PREMIER UPDATES: WPT SOUTHERN, AUSSIE MAIN, EPT DEAUVILLE

PHOTO CREDIT: WPT.com

Updating the three PTPR Premier events we have on the go!


WPT SOUTHERN POKER CHAMPIONSHIP MAIN EVENT
We're down to four players at the WPT Main - 2009 Champion Allen Carter leads the way...

Seat 1. Alex Kuzmin - 1,033,000
Seat 3. Leif Force - 1,269,000
Seat 5. Shannon Shorr - 1,446,000
Seat 6. Allen Carter - 2,740,000


AUSSIE MILLIONS MAIN EVENT
14 players still alive down under. 2010 PTPR Player of the Year Sorel Mizzi sits 7th, he will score his first points of the year. Patrik Antonius is third in chips at last count ... here are the top 10 chip leaders...

1 Samad Razavi 2,350,000
2 Jeff Rossiter 2,160,000
3 Patrik Antonius 1,750,000
4 Chris Moorman 1,550,000
5 Randy Dorfman 1,100,000
6 James Keys 1,000,000
7 Sorel Mizzi 750,000
8 Michael Ryan 750,000
9 David Gorr 715,000
10 Tyler Bonkowski 510,000


EPT DEAUVILLE MAIN EVENT
We're done with Day 2 in France. 205 of the original 891 players are still alive ... here are the top 10 remaining runners - including frenchman Fabrice Soulier making a run ...

1 David Sonelin 438,900
2 Fabrice Soulier 390,700
3 Sergey Kislinskiy 390,200
4 Eric Sfez 369,000
5 Mathew Frankland 353,600
6 Martin Jacobson 343,600
7 Raphael Kroll 339,200
8 Fabian Holling 333,300
9 Anthony Hnatow 332,400
10 Laurent Lagreve 312,300

ALLEN CARTER CHASES HISTORY AT WPT SOUTHERN TV FINAL TABLE

PHOTO CREDIT: BEAURIVAGE.com

We're down to six players at the WPT Southern Poker Championship at Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi - yes, that's right, it's WPT TV Final Table time!

We've got one hell of a final table setup .. Alexander Kuzmin is the chip leader, big-time pro Shannon Shorr (off a WPT final table late in 2010), Ryan Hughes, Leif Force and Patrick Mahoney are also at the final table ...

But it's Allen Carter, second in chips, that is holding everyone's attention. Carter is steps away from history. Carter won the 2009 WPT Southern Championship - he is looking to earn a second WPT Southern title in three years (Hoyt Corkins won the event last year - he scored 7 PTPR in this event) ... something that would put him in the record books for sure!


Here are the chip counts as Final Table play approaches...

1 Alexander Kuzmin 1,969,000
2 Allen Carter 1,928,000
3 Ryan Hughes 840,000
4 Leif Force 674,000
5 Shannon Shorr 663,000
6 Patrick Mahoney 394,000


And here are the winnings that the Final 6 are playing for...
1st: $584,481
2nd: $306,607
3rd: $212,208
4th: $140,926
5th: $110,103
6th: $86,985

The winner of the event will receive 127 PTPR Points.


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Southern Poker Championship
World Poker Tour Main Event
January 23-27, 2011

Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
Biloxi, Mississippi, USA

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $1,986,100
Entries: 214

POINTS AT STAKE
1st place 127
2nd place 77
3rd place 47
4th place 37
5th place 32
6th place 27
WRIGHT OTIS 27
BREAKSTONE STUART 12
COELHO VITOR 12
BLAIN DERMOT 12
ZENTNER MARTIN 12
KELLER BOBBY 10
SMITH BOB 10
SHIREY HILBERT 10
BROWN CHAD 10
SMITH JORDAN 7
ROSE MARK 7
CORKINS HOYT 7