The Eurasia Conference Playoffs Continue With the Hong Kong Stars Versus the Berlin Bears
The top seeded Moscow Wolverines defeated the London Royals in five games to be the first team through to the Eurasia Conference Championship. They will face the winner of the next match: Hong Kong Stars v. Berlin Bears.
This matchup has a good chance to be very entertaining of the Playoffs with Randy "Nanonoko" Lew and Bill Perkins on their way to the GPL Arena to play for their respective teams. Lew is the heads up gun for the Hong Kong Stars and team manager Celina Lin and fellow Star Guo Dong will join him to face Brian Rast, Sorel Mizzi, Perkins, and Bears alternate Daniel "Jungleman" Cates.
The Stars went from the expected last place finisher in the Eurasia division, to the second seed with a good chance to move through to face the Wolverines in the Conference final.
Yesterday's Americas Conference final featured the top two seeds from that conference, so perhaps the extra 10,000 chips the Stars will get can make the difference to put them through.
The Bears are no easy target. They finished third in the Eurasia division and feature a roster ranging from some of the best and most well know players in the poker world, to an amateur MMA fighter and a billionaire (both of whom are excellent poker players as well). It should be a blast when the GPL Playoffs continue.