Thursday, February 23, 2012

EPT COPENHAGEN: NEUVILLE LEADS DEFENDING CHAMP TURENIEC, OTHERS TO THE TOP 24

PHOTO (credit Neil Stoddart)/SOURCE: POKERSTARS.com

Belgium's Pierre Neuville - Team PokerStars Pro - has taken over the chip lead as Day 3 has come to an end at EPT Copenhagen. A veteran on the poker circuit, Neuville (2011 PTPR Rank: 234th) has surprisingly never won a significant event on tour. Neuville has enjoyed some success on the EPT - of note, he finished second to Antonio Matias at EPT Vilamoura back in 2009.

WSOP November Niner Martin Staszko finds himself in the Top 10 after Thursday's play. Staszko (2011 PTPR Rank: 182nd) - who finished second in the Main Event - built an extreme short stack into a Top 10 stack today.

One person to keep an eye on Friday is defending champ Michael Tureniec. Tureniec (2011 PTPR Rank: 112th) has quietly been amassing chips and currently sits 15th out of 24. Tureniec is about 500K off-pace but, you should never count out a former champion.

Our feature player from Wednesday's post died a horrible death (at least, her chips did) on Thursday. Melanie Weisner went from the penthouse to the outhouse in no time - the hand of death coming at the hands of Steve O'Dwyer when Weisner's ace-queen ran into O'Dwyer's aces.

NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS
Pierre Neuville 780,000
Alexander Manson 730,000
Aage Floenes Ravn 691,000
Alejandro Sanchez Fernandez 620,500
Keld Volquardsen 523,500
Mickey Petersen 451,500
Martin Staszko 432,500 (Runner-Up, WSOP Main Event)
Steve O'Dwyer 423,500 (Day 1 Chip Leader)
Andreas Wiese 344,500
Michael Tureniec 294,500 (Defending Champion)

NOTABLE DAY 3 PLAYER ELIMINATIONS
Juha Helppi, Mads Wissing, Melanie Weisner, Simon Ravnsbaek, Kevin Iacofano, Luca Pagano and Johnny Lodden.



EPT COPENHAGEN TOP 24 PAYOUTS (DKK)
1- 2,515,000
2- 1,600,000
3- 1,000,000
4- 740,000
5- 490,000
6- 390,000
7- 290,000
8- 191,400
9,10- 140,000
11,12- 110,000
13,14- 90,000
15,16- 75,000
17 to 24- 70,000

RELATED POSTS
>> O'DWYER IN CONTROL
>> TURENIEC CONQUERS COPENHAGEN
>> WEISNER LEADS AT AUSSIE
>> KURSEVICH WINS DEAUVILLE

DEFENDING CHAMPION
Michael Tureniec
2011 PTPR Ranking: 112th

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen
EPT Copenhagen NLH Main Event
February 20-25, 2012

Casino Copenhagen | Denmark
Buy-in: $6,635 | Prizepool: $1,789,625
Entries: 299

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
1st place 127
2nd place 77
3rd place 47
4th place 37
5th place 32
6-7th place 27
8-11th place 12
12-15th place 10
16-18th place 7

NEXT TOUR STOP
EPT Madrid
March 12-17, 2012

EVENT COVERAGE
>> POKERSTARS BLOG


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