MILLIONS Moves Into Day 2

The four starting days of the Party Poker MILLIONS main event at Irish Poker Festival are now in the can. Coupled with buy-ins prior to the start of day 2, the €700k guarantee has been surpassed. With a total of 286 entries and a prize pool of €766,840, day 2 of the event is now in progress, as the remaining contenders fight it out for a place on the final table and a crack at the €210,000 first prize. That’ll buy more Guinness than Padriag Parkinson can consume in a regular weekend, usually.

The last 29 players standing (technically it should be sitting) will make the prize money, with the min cash being €6,000. These are the full payouts.

Irish Poker Festival MILLIONS Main Event Payouts
Finishing Position | Prize | Finishing Position | Prize
1 | €210,000 | 9 | €18,500
2 | €120,000 | 10 | €15,000
3 | €75,000 | 11 | €12,000
4 | €56,500 | 12 | €10,000
5 | €44,000 | 13 | €9,000
6 | €35,000 | 14-17 | €8,000
7 | €28,000 | 18-24 | €7,000
8 | €22,840 | 25-29 | €6,000

A high quality field has assembled for what is the first big buy-in event in Ireland for many years and while there was some pre-festival doubt about whether the guarantee would be reached, it’s been well supported by Irish and international players alike.

Friday’s Day 1c was predictably the largest starting day, with 136 entries, 75 of whom made it through to today. The overnight chip leader from this flight was Glenn Keogh on 307,100 chips, who ended over 120,000 clear of his nearest challengers. David Miscikowski (189,300) and Niall Farrell (180,800) posted the next biggest stacks.

MILLIONS Day 1c Survivor Chip Counts
Player | Chip Count | Player | Chip Count
Glenn Keogh | 307,100 | Michael Dwyer | 72,000
David Miscikowski | 189,300 | Thomas Powell | 71,100
Niall Farrell | 180,800 | Andrew Toole | 69,900
Jose Rafael Mota de Silva | 173,300 | Micrea Rus | 69,500
Scott Margereson | 171,000 | Yehong Luo | 69,400
Weijie Zheng | 159,200 | Audrius Daugvilavicius | 68,700
Ilan Cukrowicz | 155,800 | Christopher Day | 68,400
Padraig O’Neil | 155,300 | Eugeniu Barbaros | 68,200
Daryl McAleenan | 152,100 | David Masters | 67,400
Conor O’Rourke | 148,300 | Orestis Kanakopoulos | 65,500
Kyle Rafferty | 148,200 | David Graves | 65,000
Thomas Gerard O’Brien | 146,800 | Liam Chevalier | 64,600
John Dwyer | 142,000 | Sacha Le Breton | 63,600
Colum Higgins | 137,900 | James Noonan | 59,000
Ross Coveney | 130,900 | Graham Ivany | 58,000
Michal Plichta | 128,300 | Arnaud Enselme | 56,800
Jamie Brent | 127,700 | Darren Millar | 55,600
Andrew Hedley | 127,400 | Gareth McMahon | 54,700
Mark Reilly | 122,800 | Benjamin Yaniw | 53,600
Simon Wilson | 122,000 | Justin Boyle | 53,100
Sean Foley | 121,500 | Keith Touhey | 52,800
Michal Zimani | 119,200 | John Farrell | 52,700
Colm Tuite | 112,700 | Fraser Bellamy | 52,200
Robert William Elkin | 108,600 | Johnathan Proudfoot | 48,700
Tomas McNanmara | 107,200 | Gustavo Kogachi | 47,000
Ray Wheatley | 107,000 | Sean O’Sullivan | 46,900
Conal Prendergast | 99,300 | Jamie Flynn | 46,100
Carl Stephen Cullen | 96,000 | Elie Nakache | 44,000
Chris Dowling | 90,800 | Ray Bryant | 43,700
Andy Black | 90,300 | Dixon Ruecker | 42,400
Darren Harbinson | 88,800 | Graeme Watts | 41,900
Frank Williams | 83,300 | Patrice Brandt | 40,300
Nikolai Mamut | 83,100 | Lukas Kouril | 37,600
Declan Connolly | 81,000 | Stephen Kavanagh | 36,300
Luke Walsh | 80,900 | John Patten | 35,500
Neil O’Reilly | 78,500 | David Faulkner | 32,800
Ladislav Cerveny | 73,000 | Emmett Mullin | 24200
Peter Toth | 72,100 | |

Day 1D, on a turbo clock, saw a further 17 players enter, of which 11 made it through. Legendary Irish Poker author Dara O’Kearney topped the diminutive flight’s leaderboard with a not so small 216,000 pile of chips. He also had a lead of over 100,000 in the flight, with Feargal Nealon lying in second place on 102,000. DTO training site owner Dominik Nitsche also made it through to day two via this flight, ending the day on 59,200.

MILLIONS Day 1d Survivor Chip Counts
Player | Chip Count
Dara O’Kearney | 216,000
Feargal Nealon | 102,000
Corey Gilmore | 71,000
Domink Nitsche | 59,200
Aleksi Savela | 56,600
Mallory Frere | 53,400
Jozsef Fauszt | 50,000
Sammy Zheng | 50,000
Laurynas Levinskas | 49,200
Vytautas Aganauskas | 40,200
Dylan Yip | 39,400

Day 2 started in typical day 2 fashion with a high volume of early exits, whittling the number of remaining players down from the 159 who started the day to just under 100 by the first break. Conor Bergin, who had started the day on 89,500, has converted this into 474,000 and holds the chip lead at the time of writing, with Seamus Cahill (424,000) and Glenn Keogh (405,00) the only other stacks to have made it past the 400k mark.

There are some interesting tables, for example, Bart Lybaert and Michel Molenaar once again found themselves on the same table. At the recent Malta MILLIONS festival they finished 1st and 2nd in the Hydra High Roller event, which Bart won. Andy Black, Niall Farrell and Richard Ashby are also sharing a table today.

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Jonathan Raab

Irish Poker Festival Media Coordinator