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PARTYPOKER.COM EUROPEAN OPEN V STARTS FRIDAY

Februar 4, 2009

Gibraltar – 4th February 2009 – The PartyPoker.com European Open V gets underway in London on Friday 6 February and runs until Friday 13 February, which will be unlucky for some as only one player will scoop the $200,000 first prize!

 

Amongst the players to look out for in the famous 72 runner $7,000 buy-in event include 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. Others signed up to play include Austin Healey, Ian Frazer, Surinder Sunar, Barny Boatman, James Akenhead, Padraig Parkinson, Julian Thew, Donnacha O’Dea, May Maceiras, Marc Goodwin, Thomas Bihl, Robin Keston, Neil Channing, Roberto Romanello and UK Open champion Michael Keiner.

 

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.

 

45-year-old Nick Slade, a professional from Preston, Lancashire in the UK took down the biggest title of his career when he scooped $200,000 and the European Open IV title last year. Slade ended up heads-up with 45-year-old Worcester internet sports trader Craig Burgess and both were regarded as outsiders on a final table that also included WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad, Juha Helppi, Ian Frazer and Josh Tyler. The players carried their chips through from the semi-finals and Slade was fourth at that stage with 124,000. Former champion Frazer was the chip leader with 469,000, Tyler had 351,000, Obrestad 235,000, Helppi 114,000 and Burgess 107,000. The balance of power swung dramatically throughout with Tyler, Obrestad and Frazer all appearing to be in the box seat at a point. The defining hand that gave Slade the title saw Burgess go all-in with QQ. Slade, who had dominated after going into the heads-up with over 90% of the chips in play held K 3 and paired the K on the flop which held up.

PARTYPOKER.COM EUROPEAN OPEN IV – 3 Mills, London 1st-8th February 2008

1st Nick Slade $200,000

2nd Craig Burgess $100,000

3rd Ian Frazer $50,000

4th Annette Obrestad $30,000

5th Josh Tyler $25,000

6th Juha Helppi $20,000

PARTYPOKER EUROPEAN OPEN IV – CHIP COUNTS AT THE START OF THE FINAL TABLE

Ian Frazer – 469,000

Josh Tyler – 351,000

Annette Obrestad – 235,000

Nick Slade – 124,000

Juha Helppi – 114,000

Craig Burgess – 107,000

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