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PartyPoker Premier League Playoffs – Day 2
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-02-14 04:42
The second day of the
PartyPoker Premier League playoffs kicked off at the M Resort with the first day participants back for the third heat of their playoff series.
Felipe Ramos began the day with the most points accumulated during the first two heats. Remy Biechel was second, followed by Ian Frazer in third.
Dragan Galic started the day last in points and he didn’t do a whole lot to better his situation on day 2 either. He was the first one to bust out on Day 2, picking up a mere 6 points and securing short-stack status at the final table. He ran his K,Q into Felipe Ramos’ pocket rockets for the bust.
He was followed to the rail by Mike Sexton, who got his chips in good against Jan Frazer’s pocket Js. Frazer then proceeded to hit a set of Js on the board, to eliminate the Party Poker professional. Remy Biechel was eliminated next, by Frazer, whose pocket 9s prevailed against his K,J.
Frazer was sitting on a nice stack when he got eliminated by Felipe Ramos, his K,10 no match for Ramos’ A,K.
Bodo Sbrzesny then disposed of Ramos for the heat win. Still, it’ll be Ramos who’ll go to the final table on the biggest stack. Remy Biechel will have the 2nd largest stack and Bodo Sbrzesny will start 3rd in chips.
The interesting part of the day was the battle of the 16
online poker qualifiers, who’d earned the right to battle it out for a $100,000 seat at PartyPoker. After some back and forth, 6 players made it through to the final table. Talal Shakerchi had the most chips going into the final stretch (320,000) but the fate of the PartyPoker Premier League seat was decided between Giovanni Safina and Miguel Proulx. The final hand of the online qualifiers playoff run proved to be a pretty interesting one. Proulx pushed all his chips into the middle holding A,2 and Safina made the call with A,9. The flop was great for Safina: the three hearts not only preserved his lead, but gave him a flush draw too. The 2 on the turn gave the lead to Proulx though, only for the 7h to turn the tables once more on the river and to award the seat to Giovanni Safina.
