Doyle Brunson joins Party Poker Premier League IV

27 January 2010

GIBRALTAR -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Party Poker and Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that the final invitation for PartyPoker.com Premier League IV has gone to a certain Mr Doyle Brunson. Additionally, Poker News has been added as a presenting sponsor and will be providing their expert live updates from the tournament.

The Main Event runs from the 12th – 18 th February 2010. Ten time WSOP bracelet winner Brunson joins the dream ten line-up that also includes David Benyamine, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Luke Schwartz and the newest member of Team Party, Tony G.

Brunson is very happy to be onboard: ""I'm happy to have the challenge of playing against all these great players. I know a lot about many of them but, of course, all the young players from the internet are very aggressive good players. It is impossible to make a favorite to win this because every player in this field is capable of winning. I feel I have as good a chance as anyone," said Doyle.

Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Matchroom Sport said: "It's an honour that Doyle has accepted his invitation to the Premier League. He is a true legend of the game and I'm so excited to watch him in action against such an eclectic mix of players. The Premier League has become the world's number one televised poker event and it's by far the strongest line up the event has ever seen."

Matthew Parvis, Editor in Chief of PokerNews.com said: "We are extremely excited to be a sponsor for the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV. Not only is the format one of the most exciting, but the line-up is second to none. There is no other poker tournament where you can see the best of the best battling it out on the felt, and since we consider ourselves among the best in the poker business as well its only natural to be involved with such a fantastic event."

This leaves just two spots to be filled. One will go to an online qualifier, while the other place will go to the winner of a mini Premier League play-off between members of Team Party. Taking part will be Poker Hall of Fame inductee Mike Sexton, the UK's Ian Frazer, France's Remy Biechel, Brazil's Felipe 'Mojave' Ramos and Germany's Bodo Sbrzesny. A special invitation into the Team Party shoot-out has been given to Dragan Galic, a German pro with Croatian roots who was recently nominated for European Player of the Year and is commonly regarded as one of the best and in-form players on the European circuit.

This year PartyPoker.com ran qualifiers to find a total of 16 players who all fly out to Las Vegas to play in a Premier League Poker play-off to see which one of the 16 will be lucky enough to join 11 professional players in Premier League Poker IV. The lucky online qualifiers will play a short series of play-off sit & go's in Las Vegas and the eventual winner will win a $100,000 buy-in to take part in the main Premier League event! Both the play-off and the main event will be filmed for TV and shown across the world. One amazing element of this promotion that provides a truly fantastic opportunity is that one of the 16 qualifiers will be chosen by PartyPoker to receive a $100,000 Team Party contract to be a sponsored player. More information on this can be found at http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/premier_league.html

JC Tran won PartyPoker.com Premier League III after taking down the most formidable final table in the event's history! Tran, widely regarded as one of the finest and consistent tournament professionals on the circuit scooped the $300,000 first prize in the elite tournament that saw 12 of the world's finest players battle it out for a $1.25 million prize pool! Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan, Juha Helppi, Tony G, Roland de Wolfe and Peter Eastgate all made the final table.

This year's Premier League will carry a total prize pool of $1.5 million ($300,000 added by PartyPoker.com). Premier League II was won by Andy Black and the inaugural event was taken down by Juha Helppi. The PartyPoker.com Premier League is organized by Matchroom Sport and will be presented by Team Party member Kara Scott.

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