PARTYPOKER.COM EUROPEAN OPEN V SEMI-FINALS SET
Februar 12, 2009
London – 12th February 2009 – The semi-finals are set for the PartyPoker.com European Open V and with all the players remaining now in the money the first one is just about to get underway. Live reporting can be found at: http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk.
SEMI-FINAL 1 – Thursday 12 February
SEAT 1 – Chris Bury
SEAT 2 – Bambos Charalambos
SEAT 3 – David Rudling
SEAT 4 – Karl Mahrenholz
SEAT 5 – Andy Ward
SEAT 6 – Marc Goodwin
SEAT 7 – Craig Burgess
SEMI-FINAL 2 – Friday 13 February
Neil Channing
Peter Wood
Paul Marrow
Soraya Homam
Christoph Haller
William Taylor
Roberto Romanelllo
The Matchroom Sport organized tournament features 12 six seat heats and two six seat turbo runner-up heats. There will be two seven seat semi finals and one six seat final. The top three players in each of the semi-finals take their chip stacks through to the final. The total prize pool is $504,000 with first place scooping $200,000. Coverage of the event will be first broadcast on Five in the UK and then distributed internationally. Coverage of the PartyPoker.com European Open is amongst the best distributed in the world and commentary will be led by the one and only Jesse May.
Amongst the players who took part in the 72 runner $7,000 buy-in event included PartyPoker.com Premier League III stars Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Vicky Coren and Juha Helppi plus Poker Million finalists Ciaran O’Leary, Eoghan O’Dea and Liam Flood. They joined a field that also included Ian Frazer, Surinder Sunar, Barny Boatman, James Akenhead, Padraig Parkinson, Julian Thew, Donnacha O’Dea, May Maceiras Thomas Bihl, Robin Keston and UK Open champion Michael Keiner.



