Melanie Weisner is widely recognized as one of the top live tournament pros on the circuit, yet, most are surprised when they learn that Weisner has yet to pickup that one big score on the circuit, which is something that most assumed had already happened given her skill.
Weisner has been close before - most recently starting final day play with the chip lead at a NLH Bounty Side Event at the Aussie Millions. It goes without saying that Weisner is one of the best players without a major victory.
This may be about to change. Weisner (2011 PTPR Rank: 1155th) holds the chip lead with 72 players left EPT Copenhagen, presented by PokerStars.com. Weisner takes a 48K chip into Day 3, she has accumulated an impressive 368K in chips the first two days of the tournament.
WPT Venice Grand Prix fourth place finisher Simon Ravnsbaek sits second in chips. Ravnsbaek (2011 PTPR Rank: 283rd) won the Danish Poker Championship in this very casino last October. Ravnsbaek also earned a third place finish at WPT Vienna last March.
Another familiar face to the Danish crowd at Casino Copenhagen rounds out the Top 3. Kevin Iacofano (2011 PTPR Rank: 238th) - who finished fourth in this event last year - is about 15K in chips behind Ravnsbaek.
Of the four players featured in yesterday's EPT Copenhagen recap, only two survived second day play - Steve O'Dwyer and Juha Helppi. Roberto Romanello and Marcel Bjerkmann were both eliminted during Day 2.
NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS (MIN. 40K CHIPS)
Melanie Weisner 368,200
Simon Ravnsbæk 320,800
Kevin Iacofano 305,200
Pierre Neuville 221,300
Michael Tureniec 214,500 (Defending Champion)
Juha Helppi 160,300
Steve O’Dwyer 122,000 (Day 1 Chip Leader)
Mads Wissing 119,300
Mickey Petersen 82,200
Luca Pagano 59,000
Johnny Lodden 41,100
Martin Staszko 27,900 (2011 WSOP Main Event Runner-Up)
NOTABLE DAY 2 PLAYER ELIMINATIONS
Anton Wigg, Martins Adeniya, Will Molson, Allan Baekke, Roberto Romanello, Samuel Chartier, Mario Puccini, Marcel Bjerkmann, Theo Jorgenssen, Arnaud Mattern, Byron Kaverman, David Vamplew, Vojtech Ruzicka and John Eames.
EPT COPENHAGEN PAYOUTS (DKK) 1- 2,515,000 2- 1,600,000 3- 1,000,000 4- 740,000 5- 490,000 6- 390,000 7- 290,000 8- 191,400 9,10- 140,000 11,12- 110,000 13,14- 90,000 15,16- 75,000 17 to 24- 70,000 25 to 32- 65,000 33 to 40- 60,000 41 to 48- 55,000 RELATED POSTS >> O'DWYER IN CONTROL >> TURENIEC CONQUERS COPENHAGEN >> WEISNER LEADS AT AUSSIE >> KURSEVICH WINS DEAUVILLE DEFENDING CHAMPION Michael Tureniec 2011 PTPR Ranking: 112th | PTPR PREMIER EVENT PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen EPT Copenhagen NLH Main Event February 20-25, 2012 Casino Copenhagen | Denmark Buy-in: $6,635 | Prizepool: $1,789,625 Entries: 299 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st place 127 2nd place 77 3rd place 47 4th place 37 5th place 32 6-7th place 27 8-11th place 12 12-15th place 10 16-18th place 7 NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Madrid March 12-17, 2012 EVENT COVERAGE >> POKERSTARS BLOG |
