2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany

Main Event
Day: 1d
Event Info

2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Germany

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
k6
Prize
€850,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,300
Prize Pool
€5,000,000
Entries
1,022
Level Info
Level
42
Blinds
6,000,000 / 12,000,000
Ante
12,000,000

Big Pot for Wessel

Level 9 : 15,000/35,000, 35,000 ante

With 950,000 already in the middle and the flop showing {Q-Clubs}{3-Clubs}{2-Clubs}, Stipo Vladic bet 425,000 on the button after two players had checked to him. A player in late position then moved all in and Mathias Wessel in the hijack reraised all in. Vladic asked for a count on both all ins, which were for 540,000 and 1.735 million (Wessel) respectively, and sent his cards into the muck. While the stacks were counted, the player in late position already grabbed his jacket and was ready to leave.

Once the showdown took place, Wessel's {J-Clubs}{10-Clubs} had locked up the pot, as the opponent only had {5-Hearts}{4-Hearts}. Both the {10-Hearts} turn and {10-Diamonds} river didn't matter and the German boosted his stack significantly.

Player Chips Progress
Mathias Wessel de
Mathias Wessel
3,700,000 3,700,000
Stipo Vladic hr
Stipo Vladic
2,700,000 1,700,000

Tags: Mathias WesselStipo Vladic

Assorted Stacks

Level 9 : 15,000/35,000, 35,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
James Akenhead gb
James Akenhead
7,400,000 7,400,000
Gerald Karlic at
Gerald Karlic
4,100,000 1,700,000
Felix Bleiker ch
Felix Bleiker
3,900,000 3,000,000
Rehman Kassam gb
Rehman Kassam
3,700,000 1,950,000
Michal Mrakes cz
Michal Mrakes
3,000,000 -100,000
Niall Farrell gb
Niall Farrell
WSOP 1X Winner
WPT 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
2,900,000 2,900,000
Robert Auer at
Robert Auer
2,000,000 2,000,000
Aliaksei Boika by
Aliaksei Boika
EPT Main Event Champion
EPT 1X Winner
1,450,000 1,450,000
Vladimir Troyanovskiy ru
Vladimir Troyanovskiy
1,300,000 -4,200,000
Dara O'Kearney ie
Dara O'Kearney
Busted

Viard Downed After Flush Over Flush Debacle

Level 9 : 15,000/35,000, 35,000 ante

With 325,000 in the middle and the flop showing {10-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds}{2-Diamonds}, the stacks of Federico Petruzzelli and Alexandre Viard went into the middle of the table and both players turned over a flopped flush.

Federico Petruzzelli: {A-Diamonds}{K-Diamonds}
Alexandre Viard: {J-Diamonds}{9-Diamonds}

Viard was not drawing dead to win the pot as he had two outs for the straight flush, but the {9-Spades} turn and {9-Hearts} river were both blanks. The stacks were counted and Petruzzelli had 1.775 million, Viard had 25,000 more and busted soon after.

Player Chips Progress
Federico Petruzzelli it
Federico Petruzzelli
4,000,000 4,000,000
Alexandre Viard fr
Alexandre Viard
Busted

Tags: Alexandre ViardFederico Petruzzelli

Level: 9

Blinds: 15,000/35,000

Ante: 35,000

Small Pots Only

Level 8 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

On the {10-Diamonds}{4-Hearts}{3-Spades} flop, Andrej Bogdanov checked out of the big blind and called a bet of 80,000 by Hossein Ensan on the button. Both players ended up checking through the {5-Diamonds} turn and {7-Clubs} river, and Bogdanov's {5-Spades}{3-Clubs} for two pair scooped the pot.

Rehman Kassam has been able to boost his stack despite losing a portion of it when betting the {Q-Hearts}{6-Spades}{6-Clubs}{J-Spades} turn for 255,000 and picking up a call by his table neighbor. Both players checked the {8-Hearts} river and Kassam mucked when being shown {K-Diamonds}{Q-Diamonds}.

Chi Zhang took on Rifat Gegic and check-raised a flop of {8-Hearts}{5-Hearts}{2-Diamonds} from 120,000 to 350,000 in a battle hijack versus cutoff. Gegic called and then faced the shove of Zhang on the {K-Clubs} turn. That was enough to force a fold from Gegic, who slipped to around 22 big blinds.

Player Chips Progress
James Ablott gb
James Ablott
4,600,000 4,600,000
Borge Sandsgaard no
Borge Sandsgaard
4,100,000 900,000
Ivo Donev at
Ivo Donev
WSOP 1X Winner
4,000,000 2,800,000
Ondrej Drozd cz
Ondrej Drozd
Day 3 Chip Leader
3,400,000 200,000
Andrej Bogdanov de
Andrej Bogdanov
2,550,000 2,295,000
Robert Schulz de
Robert Schulz
WSOP 1X Winner
2,100,000 1,725,000
Chi Zhang gb
Chi Zhang
2,100,000 150,000
Dzmitry Urbanovich pl
Dzmitry Urbanovich
1,900,000 900,000
Rehman Kassam gb
Rehman Kassam
1,750,000 1,750,000
Kenny Hallaert be
Kenny Hallaert
1,500,000 1,500,000
Hossein Ensan de
Hossein Ensan
EPT Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
EPT 1X Winner
1,250,000 300,000
Rifat Gegic de
Rifat Gegic
775,000 -75,000
Joni Jouhkimainen fi
Joni Jouhkimainen
Busted
Wael Sarkis lb
Wael Sarkis
Busted
Grzegorz Idziak pl
Grzegorz Idziak
Busted

Tags: Andrej BogdanovChi ZhangHossein EnsanRehman KassamRifat Gegic

Zhang Allows Opponent to Double

Level 8 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Chi Zhang
Chi Zhang

There was some confusion at the table of Chi Zhang and Markus Durnegger and the floor was called over, while a short stack had been all in for 565,000. The €50,000 Super High Roller winner Chi Zhang had called and was about to go into showdown, but the cards of the opponent were nowhere to be found.

This would automatically result in the elimination of the short stack, but Zhang allowed for the cards to be retrieved from the muck and it was a flip with {A-Spades}{J-Spades} against the {9-Diamonds}{9-Hearts} of the opponent. The board came {Q-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}{8-Hearts}{8-Spades}{4-Clubs} and Zhang forfeited around one fifth of the stack.

Player Chips Progress
Chi Zhang gb
Chi Zhang
1,950,000 1,950,000

Tags: Chi ZhangMarkus Durnegger

Lodden Doubles Through O'Dwyer

Level 8 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante
Johnny Lodden
Johnny Lodden

On the three-way flop of {9-Clubs}{7-Clubs}{3-Spades}, Steve O'Dwyer bet 135,000 in early position and faced a raise to 325,000 by partypoker sponsored pro Johnny Lodden from one seat over. The big blind reluctantly folded and O'Dwyer moved all in, Lodden called it off for 1.055 million and was the player at risk.

Johnny Lodden: {10-Clubs}{8-Clubs}
Steve O'Dwyer: {A-Clubs}{7-Diamonds}

The {J-Diamonds} on the turn immediately locked up the double for the partypoker sponsored pro, making the {2-Spades} river a formality.

Player Chips Progress
Johnny Lodden no
Johnny Lodden
2,500,000 1,500,000
Steve O'Dwyer ie
Steve O'Dwyer
EPT 1X Winner
1,825,000 225,000

Tags: Johnny LoddenSteve O'Dwyer

The Guarantee is Reached

Level 8 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

Thanks to a total of 404 entries in the final flight the total gross guarantee of €5,000,000 has been reached and the clock was stopped for just one minute as the president of partypoker LIVE, John Duthie, took to the microphone to share the news with all players in the poker arena. The registration remains open until the end of the next level and following break.

Skorepa Takes from Bergmann

Level 8 : 15,000/30,000, 30,000 ante

On the river of a completed board of {Q-Hearts}{8-Spades}{4-Spades}{8-Hearts}{K-Hearts}, Matous Skorepa bet 325,000 and Fredrik Bergmann reluctantly called from one seat over. Skorepa turned over the {A-Spades}{8-Diamonds} for trips eights and that was enough to rake in the pot. Skorepa has bumped up his stack slightly while Bergmann, who busted on Day 1c, dropped to just under the starting stack.

Player Chips Progress
Matous Skorepa cz
Matous Skorepa
WSOP 1X Winner
1,450,000 250,000
Fredrik Bergmann no
Fredrik Bergmann
935,000 935,000

Tags: Fredrik BergmannMatous Skorepa