Lukas Zaskodny Wins the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Europe Main Event (€906,770)
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Lukas Zaskodny has triumphed in the €10,300 Main Event at the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Europe. He takes home €906,770 for beating the 504-entry field, defeating Josef Snejberg in the heads up duel. Snejberg settled for €718,230. The podium was completed by French regular Romain Lewis. Lewis took home the bronze for the most significant live cash of his career: €428,000.
The tournament ended with quite shallow stacks, and most of the eliminations were in standard situations. Zaskodny addressed this after he won: “We were playing for a lot of money, and the pay jumps were quite huge. Even though the table is quite shallow, I understand that nobody wants to be eliminated.”
Zaskodny also said he is very good friends with Snejberg. “One month ago we had a groundbreaking with my garden. And we were talking and saying that we’ve never played heads-up together, even though we’ve played together many years. So one month after that, we got heads up.”
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize (EUR) | Prize (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lukas Zaskodny | Czech Republic | €906,770* | $1,006,000* |
| 2 | Josef Snejberg | Czech Republic | €718,230* | $797,000 |
| 3 | Romain Lewis | France | €428,000 | $475,000 |
| 4 | Severin Schleser | Austria | €300,000 | $333,000 |
| 5 | Sam Grafton | United Kingdom | €220,000 | $244,000 |
| 6 | Roberto Romanello | United Kingdom | €170,000 | $189,000 |
| 7 | Charlie Carrel | United Kingdom | €130,000 | $144,000 |
| 8 | Rastislav Paleta | Czech Republic | €100,000 | $111,000 |
*= Heads-up deal
Final Table Action
The final day got underway with just eight players remaining from the 504-entry field in the Main Event.
Charlie Carrel started the day as chip leader after a dominating performance on Day 3 of the tournament. He started on the same track by immediately busting Rastislav Paleta in eighth place (€100,000). After that, however, Carrel wasn't able to win a single hand, and he ended up losing every single all-in situation to end up in seventh place himself. Carrel took home €130,000 for his efforts, despite having one-third of the chips in play earlier in the day.
Team partypoker pro Roberto Romanello was one of the players that made his way to Day 3 through the online Day 1+2. Romanello had a stellar start on Day 3, but his run came to an end in sixth place on Day 4 after being one of the players that doubled through Carrel. Romanello took home €170,000.
Sam Grafton was one of several players that held the chip lead during the final table, but his run came to an end in fifth (€220,000).
Romanello wasn't the only player at the final to make it to the final table after finding his way to Day 3 through the partypoker client. Severin Schleser (4th - €300,000) and Romain Lewis (3rd - €428,000) also set foot in the Kings Resort for the first time during this series on Day 3 of the Main Event. Schleser qualified for the tournament through an online satellite on partypoker with a buy-in about 100 times smaller than the €10,300 most of the players paid.
The last non-Czech player in the tournament was Lewis, and the heads-up match started with the two players from the Czech Republic after a little break. Zaskodny and Snejberg agreed on a deal, and they would finish the tournament playing for €100,000. Snejberg already secured €718,230 and Zaskodny, who held the chip lead going into the heads up, secured €806,770. Snejberg took over the lead during the heads-up, but Zaskodny then won two big pots to end the tournament and take home the extra €100,000.
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Milko van Winden has been a part of the poker media corps since 2017. Starting out as [I]PokerNews[/I] contributor and live reporter, Milko is now the Digital Media Manager at [i]PokerNews[/i].
