FPS SNOWFEST: POKER PRODIGY? 18-YEAR OLD PAVLIKOVA WINS EVIAN SNOWFEST

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We may have found our next poker prodigy! This one hails from the Czech Republic and she has just won the France Poker Series Snowfest Evian Main Event in the French Alpes.

Veronika Pavlikova (2012 PTPR Rank: 137th) sure picked a good time to make her first big live tournament presence. She ran through the competition once final table play started and plans playing more France Poker Series events in the future. For now, she will return to playing online.

French pro Guillaume Darcourt (2012 PTPR Rank: 514th) managed to finish fourth in the event and picks up his first PTPR Points of the season. Darcourt won WPT Bucharest in 2010 and finished 35th at the 2011 WSOP Main Event.

Belgian pro Matthias De Meulder (2012 PTPR Rank: 47th) was ninth in the event. De Meulder won a prelim event at EPT Deauville last month.

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TOP 10 PAYOUTS (EURO) 1- Veronika Pavlikova 70.000€ 2- Ludovic Marguerat 45.500€ 3- Serge Didisheim 27.500€ 4- Guillaume Darcourt 21.160€ 5- Gregory Raffelli 16.000€ 6- Damien Denis 12.000€ 7-Gilles Mellet 8500€ 8- Morgan Franz 6000€ 9- Matthias De Meulder 4200€ 10- Thibaud Guenegou 4200€ RELATED POSTS >> DARCOURT, DE MEULDER CONTEND >> DE MEULDER WINS DE TURBO EVENT COVERAGE >> POKER52.fr (FRENCH)

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT France Poker Series Evian Snowfest FPS Evian Snowfest NLH Main Event March 22-25, 2012 Quai Baron de Blonay | France Buy-in: $1,460 | Prizepool: $376,910 Entries: 296 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION VERONIKA PAVLIKOVA 35 LUDOVIC MARGUERAT 18 SERGE DIDISHEIM 10 GUILLAUME DARCOUT 8 GREGORY RAFFALLI 5 NEXT LIVE EVENT FPS Amneville Casino d'Amneville May 10-13, 2012

FRANCE POKER SERIES SNOWFEST EVIAN LIVE COVERAGE

You can watch live final day coverage of the France Poker Series Snowfest Evian Main Event on PokerStarsLive.fr or by clicking on the link below ... NOTE: Coverage is in French, the video coverage is A+ with plenty of cameras on site.

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>> POKERSTARS LIVE COVERAGE (French)

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TOP 13 PAYOUTS (EURO) 1st 70,000 2nd 43,500 3rd 27,500 4th 21,160 5th 16,000 6th 12,000 7th 8,500 8th 6,000 9-10th 4,200 11-12th 3,350 13th 2,750 RELATED POSTS >> DARCOURT, DE MEULDER IN CONTENTION AT EVIAN >> DE MEULDER WINS DE TURBO

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT France Poker Series Evian Snowfest FPS Evian Snowfest NLH Main Event March 22-25, 2012 Quai Baron de Blonay | France Buy-in: $1,460 | Prizepool: $376,910 Entries: 296 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 35 2nd position 18 3rd position 10 4th position 8 5th position 5 NEXT LIVE EVENT FPS Amneville Casino d'Amneville May 10-13, 2012

FPS EVIAN: DARCOURT, DE MEULDER IN CONTENTION AT EVIAN SNOWFEST

The France Poker Series has made it's way to the French Alpes for the series' inaugural FPS Evian Snowfest!

We have reached final day play in Evian and two name players are in the hunt, sitting in the middle of the final 13 pack as we will resume Sunday.

WSOP standout Guillaume Darcourt (2012 PTPR Rank: NR) and EPT Deauville side event winner Matthias De Meulder (2012 PTPR Rank: 47th) are both a double-up away from taking control of Snowfest - it should make for an interesting Sunday in the French Alpes.

Gilles Mellet has the chip lead while Thibaud Guenegou - who finished third at WPT Amneville last season - sits 10th in chips.

FINAL DAY CHIP COUNTS
Gilles Mellet 1,02M
Morgane Franz 1,011M
Ludovic Marguerat 837k
Vincent Rey 690k
Gregory Raffalli 628k
Guillaume Darcourt 577k
Matthias De Meulder 542k
Veronika Pavlikova 530k
Serge Didisheim 424k
Thibaud Guenegou 422k
Damien Denis 379k
Amine Chadli 154k
Marilena D’Amico 12k

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TOP 13 PAYOUTS (EURO) 1st 70,000 2nd 43,500 3rd 27,500 4th 21,160 5th 16,000 6th 12,000 7th 8,500 8th 6,000 9-10th 4,200 11-12th 3,350 13th 2,750 RELATED POSTS >> DE MEULDER WINS DE TURBO EVENT COVERAGE >> POKER52.fr (FRENCH)

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT France Poker Series Evian Snowfest FPS Evian Snowfest NLH Main Event March 22-25, 2012 Quai Baron de Blonay | France Buy-in: $1,460 | Prizepool: $376,910 Entries: 296 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION 1st position 35 2nd position 18 3rd position 10 4th position 8 5th position 5 NEXT LIVE EVENT FPS Amneville Casino d'Amneville May 10-13, 2012

EPT DEAUVILLE: DE MEULDER WINS DE TURBO

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Matthias de Meulder wins the 1.5K NLH Turbo Event at the PokerStars.fr EPT Deauville.

de Meulder (2011 PTPR Rank: 1483rd) had a deep run at EPT Barcelona last season. de Meulder defeated 377 other participants to win the second event of his live tournament poker career - he first won in 2009; winning the Main Event at the Mini WSOP in Ireland that November.

Canada's Samuel Chartier finished sixth in the event. Chartier (2011 PTPR Rank: 106th) already had a bunch of points at this point last season, he had won the PLO 8-Max Championship at the PCA a month earlier. See Chartier in next post as he posted another score at Deauville.

Christian Tardea (2011 PTPR Rank: 1843rd), Yury Gulyy (2011 PTPR Rank: 2703rd) and Viacheslav Igin (2011 PTPR Rank: 346th) also collected points in the event.

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FINAL NINE PAYOUTS (in EURO) Matthias de Meulder, Belgium € 136,000 Michel Kirchner, France € 73,000 Dimitry Shchepkin, Russia € 45,700 Christian Tardea, Romania € 36,500 Craig McCorkell, UK € 28,850 Samuel Chartier, Canada € 23,400 Salvatore Crapanzano, Belgium € 17,950 Yury Gulyy, Russia € 12,500 Viacheslav Igin, Russia € 9,800 RELATED POSTS >> KURSEVICH WINS MAIN EVENT >> DUHAMEL BACK AT IT NEXT TOUR STOP EPT Copenhagen February 20-25, 2012

PTPR SIDE EVENT European Poker Tour Deauville Pokerstars.fr EPT Deauville NLH 1.5K Turbo February 2-3, 2012 Casino Barriere | France Buy-in: $2,185 | Prizepool: $721,115 Entries: 378 PTPR POINTS DISTRIBUTION MATTHIAS DE MEULDER 75 MICHAEL KIRCHNER 40 DIMITRY SHCHEPKIN 25 CHRISTIAN TARDEA 15 CRAIG MCCORKELL 10 SAMUEL CHARTIER 8 SALVATORE CRAPAZANO 5 YURY GULYY 5 VIACHESLAV IGIN 5