PARTYPOKER LATE NIGHT POKER – ODDS RELEASED ON RUNNERS AND RIDERS
October 18th 2007 - PartyBets.com is offering odds on the next series of PartyPoker Late Night Poker, which is being filmed in Cardiff from Tuesday 23rd October. Favourites include Roland De Wolfe, Annette Obrestad, Liam Flood and Ian Frazer. The tournament will be shown on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland next year and then distributed internationally.
A PartyBets.com spokesman said: “With so many great players in the line-up it is very hard to make the market and pretty much impossible to make a concrete favourite. Ian Frazer and Liam Flood are amongst the frontrunners because of their previous success in similar formats, while Pascal Perrault is fancied on the basis of form.”
“Odds certainly spark debate. We just hope we don’t catch a cold with poker betting like we did when a punter made $25,000 by backing Jon Kalmar with $100 to make the final table of the WSOP Main event at odds of 250/1.”
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 2007 is $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There will be 49 players paying a $5,000 buy-in with seven heats featuring seven players, followed by a semi final and a final. The field will also feature ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive tournaments on PartyPoker.
Coverage of the tournament will be filmed by Presentable and will be presented by Vicky Coren, with Thomas Kremser the Tournament Director. Presentable also produced the coverage of the successful PartyPoker Poker Nations Cup for Channel 4 earlier this year. PartyPoker Late Night Poker is going back to its original format this year and the way the action is filmed for television is changing and will include flashbacks to previous series’.
October 19, 2007