{"id":27653,"date":"2013-03-22T04:43:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T03:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27653"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:54:27","slug":"hellmuth-out-esfandiari-and-seiver-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hellmuth-out-esfandiari-and-seiver-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Hellmuth OUT! Esfandiari and Seiver IN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hellmuth-out.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hellmuth-out.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/hellmuth-out-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Chip Counts<\/h3>\n<p>Coming into tonight&#8217;s final heat of Group A everyone could qualify and only Jonathan Duhamel knew his fate. Level three saw Daniel Negreanu and Marvin Rettenmaier eliminated and Level four was the level where more issues got sorted. When Phil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-eliminated-in-sixth-place-3-points.html\">Hellmuth<\/a> was eliminated in sixth place, it meant that he needed Scott Seiver to go out next to stay in it, so when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-eliminated-in-fifth-place-4-points.html\">Antonio Esfandiari<\/a> went out in fifth, it meant he was out and defending champion Scott Seiver was in. The blinds have just ticked up to 6,000 &#8211; 12,000 ante 2,000<\/p>\n<p>The players chip stacks are as below. The +\/- figure in brackets is their profit\/loss since the end of the last level and the big blind figure is how many they have for the current level.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Duhamel \u2013 941,000 (+182,000) \u2013 78 big blinds<br \/>\nJungleman \u2013 898,000 (+80,000) \u2013 75 big blinds<br \/>\nSam Trickett \u2013 289,000 (+83,000) \u2013 24 big blinds<br \/>\nScott Seiver \u2013 254,000 (+18,000) \u2013 21 big blinds<\/p>\n<h3> Good level for<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Scott Seiver<\/strong> With the elimination of Phil Hellmuth and Antonio Esfandiari the defending champion is in the play-offs at the very least.<\/p>\n<h3> Bad level for<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Phil Hellmuth<\/strong> &#8211; The Poker Brat is out of this year&#8217;s Premier League after an incredible run of luck conspired against him and to rub it in he witnessed his exit from the commentary box.<\/p>\n<h3> Hand of the level <\/h3>\n<p>It can only be the Antonio Esfandiari elimination, a hand that kept Scott Seiver in the Premier League and knocked out Phil Hellmuth.<\/p>\n<p>In the Magician\u2019s 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\">. \u2018This could be the first time anyone\u2019s ever got knocked out of the Premier League in the commentary booth,\u201d 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<h3> View from the booth <\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Ironically this could be the best Premier League that I&#8217;ve ever played an I&#8217;m out.&#8221; Phil Hellmuth steps into the commentary booth and watches his own exit.<\/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>Chip Counts Coming into tonight&#8217;s final heat of Group A everyone could qualify and only Jonathan Duhamel knew his fate. Level three saw Daniel Negreanu and Marvin Rettenmaier eliminated and Level four was the level where more issues got sorted. When Phil Hellmuth was eliminated in sixth place, it meant that he needed Scott Seiver<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hellmuth-out-esfandiari-and-seiver-in.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":27660,"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\/27653"}],"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=27653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76501,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27653\/revisions\/76501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27653"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}