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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