Main Event
Dia 1a Iniciado
Main Event
Dia 1a Iniciado
At 7:05 p.m. GMT, Day 1a of the partypoker MILLIONS Online Main Event kicks off their first of two starting flights for players to get a shot at winning their share of the brilliant $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The second start day will take place next week on Sunday, February 28 at the exact same time and place.
Benjamin "frenchsniperrr" Chalot won the 2019 edition when the buy-in was doubled to $10,300 while the 2017, 2018, and 2020 editions could be entered in for $5,300 which is at the same price point as this year. Chalot laid claim to $2,259,113 after having had negotiated a heads-up deal with "Lucio".
Justin Ouimette won the Mini Main Event earlier this week for $184,507 with players like Yuri Dzivielevski, Timothy Adams, Rayan Chamas, and Dante Goya all also grabbing a title for themselves.
Players will receive 1,000,000 in chips in their starting stacks and blinds will increase every 25 minutes. Players can reenter once during the first nine levels of the day. Play will end when only 15% of the field is left and the remaining players will then be on break until Day 2 on Monday, March 1 at 7:05 p.m. GMT.
On Day 2, play will continue until ten levels of 30 minutes each have been played before breaking for Day 3 the next day. The remaining players will then play down to a final table which will be played out on Wednesday, March 3 all over 40-minute levels.
According to partypoker, Christian Galvan navigated through the $0.01, $5.50, and $55 stages and has a seat in today's Day 1a. Joining him are Emanuel Botoc, Leonard Modder, and Jeffrey Mulder, who all climbed their way up starting at $5.50.
PokerNews will be there from the first level until Day 1a ends so make sure to follow along with all the live updates right here.
Nível: 1
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 625
With just over 200 players in the field, the tournament has just kicked off.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Pavel Kovalenko |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Kevin Rabichow |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Tomas Jozonis |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Laurynas Levinskas |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Thomas Taylor |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
William Blais |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Robin Ylitalo |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
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Markus Prinz |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Sylvain Loosli |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Artsiom Prostak |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Anton Siden |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Jack Sinclair |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
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Alexandru Baron |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Kelly Ann Saxby |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Kenny Hallaert |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Sasa Lalos |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Stavros Kalfas |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Scott Wellenbach |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Ben Farrell |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
Toby Joyce |
1,000,000
1,000,000
|
1,000,000 |
In a battle hijack versus big blind, Philipp Zukernik led 8,125 into a pot of 32,500 with the flop showing . Ben Farrell was his sole remaining opponent and check-raised to 23,363, which Zukernik called. They checked through on the and a blank river was check-folded by Farrell, who dropped below the starting stack.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Philipp Zukernik |
1,041,488
1,041,488
|
1,041,488 |
Ben Farrell |
959,762
-40,238
|
-40,238 |
Several partypoker Team members have jumped into the tournament and here are the ones that have been spotted for now:
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Mikita Badziakouski | 1,000,000 | |
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Dzmitry Urbanovich | 1,000,000 | |
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Patrick Leonard | 1,000,000 | |
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Isaac Haxton | 1,000,000 | |
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John Duthie | 1,000,000 | |
Joao Simao | 1,000,000 | |
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Luis Coppel was left short after he had doubled Evgeny Evdokimov and then jammed for the last 49,127 in the hijack, which was called only by Andrew Macdonald in the cutoff.
Luis Coppel:
Andrew Macdonald:
Coppel improved on the flop and remained ahead on the turn. However, the river restored the preflop order and sent Coppel to the rail.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Evgeny Evdokimov |
1,962,500
1,962,500
|
1,962,500 |
Gavin Cochrane |
1,130,082
1,130,082
|
1,130,082 |
Andrew Macdonald |
905,502
905,502
|
905,502 |
Luis Coppel | Eliminado |
The cards were all but gone but what transpired was the fact that Rico De Boer had been eliminated. Markus Prinz collected his chips when the of the Dutchman flopped a flushdraw on . Prinz had that dominated with for trips sixes and no de Boer failed to get there.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Markus Prinz |
1,707,575
707,575
|
707,575 |
Rico De Boer
|
Eliminado |
The board read with 30,500 in the middle already.
Alexandros Theologis bet 31,720 from the big blind and John Duthie raised to 110,629 from the hijack which Theologis called.
The turn was the and Theologis check-called the 67,974 continuation-bet of Duthie.
The river completed the board with the and Theologis checked for the last time. Duthie shoved with the bigger stack for Theologis to dive into the tank. After his timebank almost ran out, he made the call for the 685,772 he had behind with the for the full house while Duthie showed the for two pair to be left with just under 150,000.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Alexandros Theologis | 1,759,375 | |
John Duthie |
143,250
-856,750
|
-856,750 |