EPT BERLIN: WIGGITY, WIGGITY, WIGGITY WACK - ANTON WIGG LEADS EPT BERLIN

PHOTO: POKERSTARS

Swedish poker star Anton Wigg is the overnight chip leader as we're through two days at Pokerstars.com EPT Berlin. Wigg (2012 PTPR Rank: 255th) already has two PTPR Scores for 2012. After scoring at a Aussie Millions side event earlier in the season, Wigg - the 2010 EPT Copenhagen Champion - finished 11th over the weekend at WPT Vienna.

Vladimir Geshkenbein continues to rule Berlin. Geshkenbein (2012 PTPR Rank: NA) was moments away from leading wire to wire until Wigg stepped in late. Geshkenbein has been rolling so far in this tournament.

A monster field of 745 players entered EPT Berlin, with 102 of those coming back for Thursday play.

NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS
Anton Wigg 695,000
Vladimir Geshkenbein 675,500
Mario Puccini 604,000
Kevin MacPhee 390,500
Vanessa Selbst 374,500
Jan Bendik 348,500
Philipp Gruissem 311,000
Koen De Visscher 285,000
William Thorson 268,500
Martin Jacobson 198,000
Joe Ebanks 173,500
JP Kelly 152,000
Stefan Huber 151,000
Davidi Kitai 139,500
Scott Baumstein 132,500
Ana Marquez 99,000
Will Molson 87,500
Kevin Iacofano 79,500
Andrew Chen 71,500

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EVENT PAYOUTS (EURO) 1 € 825,000 2 € 500,000 3 € 290,000 4 € 220,000 5 € 172,000 6 € 133,000 7 € 97,000 8 € 72,000 9-10 € 51,000 11-12 € 38,000 13-14 € 30,000 15-16 € 25,000 17-24 € 20,000 25-32 € 17,500 33-40 € 15,000 41-56 € 13,000 57-72 € 11,000 73-88 € 9,000 89-112 € 7,500 DEFENDING CHAMPION Ben Wilinofsky (Eliminated)

PTPR PREMIER EVENT European Poker Tour Berlin EPT Berlin NLH Main Event April 16-21, 2012 Grand Hyatt Berlin | Berlin, Germany Buy-in: $6,955 | Prizepool: $4,889,435 Entries: 745 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 132 2nd place 82 3rd place 52 4th place 42 5th place 37 6-7th place 32 8-11th place 17 12-15th place 15 16-18th place 12 NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Grand Final Casino Monte Carlo, Monaco April 25-May 1, 2012

CLOSING OUT EPT BERLIN: HURTADO, SCHEMION COLLECT WINS

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com

We were waiting for the final results from the side events at EPT Berlin before posting, unfortunately, low turn-outs to those side-events means that only two of them qualified for PTPR Points, both No Limit Hold'Em events.

Event 6 was a $3,060 event and 248 players participated. William Hurtado was the big winner, collecting over $150,000 in the process.

2010 EPT Copenhagen winner Anton Wigg (pictured) finished fourth in the event, collecting his first PTPR Points of the 2011 season. Jon Spinks and Andrew Teng also collected points.

Here are the Top 10 payouts (in USD):
1 William Hurtado $165,376
2 Luke Marsh $128,088
3 Andrew Moseley $99,624
4 Anton Wigg $78,276
5 Michael Alf $43,764
6 Jon Spinks $34,584
7 Andrew Teng $27,539
8 Orpen Kisacikoglu $19,783
9 Rustem Saparov $12,667
10 Michael Schurpf $12,667


226 players participated in Event 8 - Ole Schemion was the eventual winner.

Here are the Top 10 payouts (in USD):
1 Ole Schemion $77,138
2 Manfred Hammer $44,831
3 Alexander Spachmann $37,715
4 Zorau Maninkovic $42,696
5 Markus Lehner $32,022
6 Daniel Bergmann $15,655
7 Luigi Errico $12,524
8 Bernd Wolf $8,966
9 Martin Finger $5,792
10 Archil Tushuvashvili $5,792


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
PokerStars EPT Berlin
EPT Berlin NLH Event 6
April 7-8, 2011

Spielbank Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Buy-in: $3,060
Prizepool: $706,051
Entries: 248

FINAL RESULTS
WILLIAM HURTADO 75
LUKE MARSH 40
ANDREW MOSELEY 25
ANTON WIGG 15
MICHAEL ALF 10
JON SPINKS 8
ANDREW TENG 5
ORPEN KISACIKOGLU 5
RUSTEM SAPAROV 5

PTPR PRELIM EVENT
PokerStars EPT Berlin
EPT Berlin NLH Event 8
April 8-9, 2011

Spielbank Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Buy-in: $1,565
Prizepool: $321,644
Entries: 226

FINAL RESULTS
OLE SCHEMION 75
MANFRED HAMMER 40
ALEXANDER SPACHMANN 25
ZORAU MANINKOVIC 15
MARKUS LEHNER 10
DANIEL BERGMANN 8
LUIGI ERRICO 5
BERND WOLF 5
MARTIN FINGER 5

WELCOME BACK, SIR: EASTGATE SIGHTING AT EPT COPENHAGEN

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERSTARSBLOG.com

The shortest retirement in history, well, since Brett Favre, Brett Favre and Brett Favre again, is over!

Look who decided to show up at EPT Copenhagen! On the heels of the announcement that he would be playing the NBC Heads Up Championship next month, Peter Eastgate decided to work out the kinks and chose today's EPT Copenhagen as his comeback event.

Eastgate did very well on his first day back to work. He ends the day with 73,200 chips. The chip leader, Pokerstars qualifier Mark Hirleman, ended the day with 163,400 chips.

This is the first of two Day 1's at EPT Copenhagen and many star players were out including defending Champion Anton Wigg, who suffered a late elimination at the hands of Annette Obrestad on a trip-10 vs. flopped jacks hand.


Here are the notable names still alive after Day 1A:

• Per Line 150,000
• Annette Obrestad 102,300
• Kent Lundmark 87,500
• Allan Baekke 76,000
• Peter Eastgate 73,200
• Johnny Lodden 64,200
• Pierre Neuville 58,200
• Thomas Bo Markussen 51,000
• Arnaud Mattern 38,100
• Scott Montgomery 36,100
• Surinder Sunar 25,900
• Anders Hoyer Berg 25,200
• Ville Wahlbeck 12,300

The tournament continues tomorrow with Day 1B.