partypoker LIVE UK MILLIONS: Ersoy Leads Main, Haygarth in Front in Open

October 02, 2018

It was a busy day in the Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham for the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK. Day 2 of the £1,100 buy-in Open event was on the schedule, and the £5,300 buy-in Main Event got underway. Here's what happened:

Main Event Day 1a in the Books

After a slight delay, Day 1a of the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK Main Event got underway, and at the end of the day, 38 entries were collected. Those 38 entries included three reentries, and of those 38, 18 players managed to find a bag at the end of the day to tag. Claiming the Day 1a chip lead is Turkey’s Serkan Ersoy (lead photo) with 4,830,000 in chips.

Ersoy was slowly collecting more and more chips but got most of them when he eliminated Erik Friberg with ace-queen against the pocket queens of Friberg. The ace fell on the flop to propel Ersoy into the chip lead, and that was a spot he didn’t want to give up during the later levels of the day.

Trailing Ersoy in the chip counts is Florin Sucala from Romania with 4,085,000. Is it going to be the year of Romania in Nottingham too? Sucala took some of Rifat Palevic’s chips when he flopped top pair against him. Sucala also eliminated Javier Zarco and Kristoffer Rasmussen to take him to his current position.

Closing the podium in third place is UK’s own Simon Higgins who bagged 3,840,000. Other notable players who made it through to Day 2 include Guillermo Sanchez (3,150,000), Mark Gardner (2,100,000), David Lopez (1,850,000), Ben Dobson (1,780,000), Niall Farrell (1,550,000), Paul Newey (1,360,000), and Orpen Kisacikoglu (985,000).

Not everyone got lucky enough throughout the day though. partypoker pro Sam Trickett was eliminated when he shoved on the flop with a straight and flush draw but didn’t get there against the aces of Andrew Mapp. Palevic busted both of his bullets, as did Arran Fletcher. Other players failing to get to the end of the day include Paul Dando, Andy Black, Nabil Cardoso, and Yani Yanev.

Main Event Schedule

Players will get another chance to try to make it to Day 2 as there are still more £550 satellites to come, two more Day 1s, and players can even still register during the first four levels of Day 2.

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partypoker UK MILLIONS £1,100 Open Down to 46 Players

An action-packed day of poker, hand-for-hand play that lasted over an hour, and two brothers who have made it through to Day 3. All just part of the Day 2 story from the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK £1,100 Open.

An entrants total of 1,009 over five starting flights created a prize pool worth £1,009,000. 312 players returned on Day 2 to battle and put themselves within a chance of winning the £180,000 first-place prize.

After ten 50-minute levels took place, 46 were able to survive and return for Day 3 on Tuesday, October 2nd at Noon, with Andrew Haygarth taking the chip lead with 56,325,000. Haygarth and Dean Wilson who bagged 56,200,000 have a significant lead on the rest of the field with Gordon Huntly (35,550,000), Grant Kinnear (34,700,000), Rory Liffey (34,000,000), and Paul McTaggart (32,875,000) in the following pack.

In an interesting turn of events, two brothers from Austria have been able to progress to Day 3. Daniel Rezaei (31,875,000), who was among the chip leaders throughout the day will be joined by brother Armin, who made a late run to bag a very similar 31,300,000 stack.

Well-known faces Chris Da-Silva (32,700,000), Iaron Lightbourne (23,500,000), Benny Glaser (18,925,000), Andrew Hulme (12,275,000), and Jack Sinclair (12,100,000) will also be in action alongside partypoker pros Natalia Breviglieri (6,825,000) and Anatoly Filatov (5,300,000), who will be looking to improve their stacks in the early stages of play.

Action of the day

Play got underway at 3 pm local time after the fifth and final starting flight came to its conclusion just an hour before. The 10 am turbo flight gave players their last opportunity to get into Day 2, with 20-minute levels played out instead of the regular 40-minutes that had been played in the previous four flights.

There was a shock early on in the action when Lukasz Grossmann, who came into the day's play in the top five chip counts, departed the tournament shortly before the first break of the day.

The Open went hand-for-hand when 123 players remained, and just four eliminations were needed before the money bubble burst. Tensions were high in the room after over an hour past before Michael O'Sullivan was the final player to depart short of the money. Daniel Stanway, Tomas Fara, and Colin McTaggart departed before O'Sullivan ran ace-queen into the aces of Grant Kinnear. The Irishman paired his queen on the turn but there was no miracle river, and he departed in 120th place.

With the remaining 119 players all guaranteed a min-cash worth £2,700, the exits came thick and fast with Day 1a chip leader Kfir Ivgi and Day 1c chip leader Tsz Him Pun both departing in the first batch of players.

End-of-day chip leader Andrew Haygarth was able to propel himself up the counts during the final hour of play after he called a river raise worth 15m from Daniel Rezaei with pocket jacks on a ten-four-eight-eight-nine board and took the pot with a higher two pair.

Players such as Keith Cummins,Kelly Saxby, Charles Akadiri, Sebastian Pawlak, Matthew Eardley, Sylvia Hewitt, Kenny Hallaert, and last year's partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK Main Event winner Maria Lampropulos all made the money places but were unable to last until the end of the day.

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