The Poker Masters is underway on partypoker with five events of a jam-packed ♠ 30 event schedule already completed. In total almostR$5 million in prize money has been won by some of the biggest ♠ names on the High Roller scene, with several players already putting themselves into contention to win the coveted purple jacket ♠ and theR$50,000 that comes with it.

Elias Talvitie Wins Poker Masters Event #1 forR$481,250

The first of sevenR$25,500 buy-in tournaments on the ♠ Poker Masters schedule attracted 55 players this past Sunday with several big names in attendance. They included Kahle Burns, Dan ♠ Smith, Justin Bonomo, Steve O'Dwyer, Fedor Holz, Laszlo Bujtas and David Peters to name but a few.

Just seven places were ♠ paid, with Canada's Timothy Adams falling just short of the money. In the end it was Finland's Elias Talvitie who ♠ secured victory in the first event of the festival, defeating Sergi Reixach heads-up forR$481,250.