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PartyPoker Premier League 4 – playoffs over
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-02-14 13:50
The third day of the
PartyPoker Premier League playoffs was the last one, as the final Main Event seat was taken. Ian Frazer defeated Remy Biechel heads-up in the pros’ playoff series, thus securing the last available Main Event spot.
Poker celebrities like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and JC Tran were all invited for the Premier League 4 main Event, an invitation-
only poker tournament, except for two spots. One of those free sports was filled the other day when 16 online poker qualifiers played down to a winner for the $100K Main Event Package. The last Main Event seat went to Ian Frazer after a final table battle in which he bested Mike Sexton, Biechel, Dragan Galic, Felipe Ramos and Bodo Sbrzesny.
Ramos was the one who began the final table with the most chips. He had a stack of 400k chips. Galic was the short-stack with 200k. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t Galic who hit the rail first. Sexton, who started the final table on a 250k stack, got into a senseless game of chicken with Ramos. Eventually Sexton folded and left himself with only a few chips. He shoved them into the middle while holding a Q,J against Sexton’s pocket Js to bust out in 6th place.
The other short-stack, Dagan Galic was the next victim. Biechel was responsible for his elimination too. Forced to make a do or die move on his short-stack, Galic shoved all-in on a pair of 5s he picked up. Biechel made the call on A,J and hit a pair of Js on the board to bounce Galic in 5th.
Obviously on fire, Biechel proceeded to bounce Ramos too, in 4th place.
At one point in the poker tournament, Frazer was the short-stack. He bounced back though by eliminating Bodo Sbrzesny in 3rd place.
The heads-up stage was not a tightly disputed one. Almost as soon as it got underway, Biechel shoved all-in on a pair of 9s and Frazer made the call holding A,5. The coin-flip was decided when an A landed on the flop, and awarded the win and the Main Event seat to Frazer.
