 23. Jeremy Ausmus $2,821 24. David Williams $2,821 25. Michael Brady $2,821 26. Zva Zipor $2,208 27. Gina Fiore $2,208 28. Amanda Baker $2,208 29. Brett Newton $2,208

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT HEARTLAND POKER TOUR HPT Nevada NLH Main Event November 9-12, 2012 Palms Resort Casino | Las Vegas Buy-in: $1,650 | Prizepool: $408,840 Entries: 286 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JAMES CARROLL 35 MICHAEL RYAN 18 VIC GUPTA 10 TREVOR POPE 8 RANDY OHEL 5 DEFENDING CHAMPION Phil Collins, $71,556 NEXT HPT EVENT HPT Championship Open Belterra Casino, Indiana November 16-19, 2012 RELATED POSTS > RAYMER THREE-PEATS ON HPT TOUR > COLLINS BEATS MARAFIOTI TO WIN HPT NEVADA

WPT NTL GRUISSAN: ACE ON THE RIVER - PALMERI SPIKES TO WIN WPT NATIONAL

When his opponent flopped a Queen, Christophe Palmeri (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-736th) - holding A10 - believed that his adversary had lived to play another hand.

The 2 on the turn was no help but then, the Championship card hit the river - the ace on the river - to earn the huge victory at WPT National Gruissan in France.

Palmeri defeated Nicolas Le Floch heads-up. Dominique Franchi was fourth in the event.

Isabel Balazar - who final tabled EPT Barcerlona in 2011 - was tenth in this event.

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TOP 20 PAYOUTS (EURO) 1 – Christophe Palmeri – 83 500€ + entry to WPT Grand prix de Paris Main Event 2 – Nicolas Le Floch – 58 700€ 3 – Pierre-Jo Chiarelli – 37 700€ 4 – Dominique Franchi – 28 000€ 5 – Julia Vassort – 21 000€ 6 – Maxime Colom – 16 700€ 7 – Djabraynne Bouhlala – 13 900€ 8 – Jean-Christophe Deville – 11 170€ 9 – Anthony Di Zazzo – 8 300€ 10 – Isabel Baltazar – 6050€ 11– Etienne Fortin – 6050€ 12 – Claude Marbleu – 6050€ 13 – Michele Mairesse – 4900€ 14 – Robert Giordano – 4900€ 15 – Fabrice Battioni – 4900€ 16 – Yves Maison – 4100€ 17 – Kyle Wilson – 4100€ 18 – Guilhem Sant – 4100€ 19 – Mika Azoulay – 3700€ 20 – Sandy Denis – 3700€

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR NATIONAL SERIES WPT National Gruissan November 8-12, 2012 Casino le Phoebus | France Buy-in: $1,700 | Prizepool: $274,725 Entries: 173 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION CHRISTOPHE PALMERI 35 NICOLAS LE FLOCH 18 PIERRE-JO CHIARELLI 10 DOMINIQUE FRANCHI 8 JULIA VASSORT 5 RELATED POSTS > KOGOVSEK WINS WPT NTL VIENNA

UKIPT BRISTOL: CROSS-OVER CHAMP - BARZANTNY WINS ONLINE/MAIN EVENT TITLES

Only five days after defeating Chris Moorman in the UKIPT Online Main Event, German poker pro Wojtek Barzantny (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-736th) has pulled off quite an amazing feat, winning the UKIPT Bristol Main Event.



Barzantny defeated James Greenwood (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,332nd) heads-up.

Joe Roberts, Jason Tompkins (who recently had a deep run at EPT San Remo), Sam Grafton and Sunny Chattha were some of the notables who cashed in the event.

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TOP 20 PAYOUTS (GBP) 1. Wojtek Barzantny £90,400 2. James Greenwood £54,500 3. Robert Bull £33,300 4. Anthony Forsyth-Forrest £24,400 5. Amanda Sidark £19,000 6. Craig Goddard £15,100 7. Niall Murray £11,600 8. Jonathan Prince £8,800 9. Simon Randall £6,080 10. Owen Lock £4,450 11. Connor Hogarty £4,450 12. Nathan Hodges £3,775 13. Michael Doverklint £3,775 14. Andrew Abernethy £3,155 15. Malte Moenig £3,155 16. Joe Roberts £2,550 17. Bambos Xanthos £2,550. 18. Ben Young £2,550 19. Nik Persaud £2,550 20. Majid Ejlal Noubarian £2,550

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT UK & IRELAND POKER TOUR UKIPT NLH Main Event November 8-12, 2012 Gala Casino | England Buy-in: $1,220 | Prizepool: $593,035 Entries: 550 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION WOJTEK BARZANTNY 35 JAMES GREENWOOD 18 ROBERT BULL 10 ANTHONY FORSYTH-FORREST 8 AMANDA SIDARK 5 NEXT UKIPT TOUR STOP UKIPT Edinburgh Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh, Scotland January 17-21, 2012 RELATED POSTS > BAGULEY WINS UKIPT NOTTINGHAM

APPT ACOP: ZHOU OUTLASTS CHAN TO WIN ASIA CHAMPIONSHIP OF POKER

After six hours of heads-up play, Xing Zhou (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-195th) finally got the best of Ying Kit Chan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-416th) to win the APPT Macau Asia Championship of Poker Main Event.

Former ANZPT Sydney Champ Michael Kanaan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-591st) was third in the event while Jacques Zaicik (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-494th), Alan Sass (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-132nd), Andrew Hinrichsen (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-2,037th) and Tom Alner (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 274th) were other notables at the final table.

Recent WSOP Europe High Rollers Champ Mike Watson and former Macau Poker Cup winner Raymond Wu failed to pickup valuable Player of the Year points by finishing right outside the Top 9.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (HKD) 1 Xing Zhou 3,547,500 2 Ying Kit Chan 3,547,500 3 Michael Kanaan 1,731,000 4 Jacques Zaicik 1,384,000 5 Alan Sass 1,125,000 6 Tsugunari Toma 952,000 7 Andrew Hinrichsen 779,000 8 Tom Alner 606,000 9 Henry Wang 432,000 10 Andrew Gaw 346,000 11 Tri Huynh 303,000 12 Mike Watson 303,000 13 Raymond Wu 303,000 14 Ping Lin 259,500 15 Gary Lam 259,500 16 Paolo Compagno 259,500 17 Aaron Lim 216,000 18 Zhongwei Wang 216,000 19 Raiden Kan 216,000 20 Yuri Ishida 173,000 21 Seungsoo Jeon 173,000 22 James McCarty 173,000 RELATED POSTS > ROSSITER WINS ACOP WARMUP > NANONOKO WINS APPT MACAU

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT ASIA PACIFIC POKER TOUR Asia Championship of Poker APPT ACOP NLH Main Event November 7-11, 2012 Grand Waldo Complex | Macau Buy-in: $12,900 | Prizepool: $2,232,560 Entries: 184 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION XING ZHOU 101 YING KIT CHAN 61 MICHAEL KANAAN 36 JACQUES ZAICIK 26 ALAN SASS 19 TSUGUNARI TORMA 11 ANDREW HINRICHSEN 9 TOM ALNER 6 HENRY WANG 6 DEFENDING CHAMPION Randy Lew, $3,772,000 HKD

MASTER CLASSICS: HUGE WIN FOR SCHEMION, MOVES INTO TOP 10

After winning a EPT Berlin side event and the Partouche Grand Final, German poker pro Ole Schemion's (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 7th) third win of the season was certainly a huge one, moving him into the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Top 10.




Schemion is the latest Master Classics of Poker Champion, defeating Dutch pro Pieter de Korver (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-405th) heads-up. de Korver finished sixth in a side event earlier at the MCOP.

Bryn Kenney (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 23rd) moved up in the POY with his sixth place finish in the event. Kenney's sixth POY score of the season allows him to crack the 200-point barrier for the season.

Guy Goossens (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,124th) and Bellagio Cup runner-up Kristijonas Andrulis (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 115th) also final tabled the event.

After final tabling this event last seson, Joseph Ebanks min-cashed in this year's event.


MASTER CLASSICS OF POKER EVENT WINNERS
€ 1,500 NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
Kakha Khazaradze | € 106,860

€ 200 POT LIMIT OMAHA (w/REBUYS)
Ruben Visser | € 29,370

€ 800 NO LIMIT HOLD'EM (w/BOUTIES)
Michiel Brummelhuis | € 46,800

€ 1,000 NLH SPEED EVENT
Johan van Til | € 36,960

€ 750 NO LIMIT HOLD'EM
Kakha Khazaradze | € 106,860

€ 300 NLH SPEED EVENT
Freerk Post | € 21,627

€ 10,000 NLH HIGH ROLLERS
Rens Feenstra | € 148,000

€ 5,000 NLH MAIN EVENT
Ole Schemion | € 286,200

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MAIN EVENT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1 Ole Schemion € 286.200 2 Pieter de Korver € 171.720 3 Fatih Aydin € 100.700 4 Ivo Hermans € 76.850 5 Erik Tobacco € 66.250 6 Bryn Kenney € 55.650 7 Richard Witschge € 45.050 8 Guy Goossens € 34.450 9 Kristijonas Andrulis € 23.850 10 Aki Votkin € 18.020 11 Tobias Peters € 14.840 12 Freerk Post € 14.840 13 Pascal Vranken € 14.840 14 Rob Hollink € 12.720 15 Henri Jaakkola € 12.720 16 Thierry van den Berg € 12.720 17 Dino Heco € 10.600 18 Pasi Heinanen € 10.600 19 Yasser Abetoy € 10.600 20 Jasper Wetemans € 10.600 21 Olvedo Heinze € 8.480 22 Maurice Oomens € 8.480 23 Alexander Roumeliotis € 8.480 24 Ben Roberts € 8.480 25 Talih Saliba € 7.420 26 Robin Teters € 7.420 27 Joseph Ebanks € 7.420

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT MASTER CLASSICS OF POKER NLH Main Event November 7-10, 2012 Holland Casino | Amsterdam Buy-in: $6,670 | Prizepool: $1,372,895 Entries: 212 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION OLE SCHEMION 102 PIETER DE KORVER 62 FAITH AYDIN 37 IVO HERMANS 27 ERIK TOBACCO 20 BRYN KENNEY 12 RICHARD WITSCHGE 10 GUY GOOSSENS 7 KRISTIJONAS ANDRULIS 7 DEFENDING CHAMPION David Boyaciyan, € 382,200 RELATED POSTS > KHAZARADZE WINS MCOP PRELIM > BOYACIAN WINS MASTER CLASSICS > SCHEMION WINS PARTOUCHE > SCHEMION WINS EPT BERLIN SIDE

WSOPC RIVER ROCK: CRNCIC WINS IN HUGE CIRCUIT MAIN EVENT NEAR VANCOUVER

John Crncic (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-166h) certainly picked a good time to collect the first meaningful live tournament cash of his poker career.

Crncic won - and won big - last night near Vancouver, collecting the WSOP Circuit River Rock Main Event in Richmond, British Columbia.

A total of 1,032 entries for the event created a 1.54M prize pool with Crncic collecting 286K for his big win.

Crncic defeated Ryan Biermann (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-345th) heads-up. Biermann was the only American at a final table filled with Canadians.

Sonny Sekhon (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,012th) - who started final table play as the chip leader - bowed out in fifth position.

The Circuit makes its way to Lake Tahoe, Nevada next with prelim events starting today.

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TOP 27 PAYOUTS (CAD) 1 John Crncic $286,382 2 Ryan Biermann $177,060 3 Justin Ciolfitto $131,580 4 Malachy Hagan $98,917 5 Sonny Sekhon $75,217 6 Calvin Anderson $57,864 7 Tyler StClair $45,031 8 Michael Collins $35,449 9 Glenn Sullivan $28,236 10 Seth Mennie $22,756 11 Andrew Tai $22,756 12 Nicolas Halvorson $22,756 13 Brian Scott $18,545 14 Steven Schartner $18,545 15 Lawrence Iampen $18,545 16 Mark Potovsky $15,279 17 Shreeniwas Kelkar $15,279 18 Christopher Gunnarsson $15,279 19 David Pecaski $12,725 20 David Lim $12,725 21 Jamie Youngman $12,725 22 Richard En $10,712 23 Afshin Majidi $10,712 24 Edmond Liu $10,712 25 Norman Overdijk $9,118 26 Robert Berglund $9,118 27 Douglas Wasyk $9,118

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT WORLD SERIES OF POKER CIRCUIT WSOPC River Rock Main Event November 2-7, 2012 River Rock Casino Resort | British Columbia Buy-in: $1,675 | Prizepool: $1,548,000 Entries: 1,032 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JOHN CRNCIC 110 RYAN BIERMANN 70 JUSTIN CIOLFITTO 45 MALACHY HAGAN 35 SONNY SEKHON 28 CALVIN ANDERSON 20 TYLER ST. CLAIR 18 MICHAEL COLLINS 15 GLENN SULLIVAN 15 RELATED POSTS > WILLIAMS WINS MARATHON NEXT WSOPC EVENT WSOPC Harvey's Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe, Nevada November 8-19, 2012 2011 Champ: Bryan Schultz

ALBILIA WINS WORLD POKER FINALS AT FOXWOODS

Ariel Albilia (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-729th) won the Foxwoods World Poker Finals earlier this week in Connecticut.

Albilia collected 184K USD for the win and earns the biggest live tournament pay day of his poker career, surpassing the 137K USD score he had earned by finishing third in the 2011 Borgata Fall Poker Open last November, Andrew Badecker had won that event.


John Dibella (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-42nd) finished third in the event. Dibella won the PCA Main Event - the first Grand Slam event of 2012 - in January.

James Campbell, Vincent Napolitano, Bill Kontaratos and Shawn Busse all cashed in the event.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) 1st Ariel Albilia $184,058 2nd Raymond Morgan $113,748 3rd John Dibella $82,825 4th Matthew Silberzweig $61,181 5th James Campbell $46,015 6th Kenneth Hoey $35,118 7th Mohd Eid $27,167 8th John Ting $21,350 9th Joseph Ward $17,015 10th Vincent Napolitano $13,767 11th John Pito $13,767 12th Robert Allain $13,767 13th Michael Dougherty $11,337 14th Joe Starratt $11,337 15th Leonard Sande $11,337 16th Alex Ortizgomez $9,423 17th Michael Lavoie $9,423 18th Bill Kontaratos $9,423 19th William Leder $7,951 20th Shawn Busse $7,951 21st Gerard Kane $7,951 22nd Thomas Hoglund $6,773 23rd Raymond Hicks $6,773 24th Carlo Sciannameo $6,773

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT FOXWOODS WORLD POKER FINALS NLH Main Event November 2-5, 2012 Foxwoods Resort Casino | Connecticut Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $736,230 Entries: 230 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ARIEL ALBILIA 35 RAY MORGAN 18 JOHN DIBELLA 10 MATTHEW SILBERZWEIG 8 JAMES CAMPBELL 5 RELATED POSTS > SANTORO WINS WORLD POKER FINALS > DIBELLA BEAST THE PROS AT PCA

MASTER CLASSICS: KHAZARADZE WINS PRELIM AS MAIN EVENT KICKS OFF

The Main Event is underway at the 2012 Master Classics of Poker at the Holland Casino in Amsterdam ... but before the Main Event kicked off, prelim events took center stage earlier this week.

Kakha Khazaradze (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-726th) won the 1,500 NLH Event, earning €106.860 following a deal heads-up.

Two-time winner on the circuit in 2012, Tom Middleton (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 30th) finished third in the event.

Middleton started the season off strong with 1K prelim event wins at the Aussie Millions in January and at the Fallsview Poker Classic in February.

2009 EPT Grand Final winner Pieter de Korver (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: NR) was sixth in the event while Lithuanian Kristijonas Andrulis (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 136th) was the first player eliminated during final table play.

In other prelims (no POY Points awarded in these events): Dutch poker pro Ruben Visser won the €200 PLO re-buy event, collecting just under 30K EURO for the victory while Michiel Brummelhuis collected 46K EURO by defeating Marcel Luske in the €800 NLH Bounty event.

The 10K High Rollers event has reached final table play as Alexander Roumeliotis leads Igor Kurganov, Govert Metal and five others towards the HR crown ...

High Roller Chip Counts:
Alexander Roumeliotis 150,800
Andrey Demidov 120,600
Igor Kurganov 94,500
Ilkka Koskinen 69,500
Rens Feenstra 64,500
Govert Metal 62,300
Serkan Kurnaz 21,400
Farid Chati 16,400

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (EURO) 1 Kakha Khazaradze € 106.860 2 Richard Milne € 63.705 3 Tom Middleton € 36.579 4 Yori Epskamp € 29.181 5 Denzel van der Ven € 25.071 6 Pieter de Korver € 20.550 7 Jorryt van Hoof € 16.440 8 Robert-Jan Hoogendoorn € 12.330 9 Kristijonas Andrulis € 8.220 RELATED POSTS > BOYACIAN WINS MASTER CLASSICS > MIDDLETON WINS AUSSIE PRELIM

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT MASTER CLASSICS OF POKER NLH €1,500 Event November 3-5, 2012 Holland Casino | Amsterdam Buy-in: $1,915 | Prizepool: $524,720 Entries: 273 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION KAKHA KHAZARADZE 35 RICHARD MILNE 18 TOM MIDDLETON 10 YORI EPSKAMP 8 DENZEL VAN DER VEN 5

APPT ACOP: ROSSITER WINS BIG IN WARMUP EVENT, CHEONG MOVES UP

Australian poker pro Jeffrey Rossiter (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-132nd) has won the APPT Macau Asian Championship of Poker NLH Warm-Up event, collecting 1.77M HKD for the victory.

Rossiter is best known for his third place finish at the 2011 Aussie Millions. He also finished third at APPT Macau almost a year ago.

The Aussie defeated David Martiroysan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-337th) heads-up. Martiroysan finished fourth at the Macau Poker Cup in February.


Joseph Cheong (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 13th) - a.k.a Subiime - collected POY points for the eighth time this season ... he joins Daniel Smith and Phil Ivey as the only players to earn eight scores in 2012.

At #13, Cheong is the highest ranked player yet to have won an event on the circuit in 2012.

GSOP Grand Final winner Andrey Shatilov (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-448th) and poker legend Johnny Chan (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,722nd) were two other notables who final tabled the event.

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TOP 20 PAYOUTS (HKD) 1. Jeffrey Rossiter $1,777,000 2. David Martiroysan $1,226,000 3. Joseph Cheong $731,000 4. Rong Fan $579,000 5. Daoxing "Bobo" Chen $459,000 6. Andrey Shatilov $375,000 7. Johnny Chan $291,500 8. Adam Latimer $215,500 9. Jan Zeuschner $175,500 10. Hiu Man Ng $139,780 11. Gordon Huntly $115,800 12. Johan Wengelin $115,800 13. Julian Powell $115,800 14. Stanislav Avanesian $95,900 15. Renyong Hu $95,900 16. Munkhbayar Nyamsuren $95,900 17. Katsuhiro Muto $75,900 18. Ping Len $75,900 19. Kevin Kung $75,900 20. Rui Bao $75,900 RELATED POSTS > NANONOKO WINS APPT MACAU

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT ASIA PACIFIC POKER TOUR Asia Champinoship of Poker APPT ACOP NLH Warmup November 3-6, 2012 Grand Waldo Complex | Macau Buy-in: $3,225 | Prizepool: $1,023,971 Entries: 358 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JEFFREY ROSSITER 103 DAVID MARTIROYSAN 63 JOSEPH CHEONG 38 RONG FAN 28 DAOXING CHEN "BOBO" 21 ANDREY SHATILOV 13 JOHNNY CHAN 11 ADAM LATIMER 8 JAN ZEUSCHNER 8

2012 POKER EM: ONE DEFEATS RED-HOT STAMMEN TO WIN CHAMPIONSHIP

Romania's Andrei One (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-193rd) has pulled off the upset, defeating red-hot American poker pro Keven Stammen (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 12th) heads-up to capture the 2012 CAPT/Poker EM NLH Championship in Baden, Austria.




Stammdogg continues to roll this Fall collecting POY points for the third time, his third Top 2 finish since October. Stammen won a 2K NLH Turbo Side Event at EPT San Remo, defeating McLean Karr heads-up. He then lost to Benny Spindler in the 10K High Roller event, only a few days later, again at EPT San Remo.

Daniel Studer (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-979th) finished fifth in the event. Studer was third in the CAPT/Poker EM 2K Side Event earlier in the week.

WSOP bracelet winner Aubin Cazals won the 3K PLO Championship.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1 Andrei One € 140.450 2 Keven Stammen € 90.290 3 Alain Hostettler € 57.680 4 Wilfried Haselmayer € 42.130 5 Daniel Studer € 30.100 6 Christian Kitzmüller € 25.080 7 Slobodan Stanculovic € 22.570 8 Oswin Ziegelbecker € 17.560 9 Josef Bartalos € 13.790 10 Christof Schwinger € 11.300 11 Hannes Speiser € 10.530 12 Gregor D. € 10.530 13 Rudolf Zintel € 10.530 14 Alan Medesan € 9.530 15 Andreas Krause € 9.530 RELATED POSTS > STAMMDOGG DEFEATS KARR > SZABO WINS POKER EM

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT CAPT/POKER EM CHAMPIONSHIP NLH Championship October 31-3, 2012 Casinos Austria Baden | Austria Buy-in: $5,130 | Prizepool: $643,350 Entries: 132 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION ANDREI ONE 101 KEVEN STAMMEN 61 ALAIN HOSTETTLER 36 WILFRIED HASELMAYER 26 DANIEL STUDER 19 CHRISTIAN KITZMULLER 11 SLOBODAN STANCULOVIC 9 OSWIN ZIEGELBECKER 6 JOZEF BARTALOS 6 2011 CHAMPION Zoltan Szabo, €150,425

ISLE OPEN: A LOOK BACK AT THE GRINDER'S VICTORY IN FLORIDA

With all the excitement surrounding the WSOP Main Event final table earlier this week, many poker fans may have missed the fact that a former November Niner, and two-time WSOP 50K Poker Players Champion, was winning big in his home state of Florida.

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 4th), won the 2012 Isle Open, picking up a 128K USD paycheck for his tournament victory.

Mizrachi's win moves him up one spot on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard, moving past Phil Hellmuth with Pompano Park score.

Mukul Pahuja (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,295th) finished third in the event. Pahuja collected POY points earlier this season at the Venetian Deepstack Extravaganza in July - he was fourth in a 1,600 NLH event.

Joseph Gibbons (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-2,035th) was fourth in the event - the last time Gibbons had collected POY points was back in 2011, where he cashed in the NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event.

PHOTO CREDIT: WORLD SERIES OF POKER

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TOP 15 PAYOUTS (USD) 1st Michael Mizrachi $128,800 2nd Ory Hen $75,900 3rd Mukul Pahuja $50,600 4th Joseph Gibbons $35,190 5th Phillip Weast $26,220 6th Justin Zaki $20,240 7th Daniel Genachte $15,640 8th Matthew O'Donnell $11,500 9th Stephen Diamantas $8,280 10th Benjamin Smith $6,440 11th Gudmundur Sigurfonsson $6,440 12th Mohammad Siddiqui $6,440 13th Barry Hutter $5,520 14th Don Todd $5,520 15th Samantha Cohen $5,520 RELATED POSTS > DENG WINS ISLE OPEN > GRINDHOUSE, PART 2

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT 2012 ISLE OPEN NLH Main Event October 26-28, 2012 Isle Casino Pompano Park | Florida Buy-in: $2,200 | Prizepool: $460,000 Entries: 230 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION MICHAEL MIZRACHI 35 ORY HEN 18 MUKUL PAHUJA 10 JOSEPH GIBBONS 8 PHILLIP WEAST 5 DEFENDING CHAMPION Kevin Deng, $100,000