Main Event
Day 3 Started
2021 partypoker MILLIONS Online
Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
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
28
Players Left
9
28 Players Return to Battle for a Seat at the Final Table of the 2021 partypoker MILLIONS $5,300 Main Event
The penultimate day of the 2021 partypoker MILLIONS $5,300 Main Event is here and will kick off at 7:05 p.m. GMT with 28 remaining players returning out of 1,084 entries to battle it out for a bigger share of the $5,420,000 prize pool. They have all secured $27,724 but will all be eyeing that incredible first-place prize of $892,275.
Coming back with the Day 2 chip lead is Valentyn Kazantsev with 68,852,752 which is worth 86 big blinds at the start of the day. He is followed in the counts by Oliver Weis, Endrit Geci, Jerry Odeen, and Justin Ouimette who won the Mini Main last week for $184,507.
2021 partypoker MILLIONS $5,300 Main Event Day 3 Top Ten Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valentyn Kazantsev | Ukraine | 68,852,752 | 86 |
| 2 | Oliver Weis | Germany | 66,475,886 | 83 |
| 3 | Endrit Geci | United Kingdom | 62,331,105 | 78 |
| 4 | Jerry Odeen | Sweden | 60,600,259 | 76 |
| 5 | Justin Ouimette | Canada | 59,028,336 | 74 |
| 6 | Timothy Ulmer | United States | 56,275,337 | 70 |
| 7 | Dominykas Mikolaitis | Lithuania | 55,041,104 | 69 |
| 8 | Richard Mullen | Canada | 53,305,689 | 67 |
| 9 | Martin Brinkmann | United Kingdom | 48,994,828 | 61 |
| 10 | Christopher Brice | United Kingdom | 48,047,296 | 60 |
Two partypoker representatives are still in the running. Dzmitry Urbanovich and Jaime Staples both bagged chips at the end of Day 2 and are situated in the middle of the leaderboard with Urbanovich holding an above-average stack while Staples is floating just below. He will be streaming his run, so make sure to have a look there too!
But befitting to the stature of the event, the remaining field is chockful of familiar names from the poker world. Day 1a and Day 1b chip leaders Daniel Dvoress and Peter Jetten are also still in with a shot at grabbing a bigger prize. Dominykas Mikolaitis, Vitalijs Zavorotnijs, Jonathan Proudfoot, and Christian Rudolph are just some more of the notables names left.
Timothy Ulmer, Richard Mullen, Martin Brinkmann, Jiri Kocab, George McDonald, and Urbanovich all made it into the Main Event by winning a seat in one of the $530 satellites and are looking at an amazing return on investment already and will be aiming to only increase it even more. The next pay-jump will be reached once there are 23 players left.
This is what they are still playing for:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $892,275 |
| 2 | $614,523 |
| 3 | $422,422 |
| 4 | $276,128 |
| 5 | $189,320 |
| 6 | $146,300 |
| 7 | $115,425 |
| 8 | $91,542 |
| 9 | $72,260 |
| 10-11 | $54,542 |
| 12-15 | $43,335 |
| 16-23 | $35,084 |
| 24-28 | $27,724 |
When play resumes, the first level of the day will feature a small blind of 400,000, a big blind of 800,000, and have a running ante of 100,000. Level duration will be increased to 40 minutes and play will continue until there are nine players left for the final table which will play out on Wednesday, March 3 at 7:05 p.m. GMT.
The partypoker Twitch streams will be live from 7:30 p.m. GMT today. On the English channel, James Dempsey and Henry Kilbane will be providing commentary with Joni Jouhkimainen joining them. But partypoker also has a Russian stream with commentary by Dmitry Shakhov and "LoremCDMX", a Brazilian stream with Marcos Sketch and Pedro Padilha, and a Latin-American stream commentated by Santi González and Pamela Balzano. So enough options to anyone's liking.
And PokerNews will be right here to bring you all the live updates as it happens so make sure to keep following along to see who will reach the final table.
Level: 29
Blinds: 400,000/800,000
Ante: 100,000
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
All players are back in their seats and have secured at least $27,724 with the next pay jump looming when there are 23 players left. The cards are in the air and play has just resumed.
Jetten Gets Shove Through
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
Peter Jetten opened under the gun with a raise to 1.84 million, and got a call from Justin Ouimette in the small blind before big blind Vitalijs Zavorotnijs reraised it to 7.36 million. Jetten shoved for me than 36M, and got two folds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,700,259 | -1,900,000 |
|
58,308,336 | -720,000 |
|
46,750,141 | 8,000,000 |
|
42,688,859 | -4,660,000 |
|
40,122,293 | -820,000 |
|
34,038,389 | -1,900,000 |
|
24,600,826 | 2,000,000 |
Rudolph Busts McDonald
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
All the money went in on the river when George McDonald shoved his remaining stack for 11,259,561 with almost 5M already in the middle.
George McDonald: 
Christian Rudolph: 
Board: 
McDonald had top pair, but it wasn't enough to crack Rudolph's kings and McDonald was out in 28th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
58,211,337 | 1,936,000 |
|
37,202,804 | -2,100,000 |
|
34,476,294 | -4,900,000 |
|
32,175,566 | -1,300,000 |
|
28,038,947 | 12,259,561 |
|
17,414,946 | 6,100,000 |
|
Busted |
Dvoress Downs Kocab
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
The board read 
with over 17,000,000 in the middle.
Jiri Kocab checked his big blind and Daniel Dvoress bet enough to put Kocab all-in who took some time to consider his options. In the end, he made the call for the 11,309,340 he had behind with the 
for the pair of tens but Dvoress held the 
for the higher pair in his pocket to eliminate Kocab in 27th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
69,823,952 | 971,200 |
|
60,231,105 | -2,100,000 |
|
49,605,689 | -3,700,000 |
|
45,662,645 | 27,978,140 |
|
12,076,112 | -2,900,000 |
|
7,611,185 | -600,000 |
|
Busted |
Jorstad Almost Goes All-In
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
The board read 
with 14,203,410 in the middle.
Jerry Odeen bet 9,542,380 from under the gun and Espen Uhlen Jorstad raised to 26,800,000 from the hijack, keeping 2,670,589 behind. Odeen tanked for a while but opted to fold in the end.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
58,108,336 | -200,000 |
|
|
53,216,369 | 19,177,980 |
|
|
44,590,079 | -14,110,180 |
|
|
44,470,141 | -2,280,000 |
|
|
42,088,859 | -600,000 |
|
|
38,334,493 | -1,787,800 |
|
|
24,400,826 | -200,000 |
Vecino Eliminated in 26th
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
Juan Carlos Vecino has been eliminated in 26th place, and with the elimination of Joris Ruijs on another table, they are now down to three tables left with 24 stacks still in action.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
72,034,352 | 2,210,400 |
|
|
63,057,894 | 35,018,947 |
|
|
49,038,804 | 11,836,000 |
|
|
45,845,689 | -3,760,000 |
|
|
37,324,937 | -20,886,400 |
|
|
35,172,913 | 696,619 |
|
|
17,874,946 | 460,000 |
|
7,769,249 | -22,898,696 |
|
|
Busted |
Joris Ruijs Taken Out by Dvoress
Level 29
: 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante
Joris Ruijs was all-in from the big blind and up against Daniel Dvoress in the under-the-gun position when all the chips went in at one point.
Joris Ruijs: 
Daniel Dvoress: 
The board read 
when all the cards were dealt for Dvoress to bust Ruijs in 25th place for $27,724 as he had hit two pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
68,323,952 | -1,500,000 |
|
|
62,898,757 | 17,236,112 |
|
|
55,371,105 | -4,860,000 |
|
|
49,305,689 | -300,000 |
|
|
9,111,185 | 1,500,000 |
|
|
Busted |