Main Event
Day 5 Started
2017 partypokerLIVE Millions Dusk Till Dawn
Main Event
Day: 5
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 partypokerLIVE Millions Dusk Till Dawn
Buy-in
£5,300
Prize Pool
£6,017,395
Entries
1,240
Level
57
Blinds
5,000,000 / 10,000,000
Ante
1,000,000
Seat 1: Mateusz Rypulak (257,300,000) - 23, Poland
Mateusz Rypulak is the chip leader heading into the final table here at the partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn with a stack of 257,300,000, and he is also one of two players that are still in contention for the Golden Chip Last Longer competition that awards £100,000 to the last man standing. Rypulak qualified for the event in the Caribbean Poker Party in Punta Cana last November and is currently 27th in the all-time money list of Poland.
Back in 2012 when he had just turned 18 years old, Rypulak won the France Poker Series €1,100 Main Event in Paris for a cool €150,000 and has since amassed several smaller scores. Now, Deblin-based Rypulak is 23 years old and is looking to become a millionaire here in Nottingham and will just have to turn around to the left to see his sole remaining opponent for the last longer competition as well.
Seat 2: Jacob Mulhern (221,000,000) - 24, UK
The player with arguably the most support during the last few tables of the 2017 partypoker MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn £5,300 Main Event was Jacob Mulhern. After dominating the late stages of Day 4, 24-year-old Doncaster-based Mulhern soared to the top of the chip counts before then getting short and winning a big flip to get back into contention. Mulhern is the second player still in the £100,000 Golden Chip last longer competition and holds the second-biggest stack with 221,000,000.
The Brit qualified for the Caribbean Poker Party in Punta Cana last November through a $700 online satellite on PartyPoker and will be crushing his biggest score to date. Mulhern has had three cashes, all of them coming from events in the Dusk Till Dawn and a 4th place in a £550 DeepStack Event for £ 13,750 is the best result to date. However, Mulhern has already £72,395 locked up for his efforts and his very vocal rail will be there to show their support when the final table kicks off.
Seat 3: Maria Lampropulos (194,700,000) - 35, Argentina
Maria Constanza "Connie" Lampropulos has been railing her boyfriend Ivan Luca during many deep runs in the last few years, but the 35-year-old Greece-born with a degree in business management, who also holds an Argentinian passport and currently resides in Leicester, UK, has racked up quite a few results herself as well. In fact, Lampropulos and Luca ended up heads-up during the €1,100 Eureka Rozvadov last year and that's where the career-best score of €95,404 so far comes from. Lampropulos also locked up another bug score earlier that year in the 2016 WPTN Brussels Main Event, claiming €68,200 for the second place finish.
Lampropulos bought into Day 2 of the event here at the Dusk Till Dawn for £5,300 and made it through to Day 3 only to find a very familiar face at her starting table when the action resumed: It was no other than her boyfriend. While Luca bowed out in 138th place for £10,000 and then cheered on his better half from the rail, Lampropulos claimed a stack of 194,700,000 for the final table and will return with the third-biggest stack.
Seat 4: Jeremy Pantin (157,100,000) - 24, Trinidad and Tobago
Jeremy Pantin may be one of the rather unknown players on the final table of the 2017 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn £5,300 Main Event, but the 24-year-old has shown some serious game and will kick off the mission to become a millionaire here in Nottingham with 157,100,000. Pantin was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved over to the UK a few years ago.
His only two scores to date show cashes for a combined £1,200, with both results coming from tournaments in London, and Pantin has already pulverized that with a guaranteed payday of £72,395. Will he be the one to take home the astonishing first-place payout of £1,000,000 and lift the trophy when all is done and dusted today?
Seat 5: Jon Spinks (108,100,000) - 28, UK
Jon Spinks has already racked up more than $700,000 in live tournament cashes and the biggest score came in a victory in a €2,200 EPT9 Deauville Side Event where he defeated Jonathan Duhamel and Dany Parlafes among others to claim €141,200. Many other cashes have followed and Spinks will be supported on the rail by several well-known pros such as Max Silver and Dominik Nitsche.
28-year-old Spinks from Haxton in the UK is also an online beast with more than $2,700,000 in earnings and will bring 108,100,000 into the final table at the Dusk Till Dawn. If Spinks finishes 6th or better, he will rack up a new career-best live score and potentially cross the million mark, if not take home the stunning first-place prize of £1,000,000.
Seat 6: Stephen Chidwick (45,500,000) - 27, UK
If there is one player on the final table of the 2017 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn that needs little introduction, it is 27-year-old Stephen Chidwick. The Brit is one of the most-well known tournament players, both online and live, and holds the second place on England's all-time money list. Known online as "stevie444", Chidwick first came to fame when he famously won 100 seats on PokerStars for the 2008 World Series when he was only 19. He now has several WSOP final tables to his name.
The poker bio of Chidwick includes almost $5,000,000 in online tournament earnings and more than $7,000,000 in live scores over the past few years, and the best score came off a third-place finish in the EPT10 Prague Main Event for €378,000. The Brit also tasted victory in this year already after emerging victorious in a $25,500 High Roller at the PokerStars Championship Panama for $366,500.
Chidwick has had an amazing comeback on Day 4 after starting the penultimate day with less than three big blinds and right in the big blind, before tripling up twice and ultimately advanced to the final table with 45,500,000. He will be the short stack with just over 11 big blinds when play resumes.
Seat 7: Katie Swift (171,500,000) - 34, UK, partypoker qualifier
Katie Swift qualified twice through online satellites on partypoker and earned her seat in the £550 Phase 1 steps. The first attempt didn't go that well and Swift busted in level six, but the second attempt saw her stack go all the way up to 171,500,000 and the 34-year-old from Palm Bay/Kent in the UK is the last outright online qualifier and second woman on the final table of the 2017 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn £5,300 Main Event.
Swift has a nine-year-old son, who she describes as her biggest non-poker achievement. "I met my husband by playing poker and when we had a kid, we named him Jack. The Jack of hearts, who will always be in my heart." Swift is a business owner and runs a cafe, and she already has some live results in the poker resume as well. In August 2015, Swift reached the final table of the £120 Goliath Main Event and finished second out of a 2,764 entry-strong field for a payday of £46,300.
Swift will be one of the crowd favorites when play resumes and has £72,395 guaranteed.
Seat 8: Neel Murthy (93,200,000) - 29, USA
The final table line-up is completed with 29-year-old Neel Murthy from San Francisco, and all but two of the cashes of the American are from Las Vegas. However, there is one result that clearly stands out on the poker resume of Murthy. Back in 2016, Murthy finished runner-up to Vladimir Geshkenbein in the HK$100,000 ACOP Main Event and received HK$5,143,000 (approximately $663,024) for his efforts.
Less than two weeks after another trip to the location his biggest success to date, Murthy has made it to the home of poker in the UK and outlasted a massive field in the 2017 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn £5,300 Main Event. Another seven opponents are left over to claim the first-place prize of £1,000,000 and the American will start the final table as one of the shorter stacks with 93,200,000, good enough for 23 big blinds when the action resumes.
Who Will be Crowned Champion in the £5,300 partypokerLIVE MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn Main Event?
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It has been an incredible five days at the UK's home of poker, Dusk Till Dawn Nottingham, where hundreds of players have given it their all in this partypokerLIVE Millions Main Event. Today is the day they've all been hoping to reach, as the final eight players will battle it out for the trophy, the glory and the £1 million winners check.
Leading the field coming into the final is Poland's Mateusz Rypulak with 257,300,000, but not far behind is UK's Jacob Mulhern 221,000,000. In third is one of the two remaining women left in the field, Maria Lampropoulou, who managed to bag up 194,700,000 thanks to a late night double up against partypoker online qualifier Katie Swift.
Also in the field is British poker pro Stephen Chidwick. He started Day 4 with a mere 2.5 big blinds, but in an incredible turn of events, the Brit more than tripled his stack in the very first hand of the day and never looked back. Chidwick is looking to do the same today as he's beginning the final table as the short stack with 45,500,500 — 11 big blinds.
Final Table Seat Assignments
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mateusz Rypulak | Poland | 257,300,000 | 64 |
| 2 | Jacob Mulhern | United Kingdom | 221,000,000 | 55 |
| 3 | Maria Lampropoulou | Argentina | 194,700,000 | 48 |
| 4 | Jeremy Pantin | Trinidad & Tobago | 157,100,000 | 39 |
| 5 | Jon Spinks | United Kingdom | 108,100,000 | 27 |
| 6 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 45,500,000 | 11 |
| 7 | Katie Swift | United Kingdom | 171,500,000 | 42 |
| 8 | Neel Murthy | USA | 93,200,000 | 23 |
Each of the eight finalists has locked up £72,935 for their efforts, but with a cool one million pound sterling for the winner, there's still all the reasons for the players to make today count. Even a single pay jump will at this stage of the tournament mean a difference of ten or even hundreds of thousands of pounds, thus guaranteeing an exciting and hard fought final table.
As if one million pound sterling wouldn't be motivation enough, there is even more at stake for two of the remaining players. Thanks to their advancements in Punta Cana late last year, Mateusz Rypulak and Jacob Mulhern are participating in a Golden Chip Last Longer, and the last one standing of the two will take home an additional £100,000.
The action gets back underway at 1 p.m. local time, where the tournament clock will be restarted with seven minutes remaining in level 53 (2,000,000/4,000,000 and a running ante of 400,000). Updates will follow the live stream and thus start 30 minutes later because of the security delay of the stream. Settle in — it's going to be a good one folks!