Hungary’s Benjamin Juhasz Bags MILLIONS Online KO PLO Main Event Victory

It wasn’t only the No-Limit Hold’em Main Event of the 2023 PartyPoker MILLIONS Online KO that crowned its champion on May 30 because the $215 buy-in $100,000 guaranteed Pot-Limit Omaha Main Event did the same.

Hungarian grinder Benjamin Juhasz is the man who outlasted 504 opponents to bank $18,417 of the $101,000 prize pool.

MILLIONS Online KO #04 PLO Main Event Final Table Results

Entrants: 505

Prize Pool: $101,000

Places Paid: 72

Place | Player | | Bounties | Prize | Total Prize
1 | Benjamin Juhasz | Hungary | $11,257 | $7,160 | $18,417
2 | Mathias Siljander | Finland | $1,023 | $7,149 | $8,172
3 | Pavlos Xanthopoulos | Malta | $465 | $4,875 | $5,340
4 | Saulo Mazarin | Brazil | $1,356 | $3,231 | $4,587
5 | Carlo Heinze | Germany | $931 | $2,222 | $3,153
6 | Erik Bystrom | Sweden | $1,900 | $1,731 | $3,631
7 | Ivan Denev | Bulgaria | $100 | $1,251 | $1,351

Seventy-two of the 505 starts progressed from the various Day 1s, including Tomas Geleziunas, Brunno Botteon, and Joshua McCully. However, none of that trio made it to the seven-handed final table.

Ivan Denev did make it all the way to the final table, but he was the first to head for the showers, doing so with a $1,351 score for his seventh-place exit.

Erik Bystrom ($3,631) and Germany’s Carlo Heinze ($3,153) joined the ever-growing list of busted players before the eliminations of Saulo Mazarin ($4,587) and Pavlos Xanthopoulos ($5,340) sent the PLO Main Event into the heads-up stage.

Juhasz found himself heads-up against Finland’s Mathias Siljander, a player with several solid results online at PartyPoker and PartyPoker LIVE events. Siljander enjoyed another great result here, but it was a second-place finish this time. The Finn banked $8,172 while Juhasz helped himself to an $18,417 payday thanks, partly, to $11,257 worth of bounties.

Sweden Has a Sunday Party Champion

The final MILLIONS Online KO edition of the popular Sunday Party drew in a 1,887-strong crowd, leaving us with an overlay of $11,300; great news for those 327 players that finished in the money places!

That $200,000 in prize money resulted in nobody at the final table taking home less than $2,054 for their vast efforts when you include bounty payments.

Ludvig Lindstrom ($2,054), Steven Evans ($2,803), and Eduardo Escada ($2,538) exited stage left, leaving the final table short-handed, a situation where the more aggressive players usually thrive.

Fifth place went to Eduardo Cardigo ($3,943), fourth to Luciano Hollanda ($7,824), and third to Jorge Dinis ($8,544) of Malta.

Both Niklas Kley-Lundborg of Sweden and Alexandru Baron of Canada locked horns heads-up for the title of champion and the largest slice of the $200,000 prize pool. Both locked-in More than $11,600 from the main prize pool, but the final bounty payments were almost as large as those prizes.

Kley-Lundborg gained the upper hand and never looked back, eventually leaving Baron in his wake. The runner-up padded their PartyPoker bankroll with $14,603, leaving Kely-Lundborg to capture a $22,060 prize.

MILLIONS Online KO #10 The Sunday Party Final Table Results

Entrants: 1,887

Prize Pool: $200,000

Places Paid: 327

Place | Player | Country | Bounties | Prize | Total Prize
1 | Niklas Kley-Lundborg | Sweden | $10,370 | $11,690 | $22,060
2 | Alexandru Baron | Canada | $2,934 | $11,669 | $14,603
3 | Jorge Dinis | Malta | $1,021 | $7,523 | $8,544
4 | Luciano Hollanda | Brazil | $2,869 | $4,955 | $7,824
5 | Eduardo Cardigo | Malta | $582 | $3,361 | $3,943
6 | Stephen Muller | Germany | $1,229 | $2,560 | $3,789
7 | Eduardo Escada | Brazil | $680 | $1,858 | $2,538
8 | Steven Evans | United Kingdom | $1,324 | $1,479 | $2,803
9 | Ludvig Lindstrom | Sweden | $895 | $1,159 | $2,054