Party poker has announced the lineup for the Premier League III event which will take place on November 24th.
The players who will be compete in Premier League is:
Tom “Durrrr” Dwan
Peter Eastgate
Juha Helppi
JC Tran
Nenad Medic
Victoria Coren
Andy Black
Roland de Wolfe
Tony G
Annette Obrestad
Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot
Phil Hellmuth
Many players will watch how Peter Eastgate does in this event since he just recently won the 2008 WSOP main event and $9,152,416.
At 22 years of age, Eastgate became the youngest person ever to win the WSOP main event.
Phil Hellmuth used to hold the record since he won when he was 24-year-old.
Before this event Phil Hellmuth said:
"Only a few weeks back, Peter Eastgate broke my record as 'youngest world champion of poker in history' at the tender age of 22-years-old. Talk about being on form, this kid won over $9 million at the WSOP Main Event! I'm looking forward to watching the way this young gun plays his hands in the Party poker Premier League."
Two other young players that will draw a lot of attention at the event are Tom “durrr” Dwan and Annette Obrestad.
Dwan is 22 years old and is one of the best online poker players in the world, he has already won over $6 million this year.
20-year-old Annette Obrestad is also a very successful online player and won the 2007 WSOP Europe too.
The buy-ins are $75,000 and the total prize pool is $1.25 million.
Each participant will play 6 different times and the top 4 will move on to the heads-up, whoever wins the two semifinal heads-up games will advance to the final where the top prize is waiting.
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