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Friday the 13th is going to be lucky someone as that’s the day the PartyPoker.com European Open V will come to its climax and one player will be $200,000 richer.

The PartyPoker.com European Open V gets underway in London on Friday, 6th February with a total prize pool of a not too shabby at all $504,000 up for grabs.

Among the players to look out for in the famous 72-runner $7,000 buy-in event include PartyPoker.com Premier League III stars Annette Obrestad, Roland de Wolfe, Vicky Coren and Juha Helppi, plus Poker Million finalists Ciaran O’Leary, Eoghan O’Dea and Liam Flood.

Others names signed up to play include Austin Healey, Ian Frazer, Surinder Sunar, Barny Boatman, James Akenhead, Padraig Parkinson, Julian Thew, Donnacha O’Dea, May Maceiras, Marc Goodwin, Thomas Bihl, Robin Keston, Neil Channing, Roberto Romanello and UK Open champion Michael Keiner.

The tournament features 12 six-seat heats and two six-seat turbo runner-up heats. There will be two seven-seat semi finals and one six-seat final. The top three players in each semi take their chip stacks through to the final.