While the registration for Day 1c of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany €5,300 Main Event in Europe's biggest poker arena at King’s Casino has just closed, the final starting day awaits poker enthusiasts from near and far for the fourth and flight as of 5 p.m. local time.
The final 25 seat guarantee satellite here at King's Casino is still underway and players were also able to qualify online on partypoker. All participants receive 1,000,000 in chips, worth 100 big blinds in the first two levels of the day, and the tournament will kick off with blinds of 5,000/10,000 blinds and a button ante. With six players or more, the full big blind is to be paid by the player on the button, for tables with five players or less only the amount of the small blind is due.
Day 1a attracted a field of 209 entries of which 70 advanced to Day 2 while Day 1b gathered 94 entries and 27 players bagged up last night, while Day 1c has closed with a total of 295 entries. The current overall chip leader is Germany's ggbn with 10,27 million ahead of online legend Viktor Blom with 8.805 million and Norway's Andreas Walnum with 8.14 million.
A single re-entry is allowed during the registration period, which lasts for the first nine levels until approximately 11.45 p.m. local time and it is the last chance to take a shot at the €5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Day 1 Level Structure
Level
Minutes
Small Blind
Big Blind
Button Ante
1
40
5,000
10,000
5,000
2
40
5,000
10,000
10,000
3
40
6,000
12,000
12,000
4
40
7,000
14,000
14,000
5
40
8,000
16,000
16,000
6
40
10,000
20,000
20,000
7
40
10,000
25,000
25,000
8
40
15,000
30,000
30,000
9
40
15,000
35,000
35,000
10
40
20,000
40,000
40,000
11
40
25,000
50,000
50,000
12
40
30,000
60,000
60,000
The PokerNews live reporting team will be here to provide you with updates on all the action until a winner is crowned, so stay tuned.
In a four-bet pot to the flop, Stephen Ayres bet and called the shove of Gary Tomney to see the latter turn over . Ayres only had the but got there with the turn and river. "You called the four-bet with deuces? Really?" an upset Tomney said before heading to the rail.
"This is an old school hand, it was five-bet preflop," Ismael Bojang mentioned while a massive pot of 900,000 had emerged between Tomas Jozonis in the cutoff and Albert Daher in early position. The duo checked the flop and Daher moved all in after the turn, Jozonis called instantly.
Tomas Jozonis:
Albert Daher:
The on the river was a blank and Daher sighed. "Nice life," he said and paid off the 803,000 that Jozonis had left over.
A Czech player that goes by the nickname raketak, which translates to "the man with the ace", just scored a big triple up. Alireza Ebtehaj raised to 50,000 and Tomas Hasil called before raketak three-bet to 185,000. Ebtehaj called before Hasil as table chip leader moved all in. raketak snap-called and so did Ebtehaj to create a big three-way showdown.
raketak:
Alreza Ebtehaj:
Tomas Hasil:
The board ran out and raketak tripled up for 1.155 million, while Ebtehaj doubled through Hasil for his additional 251,000.
On the three-way flop of , Steve O'Dwyer bet 135,000 in early position and faced a raise to 325,000 by partypoker sponsored pro Johnny Lodden from one seat over. The big blind reluctantly folded and O'Dwyer moved all in, Lodden called it off for 1.055 million and was the player at risk.
Johnny Lodden:
Steve O'Dwyer:
The on the turn immediately locked up the double for the partypoker sponsored pro, making the river a formality.
Several players have been eliminated in quick succession and among them were Johnny Lodden, Andrej Desset and Majid Ejlal Noubarian. The latter got into a big pot with Robert Cowen and faced a bet of 1.7 million on the river of a board . Ejlal Noubarian called all in for slightly less and Cowen called instantly to turn over for a full house, kings over eights.
Ejlal Noubarian mucked for the nut flush and Cowen immediately apologized. "Sorry that this happened to you," the Welshman said. With a stack of nearly 6.0 million, Cowen is among the contenders for a top spot after Day 1d.
The fourth and final starting day of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany €5,300 Main Event saw more than 130 players in their seats in the second level of the day and once the registration had closed, that number grew to astonishing 415 entries to make Day 1d the strongest flight of all. In level eight, Dusk Till Dawn's Simon Trumper and president of partypoker LIVE John Duthie could confirm to all poker enthusiasts in the King's Casino in Rozvadov that the gross guarantee of €5,000,000 had been reached and the total attendance stands at 1,014 entries, of which fewer than one third, 324 participants to be exact, remain in contention.
After 12 levels of 40 minutes each, only around 131 players bagged up for the night with several familiar faces near the top of the leader board. Ultimately it was local player Ondrej Drozd that claimed the lead with 9.83 million and the Czech will be second in chips when the cards get back underway for Day 2. Pavel Plesuv (8.5 million), Vasyl Penteliuk (8.385 million), Dean Hutchison (7.7 million), Robert Cowen (7.485 million), Robert Kokoska (7.320 million), and German poker superstar Ole Schemion (6.635 million) all claimed big stacks to their name as well.
Among further notables that made it through after failing to advance via previous starting days were Sergio Castelluccio (5.535 million), Triple Crown winner Niall Farrell (5.3 million), Vlad Darie (5.275 million), Felipe Ramos (4.620 million), James Akenhead (4.085 million), Michal Mrakes (3.615 million) and MILLIONS Nottingham champion Maria Lampropulos (2.1 million).
Three partypoker representatives advanced on Day 1d in Roberto Romanello (2.6 million), Dzmitry Urbanovich (1.225 million) and team online's Renato Nomura (465,000). However, their teammates Marcel Luske, Johnny Lodden, Anatoly Filatov and Joni Jouhkimainen all fell short in their attempt to run up a stack.
Other big names that bowed out before bagging and tagging include Alexandre Viard, Sebastian Langrock, Jack Hardcastle, David Lappin, Daragh Davey, Dara O'Kearney, Daniel Wilson, Jan Bendik and Andrej Desset. Czech master of speech play Martin Kabrhel was eliminated in the last hand of the night when his ace-deuce failed to get there against the pocket jacks of Norson Saho.
Viard was victim of a flush over flush setup when the Frenchman flopped an open-ended straight flush draw only for Federico Petruzzelli to turn over ace-king suited for the nut flush. The miracle two-outer never arrived and that was it for Viard. Drozd first appeared as bigger stack mid-way through the day after scooping a big pot with rivered two pair against Mikalai Vaskaboinikau and jumped above ten million chips in the last level of the night when turning a full house against an opponent with trips. The Czech prevailed at the top of the counts despite the late surge of fellow countryman Kokoska, Pavel Plesuv and Vasyl Penteliuk.
All survivors of the remaining four starting days will combine to one field and the level duration as of Day 2 will increase to 60 minutes each. The money bubble will burst throughout the day and the action resumes at 12 p.m. noon local time with level 13 and blinds of 35,000/70,000 and a button ante of 70,000.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the floor to provide all the action from Europe's biggest poker arena until a champion is crowned this upcoming Sunday.
2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany €5,300 Main Event Day 2 Seat Draw