{"id":26591,"date":"2013-03-17T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:25:45","slug":"premier-leagues-big-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-leagues-big-kick-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier League&#039;s big kick off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PLPV5902.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PLPV5902.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PLPV5902-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHello and welcome to the PartyPoker.com Premier League VI which is taking place at Aspers Casino in Stratford, which is just a stone&#8217;s throw from the Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>There are 16 world class players all hoping to be standing on top of the podium come Saturday night, they&#8217;ve been divided into two groups of eight and the alphabet dictates that Group A gets underway tonight.<\/p>\n<p>And boy is Group A a doozy, taking to the felt for the first of four heats is a veritable cornucopia of poker talent. In seat order for the first heat we have:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Negreanu<\/strong> &#8211; Two WPT titles, four WSOP bracelets, sixth on the all-time money list with over $16,000,000 in lifetime earnings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Seiver<\/strong> &#8211; The defending champion is in great form in 2013 winning a $100,000 high roller event at the start of the year. He&#8217;ll be hoping to become the first two-time winner of the PartyPoker.com Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Duhamel <\/strong>&#8211; The winner of the 2010 WSOP Main Event has proven he&#8217;s no one hit wonder with a string of impressive results in High Roller events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonio Esfandiari <\/strong>&#8211; Two WPT titles, three WSOP bracelets, winner of The Big One for One Drop and top of the all time money list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sam Trickett<\/strong> &#8211; The only hope of a home winner rests in the capable hands of Sam Trickett. The Brit has been tearing it up a second place finish in the WPT<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Hellmuth<\/strong> &#8211; With a total of 13, the Poker Brat has the most WSOP bracelets in history. He&#8217;s the only player to ever win the WSOP and WSOPE main events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dan &#8216;Jungleman&#8217; Cates<\/strong> &#8211; Whilst the high stakes cash game pro&#8217;s best results have come online, he&#8217;s no slouch on the live felt and finished runner-up to Scott Seiver in this event in Season V.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marvin Rettenmaier<\/strong> &#8211; Winner of back to back WPT Titles the TeamPartyPoker.com is the hottest property in tournament poker right now and sits atop the GPI tournament rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The players have just taken their seats and action is underway, the live stream, which is on a 30 minute delay will start at around 6.50pm GMT. You can watch the live stream by clicking on this link bit.ly\/plpstream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to the PartyPoker.com Premier League VI which is taking place at Aspers Casino in Stratford, which is just a stone&#8217;s throw from the Olympic Stadium. There are 16 world class players all hoping to be standing on top of the podium come Saturday night, they&#8217;ve been divided into two groups of eight<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-leagues-big-kick-off.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":26603,"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\/26591"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76654,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions\/76654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}