Play starts - 09:05 Subscribe now to the partypoker YouTube channel: putting. The freeroll league of the poker school at PokerStars is changing format next month. From now on, 1500 players are going to be residing in a 'Premier League' of the poker school.

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Premier League Odds: Foxes, Blades Battle for Champions League With just a handful of games left to go in the 2019-20 English Premiership, the last three qualifying spots for next year’s Champions League are very much on the line. Thursday’s match (1 PM ET) at King Power Stadium between Leicester City and Sheffield United will be pivotal. The Foxes are even-money favorites at Bovada at press time, with the Blades checking in at +310; the draw is priced at +235 at Bovada Sportsbook.

Sheffield United Take UCL Dreams to Leicester After upsetting Chelsea 3-0 on Saturday, Sheffield United have a serious chance of qualifying for the Champions League – especially if they pull another rabbit out of their hat against Leicester City this Thursday (1 PM ET). Bet on soccer at Bovada and get a free 50% bonus.

Leicester City (17 wins, 10 losses, 8 draws) finished the weekend in fourth place on the EPL table, one point ahead of Manchester United, but with the Red Devils yet to play on Monday. Sheffield United (14 wins, 9 losses, 12 draws) are five points behind the Foxes after stunning Chelsea 3-0 on Saturday, leaving the Blues just one point up on Leicester for third place.

Fifth won’t be enough for the Champions League this year, now that Manchester City’s two-year ban has been overturned, but the Blades can still sneak in if they continue their current form. They certainly can’t afford a repeat of their Jekyll-and-Hyde performance when Leicester City visited Bramall Lane way back in August; the Foxes dominated early and won 2-1 on a brilliant 70th-minute strike by Harvey Barnes.

For the past week, the Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria, has played host to the PartyPoker Premier League V. The event began with 16 of poker's most notable players looking to make the final table to compete for a $1.4 million prize pool. On Tuesday, Scott Seiver emerged victorious to captured the $500,000 first-place prize.

After a number of rounds over the last week, six of the eight final-table participants were determined, leaving just two spots up for grabs. Even though six players had earned their spots outright and another six were eliminated from contention, four players were left to compete in a series of playoff heads-up matches on Monday for the last two seats in Tuesday's finale. It was there that Phil Laak defeated Andy Frankenberger in the Group A best-of-three heads-up match, and Tom Dwan bested Yevgeniy Timoshenko in the Group B playoff. With that, the final table was set.

The starting chip counts for the final table were determined by the number of points each player earned during the four preliminary heats.

Here’s how things looked at the start of the final table:

Premier League V Final Table

According to the PartyPoker Blog, it took about an hour for the first notable hand to develop. It happened when Patrik Antonius picked up , the third player to do so within a ten-hand span, and he raised to 10,000. Sam Trickett then three-bet to 26,000 holding , Antonius four-bet 58,000, Trickett moved all in, and Antonius snap-called. The board ran out clean, allowing Antonius to double into the chip lead, leaving Trickett with the short stack.

Not long after, Trickett got his last 60,000 all in preflop with only to run into the of Daniel Cates. Trickett couldn’t come from behind and was eliminated in eighth place for $55,000.

About two hours later, qualifier Mathew Frankland, who began the final table as the chip leader, was sent packing after his couldn’t out flip Cates' after the spiked on the turn. That card sent Frankland to the rail in seventh place for $6,500. Following him out the door was Dwan, who shoved under the gun for 214,000 with and was called by Seiver, who held . Dwan couldn’t catch a king as the board ran out , eliminating him in sixth place for $80,000.

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It took another couple of hours before the next elimination, but it happened at the 20,000/40,000 level when Tony G committed his last 192,000 from the button with and was called by Cates holding . Tony G was way out in front but not after the flop fell . Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and a stunned Tony G made his way to the payout desk in fifth place to collect $100,000.

About 15 minutes later, Antonius ran into Laak's , and Antonius was sent home in fourth place for $125,000. By this point, Seiver held the chip lead with 1.175 million to Laak’s 845,000 and Cates’ 520,000. Over the next half hour, the players traded chips back and forth until Cates raised to 270,000 with and Laak called with . When the flop came down , Cates moved all in. Laak eventually folded, leaving him with just three big blinds behind. Minutes later, he was eliminated in third place for $175,000.

When heads-up play began, both players were fairly deep in chips, and Cates held just a 50,000-chip lead over his opponent. Even so, it took just 27 minutes to determine a winner. Seiver managed to pull out to a 2-1 chip lead, which is when both players got all the chips in the middle.

Showdown

Cates was in the lead through the flop and even the turn; however, the spiked on the river to give Seiver a pair of kings and the win.

PartyPoker Premier League V Results

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