160 Players Return for Day 2 of the 2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online Main Event
At 7:05 p.m. GMT, Day 2 of the 2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online Main Event restarts with 160 players returning to battle it out for a bigger share of the $5,420,000 prize pool. The tournament attracted 591 entries on Day 1a and 493 buy-ins on Day 1b to get to a total of 1,084 entries.
Coming back for Day 2 with the chip lead is Daniel Dvoress with 30,582,133. He is followed in the top five of the counts by Hermogenes Gelonezi, Andras Nemeth, Day 1b chip leader Peter Jetten, and Dominykas Mikolaitis.
2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online $5,300 Main Event Day 2 Top 10 Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | 30,582,133 | 218 |
| 2 | Hermogenes Gelonezi | Brazil | 27,798,834 | 199 |
| 3 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | 27,371,860 | 196 |
| 4 | Peter Jetten | Canada | 26,423,338 | 189 |
| 5 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 24,489,173 | 175 |
| 6 | Arnaud Enselme | France | 18,339,430 | 131 |
| 7 | Aleksei Barkov | Russia | 18,158,570 | 130 |
| 8 | Simon Nielsen | Denmark | 18,072,924 | 129 |
| 9 | Joshua Hoesel | United States | 17,591,055 | 126 |
| 10 | Endrit Geci | United Kingdom | 17,498,394 | 125 |
partypoker representatives Jaime Staples, Mikita Badziakouski, Kristen Bicknell, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Jason Koon are still in the running together with a slew of players who qualified through one of the many satellites partypoker had on offer. Two of them even came through the $5 versions, Alan Ford (7,919,769) and Martin Bremner (2,167,427) both made Day 2 and are recording an incredible return on investment already.
This is what they are all playing for:
| Place | Prize | Place | Prize | Place | Prize | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $892,275 | 10-11 | $54,542 | 72-87 | $13,931 | ||
| 2 | $614,523 | 12-15 | $43,335 | 88-103 | $12,872 | ||
| 3 | $422,422 | 16-23 | $35,084 | 104-119 | $12,131 | ||
| 4 | $276,128 | 24-31 | $27,724 | 120-135 | $11,490 | ||
| 5 | $189,320 | 32-39 | $22,796 | 136-151 | $10,912 | ||
| 6 | $146,300 | 40-55 | $18,818 | 152-160 | $10,695 | ||
| 7 | $115,425 | 56-71 | $15,864 | ||||
| 8 | $91,542 | ||||||
| 9 | $72,260 |
When they return to play, the small blind will be 70,000, the big blind 140,000, and a running ante of 17,500 needs to be paid during each hand by each player. The level duration will be increased to 30 minutes each and ten levels of play are on the schedule for today. The day will then break for Day 3 on Tuesday, March 2 at 7:05 p.m. GMT and play will continue until the final table has been reached.
The final table will play down to a winner on Wednesday, March 3, and the partypoker Twitch stream will be following the action too from Day 3 onwards with hole cards on a 30-minute security delay.
PokerNews will be there from the first min-cash until Day 2 ends so make sure to follow along to see who will make it through to Day 3.
for Staples to stay ahead.
for Staples to improve to two pair but for Reixach to pick up the nut-flush draw.
to not change things as the Twitch streamer sent the Spaniard to the rail.
of Kristen Bicknell.
and check-raised to 2,080,000. Bicknell jammed for 5.5 million and Jiang called.
turn gave Jiang straight outs and she indeed got there on the 
river to eliminate Bicknell in cruel fashion.
for Staples to hold with the flopped pair of aces to eliminate Nolte who qualified through one of the $530 satellites.
flop left Deadman in dire shape as he needed running aces or clubs to survive. It was all over on the 
river was too little too late for the Brit.
for Staples to flop top pair to eliminate Virtanen in 83rd place for $13,931 after getting in through a $530 satellite.
