PartyPoker.com Premier League III has added two more faces to its intriguing line up — World Champion Peter Eastgate and online whizz Tom "Durrrr" Dwan. They join Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Andy Black, Juha Helppi, JC Tran, Nenad Medic, and Victoria Coren in the $75,000 buy-in event.
One seat at the event remains to be filled.
With this increased buy-in, and the added money raised to $350,000 also, there is a total prize pool of $1.25 million. The event takes place in London from Nov. 24 to 30.
“This is my first event since the WSOP Main Event final table," said Dane Eastgate who won over $9 million last week, "so I am delighted to be part of a world class line-up. I am the man in form and want to show people why I am the World Champion.”
Dwan, who is perhaps most well known for losing the biggest ever pot in online poker history last month — $723,938 to Urindanger — when he ran K-K in A-A said, "I’m really excited about coming to play the Premier League and am honoured to be invited. The line-up is simply world class and I am coming to London determined to win.”
Matchroom Sport devised the unique format, which sees the 12 players play six times in the league before the top four progress to the final table, and the four runners-up play heads up for the remaining two places.
Last year the final leader board looked like this:
- Andy Black (Ireland) — $316,000
- Roland De Wolfe (England) — $160,000
- Tony G (Lithuania) — $136,000
- Alexander Kravchenko (Russia) — $92,000
- Marcel Luske (Holland) — $72,000
- Annie Duke (America) — $58,000
- Eddy Scharf (Germany) — $38,000
- Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott (England) — $38,000
- Vicky Coren (England) — $34,000
- Juha Helppi (Finland) — $22,000
- Ian Frazer (England) — $18,000
- Phil Hellmuth (America) — $16,000
