On Sunday, the PartyPoker Big Game IV will kick off from the Les Ambassadeurs Club in Mayfair, London and the high-stakes cash game will continue for 48 hours. This week, additional poker players were added to the already impressive lineup.
Anchoring the group of players who will take to the felts in the British city is Tony G, a member of Team PartyPoker who has dominated past events like the site’s Premier League and also finished third in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Grand Final High Roller Championship in 2009 for more than a half-million dollars. Tony G has been the main face behind this month’s running of the PartyPoker Big Game and the controversial pro will come out to the felts to Queen’s “Bicycle Race.”
Tony G was instrumental in bringing online mystery man Isildur1 into the fold. In fact, Tony G will stake the Swedish poker player, who may be wearing a mask to preserve his identity. Isildur1 has single-handedly pumped new life into the high-stakes cash game scene on Full Tilt Poker by competing against the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Brian Hastings, and Patrik Antonius. Joining Isildur1 and Tony G is embattled poker pro Luke “Full Flush” Schwartz.
The First Couple of Poker will be on-hand, as Unabomber Poker front man Phil Laak and actress Jennifer Tilly will head to London. Laak is a regular on cash game shows like “High Stakes Poker” and is one of the top minds in the game. Tilly won the Ladies No Limit Hold’em event during the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and is one of the only bracelet winners in the Big Game IV lineup. She’ll take to the felts to Hall and Oates’ classic “Man Eater.”
Drag the Bar instructor Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt will head to London to compete in his first Big Game. The former StoxPoker personality and current member of Team PokerStars Online will have several other younger poker pros join him, including Isaac Haxton and Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo. Haxton was the runner-up in the 2007 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and the $40,000 commemorative event held during last year’s WSOP for a combined $2 million. Bonomo has more than $1.2 million in lifetime WSOP earnings.
Robert Williamson III, who was the most profitable player in the PartyPoker Big Games II and III, will attempt to three-peat when the event kicks off this weekend. 2010 Irish Open champion James Mitchell will be on location, as will Full Tilt Poker pro Roland de Wolfe. The latter will appropriately come out to Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like a Wolf.”
Players will be bounced from the table via a “Survivor”-like voting process on what will surely be one of the highest rated poker shows of all-time. Here is a look at the current player list for the PartyPoker Big Game IV along with announced entrance music:
Tony G – “Bicycle Race” by Queen
Isildur1
Luke “Full Flush” Schwartz – “Pass Out” by Tinie Temper
Phil Laak
Jennifer Tilly – “Man Eater” by Hall and Oates
Neil Channing
Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt – “Flashing Lights” by Kanye West
David “Viffer” Peat
Issac Haxton
Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo
Roland de Wolfe – “Hungry Like a Wolf” by Duran Duran
Bodo Sbrzesny
James Mitchell
Robert Williamson III
Andrew Feldman – “Mamma Said Knock You Out” by LL Cool J
Simon “Schnibl0r” Münz
Roberto Romanello
Andy Greekfish
Barny Boatman
Laurence Grondin – “Rich Girl” by Gwen Stefani
Jake Cody
Sam Trickett
Josh Gould
Richard Wheatley
Paul Zimbler
Additional names will be announced later in the week in the days leading up to Sunday’s start. Eddie Hearn, Managing Director of Big Game IV organizers Matchroom Sport, commented in a press release, “The phone is ringing off the hook – so many players want a piece of the action! One question we haven’t answered yet is what is Isildur1’s walk on music going to be.”