Main Event
Day 1b Started
2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online
Buy-in
$5,300
Prize Pool
$5,420,000
Entries
1,084
Level
43
Blinds
5,000,000 / 10,000,000
Ante
1,250,000
Entries
493
Players Left
74
7:05 PM GMT Start for Day 1b of the partypoker MILLIONS Online $5,300 Main Event
At 7:05 p.m. GMT, the second and last of two starting days for the 2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online $5,300 Main Event will provide players their last chance of claiming a spot on Day 2 and a share of the $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. Day 1a attracted 591 entries and 87 of them have advanced to the next stage.
Canada's Daniel Dvoress has already secured his seat for Day 2, as have other familiar players like Andras Nemeth, Dominykas Mikolaitis, Arnaud Enselme, Joshua Hoesel, Endrit Geci, and Espen Uhlen Jorstad who finished in the top ten at the end of Day 1a.
partypoker Team members Jaime Staples, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Jason Koon have already bagged a stack for Day 2 while the rest will come into action (again) tonight to try and join them. Other notable players have been spotted in the registration list which includes Pavel Plesuv, Anthony Spinella, Justin Ouimette, and Gediminas Uselis.
Mary Pudmoreff convinced Kristen Bicknell with her story and won the free Main Event seat with her entry on Twitter:
When the action kicks off, players will start with 1,000,000 in their starting stacks. Level duration today will last 25 minutes throughout and players can reenter once if things go wrong during their first bullet. But this is only possible during the first nine levels of the day as registration will close after that.
Day 1b will end once 15% of the field is left before the surviving players can take a break and recharge for Day 2, Monday, March 1 at 7:05 p.m. GMT. On Day 2, the level duration will increase to 30 minutes and ten levels will be played before breaking for Day 3. From there onwards, the duration will be increased to 40 minutes each. On Day 3, play will continue until the final table has been reached which will play out on Wednesday, March 3.
partypoker will be streaming the action from Day 3 onwards on their Twitch channel with hole cards on a 30-minute security delay, but in the meantime, make sure to watch along with the trials and tribulations of any of the other partypoker Twitch Team members like Jeff Gross, Matt Staples, Courtney Gee, and Monika Zukowicz while they battle the online tournament fields.
PokerNews will be there from the first level until the Day 2 bubble has burst so make sure to follow along with the live updates over here.
Level: 1
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 625
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
With just over 80 players in the field, the tournament has just kicked off.
First Familiar Faces in the Field
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
With 99 entries in the tournament, here are some of the first familiar names to jump into the event:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
partypoker Team Members
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
Four partypoker Team representatives are in the field already with more to join them once the day progresses a bit:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
|
1,000,000 | |
|
1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
Pudmoreff Participates
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
Mary Pudmoreff won her $5,300 Main Event seat through a special promotion where Kristen Bicknell asked players on Twitter to respond with a video of themselves of no more than 60 seconds with why they deserved to win the seat.
Pudmoreff did so and was selected as her work as a psychologist can be emotionally stressful, she unwinds by grinding the poker tables at night.
Have a look at her video below:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,000,000 |
Matt Staples Bubbles the $530 Sat
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
Matt Staples has been firing the $530 sats and just stone-cold bubbled one of them and here is how it happened.
He will be jumping into another one to try and get in the Main Event through the satellite system but if that fails, he will just buy in directly.
Current Top Ten Chip Counts
Level 1
: 2,500/5,000, 625 ante
Ivan Sakharov is the first player to get eliminated today while the current top ten reads like a who is who of the poker world:
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,352,191 | |
|
2,025,750 | 2,025,750 |
|
1,963,250 | 1,963,250 |
|
|
1,938,600 | 938,600 |
|
|
1,512,575 | |
|
1,488,475 | 1,488,475 |
|
1,373,750 | |
|
|
1,363,562 | |
|
1,357,635 | |
|
1,288,200 | |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 2
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 750