MILLIONS End of Day 1b Update and Chip Counts

The two starting days of the €3,000 Party Poker MILLIONS main event are now in the can. A further 89 players entered the tournament on Day 1b, adding to the 51 who played in the first flight, for a combined field of 140 players. As late registration remains open until the start of play tonight, at 5pm, the final number of entrants ands prize pool is as yet unknown.

MILLIONS Day 1B

Day 1b of the Party Poker MILLIONS main event concluded with 51 of the flight’s 89 starters making it through to today’s day2. The chip champ at this point in the proceedings is Italian Albert Cigliano on a 243k stack, with compatriot Paulo Boi sitting in second place on 215k.

Here is the full list of players who avoided the chop on day 1b and their chip counts.

Party Poker MILLIONS Day 1b End of Day Chip Counts
Position | Player | Nationality | Chips
1 | Albert Cigliano | Italian | 243,000
2 | Paolo Boi | Italian | 215,000
3 | Nima Saken Shaft | German | 163,900
4 | Giuliano Boellis | Italian | 149,200
5 | Michel Glansberg | Swedish | 132,900
6 | Andrei Buta | Romanian | 121,800
7 | Raman Strakovich | Belarus | 115,600
8 | Matthew O’Donnel | Ireland | 110,600
9 | Georgios Skarparis | Cyprus | 109,100
10 | Michael Nagy | USA | 105,500
11 | Jacques Ammiel Blit | Argentinian | 104,800
12 | Barrera Diaz | Spanish | 103,900
13 | Mathias Julian Bustos | Argentinian | 100,600
14 | Erik Lindqwist | Swedish | 87,400
15 | Joaquin Matias Ruiz Travi | Argentinian | 86,000
16 | Thomas Powell | English | 81,200
17 | Ciao Capistrano Teixeira | Brazilian | 73,800
18 | Dominik Nitsche | German | 73,700
19 | Philipp Kampf | German | 66,600
20 | William Byrne | Irish | 63,000
21 | Gaspare Sposato | Italian | 62,200
22 | Jozsefd Fauszt | Hungarian | 60,500
23 | Antoine Rahal | France | 60,400
24 | Ettore Esposito | Italian | 60,100
25 | Grigori Rodin | Russian | 57,400
26 | Daniel Montagnolli | Austrian | 57,000
27 | Daniel Oliver | English | 55,600
28 | Zlatin Penev | Bulgarian | 55,400
29 | Farid Jattin | Colombian | 55,000
30 | Diego Santos Ferreira | Brazilian | 52,400
31 | Fabio Pelusa | Italian | 47,600
32 | Fabian Kunze | Thore Fabian Kunze | 47,200
33 | Andrea Radicchi | Italian | 43,300
34 | Jonathan Wong | English | 42,900
35 | Mattia Brusoni | Italian | 42,100
36 | Eros Nastasi | Italian | 42,000
37 | Gabriele Cappiello | Italian | 41,200
38 | Yann Benlloch | French | 40,000
39 | Gyorgy Mlinarik | Bulgarian | 37,100
40 | Santiago Esparza Duran | Spanish | 36,200
41 | Nicky Levene | English | 31,300
42 | Pavlos Xanthopoulos | Greek | 30,300
43 | Ioannis Konstas Angelou | Greek | 28,000
44 | Jason Donaldson | English | 27,100
45 | Alessandro Pichierri | Italian | 26,900
46 | Jarko Selander | Finnish | 22,200
47 | Martin Buur Christensen | Danish | 21,700
48 | Domenico Gala | Italian | 21,500
49 | Peter Kramer Sandberg | Danish | 16,100
50 | Maxime Chilaud | French | 14,000
51 | Daniel Lisbona | Spanish | 9,200

The top ten chip counts so far from both starting days combined:

Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Top 10 Chip Leaders after Day 1
Position | Player | Nationality | Chips
1 | Albert Cigliano | Italian | 243,000
2 | Paolo Boi | Italian | 215,000
3 | Sebastian Mortensen | Danish | 165,100
4 | Nima Saken Shaft | German | 163,900
5 | Jakub Wojtas | German | 162,100
6 | Villr Jyrki santeri Pohjalainen | Finnish | 161,400
7 | Thomas Clack | English | 155,600
8 | Giuliano Boellis | Italian | 149,200
9 | Michel Glansberg | Swedish | 132,900
10 | Mario Trattou | English | 126,100

The full festival schedule of events can be found here

Photos from the event can be found here

Photography by Jean Marc Zerafa

Jonathan Raab

Party Poker MILLIONS Malta Media Coordinator