2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona

€50K Super High Roller
Day: 2
Event Info

2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
€1,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€51,000
Prize Pool
€2,764,500
Entries
57

Greenwood Does it Again; From One Big Blind to €1,000,000 Victory!

Sam Greenwood wins the €51,000 Super High Roller
Sam Greenwood wins the €51,000 Super High Roller

The 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final at the Casino Barcelona has crowned another champion and the first player scooped a seven-figure payday in the record-setting festival. Only seven players returned to their seats on the feature table out of 57 entries, and a lengthy bubble in the previous night resulted in four very short stacks for the final day of the €51,000 Super High Roller.

Among those was also Sam Greenwood, who led the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Season 1 leaderboard in terms of cashes prior to Barcelona. After an amazing trip to Punta Cana, he had more than $1.3 million racked up on the newly established tour, and he almost doubled that after staging an impressive comeback. In the Caribbean, the Canadian high stakes regular had been down to a few big blinds. In the second most-expensive event of the Barcelona festival, it was even more incredible after Greenwood came back from 600,000 chips at blinds of 250,000/500,000.

Several double ups later, he was suddenly in heads-up against Sergio Aido and that's when the action slowed down a lot. No big pots were played, but Greenwood eventually pulled away to establish a decent lead. In the final hand, he barreled three streets with ace-nine for flopped top pair, and Aido called him down with jack-ten for a double gutshot on the turn and third pair on the river.

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“He is a tough player, we didn't have much to play with on 30 big blinds at heads up. I just had the best hand most of the time on the river, so that was easy.” Aido had to settle for second place and a payday of €600,000, he is the second Spaniard to finish runner-up in a Super High Roller during this festival. It is the third-biggest cash for Aido, who will boost his earnings on the live circuit to more than $7 million.

While Greenwood has been a regular in the High Roller tournaments and ran extremely hot at the 2017 partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party on Punta Cana with a victory in the Main Event, the triumph here in similar comeback fashion feels special to the Canadian.

“I got a second in a couple 50k before, I actually got second to Fedor (Holz) in a 50k here before, so it feels really nice to win one.”

The next high stakes event is just around the corner with the ongoing €100,000 Super High Roller, and Greenwood confirmed that he will be in the hunt for another trophy after taking a short break.

“I didn't get too much sleep, because the bubble went so long last night. I will probably get something to eat and caffeine, then jump into the 100k.”

Sam Greenwood wins the €50,000 Super High Roller

Final Result €51,000 Super High Roller

PlaceWinnerCountryPrize (in EUR)
1Sam GreenwoodCanada€1,000,000
2Sergio AidoSpain€600,000
3Patrik AntoniusFinland€400,000
4Keith TilstonUnited States€284,500
5Jean-Noel ThorelFrance€210,000
6Joao SimaoBrazil€160,000
7Matthias EibingerAustria€110,000

The event attracted a field of 57 entries in total for a prize pool of €2,764,500. Seth Davies ended up as the bubble boy in the previous night, while partypoker ambassador Joao Simao continued his hot run in 2018 by adding another €160,000 score after finishing 6th. Start-of-the-day chip leader Patrik Antonius fell in 3rd place for €400,000.

The Super High Roller action continues right away as the €101,000 Super High Roller is currently in level five with up to 35 entries. Late registration remains open for eight levels and that may very well see the guarantee of €2,000,000 to be doubled.

Tags: Fedor HolzJoao SimaoKeith TilstonMatthias EibingerPatrik AntoniusSam GreenwoodSergio AidoSeth Davies