2023 partypoker MILLIONS Day 2

We will have 67 players remaining for Day 3 tomorrow, starting at 16:00 CET. (36 players of them are Italian)

Prior to the start, we will provide to you the seat draw for the 9 remaining tables.

Paul Hopper from England went all-in for his last 10 big blinds and got called by Scottish Michael Matar. Hopper had the goods and showed [Ax][Qx], while Matar only could put [Ax][Jx] against it. The board remained low with [3x][2x][6x], and the turn have some split-pot options with the [5x]. The river, however, have a [6x], and this battle got won by Hopper.

He plays approximately 1M now, whereas Matar has got 1,5M.

Local Brian Colleja gave me a sign that something was about to happen, where he might had jinxed the action with. Luca Palloni was all-in for 490,000, equal to 12 big blinds. When everyone was out of the way, Colleja directly made the call and shower A A . Palloni was at risk with K K , but when the first window card directly was a King, it became very difficult for the Maltese Colleja to take down the pot suddenly.

Colleja loses a big chunk of his stack, which is unfortunate for the kind Maltese.

We arrived at the table of Tantillo and he was involved a 3-way battle. Where one player was all-in, he was head-to-head with another big stacked player with the name Massimiliano Ferro. After already 2M was in the middle, the flop was dealt 9 9 3 . Tantillo continued for 575,000, on which Ferro found a fold. When Ferro was out of the way, the showdown took place. The player at risk had A K , and Tantillo had Q Q which held with a dry board completing it.

Tantillo chips up to over 5M in chips.

If you would want to watch the replay of the final table, it is available here:

We will play 9 blind levels today at Day 2 of the Grand Prix, meaning we would end the play around 03:15 AM, as we started a bit later as expected today due to the long duration of the turbo flight.

We are down to 144 players, with the average being on 34 big blinds.

Level 26: 10,000/20,000/20,000

Players: 146/336

The last Turbo Flight of Day 1 ended with a blind level of 15,000/30,000/30,000, while other levels ended with blind levels which were much lower than that, it must feel a bit strange to some of the players who were qualified through that turbo flight.

We are now 6-hours of play into Day 2, and it will take one more hour to get to the same blind level as where the turbo flight had ended.

An extreme version of roll-back of the blinds, but the outcome was the same. 15% of the field went through, one way or another.

We got ourselves a winner in the € 3,000 Millions event! It is Marious Trattou from the UK, who shipped yet another High Roller! With four players left he had won a massive pot with K J vs A J when the board ran out 9 10 10 K 9 . And after that, he was unstoppable and eventually winning the heads-up with a massive clash with his Aces against the Ace-Queen of Domenico Gala.

It was a great coincidence story again as I met Marious yesterday before the start of Day 2 of the event. We spoke a bit about previous experiences on the tour, and he mentioned he had won a High Roller event in Paris not too long ago. He was looking to better that result, and look at that!

We spoke shortly with #4 of the tournament as well, Matt Staples. He was very satisfied with the result he got. Tomorrow we will speak with him more specifically. To be continued!

Place	Country	Player Name	Prize Money
#1		TRATTOU MARIOS	€ 93,000.00
#2		GALA DOMENICO	€ 64,000.00
#3		PELUSO FABIO	€ 41,000.00
#4		STAPLES MATTHEW JORDAN	€ 31,900.00
#5		LINDQWIST ERIK LARS ALLAN	€ 24,510.00
#6		BOELLIS GIULIANO	€ 19,400.00
#7		CIGLIANO ALBERTO	€ 15,900.00
#8		HARI ADAM	€ 13,700.00
#9		WOJTAS JABUK ZBIHNIEW	€ 11,700.00

Players are on a well-deserved break. We gathered the chip counts of table #21.

We will try to take action here and there, and also keep track on the bust outs:

#8 Of the All-Time Money list of Italy is out!

Alessio Isaia walked to the pay-out desk, and it still was a bit of a surprise as he had 935,000 chips to begin with today. Applying pressure on the right moments is something we had seen of him earlier on, but it shows once again that it does not matter how much you have cashed in your life, even in 550s you can bust at any time.

These are all the players still in contest.

*These are the chip counts at the start of Day 2

Here are the final 18 pay outs. We chose to just show these for the moment. All remaining players are already in the money, and they already received the €900 what comes with it.

Level 21: 3,000/6,000

Players: 336/2,237

Average: 332,887

Total Prize Pool: € 1,011,840

Shuffle Up and Deal!