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PARTYPOKER.COM WOMEN’S WORLD OPEN III FINAL TABLE IS SET WPT FOUNDER AND A POKER HISTORIAN JOIN SEXTON FOR HALL OF FAME CAMPAIGN

Mai 27, 2009

London — 27th May 2009 – The final table is set at the http://www.partypoker.com/ Women’s World Open III in London! The popular Matchroom Sport organized tournament sees 36 players from around the world battle it out for a $108,000 prize pool in the $3,000 buy-in event. The final table is the strongest in the event’s history and the winner takes home a cool $50,000. Tournament Director Mad Marty Wilson has called shuffle up and deal and live updates can be followed at http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk/

Jen Mason, Maria Demetriou, Shana Casaletto, Aisling Collins and Cat O’Neill lead the charge for the UK. Mason reached the final table of this event in its inaugural running in 2007, finishing second to Beverley Pace. Also a highly respected live tournament reporter, Mason will be looking to go one better this time and has a respected aggressive game that fits well with the format. Similarly well supported is Maria ‘Chili’ Demetriou. Maria was one the favourites to win the tournament before a card was dealt and amongst other great domestic achievements has made the final table of Late Night Poker. She came through what many thought was the most difficult of the heats that also featured EPT Dortmund winner Sandra Naujoks and Spanish whirlwind May Maceiras.

Shana Casaletto has won back-to-back GUKPT side events recently and was in dominant form taking down the first heat. Aisling Collins is a tv producer, who, like a lot of the field, has big support in the green room and in the online forums. Cat O’Neill is from Belfast and was put forward for the tournament by WSOP bracelet holder, Poker Million and PartyPoker.com World Open winner Marty Smyth. Joining the UK hot shots is Japan’s Kim Wooka, who dazzled to win her heat. Wooka already has great name in the Far East as Japanese Ladies Champion but was discovered by organizers of this tournament at the Asian Poker Tour Manila event back in January and she certainly isn’t disappointing. Joining Kim is Cecilia Nordenstem, who has for a long time been one of the most glamorous figures on the Swedish circuit but also a deadly player as she showed in her heat. Cecilia cashed in her first five WPT events.

Other players who failed to make the final table include PartyPoker.com Premier League III star and inaugural WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad, Germany’s Christine Klecz and WSOP bracelet holder Jennifer Tilly. Among the others who took part included UK Women’s Poker Tour Champion Lynne Beaumont, Veronique Gordon, European Ladies champion Liv Boeree, France’s Lise ‘The Pink Lady’ Vigezzi, Ireland’s Colette Murphy, Eliza Burnett, Stephanie Bergener and Polish boxing champion Agnieska Rylik. There were also four specially invited players from PartyPoker.com’s VIP club, http://www.palladiumlounge.com/

Women’s World Open II defending champion Soraya Homam from Germany narrowly missed out on a place at the final table by finishing runner-up in the second chance heat. The UK’s Beverley Pace won the inaugural Women’s World Open I title.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “The standard of play has been strongest in the event’s history and the final table is sure to be a great spectacle.”

The tournament featured six six-seater heats with one six seat runner-up heat. The final table features seven players. Commentary will be led by Jesse May, who will be joined by Annette Obrestad. The action will be broadcast on Five in the UK later this year and then distributed internationally. A limited number of qualifiers took place with Equal Chance, International Club and the Eglinton Casino in Galway all running satellites.

PARTYPOKER.COM WOMEN’S WORLD OPEN III – London 24 – 27th May 2009

FINAL TABLE SEATING POSITIONS

SEAT ONE – KIM WOOKA (JAP)

SEAT TWO – JEN MASON (UK)

SEAT THREE – AISLING COLLINS (UK)

SEAT FOUR – MARIA DEMETRIOU (UK)

SEAT FIVE – CECILIA NORDENSTAM (SWE)

SEAT SIX – CAT O’NEILL (UK)

SEAT SEVEN – SHANA CASALETTO (UK)

FINAL TABLE PRIZE POOL

1st – $50,000

2nd – $20,000

3rd – $12,000

4th – $10,000

5th – $8,000

6th – $5,000

7th – $3,000

Campaigning for Mike Sexton induction to Poker’s Hall of Fame in 2009 is in full swing.

Vote now at http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com/pokerhalloffame/halloffamevoting.asp.

Among those to come on board include WPT Founder, CEO and President Steve Lipscomb and Des Wilson author of ‘Ghosts at the Table – The Amazing Story of Poker.’ They join inaugural WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad in publicly endorsing the ‘Ambassador of Poker.’

Steve Lipscomb — “I would support Mike Sexton for president, much less induction into the Poker Hall of Fame.  Mike is the consummate face of poker.  He was making poker mainstream before it had a prayer of being mainstream.  He helped launch the World Poker Tour – which changed the poker world forever.  Then, he convinced the World Poker Tour to put PartyPoker on the Tour in season one – which changed the poker world again forever.  His commitment and love for the game — which is evidenced every time he appears on-screen in a World Poker Tour episode — is part of what has transformed this great game into the first-ever global aspirational sport.  Let’s get the man into the Poker Hall of Fame!”

Des Wilson — “Having spent a number of years studying the history of the game, I can think of nobody more deserving than Mike Sexton to be in the hall of fame and urge everyone else to support him. He is more than a great player – he is, and has been for many years, an outstanding ambassador for the game.”

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