The European Poker Tour Season 10 Player of the Year race is on, and as you know players will be able to accumulate points in all events throughout Season 10, regardless of the buy-in level. In addition, all of the Festival Events (Estrellas, UKIPT, Eureka, FPS, IPT) that combine with an EPT tour stop will be eligible for Player of the Year points. The winner of this season’s award will walk away with €50,000 in Main Event buy-ins, good for any PokerStars or Full Tilt sponsored event.
The Global Poker Index (GPI) points formula, which will be used to determine the EPT10 POY, is a bit complicated, but you can read about all the details here.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Place
Player
Points
1
Thomas Muhlocker
350.68 pts
2
David Benefield
321.18 pts
3
Ole Schemion
311.62 pts
4
Jeff Rossiter
258.92 pts
5
Joao Barbosa
257.14 pts
6
Kenny Hallaert
253.87 pts
7
Nicolau Pacheco Villa-Lobos
251.08 pts
8
Jonathan Duhamel
243.35 pts
9
Timothy Adams
222.31 pts
10
Frederik Brink Jensen
209.90 pts
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
Igor Pihela set the tone by limping under the gun for 400. Another two players had limped by the time it got to Bertilsson Per Anton who with the blinds him still to act moved all in for 10,500. The original limper called and showed . The board ran out and the set for Per Anton was good enough.
Paolo Compagno opened for 800, call from the chatty Romanian Tiberu-Florian Georgescu and then a three-bet to 1,800 from Garlef Konstantin Rinne a PokerStars qualifier from Germany. Compagno didn’t like it and folded but Georgescu made the call. They chatted away amiably enough, trying to get a read perhaps, as they checked it all the way down until the river card came on a final board of . Now Georgescu bet 5,000 and Rinne had 13,000 behind. “Would this be a stupid call or a stupid fold?” Rinne pressed. He couldn’t get a satisfactory answer and folded, perhaps relived to be shown the . A narrow escape?
We missed the details, but we do know that Aku Joentausta just doubled through Davide Suriano. We arrived as the dealer was counting out chip, and we saw that Joentausta had the laid out in front of him with a board reading . We're not sure when the money went in nor what Suriano had, but no matter the case the result was a Joentausta double.
From a distance it's sometimes rather hard to count someones chips, especially when someone doesn't stack in twenties. Or when someone doesn't have enough chips to make twenty stacks of course. But here we go:
We are less than an hour from the dinner break here in Prague and the action has slowed a little; perhaps it the fatigue setting in after a long day or that human desire to make the dinner break and return with at least a few chips to enjoy with a full stomach.
Not everyone sees it that way though and Viktor Litovchenko managed to get his remaining stack into the middle pre-flop holding against the of PokerStars online qualifier Aleksis Tsaousidis from Greece. It was Litovchenko who was at risk and he rose from the chair to give the impression he was resigned to some inevitable fate. The flop fell and the stand-up move was halfway there. A heart or an Ace was needed now; he’d got his sweat but didn’t react, gave it barley a glance as he reached for his jacket. Turn river and Litovchenko was felted.
Steven van Zadelhoff raised it up to 800 from the cutoff and got a call from the player in the big blind. That player check called Van Zadelhoff's 1,100 c-bet on and the hit the turn. Van Zadelhoff bet 2,500 now and his opponent check-raised to 5,700. Van Zadelhoff called and he called another 10,500 bet on the -river. "Nice hand" was all he was able to say as he was shown for the turned flush.