Tuesday, February 7, 2012

WPT VENICE GP: STOP THE PRESSES! FAN FAVOURITE BJERKMANN LEADS FINAL 27

PHOTO CREDIT/SOURCE: WPT.com

Which player gets the most hits on the PTPR site? It's not even close ... although many google searches for Jonathan Duhamel get a lot of people to this site, it's Marcel Bjerkmann that takes the cake! Soon after the birth of this site, Marcel Bjerkmann went crazy and started winning events daily (ok, ok monthly) - ever since then, Bjerkmann has been "the man" on PTPRPoker.com!

Well, Marcel is back in the spotlight. Bjerkmann (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) was quiet in 2011 - after a fantastic 2010 - but he has been playing more live poker in recent months.

Bjerkmann leads the WPT Venice Grand Prix following Day 2 play at Casino di Venezia in Venice, Italy as 27 of the 155 original entrants will make their way back to the casino floor on Day 3 Wednesday.

Marko Neumann (2011 PTPR Rank: 1440th), Jason Wheeler (2011 PTPR Rank: 828th) and James Akenhead (2011 PTPR Rank: 2024th) round-out the Top 4 and will be looking to take the lead over from Bjerkmann. We'll play down to a final table on Wednesday!

TOP 27 CHIP COUNTS
Marcel Bjerkmann 436,300
Marko Neumann 384,400
Jason Wheeler 348,200
James Akenhead 336,000
Andrey Gulyy 326,000
Gianluca Trebbi 323,500
Andrea Dato 309,900
Gabriele Lepore 233,200
Jeremie Sochet 232,500
Alessandro Longobardi 221,200
Giacomo Fundaro 195,700
Rinat Bogdanov 167,600
Massimo Mosele 148,000
Erion Islamay 140,600
Gianluca Speranza 134,000
Dario De Paz 94,900
Zoltan Szabo 91,300
Andrea Carini 83,300
Simon Ravnsbaek 78,100
Guido Chiodo 75,700
Kara Scott 60,100
Giacomo Valenti 50,500
Viacheslav Goryachev 50,500
Konstantin Streletskiy 44,400
Lionel Tran 39,000
Maurizio Saieva 38,800
Carla Solinas 38,600

NOTABLE DAY 2 ELIMINATIONS
Mike Sexton, Mustapha Kanit, Melanie Weisner, Max Pescatori, Nicolas Levi, Roberto Romanello, Marvin Rettenmaier, Benjamin Pollak, Irene Baroni, Guillaume Darcourt, Dmitry Vitkind and Filippo Candio.



WPT VENICE GRAND PRIX PAYOUTS
1st - €229,800 (Includes a WPT Bellagio seat)
2nd - €111,700
3rd - €72,275
4th - €52,565
5th - €42,705
6th - €32,195
7th - €25,625
8th - €19,055
9th - €13,795
10th - 12th €9,855
13th - 15th - €8,540
16th-18th - €7,225

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NEXT TOUR STOP
WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open, Florida
February 10-14, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix
WPT Venice Grand Prix Main Event
February 6-10, 2012

Casino di Venezia | Venice, Italy
Buy-in: $6,555 | Prizepool: $889,338
Entries: 155

PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION
1st position 126
2nd position 76
3rd position 46
4th position 36
5th position 31
6-7th position 26
8-11th position 11
12-15th position 9
16-18th position 6


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