WPT JAX: RUBERTO, COELHO LEAD THE CHARGE IN JACKSONVILLE

PHOTO/SOURCE: WPT.com

The WPT Final Table is set at the Orange Park Kennel Club as WPT Jacksonville will come to an end today, starting at Noon local time.

Anthony Ruberto is in control of his own destiny, carrying 4.5M chips to the final table. Ruberto - who has scores in the WSOP (Event 26 NLH 6-max) and a Borgata Open prelim - will hope that this experience will suffice in helping him capture his first WPT title.

Not that far behind Ruberto is a man who had the chip for most of the evening at the Kennel Club, Vitor Coelho. Coelho earned a PTPR Score at the begining of the season - scoring in the WPT Southern Poker Championship back in January.

Lisa Hamilton sits third in chips but she does bring tons of tournament experience with her to the final table. The 2009 WSOP Ladies Champion and the 2010 PCA High Rollers Final Table participants will hope that 2011 is the Year of the Woman on the WPT circuit!

Darryll Fish was favoured by many to take this one down but the reigning WPT Regional Summer Splash Champ (held at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FLA back in August) will need all of Florida to get behind him in order for him to make a triumphant comeback - he is the short stack at the table.

FINAL TABLE SEATING ASSIGNMENTS/CHIP COUNTS:
Seat 1: Darryll Fish - 641,000
Seat 2: Anthony Roberto - 4,500,000
Seat 3: Sam Soverel - 1,432,000
Seat 4: Vitor Coelho - 2,570,000
Seat 5: Artie Rodriguez - 797,000
Seat 6: Lisa Hamilton - 1,901,000

WPT JACKSONVILLE FINAL TABLE PAYOUTS:
1st: $325,928
2nd: $187,762
3rd: $112,657
4th: $75,105
5th: $55,077
6th: $46,315

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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Jacksonville
WPT Fall Series Jacksonville NLH Championship
November 18-22, 2011

Orange Park Kennel Club | Florida
Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $1,277,250 | Entries: 393

PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 128
2nd position 78
3rd position 48
4th position 38
5th position 33
6th position 28
MATT EZROL 28
ALEXANDER VENOVSKI 13
MICHAEL MESSICK 13
CHRIS TRYBA 13
CONNOR DRINAN 13
DOUG RANEY 11
JOHN LIU 11
BARRY WIEDEMANN 11
MICAH RASKIN 11
DWYTE PILGRIM 8
BENJAMIN ZAMANI 8
ALLIE PRESCOTT 8

PTS AT STAKE: WE'RE OFF TO THE RACES IN JACKSONVILLE

PHOTO/SOURCE: WPT.com

Tommy Vedes and Matthew Jarvis are our lead dogs at the Orange Park Kennel Club in Jacksonville, Florida where the WPT has set sail for it's latest tour stop.

A total of 393 players entered the event, Jarvis was the talk of Day 1A while Vedes dominated Day 1B play - Vedes is the only player starting Day 2 Sunday with over 200k in chips.

There are a bunch of big names with chips - Deeb, Pham, Fish, Jaffee, Racener, Glantz and Schulman to name a few - it will be fun to see who trends upwards on Sunday.

NOTABLE CHIP COUNTS:
Tommy Vedes 209,200
Matthew Jarvis 190,300
Shaun Deeb 174,900
David Pham 165,600
Nicholas Grippo 149,600
Darryl Fish 135,400
Jared Jaffee 134,600
John Racener 101,400
Matthew Glantz 101,300
Nick Schulman 96,900
Daniel Buzgon 95,500
Dwyte Pilgrim 95,400
Abbey Daniels 95,100
Chris Klodnicki 91,100
Maciek Gracz 72,500
James Van Alstyne 71,300
Annand Ramdin 70,200
Michael Beasley 70,000
Tyler Smith 67,500
Corey Burbick 61,800
Jeffrey Forrest 54,000
Tony Dunst 52,700
Chris Tryba 48,700
Jonathan 36,900
Carter King 33,500
Ken Aldridge 33,100
Seneca Easley 28,000
Lisa Hamilton 23,400
Allie Prescott 19,200

WPT JACKSONVILLE PAYOUTS:
1st: $325,928
2nd: $187,762
3rd: $112,657
4th: $75,105
5th: $55,077
6th: $46,315
7th: $40,056
8th: $33,797
9th: $28,790
10th: $25,035
11th - 13th: $21,280
14th - 16th: $17,524
17th - 20th: $13,769
21st - 30th: $10,014
31st - 40th: $7,510

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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
World Poker Tour Jacksonville
WPT Fall Series Jacksonville NLH Championship
November 18-22, 2011

Orange Park Kennel Club | Florida
Buy-in: $3,500 | Prizepool: $1,277,250 | Entries: 393

PTS AT STAKE:
1st position 128
2nd position 78
3rd position 48
4th position 38
5th position 33
6-7th position 28
8-11th position 13
12-15th position 11
16-18th position 8

CHRIS CONRAD PICKS UP WIN AT JACKSONVILLE'S WPT REGIONAL

SOURCE: JAXPOKERROOM.com

Northern Florida hosted it's biggest poker event yet over the past few weeks as the 2011 Jacksonville Summer Series was played. The Main Event was a World Poker Tour Regional event and was certainly a huge success.

Chris Conrad wins the WPT Regional, collecting over 140K in the process - quite a nice pay-day. 461 players participated in the four-day event.


TOP 10 PAYOUTS:
1 Chris Conrad $143,145
2 Ray Leone Sr. $90,245
3 Ben Mintz $52,904
4 Michael Naserazad
5 John McDonald $24,899
6 James "Ping Pang" Kerr
7 Robert Mims $18,670
8 Nabil "Doc" Hirezi $16,181
9 Fred Akel $13,691
10 Ara Melikian $11,202


PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Jacksonville Summer Series
WPT Regional NLH Main Event
August 13-16, 2011

Orange Park Kennel Club | Florida
Buy-in: $1,500 | Prizepool : $622,350 | Entries: 461

FINAL RESULTS:
CHRIS CONRAD 35
RAY LEONE SR. 18
BEN MINTZ 10
MICHAEL NASERAZAD 8
JOHN MCDONALD 5

PTPR RECAP: CHAD BROWN RUNNER-UP AT CHAD BROWN TOURNAMENT!

PHOTO CREDIT: POKERNEWS.com

Chad Brown finished second at Chad Brown's tournament! That's right, you read correctly, Chad Brown was almost crowned champion of his own event!

In the end, Corey Burbick's hand was raised in victory at the Chad Brown Championship in Orange Park, Florida.

Shaun Deeb is the first player to earn three PTPR Scores this season, Deeb's points total is now over 100. Dermot Blair and John O'Shea also scored in the event.


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Chad Brown Poker Championship
No Limit Hold'em Champinoship Event
January 28-1, 2011

Orange Park Kennel Club
Orange Park, Florida, USA

Buy-in: $5,000
Prizepool: $324,100
Entries: 70

FINAL RESULTS
BURBICK COREY 100
BROWN CHAD 60
SLATTERY JAMES 35
BLAIN DERMOT 25
DEEB SHAUN 18
O'SHEA JOHN 10
BERGERON DENIS 8
WINTER SEAN 5
ULREY ROBBIN 5