{"id":15664,"date":"2011-11-10T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=15664"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:07:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:07:14","slug":"premier-league-poker-mixed-game-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-poker-mixed-game-championship.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15666\" title=\"Premier League Poker\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/premier-league-poker.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/>PartyPoker Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship takes place from November 13-17 2011 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/playboy-club-london.html\">Playboy Club London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The championship will test 12 of the world\u2019s best players in three disciplines of the game \u2013 No-Limit Hold\u2019em, Pot Limit Hold\u2019em and Pot Limit Omaha.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony G is one of the first players to sign up for the $25,000 buy-in event.\u00a0\u201cI cannot wait \u2013 I am going to take everything they have,\u201d said Tony G. \u201cI am going to mix the mixed game up and put on a show!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s fantastic that games other than No Limit Hold\u2019em are going to get TV exposure,\u201d said Mike Sexton. \u201cPoker is more than one game. This is a bold move, but a good one!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 12 players taking part are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mike Sexton \u2013 WPT legend from the Poker Hall of Fame direct from Las Vegas.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Luke Schwartz \u2013 online bad boy \u2018FullFlush1\u2019 but will he will be allowed sandwiches in the Playboy Casino?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matt Giannetti \u2013 direct from the November Nine, the WPT Malta champion and subject of Hellmuth man crush? Can he afford it?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max Pescatori \u2013 the pride of Italy, where\u2019s the bandana? He isn\u2019t a pirate anymore.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tony G \u2013 he wanted his Czech mate Zasko. Quiet, calming and fresh from meeting the Dutch Ralph Perry.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jennifer Tilly \u2013 she said on CBS this week she is quitting poker. Will this be her swan song?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sorel Mizzi \u2013 WPT high-roller champion. Love him or hate him, there\u2019s no doubt he\u2019s a favourite.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andy Frankenberger \u2013 WPT Season IX Player of the Year \u2013 seemingly unstoppable?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Carpenter \u2013 representing PartyPoker.com VIP\u2019s \u2013 a loyal, consistent and winning customer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yevgeniy Timoshenko \u2013 likes to ride Tony G\u2019s bike, a feared WPT World Championship winner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andrew Feldman \u2013 not a writer, won millions online &#8211; gets pulled over for not looking old enough to drive a sports car. UK Open winner.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">James Dempsey \u2013 he\u2019s a blonde WSOP bracelet winner and has been able to rustle up the $25k buy-in \u2013 if you can wake him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">12 players are split into 2 groups of 6:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>Max Pescatori<\/li>\n<li>Luke Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>Matt Giannetti<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Tilly<\/li>\n<li>James Dempsey<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mike Sexton<\/li>\n<li>Ben Carpenter<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Feldman<\/li>\n<li>Sorel Mizzi<\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/li>\n<li>Andy Frankenberger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each player will play 3 times. Top three progress through to the final. All the live updates, pictures and videos will be available on PartyPoker Blog. This is the prize money breakdown:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>$100,000<\/li>\n<li>$65,000<\/li>\n<li>$45,000<\/li>\n<li>$35,000<\/li>\n<li>$30,000<\/li>\n<li>$25,000<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Stay tuned for more details on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/\">PartyPoker Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PartyPoker Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship takes place from November 13-17 2011 at the Playboy Club London. The championship will test 12 of the world\u2019s best players in three disciplines of the game \u2013 No-Limit Hold\u2019em, Pot Limit Hold\u2019em and Pot Limit Omaha. Tony G is one of the first players to sign up<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-poker-mixed-game-championship.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31398,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions\/31398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}