MILLIONS North Cyprus $5,300 Main Event
Day 1a Started
2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus
MILLIONS North Cyprus $5,300 Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$3,859,400
Entries
839
Level
33
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
500,000
Entries
281
Players Left
128
At noon local time, the flagship event of the 2021 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus festival will get underway at the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne, North Cyprus. With a guaranteed prize pool of $3 million, the $5,300 Main Event is the crown jewel of the series and offers a total of four starting days.
The first two of them will feature a level duration of 60 minutes each whereas Day 1c has a 40-minute clock, the final turbo heat 1d comes with a reduced level duration of 25 minutes each. All Day 1 will play a total of nine levels without any dinner break, giving the participants enough time to enjoy the free evening buffet at the five-star location.
All players receive 100,000 in chips and the blinds commence with blinds of 300-600 and a big blind ante of 600. Re-entries are allowed during the registration period, which will be available until the end of level 12 and following break on Day 2.
Main Event Day 1 Schedule
| Starting Day | Date | Time | Level Duration | Levels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1a | Wed September 22 | 12pm local time | 60 minutes | 9 levels |
| Day 1b | Thu September 23 | 12pm local time | 60 minutes | 9 levels |
| Day 1c | Fri September 24 | 12pm local time | 40 minutes | 9 levels |
| Day 1d | Fri September 24 | 8pm local time | 25 minutes | 9 levels |
Among the confirmed participants will also be partypoker ambassadors Jeff Gross and Joni Jouhkimainen, while the rumour on the street is that partypoker LIVE president John Duthie will also enter the fray as well.
The PokerNews team will provide live updates for the first three starting days and the chip counts for Day 1b before continuing the coverage as of Day 2 and until the final river card. As of Day 2 on Saturday, September 25, the action will also be broadcasted on the partypoker Twitch and YouTube channels and the $5,300 Main Event will play down to a winner on September 27.
Sixteen tables are in the draw for Day 1a and many notables are already in their seats. The action is expected to get underway within the next few minutes.
Level: 1
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
Day 1a has officially commenced and there are already 96 players registered according to the tournament screens. That number will likely go up quite a bit throughout the nine scheduled levels for today.
Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
The $2,200 Warm Up finalists Matthieu Chan and Mantas Nanartavicius find themselves on the same table again and a whole lot of other notables can already be found seated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
A big pot was brewing over on table two when Mustafa Meryumoglu check-raised big on the 
flop and invested three blue chips. He then bet the 
turn for 15,000 and was called by Eduard Norel. On the 
river, Meryumoglu asked the dealer how much the blue chip was worth, which happens to be 5,000! He bet 13,500 and Norel snap-called to get shown 
, which he had beat with the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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147,000
47,000
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47,000 |
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53,000
53,000
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53,000 |
Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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100,000
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Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
John Duthie check-raised a flop of 
to 4,500 out of the small blind and was called by Shahram Hatefi to see the 
turn. Duthie now bet 10,500 and earned a call before the 
river was checked by both players. The 510h8h] by Duthie were only the third pair by then but it was enough as Hatefi mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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130,000
130,000
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130,000 |
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65,000
65,000
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65,000 |
Level 1
: 300/600, 600 ante
While the $5,300 Main Event concurrently takes place, two high-stakes competitions will play down to a winner in the poker room of the five-star Merit Crystal Cove Hotel Casino & Spa in Girne, North Cyprus. The $10,500 High Roller is down to the final nine players out of a field of 107 unique entries and 50-entries and they will be playing for the lion's share of the $1,444,400 prize pool.
Fahredin Mustafov late registered in the first level of Day 3 after finishing runner-up in the $2,200 Warm Up and made it to yet another final table where he is joined by the likes of Boris Kolev, Tobias Duthweiler, and Askar Bekbayev.
Swissman Christophe Panetti leads the final table line-up and was also responsible for bursting the bubble. He held with aces against the 
of Ahadpur Khangah when the businessman got it in with second pair on a king-queen high flop.
Final Table Line-Up $10,500 High Roller
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Halil Kezen | Turkey | 2,515,000 | 50 |
| 2 | Boris Kolev | Bulgaria | 1,065,000 | 21 |
| 3 | Timur Ercan | Turkey | 1,275,000 | 26 |
| 4 | Fahredin Mustafov | Bulgaria | 1,000,000 | 20 |
| 5 | Tobias Duthweiler | Germany | 1,385,000 | 28 |
| 6 | James Romero | United States | 2,420,000 | 48 |
| 7 | Askar Bekbayev | Kazakhstan | 1,320,000 | 26 |
| 8 | Christophe Panetti | Switzerland | 2,765,000 | 55 |
| 9 | Iakov Onuchin | Russia | 1,925,000 | 39 |
They will continue with 37 seconds left at blinds of 25,000/50,000 and a big blind ante of 50,000. The final table gets underway at 1pm local time and the action will be streamed on a delay of one hour on the partypoker Twitch and YouTube channels.
Among the players to cash were Roland Rokita, Lachezar Petkov, Anatolii Zyrin and the 2019 WSOP Main Event champion Hossein Ensan, the latter of which bubbled the final table.
Payouts and Players in the Money so Far
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $377,115 | ||
| 2 | $265,995 | ||
| 3 | $173,120 | ||
| 4 | $124,075 | ||
| 5 | $93,020 | ||
| 6 | $74,385 | ||
| 7 | $61,820 | ||
| 8 | $49,545 | ||
| 9 | $37,120 | ||
| 10 | Hossein Ensan | Germany | $27,010 |
| 11 | Anatolii Zyrin | Russia | $27,010 |
| 12 | Lachezar Petkov | Bulgaria | $27,010 |
| 13 | Audrius Stakelis | Lithuania | $22,245 |
| 14 | Erdal Gulseven | Turkey | $22,245 |
| 15 | Alexey Losev | Russia | $22,245 |
| 16 | [Removed:324] | United Kingdom | $20,220 |
| 17 | Roland Rokita | Austria | $20,220 |
