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Live Updates April 25
Day: 1

Jouhkimainen Leads Powerfest #28: Super High Roller

Joni Jouhkimainen
Joni Jouhkimainen

With 36/96 players remaining, Joni Jouhkimainen currently leads the Powerfest #28: Super High Roller ahead of Vicent Bosca and Nick Petrangelo.

Fellow partypoker Ambassador Mikita Badziakouski is also in the top ten chip counts, with Jason Koon and Isaac Haxton still in the tournament.

A reminder that Day 1 concludes with 17 players remaining. Here are the final table chip counts:

RankPayouts
1$249,791
2$166,429
3$116,183
4$80,047
5$59,059
6$46,521
7$37,676

Pablo Brito Silva Wins partypoker High Roller Big Game

Pablo Brito Silva
Pablo Brito Silva

Pablo Silva has won The High Roller Big Game for $65,609 after a dominating final table performance. He came into the final table with the chip lead, and held onto it right through to the final hand, including an elongated heads-up battle against Kevin Rabichow.

partypoker Ambassador Jason Koon finished sixth at the final table for $12,366.

The High Roller Big Game Final Table Payouts

PlacePlayerCountryPayout
1Pablo Brito SilvaBrazil$65,609
2Kevin RabichowCanada$42,307
3Leonard MaueAustria$29,106
4Artur MartirosianRussia$20,654
5Enrico CamosciMexico$15,391
6Jason KoonCanada$12,366
7Jonah SilversteinCanada$10,492
8Samuel VousdenFinland$8,993

Leonard Makes Big Game Final Table; Jahn Leads

Soenke Jahn
Soenke Jahn

The partypoker Big Game is down to a final table of nine, featuring partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard. The current chip leader is Soenke Jahn who is within touching distance of 100 million in chips.

Meanwhile, Patrick Leonard is sitting comfortably in the middle of the pack with just over 30 big blinds.

SeatPlayerCountryChips
1Alexandros TheologisUnited Kingdom23,146,518
2Patrick LeonardUnited Kingdom19,185,377
3Pedro MarquesCroatia37,722,080
4Soenke JahnAustria98,715,017
5Peter JettenCanada22,467,232
6Oleg VasylchenkoUkraine18,846,329
7Julian SelingerMalta93,460,339
8Soren JeppesenDenmark16,691,227
9Darko PercicGermany47,365,881
Big Game Final Table
Big Game Final Table

Theologis Cracks Kings

Alexandros Theologis
Alexandros Theologis

It was all-in between Alexandros Theologis and Oleg Vasylchenko.

Alexandros Theologis: {a-Hearts}{j-Hearts}
Oleg Vasylchenko: {k-Diamonds}{k-Hearts}

Vasylchenko was ahead but the {8-Clubs}{8-Hearts}{4-Hearts} gave Theologis a flush draw. The turn was the {7-Spades} and the river {10-Hearts} completed Theologis' flush and sent Vaslychenko to the rail in seventh place at the Big Game final table.

Vasylchenko vs Theologis
Vasylchenko vs Theologis

159 Players Remain in Powerfest Main Event Day 1B

Christian Nolte
Christian Nolte

The partypoker Powerfest Main Event Day 1B is down to 159 players, with only 119 players advancing to Day 2.

Here are the top 10 Chip Counts with Christian Nolte the current chip leader. partypoker's Dayane Kotoviezy, Jaime Staples, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Joni Jouhkimainen are all still aiming to make it through to Day 2.

RankPlayerCountryChip Count
1Christian NolteAustria1,543,777
2Bryan ParisNetherlands1,458,837
3Luuk GielesNetherlands1,411,298
4Martin BrinkmannUnited Kingdom1,344,782
5Lucas ReevesIreland1,312,679
6Quentin RousseyMalta1,172,258
7Poorya NazariCanada1,149,298
8Matas CikinasLithuania1,124,146
9Jorma NuutinenFinland1,107,556
10Jiachen GongCanada1,087,541

Brinkmann Leads Main Event

Just six eliminations separate the players in the partypoker Powerfest Main Event Day 1B and a spot in Day 2.

Martin Brinkmann is the player int he lead ahead of Christian Nolte, Joris Ruys and Luuk Gieles.

The 119 players from Day 1B will join the 78 players from Day 1A in Day 2, along with any players who qualify from Day 1C which gets underway at 16:05 on Monday, April 26.