We just overheard that Mohsin Charania doubled through PokerStars Team Online Alex "Kanu7" Millar.
Charania ended up all in with ace-king versus Millar's kings. The board gave the former EPT Grand Final winner a straight and that way he's now up to 72,000 chips.
Before the dinner break, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier raised to 1,200 from the hijack seat. He was called by Keith Lehr on the button and Dario Sammartino out of the big blind. From there, the three players were prompted with a flop and action was checked around to see the come out on the turn. Sammartino led for 2,700, Mercier called, and Lehr folded. The river was the , and Sammartino checked. Mercier bet 5,000, and Sammartino gave it up.
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 (last updated January 2, 2014):
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.
Want to know how to get yourself picked out in live tournament coverage? Here are some handy tips. Grayson Ramage did it the hard way by getting badbeated out of the PCA 2011. Check out the PokerStars Blog article by clicking here.