Durrrr, Seed, Obrestad, Devilfish, Naujoks hunt Phil Laak’s title

PartyPoker’s World Open returns to Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair, London starting tomorrow September 6th. The buy-in is $10,000, 48 players will participate making the total prize pool of $480,000 – the winner will take $200,000.

The starting stacks have been tripled, there are eight seater heats and seven players will be on the final table on 10th September.

Phil Laak is back to defend his title but many big poker names are after it. Some of the 48 names playing are Tom Durrrr Dwan, Neil Channing, Huck Seed, Luke Schwartz, Annette Obrestad, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Juha Helppi, Dave Devilfish Ulliott, Sorel Mizzi, Jennifer Tilly, Sandra Naujoks, Mike Sexton, Big Game winner David Viffer Peat and WPT London winner Jake Cody.

PartyPoker Blog will feature full live updates and Jesse May will be around covering the most interesting happenings for The Poker Show.

These are the full starting heats:

Heat 1 (finished)

1st Sam Trickett
2nd Marty Smyth
3rd James Akenhead
4th Ian Frazer
5th Peter Jetten
6th Lee Atherton
7th Dan Fleyshman
8th Neil Channing

Heat 2 (finished)

1st Andrew Robl
2nd Brandon Cantu
3rd Felipe Ramos
4th Dragan Galic
5th Roland De Wolfe
6th James Mitchell
7th Tom Dwan
8th Josh Gould

Heat 3 (finished)

1st John Duthie
2nd MB Mahmood
3rd Barny Boatman
4th John Eames
5th Liam Flood
6th David ‘Viffer’ Peat
7th Giovanni Safina
9th Annette Obrestad

Heat 4 (finished)

1st Yevgeniy Timoshenko
2nd Frank Kassela
3rd Fabian Quoss
4th Dixie Dean
5th Tyron Krost
6th Praz Bansi
7th Simon Zach
8th Jake Cody

Heat 5 (8 and 9 September)

Phil Laak
John Tabatabai
Toby Lewis
Huck Seed
Dale Hoy
Heather Mercer
Philip Gruissem
Jason Grey

Heat 6 (9 September)

Juha Helppi
Devilfish
Sorel Mizzi
Jennifer Tilly
Sandra Naujoks
Roberto Romanello
Bruno Fitoussi
Mike Sexton