The latest season of Party Poker's Premier League Poker starts this afternoon at the M Casino in Las Vegas, airing on Channel 4 in the UK in March. The buyin is $100,000 and consists of a series of 8-player heats among 12 players, earning points in an attempt to reach the final table (16-11-8-6-4-3-2-0). The top 4 finishers make the final table, 5th place plays 8th place, while 6th place faces the 7th place finisher to complete the final table. The lineup this year consists of:
JC Tran (defending champion)
Luke "FullFlush" Schwartz
Phil Laak
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Phil Hellmuth
Daniel Negreanu
Tony G
Vanessa Rousso
David Benyamine
Roland de Wolfe
Ian Frazer (Team PartyPoker qualifier)
Giovanni Safina (PartyPoker.com qualifier)
Live updates for each heat will be available over at PokerNews.
The latest on FullFlush.
For those who come to this thread late, here's a couple of articles discussing this history of the Premier Poker League, a preview of this year's event, and explaining the selection process:
http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articl...eague-Review-1
http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/articl...eague-Review-2
According to the video in the 2nd link, Benyamine is a red pro again?