Eastgate and Hellmuth Back in Premier League III Race for Final Table

After having a rough start, Peter Eastgate and Phil Hellmuth are back in the race for the final table of the Premier League III. Both were down in points until day three of PartyPoker’s challenge when they both won their heats and received ten points each.

Hellmuth only had three points so it was detrimental to his game that he do especially well in day three. During Hellmuth’s heat, he was up against Tony G, David Ulliott, Andy Black, Tom Dwan and Roland de Wolfe, all of which were verbally accosting each other during game play.

Dwan knocked out Ulliott, Tony G and Black but could not knock out Hellmuth who knocked Dwan out in third. Hellmuth was then up against de Wolfe in heads up play. Hellmuth won the final hand with K-T against Roland’s A-Q.

In the other heat, it was Eastgate against Juha Helppi, Vicky Coren, Nenad Medic, Annette Obrestand and J.C. Tran. Eastgate was dominate and took out Obrestad, Helppi, Coren and eventually began heads up play against Tran. Eastgate had a huge chip lead, over $500,000 to Tran’s almost $60,000. Amazingly, Tran managed to work his way back up to even before being knocked out by Eastgate.

Points Standings after Day Three:

1.    J.C. Tran                    26
2.    Peter Eastgate            16
3.    Juha Helppi                14
4.    Tony G                       14
5.    Vicky Coren                 14
6.    Phil Hellmuth               13
7.    Tom Dwan                   12
8.    Roland De Wolfe          12
9.    Annette Obrestad         10
10.  Andy Black                   10
11.  Nenad Medic                 6
12.  David "Devilfish" Ulliott   3