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22 January
2008 Party Poker
Premier League Returns With $1m Prize
Pool Party Poker have
announced the return of Party Poker Premier League
Poker in February. The groundbreaking format
developed by Matchroom Sport, features 12 of the
world's best players playing in a unique league for
a US$1 million prize pool. The event takes place at
3 Mills Studio, London between 10th - 16th February
and will be first broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK
in late March. With a system
developed especially to showcase the legendary
poker prowess of each player, they will play six
times in the preliminary stages. The leading four
players will then progress to the final table with
the next four battling it out in heads-up matches
for the final two seats. Each player will buy-in
for US$60,000, with Party Poker adding US$280,000
to make the pool US$1 million, up from US$500,000
last year. Nine of the twelve players from 2007's
successful event return with the new faces being
"Flying Dutchman" Marcel Luske, Annie Duke and
Russia's Alexander Kravchenko. As before,
eleven-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth will
lead a top field that also includes Dave 'The
Devilfish' Ulliott, Tony G, Andy Black, Ian Fraser,
Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi and Eddy
Scharf. Party Bets has
opened a market on the tournament and make
Devilfish the 5-1 favourite. Last year, Finland's
Juha Helppi won the title on his birthday, with
Scharf finishing second and Hellmuth
third. A Party Poker
spokesman said: "Premier League Poker was an
outstanding success last year with both players and
viewers. Devilfish's recent form makes him the
favourite to win, a status that he is bound to
embrace much to the annoyance of Hellmuth and Tony
G." Eddie Hearn,
Poker Director of Matchroom Sport said: "We are
delighted to announce the line up for Premier
League Poker II. It's great to welcome back the
likes of Phil Hellmuth, Devilfish, Tony G and last
year's champion Juha Helppi and we are also
thrilled that Annie Duke, Marcel Luske and Alex
Kravchenko will be joining the field. This is one
of the strongest line up's assembled in poker and
with the buy in increased to US$60,000, coupled
with vast international tv distribution, Premier
League Poker is now established the as the world's
leading televised poker event." Before filming of
the event gets underway on Sunday 10th February
there is a pre-tournament party on the evening of
Saturday 9th February at the Montague on the
Gardens Hotel in Bloomsbury, London. Party Poker
and Matchroom Sport also have a limited number of
hotel rooms to give away to media who are
interested in attending. |
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