{"id":27792,"date":"2013-03-23T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=27792"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:54:20","slug":"antonio-esfandiari-wins-group-as-playoff-and-progresses-to-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-wins-group-as-playoff-and-progresses-to-the-final.html","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Esfandiari wins Group A&#039;s playoff and progresses to the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"winner\" width=\"590\" height=\"387\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winner.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winner-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Antonio Esfandiari has progressed to Saturday&#8217;s final table after defeating Scott Seiver by two games to one in the Group A playoff.<\/p>\n<p>After going one match down when his ace-jack lost to Seiver&#8217;s ace-jack suited, Esfandiari fought back to level the tie and then he dominated the deciding match and ran out a deserved winner &#8212; although he did need a touch of luck in the final hand.<\/p>\n<p>Seiver had been whittled down to just 26,000 chips so it was no surprise at all that Esfandiari put his opponent all in when he saw he had <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3d.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> in the hole. Seiver snap-called with a dominating pair of fours and was a favourite to double up. The <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/5h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/2s.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/jc.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> flop kept Seiver in front, but the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/3h.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> turn catapulted Esfandiari into the lead. Seiver needed an ace or four to win, any other card would see Esfandiari progress. The river was the <img src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/handy-cards\/cards\/qs.gif\" class=\"handy-cards\" width=\"25\" height=\"15\"> and Seiver was eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Esfandiari will now join his Group A team mates Jungleman, Jonathan Duhamel and Sam Trickett along with those who progressed from Group B; the Group B playoff kicking off at 13:45GMT on Saturday.<\/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? 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After going one match down when his ace-jack lost to Seiver&#8217;s ace-jack suited, Esfandiari fought back to level the tie and then he dominated the deciding match and ran out a deserved winner<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/antonio-esfandiari-wins-group-as-playoff-and-progresses-to-the-final.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":27795,"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\/27792"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76479,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27792\/revisions\/76479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27792"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}