EPT DEAUVILLE: SULTAN CLOSES OUT DEAUVILLE

PHOTO CREDIT/SOURCE: POKERSTARS.fr

That's it, another successful PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville is behind us!

We close out EPT Deauville with a look at the 1K France Poker Series Event...


Ludovic Sultan had a little over 40K in live tournament winnings heading into the 1K tourney. Sultan can now add a cool, crisp, 82K Euro after his victory.

Sultan defeated Joep Van Den Bijgaart heads up. Van Den Bijgaart (2011 PTPR Rank: 405th) won a Master Classics of Poker Side Event last season.

Yury Gulyy (2011 PTPR Rank: 2703rd) picked up his second set of points at Deauville while Raymond Santucci (2011 PTPR Rank: 835th) earned his first PTPR Points of 2012 - Santucci won the Partouche Poker Tour Nice Main Event last season.

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (in EURO) Ludovic Sultan FRA € 82,000 Joep Van den Bijgaart NED € 43,500 Yury Gulyy RUS € 28,000 Raymond Santucci FRA € 21,500 Aliaksei Vesialou BLR € 17,000 Artem Metalidi UKR € 14,000 Andrey Veselov RUS € 10,700 Omar Karib FRA € 7,500 Sebastien Decamps FRA € 5,700 Jiachen Gong CAN € 5,700 RELATED POSTS >> GOOD START FOR VISSER >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL BACK AT IT >> DE MEULDER WINS TURBO NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH High Rollers February 4, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $1,455 | Prizepool: $418,520 Entries: 329 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION LUDOVIC SULTAN 75 JOEP VAN DEN BIJGAART 40 YURY GULYY 25 RAYMOND SANTUCCI 15 ALIAKSEI VESIALOU 10 ARTEM METALIDI 8 ANDREY VESELOV 5 OMAR KARIB 5 SEBASTIEN DECAMPS 5

THE ROUND-UP: PETERS WINS IN BLACKPOOL, VAN DEN BIJGAART IN AMSTERDAM

SOURCE: THEHENDONMOB.com, POKERPAGES.com

Heading to Blackpool and closing the MCOP in Amsterdam in this edition of the PTPR Poker Round-Up!

GUKPT BLACKPOOL
The most recent tour stop for the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour was in Blackpool this past weekend. Andy Peters took home the title at The Sandcastle. Benjamin Jackson (who finished second a GUKPT prelim earlier in the week) finished second in this event as well.

FINAL 9 PAYOUTS:
1. Andrew Peters £72,020
2. Benjamin Jackson £47,820
3. Mark Physick £31,440
4. Rupinder Bedi £19,000
5. Daniel Corbett £14,150
6. Paul Bracken £11,530
7. Mark Livesey £8,910
8. Jack Ellwood £7,200
9. Adrian Eley £5,240

MCOP NLH SIDE EVENT
Time to leave Amsterdam. The Master Classics of Poker series ended over the weekend and we have one last event that qualified for PTPR Points.

Joep van den Biljgaart won the 750 Euro buy-in NLH event on Friday night. van den Biljgaart earns his second PTPR Score of the season - he had scored points at EPT Berlin earlier in the year ...

PTPR LEADERBOARD LIVE LOOK-IN:
354. David "Bakes" Baker, 68 PTPR Points
355. Traci Brown, 68
356. Tristan Clemencon, 67
357. Alexander Debus, 67
357. Joep van den Biljgaart, 67
357. Phil Willcocks, 67

Nikita Nikolaenko was runner-up in the event - he was also a runner-up in another MCOP side event earlier last week.

FINAL 9 PAYOUTS:
1st Joep van den Bijgaart €61,230
2nd Andy van Poeijes €36,503
3rd Simon Berntsen €20,960
4th Dani Malekzadeh €16,721
5th Nikita Nikolaenko €14,366
6th Micha Hoedemaker €11,775
7th Robert Levogeler €9,420
8th Vincent Gabel €7,065
9th Gerard van Schijndel €4,710

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour Blackpool
GUKPT Blackpool NLH Main Event
November 10-12, 2011

G Casino "The Sandcastle" | Great Britain
Buy-in: $1,700 | Prizepool: $416,395 | Entries: 262

FINAL RESULTS:
ANDREW PETERS 35
BENJAMIN JACKSON 18
MARK PHYSICK 10
RUPINDER BEDI 8
DANIEL CORBETT 5

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Master Classics of Poker
MCOP NLH Side Event
November 11, 2011

Holland Casino | Amsterdam
Buy-in: $1,020 | Prizepool: $324,962 | Entries: 314

FINAL RESULTS:
JOEP VAN DEN BIJGAART 35
ANDY VAN POEIJES 18
SIMON BERNTSEN 10
DANI MALEKZADEH 8
NIKITA NIKOLAENKO 5

EPT BERLIN: CAN MARTIN JACOBSON GET OVER THE HUMP?

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERSTARSBLOG.com

Martin Jacobson has had a very succesful 2010-11 EPT campaign ... with the Grand Final on the horizon, Jacobson will play at his third final table of season when play begins Sunday. But Jacobson's two straight second-place finishes at the previous two final tables must make him want this EPT Berlin title more than any other player left in the field. Jacobson will enter final table play 6th in chips but a double-up and things could get very interesting.

The chip leader heading into Sunday's final table at EPT Berlin is PokerStars qualifier Ben Wilinofsky (pictured). The Canadian holds over 5.2M chips, a small lead over German Maximilian Heinzelmann. Belarusian Vadzim Kursevich is the only other player with over 4M in chips.

Team PokerStars Pro Joep van den Bijgaart is one of the small stacks remaing at the table.

The chip leaders from the last two days, Daniel Pidun and Fabrice Soulier, were eliminated late on Saturday. Kristijonas Andrulis, who finished 12th, earned his 3rd PTPR Score of the season.

Final table seat assignments and chip counts:
Seat 1. Maximilian Heinzelmann - 4,970,000
Seat 2. Martin Jacobson - 2,085,000
Seat 3. Vadzim Kursevich - 4,345,000
Seat 4. Darren Kramer - 2,235,000
Seat 5. Armin Mette - 2,185,000
Seat 6. Joep van den Bijgaart - 1,060,000
Seat 7. Ben Wilinofsky - 5,225,000
Seat 8. Jonas Gutteck - 1,025,000

Here are the final table payouts for EPT Berlin (in EUR):
1st - € 825,000
2nd - € 500,000
3rd - € 300,000
4th - € 230,000
5th - € 180,000
6th - € 140,000
7th - € 100,000
8th - € 66,000


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour Berlin
EPT Berlin Main Event
April 5-10, 2011

Spielbank Berlin
Berlin, DEU

Buy-in: $7,160
Prizepool: $5,536,300
Entries: 773

Defending Champion: Kevin MacPhee

POINTS AT STAKE
1st position 132
2nd position 82
3rd position 52
4th position 42
5th position 37
6th position 32
7th position 32
8th position 17
DANIEL PIDUN 17
CUELLO JORGE MARIANO 17
FABRICE SOULIER 17
KRISTIJONAS ANDRULIS 15
ROBIN YLITALO 15
THOMAS TRABOULSI 15
LUIS JAIKEL 15
JEFFERY HAKIM 12
KONSTANTIN PUCHKOV 12
MIKHAIL LAKHITOV 12

EPT BERLIN: MANY STARS FADE ON DAY 3

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERSTARSBLOG.com

While many name players emerged during Day 2 play at EPT Berlin, it was the exact opposite today as Day 3 closes with 24 players left - many of which are unknowns to most poker fans.

Now that doesn't mean that we're in for a boring final two days but, in fact, it means that we may have an unknow star in the making - could PokerStars qualifier Ben Wilinofsky be that man?

But it's still sad to see the big boys go, especially Roberto Romanello and Vladimir Geshkenbein, both of which were looking to continue their hot streaks at major events - maybe next time, gentlemen.

Daniel-Gai Pidun took the chip lead from Maximilian Heinzelmann very late on Friday. Team PokerStars Pro Joep van den Bijgaart in still very much in contention while Frenchman Fabrice Soulier, who held a major chip lead after Day 2, lost over 200,000 of his chips on Friday.

Meanwhile Martin Jacobson is making a deep run in a third EPT tournament in less than 6 months - can he improve on his two runner-up finishes? He has some work ahead of him in order to do so.

Here are the notable chip stacks heading into Day 4:

> Daniel-Gai Pidun 2,249,000 (chip leader)
> Kristijonas Andrulis 1,650,000
> Joep van den Bijgaart 1,454,000
> Henrique Pinho 1,282,000
> Mikhail Lakhitov 909,000
> Fabrice Soulier 890,000
> Martin Jacobson 687,000
> Konstantin Puchkov 608,000

Notable players who were eliminated today include:
George Danzer, Tomer Berda, Bruno Lemaire, Cornel Cimpan, Maksim (Maxim) Kolosov, Kent Lundmark, Ben Roberts, Per Linde, Juan Manuel Pastor, Roberto Romanello, Kevin Vandermissen, Thomas Bichon, Peter Eastgate, Sebastien Ruthenberg, Vladimir Geshkenbein


PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour Berlin
EPT Berlin Main Event
April 5-10, 2011

Spielbank Berlin
Berlin, DEU

Buy-in: $7,160
Prizepool: $5,536,300
Entries: 773

Defending Champion: Kevin MacPhee

POINTS AT STAKE
1st position 132
2nd position 82
3rd position 52
4th position 42
5th position 37
6-7th position 32
8-11th position 17
12-15th position 15
16-18th position 12