Poker betting

PartyBets.com is offering odds on the next series of PartyPoker Late Night Poker, which is being filmed in Cardiff from Tuesday 23 October. Favourites include Roland De Wolfe, Annette Obrestad, Liam Flood and Ian Frazer.

The tournament will be shown on Channel 4 in the UK and Ireland next year and then distributed internationally.

A PartyBets.com spokesman said: “With so many great players in the line-up it is very hard to make the market and pretty much impossible to make a concrete favourite. Ian Frazer and Liam Flood are amongst the frontrunners because of their previous success in similar formats, while Pascal Perrault is fancied on the basis of form.”

“Odds certainly spark debate. We just hope we don’t catch a cold with poker betting like we did when a punter made $25,000 by backing Jon Kalmar with $100 to make the final table of the WSOP Main event at odds of 250/1.”

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 2007 is $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There will be 49 players paying a $5,000 buy-in with seven heats featuring seven players, followed by a semi final and a final. The field will also feature ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive tournaments on PartyPoker.

Coverage of the tournament will be filmed by Presentable and will be presented by Vicky Coren, with Thomas Kremser the Tournament Director. Presentable also produced the coverage of the successful PartyPoker Poker Nations Cup for Channel 4 earlier this year. PartyPoker Late Night Poker is going back to its original format this year and the way the action is filmed for television is changing and will include flashbacks to previous series’.

PartyPoker Late Night Poker (1/5 1-2-3)

20/1 Andy Black
20/1 Roland De Wolfe
20/1 Liam Flood
20/1 Ian Frazer
20/1 Anders Henriksson
20/1 Pascal Perrault
20/1 Annette Obrestad
25/1 Praz Bansi
25/1 Joe Beevers
25/1 Jamie Gold
25/1 Jon Kalmar
25/1 SHERIF_RYAN
25/1 VIOLJO
25/1 Sir_Call
25/1 Littlezcam
25/1 Robert Williamson III
25/1 Dave Ulliott
25/1 Simon Trumper
25/1 Jen Mason
25/1 Eddy Scharf
25/1 Rene Mouritsen
25/1 Marcel Luske
25/1 Martin Wendt
25/1 Marc Goodwin
25/1 Barny Boatman
25/1 Dave Colclough
33/1 Jac Arama
33/1 Padraig Parkinson
33/1 SHIVERMETIMBERS
33/1 Offsuit62
33/1 Fishhook_no1
33/1 SandbagNHide
33/1 JayPah
33/1 Immortal1224
33/1 Paul Jackson
33/1 Ram Vaswani
33/1 David Tighe
33/1 Surinder Sunar
33/1 Bo Sehlstedt
33/1 Roy Brindley
33/1 Xuyen Pham
33/1 Donnacha O’Dea
33/1 Maria Demetriou
33/1 Michael Keiner
33/1 Maud Mulder
33/1 Kevin O’Connell
33/1 Korosh
40/1 Agnieszka Rylik