109 players made their way to the Aviation Club de France for the Euro Finals of Poker Diamond Championship. The 5,000 Euro buy-in event carries a prizepool over 650K US.
There are plenty of name European players in the event but it's two North-American players that caught our eye during Day 1 play.
Shannon Shorr has had success around the world but he's far away from his Alabama home. Still, Shorr (2011 PTPR Rank: 149th) had a good Day 1 and is looking for his first significant score since finishing 4th at the WPT Southern Poker Championship last January.
Also in the hunt after Day 1 is someone you may have heard of in 2012 ... The #1 ranked player on the 2012 PTPR Tournament Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard, Jonathan Duhamel, is in contention in Paris.
Duhamel (2011 PTPR Rank: 71st) does have some work to do on Day 2 - a quick double-up should do the trick! The 2010 World Champion looks to continue an amazing start to 2012 with this Euro tour.
NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS
Philippe Ktorza – 117k
Idris Ambraisse – 114k
Shannon Shorr – 89k
Jean-Noel Thorel – 80k
Zimnan Zinyard – 77k
Manuel Bevand – 64,8k
David Benyamine – 62,5k
Jonathan Duhamel – 49,4k
Martin Jacobson – 49k
Yann Brosolo – 44,7k
Alain Roy – 42k
Isabelle Mercier – 32k
Nicolas Babel – 27,5k
Remy Biechel – 22,5k
Alex Dovhzenko – 22k
Tristan Clémençon – 16k
NOTABLE DAY 1 ELIMINATIONS
Natalia Nikitina, Ludovic Lacay, ElkY, Hugo Lemaire, Juha Helppi, Davidi Kitai, Guillaume Darcourt and Samuel Chartier.
TOP 9 PAYOUTS (in EURO) 1 – 119 440 € 2 – 93 190 € 3 – 62 130 € 4 – 46 600 € 5 – 38 830 € 6 – 31 065 € 7 – 25 890 € 8 – 20 710 € 9 – 15 535 € RELATED POSTS >> BROSOLO WINS EFOP GOLD >> ElkY BUBBLES AS FINAL DAY SET >> BOYER WINS SILVER CHAMPIONSHIP >> NATALIA NIKITINA WINS EFOP (2011) | PTPR TIER 3 EVENT Euro Finals of Poker EFOP NLH Diamond Championship January 26-28, 2012 Aviation Club de France | Paris Buy-in: $6,540 | Prizepool: $653,980 Entries: 109 DEFENDING CHAMPION Natalia Nikitina (2011 PTPR Rank: 219th) PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 101 2nd position 61 3rd position 36 4th position 26 5th position 19 6th position 11 7th position 9 8-9th position 6 |
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