EPT MADRID: BELGIAN SPRINGAEL WINS ONE ON THE SIDE

SOURCE: EUROPEAN POKER TOUR

Belgian Joris Springael is on the board for the second time in 2012. After collecting a sixth place finish at a side event at the PCA, Springael earned a side event victory at EPT Madrid - in the 2K NLH event.

Springael (2012 PTPR Rank: 33rd) finished 10th at the WPT Shooting Star at Bay 101 in 2011.

Like Springael, Zimnan Ziyard (2012 PTPR Rank: 129th), Marcel Bjerkmann (2012 PTPR Rank: 321st) and Andrea Dato (2012 PTPR Rank: 86th) all earned their second PTPR Scores this season.

PokerStars Team Pro Eugene Katchalov (2012 PTPR Rank: 499th) finished 12th in the event.

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FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (EURO) 1. Joris Springael Belgium € 76,200 2. Jose Garcia Poland € 43,850 3. Zimnan Ziyard UK € 25,400 4. Agris Klaise, Latvia € 20,200 5. Brahim Oubella, France € 15,600 6. Marcel Bjerkmann, Norway € 11,550 7. Stefano Locorotondo, Italy € 9,250 8. Philippe Ktorza, France € 6,950 9. Andrea Dato, Italy € 5,750 RELATED POSTS >> JENSEN WINS MADRID >> AMATEUR LEADS MARDRID >> TIMEX TAKES LEAD >> PETERSEN WINS COPENHAGEN >> KURSEVICH WINS DEAUVILLE >> KOOL SHEN WINS EFOP NEXT LIVE EVENT EPT Campione (Italy) March 26-31, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT European Poker Tour Madrid NLH 2K Side Event March 15, 2012 Casino Gran Madrid | Spain Buy-in: $2,620 | Prizepool: $332,335 Entries: 119 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION JORIS SPRINGAEL 75 JOSE GARCIA 40 ZIMNAN ZIYARD 25 AGRIS KLAISE 15 BRAHIM OUBELLA 10 MARCEL BJERKMANN 8 STEFANO LOCOROTONDO 5 PHILIPPE KTORZA 5 ANDREA DATO 5

EPT COPENHAGEN: O'DWYER TAKES CONTROL OF DAY 1 IN DENMARK

SOURCE: POKERSTARS.com

Steve O'Dwyer is looking to pickup where he left off at the end of last season as he came oh so close to capturing the 2011 PTPR Tournament Poker Player of the Year crown - finishing second at WPT Venice.

Now back on the EPT circuit, O'Dwyer is the chip leader after Day 1 play at EPT Copenhagen, presented by PokerStars.com, where O'Dwyer and 298 other players have congregated for a shot at EPT Gold!

O'Dwyer (2011 PTPR Rank: 3rd) won the Bellagio Cup and one of the Epic Poker League Pro/Am events last season. O'Dwyer will bring a 25K chip lead over his closest opponent on Day 2 Wednesday.

Another PTPR Top 10 player from last season finds himself with a top chip stack. Roberto Romanello (2011 PTPR Rank: 9th) is fifth in chips after Day 1 while Finnish legend Juha Helppi (2011 PTPR Rank: 152nd) and PTPR sensation Marcel Bjerkmann (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) also hold top stacks.

NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS (MIN. 40K CHIPS)
Steve O’Dwyer 190,975
Mads Wissing 127,575
Roberto Romanello 115,475
Juha Helppi 105,425
Marcel Bjerkmann 100,925
Kevin Iacofano 96,150
Ben Vinson 80,675
Melanie Weisner 78,900
Johnny Lodden 77,400
Vojtech Ruzicka 72,950
Anton Wigg 65,700
Mickey Petersen 57,075
Simon Ravnsbæk 56,725
Theo Jorgensen 55,450
Michael Tureniec 53,750
Sam Chartier 53,200
Martins Adeniya 47,075
Luca Pagano 44,225
Allan Baekke 41,150

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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 >> TURENIEC CONQUERS COPENHAGEN >> KURSEVICH WINS DEAUVILLE >> O'DWYER O SO CLOSE 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

WPT VENICE GP: STOP THE PRESSES! FAN FAVOURITE BJERKMANN LEADS FINAL 27

PHOTO CREDIT/SOURCE: WPT.com

Which player gets the most hits on the PTPR site? It's not even close ... although many google searches for Jonathan Duhamel get a lot of people to this site, it's Marcel Bjerkmann that takes the cake! Soon after the birth of this site, Marcel Bjerkmann went crazy and started winning events daily (ok, ok monthly) - ever since then, Bjerkmann has been "the man" on PTPRPoker.com!

Well, Marcel is back in the spotlight. Bjerkmann (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) was quiet in 2011 - after a fantastic 2010 - but he has been playing more live poker in recent months.

Bjerkmann leads the WPT Venice Grand Prix following Day 2 play at Casino di Venezia in Venice, Italy as 27 of the 155 original entrants will make their way back to the casino floor on Day 3 Wednesday.

Marko Neumann (2011 PTPR Rank: 1440th), Jason Wheeler (2011 PTPR Rank: 828th) and James Akenhead (2011 PTPR Rank: 2024th) round-out the Top 4 and will be looking to take the lead over from Bjerkmann. We'll play down to a final table on Wednesday!

TOP 27 CHIP COUNTS
Marcel Bjerkmann 436,300
Marko Neumann 384,400
Jason Wheeler 348,200
James Akenhead 336,000
Andrey Gulyy 326,000
Gianluca Trebbi 323,500
Andrea Dato 309,900
Gabriele Lepore 233,200
Jeremie Sochet 232,500
Alessandro Longobardi 221,200
Giacomo Fundaro 195,700
Rinat Bogdanov 167,600
Massimo Mosele 148,000
Erion Islamay 140,600
Gianluca Speranza 134,000
Dario De Paz 94,900
Zoltan Szabo 91,300
Andrea Carini 83,300
Simon Ravnsbaek 78,100
Guido Chiodo 75,700
Kara Scott 60,100
Giacomo Valenti 50,500
Viacheslav Goryachev 50,500
Konstantin Streletskiy 44,400
Lionel Tran 39,000
Maurizio Saieva 38,800
Carla Solinas 38,600

NOTABLE DAY 2 ELIMINATIONS
Mike Sexton, Mustapha Kanit, Melanie Weisner, Max Pescatori, Nicolas Levi, Roberto Romanello, Marvin Rettenmaier, Benjamin Pollak, Irene Baroni, Guillaume Darcourt, Dmitry Vitkind and Filippo Candio.

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WPT VENICE GRAND PRIX PAYOUTS 1st - €229,800 (Includes a WPT Bellagio seat) 2nd - €111,700 3rd - €72,275 4th - €52,565 5th - €42,705 6th - €32,195 7th - €25,625 8th - €19,055 9th - €13,795 10th - 12th €9,855 13th - 15th - €8,540 16th-18th - €7,225 RELATED POSTS >> O'DWYER O SO CLOSE >> SHALLOW WINS WPT IRELAND >> BJERKMANN DUTCH KING >> BJERKMANN WINS BELGIAN OPEN NEXT TOUR STOP WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open, Florida February 10-14, 2012

PTPR PREMIER EVENT World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix WPT Venice Grand Prix Main Event February 6-10, 2012 Casino di Venezia | Venice, Italy Buy-in: $6,555 | Prizepool: $889,338 Entries: 155 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 126 2nd position 76 3rd position 46 4th position 36 5th position 31 6-7th position 26 8-11th position 11 12-15th position 9 16-18th position 6

2012 PCA: OVER 10 MILLION ON THE LINE AT THE PCA MAIN - NEW PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT

PHOTO/SOURCE: POKERSTARSCARIBBEANADVENTURE.com

It's official, the PCA Main Event is the new kid on block - the PCA Main Event is now recognized as one of the PTPR's four majors - joining the EPT Grand Final, the WPT Tour Championship and the WSOP Main event as part of of our Grand Slam scoring events.



The PCA Main Event replaces the WSOP Poker Player's Championship - the Players will now become a PTPR Premier Event.

And the PCA knows how to do things in style - a prizepool north of 10 million dollars awaits our 10,300 participants! The PCA continues to prove why it's one of the top class events on the poker circuit.

The winning players will receive 160 PTPR Points for the victory. A total of 27 players will receive points in the event that is scheduled to reach it's completion on Friday.

Although we're still early in the event (in the middle of Day 1B at the moment), we do have a few players that have started to make a move early ...

Arnaud Mattern (2011 PTPR Rank: 340th) had a ridiculous amount of chips after only a few levels earlier today. Things have quieted down a bit for the Frenchman, but, he is still one of the top stacks.

The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi, is also trending. Mizrachi (2011 PTPR Rank: 48th) had a monster stack but, a few minuets ago, lost some chips to 2010 WSOP November Niner John Racener (2011 PTPR Rank: 281st).

Luca Pagano, Chino Rheem, Matt Jarvis and Marcel Luske also have nice Day 1B chip stacks.

As for Day 1A, Alexy Repik (2011 PTPR Rank: 2094th) was the top chip collector on Saturday. But, ladies and gents, stop the presses! We have a Marcel Bjerkmann sighting! The player who - by far - receives the most hits on www.PTPRPOKER.com is Bjerkmann (2011 PTPR Rank: NR) - and, he will be taking a healthy chip stack into Day 2.

Notable Day 1A and 1B eliminations (as of press time) include:
Matt Glantz, Isaac Haxton, Benny Spindler, Phillip Gruissem, Steve O'Dwyer, Brandon Cantu, Chris Moorman, Rupert Elder, Chris Moneymaker, Chad Brown, Tristan Wade, Justin Smith, Shaun Deeb, JohnnyBax, Dan Shak, Jason Mercier, 2011 WSOP World Champ Pius Heinz, Vanessa Russo, Daniel Negreanu, David Williams, Eugene Katchalov, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Little and 2010 WSOP World Champ Jonathan Duhamel.

EPT PCA MAIN EVENT TOP 27 PAYOUTS (in USD):
1- 2,000,000
2- 1,275,000
3- 755,000
4- 600,000
5- 468,000
6- 364,000
7- 260,000
8- 156,400
9-10- 101,000
11-12- 85,000
13-14- 70,000
15-16- 58,000
17-24- 52,000
25-27- 46,000

LIVE UPDATES: POKERSTARSBLOG.com
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PTPR GRAND SLAM EVENT
European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure
EPT PCA No Limit Holdem Main Event
January 7-13, 2011

Atlantis Resort and Casino | Bahamas
Buy-in: $10,300 | Prizepool: $10,398,400 | Entries: 1,072

PTS AT STAKE:
1st place 160
2nd place 100
3rd place 85
4th place 75
5th place 70
6th place 65
7th place 60
8th place 55
9th place 45
10th place 35
11th place 30
12-14th place 28
15-17th place 25
18-20th place 22
21-23rd place 18
24-27th place 15

BELGIAN GATHY WINS BPS GRAND FINAL

PHOTO/SOURCE: BELGIANPOKERSERIES.com

Michael Gathy has won one for his country! The Belgium man wrapped up the Belgian Poker Series Grand Final Championship on Sunday. Almost 600 players registered for the No Limit Holdem Grand Final.

2010 Grand Final winner Marcel Bjerkmann finished 24th in this year's event. Bjermann, who was selected as the PTPR's Future Watch/Next Big Thing at the end of 2010, has not had the type of year that many expected - after a sizzling end to 2010, this is the first time that Bjerkmann cashed live in 2011.

BPS GRAND FINAL FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS (IN EURO):
1- GATHY Michaël € 175,000
2- JUNKAR Pascal € 105,000
3- BUZZO Stéphane € 63,250
4- D'ALESSIO Ferdinando € 46,502
5- CAMARDES Rolando € 35,500
6- ELHAMDI Mohamed € 27,500
7- BRISMEE Olivier € 20,500
8- VANSEER Carlo € 14,500
9- YILDIZ Diren € 10,300

PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Belgian Poker Series Grand Final
BPS NLH Grand Final
December 10-18, 2011

Casino de Namur | Belgium
Buy-in: $2,210 | Prizepool: $1,050,550 | Entries: 538

FINAL RESULTS:
MICHAEL GATHY 105
PASCAL JUNKAR 65
STEPHANE BUZZO 40
FERDINANDO D'ALESSIO 30
ROLANDO CAMARDES 23
MOHAMED ELHAMDI 15
OLIVIER BRISMEE 13
CARLO VANSEER 10
DIREN YILDIZ 10

PTPR PLAYER PROFILE: MARCEL BJERKMANN

PHOTO CREDIT: CIRCUSPOKER.be

PTPR Player Profile on Marcel Bjerkmann.

PLAYER CARD
Name: Marcel Bjerkmann
Location: Norway

2010 PTPR Ranking: 17th
2010 PTPR Points: 248
2010 PTPR Scores: 3

Lifetime Tournament Winnings: $960,607


2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT SCORES (3)
EPT London NLH 1.5K Buy-In Event (PTPR Prelim Event)
October 2nd, 2010
Placed 2nd, 95K
40 PTPR Points

BELGIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP MAIN EVENT (PTPR Tier 3 Event)
October 9-17, 2010
Won the event, 286K
106 PTPR Points

MASTER CLASSICS OF POKER NLH MAIN EVENT (PTPR Tier 3 Event)
November 9-12, 2010
Won the event, 578k
102 PTPR Poitns


HIGHLIGHTS

- Accumulated almost 1M in tournament winnings in a 5-week stretch (Oct-Nov 2010)

- Was named PTPR Tournament Player of the Month for October 2010

- Was selected as 2010 PTPR Future Watch/The Next Big Thing award winner (shared selection)

REMEBERING DECEMBER: ROMANELLO PLAYER OF THE MONTH, ESFANDIARI, BELL RIGHT BEHIND

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERSTARSBLOG.com


As expected, December was a slow month for tournaments, only 20 tournaments qualified for PTPR Points in the month. Here is a quick look back at the month of December on the poker circuit ...


20 TOTAL TOURNAMENTS QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS
Grand Slams - 0
Premier - 3
Tier 3 - 3
Prelim - 4
Challenger - 10


DECEMBER TOP 10

Player of the month - December:
Roberto Romanello (pictured) 130 PTPR Points, 1 PTPR Score

Rest of the Top 10
ROMANELLO ROBERTO 130
ESFANDIARI ANTONIO 129
BELL CHRIS 126
KARAMALIKIS JONATHAN 102
BRUNNER MARKUS 101
FREEDMAN ALEXANDER 100
WAXMAN MATTHEW 86
BONO EMILIANO 80
ROBL ANDREW 79
KLODNICKI CHRIS 76

161 different players scored PTPR Points in December. Only Matthew Waxman and Andy Frankenberger score twice this month.


Q4 REPORT - TOP 10

Marcel Bjerkmann closes out 2010 as the Player of the 4th and final quarter of the season(Oct-Dec)

BJERKMANN MARCEL 248
YOUNG JUSTIN 160
CHEONG JOSEPH 140
TEHAN JOE 132
LUNDMARK KENT 132
ROMANELLO ROBERTO 130
EILER MICHAEL 130
ESFANDIARI ANTONIO 129
FLOWERS RANDAL 128
FORREST JEFF 127


Bjerkamnn, John Eames, Andrew Frankenberger and PTPR Tournament Player of the Year for 2010, Sorel Mizzi, have each scored three times this quarter.

32 different players have scored twice in Q4.

SOREL MIZZI WINS PTPR POY, GRINDER, SELSBT, BJERKMANN AMONGST OTHER WINNERS

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com


We close 2010 by handing out our awards for the past poker season.


2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT POKER PLAYER OF THE YEAR
SOREL MIZZI, 371 PTPR POINTS, 10 PTPR SCORES, 1st OVERALL

It was one crazy race for Tournament Player of the Year. Mizzi led for most of 2010 but Frank Kassela and Thomas Marchese both held the lead for a bit as well.

Everything went screwy on Haloween night when both points leaders, Mizzi and Marchese, were running deep at WPT Foxwoods - then we knew we had a race that would go right to the end ... and add to that Chris Bell's big score late in the season and it's a minor miracle that Mizzi was able to survive and win the title.


2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT COMEBACK PLAYER
MICHAEL MIZRACHI, 283 PTPR POINTS, 5 PTPR SCORES, 9th OVERALL

After a quiet (by his standards) 2009, The Grinder had one hell of a rough start to 2010. But Mizrachi took the WSOP by storm this season - making one of the most impressive comebacks to poker ever. Tip of the hat to Carlos Mortensen, who's 7th overall finish was only a great way to make sure that people haven't forgotten about El Matador!


2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
THOMAS MARCHESE, 361 PTPR POINTS, 9 PTPR SCORES, 3rd OVERALL

Wow, Thomas Marchese earned his first EVER live cash in February at Borgata. 11 months later, Marchese was Card Player Player of the year and finished third overall on our PTPR Charts - quite a year for the young rookie.



2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT BREAKTHROUGH PLAYER OF THE YEAR
VANESSA SELBST, 299 PTPR POINTS, 4 PTPR SCORES, 6th OVERALL

While the world was a buzz for the conclusion of the WSOP November Nine, Vanessa Selbst was dominating the final table at Europe's own version of the November Nine - the Partouche Tour Grande Finale in Cannes. And we're not kidding, Selbst was a beast at Cannes, destroying her competitors one by one.

Not a bad year for the "part-time" tournament player. If Selbst would have played more at the start of the 2010 season, is there any doubt that she would have contended for the PTPR's #1 overall spot? Not in our books.



2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT FUTURE WATCH/THE NEXT BIG THING
(TIE) DWYTE PILGRIM, 245 PTPR POINTS, 6 PTPR SCORES, 18th OVERALL
(TIE) MARCEL BJERKMANN, 248 PTPR POINTS, 3 PTPR SCORES, 17th OVERALL

Dwyte Pilgrim, the first ever King of the Minor Leagues, could become a Top 5 player in 2011 if he continues climbing the poker ranks the way he has in 2010. Pilgrim had been dominating the WSOP Circuit events (before the new WSOPC came into place) when he won a WPT tour event later in the 2010 season. Look out for Pilgrim in 2011.

Marcel Bjerkmann is one heck of an interesting man. Here's a fact - when Bjerkmann is mentioned anywhere on this blog, Scandanavians light up our stats! Bjerkmann is by far the most popular player on this site ... and his winning two big European events (the Belgian Open and the Masters Classic in Holland), Bjerkmann is one EPT Main Event win away from becoming a household name around the world.



2010 PTPR TOURNAMENT OF THE YEAR
WPT TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP - FIVE STAR POKER CLASSIC
BELLAGIO HOTEL CASINO
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, USA
APRIL 18-24, 2010

David Williams enjoyed his first major cash in a while, and, the other players in the Final 18 made this one of the toughest final fields of the season.

Williams beat Eric "Basebaldy" Baldwin heads up. Shawn Buchanan, Phil Hellmuth, JJ Liu, Scotty Nguyen, Olivier Busquet, David Benyamine, Faraz Jaka, JohnnyBax, Billy Baxter, Matt Stout, Tony Cousineau, Jason Lester, Josh Arieh were all players involved in the Top 18 - incredible field and amazing tournament!



MOST PTPR TOURNAMENT SCORES FOR 2010
SOREL MIZZI, 10 PTPR SCORES

Most PTPR Points and most PTPR Scores, enough said, this certainly was Mizzi's year.



Congratulaions to Sorel and the rest of the award winners from the 2010 season - here's hoping 2011 is even better!




Eric

REMEMBERING NOVEMBER : TEHAN, LUNDMARK PTPR PLAYERS OF THE MONTH

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERSTARSBLOG.com


33 tournaments qualified for PTPR Points in November! Here is a quick look back at the month of November on the poker circuit ...


33 TOTAL TOURNAMENTS QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS
Grand Slams - 0
Premier - 2
Tier 3 - 8
Prelim - 2
Challenger - 21


NOVEMBER TOP 10

Player(s) of the month:
Joe Tehan, Kent Lundmark (pictured) each with 132 PTPR Points

Rest of the Top 10
EL SAYED SAM 105
PLACE ERIC 105
POLCHPOLEK MICHAL 103
BJERKMANN MARCEL 102
HASSE JULIAN 102
PETERS DAVID 100
BALDWIN ERIC "BASEBALDY" 100
GAMAITONI EDWARD 100

231 different players scored PTPR Points in November. Not a single played score twice in the month.


Q4 REPORT - TOP 10

Marcel Bjerkmann has continued his impressive run to close out 2010 - a whopping 247 PTPR Points have been accumulated in the quarter (since September 1st)

BJERKMANN MARCEL 248
SELBST VANESSA 157
PILGRIM DWYTE 135
VAMPLEW DAVID 133
TEHAN JOE 132
LUNDMARK KENT 132
EILER MICHAEL 130
PETERS DAVID 128
BORD JAMES 128
FLOWERS RANDAL 128


Bjerkamnn, David Peters, John Eames, Andrew Pantling and PTPR Top Ranked Player for 2010, Thomas Marchese, have each scored three times this quarter.

42 different players have scored twice in Q4, some of the names included: Selbst, Laak, Basebaldy, Annette, Lewis, Negreanu, Parker, Mizzi, Mercier, Madsen, Molson and Corkins.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: MARCEL BJERKMANN - DUTCH KING

PHOTO CREDIT: CIRCUSPOKER.be


It took a while for the final results to be made official but, one thing's for sure - Marcel Bjerkmann is the King of Europe. Two major European poker titles in a month. After winning the Belgium Poker Open last month, Bjerkmann scores again by winning the Master Classics of Amsterdam.

The win gives Bjerkmann 102 PTPR Points. He now has a total of 248 PTPR Points this season. He jumps from 79th to 16th with the win, Marcel now sits a few points outside the PTPR Top 15 for the season. He's making a late run for sure!



PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
2010 Master Classics
No Limit Hold'em Main Event
November 9-12, 2010

Holland Casino
Amsterdam, Holland

Buy-in: $8,097
Prizepool: $2,000,662
Entries: 249


FINAL RESULTS
BJERKMANN MARCEL 102
HAAVISTO VILLE 62
NGUYEN KHIEM 37
KHAZARADZE I 27
RENKERS P 20
NORDIN PETER 12
VANDERSMISSEN KEVIN 10
EDBERG KRISTOFFER 7
VAN RIETSCHOTEN J 7

BJERKMANN WINS BELGIAN POKER OPEN

PHOTO CREDIT: CIRCUSPOKER.be


Marcel Bjerkmann has bested over 600 players to win the Belgian Poker Open Championship. This was Bjerkmann's second PTPR score of the season. He now sits T70 on the PTPR Player of the Year list with 146 points.

Two other notables at the final table: Nicolas Cardyn finished second for his second score of the year (T104, 129pts) and young Euro sensation Paul Berenda scored for the 5th time this season (T134, 115pts).


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Belgian Open Poker Championship
NLH Main Event
October 9-17, 2010

Casino de Namur
Namur, Belgium

Buy-in: $2,092
Prizepool: $1,184,279
Entries: 609

Defending Champion: Antonio Guida

2010 FINAL RESULTS
BJERKMANN MARCEL 106
CARDYN NICOLAS 66
BRAM STAES 41
BERENDE PAUL 31
T'SYEN JONAS 24
SERVAIS MARTIN 16
BAILLY JACQUES 14
MEULYZER PHILIP 11
MURGIA MANU 11