Party Poker holding points race

GIBRALTAR -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- Party Poker has introduced an exclusive Palladium Lounge points race focused on February's PartyPoker.com Premier League IV which is to be held in Las Vegas for the very first time!

The exclusive Palladium Lounge race offers a share of prizes worth more than $155,000, as well as competition for $9,000 PartyPoker.com Premier League play off event packages. The play off package includes seven days luxury hotel accommodation in Las Vegas, $2,000 spending money and a $6,250 seat at the PartyPoker.com Premier League IV play off qualifier where the top player will win a $100,000 buy-in to take their seat with the stars in PartyPoker.com Premier League IV and play for over $1.5 million! If that wasn't enough, PartyPoker.com will also be awarding one of the Premier League play off event qualifiers with a Team Party contract worth $100,000 to represent PartyPoker.com as a sponsored player for a year!

How does it work?

A Palladium Lounge member is guaranteed a share of more than $155,000 if they are one of the top 250 PartyPoint earners between 7th December 2009 – 3rd January 2010. First place is guaranteed a $9,000 Premier League play off package. Throughout the month you can check on the leaderboard here: http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/mdr_winners.html?promoID=60845

To make it even more exciting, PartyPoker.com will be inviting everybody who finishes in the top 600 to play in the Premier League play off freeroll on the 10th January, where there are two more $9,000 packages and even more cash prizes up for grabs.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "This is our most rewarding points race yet and is exclusive to members of our VIP club, the Palladium Lounge – it features cash rewards and the opportunity to take a seat in the tournament of a lifetime. PartyPoker.com Premier League is one of the most popular events with broadcasters around the world."

For more information see: http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/plp.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. 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.

"Premier League Poker featured a fantastic format filled with skill, twists and turns, great players and made for electric television." Phil Hellmuth

"The Premier League is the best poker event I have ever played in. A real breakthrough for poker." Tony G