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KRISTOFFER THORSSON SECOND GOING INTO WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC FINAL TABLE ONLINE QUALIFIER VICTORY COULD SPARK EXTRA $1 MILLION PAYOUT!!

September 4, 2010

London – 3rd September 2010 – The final table is set at the inaugural WPT London Poker Classic, presented by http://www.partypoker.com/ at The Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair. Eight players remain and the excitement is at fever pitch because sitting second in chips is 21-year-old Swede Kristoffer Thorsson. Kristoffer qualified online for the WPT London Poker Classic through the PartyPoker.com WPT global package meaning if he was to win this tournament an EXTRA $1 MILLION PAYOUT FROM PARTYPOKER.COM WOULD BE TRIGGERED.

Kristoffer would be entitled to an extra $500,000, with fellow online qualifiers who also made their way through to London on the global package through PartyPoker.com getting a share of the other $500,000! If Kristoffer were to win the tournament he would take the first prize of £273,783, plus US$500,000! Not bad from a US$800 investment in online qualifiers.

The final table starts at The Palm Beach Casino at 3pm (BST) tomorrow. Chip leader is PartyPoker.it Team Pro Giovanni Safina, who recently finished third in PartyPoker.com Premier League IV securing himself a professional contract in the process.

WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC FINAL TABLE CHIPCOUNTS

Giovanni Safina   1,546,000

Kristoffer Thorsson 1,317,000

Fabian Quoss      1,068,000

Saarisilta Mattsson 805,000

Jake Cody             786,000

Bruce Atkinson     535,000

Sandiep Khosa    397,000

Gareth Teatum    387,000

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“This is amazing, it is so exciting,” said Kristoffer who won the Amsterdam Master Classics of Poker last November for €636,120. “If I win I get an extra $500,000 and nine other online qualifiers get to chop up $500,000.”

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “None of the nine players who are entitled to a share of the $500,000 cashed at the WPT London Poker Classic – Kristoffer could give them the ultimate bad beat jackpot! We are praying that Giovanni Safina saves us from a monster $1 million extra payout. This final table is going to be as tense as it gets.”

Two of the nine qualifiers entitled to their share of the money are fellow Swedes Per Linde and Jimmy Ostensson – both of whom made big impressions at the WPT in Paris.

Per is cheering on his friend and said: “We’re absolutely stoked. I busted out on the first day but thanks to Kristoffer I could still win over $55,000 from the WPT London Poker Classic after qualifying online at PartyPoker.com. It’s unbelievable.”

Tony G, who is at the Palm Beach for the £15,000 televised high rollers tournament today said: “I was cursing Kristoffer for putting a bad beat on me after he sent me on my bike and out of the tournament but good luck to the lad. This is huge.”

The £15,000 televised high rollers tournament starts at 3pm today, with registration open until 9.30pm.

WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC, PRESENTED BY PARTYPOKER.COM – CHIP COUNTS

1,271,000 1 6 Safina, Giovanni
720,000 1 8 Quoss, Fabian
685,000 2 6 Thorsson, Kristoffer
538,000 1 7 Cody, Jake
520,000 1 1 Teatum, Gareth
386,000 2 3 Dwyer, John
367,000 2 2 Mohammed, Barkatul
363,000 2 8 Khosa, Sandiep
356,000 1 2 Patrick, Philip
295,000 2 1 Mattsson Saarisilta, Nichlas
250,000 1 5 Schultz, Jorg
215,000 2 5 Shakerchi, Talal
209,000 2 4 Pavlou, Mario
207,000 1 9 Atkinson, Bruce
186,000 1 4 De-Mel, Priyan
142,000 1 3 Bajarian, Bahman
105,000 2 9 Martin, William
59,000 2 7 Limbert, Karl

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