EPT BARCELONA CHAMP SCHLEICH AUGUST PLAYER OF THE MONTH

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EPT Barcelona Main Event Champion Martin Schleich tops the charts for August and is the PTPR Player of the Month.

Schleich collected 133 PTPR Points in Barcelona, good enough to pickup POM honours, finishing a single point ahead of second place Will "The Thrill" Failla - Failla won the WPT Legends of Poker just a day prior to Schleich's EPT victory.

Steve O'Dwyer leads a group of four players with multiple PTPR Scores this month. O'Dwyer scored 35 PTPR Points in his Epic Poker League Pro-Am victory early in August ... and recently added 18 PTPR Points in his EPT Bracelona Prelim score - in the 10K NLH w/Single Rebuy event.


27 TOTAL TOURNAMENTS QUALIFIED FOR PTPR POINTS
Grand Slams - 0
Premier - 3
Tier 3 - 1
Prelim - 3
Challenger - 20


AUGUST TOP 10

August Player of the Month:
Martin Schleich, 133 PTPR Points, 1 PTPR Score

> EPT Barcelona (Champion) - 133 PTPR Points

133- MARTIN SCHLEICH
132- WILL "THE THRILL" FAILLA
127- RONNIE KAISER
100- PHILIPP GRUISSEM
83- DRAGAN KOSTIC
82- KEN ALDRIDGE
77- GRZEGORZ CICHOCKI
75- GOVERT METAAL
75- FRANCOIS FREJDLES
75- ALEXANDER VASERFIRER

A total of 184 different players scored PTPR Points in August. Only four different players earned two PTPR Scores during the month:.

2- SAMI KELOPURO
2- STEVE O'DWYER
2- NICOLAS YUNIS
2- KONSTANTIN TOLOKNO


AT THIS POINT LAST SEASON

At this point in August 2010, Frank Kassela was our PTPR Player of the Year leader ... here is how the Top 5 looked like in August of 2010:

316- FRANK KASSELA
312- SOREL MIZZI
292- CARLOS MORTENSEN
278- MICHAEL MIZRACHI "THE GRINDER"
269- TOMER BERDA


Finally, here is a look at the Top 10 countries who visited the PTPR site in August:
1. USA, 2. Canada, 3. Germany, 4. UK, 5. France, 6. Netherlands, 7. Russia, 8. Brazil, 9. Ukraine, 10. Australia

Thank you to all for your continued support!
Eric

EPT BARCELONA: DESPITE THIRD PLACE FINISH, KATCHALOV NOW #1 ON PTPR CHARTS

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Wow. What a thrilling final table! EPT Barcelona concluded it's Main Event less than an hour ago ... that's right, in the wee hours of the morning. Despite starting play earlier in the afternoon, we could not find a winner early. Once we got to three-handed play, Eugene Katchalov, Dragan Kostic and Martin Schleich were involved in a battle for the ages.

For hours, they traded chips, the chip lead changed on many different occasions, chip stacks went up and down and were traded between the three ... until Eugene Katchalov lost a sizeable amount of chips and, then needed to gamble - and lost - finishing third in the event.

The win goes to German Martin Schleich, who picks up €850,000 in the process. He defeats Dragan Kostic heads up. It was a tough challenge for both players, especially when three-handed play began and they had to face the much more experienced Katchalov.

Now although Katchalov is more than likely disappointed with his third place finish - and the fact that he was not able to become the fifth player to win the Poker Triple Crown - it's not all bad for him. With the 53 PTPR Points accumulated, Katchalov takes over from Ben Lamb as the #1 Ranked Player on the 2011 PTPR Tournament Poker Player of the Year Leaderboard. Katchalov also stands a chance at being ranked #1 on the Global Poker Index, once it releases it's next rankings.

Katchalov picked up his sixth PTPR Score of the season at this event. For 12th place finisher Massimilano Martinez, this was his third PTPR Score of the year, Miikka Anttonen earns his second.

Other notables picking up PTPR Points in the event include: Tomeu Gomila, Saar Wilf, Martin Czuczor, Evgeny Zaystev and Sigurd Eskerlund.

Onto EPT London, which starts later this month.

EPT BARCELONA FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS:
1. Martin Schleich, €850,000
2. Dragan Kostic, €532,000
3. Eugene Katchalov, €315,000
4. Raul Mestre, €244,000
5. Tomeu Gomila, €185,000
6. Saar Wilf, €145,000
7. Juan Manuel Perez, €105,000
8. Isabel Baltazar, €73,000

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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
European Poker Tour Barcelona
EPT Barcelona NLH Main Event
August 27-September 1, 2011

Casino Barcelona | Spain
Buy-in: $7,635 | Prizepool : $5,843,660 | Entries: 811

PTS AT STAKE:
MARTIN SCHLEICH 133
DRAGAN KOSTIC 83
EUGENE KATCHALOV 53
RAUL MESTRE 43
TOMEU GOMILA 38
SAAR WILF 33
JUAN MANUEL PEREZ 33
ISABEL BALTAZAR 18
JOSE MIGUEL ESTEBAN 18
MATTHIAS de MEULDER 18
MARTON CZUCZOR 18
MASSIMILANO MARTINEZ 16
MARCOS FERNANDEZ 16
JAVIER CONTRERAS 16
EVGENY ZAYTSEV 16
MIIKKA ANTTONEN 13
TOME MOREIRA 13
SIGURD ESKELUND 13