Rob Yong Polls partypoker Tournaments Ideas on Twitter
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With tournaments firming up their schedules and live poker offerings for 2020, poker players are keeping an eye out for anything new and exciting that might make its way onto their own poker calendars for the year ahead.
partypoker has been improving its tournament offering for the past few years, from three MILLIONS events in both 2017 to five in 2019 and the 2020 MILLIONS UK held at Dusk Till Dawn this January has a $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Meanwhile, their online tournaments have been a mixed bag, with their biggest success coming when Benjamin "frenchsniperrr" Chalot took home $2,259,113 after winning the partypoker MILLIONS Online. However, the return of the $1M Gtd partypoker MILLION hit by cancellation back in November.
Rob Yong Asks the Audience
One person seemingly aiming to improving and diversifying partypoker's tournament offering is Dusk Till Dawn owner and partypoker partner Rob Yong.
Since the beginning of December, Yong has posted a total of 13 questions on a wide range of topics including their preferred tournament length (four days), blind levels (60 minutes), re-entry policy (freezeout) and what live poker streams they prefer to watch (high stakes cash games).
Additionally, Yong has suggested ideas for three new tournament formats - both live and online - to his 23,500 Twitter followers that may or may not come to fruition in the coming months.
partypoker MILLIONS Limited Edition
Dubbed a "MILLIONS for amateurs" it's clear that the format would suit those unable to commit a great deal of time to a live event.
With both Day 1 and 2 online, all players would be in the money - assured a $10,000 min-cash - and Yong says a "super structure" would be in place ahead of a Live Day 3 where the blinds would be rolled back.
| Vote | Results |
|---|---|
| Like | 85.8% |
| Don't Like | 14.2% |
2,974 votes
MILLIONS Pro-Am
Yong didn't just limit his ideas to the partypoker LIVE scene, but also floated the idea for a special MILLIONS online involving both professional and amateur players.
With a buy-in of $5,000, professionals and amateurs would play separately on Day 1, similar to the Triton Million in 2019.
An equal number of professionals and amateurs would then make it to Day 2. Yong didn't poll whether players liked this idea, like he did with the previous event, but how many professionals people thought would make the final table of nine.
| Vote | Results |
|---|---|
| 7+ | 23.5% |
| 6 | 34.1% |
| 5 | 18.7% |
| 4 or less | 23.7% |
2,318 votes
partypoker MILLIONS Invitational
The latest proposed event by Yong is for a 'MILLIONS Invitational' to take place before the Triton Poker series in London in August 2020.
With a £5,300 buy-in, the tournament would be restricted to qualifiers only with no direct buy-in and no late registration. Played with an eight-max format, each table would have seven qualifiers as well as one invited amateur VIP guest.
| Vote | Results |
|---|---|
| Like this idea | 87.4% |
| Don't like it | 12.6% |
2,295 votes
partypoker MILLIONS Cyprus
FYI: New stop for MILLIONS Cyprus May 2020 - Main Event $5K $5M + $1K $1M Finale. Full schedule on @partypoker … https://t.co/2Qyb9IubZg
— Rob Yong (@rob_yong_)
One event that appears to be real is the partypoker MILLIONS Cyprus, that Yong announced on his Twitter. Although no official date has been confirmed, he said that it would take place in May 2020 with a $5,000 buy-in $5,000,000 guaranteed Main Event as well as a $1,000 buy-in $1,000,000 guaranteed Finale.
According to Yong, the full schedule will be available on the partypoker LIVE website soon.
Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.
