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ONLINE QUALIFIER WELL POISED FOR EXTRA $1 MILLION PAYOUT AT WPT LONDON POKER CLASSIC! GIOVANNI SAFINA TO THE RESCUE!

September 4, 2010

London – 3rd September 2010 – Day four is underway at the inaugural WPT London Poker Classic, presented by http://www.partypoker.com/ at The Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair. With 18 players left, Team PartyPoker.it pro Giovanni Safina is the big chip leader on 1,271,000. Safina is famous for finishing third in the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV -cashing for $156,000 and winning a $100,000 Team PartyPoker.com contract. After qualifying for the Premier League for just €100 Safina, a 44-year lawyer from Palermo, locked horns and beat the likes of Hellmuth and Negreanu at the famous event in Vegas back in February.

There is, however, a potentially bigger story emerging. Third in chips is 21-year-old Swede Kristoffer Thorsson. Kristoffer won the Amsterdam Master Classics of Poker last November for €636,120. He 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.

Live updates and full information on the tournament can be found at: http://www.partypoker.com/blog

Kristoffer said: “There is still a long way to go but knowing about the extra $1 million payout has given me extra pressure. I know the other players are desperate for me to win and I will be doing my best!”

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “ There is little doubt that Kristoffer is a top player and is a massive contender for the title with eighteen players left. His friends Per Linde and Jimmy Ostensson both made big impressions at the WPT in Paris and they say he is the better player! We are biting our finger nails, in fact we are unlikely to have any left by the end of the day – it could get mega expensive and history could be made. Safina has such a big chip lead so it is a case of hoping our Italian pro with a track record of upsetting the odds saves PartyPoker from taking a bath with a $1 million payout. The atmosphere is going to be as tense as it gets today.”

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. Good luck to Safina too – he is a great player. I will never forget him calling Luke Schwartz a little boy at the Premier League even though he doesn’t speak much English.”

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

The latest episode of The Poker Show with Jesse May is live – see: http://www.partypoker.com/blog/jesse-may/poker-show-tony-g-wants-the-lot.html

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