WPT BORGATA: HAMNETT DEFEATS BURNITZ TO WIN FIRST WPT TITLE

Ben Hamnett (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-83rd) is the latest winner on the World Poker Tour. Late Friday night, Hamnett defeated Matthew Burnitz (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 163rd) heads-up to win the WPT Borgata Poker Open, an event that drew a massive 1,181 entry field.


Hamnett had come close to a WPT Final Table before, he finished 11th at the 2011 WPT Shooting Star in San Jose, California.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR RACE LIVE LOOK-IN
80. Viacheslav Zhukov | 137
81. Brock Parker | 136
82. Stephen Reynolds | 136
83. Brandon Schaefer | 136
83. Ben Hamnett | 136
85. Hanz Winzeler | 135

Tyler Patterson (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 167th) - who finished fourth in the 6-max prelim event earlier this week - was third in the event.

Steve Brecher (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 402nd) - winner of the Fall Pot of Gold Deepstacks Live Main Event in Reno last October - was fifth here at Borgata while 2011 WSOP bracelet winner David Diaz (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-658th) was the first player out at the final table.

Matt Brady (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-658th) - who bubbled the WPT final table - Scott Schwalich (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 1,147th), Jamie Kerstetter (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 993rd), Kyle Bowker (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 397th), Lee Childs (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-423rd) and Vinny Pahuja (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-912th) are other notables who collected Player of the Year points in this event.

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FT PAYOUTS (USD) 1. Ben Hamnett - $818,847 2. Matthew Burnitz - $488,850 3. Tyler Patterson - $298,950 4. Ofir Mor - $250,065 5. Steve Brecher - $206,065 6. David Diaz - $167,337 RELATED POSTS > BRECHER WINS DEEPSTACKS RENO > OBOODI WINS DEFENDING CHAMPION Bobby Oboodi NEXT WPT EVENT: WPT Emperors Palace Classic Johannesburg, South Africa October 22-26, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR POKER TOUR WPT Borgata Poker Open September 16-21, 2012 Borgata Hotel Casino | Atlantic City Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $3,987,300 Entries: 1,181 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION BEN HAMNETT 136 MATTHEW BURNITZ 86 TYLER PATTERSON 56 OFIR MOR 46 STEVE BRECHER 41 DAVID DIAZ 36 MATT BRADY 36 JEFF WILLIAMS 21 PATRICK ESKANDAR 21 SCOTT SCHWALICH 21 DAVID HECK 21 JAMIE KERSTETTER 19 KYLE BOWKER 19 LEE CHILDS 19 JEREMY BROWN 19 VINNY PAHUJA 16 JEFF SAUNDERS 16 VINNY NAPOLITANO 16

WPT BORGATA: THEO TRAN WINS SIX-MAX PRELIM

2012 WSOP NLH Event #38 runner-up Theo Tran (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-35th) has picked up his third win on the tournament poker circuit this season, this time winning the latest prelim event at the WPT Borgata Poker Open, the NLH Six-Max event.

Tran defeated Wade Woelfel (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-573rd) heads up to win the event. Woelfel earned a Top 20 finish at last year's WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event.

Tyler Patterson (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-498th), Martin Raus (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,336th) and Dan Wach (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-210th) all earned their second Player of the Year scores of the 2012 poker season.

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (USD) Theobald Tran $64,807 Wade Woelfel $38,502 Ariel Albilia $29,226 Tyler Patterson $23,508 Ian Searing $18,425 Martin Raus $13,342 Alex Smith $10,166 Abraham Faroni $6,989 Daniel Wach $3,812 John Iraj $3,177 RELATED POSTS > BIANCO WINS 1M GUARANTEE > DUNG NGUYEN WINS BRACELET > OBOODI SHINES AT BORGATA DEFENDING CHAMPION Sprio Markatos

PTPR SIDE EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR Borgata Poker Open NLH Six-Max September 15-16, 2012 Borgata Hotel Casino | Atlantic City Buy-in: $1,090 | Prizepool: $262,000 Entries: 262 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION THEOBALD TRAN "THEO" 75 WADE WOELFEL 40 ALI ALBILIA 25 TYLER PATTERSON 15 IAN SEARING 10 MARTIN RAUS 8 ALEX SMITH 5 ABRAHAM FARONI 5 DAN WACH 5

WPT BORGATA: BIANCO WINS 1M GUARANTEE PRELIM AT BORGATA

The kickoff event at the WPT Borgata Poker Open tournament series featured a $560 buy-in 1M guarantee NLH re-entry event. The event drew a total of 3,705 entries creating a 1.85M prizepool, far exceeding the guarantee.

Benedetto Bianco (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 10th) has won the event, collecting over 300K USD for the victory.


Bianco defeated Daniel Wach (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 10th) heads-up. It was a first QJ/PTPR Score this season for all of the final table participants.

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (USD) Benedetto Bianco $309,196 Daniel Wach $200,793 Walter English $131,492 Gary Ackerman $111,946 Brian Polito $93,289 Wendy Freedman $75,519 Robert Klein $58,639 Hobart Adkins $42,646 Tevy Wellins $31,096 John Alfera $20,435 RELATED POSTS > OBOODI SHINES AT BORGATA

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT WORLD POKER TOUR NLH 1M Guarantee Event September 5-8, 2012 Borgata Hotel Casino | Atlantic City Buy-in: $560 | Prizepool: $1,852,500 Entries: 3,705 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION BENEDETTO BIANCO 120 DANIEL WACH 80 WALTER ENGLISH 55 GARY ACKERMAN 45 BRIAN POLITO 38 WENDY FREEDMAN 30 ROBERT KLEIN 28 HOBART ADKINS 25 TEVY WELLINS 25

PTPR ROUND-UP: CLOSING OUT BORGATA, PARTOUCHE

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Results from side events from two recent Main Event happenings are out! We close out the Borgata Poker Open and the Partouche Poker Tour Main series ...

BORGATA POKER OPEN SIDE EVENTS
Borgata hosted a NLH event on September 15 and 16. Kunal Patel collected the victory, earning his third PTPR Score of the year, crossing the 100-point barrier for 2011. 2010 November Niner John Racener finished third in the event.

The six-max event took place on September 16 and 17. Spiro Markatos picked up the win while Anthony Ruberto and Aalok Arora both earn their second PTPR Scores of 2011.

PARTOUCHE POKER TOUR MAIN EVENT SIDE EVENTS
Michel Leibgorin wins the September 14-16 1.5K NLH event, while Marvin Rettenmeier seems to be back on pace, earning his fifth PTPR Score of the season with his 3rd place finish. Rettenmeier has surpassed the 200-PTPR Point mark for the year.

Erich Kollmann picks up his fourth score of the year while Laurent Polito, Pascal Cohen and Stefan Raffay all earn their second PTPR Scores of the year.

Meanwhile, Patrik Hirvonen, defeated Sebastien Winkler heads up to win the September 15 to 17 3K NLH event - both players earned their second scores of the season.

Byron Kaverman continued his strong play in 2011 with a 6th place finish, good enough for his sixth PTPR Score - joining a few other players with the second most PTPR Scores of 2011. Jean Thorel also continues to impress - collecting his 5th score of 2011.


PTPR PRELIM EVENT
World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open
No Limit Hold'em Event
September 15-16, 2011

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa | Atlantic City
Buy-in: $1,650 | Prizepool: $369,000 | Entries: 246

FINAL RESULTS:
KUNAL PATEL 75
ORSON YOUNG 40
JOHN RACENER 25
MARK BAATZ 15
NORMAN ZAPCZYNSKI 10
KRISTIAN LEE 8
KENNETH FAGIOLI 5
ANTHONY CASALE 5
KENNETH ADAMS 5

PTPR PRELIM EVENT
World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open
No Limit Hold'em Six-Max Event
September 17-18, 2011

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa | Atlantic City
Buy-in: $1,090 | Prizepool: $410,000 | Entries: 410

FINAL RESULTS:
SPIRO MARKATOS 75
MAKSIM KVITKO 40
WILL JAFFE 25
JOSEPH COUDEN 15
ROBERT MCLAUGHLIN 10
ANTHONY RUBERTO 8
VINEET PAHUJA 5
ALEX APOSTOL 5
AALOK ARORA 5

PTPR PRELIM EVENT
Partouche Poker Tour Main Event
No Limit Hold'em Event
September 14-16, 2011

Le Palm Beach | Cannes
Buy-in: $2,020 | Prizepool: $645,542 | Entries: 310

FINAL RESULTS:
MICHEL LEIBGORIN 75
DOBROMIR NIKOV 40
MARVIN RETTENMEIER 25
LAURENT POLITO 15
ERICH KOLLMANN 10
PASCAL COHEN 8
MOHAMED KERKENI 5
STEFAN RAFFAY 5
YURY GULYY 5

PTPR PRELIM EVENT
Partouche Poker Tour Main Event
No Limit Hold'em Event
September 15-17, 2011

Le Palm Beach | Cannes
Buy-in: $4,045 | Prizepool: $544,361 | Entries: 130

FINAL RESULTS:

PATRIK HIRVONEN 75
SEBASTIEN WINKLER 40
PHILLIPE BAROUK 25
VARAS YUNIS 15
GREGORY HAIRABEDIAN 10
BYRON KAVERMAN 8
ERIC HALK 5
JEAN THOREL 5
JORMA VUOKSENMAA 5

WE'RE BACK WITH A DOUBLE DOSE OF WPT RESULTS!

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We're back with a mega update! Two WPT Main Event Champions in less than 24 hours? You bet!

NOVEMBER NINER GIANNETTI GRABS GOLD
Let's start in Malta where current WSOP November Niner Matt Giannetti decided he couldn't wait until November to pickup some hardware. Giannetti picks up the title at WPT Malta, defeating Cecilia Pescaglini heads up. Pescaglini was trying to become the first woman to win an open WPT Main Event - she was one of the lead horses throughout the tournament but Giannetti scooped up his first major victory at her expense.

Former 2011 PTPR Tournament Player of the Year #1 ranked player Mad Marvin - Marvin Rettenmeier - earned his fourth PTPR Score of the 2011 season, his first since March.

Christofer Williamson, Isaac Haxton and Pierre Milan all earned their second score of 2011, Tristan Clemencon captured his first.

The Phil Hellmuth - Tony G buzz was all for not as neither player was able to earn PTPR Points in Malta.

OBOODI SHINES AT BORGATA
Bobby Oboodi was confident he would win the WPT Borgata Poker Open, and he did. Now, Oboodi has his eyes set at becoming a two-time champion, declaring that is going for the 25K WPT World Championship and taking it home. Oboodi was never really in any trouble en route to his first PTPR Score of the year.

What a year it's been for Will "The Thrill" Failla - and it's far from over. Failla's 11th place finish earns him his sixth PTPR Score of the year and The Thrill now sits fourth overall on the PTPR Leaderboard, seven points away from Jason Mericer.

Darren Elias, Dan Colman and Matt Glantz all pickup their fourth PTPR Scores of 2011 and each one of them surpass the century mark for points this season.

Daniel Buzgon, Kevin Calenzo, Miami John Cernuto and Wade Woelfel were other notables picking up PTPR Points in the event.

RELATED:
MINOR LEAGUER NO MORE - PILGRIM WINS WPT BORGATA POKER OPEN
FIGUCCIA WRAPS UP IPT MALTA


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open
WPT Borgata Poker Open NLH Main Event w/Re-Entry
September 18-23, 2011

Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa | Atlantic City
Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool : $4,192,913 | Entries: 1,313

FINAL RESULTS:
BOBBY OBOODI 138
JIN HWANG 88
DANIEL BUZGON 58
FRED GOLDBERG 48
DARREN ELIAS 43
RICKY HALE 38
DOUG KIM 38
JOE DITTMAR 23
KEVIN CALENZO 23
DAN COLMAN 23
WILL FAILLA 23
MATT GLANTZ 21
BRANDON SCHAEFER 21
JOHN CERNUTO 21
RICHARD MARSHALL JR. 21
JACK SCHANBACHER 18
WADE WOELFEL 18
ANTHONY RIVERA 18

PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Malta
WPT Malta NLH Main Event w/Re-Entry
September 20-24, 2011

Casino at Portomaso | Malta
Buy-in: $4,450 | Prizepool : $970,800 | Entries: 240

FINAL RESULTS:

MATT GIANNETTI 127
CECILIA PESCAGLINI 77
FILIPPO BIANCHINI 47
SIMON TRUMPER 37
TRISTAN CLEMENCON 32
FABIEN SARTORIS 27
CHRISTOFER WILLIAMSON 27
MATS KARLSON 12
MANFRED SIERKE 12
SALVATORE BIANCO 12
ANTONIO AGNELLO 12
ISAAC HAXTON 10
ARMNADO GRAZIANO 10
FABIO MONTANARI 10
VIKTORS VOROBJOVS 10
MARVIN RETTENMEIER 7
PIERRE MILAN 7
MICHAEL FINDERUP 7