Main Event Day 1a | 2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online

02-22-2021 01:51 UTC

Recent Eliminations Part VI

Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

The field has been reduced to fewer than 150 hopefuls and some former big stacks are no longer in contention.

Player	Chips	Progress
Kevin Parkes	Busted
[Removed:502]	Busted
Peter Chien	Busted
Daniel Smiljkovic	Busted

Jack Sinclair	Busted

Peter Turmezy	Busted
Ludovic Geilich	Busted
Preben Stokkan	Busted
Jake Schindler	Busted

Aleksei Barkov	Busted
Daan Mulders	Busted
Stephen Chidwick	Busted

David Peters	Busted

Kenny Hallaert	Busted
Arunas Sapitavicius	Busted
Tibor Nagygyorgy	Busted
Laszlo Bujtas	Busted
William Blais	Busted
Dominik Nitsche	Busted

Jonathan Clark	Busted
Aram Zobian	Busted

Kristoffer Edberg	Busted
Connor Drinan	Busted

Simon Mattsson	Busted

02-22-2021 01:56 UTC

Dvoress Rivers the Nuts to Take the Lead

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

Daniel Dvoress opened the action with a raise to 154,000 and Ramon Kropmanns on the button clicked it up to 595,000, which Dvoress called. Both players checked the flop and Dvoress then checked the on the turn. Kropmanns bet 980,000 only for Dvoress to check-raise, making it 2,065,000 to go and picking up a call.

The fell on the river and Dvoress moved all-in for an effective 3,348,837, as that's what Kropmanns had behind. He received the call by the Brazilian with for a pair of queens to reveal for the nut flush as the winning hand.

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Dvoress	16,685,697 7,697,836	7,697,836

Sergi Reixach	6,326,170 304,500	304,500
Viktor Mess	4,161,858 4,161,858	4,161,858
Rodrigo Selouan	3,525,584 3,525,584	3,525,584
Luc Greenwood	3,041,482 1,214,500	1,214,500
Jason Koon	2,217,397 275,250	275,250

Ben Farrell	1,943,834 984,072	984,072
Ramon Kropmanns	Busted

02-22-2021 01:56 UTC

Seventh Break of the Day

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Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

The 146 remaining players have been sent for another 5-minute break.

02-22-2021 02:01 UTC

Top Ten Chip Counts After the Break

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Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Daniel Dvoress	16,685,697

Andras Nemeth	15,155,932 797,750	797,750
Ilia Rusalimchik	13,352,684 5,056,974	5,056,974
Jonathan Proudfoot	12,584,242 3,948,704	3,948,704
Felix Schulze	11,854,095 2,249,086	2,249,086
Sven Poerschke	10,267,636 5,587,749	5,587,749
Joris Ruijs	9,264,898 1,393,178	1,393,178
Dmitry Yurasov	8,612,628 6,556,891	6,556,891

Christian Rudolph	8,421,461 382,950	382,950

02-22-2021 02:06 UTC

Hoefer Loses Flip to Simao

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

In a battle cutoff versus button, the remaining 1.5 million of Paul Hoefer went into the middle and he faced partypoker ambassador Joao Simao in the following showdown.

Paul Hoefer:
Joao Simao:

Only one club and no broadway cards appeared on the board, which sent Hoefer to the rail shortly after the action resumed.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Simao	7,926,968 2,633,421	2,633,421

Paul Hoefer	Busted

02-22-2021 02:09 UTC

Brinkmann Busts Czuczor

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Shirley Ang

Level 15 : 35,000/70,000, 8,750 ante

Martin Brinkmann was sitting in the small blind with Marton Czuczor behind him in the big blind. They both had their chips over the line with Czuczor at risk with the shorter stack.

Marton Czuczor:
Martin Brinkmann:

The board ran out for Brinkmann to flop top pair and improve to two pair while Czuczor bricked his flopped flush draw to stay alive.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Brinkmann	6,354,064
Dzmitry Urbanovich	1,535,477 666,918	666,918

Marton Czuczor	Busted

Level: 16

Blinds: 40,000/80,000

Ante: 10,000

02-22-2021 02:14 UTC

Doubles Back and Forth Between Martynenko and Cuellar

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Diego Cuellar was all-in for just shy of 1.4 million with the and Vlad Martynenko looked him up with the . Those cards were live but didn't connect on a board of ,

Martynenko was short and at risk right after, holding the against Cuellar's . An eight high flop all but sealed his fate but he rivered the nut flush.

Player	Chips	Progress
Diego Cuellar	2,676,223
Vlad Martynenko	1,470,584

02-22-2021 02:20 UTC

The partypoker Ambassadors at a Glance

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Joao Simao leads the pack with an above-average stack and Jaime Staples has further increased his stack to achieve the same feat. In the meanwhile, Jason Koon and Dzmitry Urbanovich both bumped their shorter stacks and remain in contention with 132 players left.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joao Simao	7,499,168 427,800	427,800

Jaime Staples	5,383,230 1,393,400	1,393,400

Jason Koon	2,959,647 742,250	742,250

Dzmitry Urbanovich	1,747,977 212,500	212,500

02-22-2021 02:23 UTC

Recent Casualties

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Christian Zetzsche

Level 16 : 40,000/80,000, 10,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Evgeny Evdokimov	Busted
Adam Hendrix	Busted
Michael Fletcher	Busted
Patrick Tardif	Busted
Vlad Martynenko	Busted
Aleksandr Kalinin	Busted
Roland Rokita	Busted

Vlad Darie	Busted

Fabian Gumz	Busted
Paul Michaelis	Busted
Ruslan Savarin	Busted