Party's Premier Poker League

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February 20, 2007 - Party unleashes the Premier Poker league.

This exciting new series has been developed by Matchroom Sport. Which will feature 12 of the best poker players playing in a brand new league format. They will be competing for a $500,000 grand prize.

 

There will be 6 preliminary stages, this system was developed to decrease the chance of luck, and to have skill prevail. The leading four poker players will be advanced to the final table. They will then battle it out in heads up matches for the final 2 seats.

 

The buy-in to the event is $20,000 and Party Poker has came in and added $260,000 to the prize pool. The line up of entrants is very impressive which includes, Dave Devil Fish ulliot, Tony G, Andy Black, Kiril Gerasimov, Liz Lieu, Ian Fraser, Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi, Kenna James and Eddy Scharf.

 

Bad Boy of Poker Phil Hellmuth commented, "I love the UK and feel at

home there, so I am really looking forward to Premier League Poker. It's

always challenging to match wits with the world's best poker players but

I'm coming for the title; make no mistake about that!"

 

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said, "The Premier League Poker is an exciting

new concept and is sure to make great television. The interest from pros on

both sides of the Atlantic has been excellent."

 

The first match will take place on February 26^th in Maidstone, Kent UK. 

 

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