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. Best French player? Erwann Pecheux in the number 92 spot.
Here are the current top ten on the EPT10 POY Leaderboard (last updated Jan. 29, 2014):
Place
Player
Points
1
Ole Schemion
781.39
2
Vanessa Selbst
736.22
3
Thomas Muhlocker
594.30
4
Georgios Karakousis
512.31
5
Mike McDonald
490.74
6
Jonathan Little
480.01
7
Kenny Hallaert
416.40
8
Andrew Chen
414.18
9
Max Silver
412.50
10
Jeff Rossiter
408.43
It's worth noting that the only player in the top ten at Deauville is Kenny Hallaert, so he'll look to close the gap a bit between him and Ole Schemion.
We'll be bringing you daily updates on the Player of the Year race, so be sure to keep an eye out for those.
We're now down to the unofficial final table as JP Kelly has been eliminated in 10th place.
The action was folded to Eli Heath on the button, he raised to 45,000, Eugene Katchalov called from the small blind and JP Kelly then three-bet 190,000 from a stack of 1,046,000. Back on Heath he four-bet to 340,000, Katchalov folded but Kelly moved all-in for 1,046,000 and Heath said, "yeah I call."
Heath:
Kelly:
"What a brave four-bet call with eights" said Nicholas Levi in the commentary booth, "he's got to be happy to see ace-king," added Joe Stapleton. Heath was even happier after the board kept his pair of eights in front.
With Kelly's exit we're down to nine players and there will now be a short break whilst the final nine move to the feature table and the tournament staff do the final redraw of the tournament.
JP Kelly hadn't played on the European Poker Tour in a while, but returned to EPT10 Deauville and now finds himself among the final 10 players. He spoke with Laura Cornelius of PokerStars.tv about how Day 5 has gone, including his multiple run-ins with Eugene Katchalov on the featured table. Click over the to PokerStars blog and watch.
Oliver Price opened with pocket jacks, Anthony Lerust three-bet with pocket kings, Price set Lerust all-in for 835,000 and Lerust made the call. The board kept the Frenchman in front and he high fived a friend on the rail. He's up to 1,700,000, whilst Price slips to 2,200,000
Following the early elimination of Bahram Chobineh in 16th, Day 5 has seen a rash of knockouts follow to trim the field quickly to 10 players. Meanwhile Sotirios Koutoupas has increased his lead as he tries to become the first Greek EPT champ, and Eugene Katchalov is still battling in his effort to win that elusive Triple Crown. Get up to speed on the PokerStars blog.
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Sotirios Koutoupas opened to 60,000 from the cutoff and Oliver Price thought about it for a little bit before calling from the big blind.
and Price check called the 58,000 continuation bet the Greek chip leader made. The turn was the and this time around Price check called 118,000 from Koutoupas. River and both players checked.
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board kept his pair of eights in front.
board kept the Frenchman in front and he high fived a friend on the rail. He's up to 1,700,000, whilst Price slips to 2,200,000
and Price check called the 58,000 continuation bet the Greek chip leader made. The turn was the 
and this time around Price check called 118,000 from Koutoupas. River 
and both players checked.
and Koutoupas mucked.