Premier League: Mizzi Magic, Gross Gains

Heat 3 play at the partypoker Premier League wrapped up late last night at the Playground Poker Club outside of Montreal with Sorel Mizzi dominating most of Friday’s play…

SOREL’S SHOW

Heat 3 play was dominated early by Sorel Mizzi (GPI#13) who held most of the chips for most of the night. Right from the get-go, Mizzi built what looked like an unsurmountable lead as his opponents were dropping like flies. But a few Jeff Gross (GPI#101) suck-outs while three-handed would certainly make things very interesting and would see Sorel lose his lead. But alas, Mizzi would still pull away with the victory placing himself in good position heading into this third match on Saturday.

However the day’s big winner was Gross who has taken the lead in the overall standings with a first and a second place finish through two heats played. Gross opens up a nine-point lead in the race for automatic entry to final table play as he takes Saturday off from league play. On the flip-side, another early exit from Phil Laak (GPI#279) means that he may have to start setting his sights on the heads-up play-in matches as a spot in the Top 4 may already be a thing of the past for the Unabomber.

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HEAT 4 PREVIEW

Gross gets his final night off tonight but Heat 2 champ Mizzi jumps right back into action later tonight at the Playground. Mizzi will need to collect max points in order to secure a large enough lead over Gross who will only play his third session on Monday.

Like Mizzi, Jonathan Duhamel, Daniel Cates, Phil Laak, Vanessa Selbst, Dan Colman and Scott Seiver will all be playing their in their third heat on Saturday. Antonio Esfandiari is the only player to have only played a single session so far, he gets to play the rest of the way starting tonight.

The red-hot Gross, Jason Koon, Brian Rast and Dan Shak are all off Saturday. This will be the final off day for Gross, Rast and Shak; each of the three will be involved in Sunday and Monday play.

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HEAT 4  |  SAT NOV 23rd

›› Antonio Esfandiari
›› Daniel Cates
›› Sorel Mizzi
›› Jonathan Duhamel
›› Phil Laak
›› Vanessa Selbst
›› Daniel Colman
›› Scott Seiver

HEAT 5  |  SUN NOV 24th

›› Jeff Gross
›› Jason Koon
›› Antonio Esfandiari
›› Daniel Cates
›› Dan Shak
›› Phil Laak
›› Brian Rast
›› Daniel Colman

HEAT 6  |  MON NOV 25th

›› Jeff Gross
›› Jonathan Duhamel
›› Antonio Esfandiari
›› Sorel Mizzi
›› Dan Shak
›› Brian Rast
›› Vanessa Selbst
›› Scott Seiver

The partypoker blog will keep you up-to-date with live updates starting tonight at 6pm ET.