PartyPoker Premier League VII has rolled through two heats and Jason Koon leads the tournament proper after taking maximum points in the second heat to add to his sixth place finish yesterday.
The latest season of the PartyPoker Premier League kicked off from the Playground Poker Club in Montreal yesterday and Jeff Gross took maximum points from the first heat when he defeated Dan Colman in heads-up action.
It was time for both Gross and Colman to sit out the second heat giving an opportunity for the likes of Jason Koon, Brian Rast and Daniel Cates the opportunity to take over the top spot; an opportunity that Koon grabbed with both hands after defeating Scott Seiver in heads up action.
Heat 2
1. Jonathan Duhamel
2. Daniel Cates
3. Jason Koon
4. Dan Shak
5. Phil Laak
6. Brian Rast
7. Vanessa Selbst
8. Scott Seiver
The second heat was the start of the defense for the Season VI winner Dan Shak. Unfortunately, the IveyPoker Pro and Wall Street shark would end up with the bagel after running pocket aces into the two pair of Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates who was holding king-nine.
Vanessa Selbst would be the next to leave when she was eliminated by Brian Rast and Phil Laak would soon follow when he ran pocket nines into Jonathan Duhamel and his pocket kings.
Brian Rast finished in fifth place when he found himself short and made a move with ten-eight. Scott Seiver on hand with ace-king to clean up that little mess, and the Jungleman’s vine snapped in fourth place to leave him with another decent score of seven points.
Jonathan Duhamel would bow out in the three way action when his ace-jack lost the flip against Jason Koon and pocket sixes, and Koon was declared the winner when he beat yesterday’s bagel winner Scott Seiver, after he turned a better two pair holding A8 v Q8 for the flopped two pair of Seiver on [Qh] [Jd] [8c] [Ad] [6s] to take maximum points.
Heat 2 Final Results
1st. Jason Koon (14 points)
2nd. Scott Seiver (11 points)
3rd. Jonathan Duhamel (9 points)
4th. Daniel Cates (7 points)
5th. Brian Rast (5 points)
6th. Phil Laak (3 points)
7th. Vanessa Selbst (1 point)
8th. Dan Shak (0 points)
Current Leaderboard After Two Heats
1st. Jason Koon (17 points)
2nd. Daniel Cates – (16 points)
3rd. Jeff Gross – (14 points)
4th. Dan Colman (11 points)
5th. Scott Seiver (11 points)
6th. Jonathan Duhamel (7 points)
7th. Sorel Mizzi (7 points)
8th. Brian Rast (6 points)
9th. Antonio Esfandiari (5 points)
10th. Phil Laak (3 points)
11th. Vanessa Selbst (1 point)
12th. Dan Shak (0 points)
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