FINAL TABLE SET FOR PARTYPOKER LATE NIGHT POKER
Vienna – 10th March 2008 — The PartyPoker East versus West Team Cup II at the Concord Casino in Vienna is underway with 30 representatives of Eastern Europe taking on 30 from Western Europe in a €60,000 freeroll. The participants are made up of online qualifiers and well known pros. Leading the field for the west is Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott, recent Premier League Poker runner-up Roland de Wolfe, Irish bracelet holder Ciaran O’Leary, ‘Flying Dutchman’ Marcel Luske and Ian Frazer. The East features Tony G, top Russian Alexander Kravchenko and last year’s European Challenge winner Branimir Brunovic.
The €60,000 prize pool for the PartyPoker East versus West Team Cup is an additional bonus for online qualifiers for the European Challenge II. The final table of 10 will share €37,500, while the winning team will get €22,500 split between them so even if a player goes out first hand they could profit from successful team mates. When the first card was dealt bookmaker PartyBets.com rated Team West favourites to retain the Cup at 4/5 with Team East at evens. The €3000 + €150 buy-in main event, the PartyPoker European Challenge II starts tomorrow.
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Part one of the final of PartyPoker Late Night Poker starts Tuesday night/Wednesday morning on Channel 4 in the UK at 12.40am after the Cheltenham Festival highlights. Part two covering the climax of the event will be shown late night on Tuesday 18th.
The final table features serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder ‘The Cobra’ Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, Swedish online qualifier Andreas Jörbeck, 2008 Premier League winner Andy Black and 2007 Late Night Poker Masters champion David Tighe. Top UK player Maria Demetriou won last week’s semi-final to win her place seeing off ‘Flying Dutchman’ Marcel Luske, WSOP bracelet holder Praz Bansi, Polish television presenter Agnieszka Rylik, Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin, France’s Pascal Perrault and former champion Simon Trumper.
PARTYPOKER LATE NIGHT POKER FINAL TABLE
IAN FRAZER (ENG)
EDDY SCHARF (GER)
SURINDER SUNAR (ENG)
ROLAND DE WOLFE (ENG)
ANDREAS JORBECK (SWE)
ANDY BLACK (IRE)
DAVID TIGHE (ENG)
MARIA DEMETRIOU (ENG)
Late Night Poker revolutionised people’s perception of poker when the tournament was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999 and was the first to use under the table cameras. The total prize pool for 2008 is $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There were 49 players paying a $5,000 including ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive online tournaments on PartyPoker.
March 12, 2008