Party Poker Grand Prix After Days 1F & 1G

With the weekend upon us, participation in the Grand Prix stepped up a notch on Saturday, with days 1F and 1G of Grand Prix positing the highest starting day participation yet. With just 1 turbo starting day left to play, there have now been 1980 entries into the €1m guaranteed Party Poker event in total. The final flight is now in play and day 2 will resume at 7pm this evening.

Day 1F

Starting at noon, day 1f was almost 50% bigger than the early flight on Friday, with 308 players taking their seats. It was a long day but around 11 hours later the bubble burst and 46 players progressed to day 2, where they are automatically in the money. Just one player Poland’s Bartlomiej crossed the 1m barrier, ending on 1,117,000 chips. Here are the full chip counts from those still in contention.

Party Poker €1m GTD Grand Prix Day 1F Survivors
Position | Player | Chips | Nationality
1 | Bartlomiej Klebieko | 1,117,000 | Polish
2 | Claudio Barone | 824,000 | Italian
3 | Dario Porto | 767,000 | Italian
4 | Daniel Stacey | 754,000 | English
5 | Danut Chisu | 583,000 | Romanian
6 | Angelo Patane | 573,000 | Italian
7 | Massimiliano Ferro | 565,000 | Italian
8 | Francesco Delfoco | 550,000 | Italian
9 | Luigi Serafin | 465,000 | Italian
10 | Georgios Efthymiadis | 445,000 | Greek
11 | Giovanni Russo | 426,000 | Italian
12 | Antonino Milazzo | 423,000 | Italian
13 | Thibault Thevenet | 399,000 | French
14 | Pavle Pecelj | 365,000 | Romanian
15 | John Oliver | 358,000 | Maltese
16 | Maurizio Fisicaro | 357,000 | Italian
17 | Antonino Leotta | 355,000 | Italian
18 | Jozsef Liszkovics | 341,000 | Bulgarian
19 | Fabio Berti | 338,000 | Italian
20 | Corrado Conti | 328,000 | Italian
21 | Marco Emanuele Maggio | 326,000 | Italian
22 | Alexander Jourdain | 310,000 | Canadian
23 | Gergo Bodnar | 308,000 | Italian
24 | Papapetrou Yiannakis | 297,000 | Cypriot
25 | Andea Pavvli | 296,000 | Cypriot
26 | Federico Galati | 253,000 | Italian
27 | Devis Cavina | 252,000 | Italian
28 | Pasquale Macri | 248,000 | Italian
29 | Andrew Christoforou | 233,000 | English
30 | Dimitrios Sfakianakis | 229,000 | Greek
31 | Francesco Caruso | 228,000 | Italian
32 | Marco Leonzio | 215,000 | Italian
33 | David Quang | 212,000 | Canadian
34 | Antonio Torrente de Pasquale | 208,000 | Spanish
35 | Alessandro Granieri | 195,000 | Italian
36 | Massimo Bruno | 185,000 | Italian
37 | Mario Li Puma | 158,000 | Italian
38 | Alessandro De Leo | 143,000 | Maltese
39 | Joseph Etau | 139,000 | French
40 | Jordi Ribatallada Ruiz | 137,000 | Spanish
41 | Demetri Triantafylloi | 127,000 | Cypriot
42 | Davide Serpe | 114,000 | Italian
43 | Alexander Barberra | 105,000 | Italian
44 | Francesco Berte | 105,000 | Italian
45 | Valter Miceli | 86,000 | Italian
46 | Hong Thi Minh Pham | 75,000 | English

Day 1G

The final regulator starting day was even bigger with 352 players entering and a further 52 joining the players who had already qualified for day 2. It was Italian Giuseppe Failla Valeria who topped the table and currently has the biggest stack across all starting days, lording over a 1,332,000 mountain of chips.

Party Poker €1m GTD Grand Prix Day 1F Survivors
Position | Player | Chips | Nationality
1 | Giuseppe Failla Valerio | 1,332,000 | Italian
2 | Luca Pilloni | 910,000 | Italian
3 | Stylianos Karadaglis | 805,000 | Greek
4 | Philipp Kampf | 757,000 | German
5 | David Abbate | 738,000 | Italian
6 | Mattia Ridi | 645,000 | Italian
7 | Giuseppe Tredici | 576,000 | Italian
8 | Marco Patane | 497,000 | Italian
9 | Antonio Bari | 494,000 | Italian
10 | Maryna Pashkova | 480,000 | Belarus
11 | Julio Anzelo | 462,000 | Italian
12 | Usman Ulhaq | 438,000 | English
13 | Rocco Criscio | 431,000 | Italian
14 | Mateusz Kasprzyk | 425,000 | Polish
15 | Ciro D’Ardia | 402,000 | Italian
16 | Carmelo Polimeni | 396,000 | Italian
17 | Salvatore Motta | 377,000 | Italian
18 | Santiago Espanza Duran | 372,000 | Spanish
19 | Georgian Georgescu | 364,000 | Romanian
20 | Franco Cozzulla | 362,000 | Italian
21 | Ioannis Chorianopo | 347,000 | Greek
22 | Alessandro Santini | 334,000 | Italian
23 | Marco Luis Rodriquenz | 320,000 | Italian
24 | Giosue Matteo Tersigni | 320,000 | Italian
25 | Andrea Crobu | 319,000 | Italian
26 | David Csernus | 318,000 | Bulgarian
27 | Saverio Zangone | 318,000 | Italian
28 | Ole Hansen | 310,000 | Norwegian
29 | Tom Vermeulen | 310,000 | Dutch
30 | Ioannis Koulopoulo | 304,000 | Greek
31 | Martin Barth | 302,000 | Hungarian
32 | Raffaele Cusmano | 259,000 | Italian
33 | Giovanni Vescio | 252,000 | Italian
34 | Joseph Houayek | 220,000 | Lebanese
35 | Luca Stevanato | 213,000 | Italian
36 | Paolo Cima | 212,000 | Italian
37 | Ludek Safranek | 189,000 | Czech
38 | Eftychios Georgiou | 172,000 | Cypriot
39 | Bertrand Fages | 164,000 | French
40 | Luis Rafael Spizzirri Ros | 160,000 | Spanish
41 | Agostino Pecoraio | 136,000 | Italian
42 | Kevin Yung | 115,000 | German
43 | Davide Clodomiro | 111,000 | Italian
44 | Alfredo Cuti | 104,000 | Italian
45 | Salvatrice D’Urso | 77,000 | Italian
46 | Salvatore Guglielmino | 77,000 | Italian
47 | Krisztian Kis | 70,000 | Hungarian
48 | Milo Zandi | 52,000 | Swedish
49 | Mateusz Kuzuch | 44,000 | Polish
50 | Amatore Terrafino | 26,000 | Italian
51 | Ignazio D’Angelo | 25,000 | Italian
52 | Pasquale Ferro | 25,000 | Italian

Sunday’s Schedule

We are set for another busy day here at Portomaso Casino in St Julians, with the MILLIONS reaching it conclusion and the Grand Prix moving into its second day, after one last turbo flight takes place at 11am. There is also a single day €1,100 Omaha tournament, day 1 of the €1,100 Mystery Bounty event and a side event called the Sunday Party. Speaking of parties, the player party is also on tonight from 9pm in “Twenty-Two” – the club at the top of the Portomaso Tower. Go to the welcome desk to collect your ticket.

For those at home watching the MILLIONS live stream, thee is a freeroll at 8pm this evening, tune into the live stream from 6.30pm, where the password to enter will be revealed.

Start Time | Event # | Event | Buy-In
11:00 | #3 | Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 1H Turbo | €500+€50
15:00 | #27 | Omaha Single Day | €1000+€100
15:00 | #3 | MILLIONS FINAL DAY | N/A
19:00 | #3 | Grand Prix $1m GTD Day 2 | N/A
20:00 | #28 | Mystery Bounty Day 1 | €500+€500+€100
20:00 | Online #1 | MILLIONS Malta LIVE Twitch Freeroll | Freeroll
22:00 | #29 | Sunday Party | €200+€20

The full festival schedule of events can be found here

Photos from the event can be found here

Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa and Philip Matin

Jonathan Raab

Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator