Child prodigy Chess champ leads Poker tournament : Former Canadian child chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer (pictured), ended day 3 as the major chip leader at the EPT in Warsaw last night with a stack of 956,500 chips.

The former under 10 World chess champion was once tipped to become the next Bobby Fischer but family problems meant Jeff disappeared completely off the radar for nearly 20 years.

Stll only 31 years old it looks like Jeff is back, competing at several major poker tournaments this year he has already won a 3rd place at the European Masters of Poker tournament in February.

Among the players ‘check-mated’ out of the tournament yeaterday were chip leader from day 2 Carter Phillips and WSOP champ Peter Eastgate. Of the 56 players starting day 3, 24 players now remain in what promises to be an exciting final day at the EPT in Warsaw.

1. Jeffrey Sarwer: Canada: 956,500 chips
2. Clayton Mozdzen: Canada: 574,000 chips
3. Alexander Debus: Germany: 479,500
4. Anatoly Gurtovoy: Russia: 425,000
5. Antony Lellouche: France: 332,500
6. Ruslan Prydryk: Ukraine: 325,500
7. Aleksey Yuzikov: Russia: 322,000
8. Konstantin Puchkov: Russia: 300,000
9. Oleksandr Vaserfirer: Ukraine: 285,500
10. Dani Vargas: Spain: 256,000

Bubble boy.
Domantas Klimciauskas earned the title yesterday here at EPT Warsaw as he became the last player to exit without prize money.

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Here is the EPT Warsaw pay out prize-structure. PLN is the local Polish zloty currency.

1 – €358,644 (PLN 1,493,170)
2 – €200,520 (834,840)
3 – €120,311 (500,900)
4 – €85,938 (357,790)
5 – €71,041 (295,770)
6 – €56,144 (233,750)
7 – €44,687 (186,050)
8 – €32,082 (133,570)
9-10 – €20,625 (85,870)
11-12 – €16,042 (66,790)
13-14 – €13,751 (57,250)
15-16 – €10,314 (42,940)
17-24 – €6,874 (28,620)

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