{"id":19321,"date":"2012-03-30T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=19321"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:05:11","slug":"mike-sexton-premier-league-v-his-thoughts-on-the-players-part-2-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-premier-league-v-his-thoughts-on-the-players-part-2-of-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Sexton \u2013 Premier League V his thoughts on the players \u2013 Part 2 of 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back with Part 2 of Mike Sextons thoughts on the Premier League V and with literally days before the event starts things are really starting to heat up we can tell you. Yesterday Mike went over his thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-on-the-premier-league-v-and-his-thoughts-on-the-players-part-1-of-4.html\">TonyG, Andy Frankenberger, Erik Seidel and Luke Schwartz<\/a>; today let\u2019s hear what he\u2019s got to say on a few more poker legends:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laak590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laak590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Laak590-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Phil Laak &#8211; The &#8220;Unibomber&#8221; is one of the most likeable guys in poker and is famous for making the hooded sweatshirt so popular.\u00a0 He also plays a pretty good game of poker, but against this line-up, pretty good won&#8217;t cut it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll\u00a0tell you this\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Phil Laak\u00a0is as much fun to play poker with as anybody in the world.\u00a0\u00a0He always entertains everybody at the table and is always great for TV poker.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eugene590BW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eugene590BW.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Eugene590BW-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Eugene Katcholov was born in the Ukraine but grew up in New York. He&#8217;s very smart and very quiet, but deadly (to others) on the poker table. He has a WSOP bracelet, a WPT title, &amp; a PCA High Rollers title to his credit. In 7 years playing tournament poker, he&#8217;s accumulated over $6M in winnings! His feel for the game is uncanny<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Durr590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Durr590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Durr590-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom \u2018Durrrr\u2019 Dwan &#8211;\u00a0 He&#8217;s certainly one of the top young guns in the world.\u00a0 His performance in the ultra stake cash games have impressed everyone.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve played in some BIG games with Durrrr and I can tell you, he is &#8220;wowing&#8221; to watch.\u00a0 His chips are always moving and most of the time, he ends up with the biggest stack at the table.\u00a0 I can tell you this &#8211; you can&#8217;t count on one hand the number of players in the world that are more fun to watch play poker than Durrrr.\u00a0 If you like action, keep your eyes on him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s part two over, come back for more in part three for Sextons thoughts on Sam Trickett, Daniel\u2019 Jungleman\u2019 Cates and Patrik Antonius. What&#8217;s your thoughts so far on the line up let us know below\u2026<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re back with Part 2 of Mike Sextons thoughts on the Premier League V and with literally days before the event starts things are really starting to heat up we can tell you. Yesterday Mike went over his thoughts on TonyG, Andy Frankenberger, Erik Seidel and Luke Schwartz; today let\u2019s hear what he\u2019s got to<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mike-sexton-premier-league-v-his-thoughts-on-the-players-part-2-of-4.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":19533,"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\/19321"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76958,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19321\/revisions\/76958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19321"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}