PARTYPOKER.COM WORLD OPEN IV IS UNDERWAY!
Gibraltar – 25th April 2008 –The PartyPoker.com World Open IV is underway in London, running until Friday 2nd May 2008.
The action gets underway with a celebrity table where one player will win through to this afternoon’s heat. Taking to the felt aiming to secure that one spot are snooker legend and Poker Million winner Jimmy White, Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell, cricketer Min Patel, DJ Brandon Block, TV presenter Kara Scott and PartyPoker Dutch Open winner Maud Mulder, a television presenter and pop star from Holland.
Other names to look out for at the PartyPoker.com World Open IV include Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott, Neil Channing, Juha Helppi, Marc Goodwin, Barny and Ross Boatman, Theo Jorgensen, Ian Frazer, Marty Smyth, Roberto Romanello, Jon Kalmar, Jon Magill, Thomas Bihl, Robin Keston, Roy Brindley, Surinder Sunar, John Tabatabai, Pippa Flanders and Liam Flood. Also taking his place will be the winner of the recent PartyPoker.com European Open IV, Nick Slade. Bookmaker PartyBets.com made man of the moment Neil Channing the 16/1 favourite off the back of his recent successes at the Irish Open and PartyPoker.com Poker Nations Cup.
The Matchroom Sport organised event will be broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK later this year and distributed internationally. The 72 runner $8,000 buy-in event features a first prize of $250,000 from a total prize pool of $576,000. Last year, 45-year-old former Sidcup betting shop owner Anthony Hardy triumphed over a final table that also featured Ian Cox, Ram Vaswani, David Rudling, Ian Frazer and eventual runner-up Ian Woodley. The winner in 2006 was Pippa Flanders, while in 2005 Lee Nelson won the inaugural event.
The winner of each of the 12 heats will progress to the semi-final stage, and, for the first time in the event’s history all is not lost for the runners-up on the table as they will battle it out for the remaining two semi-final spots in “last chance” turbo heats.
April 30, 2008