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DOH FLANDERS! THE LUCKY DONKEY RIDES AGAIN! PIPPA FLANDERS WINS PARTYPOKER.COM WOMEN’S WORLD OPEN IV

März 26, 2010

London – 25th March 2010 – Pippa Flanders and her lucky donkey Eemore spectacularly rode to victory at the http://www.partypoker.com/ Women’s World Open IV in London! The 24 player $3,000 buy-in tournament featured a total prize pool of $72,000, with Pippa picking up the winner’s cheque for $30,000. Pippa previously won the PartyPoker.com World Open II in 2006, scooping $200,000.

Pippa is always accompanied at the table by her lucky donkey mascot Eemore – but far from being a donkey herself Pippa showed huge class to take down the title. Three-handed she was in a hugely dominant position with more than half the chips on the table but a heads-up fight back from eventual runner-up Helen Firth meant this dominance appeared to be vanishing into thin air. Pippa may have lost the lead but she didn’t lose her head, however, and she fought back much to the delight of her husband Tim, who was railing her. Pacing up and down, Tim exclaimed ‘this is torture,’ as Pippa took the massive chip lead, lost it and then bravely fought back.

“That was a wild merry-go-round,” said Pippa. “It’s absolutely brilliant to have won – this really is so special to me. I would hate to lose Eemore – he brings me such good luck!” Pippa, from Preston in the UK, had played all day and most of the night after coming through the final heat to sit third in chips going on to the six-handed final table. Never afraid to make a move, Pippa enthralled the green room spectators with her willingness to put it all on the line. “She may look innocent but she’s a tiger,” said Jesse May, who was accompanied by Team PartyPoker.com’s Kara Scott in the commentary box for the final.

The final hand came when Pippa picked up Ac Qd after a brief break. Pippa raised and Helen Firth pushed all-in with Kd Qc. The board ran out 3d, Qs, 9c, 9s, As to give a clearly exhausted Flanders victory.

First out on the final table was Croatia’s Tatjana Pasalic, who had come to the tournament to play and carry out some presenting duties. She clashed with fellow short stack Helen Firth as A2 off-suit failed to make ground on Ad Kd. Next out was French journalist Claire Renaut after her AQ ran into Pippa’s AK. Railed by top French professional Fabrice Soullier, Claire was disappointed but still pleased with her pay day.

After this elimination Pippa was completely dominant with over 40% of the chips in play. Fellow journalist Eliza Burnett went out in fourth, the same place she secured in the Women’s World Open II. Out in third was the chip leader going into the final table Caroline Cove, a 41-year-old landlady from West Lancashire. Cove wasn’t afraid to table talk and was railed by her boyfriend, recent GUKPT Walsall winner Colin McTaggart. When last orders was called for Caroline she still went home with $10,000. It was left to a fellow landlady in the form of Helen Firth to take on the might of Flanders and the 36-year-old 2009 UK Ladies Poker Tour from Stockton on Tees started off like a train with the chip lead of 2,560,000/2,240,000 but Flanders clawed back for the deserved victory.

Full hand analysis can be found at: http://www.matchroompoker.com/livereporting.htm. Tatjana Pasalic recounts her experiences at: http://blog.partypoker.com/womens-world-open-iv/tatjana-pasalic-my-first-final-table.html and pictures and videos are available on PartyPoker.com’s official facebook page.

Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Matchroom Sport said: “Pippa Flanders has some serious form in our tournaments and we’d like to congratulate her on her win. The Women’s World Open is always a favourite with broadcasters and this tournament will make great tv with the lively table talk and fantastic action.”

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “When Pippa took down the World Open II in 2006 she won one of the biggest prizes won by a woman in Europe at the time. She has been a permanent fixture at most of our live tournaments and always impresses – she deserved this victory.”

The 24 player $3,000 buy-in tournament featured a total prize pool of $72,000 and a six-seat final table. The top two players from each of the three deep-stacked eight handed heats carried their chips through to the final table. Starting stacks for the heats were 200,000, with blinds starting at 1,000/2,000. Amongst those eliminated in the heats included Team PartyPoker.com’s Kara Scott, Annette Obrestad, Women’s World Open III winner Aisling Collins and last year’s runner-up, Kim Wooka from Japan. Others to exit include Laurence Grondin, Maria Demetriou, Christine Klecz, and season two winner Soraya Homam.

Coverage of the Matchroom Sport organised event will be first broadcast on Five in the UK later this year and then distributed internationally.

RESULTS: PARTYPOKER.COM WOMEN’S WORLD OPEN IV – London 23rd – 24th March 2010

1st) PIPPA FLANDERS (UK) $30,000

2nd) HELEN FIRTH (UK) $15,000

3rd) CAROLINE COVE (UK) $10,000

4th) ELIZA BURNETT (UK) $8,000

5th) CLAIRE RENAUT (FRA) $6,000

6th) TATJANA PASALIC (CRO) $3,000

FINAL TABLE CHIPCOUNTS AND SEAT ALLOCATION

1)TATJANA PASALIC (CRO) 465,000

2)PIPPA FLANDERS (UK) 1,135,000

3)CLAIRE RENAUT (FRA) 1,275,000

4)ELIZA BURNETT (UK) 310,000

5)HELEN FIRTH (UK) 325,000

6)CAROLINE COVE (UK) 1,290,000

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