This Week in Poker -- April 24 – 30

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Card Player Player of the Year Update

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1: Thomas Marchese — 3,506
2: Sorel Mizzi — 3,278
3: Dwyte Pilgrim — 3,116
4: Harrison Gimbel — 3,000
5: Sam Stein — 2,826
6: Allan Baekke — 2,760
7: Tyler Reiman — 2,640
8: Mike Beasley — 2,560
9: Liv Boeree — 2,438
10: Andras Koroknai — 2,400
10: Nicolas Chouity — 2,400 (pictured right)

This Week in Poker

Nicolas Chouity Wins the EPT Grand Final and Joins the Top 10

Nicolas Chouity won the €10,000 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final today in Monte Carlo. He topped a field of 848 players and took home €1.7 million in prize money. He was also awarded 2,400 Card Player player of the year points, which puts him in a tie for tenth place in the standings with Andras Koroknai. The other big POY winner in Monte Carlo was the runner up Josef Klinger, who took home 2,000 points to jump into a four-way tie for 17th place with Jakob Carlsson, Raymond Dolan, and Card Player publisher Barry Shulman.

Other movement in the top 10 came when Dwyte Pilgrim took second place in a $1,000 six-handed no-limit hold’em event at the Borgata Spring Poker Open and took home 320 points. This claimed him third place in the standings over Harrison Gimbel. Sam Stein grabbed fifth place in the standings thanks to his eighth-place finish at the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II $2,500 no-limit hold’em main event. He was awarded 138 points for his fourth final-table appearance of the year.

Headlines:

David Williams Wins the WPT Championship
PokerStars EPT –- Nicolas Chouity Wins Monte Carlo Grand Final
Bellagio Moves 2011 Five-Star World Poker Classic to May
PokerStars ANZPT — Angelo Hanataj Wins Sydney Main Event

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