PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker IV underway in Las Vegas - 12/02/2010

The first heat of the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker IV is underway at the M Resort Spa Casino in Las Vegas – Live Reporting on the event is available at PokerNews.com.

Victory For Portuguese Star Sobrinho!

Ian Frazer completed the line-up for the main event by taking down the Team Party qualifier on Thursday and joins the 12 player field for the $100,000 buy-in Premier League IV alongside defending champion JC Tran, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Vanessa Rousso, Roland de Wolfe, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Phil Laak, David Benyamine, Luke Schwartz and fellow Team Party member Tony G. Also in the field is 44-year-old Italian lawyer Giovanni Safina, from Palermo, who takes his seat in the elite event after qualifying online at PartyPoker.it.

HEAT ONE LINE-UP:
1 Phil Laak
2 JC Tran
3 Vanessa Rousso
4 Yevgeniy Timoshenko
5 Ian Frazer
6 Luke Schwartz
7 Roland de Wolfe
8 Daniel Negreanu

The deep structure for the tournament sees a 300k starting stack and 21 hands a level. Each player plays four matches and the top four automatically qualify for the final where one point is equivalent to 10k in chips at the six-handed final table. The players in fifth and eighth spots in the league face each other in heads-up knockout to take a seat at the final table, as do those finishing in sixth and seventh.

POINTS PER HEAT:
1st 16
2nd 11
3rd 8
4th 6
5th 4
6th 3
7th 2
8th 0