PTPR POKER ROUND-UP: CLOSING APPT MACAU, PUNTA CANA CLASSIC

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Let us make our way to Macau and to Punta Cana in this edition of the Round-Up!

APPT MACAU SIDE EVENT
We're all done at APPT Macau and while Randy Lew stole the show, there was a 15K HKD NLH side event that was also up for PTPR Points.

Seijiro Machi picked up the win in the side event.


TOP 10 PAYOUTS:
1- Seijiro Machi $ HKD530,100
2- Calvin Ho $ HKD357,000
3- Zhongwei Wang $ HKD227,200
4- Yu Kurita $ HKD183,900
5- Xin You $ HKD146,100
6- Kornelis van Alphen $ HKD119,000
7- Chin Te Chiu $ HKD974,000
8- Damien Kerneis $ HKD75,700
9- Nicky Tao Jin $ HKD64,900
10- Anestis Pantazidis $ HKD54,140

PUNTA CANA POKER CLASSIC
The Dominican Republic hosted the Punta Cana Poker Classic mid-month. Demo Kiriopoulos was the big winner in DR - defeating Evan Mauer heads up and picking up over 130K in the process.

Fifth place finisher Engleberth Varela earned his second PTPR Score of the year - he finished third at the LAPT Punta del Este in Uruguay back in August.


PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau
NLH Side Event
November 25-26, 2011

Grand Lisboa Casino | Macau
Buy-in: $1,930 | Prizepool: $391,350 | Entries: 160

FINAL RESULTS:
SEIJIRO MACHI 35
CALVIN HO 18
ZHONGWEI WANG 10
YU KARITA 8
XIN YOU 5

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Punta Cana Poker Classic
NLH Main Event
November 12-13, 2011

Hard Rock Hotel Casino | Dominican Republic
Buy-in: $1,500 | Prizepool: $622,500 | Entries: 415

FINAL RESULTS:
DEMO KIRIOPOULOS 35
EVAN MAUER 18
GREG BASTIN 10
CARLOS SOBENES 8
ENGLEBERTH VARELA 5

DONNINI WINS IPT CAMPIONE - PLUS CLEMENTS' VENETIAN VICTORY

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Danilo Donnini is the latest IPT Main Event winner at the second Campione tour stop of the season. He joins an impressive list of winners on the Italian Poker Tour in 2011 - Mustapha Kanit, Luca Pagano and Oleksii Kovalchuk have all captured IPT titles this season.


Donnini defeated Mikica Mitrovic heads up. This is Donnini's second PTPR Score of 2011 - he captured third place at a IPT Campione side event back in January...

PTPR LEADERBOARD LIVE LOOK-IN
157. David "Doc" Sands, 115 PTPR Points
158. Szabolcs Mayer, 115
158. Connor Drinan, 115
160. Mike Shklover, 114
160. Danilo Donnini, 114
162. Scott Baumstein, 113
163. Max Weinberg, 113
164. Gary Friedlander, 113
165. Bronson Tucker, 113
166. Hafiz Khan, 112

Ninth place finisher Georgios Kapalas picked up his third PTPR Score of 2011 ... Alessandro Fasolis and Andrea Dato each earned their second scores of the year.

IPT CAMPIONE TOP 9 PAYOUTS (in CHF):
1 Donnini Danilo ITALY CHF 272.000,00
2 Mikica Mitrovic SERBIA CHF 181.000,00
3 Rosa Giacomo ITALY CHF 102.000,00
4 Fasolis Alessandro ITALY CHF 68.000,00
5 Dato Andrea ITALY CHF 56.800,00
6 Scremin Tania ITALY CHF 45.500,00
7 Semen Apokorin RUSSIA CHF 34.022,00
8 Mazzitelli Gaetano ITALIA CHF 22.700,00
9 Kapalas Georgios HELLAS CHF 17.000,00


VENETIAN DEEP STACK MAIN EVENT
Meanwhile, results from the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza Main Event were finally revealed. We all knew that Scott Clements had won the event, picking up his fourth PTPR Score of the year - but we didn't have all of the necessary details in order to officially award PTPR Points - until. Congrats to Ryan Welch who picks up his third Score of 2011.

VENETIAN DEEP STACK MAIN EVENT TOP 9 PAYOUTS (in USD):
1 Scott Clements $145,775
2 Zachary Fahmie $89,892
3 Ryan Welch $60,738
4 Larry Wright $43,124
5 Jeffrey Finkelstein $33,406
6 William Holt $27,332
7 Daniel Collinge $22,777
8 Michael McTernan $19,132
9 Kevin Calenzo $15,792


PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Italian Poker Tour Campione
IPT Campione NLH Main Event
November 24-28, 2011

Casino Municipale di Campione | Italy
Buy-in: $2,925 | Prizepool: $1,136,125 | Entries: 482

FINAL RESULTS:
DANILO DONNINI 104
MIKICA MITROVIC 64
GIACOMO ROSA 39
ALESSANDRO FASOLIS 29
ANDREA DATO 22
TANIA SCREMIN 14
SEMEN APOKORIN 12
GAETANO MAZZITELLI 9
GEORGIOS KAPALAS 9

PTPR CHALLENGER EVENT
Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza IV
NLH Main Event
November 20-22, 2011

Venetian Casino Resort | Indiana
Buy-in: $2,500 | Prizepool: $607,380 | Entries: 265

FINAL RESULTS:
SCOTT CLEMENTS 35
ZACHARY FAHMIE 18
RYAN WELCH 10
LARRY WRIGHT 8
JEFFREY FINKELSTEIN 5

WPT MARRAKECH: ALL-MOROCCAN AFFAIR AT WPT MARREKECH

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It wasn't the finish that most of the world was hoping for ... but, it was certainly the finish that all of Morocco was eagerly anticipating.

ElkY, Duhamel, Mattern - it had the making for a WPT Final Table for the ages! But, ElkY and Duhamel were out early and Mattern was gone during Final Four play.

We were down to three. Mohamed Ali Houssam and Toufik Ourini - both from Morocco - and Maksim Martinov - who was cast in the role of spoiler - at least, that's what he was hoping for.

But in a crazy hand that had Martinov as the overwhelming favorite over Ourini, Ourini was able to hit runner-runner, to confiscate Martinov's two-pair - and the crowd, Ourini and countryman Houssam erupted in celebration - Morocco has their two native sons battling it out heads up.

In the end, Mohamed Ali Houssam took down WPT Marrakech.

ElkY had a chance at second and third place on the 2011 PTPR Leaderboard but alas, he'll remain third overall. As for Duhamel, he does earn his fifth PTPR Score of the season, but, is unable to enter the Top 15 Leaderboard ...

PTPR LEADERBOARD LIVE LOOK-IN
56. Victor Ramdin, 161 PTPR Points
57. Gregory Brooks, 161
58. Jonathan Duhamel, 160
59. Justin Young, 159
59. Zimnan Ziyard, 159
61. Martin Jacobson, 158
62. Pim de Goede, 156
62. Jake Cody, 156
64. Jason Somerville, 155

WPT MARRAKECH FINAL 9 PAYOUTS (in USD):
Mohamed Ali Houssam $267,011
Toufik Ourini $166,374
Maksim Martinov $107,340
Arnaud Mattern $69,778
Hassan Fares $50,991
Rodney Assous $41,322
Jonathan Duhamel $33,815
Elky Grospellier $30,699
Sebastien Ta $28,013

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PTPR PREMIER EVENT
WPT Marrakech
WPT NLH Championship
November 24-27, 2011

Casino de Marrakech | Marrakech
Buy-in: $4,015 | Prizepool: $1,094,670 | Entries: 274

Defending Champion: Sebastien Homann

PTS AT STAKE:
MOHAMED ALI HOUSSAM 127
TOUFIK OURINI 77
MAKSIM MARTINOV 47
ARNAUD MATTERN 37
HASSAN FARES 32
RODNEY ASSOUS 27
JONATHAN DUHAMEL 27
ElkY BERTRAND GROSPELLIER 12
SEBASTIEN TA 12
SAID EL YOUSFI 12
AUBIN CAZALI 12
REDA MED JOUAHRI 10
YANN ENZINGER 10
IAN MARMION 10
DAVID SACKSICK 10
MATTHIUS REMIE 7
FADHIL FARAG 7
MEHIL ARNOUAR 7

APPT MACAU: NANONOKO PICKS A GOOD TIME TO WIN FIRST LIVE TOURNAMENT

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It's no secret that Randy Lew (knows to most as nanonoko) is one of the best online poker players in the world. Well, you can now check "win first live major tournament" on the list of accomplishments for Lew.

Lew just won APPT Macau, defeating almost 600 players on his way to a very nice payday - almost 4M Hong Kong dollars (almost 500K USD)!




PTPR LEADERBOARD LIVE LOOK-IN
144. Juha Helppi, 123 PTPR Points
144. Darren Elias, 123
146. Randy Lew, 122
147. Mike Sexton, 120
147. Kunal Patel, 120
149. Vivek Rajkumar, 120

Lew defeated Jimmy Pan heads up. Jeff Rossiter (who scored points at the Aussie Millions in January) looked to be in good shape three handed but, losing a major pot to Lew proved to be the end for Rossiter.

Epic Poker League September runner-up David Steicke finished ninth in the event. The man who held the chip lead heading into final day play - Sangeeth Mohan - was unable to maintain his lead and crashed out in 10th place - one spot out of PTPR Points qualification.

APPT MACAU TOP 10 PAYOUTS (in HKD):
1- Randy Lew, 3,772,000
2- Jimmy Pan, 2,367,000
3- Jeff Rossier, 1,306,000
4- Fabian Spielmann, 1,019,000
5- Zuo Wang, 809,000
6- Kai Yat Fam, 653,000
7- Daniel Nordstrom, 498,000
8- Zheng Tai Tan, 373,000
9- David Steicke, 263,300
10- Sangeeth Mohan, 155,500

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PTPR TIER 3 EVENT
Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau
APPT Macau NLH Championship
November 23-27, 2011

Grand Lisboa Casino | Macau
Buy-in: $3,850 | Prizepool: $1,995,896 | Entries: 575

Defending Champion: Victorino Torres

PTS AT STAKE:
RANDY LEW "NANONOKO" 105
JIMMY PAN 65
JEFF ROSSITER 40
FABIAN SPIELMANN 30
ZUO WANG 23
KAI YAT FAM 15
DANIEL NORDSTROM 13
TAN TAI ZHENG 10
DAVID STEICKE 10