{"id":27647,"date":"2013-03-22T04:26:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27647"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:54:28","slug":"antonio-esfandiari-eliminated-in-fifth-place-4-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-eliminated-in-fifth-place-4-points.html","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Esfandiari eliminated in fifth place (4 points)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Antonio-out.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Antonio-out.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Antonio-out-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><br \/>\nWe&#8217;re down to four as Antonio Esfandiari has just been eliminated, which is significant for three reasons. Firstly it means he is definitely in the play-offs and can&#8217;t make the final automatically. Secondly Scott Seiver is guaranteed to be in the play-off zone. And, most significantly Phil Hellmuth is out of this year&#8217;s Premier League and he witnessed his demise live in the commentary booth!<\/p>\n<p>In the Magician&#8217;s exit hand he shoved with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/kc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5c.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and got looked up Jonathan Duhanmel with <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ac.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/9h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\">. &#8216;This could be the first time anyone&#8217;s ever got knocked out of the Premier League in the commentary booth,&#8221; said Jesse May.<\/p>\n<p>The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/7s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/ad.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/8s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop was bad for Esfandiari and worse for Hellmuth, the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/6d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn gave Esfandiari a straight draw, but he missed it on the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/2h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> river.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio will be back tomorrow evening for the heads-up play off against either Scott Seiver, Daniel Cates or Sam Trickett, whilst Hellmuth will have to wait till next year.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch All The Action and Join The Conversation!<\/h3>\n<p>The PartyPoker.com Premier League VI continues with daily Live Streaming coverage here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/plpstream\">bit.ly\/plpstream<\/a><\/strong> So who do you think is going to win? Let us know in the comments below and remember to follow us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Twitter <\/a><\/strong>and like us on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Facebook <\/a><\/strong>now! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re down to four as Antonio Esfandiari has just been eliminated, which is significant for three reasons. Firstly it means he is definitely in the play-offs and can&#8217;t make the final automatically. Secondly Scott Seiver is guaranteed to be in the play-off zone. And, most significantly Phil Hellmuth is out of this year&#8217;s Premier League<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-eliminated-in-fifth-place-4-points.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":27650,"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\/27647"}],"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=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76502,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions\/76502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}