{"id":6126,"date":"2010-07-28T16:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:11:47","slug":"world-open-vi-laak-timoshenko-devilfish-and-more-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/world-open-vi-laak-timoshenko-devilfish-and-more-to-play.html","title":{"rendered":"World Open VI &#8211; Laak, Timoshenko, Devilfish and more to play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6128\" title=\"World Open VI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/world-open-VI1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/world-open-VI1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/world-open-VI1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PartyPoker&#8217;s World Open VI has just been confirmed. The event will take place from 6th September until 10th September 2010 in Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair, London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The buy-in is $10,000, 48 players will participate making the total prize pool of $480,000 \u2013 the winner will take $200,000. The starting stacks are tripled, there are eight seater heats and seven players will be on the final table.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-laak-is-crowned-partypokercom-world-open-v-champion.html\">Phil Laak won<\/a> the event last year and is ready to defend: <em>&#8220;Last year was a wild roller coaster ride. This year I am looking forward to coming back to defend my title \u2013 it is ideal that it comes straight off the back off the WPT London Poker Classic \u2013 hopefully I can win both!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Commentary will be provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/jesse-may.html\">Jesse May<\/a>, the action will be presented by Kara Scott and the show will be broadcast on channel Five in the UK later in the year. Spectators are welcome to come down to the Palm Beach Casino and watch the action.<\/p>\n<h3>A list of players confirmed<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some players confirmed to play are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-laak-has-kung-fu.html\">Phil Laak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yevgeniy Timoshenko<\/li>\n<li>Dave \u2018The Devilfish\u2019 Ulliott<\/li>\n<li>JP Kelly<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/bull-says-annette-obrestad.html\">Annette Obrestad<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sorel Mizzi<\/li>\n<li>Roland de Wolfe<\/li>\n<li>James Akenhead<\/li>\n<li>Neil Channing<\/li>\n<li>Praz Bansi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/luke-schwartzs-baby-bounce.html\">Luke Schwartz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Tilly<\/li>\n<li>David \u2018Viffer\u2019 Peat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team PartyPoker pros confirmed are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/mike-sexton\">Mike Sexton<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tony G<\/li>\n<li>Dragan Galic<\/li>\n<li>Tyron Krost<\/li>\n<li>Felipe Ramos<\/li>\n<li>Ian Frazer<\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Safina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PartyPoker&#8217;s World Open VI has just been confirmed. The event will take place from 6th September until 10th September 2010 in Palm Beach Casino in the heart of Mayfair, London. The buy-in is $10,000, 48 players will participate making the total prize pool of $480,000 \u2013 the winner will take $200,000. The starting stacks are<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/world-open-vi-laak-timoshenko-devilfish-and-more-to-play.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6128,"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\/6126"}],"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=6126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72328,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6126\/revisions\/72328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6126"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}