Party Poker World Open VI Kicks Off

The Party Poker World Open VI will be kicking off on September 6th and features a superstar poker line up. 

Last year’s champ Phil Laak will be back to defend his title despite his ATV accident that has left his arm badly broken and in a cast.

The tournament is exclusive and is limited to 48 well known poker players who are then drawn into 8 player heats where the winner of each heat advances to the final table.  The runners-up at each table will get a 2nd chance to qualify in a final playoff heat against each other with the winner advancing to the final table.

Each player will pay an entry fee of $10,000 and the total prize pool is $480,000.

All Star Poker Line Up

The competition will be fierce and the defending champ, Phil Laak, will have a tough starting heat that includes the likes of high stakes phenom Tom Dwan, poker triple crown winner Roland De Wolfe who has won all three big tournaments – a WSOP bracelet, a WPT title and a EPT tournament and British EPT winner Toby Lewis.

Another tough heat includes Full Tilt’s Annette Obrestad, British loud mouth Luke Schwartz, Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman,

Two World Poker Tour champs will also be facing off in another heat that includes Jake Cody fresh off his London WPT win and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.  Aussie Millions champ Tyron Krost will also be involved.

Phil Laak’s girlfriend and WSOP bracelet winner Jennifer Tilly will take part in a heat featuring PartyPoker’s Mike Sexton, David “Devilfish” Ulliott and Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi.

The final two heats will include Neil Channing, Sam Trickett, Ian Frazer and James Akenhead.  As well, we can look forward to Andrew Robl and Huck Seed facing off in the same heat.

There will be one heat per day, with the final table being played out as a seven handed single table match up on September 10th. 

Phil Laak is stoked to defend his title and plans to repeat.  But with all the big names out there, this is going to be a tight race to the finish.