David Benyamine joins Party Poker Premier League IV

GIBRALTAR -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Party Poker and Matchroom Sport are delighted to announce that French high stakes cash legend David Benyamine has joined the line-up for PartyPoker.com Premier League IV in Las Vegas, with the main event running from the 12th – 18th February 2010. He joins a line-up that also includes Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Roland de Wolfe, Luke Schwartz and the newest member of Team Party, Tony G.

After a quiet time of late Benyamine is back and has his eyes firmly fixed on the event. "I'm delighted to be part of this world class field in this year's Premier League. In 2010 I'm looking to play lots of tournaments and to start it off with a victory in one of poker's most prestigious events is top of my list right now,' said David.

Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Matchroom Sport said: ""We are delighted to welcome David into the PartyPoker.com Premier League for the first time. We now only have one invite left in this year's event and an announcement will be made within the next few days.'

Benyamine is predominantly known for his high stakes cash game play but has taken down two WPT titles, including the 2003 Grand Prix De Paris, and is the proud owner of a WSOP bracelet. An ex-professional tennis player, the Frenchman once upon a time was also regarded as one of the best billiards players in his country.

With nine players for the $100,000 buy-in Main Event confirmed, there are now only three spaces open. One seat will be a very special invitation announced in the next few days, another will come from a Team Party play-off, while the final seat will go to an online qualifier.

This year PartyPoker.com ran qualifiers to find a total of 16 players who all fly out to Las Vegas to play in a Premier League Poker play-off to see which one of the 16 will be lucky enough to join 11 professional players in Premier League Poker IV. The lucky online qualifiers will play a short series of play-off sit & go's in Las Vegas and the eventual winner will win a $100,000 buy-in to take part in the main Premier League event! Both the play-off and the main event will be filmed for TV and shown across the world. One amazing element of this promotion that provides a truly fantastic opportunity is that one of the 16 qualifiers will be chosen by PartyPoker to receive a $100,000 Team Party contract to be a sponsored player.

More information on the details and structure can be found at http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/premier_league.html

JC Tran won PartyPoker.com Premier League III after taking down the most formidable final table in the event's history! Tran, widely regarded as one of the finest and consistent tournament professionals on the circuit scooped the $300,000 first prize in the elite tournament that saw 12 of the world's finest players battle it out for a $1.25 million prize pool! Tom 'Durrrr' Dwan, Juha Helppi, Tony G, Roland de Wolfe and Peter Eastgate all made the final table.

This year's Premier League will carry a total prize pool of over $1.5 million. Premier League II was won by Andy Black and the inaugural event was taken down by Juha Helppi. The PartyPoker.com Premier League is organized by Matchroom Sport and will be presented by Team Party member Kara Scott.