Day 1a of the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Europe Main Event Starts at Noon
The €10,300 Main Event is upon us at the 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Europe in the beautiful King's Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. There have been a few days of high stakes action but the tournament with the biggest guaranteed prize pool on the schedule is the Main Event with an incredible €5,000,000 guaranteed.
The tournament will feature 60-minute levels. Players will start with 1,000,000 in chips and have 200 big blinds in the first level. The plan is to play eight one-hour levels on the first day with breaks every two levels and to play down to the money on the second day. This tournament has had an online Day 1+2 and the players who made it through to Day 3 on the partypoker client will join the field here on the third day when everybody is in the money.
One of the players that used the option to play the first two days of the tournament online and made it through to the third day is Dara O'Kearney. He battled some of the toughest competition to already make it into the money.
The last partypoker LIVE MILLIONS event was held in the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. That $10,300 tournament attracted a field of 536 players, generating a prize pool of $5,360,000. Tom Marchese won the tournament for $1,000,000. A field of roughly the same size is expected in Rozvadov with the guaranteed prize pool of €5,000,000.
PokerNews will be on the tournament floor to provide updates from the first day of play until the winner is crowned on Sunday.
Day 1 Structure
| Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante (BB) | Clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 60 |
| 2 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 6,000 | 60 |
| Break | ||||
| 3 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 8,000 | 60 |
| 4 | 5,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 60 |
| Break | ||||
| 5 | 6,000 | 12,000 | 12,000 | 60 |
| 6 | 8,000 | 16,000 | 16,000 | 60 |
| Break | ||||
| 7 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 60 |
| 8 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 60 |