All the heats have been played at the PartyPoker Premier League IV and we have the names of the four players who made it straight to the final and the four who will decide the other 2 places in heads up matches. Again, if you want to keep the suspense to the upcoming tv broadcasts, don't click here...


The last of the 6 heats was marked by tactical play as players sometimes made weird looking laydowns because of the league standings. However, the heat came to a refreshlingly sporting conclusion when Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth made it to heads up stage. With Hellmuth's win both players would make it to the second stage and knock out JC Tran, but Negreanu didn't care about this and instead played for the win.

In the last hand Hellmuth made moves at the wrong time. The chips were almost even when Hellmuth limped from the button. Negreanu raised to 180k, Hellmuth moved all-in and Negreanu snap-called. Hellmuth turned over K9s, Negreanu had AA, and the flop gave Hellmuth only a back-door flush draw. When the turn blanked it was all over, and JC Tran - who was sweating the outcome - gave Negreanu a hug to thank him.

1. Phil Laak – 48 points
2. David Benyamine - 38 points
3. Giovanni Safina - 29 points
3. Luke Schwartz – 29 points
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5. Daniel Negreanu – 26 points
6. Ian Frazer – 26 points
7. Roland De Wolfe – 22 points
8. JC Tran – 20 points
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9. Phil Hellmuth - 19 points
10. Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 16 points
11. Vanessa Rousso – 16 points
12. Tony G - 11 points

Top 4 players made it straight to the final table, where Phil Laak will start with the biggest stack. The remaining two places will be decided in two heads-up matches:

Negreanu vs Tran
Frazer vs De Wolfe

The final will start right after the heads up matches today.

Source: Pokernews.