Premier League IV at Party Poker
PartyPoker.com and Matchroom Sport announced Tuesday that Phil Hellmuth, the 11-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, will join the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV event in Las Vegas. The main event for that tournament will run from Feb. 12 to Feb. 18. Hellmuth joins defending champion JC Tran and Yevgeniy Timoshenko, among other players.
Party Poker ran qualifying tournaments to find 16 players who it will fly to Las Vegas; the qualifiers will play in a Premier League play-off. One of the 16 qualifiers will win the play-off tournament and join 11 professional players – including Hellmuth – in the Premier League IV main event.
Both the play-off and the Premier League IV main event will be filmed for television and could be shown around the world, according to Party Poker.
One of the 16 players will also be chosen by Party Poker to receive a $1,000 contract to be a sponsored Party Poker team player at the site.
JC Tran, who is the defending champion of the Party Poker Las Vegas event, won $300,000 last year against a final table that included Tom “Durrr” Dwan, Juha Helppi, Peter Eastgate, Tony G. and Roland de Wolfe.
This year’s main event will feature a total prize pool of more than $1.5 million. The PartyPoker.com Premier League is sponsored by the site, but is organized by Matchroom Sport.
Main qualifying tournaments for the event are complete, but players can still qualify through events that are specific to a person’s country. See PartyPoker.com for more information.
