Late Night Poker

Part one of the final of PartyPoker Late Night Poker starts Tuesday night/Wednesday morning on Channel 4 in the UK at 12.40am after the Cheltenham Festival highlights. Part two covering the climax of the event will be shown late night on Tuesday 18 March.

The final table features serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder ‘The Cobra’ Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, Swedish online qualifier Andreas Jörbeck, 2008 Premier League winner Andy Black and 2007 Late Night Poker Masters champion David Tighe.

Top UK player Maria Demetriou won last week’s semi-final to win her place seeing off ‘Flying Dutchman’ Marcel Luske, WSOP bracelet holder Praz Bansi, Polish television presenter Agnieszka Rylik, Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin, France’s Pascal Perrault and former champion Simon Trumper.

PARTYPOKER LATE NIGHT POKER FINAL TABLE

IAN FRAZER (ENG)
EDDY SCHARF (GER)
SURINDER SUNAR (ENG)
ROLAND DE WOLFE (ENG)
ANDREAS JORBECK (SWE)
ANDY BLACK (IRE)
DAVID TIGHE (ENG)
MARIA DEMETRIOU (ENG)

Late Night Poker revolutionised people’s perception of poker when the tournament was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999 and was the first to use under the table cameras.

The total prize pool for 2008 is $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There were 49 players paying a $5,000 including ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive online tournaments on PartyPoker.

Coverage of the event was filmed by Presentable and is presented by Vicky Coren, with Thomas Kremser the Tournament Director. Presentable also produced the coverage of the successful PartyPoker Poker Nations Cup event for Channel 4 which takes place again in April.