On December 4, on the 4th starting flight of the MILLIONS Online, partypoker has succeeded in reaching its $20 million guarantee, making it the biggest-ever single, online poker tournament in history!
The entire poker event gathered 2,190 unique entries, while the rest were from re-entries. In total there were 4,367 entries.
With a buy-in of $5,300, these entries racked up a record-breaking prizepool of $21,835,000!
It now dwarfs PokerStars' previous record back in 2011 - the 10th Anniversary Sunday Million that had a $10 million guaranteed prize. A total of 62,000 players signed up which built a prizepool of $12.4 million.
An Impossible Goal that was Reached
When the partypoker announced its MILLIONS Online Event, many were skeptical that they would reach the guarantee. Now that goal has been reached, poker fans shall see to the end who's the winner of their life-changing first prize of $2.7 million! Additionally, the top four finishers will also walk away as happy millionaires (2nd place: $1.9M, 3rd place: $1.3M, 4th place: a little over $1 million).
Of course, they haven't accomplished this wonderful achievement just by posting and announcing a tournament in their lobby.
Ever since they publicly announced it in December last year, partypoker has been diligently giving away free seats to lucky players.
Partypoker thought of various ways to fill out the big event such as:
- MILLIONS Event tickets were given away to winners of Sit-and Go Jackpot prizes.
- Partypoker's live tournaments had extra prizes that include free seats to the MILLIONS Event.
- Satellites with buy-ins as little as $2.20 have guaranteed seats to the MILLIONS Event.
- Leaderboard prizes throughout 2018 have included seats to partypoker's MILLIONS Event.
It sure has been a long journey for partypoker, and they have worked a lot to be able to pull this off now.
The New Big Millionaires
There were 29 players who survived Day 2 and returned December 5 Wednesday at 7pm, hoping to be the one to win the sweet $2.72 million top prize in partypoker's MILLIONS Online event.
After 27 players were eliminated, the last two players immediately underwent a sensible deal, allowing them to walk away from the tourney with just more than $2.3 million each.
Manuel "Sheparentao" Ruivo (pictured left) bagged $2,329,943.88 plus the title, whereas the runner-up named Pim "ForMatherRussia" de Goede (pictured right) walked away with $2,309,994.87.
The two scores above are now the 1st and 2nd biggest single scores in the history of online poker tournament.
The previous record was $2,278,097.50 by Tyson "POTTERPOKER" Marks after he won the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event in 2010.
Third place went to Blaz "Scarmak3r" Zerjav of Slovenia, winning $1,364,687.50. He got into the tournament after winning a modest $5 satellite and fighting his way up.
Fourth placer Pedro "Maddonaa" Marques also went home with a plump prize worth $1,091,750.
Unfortunately for "wheatforsheep", who started the final day with a massive chip lead, he was unable to utilize his giant stack to its fullest, but in the end still managed to bag 7th place, taking home $491,287.50.
MILLIONS Online Final Table Results
|
Place
|
Player
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Country
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Prize
|
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1
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Manuel “Sheparentao” Ruivo
|
Netherlands
|
$2,329,943.88
|
|
2
|
Pim “ForMatherRussia” de Goede
|
Malta
|
$2,309,994.87
|
|
3
|
Scarmak3r
|
Slovenia
|
$1,364,687.50
|
|
4
|
Pedro “Maddonaa” Marques
|
Netherlands
|
$1,091,750
|
|
5
|
j2805667
|
Malta
|
$818,812.50
|
|
6
|
COL_Moutarde
|
Canada
|
$655,050
|
|
7
|
wheatforsheep
|
Mexico
|
$491,287.50
|
|
8
|
orginALUS
|
Lithuania
|
$327,525
|
Source:
https://partypokerlive.com/en/news/manuel-ruivo-wins-millions-online-for-2-33m
