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PARTYPOKER.COM INTRODUCES AUSSIE MILLIONS QUALIFIERS DEFENDING CHAMPION STEWART SCOTT HOSTS SPECIAL TOURNAMENTS

Gibraltar – 29^th October 2009 – http://www.partypoker.com/ has introduced online qualifiers for the 2010 Aussie Millions in Melbourne. Seen as one of poker’s majors, the Main Event is a highlight of the world live circuit and the leading online poker room is going completely Aussie crazy in November and December!

PartyPoker.com Australia Ambassador Stewart Scott is the defending champion and there is a chance to emulate his success in Melbourne next year. PartyPoker.com is offering the chance to win one of 25 luxury Aussie Millions main event packages. These fantastic dream trips will be up for grabs in two amazing $600+40 satellites on Sunday 13^th December. One will be timed to suit Australia and New Zealand-based players with FIVE packages guaranteed worth $12,000, while the other is scheduled to give players from the rest of the world the chance to win one of 20 guaranteed packages worth $15,000.

For more information on the many paths to Melbourne, including PartyPoint and freeroll options, see http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/am.html. Qualifiers start on Sunday 1st November – as ever PartyPoker.com provides diverse qualifying structures, which can start from as little as just $1.

PartyPoker.com ambassador Stewart Scott said: “I’ve been playing at PartyPoker.com for five years. These great packages are an amazing opportunity for other players to play in this huge tournament. Claiming the Aussie Millions title has been the highlight of my career and I’d love to see another PartyPoker.com player take the title.”

There are also a number of Stewart Scott Aussie Millions special tournaments: http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/am_au.html#stu

The Stewart Scott Bounty Hunt

From the 1^st November, Stewart will be playing in the $64+$6 Aussie Millions ANZ Friendly Satellite Qualifier at 04.05 ET (19.05 AEST) every Tuesday and Thursday. There’s a $70 bounty on Stewart’s head if a player eliminates him.

Stewart Scott Aussie Millions Specials

In these tournaments PartyPoker.com will be giving away seats to Aussie Millions qualifiers. First place will win a $640 seat, second place gets a seat at the $128 qualifier while third will claim a $70 qualifier seat. Top ranking players will also receive prize money from the buy-in pool and there’s also a $70 bounty if you’re the player who knocks Stewart out.

Stewart Scott Aussie Millions Special 1 – Sunday 15 November, 03.05 ET (19.05 AEST), buy-in $6+$1

Stewart Scott Aussie Millions Special 2 – Sunday 6 December, 03.05 ET (19.05 AEST), buy-in $6+$1

Stewart Scott Highroller Aussie Millions Invitational

One luxury $12,000 Aussie Millions package for first place, $640 seat in final qualifier on offer for the player that knocks out Stewart. This takes place on Sunday 22 November at 03.05 ET (19.05 AEST) with a $250+$20 buy-in.

Scott, 37, from Queensland, Australia, made history in January 2009 by becoming the first Australian in the modern era to take down the Aussie Millions Main Event, scooping US$1,865,724. Scott is a loyal member of PartyPoker.com’s VIP club the Palladium Lounge http://www.palladiumlounge.com/. He made his debut representing the leading online poker room at the PokerNews Cup in Melbourne earlier this month. Scott is married with one daughter and started life as a gourmet chef in Adelaide, with a period running a small IT business as he honed his skills online. He made his first impact on the live circuit in 2006 by winning a satellite series at SkyCity Casino in Adelaide that awarded him a $30,000 package for the WSOP Main Event. Stewart is a popular figure on the Australian poker circuit and is well known for his relaxed attitude but killer instinct at the table.

FEAR AND LOATHING PHIL IN LAS VEGAS IVEY WOULD BE THE WORST POKER RESULT IN BOOKMAKING HISTORY

Gibraltar –28^th October 2009 – Bookmaker https://www.partybets.com/ reports a significant six figure liability on Phil Ivey winning the WSOP Main Event in Vegas, which gets underway at the Rio Hotel and Casino on the 7^th November. Despite the fact that Ivey is a short stack placing seventh in chips in the November Nine his odds on taking down the tournament are only 5/1, making him third favourite.

PartyBets.com – a sister site of http://www.partypoker.com/ and http://www.partycasino.com/ – chalked Ivey up at 175/1 to win the Main Event earlier this year. He was 100/1 as the Main Event got underway and his odds have plummeted since then.

A PartyBets.com spokesman said: “Ivey will be a terrible result for us and we think that the industry as a whole will have massive liabilities. A big name on the final table of the WSOP is always bad news for bookmakers and in fairness they don’t come much bigger than Ivey. 175/1 as a starting price for any player in a field of 6,494 players is short to say the least – his true odds could have been double that but we had to price him prohibitively short because punters back the name. We have our fingers crossed that he doesn’t pull off a remarkable comeback. The bottom line is that for us it has to be anybody apart from Ivey.”

“I’m sure we’re not the only ones quaking in our boots – it doesn’t take long to get six figure liabilities with three figure prices. This would be the worst poker result for a bookmaker in history. Imagine the fear of those that Ivey may have backed himself with, they’ll make our concerns look trivial!”

PartyBets.com currently has monster chip leader Darvin Moon as the 3/1 favourite, followed by Eric Buchman at 4/1 and Ivey at 5/1. Ivey only has 265,000 more chips than France’s Antonie Saout but Saout is a 16/1 shot. The UK’s James Akenhead, a recent participant in the PartyPoker.com World Open V alongside Saout has also been well supported but is still 14/1. A Shulman double, with Jeff joining Barry as a WSOP Main Event winner this year is priced at 6/1. Other markets available include winning hand and colour of the final river card.

See https://www.partybets.com/bets.ap?sportName=poker&sport=66719 for more odds and information.

** The story of how Jon Kalmar, a poker pro from Chorley in the UK made the final table of the 2007 WSOP Main Event is a poker fairytale in itself. Jon went to Vegas with a bankroll of $15,000 before getting down to his last $2,000 and qualifying in a satellite. He had been on a terrible run for a long time but ended up as the only UK representative making it to the climax of poker’s showpiece and won $1,255,000 for finishing in fifth place. It was also happy days for a poker pro from Skane, Sweden won $25,000 from PartyBets.com after placing a bet of $100 at 250/1 that Kalmar would make the final table.**

***The PartyPoker.com Monthly Million is a $1 million guaranteed online poker tournament every first Sunday of the month. The next Monthly Million takes place on Sunday 1 November at 12.45 ET (17.45 GMT, 18.45 CET) and features a championship blind structure. The buy-in is $600+$40 but the diverse qualifying paths means you can join the qualifiers from as little as $1. The wide range of qualifiers includes $64+$4 daily satellites with a total of 18 seats guaranteed per day, a MEGA Friday $50+$5 satellite that guarantees 20 seats and Super Satellite Saturday qualifiers with a $32+$3 buy-in and a total of 18 seats guaranteed that day.

‘FRIENDS, ROMANS, POKER PLAYERS, LEND ME YOUR EARS!’ MAXIMUS REWARDS AS ‘THE GLADIATOR’ RETURNS

Gibraltar – 26^th October 2009 – http://www.partypoker.com/ is pleased to announce details of its next wide ranging promotion as ‘The Gladiator’ returns! For one month the online poker room becomes the colosseum!

From the 1^st – 30^th November players who hit the daily minimum target of 10 PartyPoints for just five days claim the much-deserved reward of an entry into a $5,000 freeroll. The more days a players earns points on, the bigger the prize will be – there’s up to $3,000 cash to be won. PartyPoker.com has also added a massive incentive for the most dedicated players. Earn 1,000 points every day for the full 30 days and a player secures a seat at next year’s Aussie Millions worth AUD$10,500. The first prize at the main event in Melbourne is estimated to be in the region of AUD$2 million.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said:” The Gladiator is back and is stronger than ever before. In this colosseum you don’t have to worry about lions – just sharks, donkeys and fish! This promotion isn’t all about maximus PartyPoints, it is about spreading play over a period of time for maximus rewards! It is simple and offers great value and we encourage players to challenge themselves and take a closer look.”

A player doesn’t even have to earn points on consecutive days to be in with a shot at the colossal prizes: PartyPoker.com will just count up the number of days targets have been made during the promotion. For example, earn 10 points for 10 days, take five days off and then earn 10 points on 10 more days of the promotion and PartyPoker.com will award the prize for earning 10 points on 20 days. Players can keep updated on how many points picked up so far in ‘The Gladiator’ by checking their PartyAccount. Points are not removed from player accounts following the promotion – they all count towards Palladium Lounge targets.

The Million Dollar Hand at http://www.partypoker.com/ finishes at 23.59 on October 30^th. So far there has been 65,652 pairs, 7,446 two pair, 3,328 three of a kind, 625 straights, 398 flushes, 240 full houses, 34 four of a kind and 4 straight flushes. Full details of the promo can be found at: http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/mdh_new.html

PARTYPOKER.COM INTRODUCES BOUNTY TOURNAMENTS

Gibraltar – 20^th October 2009 — http://www.partypoker.com/ is pleased to announce that its latest software update sees the introduction of fantastic new bounty tournaments from tomorrow onwards. This is the highlight of a product upgrade that also sees the introduction of a ‘remember table layout’ feature and enhanced players notes.

Bounty tournaments allow players to get paid for knocking other players out. PartyPoker.com will take part of the buy-in and put it towards a bounty for each player. For example, PartyPoker.com could take $5 of a player’s $20 + $2 buy-in to create their bounty, with the other $15 going towards the prize pool. The bounty winnings are credited to a player’s account immediately.

The new ‘remember table layout’ feature has to be enabled but once it is this feature will remember the layout of tables when closed and will open new tables at the same size and in the same position. If a player changes the layout of their tables it will open the next new table in the same position as the last one closed. This isn’t a default feature, players have to tick the ‘remember table layout’ check box under Preferences/General/General Options to activate the feature. This feature will remember the layouts on the specific computer a player is playing on, layouts will also be remembered on a secondary monitor. The new enhanced player notes feature makes it even easier to make notes on opponents. All a player has to do is double-click on the player’s image at the table to open the ‘Notes’ section with their name already entered in the ‘Select Player’ field.

For more information see: http://www.partypoker.com/how_to_play/using-our-poker-table/latest-feature/

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “We are always listening to customers and consistently striving to improve our product. The introduction of new bounty tournaments adds an exciting fun dimension to play. These changes come on top of the introduction of the hand history replayer and super speed games last month. Coming up in the future is the introduction of RSA tokens and synchronized breaks.”

TIME TO BUY A NEW HOODIE? PHIL LAAK IS PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V CHAMPION! SEXTON FINISHES SIXTH AS POKER HALL OF FAME INDUCTION ANNOUNCED

London – 16^th October 2009 – Phil ‘The Unabomber’ Laak is the PartyPoker.com World Open V champion, scooping the $250,000 first prize after defeating the strongest final table in the event’s history! The Matchroom Sport organised 48 runner tournament ran from Sunday 11 October – Thursday 15 October. For the very first time, the action took place in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair, London.

Laak emerged triumphant from a final table that also featured Poker Hall of Fame inductee and PartyPoker.com ambassador Mike Sexton, former Premier League champion Andy Black, the controversial Luke ‘Full Flush’ Schwartz, PartyPoker.com grassroots team member Bodo Sbrzesny, Austrian online qualifier Jan Veit and Phil Laak’s partner, Hollywood actress and WSOP bracelet holder Jennifer Tilly.

The new deep triple stack structure meant there was over four hours play before the first elimination but eventually it came down to a heads-up battle between Laak and 26-year-old online qualifier Jan Veit, a computer science student from Salzburg, Austria. The damage was done when Laak pushed with A8 off-suit and hit an 8 on the flop, leaving Veit’s A4 stranded. The winning hand came when Laak raised with Q9 and Jan moved all-in with J7. Phil called and nothing hit on the board and Laak was congratulated at the table by his partner Jennifer Tilly and the crowd of people that had built to watch the exciting final table.

“This was a wild roller coaster ride and I am proud to have shared it with this amazing cast of characters. They were a tough bunch. Wow – what an honor,” said Laak.

It certainly wasn’t a straightforward victory for Laak. In his heat, his stack had shrunk to just 47,000 from a triple stack starting amount of 300,000 and he looked destined for an early exit. He made a remarkable comeback, however, to secure his place at the final table and, ultimately, take it down. “Coming back from one and a half big blinds is about as crazy as it gets. So sick, just so sick,” said Laak.

Jennifer was first to congratulate him and she busted at the final table in fifth. “I’m so happy for Phil,” said the Academy Award nominated actress, “people underestimate him because he is so entertaining. He really deserves this. I really enjoyed this tournament, it had a fantastic structure. You can see that by the amount of top players who made the final table.”

First out on the final table was early chip leader Andy Black, followed shortly by Mike Sexton, whose deserved Hall of Fame induction was confirmed to the public while he was playing the final table. Sexton’s pocket eights ran into Veit’s pocket kings. Champion Laak had special words for the Ambassador of Poker on collecting his trophy. “Mike Sexton, inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame today. The consummate player. Full stop.”

Next to go was Jennifer Tilly when her AJ failed to hit against Veit’s 99 – it looked to many like it was going to be the online qualifier’s day. Fourth place belonged to PartyPoker.com Grassroots team member Bodo Sbrzesny, who impressed again in front of the cameras in a gruelling heads-up battle with Andy Black in his heat and with his creative play at the final table. Sbrzesny, a Palladium Lounge Elite member, exploded on the scene last year after he won a rake race on PartyPoker.com to take a seat at the Poker Den 36 hour cash game. He certainly made in impression on Roland De Wolfe and Barny Boatman there, by bluffing both with 72 and showing them.

What followed was a long period of three handed play but it was Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz who busted next. After problems entering the casino on the first day, he had his responsible escort on hand in the crowd and certainly did himself justice. As you would expect, he contributed to a chatty and entertaining final table. Schwartz busted when Veit hit runner, runner for a club flush. At the heads-up stage Veit held a 1,190,000/910,000 advantage but you couldn’t rule out comeback king Laak and he proved a very popular winner with the crowd.

Veit was happy with his runner-up finish though and went home with $100,000. “With this line-up I would have been happy to get third,” said Veit, “I’m delighted.”

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “Congratulations to Phil for his deserved victory. We’re delighted with how the tournament has gone this week and we had a fantastic final table. We got great feedback on the new triple stack structure and casino atmosphere and are convinced this tournament has introduced a new high standard for single table satellite events of this nature.”

Amongst those who failed to make the final table included Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, JP Kelly, Teddy Sheringham, Andrew Feldman, Roland De Wolfe Sammy George, Bruno Fitoussi, Antoine Saout, James Akenhead, Praz Bansi, Scott Fischman, Neil Channing, Roberto Romanello, defending World Open champion Marty Smyth and Liam Flood. The 48 player field also included PartyPoker.com’s newly sponsored grassroots players Remy Biechel from France, Felipe ‘Mojave’ Ramos from Brazil and the UK’s Ian Frazer. The emphasis for the grassroots team is on VIPs, player loyalty and historic links to PartyPoker.com. Another player who took their seat was Danish journalist Johannes Nord Jorgensen, who secured his package by winning the recent PartyPoker.com in the Sky event in Copenhagen.

This year there was the chance to qualify online for the prestigious tournament, coverage of which is shown on television in countries all over the world. Ten packages worth $13,000 were won which included the buy-in, seven night’s accommodation and $1,000 spending money. The main changes to the event this year were that the starting stacks have been tripled, with the tables being eight seat in the heats and seven players in the final. The buy-in was $10,000, with a total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner scooping $250,000. The players were delighted with the new triple stack structure. More information can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/ and http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk/

Coverage will start on Five in the UK on October 28th and will be presented by Kara Scott. Commentary for the final will be provided by Jesse May, Neil Channing and Ian Frazer.

PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V 11^th – 15^th October 2009 – Palm Beach Casino, London

1^st PHIL LAAK (USA) $250,000

2^nd JAN VEIT (AUT) $100,000

3^rd LUKE SCHWARTZ (UK) $40,000

4^th BODO SBRZESNY (GER) $30,000

5^th JENNIFER TILLY (USA) $25,000

6^th MIKE SEXTON (USA) $20,000

7^th ANDY BLACK (IRE) $15,000

SEAT 1 – LUKE SCHWARTZ (UK)

SEAT 2 – MIKE SEXTON (USA)

SEAT 3 – ANDY BLACK (IRE)

SEAT 4 – JENNIFER TILLY (USA)

SEAT 5 – PHIL LAAK (USA)

SEAT 6 – BODO SBRZESNY (GER)

SEAT 7 – JAN VEIT (AUT)

THE AMBASSADOR OF POKER GETS WHAT HE DESERVES! CONGRATULATIONS TO MIKE SEXTON ON INDUCTION INTO POKER’S HALL OF FAME

London – 15th October 2009 – http://www.partypoker.com/ ambassador and World Poker Tour announcer Mike Sexton has deservedly been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

For the first time in the history of the Poker Hall of Fame, the early stage of the nomination process was open to the general public and a mass of prominent figures in the game all publicly declared their support for Mike. The Ambassador of Poker is currently playing the final table at the PartyPoker.com World Open V in London.

Sexton said: “I am deeply honored to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame and it is particularly special because for the first time it was a process that involved the fans, the media and the living members of the hall of fame. To me the most meaningful aspect of this process was the acceptance by the living hall of famers who welcomed me into their exclusive club.”

Mike Sexton acts as a host, consultant, ambassador and player for PartyPoker.com and the online poker room will holding a special celebratory $10,000 freeroll on the 7^th November, the day Mike is inducted.

Sexton needs little introduction and is unarguably one of the most respected figures in the game. As the face and voice of the World Poker Tour and holder of a WSOP bracelet, Mike is truly one of the games pioneers. Sexton is in the top ten for the most cashes at the World Series of Poker and is instantly recognizable to all poker enthusiasts. Regarded as ‘The Ambassador of Poker,’ for years Mike advocated corporate involvement with poker to take the game he loves into the mainstream.

Notably, Sexton also won the first $10k buy-in NL hold’em championship event at Foxwoods World Poker Finals in 1992 and in 2000 was the first American to win the championship event at the Euro Finals of Poker in Paris, which at the time was the biggest event in Europe. Through his role with the World Poker Tour Mike brought the game to millions around the world. In 2006 Sexton won the Tournament of Champions at the World Series of Poker, a concept he had originally created. He donated $500,000 of his winnings to charity and has since become a co-founder of http://www.pokergives.org/, which encourages players to make charitable donations.

The Poker Hall of Fame was established in 1979. Its membership includes poker’s most influential players and other important contributors to the game. There are 16 living members, and to date 37 members have been bestowed the honour of entry. The WSOP Hall of Fame traditionally elects one or two new members annually. The enshrinement ceremony is now held during the final table of the Main Event of the WSOP. The criteria for selection was as follows:

A player must have played poker against acknowledged top competition

Played for high stakes

Played consistently well, gaining the respect of peers

Stood the test of time

Or, for non-players, contributed to the overall growth and success of the game of poker, with indelible positive and lasting results

Amongst those who publicly endorsed Mike Sexton included Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu and Barry Greenstein. Below are some of the submissions players and figures made about Mike:

Annette Obrestad.  “I may be from a different generation of poker players to Mike but in my mind he deserves induction into poker’s hall of fame this year.”

Erik Seidel: “Next up should be Mike Sexton. He has some impressive accomplishments as a player, he won the Tournament of Champions in 06′, the European Heads Up, and is one of the leaders in WSOP cashes including one bracelet. If I’m not mistaken he also won the 1st 10k event at Foxwoods as well. I can’t think of anyone though who has contributed more to the growth of the game then Mike and that’s why he should be the next inductee. As the WPT’s announcer he is the guy who introduced no limit poker to millions of people, and who explained it in a way that drew them in and got them interested. I meet people all the time who don’t even play poker but watch the WPT because he manages to keep it exciting for everyone. People can tell his enthusiasm is real, Mike loves poker and fortunately is able to translate that for the viewer. He deserves huge credit too for the growth of the online game. As a consultant for PartyPoker he helped the online game get started and helped Party create the biggest poker site in the world. Party was just another poker site until Mike’s commercials on the WPT started running, then overnight the numbers doubled, tripled and very quickly they became the largest site poker has ever seen. He is one of the best ambassadors poker has ever seen and I hope he is on deck for admission in 09’.”

Poker’s ‘Professor’ Howard Lederer: “More than any single poker player, Mike Sexton promoted the game of poker throughout the ’90s and into this decade. He had a singular belief in the game as something that could be much bigger. Every poker player owes a great debt of thanks to Mike for helping to extend poker to places we could have never imagined before.”

Celebrity Apprentice runner-up Annie Duke: “There is quite possibly no single individual who did more to mainstream poker and grow the game than Mike Sexton. During the 90’s , when tournament poker was still an obscure, insular world, Mike always believed in and promoted what poker could become even as many of us remained steadfast in our skepticism. Mike saw the potential for the game and never gave up in his promotion of it and for that we should all be deeply grateful.”

Steve Lipscomb — “I would support Mike Sexton for president, much less induction into the Poker Hall of Fame.  Mike is the consummate face of poker.  He was making poker mainstream before it had a prayer of being mainstream.  He helped launch the World Poker Tour – which changed the poker world forever.  Then, he convinced the World Poker Tour to put PartyPoker on the Tour in season one – which changed the poker world again forever.  His commitment and love for the game — which is evidenced every time he appears on-screen in a World Poker Tour episode — is part of what has transformed this great game into the first-ever global aspirational sport.  Let’s get the man into the Poker Hall of Fame!”

Des Wilson — “Having spent a number of years studying the history of the game, I can think of nobody more deserving than Mike Sexton to be in the hall of fame and urge everyone else to support him. He is more than a great player – he is, and has been for many years, an outstanding ambassador for the game.”

The First Lady of Poker Linda Johnson: “I nominate Mike Sexton for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame. I can’t think of anyone who has done more for the poker industry than Mike. He has exhibited tremendous skills as a poker player and incredible vision in his ability to market the poker world. Mike is the best poker commentator in the world and is a household name to millions of players. He is generous, hard working, and donates his time and money to many various charities. Mike is a role model to all poker players and is very deserving of being inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.”

Recent inductee into the Women’s Hall of Fame Jan Fisher: “I’ve known Mike Sexton for nearly 30 years. During this time, Mike has always worked hard to promote poker.  His stellar reputation speaks for itself. One of the true good guys in poker, no one deserves this honor at this time more than Sexton. I’ve worked on both sides of the tables, and I believe that Mike is a role model for the poker industry. I am proud and honored to call him my friend.”

From the famous poker family, Todd Brunson: “Mike Sexton helped take poker to a level never before achieved and without him we would not be seeing the prize pools we have today. We all owe Mike our most sincere gratitude and appreciation.”

Padraig Parkinson: “I thought that Mike was nuts when he shared his vision of where we were going with me but never for a second doubted that he was the man to lead us there. Unusually for me, I was right.”

Leading Tournament Director Matt Savage: “Mike Sexton should be a slam dunk, not only for the over 40 WSOP cashes but especially for the work he has done to promote the world’s greatest game.  Poker would not be where it is today without the ambassador work that Mike has done.”

Irish Open Tournament Director Liam Flood: “I have known Mike for 25 years and I have always found him to be a true gentleman. He is the best ambassador poker could ever have. Whether it be in Las Vegas, Paris or Dublin he is always the same and is always prepared to listen to anybody about the game he loves.”

WSOP bracelet winner and Asian Poker Tour ambassador Steve Sung: “The first poker commentators’ voice I ever heard was Mike Sexton. The man’s a legend – get him into the Poker Hall of Fame.”

Top professional David Williams: “Mike Sexton is a true professional and I wholeheartedly believe that he should enter Poker’s Hall of Fame this year.”

Top professional Roland De Wolfe: “He is a personality and voice that has opened the game up to new people. He is a component of poker’s story and a significant part of poker history.”

Amongst the most recent inductees include Henry Orenstein, Dewey Tomko, Phil Hellmuth, Barbara Enright, TJ Cloutier, Bobby Baldwin, Johnny Chan and Lyle Berman. Doyle Brunson was given Hall of Fame status in 1987. Once the public has voted the top ten among consideration are announced during the Main Event. It then goes to a committee stage in August and then a secret ballot of living Hall of Famers in September. In addition, a select group of media members were sent a ballot for ranking the finalists.

FINAL TABLE SET AT PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V LEGEND MIKE SEXTON AND GRASSROOTS PRO JOIN LINE-UP

London – 15^th October 2009 – The final table is set at the https://www.partypoker.com World Open V and gets underway shortly! The Matchroom Sport organised event has run from Sunday 11 October. For the very first time, the action takes place in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair and spectators are welcome to rail.

The latest news sees Ambassador of Poker Mike Sexton and newly signed PartyPoker.com grassroots pro Bodo Sbrzesny make the final table. Mike overcame online qualifier Daniel Drescher heads-up.

More information can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/world-open-v/partypoker-ambassador-mike-sexton-swoops-into-the-final.html

In recent minutes, Bodo has come through the runner-up heat, beating online qualifier Patrick Funke. The heads-up was dubbed the ‘Funke Bodo’, in tribute to nightclub ‘The Funky Buddha’ that is opposite the casino. Talking of funky buddhas, ‘Mad Monk’ Andy Black is also at the final table – joining Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Austrian online qualifier Jan Veit and Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz. Organisers are hoping for no trouble when Schwartz turns up after he found himself barred from the casino when he arrived for his heat on Sunday.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “The final table line-up is fantastic and is undoubtedly the strongest and likely to be the most entertaining in the event’s history. We have a poker legend, a poker asbo, a celebrity couple, the mad former Premier League champion, an online qualifier and a member of PartyPoker.com’s new grassroots team.”

PartyPoker.com World Open V – The Final Table

Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz

Jan Veit

Andy Black

Phil Laak

Jennifer Tilly

Mike Sexton

Bodo Sbrzesny

The main changes to the event this year are that the starting stacks have been tripled, with the tables now being eight seat in the heats and seven players in the final. The buy-in is $10,000, with a total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner scooping $250,000. The players are delighted with the new triple stack structure. Updates will appear on: http://blog.partypoker.com/ and http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk/

Coverage will start on Five in the UK on October 28th and will be presented by Kara Scott.

NOW SHOWING AT A CASINO NEAR YOU! PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V – IT’S THE TILLY AND LAAK SHOW!

London – 14^th October 2009 – The action at the https://www.partypoker.com World Open V continues! The Matchroom Sport organised event takes place from Sunday 11 October – Thursday 15 October 2009 in London. For the very first time, the action takes place in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair and spectators are welcome to rail and the crowds are growing every day. The action starts at 11am.

Hollywood actress Jennifer Tilly won heat three at the PartyPoker.com World Open V to join her partner Phil Laak at the final table, while ex-England football star Teddy Sheringham lost to internet qualifier Jan Veit heads-up in heat four. They join Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz in the final

Tilly, a WSOP bracelet winner, had to overcome both a tough field and a tricky overnight break in play to reach make it to last seven, where she’ll face a battle for the $250,000 first prize with her American pro boyfriend Laak, who took down heat two.

“I told Jennifer this is war!” said Laak.

“We’re really competitive so we better spend some time together now because we might not be speaking on Friday!” said Tilly.

It was as tough a heat as you could find with online star and pre-tournament favourite Tom “Durrrr” Dwan, triple-crown holder Roland De Wolfe, big cash game player Sammy “any two” George and Neil Channing – Tilly’s eventual heads-up opponent. Online qualifier Gustav Ekerot was the first player to perish and it was Durrrr who followed next, kicking-off Tilly’s run to the final when she picked up aces against jacks for the second time and the bullets held to leave the table six-handed minus Dwan. No sooner had the aces been put back in the deck, they were out the very next hand and Channing used them to full effect, with Josh Gould the unlucky man to have kings in that spot.

Channing was at it again when he knocked out fellow Londoner De Wolfe, with the short-stacked Roland pushing with 105 suited and Neil calling with pocket threes and hitting quads on the river for good measure. It was not long after that when Channing hit quad kings – but George did well to get away with A10. Sammy’s reward for that escape was to knock out online qualifier Robert Sherwood and take the chip lead. George raised with AK, Tilly called with A6 and Sherwood moved all-in with A7 behind her – Sammy snap called and Tilly got out of the way – the king ruled the board and Any Two was up to 1,218k, Tilly held 980k and Channing just 202k.

He pushed those chips over the line with Q4 and was called by Sammy with pocket nines – hitting a queen to double up. Channing then performed the same magic with AK against Tilly’s Q7 and doubled up again to hold over 800k.

With Channing the chip leader – he took an early crack at Tilly with his K8 against her A8 – Channing hitting a king on the flop but Tilly’s prayers for an ace on the river coming true and moving her to 1,000,000 in chips. Had Channing won the hand, Tilly would have gone and Sammy would have had at least a runners-up spot but George was the bubble boy in this heat, moving all-in with AK and getting called by Tilly’s pocket threes – the board coming K3Q2J to get us heads-up.

Tilly held the chip lead and it is one that she converted into victory, steadily building her stack before getting the best of an action board when the duo held seemingly innocuous cards. It read 23K26 with short-stack Neil holding 42 when Tilly moved in with 54 – Channing made the call that sees Jennifer progress through and Neil have another go in the runners-up heat.

Before they finished their tussle, online qualifier Jan Veit won through to the final after seeing off former England and Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham heads-up in heat four. Sheringham made the first moves of a cagey heat when the blinds hit 5/10k – first knocking out Simon Craig, then seeing off PartyPoker.com in the Sky winner Johannes Nord Jorgensen, beating his pocket queens when his AK hit an ace on the flop. Sam Trickett was the third player to fall, getting it in good with a pair of sevens again Veit’s AQ and staying in-front on the flop before Jan rivered two pair to end Trickett’s tournament. Double WSOP bracelet winner Scott Fischman completed Teddy’s hat-trick, shoving with pocket sixes and running into Sheringham’s kings and Fischman was gone when both men missed the board.The heat was suddenly moving along at great pace and we were three-handed going into the 20/40k level with Alec Torelli the unfortunate victim. He took a shot at Veit with J9 when Jan moved all-in, only for Veit to turn over the red aces. That left Torelli with just over 100k and moments later that was down to nought, Alec pushing with K2 and Sheringham picking up a pair of eights to go three-handed with over one million in chips.

But the 20/40k level was not kind to the striker and as the blinds edged towards 30/60k, he bled off a portion of his stack to Veit in two hands with nothing against two pair and top pair and it was Jan who now moved over the one million mark. He remained dominant going heads-up with Sheringham after WSOP November-Niner Antoine Saout, who ran into trip nines to be out on the bubble. So Veit had the chip lead and it wasn’t long until he had them all – Teddy pushing his in with 102 and running into AJ, with Jan hitting a jack for good measure to move into the final with Teddy joining Channing in the runners-up heat.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “The final table is shaping up to be one of the strongest and liveliest in the events history. Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly and Full Flush aren’t exactly the shy and retiring types! We’re expecting a great crowd on Thursday night.”

More information can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/world-open-v/jennifer-tilly-to-face-partner-phil-laak-in-the-final-of-the-world-open-v.html

Results:

Heat One: 1 LUKE SCHWARTZ, 2 Christian Schafer, 3 Jorg Muller, 4 Yevgeniy Timoshenko, 5 Jason Adams, 6 Andy Ward, 7 James Akenhead, 8 Ian Frazer

Heat Two: 1 PHIL LAAK, 2 Patrick Funke, 3 Wayne Obrien, 4 Andy Greekfish, 5 JP Kelly, 6 Remy Biechel, 7 Praz Banzi, 8 Simon Zach

Heat Three: 1 Jennifer Tilly, 2 Neil Channing, Sammy George, 4 Robert Sherwood, 5 Roland De Wolfe, 6 Josh Gould, 7 Tom Dwan, 8 Gustav Ekerot

Heat Four: 1 JAN VEIT, 2 Teddy Sheringham, 3 Antoine Saout, 4 Alec Torelli, 5 Scott Fischman, 6 Sam Trickett, 7 Johannes Nord Jorgensen, 8 Simon Craig

Forthcoming heats:

Heat Five:, Andy Black, John Magill, Bodo Sbrzesny, Paulo Melo, Richard MacKinnon, Andrew Feldman, Vladimir Geshkenbein, Liam Flood

Heat Six: Marty Smyth, Roberto Romanello, Ellis Reuben, Dixie Dean, Mike Sexton, Bruno Fitoussi, Felipe Ramos, Daniel Drescher

Runners-Up heat: Christian Schafer, Patrick Funke, Teddy Sheringham, Neil Channing

FINAL

Luke Schwartz, Phil Laak, Jan Veit, Jennifer Tilly

The main changes to the event this year are that the starting stacks have been tripled, with the tables now being eight seat in the heats and seven players in the final. The buy-in is $10,000, with a total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner scooping $250,000. Updates will appear on: http://blog.partypoker.com/ and http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk/

Coverage will start on Five in the UK on October 28th and will be presented by Kara Scott.

LUKE ‘FULLFLUSH’ SCHWARTZ MAKES FINAL TABLE AT PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V COULD NOT PAYING FOR AN EGG SANDWICH COST HIM $250,000?

London – 12^th October 2009 – Heat Two of the https://www.partypoker.com World Open V continues! The Matchroom Sport organised event takes place from Sunday 11 October – Thursday 15 October 2009 in London. For the very first time the action takes place in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair and spectators are welcome to rail. The action starts at 11am every day.

Heat one was won by Luke Schwartz, who secures himself a place at the final table. The runner-up was Christian Schafer, an online qualifier from Germany. The tournament start was held up yesterday after Schwartz was refused entry to the Palm Beach Casino and he was only allowed to step foot in the building after tournament organizers provided him with an escort at all times. Talks are now ongoing to allow the controversial high stakes player back in the building on Thursday for the final but nothing is confirmed as yet. The casino ban is thought to be the result of his recent refusal to pay for a sandwich at EPT London.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “We hope that Luke will be able to take his seat at the final table but we have no guarantees as yet. In retrospect, perhaps Luke should have paid for the egg sandwich at the EPT – imagine if the casino ban costs him the chance of winning the $250,000 first prize? He could end up with serious egg on his face.”

More on this can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/world-open-v/more-trouble-for-luke-schwartz-at-partypokercom-world-open-v.html

The players are raving about the new triple stack structure at the PartyPoker.com World Open V. “This structure is the sickest I have ever played on a single table in front of cameras – it is brilliant,” said Phil Laak.

Tonight sees Mike Sexton, Roland De Wolfe, Jennifer Tilly, Sammy George and Neil Channing take to the felt.

Heat Two

Phil Laak

Simon Zach

Andy Greekfish

Praz Bansi

JP Kelly

Remy Biechel

Wayne O’Brien

Patrick Funke

Heat Three

Sammy George

Jennifer Tilly

Josh Gould

Neil Channing

Roland De Wolfe

Mike Sexton

Gustav Ekerot

Robert Sherwood

The main changes this year are that the starting stacks have been tripled, with the tables now being eight seat in the heats and seven players in the final. The buy-in is $10,000, with a total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner scooping $250,000. Updates will appear on: http://blog.partypoker.com/

PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN V IS UNDERWAY MORE TROUBLE FOR LUKE ‘FULLFLUSH’ SCHWARTZ

London – 11^th October 2009 – The https://www.partypoker.com World Open V is underway! The Matchroom Sport organised event takes place from Sunday 11 October – Thursday 15 October 2009 in London. For the very first time the action takes place in the prestigious Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair and spectators are welcome to rail. The action starts at 11am every day.

The tournament got underway late after Luke ‘FullFlush’ Schwartz arrived and the casino refused him entry. Eventually negotiations meant he could take part in the PartyPoker.com World Open V but at all times he has to be accompanied by an escort from the tournament organisers who is totally responsible for his behaviour.

More on this can be found at: http://blog.partypoker.com/world-open-v/more-trouble-for-luke-schwartz-at-partypokercom-world-open-v.html

Heat One

Andy Ward

James Akenhead

Luke Schwartz

Yevgeniy Timoshenko

Jason Adams

Ian Frazer

Christian Schafer

Jorg Muller

Heat Two

Phil Laak

Simon Zach

Andy Greekfish

Praz Bansi

JP Kelly

Remy Biechel

Wayne O’Brien

Patrick Funke

The main changes this year are that the starting stacks have been tripled, with the tables now being eight seat in the heats and seven players in the final. The buy-in is $10,000, with a total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner scooping $250,000. Updates will appear on: http://blog.partypoker.com/

Mike Sexton previews the 48 runner tournament on the PartyPoker Blog at:  http://blog.partypoker.com/world-open-v/mike-sexton-previews-partypokercom-world-open-v.html

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