PartyPoker.com Confirms Six Players for Premier League VI
This was published 14-02-2013The sixth edition of the PartyPoker.com Premier League is scheduled to take place at Aspers Casino from Sunday, 17th March to Saturday, 23rd March, 2013. Sixteen of the world’s top players are due to battle it out in this popular tournament which will cost each player an amount of $125,000 to enter.
The players will first be split into two groups of eight. These groups will then play four league matches each. Players will be awarded with points during the league matches that will depend on where they finish. Each point will be worth an amount of $2,000 in cash.
Once the four league game has come to an end, the top three point earners will be put up into the final while the fourth and fifth place finishers will play a series of heads-up matches in order to determine who will go through to the eight handed final table.
The names of six players have been confirmed to play in this year’s Premier League, the first two being Daniel Negreanu and Scott Seiver. Seiver was the winner of the Premier League last year and revealed that he enjoyed the interesting format immensely and that it was fantastic to win. Seiver added that he is looking forward to defending his title.
Team PokerStars Pro Negreanu said that he is extremely excited to be back playing this year’s Premier League. He added that he loved the format and special events like this are fantastic for poker. Nebreanu also said that he is honored to have been invited and that he happily supports the event that he plans on winning.
Others making the trip to the British capital are Antonio Esfandiari, The Big One for One Drop winner, Phil Hellmuth, the 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, Phil “The Unabomber” Laak and Tony G.
Although PartyPoker have not yet released information on the other players, it is presumed that players such as Vanessa Selbst, Sam Trickett, Daniel Cates, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan will be announced in the near future.
