Scott Seiver Rounds Out PartyPoker Premier League V Lineup
Poker pro Scott Seiver has taken the final slot in the upcoming PartyPoker Premier League V in Vienna, Austria. The 26-year-old pro, who won the World Poker Tour World Championship at Bellagio last year for $1,618,344, joins a loaded lineup of superstars putting up the $125,000 buy-in for the televised event running from April 4 through 10 at the Montesino Casino.
In addition to his WPT win, Seiver also has a World Series of Poker title on his resume, leaving him only a European Poker Tour victory away from poker's Triple Crown. Seiver has more than $4 million in live tournament earnings during his poker career, but is known primarily as a cash-game player.
“I cannot wait to play the PartyPoker.com Premier League — I love the format and I am looking to go in and stir it up. Table talk is an important part of my game," Seiver told the .
Seiver will be joined by the following pros in the PartyPoker Premier League V:
PartyPoker Premier League V Lineup
| Tom Dwan | |
| Patrik Antonius | |
| Sam Trickett | |
| Tony G | |
| Luke "FullFlush" Schwartz | |
| Erik Seidel | |
| Andy Frankenberger | |
| Yevgeniy Timoshenko | |
| Eugene Katchalov | |
| Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier | |
| Phil Laak | |
| Daniel "Jungleman" Cates | |
| Vanessa Selbst |
That leaves two spots open for the Premier League V event, both of which will be given to qualifiers. The televised PartyPoker Premier League Playoffs get under way on Sunday, April 1. Twenty-four players will compete for the two remaining $125,000 seats — 12 of those players are online qualifiers from PartyPoker.com, and 12 were invited to compete in a separate qualifier.
Here's a look at the invited list of players who will contend for one of the seats:
| Bruno Fitoussi | |
| Antony Lellouche | |
| Dominik Nitschke | |
| Xuan Liu | |
| Melanie Weisner | |
| Giovanni Rizzo | |
| Alexander Petersen | |
| Bartolomeu "Amatos" Gomila | |
| Steve O’Dwyer | |
| Bodo Sbrzesny | |
| Erich Kollmann | |
| TBD |
The 16-player PartyPoker Premier League V is part of the World Poker Tour Vienna festivities and will award the winner with a massive top prize plus entry into the $25,000 WPT World Championship at Bellagio. The event will showcase the customary Premier League format, with the top three point-earners from each eight-player group advancing to the final table, and the fourth and fifth seeds in each group squaring off in a series of heads-up matches for seats at the eight-handed finale.
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