Pekarek Leads as Bubble Approaches in partypoker MILLIONS Vegas at Aria
Who wants to win $1,000,000? Well, one thing's for certain it will be one of the 83 remaining in the $10,300 partypoker MILLIONS Vegas at Aria.
Registration closed two levels into today, with 93 further entrants on Day 2. This meant the tournament attracted a total of 536 entrants generating a prize pool of $5,360,000. Just 79 players will be in the money, securing themselves a min-cash of $20,000.
In pole position for that min-cash is chip leader Jeremy Pekarek. Pekarek is having a strong summer, and has already racked up over $400,000 in cashes including winning his first bracelet. He doubled through Goran Mandic in the penultimate level of the night when his pocket queens held against ace-king to move over 1.5 million.
He then finished off the Croatian and added more chips to his stack to bag 2,560,000 ahead of Day 2.
Other players over a million in chips include Ran Ilani (1,748,000), Sergio Aido (1,590,000), Freddy Deeb (1,385,000), Conor Beresford (1,304,000), Taylor Paur (1,269,000), Rainer Kempe (1,170,000), Julien Stuer (1,130,000), Ana Marquez (1,099,000), Jeremy Ausmus (1,160,000) and Sam Grafton (1,112,000).
Day 1a chip leader Govert Metaal also bagged with 470,000 along with notables Kitty Kuo (320,000), Joe Cada (283,000), Chris Moneymaker (207,000), Olivier Busquet (341,000), and Sergi Reixach (555,000)
partypoker pros Joao Simao (701,000) and Josip Simunic (970,000) are the remaining team members left in the field ahead of Day 2 after other partypoker pros such as Patrick Tardif, Mike Sexton, Bertrand Grospellier, Kristen Bicknell, Sam Trickett, Mikita Badziakouski and Anatoly Filatov were all eliminated. Also sent to the rail was Ludovic Geilich who got it in on a flop three-ways with both flush and straight draws but was drawing dead by the turn.
The remaining field will resume play at 12 p.m. on Monday and play a further ten levels. PokerNews will be on hand to provide all the live updates, including coverage of the money bubble and beyond as we get closer to crowning the first partypoker MILLIONS champion on American soil.
for trip aces and Kisacikoglu looked none-too-pleased with his crying call. Simunic collected the pot to climb over 1,000,000 chips for the first time today.
turn.
. Burns bet 133,000 and eventually Barbero called. Burns showed 
for a rivered straight and Barbero mucked 
face up on the table for a rivered set.
against the 
of Pekarek, which held on the 
. Ian Davis and Tobias Duthweiler both checked to partypoker pro Ludovic Geilich who bet 18,000. Davis then check-raised to 52,000.
improved Duthweiler to a straight and left Geilich drawing dead. The board failed to pair on the 
river and Duthweiler doubled through Davis.
and Bicknell remained in front with her pair of tens. However, the 
completed the board and Bicknell was ousted shortly after the dinner break.
on the turn gave him some outs. In astonishing fashion, the 
on the river improved Schindler to a full house and he scored a double up in order to stay alive.
