2023 partypoker MILLIONS Ireland Day 2

Yesterday we reached the money spots in the partypoker Millions Irish Poker Festival. Here are the names who locked up a min cash by being unfortunate not to have survived it to todays’ Day 3 of the event:

Country	Player Name	Rank	Prize Money
	Margereson, Scott	Out 16	€8,000
	Cahill, Seamus Peter	Out 17	€8,000
	Bain, Tristan R	Out 18	€7,000
	Dwyer, Michael	Out 19	€7,000
	Prendergast, Conal	Out 20	€7,000
	Plichta, Michal	Out 21	€7,000
	De Antonio Canela, Ferran	Out 22	€7,000
	Kazantsev, Valentyn	Out 23	€7,000
	Montana, Hanna	Out 24	€7,000
	Harraghy, Gerard	Out 25	€6,000
	Kavanagh, Stephen	Out 26	€6,000
	Toole, Andrew	Out 27	€6,000
	Foley, Sean	Out 28	€6,000
	Baldini, Marco	Out 29	€6,000

Ross Coveneyopened his BU to 40k (2bb) and Michael Molenaarsmooth-called in the small-blind.

Tomas McNamarawent for 3-bet in big-blind to 155k (7.75bb) and Coveney did not take long before piling it in for 789k effective (40bb).

McNamara tanked before flicking in a call, and found his nose to be on point as Coveney flipped out Q J and was in good shape with his A 10 .

K J 7 put Coveney ahead and had him in a massive spot to become chip-leader, but the A turn threw McNamara ahead and the river 2 brick put McNamara in with the big stacks.

Liam Chevalieropened his CO to 32k (2bb) and well-known Irish pro Andrew Hedley3-bet to 110k (6.8bb) and Chevalier quickly called.

On a flop of Q 5 4 , both players found a check before Hedley barrelled the the 8 turn for 200k (12.5bb) and Chevalier made a pained fold.

An early position player opened off his monster 1+ million in chips in early position, and Seamus Cahillmade no time in putting in his 350k. Once it folded back round to the aggressor, he snap called and we went straight to board.

Coveney: 10 10

Cahill: Q Q

K 6 2 8 9

Cahill secures a much needed double-up whilst Coveney’s big stack takes a small hit.

We have 29 players remaining after Carl Cullenlost a flip for his tournament life and burst the bubble of the partypoker MILLIONS Irish Festival

Cullen pushed all-in with his short stack holding J J and found the iso-jam from Padraig O’Neilwith A K .

A run out of 3 K Q , K , 6 popped the bubble and left the remaining players with a cash of €6,000 with two more levels left in the day.

The action to this peculiar hand started with Bart Lybaertopening 16k (2bb) in MP, and found a 3-bet when Philipp Kampf raised to 43k (5.3bb). Tomas McNamaramade a stand with his 47k (5.8bb) stack and put it all in, which got a call from Kampf and a snap-call from Lybaert.

The flop of 10 8 5 rolled off, and after Kampf checked to him, Lybaert c-bet into a dry side-pot and then flipped over the A J for an airball. McNamara showed his A 10 for top-pair top-kicker and the 3 3 runout secured him a huge double up.

Michael Molenaar opened to 17k in the HJ, the CO peeled and the rest of the players folded. On a board of K 6 5 , Molenaar checked and the CO Keith Cummins checked back.

The turn brought the K and Molenaar went for a sized-up delayed c-bet of 35k (4.3bb), which Cummins quickly called. The river 4 completed the open-ended straight draw on the flop, but that didn’t stop Molenaar betting big with 85k (10.6bb).

Cummins was clearly in between finding the muck or finding the call, and opted for the latter – he was quickly shown Molenaar’s A K and mucked his hand. A nice check by Molenaar on the flop seemed to get him the max. The Dutchman now moves up to 526k (66bb).

After a middle-position open to 16k (2bb) and a late-position flat, Joshua Stewartjammed his 212k (27bb).

The initial raiser re-jammed their 347k (44bb) and the late-position flatter folded. It was a race for a split second, as Stewart’s A Q was up against 9 9 , the race was short-lived as the A window was followed by the 9 9 , leaving Stewart with just backdoor quads as his only hope. The 10 sent Stewart to the rail, and the table broke.

Niall McAreejust won a huge pot after an interesting hand versus David Docherty, and has now gone over 160k (32bb).

After opening in MP and Docherty defends his BB, Docherty went for a donk on 8 6 5 to 9k (1.8bb) and McAree raised to 29k (5.8bb), Docherty called and on the 3 turn, McAree jammed for his remaining 49k (9.8bb) and Docherty snapped called with the world draw, his A 7 against McAree’s 10 10 .

Docherty’s combo-draw, a double-gutshot and nut flush draw didn’t get there, as the 10 peeled on the river giving McAree a big pot as we have 67 left.

We’ve seen some big names go out after the first break, including DTO Poker founder and high-stakes MTT end-boss Dominik Nitsche, who could not manouvre his short-stack past the last 70.

WSOP bracelet and ring winner Richard Ashby max-late regged but could not get anything going, and busted in 72nd. Joining him was one of Estonia’s best in Igor Pihela Jr, who also found the rail.

Michael Molenaarhas span his stack of 80k (20bb) up to past 400k (100bb) during this Day 2, joining Conor Berginas one of the bigger stacks in the event. Scott Margesonis another to keep an eye on, as the former WPT champion now has around 250k (62.5bb) and will be one to watch as we approach the bubble.

Glenn Keoghopened 10k (2.5bb) from UTG, and saw a middle-position player flat. Dara O’Kearneyslid in his stack of 100k (25bb) and got two quick folds, scooping up the dead money and moving up past 130k (32.5bb).

Welcome to Day 2 of the partypoker MILLIONS Irish Poker Festival, where we are playing down to the money!

We’ve seen partypoker find a huge amount of success with this event, as the prizepool surpassed the guarantee and now sits at €766,840 after the last level of re-entry (level 11) has passed. The average stack sits around 152k (38bb) and the hour-long levels allow for more deeper-stacked poker, which should get interesting as stacks vary.

From the 94 remaining, 29 will make the money where a min-cash is €6,000 and the payouts are quite flat up until the final table, where 8th gets €22,840 and the champion will receive €210,000 – we should get some intense ICM spots then!

Conor Berginhas ascended up to 474k after late-reg ended, with Bart Lybaertand Tristan Bainclose behind with 364k (91bb) and 298k (74.5bb).

Niall Farrell is in the mix still with a healthy 171k (43bb) and Simon Wilsonwill be battling for sure with his 170k (43bb).

David Docherty, Dara O’Kearney, Joshua Stewart, Andrew Hedley, Andy Black, Ankit Ahuja, Michael Molenaar, Richard Ashby and Dominik Nitsche are all names still in the mix so far.