FESTA AL LAGO: SELBST'S THIRD WIN OF THE SEASON HAVE HER BACK AT #3

It didn't take long for Vanessa Selbst to take back the #3 rank on the 2012 QuadJacks Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard.

Less than a month after moving down to #7, Selbst has picked up her third win of 2012 (she had wins in a LAPC prelim and captured a WSOP braclet over the summer) with her Festa al Lago prelim victory on Sunday night.



Selbst replaces Phil Hellmuth at #3 on the charts ... she defeated Justin Young (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-412th) heads-up. Surprisingly, this is only Young's first Player of the Year score of 2012.

Kid Poker, Daniel Negreanu (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 60th), finished third in the event.

Dana Kellstrom (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,094th), Daniel Shak (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-1,281st), Chris Bjorin (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 65th), Andrew Lichtenberger (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: 63rd) and Rodger Johnson (2012 QJ/PTPR Rank: T-296th) all earned POY points in the event.

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EVENT PAYOUTS (USD) 1st Vanessa Selbst $90,693 2nd Justin Young $61,353 3rd Daniel Negreanu $38,679 4th Dana Kellstrom $21,340 5th Daniel Shak $17,339 6th Chris Bjorin $13,338 7th Andrew Lichtenberger $9,336 8th Gregory Back $8,003 9th Rodger Johnson $6,669 RELATED POSTS > SELBST WINS BRACELET > SELBST WINS LAPC ALL-STAR GAME

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT FESTA AL LAGO 5K NLH Side Event October 20-21, 2012 Bellagio | Las Vegas Buy-in: $5,180 | Prizepool: $266,750 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION VANESSA SELBST 100 JUSTIN YOUNG 60 DANIEL NEGREANU 35 DANA KELLSTROM 25 DANIEL SHAK 18 CHRIS BJORIN 10 ANDREW LICHTENBERGER 8 GREGORY BACK 5 RODGER JOHNSON 5

FLOWERS POWERS HIS WAY TO THE TOP

PHOTO CREDIT: WORLDPOKERTOUR.com


Congrats to Randal Flowers, winner of the WPT Festa Al Lago Main Event - at 22, he becomes the youngest two-time WPT Main Event winner of all-time - great work, young sir.

This is Flowers' first PTPR Score of the season. We had one heck of a field when we hit the Final 18 - the buzz was around vets Annette Obrestad (finished 13th, 5th score of the season), Jeff Madsen (11th, 4th score) and Allen Chainsaw Kessler ((7th, 6th score) what an amazing chip and a chair story for Chainsaw) - as well as recent WPT Main Event champ Andrew Frankenberger (finished 5th, 3rd score of the season. But Flowers outlasted them all.

Three other events were completed in the recent days...

The 5K Festa Al Lago final event (NLH) also took place. Jonathan Little took home the title and 100 PTPR points. Veronica Dunn, Craig Bergeron, Brock Parker all scored for at least the second time this season.

Leonid Lerner scored for the second time this season, winning the Borgata's 250K Guaranteed Double Play on Tuesday night.

And finally, Alessandro Minasi scored his first PTPR points by taking down the Pokerstars IPT event in San Remo.


Results from all four tournaments below ...


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Festa Al Lago Classic
NLH Main Event
October 15-20, 2010

Bellagio Hotel Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $3,249,500
Entries: 335


FINAL RESULTS
FLOWERS RANDAL 128
BENVENUTI MICHAEL 78
SCHWARTZ NOAH 48
KOON JASON 38
FRANKENBERGER ANDREW 33
WILSON SKIP 28
KESSLER ALLEN "CHAINSAW" 28
SUER BOBBY 13
STEVEN BRANDON 13
KRPAN JOHN 13
MADSEN JEFF 13
MONNETTE JOHN 11
OBRESTRAD ANNETTE 11
KLING LAUREN 11
NEWHOUSE MARK 11
BATISTA CHAD 8
KARR MCLEAN 8
STOUT MATT 8



PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
WPT Festa Al Lago Classic
NLH Main Event
October 18-19, 2010

Bellagio Hotel Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada


FINAL RESULTS
LITTLE JONATHAN 100
METAAL GOVERT 60
HADDAD ERIC 35
DUNN VERONICA 25
MORRISON DAMIAN 18
YOUNG JORDAN 10
BERGERON CRAIG 8
PARKER BROCK 5
ALTERMAN PAUL 5



PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Borgata 250K Guaranteed Double Play
No Limit Hold'em
October 17-19, 2010

Borgata Hotel Casino
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Buy-in: $1,000
Prizepool: $411,000
Entries: 411


FINAL RESULTS
LERNER LEONID 35
GORAY PAUL 18
MARTIN DEAN 10
HENRICI JASON 8
DROHAN PAUL 5



PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Pokerstars IPT San Remo
NLH Main Event
October 14-19, 2010

Casino San Remo
San Remo, Italy

Buy-in: $2,780
Prizepool: $927,970
Entries: 344


FINAL RESULTS
MINASI ALESSANDRO 35
ADOMKEVICIUS ANERIS 18
RIGANO PAOLO 10
CECCHI CLAUDIO 8
LIGATO MARCO 5

PTS AT STAKE : WPT FESTA AL LAGO

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com


Matt Affleck (pictured, left) and Annette Obrestad lead the way at the WPT Festa Al Lago Main Event .. tons of big names still alive in the final 99. Top 18 players to receive points in this event ...


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
2010 Festa Al Lago Classic
World Poker Tour NLH Main Event
October 15-20, 2010

Bellagio Hotel Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $3,224,000
Entries: 335

Defending Champion: Tommy Vedes

2010 FINAL RESULTS
1st 128
2nd 78
3rd 48
4th 38
5th 33
6th 28
7th 28
8th 13
9th 13
10th 13
11th 13
12th 11
13th 11
14th 11
15th 11
16th 8
17th 8
18th 8

NOVEMBER NINER CHEONG WINS FESTA AL LAGO 5K PRELIM...

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com


Joseph Cheong has that winning feeling heading into next month's WSOP Main Event Final Table as one of the November Nine. Cheong has clinched the 5K prelim event at Festa Al Lago at Bellagio - home of the next WPT event (now started).

This was Cheong's second PTPR score of the season (the minimum 9th place points for the WSOP Main Event being the first) - he moved up over 280 spots on the PTPR Player Rankings ... Brock Parker, Vivek Rajkumar, Rock Cloutier and Cary Katz also post points in the event.


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
2010 Festa Al Lago Classic
Event 11 - 5K No Limit Hold'Em
October 13-14, 2010

Bellagio Hotel Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $436,050
Entries: 90

2010 FINAL RESULTS
CHEONG JOSEPH 100
PARKER BROCK 60
SVET ROBERT 35
O'SULLIVAN ZACK 25
RAJKUMAR VIVEK 18
BERES DENNIS 10
CLOUTIER ROCK 8
DICKSTEIN MARK 5
KATZ CARY 5