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Party Poker completes celebrity line up for 2010 Premier League IV
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- Published 01/29/2010
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Party Poker and Matchroom Sport are glad to announce that ten time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Fame member, Doyle Brunson, has been added to PartyPoker.com Premier League IV line up. Brunson will join professional poker player David Benyamine, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Luke Schwartz and Team Party members Tony G and Mike Sexton.
"It's an honor that Doyle has accepted his invitation to the Premier League. He is a true legend of the game and I'm so excited to watch him in action against such an eclectic mix of players. The Premier League has become the world's number one televised poker event and it's by far the strongest line up the event has ever seen." said Matchroom Sport Managing Director Eddie Hearn.
The last spot in the 2010 PartyPoker.com Premier League IV will be given to an online poker qualifier. A total of 16 players who all fly out to Las Vegas to play in a Premier League Poker play-off to see which one of the 16 will be lucky enough to join 11 professional players in Premier League Poker IV. The lucky online qualifiers will play a short series of play-off sit & go's in Las Vegas and the eventual winner will receive the $100,000 buy-in to take part in the main Premier League event. In addition, one of the 16 qualifiers will be chosen by PartyPoker to receive a $100,000 Team Party contract to be a sponsored player.
The 2010 Premier League will carry a total prize pool of $1.5 million, including $300,000 added by PartyPoker. The Premier League Poker IV Main Event runs from February 12th to18th, 2010 in Las Vegas. Both the play-off and the main event will be recorded for TV and aired across the world in the upcoming months.
"It's an honor that Doyle has accepted his invitation to the Premier League. He is a true legend of the game and I'm so excited to watch him in action against such an eclectic mix of players. The Premier League has become the world's number one televised poker event and it's by far the strongest line up the event has ever seen." said Matchroom Sport Managing Director Eddie Hearn.
The last spot in the 2010 PartyPoker.com Premier League IV will be given to an online poker qualifier. A total of 16 players who all fly out to Las Vegas to play in a Premier League Poker play-off to see which one of the 16 will be lucky enough to join 11 professional players in Premier League Poker IV. The lucky online qualifiers will play a short series of play-off sit & go's in Las Vegas and the eventual winner will receive the $100,000 buy-in to take part in the main Premier League event. In addition, one of the 16 qualifiers will be chosen by PartyPoker to receive a $100,000 Team Party contract to be a sponsored player.
The 2010 Premier League will carry a total prize pool of $1.5 million, including $300,000 added by PartyPoker. The Premier League Poker IV Main Event runs from February 12th to18th, 2010 in Las Vegas. Both the play-off and the main event will be recorded for TV and aired across the world in the upcoming months.