Euro Poker News: Premier League Poker Final Table UK TV Broadcast Confirmed

U.S. "Poker Brat" Phil Hellmuth enters as chip leader, closely followed by Germany's Eddy Scharf. Finland's Juha Helppi and England's Ian Frazer automatically qualified for the final table through their positions in the final league table. There were two playoff heads-up matches for the last two spots on the final table, with Liz Lieu beating Kenna James and Vicky Coren seeing off Andrew Black.

A clip from the tournament can be seen at: www.matchroompoker.com.

The series started its run on Tuesday, May 22, and featured 12 of the world's best players competing in a unique league format for a $500,000 prize pool. Each player bought in for $20,000, with PartyPoker.com adding $260,000.

Blinds for the final table start at $1,000-$2,000. Commentary is provided by Jesse May, assisted by Tony G and Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said, "We are very pleased with the response to Premier League Poker and have been inundated by enquiries from pros from all over the world about how they can get involved in the future. It has the winning combination of having bags of personality and world class poker."

The full final table lineup is:

• Phil Hellmuth (USA): $350,000 chips
• Eddy Scharf (GER): $310,000 chips
• Juha Helppi (FIN): $260,000 chips
• Ian Frazer (ENG): $250,000 chips
• Liz Lieu (USA): $230,000 chips
• Vicky Coren (ENG): $200,000 chips

The Premier League Poker final points table was:

• Phil Hellmuth (USA): 35 Pts
• Eddy Scharf (GER)? 31 Pts
• Juha Helppi (FIN): 26 Pts
• Ian Frazer (ENG): 25 Pts
• Liz Lieu (USA): 23 Pts
• Vicky Coren (ENG) 20 Pts
• Andrew Black (IRE): 18 Pts
• Kenna James (USA): 17 Pts
• Kirill Gerasimov (RUS): 17 Pts
• David "Devilfish" Ulliott: (ENG) 14 Pts
• Tony G (AUS): 7 Pts
• Roland De Wolfe (ENG): 7 Pts

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