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.
In the latest movement, Ami Barer has cracked the top ten, which saw Ondrej Vinklarek drop to the No. 11 spot. Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard:
Dominik Penka and Ole Schemion are both looking for the EPT10 Player of the Year title.
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
807.79 pts
2
Vanessa Selbst
762.05 pts
3
Thomas Muhloecker
603.43 pts
4
Georgios Karakousis
554.56 pts
5
Dominik Panka
547.34 pts
6
Adrian Mateos Diaz
527.44 pts
7
Mike McDonald
517.44 pts
8
Jonathan Little
491.26 pts
9
Jeff Rossiter
471.93 pts
10
Ami Barer
452.05 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.
The biggest pot of the tournament just played out... and we kind of missed it. Fortunately Wilfried Sigmund Harig told us afterwards what exactly had happened.
Geshkenbein had raised preflop with and he called as Harig made a three bet.
on the flop and Geshkenbein checked to Harig. The German player made a continuation bet and Geshkenbein called.
The turn was a and Geshkenbein checked again to his opponent. Harig made a bet and Geshkenbein raised. Harig clicked it back which resulted in a push by Geshkenbein. Harig made the call holding pocket aces.
Set over set and Geshkenbein had just one out left. The river was not the spare queen but a and Geshkenbein was eliminated from the tournament. Harig in the meantime is the chip leader with more than 1.5 million.
Another level is in the books, and that means it's time for another 20-minute break. While you wait for action to resume, check out Kristy Arnett's interview with Jonathan Roy from the last break.
Two players saw a flop of . Steven Lewzey from the UK bet 35,000 into Gordillo Caballero from Spain. Caballero responded with a raise to 80,500. Lewzey considered the stack sizes and folded his hand. Caballero threw his cards face up in the middle of the table.
It’s quite rare to see a player showing bluffs voluntarily at this stage of a tournament like this. If he was trying to make a point or reinforce his image he was out of luck as the floor announced his table was breaking.
Timo Pfutzenreuter was in the button and had reached the turn of a board reading . Gergely Rona was in the cut-off and had checked. Pfutzenreuter bet 43,000 and Rona made the call.
The river was the . Rona checked and Pfutzenreuter thought for twenty seconds before announcing he was all in.
Rona had his opponent covered but only just. It was clearly a huge decision and Rona took his time. A lot of time. It took nearly five minutes including a “Sorry guys.” from Rona. No one looked like calling the clock. Finally he made his mind up and the decision was a fold
Julian Herold held the chip lead for quite a while, but he just lost a serious pot that knocked him down to 800,000 chips, which is still a ton.
Ludovic Riehl raised to 11,000 and Herold fought back with a three-bet to 36,000. The action was folded back to Riehl who tanked for a bet before four-betting to 60,000.
"All in," Herold quickly announced and Riehl snap-called.
Riehl:
Herold:
The board ran out and Riehl's kings held up nicely.
With 56,000 in the pot and a board reading , Dmitry Morozov checked from the big blind and Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden moved all in from the hijack for 84,000. Morozov thought for about a minute before calling with the , but it was no good as Lodden had him out kicked with the .
on the flop and Geshkenbein checked to Harig. The German player made a continuation bet and Geshkenbein called.
and Geshkenbein checked again to his opponent. Harig made a bet and Geshkenbein raised. Harig clicked it back which resulted in a push by Geshkenbein. Harig made the call holding pocket aces.
and Geshkenbein was eliminated from the tournament. Harig in the meantime is the chip leader with more than 1.5 million.
. Steven Lewzey from the UK bet 35,000 into Gordillo Caballero from Spain. Caballero responded with a raise to 80,500. Lewzey considered the stack sizes and folded his hand. Caballero threw his cards 
face up in the middle of the table.
. Gergely Rona was in the cut-off and had checked. Pfutzenreuter bet 43,000 and Rona made the call.
. Rona checked and Pfutzenreuter thought for twenty seconds before announcing he was all in.
and Nuutinen doubled up.
, but it was no good as Lodden had him out kicked with the 
.
