{"id":2738,"date":"2010-02-12T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:16:27","slug":"premier-league-poker-main-event-has-just-kicked-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-poker-main-event-has-just-kicked-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Premier League Poker Main Event &#8211; Phil Laak wins Heat 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2752\" title=\"Phil Laak\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/phil-laak.jpeg\" alt=\"Phil Laak\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/phil-laak.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/phil-laak-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Premier League Poker main event just kicked off few minutes ago. Poker stars like Phil Hellmuth, Vanessa Rousso and JC Tran, alongside TeamParty&#8217;s Tony G and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/team-party-premier-league-poker-final-table-live-blog.html\">Ian Frazer<\/a>, and the PartyPoker online qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-qualifier-giovanni-safina-wins-the-100000-premier-league-seat.html\">Giovanni Safina<\/a> are all up for the fight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All the action takes place at the M Resort in Las Vegas and the final table is on 18th February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The format is as follows: 6 heats, 8 handed tables, and a point system. Each player will play four times. After the initial heats, the top four according to number of points earned go to the final table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">5th placed player will play 8th placed player in a heads-up, same does 6th versus 7th player. Winners of heads-up matches will complete the 6 handed final table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This is what Daniel Negreanu had to say minutes before kicking off the first heat:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 6 heats are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heat 1 (done):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Phil Laak &#8211; 16 points<\/li>\n<li>JC Tran &#8211; 11 points<\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko &#8211; 8 points<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Rousso &#8211; 6 points<\/li>\n<li>Luke Schwartz &#8211; 4 points<\/li>\n<li>Roland De Wolfe &#8211; 3 points<\/li>\n<li>Ian Frazer &#8211; 2 points<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Negreanu &#8211; 0 points<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Phil Laak won the first heat &#8211; see all the pictures at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=198529&amp;id=102206559991&amp;ref=mf\">PartyPoker Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heat 2 (13\/02\/2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Hellmuth<\/li>\n<li>Phil Laak<\/li>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>JC Tran<\/li>\n<li>Roland De Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/li>\n<li>David Benyamine<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Safina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Heat 3 (14\/02\/2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Hellmuth<\/li>\n<li>Roland De Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/li>\n<li>Ian Frazer<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Negreanu<\/li>\n<li>David Benyamine<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Rousso<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Safina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Heat 4 (15\/02\/2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Laak<\/li>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>Luke Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>JC Tran<\/li>\n<li>Ian Frazer<\/li>\n<li>David Benyamine<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Rousso<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Safina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Heat 5 (16\/02\/2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Hellmuth<\/li>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>Luke Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>JC Tran<\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Negreanu<\/li>\n<li>Ian Frazer<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Safina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Heat 6 (17\/02\/2010):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phil Hellmuth<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Negreanu<\/li>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>Luke Schwartz<\/li>\n<li>Roland De Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>Phil Laak<\/li>\n<li>David Benyamine<\/li>\n<li>Vanessa Rousso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The point system in each heat is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st place: 16 points<\/li>\n<li>2nd place: 11 points<\/li>\n<li>3rd place: 8 points<\/li>\n<li>4th place: 6 points<\/li>\n<li>5th place: 4 points<\/li>\n<li>6th place: 3 points<\/li>\n<li>7th place: 2 points<\/li>\n<li>8th place: 0 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 point equals $2,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For extensive live coverage of the full event, make sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/live-reporting\/partypoker-premier-league-iv\/premier-league-iv\/\">PokerNews Premier League Poker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier League Poker main event just kicked off few minutes ago. Poker stars like Phil Hellmuth, Vanessa Rousso and JC Tran, alongside TeamParty&#8217;s Tony G and Ian Frazer, and the PartyPoker online qualifier Giovanni Safina are all up for the fight. All the action takes place at the M Resort in Las Vegas and the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/premier-league-poker-main-event-has-just-kicked-off.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[205],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738"}],"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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38373,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/38373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}