Helppi Wins Party Poker Premier League

PartyPoker.com held its first ever Premier League Poker event, a new televised poker spectacle filmed at Maidstone Studios in Kent, UK.

The groundbreaking series featured 12 of the world’s best players playing in a unique league format for a $500,000 pot. With a system developed especially to showcase the legendary poker prowess of each player, they will play six times in the preliminary stages. The leading four players will then progress to the final table with the next four battling it out in heads-up matches for the final two seats. Each player will buy-in for $20,000, with PartyPoker.com adding $260,000 to the final table prize pool.

Ten-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth lead a top field that included: Dave ‘The Devilfish’ Ulliott, Tony G, Andy Black, Kiril Gerasimov, Liz Lieu, Ian Fraser, Roland De Wolfe, Vicky Coren, Juha Helppi, Kenna James and Eddy Scharf.

Juha Helppi took top honors at Party Poker’s first Premier League event. Helppi has grossed almost $2 million in tournament play including a World Poker Tour victory and numerous World Series of Poker final table appearances. Helppi bested eleven of the toughest international poker professionals.

Phil Hellmuth, Eddy Scharf, Juha Helppi and Ian Fraser prevailed to lock up their final table appearances in preliminary rounds. The next four players had to battle it out heads-up to try and score the remaining two spots. In the heads-up battles, the women prevailed; EPT London champ Vicky Coren took down Andy Black while Poker Diva Liz Lieu bested Kenna James.

The starting chip counts for the final table were based on a multiple of player points scored during the preliminary events. Phil Hellmuth started the final table as chip leader with 350K and Vicky Coren was the relative short stack with 200,000. But the structure definitely gave them some play as the first bustout, Ian Fraser, occurred almost five hours into final table play.

Phil Hellmuth lost his chip advantage early and never seemed to find his groove; finishing in 3rd place. When Juha Helppi and Eddy Scharf started heads-up, Helppi held a 4-to-1 chip advantage and was able to secure his title within 10 minutes of play.

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