November 21 2011, Josh Bell

This week in the PartyPoker Weekly, we’ll give you the details of Andy Frankenberger’s win at the PartyPoker Premier League, tell you how you can win your seat at WPT Ireland, give you the details on the Winter Million, and more!

PartyPoker Winter Million

PartyPoker will be hosting one of the biggest tournaments of 2012, as the PartyPoker Winter Million is set to guarantee $1 million this February!

This is a big chance for players to kick off their year with a bang. The million dollar prize pool is offering life-changing prizes.

The buy-in for the Winter Million is $600+$40 and will take place on Feb. 5. The event will be played in a championship format and really is going to be one of the best tournaments of the year.

PartyPoker wants as many players as possible to take their chance at the massive prize pool and have already begun offering qualifiers from as little as $1. It’s not too early to start qualifying, so make sure you take to the PartyPoker felt now!

Andy Frankenberger Takes it Down

The winner of the Party Poker Premier League Mixed Game Championship has been crowned and it was none other than WSOP bracelet winner, Andy Frankenberger.

The event was a huge success, with Frankenberger besting a final table which included the likes of Sorel Mizzi, Andrew Feldman and Matt Giannetti.

All the action from the Premier League can be found over on the PartyPoker blog..

Win Your Way to the WPT

In 2002, the World Poker Tour helped launch names like Gus Hansen, Phil Laak and Daniel Negreanu into super stardom and PartyPoker is the best place for players to begin fulfilling their poker playing dreams!

Almost 10 years later and the WPT is still getting bigger. The newest stop on the WPT calendar is Dublin, Ireland.

WPT Ireland is set to feature a massive prize pool and become one of the most popular events of 2012 and we want you to be weaving your way to a huge score this January.

The event is scheduled to take place from Jan. 5 to Jan. 8 and PartyPoker is the best place to win an all-inclusive tournament package.

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Make sure you head to PartyPoker now and secure your seat and you could go down in the history books as the inaugural WPT Ireland Champion!

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October 01 2011, Donnie Peters

Day 1b of the 2011 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London Main Event ended on Saturday after the second and final starting flight completed their first eight levels of play. Leading the way at the end of the day was Benny Spindler with 160,800 in chips. Out of the 411 players that came out for Day 1b, 255 will be moving on to Day 2.

Spindler received a lot of his chips from Nicolas Levi. After a raise to 1,350 preflop from an unknown player with the blinds at 300/600 with a 75 ante, Levi reraised to 3,400. Spindler four-bet to 10,000 and the original raiser got out of the way. Levi moved all-in for approximately 40,000 and Spindler immediately called. Spindler tabled and was up against Levi’s . The flop, turn and river ran out and Spindler’s aces were able to fade Levi’s big flop.

Although last year’s record of 848 players wasn’t broken, 691 for this year isn’t a bad number at all. A prize pool of £3,351,350 was created with first place being awarded a whopping £750,000. The top 104 places will be paid out.

Packed into the field on Saturday were plenty of big names including Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Selbst, Jason Mercier, Joe Hachem, Angel Guillen, Victor Ramdin and David Williams. Negreanu and Selbst were eliminated on the day, while the other players named will be moving on. Mercier wrapped up the day with 99,200 in chips and wrote on his bag “Future EPT London Champion.” Whether or not that means this year is still yet to be determined.

Mercier just saw his stack take a giant leap to over 100,000 in chips after Anrei One gifted him about 45,000 in chips. During the 250/500 with a 50 ante level, One raised to 1,100 and Mercier three-bet to 2,725. One then four-bet to 6,200 and Mercier five-bet to 12,050. One still wasn’t convinced and moved all-in for about 45,000.

“I beat him into the pot,” said Mercier describing his call.

Mercier held offsuit and One held . The flop came down with two clubs and one spade before a was added on the turn and a on the river.

Other notable eliminations that occurred on Day 1b included Ross Boatman, Bill Chen, Eddy Sabat, Jean-Robert Bellande, Daniel Cates, Liv Boeree, Bertrand Grospellier and Leo Fernandez.

Players who are moving on with some heavy chip bags are Raj Vohra (156,600), Steven Warburton (142,300), Martins Adeniya (132,500), Sorel Mizzi (129,100), Justin Bonomo (126,100) and Wade Townsend (119,800).

Day 2 will commence on Sunday at 1200 BST (0400 PDT) where the remaining players from both starting flights will combine. Lukasz Golczyk is the overall chip leader with 211,600 in chips after his performance on Day 1a. The total number of remaining players is 417. Be sure to stay tuned to PokerNews for all of the live coverage starting then.

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